TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2015: READ THIS UPDATE FIRST.
First of all, if you are considering going to NecronomiCon (August 20-23)… do it! It's an incredible convention, packed with panels, academic talks, Lovecraftian gaming, films, art, and much more. And it's held in Providence, the home town of H.P. Lovecraft.
Here's a link to this year's panels.
But if you can't go, I consider it my job to make you feel like you're the next best thing to being there. And this year, I have some extra tools to help me. I was lucky enough to get an iPhone for Christmas, and there are some great live-streaming apps now available. In other words, you'll be able to watch some activities, LIVE (where allowed), and they'll be recorded as well!
And not just events. As great as this convention is, the best part is hanging out with other Lovecraft and Weird Fiction fans. I'll stream conversations, get-togethers, etc. (as long as it's okay with those present) Like I say, it will be the next best thing to being there, so spread the word to other Lovecraft fans.
And I hope that if you can't make it this year, watching my live streams, reports, and photos will encourage you to attend the next NecronomiCon.
A big thank you to Niels Hobbs, Joey Shea, Sam Gafford, and so many others who work so hard to make NecronomiCon possible.
BELOW: A few videos from NecronomiCon 2013!
Here's a nice write-up of NecronomiCon 2013, by Justin Steele.
Great to hear this news Mike D! I was at the last one and know how much fun it was. ( To be honest there was so much going on I couldn't get to half the stuff I wanted to see.) I can't make it this year but this it is the next best thing for sure! Thanks!
Very cool! I can't make it, again (wahhh) and will be watching and reading whatever you can share. Looking forward to it.
Yes, what Mike said!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BIG thxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxX to Niels Hobbs, Joey Shea, Sam Gafford, and all the minions who work so hard to make NecronomiCon the wonder that it is.


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package com.alorma.github.sdk.services.gists;

import android.content.Context;

import com.alorma.github.sdk.bean.dto.request.EditGistRequestDTO;
import com.alorma.github.sdk.bean.dto.response.Gist;
import com.alorma.github.sdk.services.client.GithubClient;

import retrofit.RestAdapter;

public class EditGistClient extends GithubClient<Gist> {

    private String id;
    private EditGistRequestDTO editGistRequestDTO;

    public EditGistClient(Context context, String id, EditGistRequestDTO editGistRequestDTO) {
        super(context);
        this.id = id;
        this.editGistRequestDTO = editGistRequestDTO;
    }

    @Override
    protected void executeService(RestAdapter restAdapter) {
        restAdapter.create(GistsService.class).edit(id, editGistRequestDTO, this);
    }

    @Override
    protected Gist executeServiceSync(RestAdapter restAdapter) {
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    }
}

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In 1964 maakte hij op 22-jarige leeftijd als roeier zijn olympisch debuut op de Olympische Zomerspelen van Tokio. Hij kwam met Max Alwin uit op onderdeel dubbel-twee. De roeiwedstrijden werden gehouden op de roeibaan van Toda, die was aangelegd voor de geplande Olympische Spelen van 1940. In de series werd het Nederlandse duo tweede (7.07,52) en doordat ze bij de herkansing als derde (6.59,59) eindigde plaatste ze zich niet voor de finale. Ze mochten wel deelnemen aan de kleine finale, waarbij ze als tweede over de finish kwamen in 6.47,07 en hiermee een achtste plaats overall behaalde.

Bots is lid van roeivereniging KDR&ZV in Dordrecht. Hij werd technisch chemicus. Ook werd hij roeitrainer van onder meer Huub Bots en Arnold Hendrik.

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Annemiek van Vleuten (born 8 October 1982) is a Dutch professional road racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Movistar Team.Van Vleuten is a two-time winner of both the road race (2019 and 2022) and the time trial (2017 and 2018) at the UCI Road World Championships. In the Olympic Games, she crashed out of the lead of the road race in 2016, before winning the gold medal at the time trial event and a silver in the road race at the COVID-19 pandemic-delayed 2020 Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia
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Can the inevitable third chapter raise the bar for this ailing franchise?
by Mark Ginocchio
May 23, 2014 May 23rd, 2014
After its first month in theaters, Hollywood prognosticators have projected that Sony's The Amazing Spider-Man 2 will earn about $700 million at the box office, making it the lowest grossing Spider-Man film of all time. These disappointing numbers have caused some industry insiders to label Marc Webb's franchise a "bust." What makes The Amazing Spider-Man 2€™s predicament all the more unfortunate is that most critics and fans believe the film is a vast upgrade over its 2012 predecessor. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 features better fight scenes, and even more electric chemistry between Andrew Garfield€™s Peter Parker and Emma Stone€™s Gwen Stacy. The film also has a greater sense of who Spider-Man is as a character than any of its predecessors €" including the Sam Raimi trilogy. But let€™s not ignore The Amazing Spider-Man 2€™s many flaws - it is a movie that has great €œmoments," but lacks the overall cohesiveness and consistency in tone needed for it to be considered a truly €œgreat€ movie. Now, Sony is at a crossroads. The studio plans to push onward with its franchise; The Amazing Spider-Man 3 is slated to be released in 2016, and two spin-off movies featuring the Sinister Six and Venom are reportedly in the works. If Sony wants to be sure that The Amazing Spider-Man 3 is a triumph, the best place to start is to look critically at its two predecessors. There is plenty of gold to be mined from these two movies, not to mention a couple of things from the Raimi trilogy that are worth borrowing. If Sony can hit on the right combination, the franchise will be back on the right track and should once again break records at the box office... As expected, this article contains spoilers....
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Mayo Advertiser / SportFri, Jul 31, 2015
When the league seasons comes to a conclusion last weekend's round of action in the Elverys Sports Super League could well be seen as one of the pivotal rounds of action. Champions Westport United were held to 0-0 draw by Ballyheane on Saturday night, that left Ballina Town knowing that if they could see off Castlebar Celtic at home the following day, they would move to within two points of the champions at the top of the table and still have a game in hand.
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BOYZONE AND former Coronation Street star Keith Duffy is the 'baddie' in this year's University Concert Hall, Limerick, panto Jack and the Beanstalk.
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A charity casino party night will take place at The Ardilaun Hotel on June 28 to raise funds to provide a playground at a city school.
Champions get off to winning start in Super League
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Ballina Town got their title defence off to a winning start in Attymass on Saturday night thanks to early goal from ace marksman Brendan Lavelle against a tough battling Moy Villa side. The champions made all the running early on in the contest, but were made to sweat at the end as Moy Villa threw everything at them to try and salvage an equaliser at the death.
Forde's Ballina Town ready for the Castleisland challenge
Mayo Advertiser / SportFri, Jan 03, 2014
The first weekend of the new year is coming up and for the 2013 Super League champions, Ballina Town there is no rest in store for them as they make the long trip to Kerry to take on Castleisland Celtic in the fifth round of the FAI Junior Cup final. Ballina Town manager Fergal Forde has had to deal with a number of key players bowing out of action during 2013, but it has not dimmed his ambitions for his side. "We've also had to deal with a couple of retirements since the end of the Mayo league season with Philip Devers retiring and Keith Duffy moving on, also have goalkeeper Emmett Payton gone now too. We've a good squad, but will have a very young bench going down there, but they are all good lads coming up from the under 18s and they are the future of the club."
Bidwell takes half-marathon crown in Connamara
Galway Advertiser / SportThu, Apr 11, 2013
Galway's Matt Bidwell was the winner of this year's half marathon in the Connemara Marathon series of races held at the weekend.
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THE TOWN Hall Theatre will continue its high standards in presenting quality theatre, comedy, and music events to the public as a strong line-up of events has already been planned for the opening months of 2012.
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Mayo Advertiser / EntertainmentFri, Dec 02, 2011
"When I'm finished with this role, I'll definitely see changes in the way that I play the role between the first night and the last. That's one of the great things about acting on the stage, in a great production like this," said Aisling O'Sullivan, who is currently playing the lead role in The Druid's production of John B Keane's Big Maggie. The play is classic tale of money, land, secret sex and family life and she took some time out of her schedule this week to speak to the Mayo Advertiser ahead of the show's stop off in The Royal Theatre next Tuesday and Wednesday, December 6 and 7.
Big Maggie, a riveting story of money, land and secret sex
Mayo Advertiser / EntertainmentFri, Nov 18, 2011
Big Maggie by John B Keane is a compelling vision of the Irish mother as sociopath, and it is making a stop in the Royal Theatre, Castlebar for two days only on December 6 and 7. Maggie Polpin (Aisling O'Sullivan) is a just widowed mother of four living in rural Ireland, now sole owner of the family shop and farm. She is a complex figure, far from the clichés of Irish femininity which preceded her. This is a hard-bitten, uncompromising woman who puts her personal security above all other concerns. She rejects the place which cultural precedent has laid out for her and chooses to drive all of her children away rather than nurture them like a mother hen.
Druid's Big Maggie completely sold out
Galway Advertiser / #GalwayThu, Nov 17, 2011
THIS WEEK'S run of Druid's production of John B Keane's Big Maggie sold-out before the actors even took to the stage for the first performance last Friday night.


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Q: Clojure re-order function This I must admit is still where I am a clojure newbie.  I often find that if I search in the Clojure Docs, I find the function I am looking for.  ;)
But I am nervous about this one, but maybe I might get lucky.
I have a card game.  Each player has a hand of anywhere from 1-9 cards in hand.
The cards get put into their hands 1 card at a time, from the top of their decks by drawing.
What the players are requesting is the ability to take there UNORGANIZED hand or UNSORTED hand and re-oganize their hand.
I offered a solution of "How about a command like /re-order 31487652 in the command window, that could issue the function (no worries about the command, it's just the sorting func).
The goal of this would be to take each card in their hand 12345678 and change the order to a new order that they provide, the 31487652.
The data is in this format:
(:hand player)

[{:name : "Troll", :_id : 39485723},
{:name : "Ranger", :_id : 87463293},
{:name : "Archer", :_id : 78462721},
{:name : "Orc", :_id : 12346732},
{:name : "Orc", :_id : 13445130},
{:name : "Spell", :_id : 23429900},
{:name : "Dagger", :_id : 44573321}]

My only issue is, I could THINK about this using traditional programming languages, I mean easy, you just copy the data over to another array, haha but I mean don't we love clojure?...
But I'd like to keep things in the pure clojure ideology, AND LEARN the how to do something like this.  I mean if it's just "Use this function" that's great I guess, but I don't want to create an atom, unless mandatory, but I don't think that is the case.
If someone could help get me started just THINKING of a way to approach this problem using clojure that would be awesome!
Thanks for ANY help/advice/answer...
ADDENDUM #1
(defn vec-order [n]
  (into [] (if (pos? n)
             (conj (vec-order (quot n 10)) (mod n 10) )
             [])))

(defn new-index [index new-order] (.indexOf new-order (inc index)))

(defn re-order [state side value]
  (println (get-in @state [side :hand]))
  (update @state [side :hand]
          (fn [hand]
            (->> hand
                 (map-indexed (fn [index card] [(new-index index (vec-order value)) card]))
                 (sort-by first)
                 (mapv second))))
  (println (get-in @state [side :hand])))

So here is my current code, with extraction of data.  There is a massive @state, with the side the player is on.  I use:
(println (get-in @state [side :hand]))

To look at the data before and after the execution of the defn, but I am not get ANY change.  The vector is, for simplicity, 21436587 into [2 1 4 3 6 5 8 7].
But I am missing something because I even run the /re-order 12345678 to make sure things aren't moved and I am just not seeing things.  But nothing...
Thank You, definitely for getting me this far.

A: If you have your required order of the elements as a vector you can sort-by by a function returning an index of a card in that vector:
(let [cards [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8]
      my-order [3 1 4 8 7 6 5 2]]
  (sort-by #(.indexOf my-order %) cards))
;; => (3 1 4 8 7 6 5 2)

A: So, the first function of note will be update which will allow us to return a new player with a function applied to hand if we invoke it as such.
(update player :hand (fn [hand] ... ))

Once, we have this basic structure, the next function that will help us is map-indexed which will allow us to pair the current hand with a new sort-ordered index.
From there, we will be able to sort-by the index, and finally mapv to retrieve the cards.
So, the final structure will look something like:
(defn sort-hand [player new-order]
  (update
    player
    :hand
    (fn [hand]
     (->> hand
          (map-indexed (fn [index card] [(new-index index new-order) card]))
          (sort-by first)
          (mapv second)))))

For this to work, it's expected that new-order is a vector like [3 1 4 8 7 6 5 2]
As for a solution to new-index,

 we can use .indexOf like this

 (defn new-index [index new-order] (.indexOf new-order (inc index)))

A: With your help:
(defn vec-order [n]
  (into [] (if (pos? n)
             (conj (vec-order (quot n 10)) (mod n 10) )
             [])))

(defn new-index [new-order index] (.indexOf new-order (inc index)))

(defn re-order [state side value]
  (swap! state update-in [side :hand]
             (fn [hand]
               (->> hand
                    (map-indexed (fn [index card] [(new-index (vec-order value) index) card]))
                    (sort-by first)
                    (mapv second)))))

WORKS!!! 100%

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Phoebe Halliwell Love Interests
CLAY RIVERS
Clay was Phoebe's ex-boyfriend who came to San Francisco to get her to get Prue to auction off a stolen Egyptian urn, which was cursed. He feared for his life after a friend was killed by the Guardian of the Urn.
Cole became a member of the Brotherhood of the Thorn, who served the Source of All Evil. ("The Demon Who Came in from the Cold") He made a reputation for himself as a top assassin who could kill any witch, an athame being his weapon of choice. Cole was hired by the Triad to get close to and kill the Charmed Ones. To do so, Cole returned to Earth in his human guise and was set up as an assistant district attorney in San Francisco.
Miles was Phoebe's boyfriend. One night while making love to him, Phoebe had a premonition of him being caught in a crossfire and shot. Phoebe and Piper saved him the next day by freezing the bullet just beofre he was shot. Phoebe later had a premontion of the chandelier at the Halliwell Manor falling onto Miles, killing him and had to save him again. She then had another premonition of him falling off his balcony and had to save him yet again.
JASON DEAN
Jason Dean was first introduced in the Season 5 episode Baby's First Demon, while Phoebe Halliwell was showing off pictures of a newborn baby Wyatt. Phoebe was instantly attracted to him when they first saw each other, but panicked after she discovered that he was the new boss of the Bay Mirror which Phoebe writes a popular advice column for.
Their relationship quickly turns more bitter as Jason turns out to be a more strict boss than Phoebe was used to with Elise. However, later Phoebe wrote an article about finding love over the internet, she gets into contact with "cyrano73" using an instant messanger, and seems to like him, she later decides to meet him in person, who turns out to be Jason, scared of asking Phoebe out incase she rejected him, who made sure she liked his personality first, Phoebe agreed to start dating.
LESLIE ST CLAIRE
Leslie almost immediately became a love interest of Phoebe's, but like many other of Phoebe's relationships, this went down the drain when she returned from her sabbatical, and he left for another job. The two were incredibly attracted to each other, going as far to have sex in Phoebe's office during work hours (Charrrmed!). Leslie never finds out that Phoebe and her sisters are witches, though he believes Piper might be working for the government
DRAKE DE MON
Drake dè Mon was a very powerful Mercury demon that became good and left behind his evil tendencies when he began to understand human compassion in his intense studies and research. Cole Turner told him where he could find a sorcerer that would turn him human and give him a soul, the catch or deal was that he'd give up his immortality and he would die in one year, plus Cole needed him to first agree to "renew Phoebe's faith in love" within that year in return. With mere weeks remaining, he finally come across Phoebe through his becoming the Literature Professor at the Magic School, and the two became romantically involved in the days before his death.
DEX LAWSON
Dex Lawson , an artist who apparently has an interest in Phoebe in the beginning of the 8th season, after finding out that she was dead. Phoebe surprisingly has a premonition that they are going to get married. After an overnight trip with him, they get married, but only under the influence of a spell. However, Phoebe is under the alias of Julie Bennett. She has no other choice but to tell him the truth: that she is a witch and is really Phoebe Halliwell.
COOP THE CUPID
Coop was sent down by the Elders to help Phoebe repair her love life. To do so Coop gave her advices, and he even took her to the past to see her past loves - Drake dè Mon, Dex, Cole, even P. Russell's seductee, Anton, so that she could trust Love again and see all of the happiness Love brings. It was forbidden for Cupids to love just like it was with Whitelighters to date or marry their charges. That was until Piper and Leo. Little by little, they begin to develop feelings for each other, but hid them to save themselves from trauma.


An unmanned Russian space rocket carrying a Japanese satellite crashed on Thursday after blasting off from a launch pad in Kazakhstan, the Emergencies Ministry said.
The Proton-M booster with the Japanese JCSAT-11 communications satellite on board crashed into open countryside after lifting off from the Baikonur cosmodrome, it said.
"The tentative place of the crash is 40 km (25 miles) to the south-west of the city of Zhezkazgan," the ministry said in a statement, referring to an industrial town in the centre of the Central Asian state.
It said the accident was caused by an engine malfunction. Officials at Baikonur, rented by Russia from Kazakhstan, were investigating the accident.
The main Russian control centre near Moscow could not be immediately reached for comment.
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US twin astronaut, Russian to spend year in orbit
US twin astronaut, Russian to spend year in orbit /science-technology/us-twin-astronaut-russian-spend-year-orbit
MARCIA DUNN | AP
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: A former space shuttle commander whose twin brother is married to former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will attempt the longest spaceflight ever by an American.
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will spend an entire year aboard the International Space Station beginning in 2015.
Both countries' space agencies announced the names of the two veteran spacefliers on Monday. The extended mission was approved almost two months ago to provide a medical foundation for future missions around the moon, as well as far-flung trips to asteroids and Mars.
Both men already have lived aboard the space station for six months. NASA wanted experienced space station astronauts to streamline the amount of training necessary for a one-year stint. Officials had said the list of candidates was very short. They will begin training next year.
"Their skills and previous experience aboard the space station align with the mission's requirements," Bill Gerstenmaier, head of human exploration for NASA, said in a statement. "The one-year increment will expand the bounds of how we live and work in space and will increase our knowledge regarding the effects of microgravity on humans as we prepare for future missions beyond low-Earth orbit."
Kelly's identical twin brother, Mark Kelly, retired from the astronaut corps last year and moved to Tucson, Arizona, his wife's hometown. The former congresswoman was critically wounded in an assassination attempt in January 2011, while Scott Kelly was living aboard the space station.
NASA said neither crew member was available Monday to comment and that news conferences would be held next week to outline the mission.
Astronauts normally spend about four to six months aboard the space station. The longest an American lived there was seven months, several years back.
Russia, though, will continue to hold the world space endurance record.
Four cosmonauts spent at least a year aboard the old Mir space station. A Russian physician, Valery Polyakov, logged nearly 15 continuous months there in the mid-1990s.
Boris Morukov, head of the Moscow-based Institute for Medical and Biological Problems, Russia's main space medicine research center, told the Interfax news agency that communications and food rations for Kelly and Kornienko may be limited during their yearlong mission to better simulate interplanetary travel.
Kelly and Kornienko will launch aboard a Russian rocket from Kazakhstan. Americans must buy seats on Russian spacecraft now that NASA's shuttles have retired to museums, until private US companies have vessels capable of carrying human passengers. That's still four or five years off.
Kelly is a 48-year-old, divorced Navy captain with two daughters. Kornienko, 52, a rocket engineer, is married with a daughter.
"We have chosen the most responsible, skilled and enthusiastic crew members to expand space exploration, and we have full confidence in them," Russian Space Agency chief Vladimir Popovkin said in the announcement.
AP writer Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow contributed to this report.
NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
Microsoft ends free Windows 7 security updates on Tuesday /node/1612731/science-technology
In this Jan. 11, 2010 file photo, a display for Microsoft's Windows 7 is shown at the National Retail Federation's convention in New York. (AP)
Microsoft is ending support Tuesday for Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 operating systems
NEW YORK: If you're still using Microsoft's Windows 7, your computer might soon be at risk.
Microsoft will stop providing free security updates for the system on Tuesday, meaning computers using it will be more vulnerable to malware and hacking.
Users who want to protect their computers need to upgrade to Windows 10. They may also need to buy new computers because older machines might not be compatible with Windows 10.
Tech companies typically phase out older systems after a number of years and focus efforts on updating current versions of software. Windows 7 came out in 2009. Windows 8, which came out in 2012, will have free support end in 2023.
Windows 10 starts at $139 for a basic, "Home" version. Microsoft charges $200 for a "Pro" version meant for businesses and individuals who need its advance features. Windows 10 comes with regular free updates for security and additional features. Although Windows 10 isn't likely to be phased out anytime soon, older versions will require those updates to keep working.
Microsoft is also ending support Tuesday for Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 operating systems.
Those who run Windows 7 Professional or Windows 7 Enterprise can buy extended protection for up to three years. But it might be worthwhile to just to buy new PCs or get Windows 10.
Microsoft will also be ending support on Oct. 13 for Office 2010 a package that includes word processing and spreadsheet software. Owners need to explore newer versions of Office, including a subscription offering called Office 365.
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Ottawa personal injury lawyers reflect on Bill 171.
Personal Injury Lawyers Ottawa. The Ontario's Minister of Finance recently introduced Bill 171. This bill is entitled the "Fighting Fraud and Reducing Automobile Insurance Rates Act" and claims to be put in place to help Ontario drivers.
The question is …Is it helping drivers or helping insurance companies? A very important provision in the bill lowers the interest rate paid by the insurance companies from 5% to 1.3%. As Ottawa personal injury lawyers , we feel that this highly impacts our personal injury clients . Insurance companies will now be less inclined to settle and pay out benefits to people who have been injured and are waiting and relying heavily on this money. A lower interest rate will not be incentive for insurance companies to settle quicker. This delay in payment may directly impact the lives of people who are waiting to rebuild their lives and often cannot afford such delays. This reduction in interest rate may cause a serious injustice. Insurance companies will now be in a position where they could potentially invest the funds and make more profit by delaying b the payout.
Bill 171 also eliminates powers given to arbitrators from the Financial Services Commission Ontario (FSCO) who review the personal injury cases and decide whether or not both sides are acting fairly. Arbitrations will now be conducted through the Ontario Licence Appeal Tribunal. As Ottawa personal injury lawyers, we find all these changes very disturbing. It seems these changes are being made quickly and there doesn't seem to be many opportunities for input from stakeholders. Perhaps this is by design ?
Over the past few years there have been numerous changes and reductions to Ontario accident benefits and the insurance regime. These changes are not to be taken lightly as they have serious and potentially devastating consequences for Ontario drivers who have been seriously injured.


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SHARE Event>>2009 Le Mans 24 Hours – Reflections Part 1
Event>>2009 Le Mans 24 Hours – Reflections Part 1
TheSpeedhunters
18th June 2009 26 Comments
When two tribes go to war, one is all you can score…………………………
Well they finally did it, Peugeot won the Big One. The 2009 24 Heures du Mans. The Lion has roared.
The number 9 Peugeot 908 Hdi-FAP driven by Alexander Wurz, Marc Gene and David Brabham covered 382 laps of the 13.629 kilometre circuit, 5206 kliks in total or 3,235 miles. The average speed was a tad under 135 miles per hour, a sobering thought.
The winners were one lap up on their team mates Stephane Sarrazin, Franck Montagny and Sebastien Bourdais and six laps in front of the Audi R15 TDI of Allan McNish, Dindo Capello and Tom Kristensen. Audi were comprehensively beaten.
In 2007 Peugeot had the speed but not the reliablity to win and thereby lost out to the Audi steamroller. Post race, I remember telling the tearful Peugeot press officer, Cecile Estenave, that it was received wisdom that it took three attempts to win a Le Mans 24, and so it came to pass this year. On Sunday she also had tears at the podium ceremony but this time they were joyful.
Peugeot thoroughly deserved their victory in the 2009 Le Mans 24 Hours, leading all but one lap. and generally being the fastest cars on track. Still they had the bitter taste of defeats in 2007 and 2008 to get rid of and they did it in style. I spoke with Allan McNish, Audi's lead driver, in the run up to the race and we both agreed that the car that would be the real threat to Audi's supremacy would be the number 9 with the old hands on board.
One of the most important elements in achieving victory in Le Mans is to spend as little time in the pits as possible and that proved to be the difference between the two 908s. Number 9 spent 40 minutes and 2 seconds at rest, whereas number 8 spent a further 8 minutes 20 seconds in the pits. Number 8's crew were generally faster but they had a transmission issue at around 6 hours costing 3 laps standing time, game over.
One of Peugeot's biggest weaknesses in previous years has been the amount of time that their pit stops took, especially compared with the Audi. The whole team was re-organised in the wake of defeats in 2008 and they really concentrated on this area. McNish said that they had a film crew shooting every Audi stop at Sebring, he used to wave at them.
Not that you would have thought they learned anything from the past with the first set of pit stops in the race. The lollipop man on car 7 let Pedro Lamy out into the path of the Pescarolo Sport 908 that was inward bound and they made contact, giving the factory car a rear puncture. To compound this mistake Pedro set off on a lap of the track with the tyre flailing away making a nice mess of the rear. His lap took around 8 minutes and then there was the small matter of a 25 minute spell in the box to repair the damage. Pedro got a bollocking from the team manager, Serge Saulnier for not waiting and letting his crew pull him back into his pit area instead of driving on. It would be the only mistake that the efficient French team would make in the pit stops.
As for the mistake, that was blamed on photographers obstructing the view, more accurately it should have been TV crews.
Pescarolo's Peugeot…….well they might have been in the money seats had the rains come, as they were running the old 2008 downforce set up. The 908 ran in the top six till around 4.00am when Benoit Treluyer had the mother of all accidents, barrel rolling the 908 just down from the Dunlop Bridge. For a while it looked really ugly on the TV screen as the marshals used blankets to stop the cameraman filming the scene. A bit battered, Ben emerged largely unscathed and was released by the medics after a once over. The bits of the car that remained were largely in component form and were just swept up and chucked in the skip.
How strange it is that we gone this far in the report and hardly mentioned Audi. That gives a clue to how ultimately far they were from victory in 2009.
The first problems came when Peugeot protested the legality of the Audi's front bodywork. Specifically they asserted Article 3.6.2 of the technical regulations is being flouted by the current arrangements. The protest was rejected by the ACO leaving Peugeot the option of appealing to the FIA in Paris. More about this in a later feature.
The distraction of the protest did not aid Audi's cause but other issues were going to hurt them much more. The cancellation of the Test Day and rain on the first practice day meant that their track time was severly restricted, so getting a balance on the car proved a elusive. During Thursday qualifying a stunning lap from Allan McNish and some smart timing by the Joest crew kept pole from Peugeot right till the last minute but Sarrazin would not be denied. All of this flattered to deceive.
There was a lack of mechanical grip on the R15's front end which no amount of McNish bravado could compensate for. During the race this problem was attacked by the engineers fitting new nose assemblies to each of the cars but until the cool of the night it had little effect. These woes were compounded by dust getting onto the turbo intercoolers and cooking them after about 5 laps at full boost. Turning things down to cool off meant that sub 3:30 laps were not possible and the Peugeots were able to romp away. Audi's new car and lack of racing in 2009 really left them exposed to these kinds of issues. It was most un-Audi like………..we all agreed.
As if these issues were not enough the drivers decided to press the self destruct button. Alexander Premat led this disastrous process, spinning at Indianapolis a few laps into the race, damaging the front and the ensuing repairs cost the 3 car a lap. Later a fuel pressure problem led to a lengthy stop to replace a high pressure diesel pump. Over three hours were spent in the pits and 17th overall, some 49 laps down on the winner was the sum total of this effort.
At least they finished………….six and half hours into the race Lucas Luhr lost control of his R15 TDI in the first part of the Porsche Curves, destroying the rear end. Audi blamed driver error but I am not totally convinced. I had been out at that spot some 20 minutes earlier and Lucas was genuinely scary through the corner. The rear of the Audi would bottom out, sparking furiously, and LL caught the car both times I witnessed this. I was with Marshall Pruett (SpeedTV.com) and Wouter Melissen (UltimateCarPage.com)., we all agreed that this sort of high wire act would end in tears and it did. Of course it never occured to Lucas to lift at this point, but then he is a racer………
So Audi were down to one car, the Old Guard of McNish, Kristensen and Capello struggled on as best they could, here is an early nose change. But the Peugeots held the whip hand and would not easily let go of their advantage, it certainly felt like it was finally their year.
Another supreme effort from McNish during the early hours kept the number 1 car in touch with the leading pair. The soft Michelin rubber gave the car some sort of balance back and he could fly along at near 908 pace.
However, the race was effectively decided around the 13 hour mark when Capello was forced to make two pit stops to clean sand and grit from the intercooler, a lap was lost and that was that. The car had further issues with the rear suspension and an electrical problem in the dashboard…………not what we have come to expect from Audi. They will head back to Ingolstadt to conduct an inquest into the shortcomings of the campaign, expect them to return stronger.
Next up we'll look at the best of the rest and the GT classes.
Photography by John Brooks and David Lister
-John Brooks
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7:50 amJune 18, 2009
The end of an era...
the french officials are biased in favor of peugeot.
Excellent photos, been worth the wait
I'm an Audi Fan and I hardly think that the victory had anything to do with any sort of bias. Audi had an under developed car with very little real racing under it's belt. They shot themselves in the foot by not running at least a partial ALMS schedule, and they paid the price, as is evidenced by the problems they had....
i watched the whole thing except maybe 3 hours midway thanks to a nap....i'd like to see one race inwhich the two teams are even enough to battle it out. But that doesnt mean I want FIA or ACO to implement this, id like to see it by chance. by the teams both using new and dialed in cars.....i dont want to see incresing technological restrictions, which will happen because they want to make the petrol cars more competitive next year.lame! maybe aston martin should just build a diesel or try a little bit harder.
NICO is also right! i saw that the entire time!
I was really disapointed in Audi's lack of testing. I think if they stuck to traditions of years past they would of been much closer to the 908's. I think some ones head got to big and they thought they had everything figured out.
Oh well, congrats to Peugeot
I think Audi got complacent and decided to rest on their past victories.............the lion has been tamed.....I only wish Mazda would come back with the mighty Rotary!!!!
Great post John, I was pleased that Peugeot finally broke through the Audi domination of recent years.
I managed to get a few shots in - poking my lens over and around the fences!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wheelerarchive/sets/72157619748418327/show/
Hope you like them.
Haha, seriously, not what I'd expect from Audi, or any of the Germans for that matter, but it seems that's the case. Nice lights from the side of the Audi in the 2nd last pic, reminds me of an airplane!
At last! a Le Mans post.
The race was for Peugeot to loose,,,,and unlike last year, the No9 car was faultless. Never ended up in the garage and paced itself.
Audi lost the race partly due to running
10:23 amJune 18, 2009
Folks........apologies for the late post..............no excuses! My fault entirely.
@NICO I am not sure what you base your assertions of bias on.........there was no evidence of this during the race. Do you know something that I don't.
According to Marco Werner, Audi did some 20,000 kilometres of testing but this year they could not get data at Le Mans till the Thursday evening.....and a substantial proportion was held in wet conditions......Peugeot finally got properly focused and did the job they should have done for the past two years. Audi did not fulfil their potential. Sometime it happens to the best run outfits, they will be back stronger.
Mazda did at least provide some engines. I'd be shocked to ever see a factory backed rotary at Le Sarthe again, as the engine configuration was banned.
I really agree with John...Audi is starting to become..unAudi
Well I stick to what I stated in my Le Mans post in the forums, Audi just simply didn't have the experience Peugeot had this year. And by experience I don't mean time at Le Mans because obviously Audi knows Le Mans but what I mean is the car. 3 seasons of development for Peugeot on a car that was competitive to begin with and Audi comes in with a brand new one; it is honestly IMO very impressive that Audi managed to still grab a podium spot with such an untested chassis, just shows you the skills of the Audi guys. Next season will be Audi's so long as they don't have any real big problems, the R15 has already shown itself to be better than the 908 if you consider what it did during the conditions not to mention McNish and TK both said that the R15 was much better through the corners than the R10 was. All in all it was a fantastic race to watch and I can't wait for next years intensity!
12:18 pmJune 18, 2009
If we know anything about Audi it's that they'll come back flying next year. Peugeot stepped up and earned a deserved victory. The FIA definitely needs to do something to bridge the diesel-petrol performance gap though. Adding 30k kilos obviously did nothing to hinder the diesels' performance.
1:29 pmJune 18, 2009
Yeah, Audi's defeat was due to using a brand new car that was virtually untested, thus they didn't know what problems to expect. I recall McNish saying the car had heavy understeer, something they could have probably remedied had they tested more.
I agree with liamsil80; something has to be done to make the non-diesel cars more competitive. It's as if the diesels are in their own class above P1.
I managed to watch 21 of the 24 hours. Last year i started watching before the race began and fell asleep with 1 hour to go. I was so mad.
Anyways, this year's race was really good for the sport. Peugeot really needed to win for themselves and to show Audi is breakable. You have to go back to the R8R to reach a time when Audi got a third instead of a first.
McNish all the way for 2010!
No worries on the delays John...maybe you could make up for it by doing some more retrospectives? =)
I have to say I was actually cheering for the Lola / Aston Martin's the whole race. They looked fantastic, and there's something about a screaming V12 that says Le Mans, more than a diesel ever will. Maybe that's me, and 10-20 years from now people will be lamenting the sweet sounds of the diesels...
I say bring back the Group C fuel rationing rules....perhaps total fuel available to use has to do with potential energy (which diesel has more of) therefore it will level things out. Not to penalize people for working on newer technology, but to even the playing field, so to speak.
Any more info on Benoit Treluyer's crash? I can't find any video of the crash on Youtube...
Anyway, congrats to Peugeot on their well deserved win.
1: Desktop of the darkened Audi R15 shot! http://ll.dev.speedhunters.com/u/f/eagames/NFS/dev.speedhunters.com/Images/JohnBrooks/09%20Le%20Mans%204/09LeMans24_jb_8383.jpg
2. I think part of Audi's problem is their lack of racing in ALMS or LMES. I think there's something about racing, over testing, that really brings out more of the challenges you'd ultimately face as a team.
(second shot from the bottom is what I was requesting a desktop of!)
@Muzaffar..........Ben barrel rolled on his out lap at around 4.00am.........he had just left the pits after changing the nose and engine cover............the TV missed the accident.............so it is not clear what caused the accident..........driver error? unlikely at that point, cold tyres catching him out? bodywork coming loose? No doubt we will find out in due course.
John and Muzaffar, I found these quote's from Benoit about the crash.
"The team had called me back to the pits for a scheduled fuel stop. They also took the opportunity to clean out the side pods, as I was forced to put two wheels on the grass to avoid a GT2 Ferrari," Benoît goes on. "While doing this, the engineers noticed the front splitter was damaged and decided to change it. I knew that the car's behaviour would change because of this and as I returned to the track, I remained cautious. The car's balance was good with a little more oversteer than before, but not too much.
"Then I started to get back into a normal rhythm but as I approached the La Forêt curves the car suddenly went light and snapped sideways. I did not have the chance to be slowed down by the gravel trap as the car took off straight away."
AUDI 4eva well dun to peugeot for winning it audi had an under developed car....i wana see then do it again next year never coz audi will be back on track GO TEAM AUDI ....!
3:59 pmJuly 9, 2010
It's all in the details................. Three days running around the grounds of Goodwood House


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FAO Director-General urges all stakeholders to develop open-minded solutions to a problem affecting more than 30 percent of the food we produce
10 September 2021, Rome/Jinan - The scale of global food loss and waste is proof of poorly functioning agri-food systems, and reducing it "really matters and can make a difference," QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), said Friday at an international conference attended by ministers, diplomats and experts from around the world.
"We cannot end hunger and all forms of malnutrition if we do not address the high levels of food loss and waste," he said at the three-day event held virtually and on-site in Jinan, China, and organized by China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration and the Shandong Provincial People's Government.
Also addressing the event was Ji Bingxuan, the Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, who delivered the congratulatory letter from President Xi Jinping of China. Speakers also included the Ministers for Agriculture of numerous countries such as China, France, Mexico, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, as well as Agnes Kalibata, UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy to the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit, scheduled for later this month.
Food loss and waste (FLW) occurs across the supply chain, from tillage to the table, with around 14 percent of all food produced lost between the post-harvest and retail stages, Ma Youxiang, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China cited the 2019 State of Food and Agriculture report published by FAO. Another 17 percent was further wasted at the retail, food-service and consumer levels, the Director-General noted.
"These high levels of food loss and waste, valued at $400 billion annually, could feed around 1.26 billion more people per year," Qu said, noting that FAO's latest estimates point to up to 811 million undernourished people in the world, and billions unable to afford a healthy diet.
FLW also generates around 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and uses a quarter of the freshwater used by agriculture each year.
Effectively tackling the problem - and producing more with less - requires "commitment, collaboration, partnerships and increased support from all stakeholders" as well as solid, scientific and evidence-based understanding of the root causes of food loss and waste, Qu said.
"A single grain of rice comes with a thousand drops of sweat"
Quoting the above Chinese proverb, Director-General Qu emphasized the need for all "to be open to new ideas" in the quest for solutions tailored for different contexts.
Jinan, for example, has been applauded for its pioneering efforts to use cockroaches to eat unused food, and then to serve as livestock feed, as well as reducing pressure on landfills. The conference is also showcasing some internet-of-things applications that are working to reduce FLW.
"Innovations in business models, institutional arrangements, technologies and digital solutions such as Artificial Intelligence can all contribute to reducing food loss and waste," Qu said.
Key areas for attention and action range from inadequate access to agricultural inputs and poorly-timed harvesting operations to inadequate storage logistics, insufficient attention to food safety standards, lack of consumer awareness of the household cost of FLW and retail incentives to purchase more than needed.
FAO, which is the custodian agency for SDG12.3, which targets reducing food waste by 2030, has set up the Technical Platform on Measurement and Reduction of Food Loss and Waste, facilitating the adoption by Members of good practices. It also devoted the 2018 The State of Food and Agriculture report to the subject of FLW.
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A lack of compulsory school laws did not preclude efforts to provide education to the children of Avalon. In all likelihood, the Moravian Church was the driving force behind establishing schools in the villages. The Moravians held a high regard for education and unlike some of their contemporaries, the Moravians maintained the idea that both boys and girls should receive an equal education.
Sources have revealed few details about the school at Avalon. However, there is an interesting article in the February 1906 edition1 of The Wachovia Moravian detailing how the school began in Mayodan. The article illustrates a genuine interest in providing a school by the mill's founders. It also provides insight into conditions and attendance. I feel this information is worthy of including here as the school situation in Avalon and Mayodan were likely faced with similar issues and conditions.
Fig. 21. Miss Ida Summers. School teacher at Avalon from 1909-1911.
1. Weathersbee, Lucy W. "A Sketch of the Mayodan School Work," The Wachovia Moravian (Salem, NC) February 1906.
2. Foushee, Ola Maie, Avalon: A North Carolina Town of Joy and Tragedy (Chapel Hill, NC: Books, 1977), 41-43.
3. Berkeley, Alfred R. "Establishing the Church in a Southern Mill Town," In The Spirit of Missions: An Illustrated Monthly Review of Christian Missions, vol. LXXIV (New York: Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 1909),132-36.
Fig 21 - Unknown, Miss Ida Summers (1909-1911), Location, Mayodan, NC, Image [from Avalon: A North Carolina Town of Joy and Tragedy (Chapel Hill, NC: Books, 1977), 42].