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Alistair Petrie (born 30 September 1970) is a British actor. He has starred in The Bank Job (2008), Cloud Atlas (2012), Rush (2013) and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016). Petrie has also starred in the Channel 4 television series Utopia, the BBC One television series' The Night Manager, Sherlock, and Undercover and as Mr. Groff in the Netflix original comedy-drama series Sex Education.

Early life
Petrie was born 30 September 1970 in Catterick, North Riding of Yorkshire. He was brought up in the Middle East, mainland Europe and East Africa. His father was an RAF fighter pilot.

He trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Career

Theatre
Petrie spent his early career in theatre around the country before joining the RSC where productions included Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and Henrik Ibsen's Brand opposite Ralph Fiennes. In 2005, he joined the National Theatre, where he stayed for 28 months performing in His Dark Materials, Shakespeare's Henry IV alongside Sir Michael Gambon and David Edgar's Playing With Fire. Other theatre work includes The Earl of Wessex in the 2015 West End Production of Shakespeare in Love. In 2008, Petrie played the lead role of Man in Mine, Shared Experience at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds.

Screen
In 1996, Petrie appeared as Robert Martin in Emma. He featured in the BBC production of The Forsyte Saga as George Forsyte in 2002-2003, and he played a brief role in the music video for "Bellissimo" by Ilya directed by the Guard Brothers in 2004. In 2007 he appeared in Marc Munden's The Mark of Cain, The Whistleblowers and Cranford.

In 2009 he played Heaton in the film The Duchess, and in 2010 played Billing in the horror film Devil's Playground. Petrie appeared as Philip Lisle in The Bank Job, as Felix Finch in the 2012 film Cloud Atlas, as  Stirling Moss in Rush, and as General Davits Draven in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

Also in television, Petrie has portrayed Geoff in Channel 4's Utopia, Alexander "Sandy" Langbourne in The Night Manager, and Robert Greenlaw in BBC1's Undercover. He played the role of Major James Sholto in the second episode of Season 3 of the BBC TV series Sherlock, which aired on 5 January 2014. In 2018, he played Dr. Stephen Stanley in The Terror (based on the novel of the same name), a supernatural horror series about Franklin's lost expedition. In 2019, Petrie began playing Mr. Groff in the Netflix original comedy-drama series Sex Education.

Personal life
Petrie is married to actress Lucy Scott, with whom he has three sons.

Petrie is an Ambassador for Borne, a medical research charity looking to identify the causes of premature birth. In 2007, he and his wife swam the English Channel to fundraise for the charity, becoming the first married couple to complete the crossing.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

References

External links

Roxane Vacca Management - Alistair Petrie Profile

1970 births
20th-century English male actors
21st-century English male actors
English male film actors
English male television actors
Living people
Male actors from Yorkshire
People from Catterick, North Yorkshire


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Santorum on controversial remark: I was 'tongue-tied'
CNN's Ashley Killough
(CNN) – Rick Santorum said Wednesday he was "tongue-tied" this weekend and didn't actually say a word that has sparked a firestorm among some in the African-American community.
Talking about welfare programs at an Iowa campaign stop on Sunday, the Republican presidential candidate was quoted as saying, "I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them someone's money. I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money."
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The word "black" has become the focal point of controversy, but Santorum said Wednesday on CNN's "John King, U.S.A." that he didn't recall using that particular word.
"It was probably a tongue-tied moment as opposed to something that was deliberate," Santorum said, adding that he has watched the video several times and still can't clearly hear the word.
The NAACP responded to his statement from Sunday, blasting the former Pennsylvania senator for "singling out" African-Americans as poor.
"Sen. Santorum's targeting of African-Americans is inaccurate and outrageous, and lifts up old race-based stereotypes about public assistance," said the group's president, Benjamin Todd Jealous, in a statement. "He conflates welfare recipients with African-Americans, though federal benefits are in fact determined by income level."
Jealous said that in Iowa, for example, a strong majority of welfare recipients are white.
But one day after Santorum placed a surprising second to Mitt Romney in the Iowa caucuses, losing by only eight votes, Santorum said the pronouncement of the word was a result of unintentional stammering that simply sounded like the word "black."
"In fact, I'm pretty confident I didn't say 'black.' I started to say a word and sort of mumbled it and changed my thought. I don't recall saying black. No one in that audience heard me say that," he said.
A review of the video shows Santorum pausing before saying the word, which sounds like "black" but could also be stumbled speech. Watch and decide for yourself here.
Santorum went on to defend his record working with African-Americans.
"There's no one that's worked more - when I was a senator from Pennsylvania - in the urban communities. Black, Hispanics, as well as whites," Santorum said. "No one worked more with African-Americans."
He pointed to his efforts setting up programs that pair historically black colleges with federal education funding. He also said he was involved in bringing a billion dollars in private sector growth to Chester, Pennsylvania, which has a large African-American population.
"I will match my record against any Democrat or Republican in working with African-American communities," he said.
Paul: Gingrich a 'chickenhawk'
Iowa outcome: What it means for the president
McCain backs former foe Romney over Senate colleague Santorum
Army soldier rallying for Paul violated military ban on political activity
Romney NH ad alleges Obama broke promises
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So what did he say if not "black," – Blue??? This boy is dumber than he looks. You're finished before you started, Ricky! At least have the balls to stand by what you say!
January 5, 2012 03:18 pm at 3:18 pm |
There is definitely a "bl-" in there. The options I can hear are:
"I don't want to make black people's lives better..."
"I don't want to make blind people's lives better..."
"I don't want to make blah people's lives better..."
I don't really hear any other options there, and the final one, while amusing, makes no logical sense at all.
seriously???...no, seriously??
Those of you defending him are clowns-and I don't care if some of you are claiming to be Obama supporters or not. I couldn't care less if you supported an oak tree for president—you are plain, flat out wrong on this one.
I have watched this multiple times…backing it up right at the point where he says what he says, looking at his lips, with the volume on 10 in crystal clear CD quality sound. He CLEARLY was saying black, and the only tongue-tying was his realizing what he was about to say—as he was in a zone, in a groove preaching his views, and was caught up in the moment—but at the last second, just as he was about to, again, CLEARLY say black, he said to himself "oh s***", and tried to clean it up, but it was too late.
Funny if he was so tongue-tied, how he juuuuuuust happened to be tongue-tied at that particular point in his speech, because up to that point, he was clearly articulating his points of view, without a problem in the world. Again…got to the part where he was going to say "black peoples lives", remembered where he was, and funny of all, that there was a black camera-man behind him, and tried to clean it up. Tongue-tied, yeah ok, whatever. I've got a lot full of DeLoreans for sale, too…
Gary, Hunt Valley, Md.
This out-of-touch nimrod is just milking his moment in the sun for a bigger payoff as a lobbyist. Everyone with a fraction of a brain (including creepy Rick) knows he has absolutely NO SHOT at the nomination. But we get to watch CNN and the rest of the media fawning over the flavor of the month in the interest of ratings. The empire continues its inexorable decline. I LOVE AMERICA!!
AZinAK
It sounded like "I don't want to make live- people's lives better by giving them someone's money" to me. I'm not a big fan of this guy but let's not put words in his mouth.
I don't know, there's just something about Santorum that leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
Certainly sounds like he said "black people" to me.
laurijst
I loathe Rick Santorum. I think he is an intolerant, narrow-minded, ignorant, stupid prude and the fact that there are people who actually support him and his ideas is a sad and scary commentary on our country. But I don't think he said "black"; he may have wanted to, he may have thought it, but in that tape I just don't think you can definitively declare that he SAID "black".
I sure Santorum singled out Blacks as welfare reciepients because he was addressing the crowd and use the pronoun them instead of you all or poor people, watch the viedo again.
Funny how these politicians seem to remember every word of every conversation, except those that people find offensive. I don't need your "help", Ricky. I'm a black man who's worked everyday of my life since I was 14 and have paid taxes since I was 18. I've worked my way through college and earned both bachelor's and masters' degrees and served this country in the Marine Corps. I've given more than enough to this country through my taxes and military service and yet I've NEVER asked for anything in return. You, Ricky, are an insult to millions of hard-working African-Americans who do put in an honest day's work.
GOP, be careful. Now that Cain's out you no longer have anyone who can bash blacks and get away with it by virtue of his skin color!
Sounds like "Black" to me. Actually, as Peter pointed out, it sounds like he realized it was a bad word choice right when he got to the "k" sound, but it was too late to do anything about it. He's used that term or "black people" often enough for it to imply a deeply seated internal bias. It's not that he says the term itself, it's how he uses it within his daily rhetoric. He's an unintentional racist; he doesn't mean to be biased, and he doesn't mean to say things that show his prejudice, it just leaks out. Now that it's on the national radar, though, he's done for.
freidamurray
I"n fact, I'm pretty confident I didn't say 'black.' I started to say a word and sort of mumbled it and changed my thought. I don't recall saying black. No one in that audience heard me say that." Hmm... even if he didn't say black (which he did), what did he mean to say? Oh, African-American. IDIOT!
He just said what's on the minds of most of the Tea Partiers. They are basically driven by racial economic ideology.
Even if he didn't mean "black" his entire premise on what is "wrong" with America is misplaced. This GOP "Get a Job" solution they keep throwing out to the middle class is hollow when there are millions more people wanting jobs than there are jobs available. This "get a job" mantra of the GOP is pretty much the same as "let them eat cake" solution just before the French revolution. The GOP paints themselves into a corner on one hand by saying the government should have nothing to do with creating jobs while they give more and more money to companies who offshore American jobs overseas. Corporate America has had years of lower taxes and the best profits in the world, yet they fail to create jobs for Americans. Welfare is not even an issue until you have more jobs available than people to fill the jobs. Once you have companies raising pay, offering better benefits, and lines of companies waiting outside our homes for jobs instead of people lining outside of companies begging for jobs.... then start talking about how the lazy Americans will not take the millions upon millions of good paying jobs available.
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What is so amazing to me is that there are people on here who are saying he DiDn't say "Black" people. How in the world is that possible. It wasn't a stumble of the word. I'm "Black", and even if he did say it, I understand where he's coming from. I know he realizes that he shouldn't of said it out loud. There are some people on here who immediately dismiss it as no big deal. I'm amazed at how people have no empathy for other peoples feelings. They don't even understand that it hurts those of us who work hard and overcome this type of thinking. And even though we are strong enough to "shake it off", it's very disappointing to know that there are people in high places that feel that way about us... Oh well, we've been through much worse.. What don't kill us makes us stronger!!!
Rich - Atlanta
I think he said "lives" just before and after " people. I don't think he said black.
I guess I have a pretty perverted sense of humor. I keep picturing Santorum on the stage with Romney and Newt in the background performing a "rap" number. It would be the best demonstration in the world that at least certain white people (i.e., republicans) have no sense of rhythm at all, or for that matter, any sense at all!
I just watched him on the news. He most certainly DID NOT say black. This is a bogus issue.
My question: Why has this not been a major topic in the main stream media? Especially since it was probably these very comments that invigorated his racist base and catapulted him into the 2nd place Iowan finish. i seem to recall the media frenzy over Jeremiah Wright's (quite accurate) comments during the last election cycle. Yet, Santorum's race-baiting is not worthy of discussion. Post-racial society! Yeah right!!
loathstheright
I just watched him on the news. He most certainly DID say black. This is not a bogus issue.
Jack Francione
What's pretty funny is the look on the sound guys face (right behind and next to Santorum). He's probably thinking to himself "Did he just say what I thought he said?"
I dislike Santorum as a person and a politician. I don't think he's a friend to African Americans, either. But I think that was a simple stammer and he was not singling out Black people in this instance.
I watched the video and it sure sounded like he said the word black. Anyways, this guy is a joke like the rest of the repub clowns who want to be president.
Go Obama 2012!
He went back and look at the video, and he's still lying.
C'mon, this is the media blowing a minor gaffe into a racial controversy, so what if the guy said black instead of African American, if he had said white people can't dance, the news would have yucked it up. It's not like he used the N word or said colored, or any other derogatory term, a couple of years ago black was OK. I blame the media for the derision we see in our society, a bunch of political windbags will eventually say something that can be used against them and the media will be sure to be there to capture it and make a big deal out of it.
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Huntingdon Town chief Jimmy Brattan has urged the public to support the club in their survival fight.
Town's plight looks bleak in Division One of the United Counties League after falling four points from safety with only four games to go.
They were rolled over 5-0 by title-chasing Anstey Nomads at Jubilee Park last weekend and now face another crucial home clash with Saturday when hosting Lutterworth Athletic, 3pm.
Brattan said: "A big crowd would give the lads a huge lift at such an important time for the club.
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Q: Stop Excel auto correcting one word I don't want to turn off the auto correct feature entirely in Excel, but I someone whose name is "Alway" and Excel INSISTS on changing it to Always which then breaks my lookups.
I've gone into Options>Proofing, but the exception rule only seems to apply to capitalisation, I've tried to add a "Replace With" which didn't work, and I can't find anywhere else to try?
Suggestions welcome. I'm using Office 365.
Thanks

A: I would do the following:
Open up the proofing options, in excel 2016 you would do the following, (i believe it is similar structure in 365)
File > options > proofing
then choose AutoCorrect Options...
under here you have the Replace: and With: fields, scroll down to where Alway is replaced with Always and delete that option. If it is not there it should not change it automatically. Once deleted click close.
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Pentagon Watch: Senate Takes Action
Is Secretary Hagel Serious About Sexual Exploitation?
Pentagon Watch, Number 5 – July 3, 2013
After ignoring the will of Congress for nearly two decades on the issue of sexually exploitive materials sold to servicemen, the Pentagon has been given an ultimatum of sorts by the U. S. Senate Armed Services Committee. The Military Honor and Decency Act prohibits the sale of pornography on Military bases but this law has all but been ignored by the Pentagon since it passed Congress in 1996. The Military's sexual exploitation scandal may change that.
Morality in Media is encouraged that the Armed Services committee, in an effort led by Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), added key language to the final markup of the 2014 Defense budget to address the problem of pornography in the military. "The committee is concerned about the impact this material may have on the health and wellness of military service members and their families," says the report. It directs military officials to notify Congress about what steps will be taken to comply with the prohibition of the sale of pornography.
Morality in Media thanks our troops around the world for protecting us and we keep all of them in our thoughts and prayers this Fourth of July. We also appreciate the collective work being done by the Pentagon and Congress to ensure that the Military's sexual exploitation crisis comes to an end and that all service members, women and men, feel welcome in their service.
In a June letter to Defense Secretary Hagel, Morality in Media asked him to stop selling sexually exploitive magazines and to prohibit access to pornography by electronic devices on military bases worldwide.
Secretary Hagel ordered the removal of all pornography and other offensive and degrading materials from workspaces. Morality in Media would urge that if the Secretary believes porn is a problem, as we certainly do, then eliminate all porn. It is incongruous to prohibit service members from possessing pornography and offer to sell it to them at the same time.
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Will do, but I'm still testing things.
I've learned how to use the Text Logging feature of GPxPatch - well, to be honest, I've just managed to construct a few meaningful Excel functions which help me filter the data that we need from the logs, laptimes, top speeds, minimum speeds, etc. so I can do some rather robust tests on a lot of assumptions and figures.
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Wow, it's quite surprising to see GP4's secrets still being revealed. Thanks, Atticus, for making this work for this community!
Here's a quick update for you on how testing is going.
I've found the logic behind 3 of the 4 values previously labelled "player wet?" besides clarifying a lot of the others, although I'm still dumbfounded by the "slipstream" figure.
In total, there are only 8 numbers of which we have no idea what they do still.
Nice to hear some results of your work!
But which value are you meaning by 'the two "segment nrs" of 6'? Which line number is it in GP4Builder?
> Nice to hear some results of your work!
Desc79 and desc80 in the .md3 files.
"segment nr (start of some range) related to pit in/out"
"segment nr (end of some range) related to pit in/out"
Looking forward to hearing your findings!
is that the marker at the start of pit lane to slow the car down or let in speed up from pit lane ?
No, that are the lines #67 and #68.
So I have undertaken a massive amount of tests using GPxPatch's logging feature to find out more about lots of magic data values in general.
The tests were being conducted on a fresh GP4 install without any mods, in 100% non-championship races with 0% rain chance at Silverstone. The only thing I have had switched on was the Player car performance team dependent option, which was set to Power and grip – but I let the AI do the driving whenever possible anyways. For convenience's sake, I often turned off tyre wear (CC shuffler) and pitstops as well.
In the logfiles, I applied basic Excel functions to filter for a given driver's (usually DC's or MSC's) laptimes, maximum speed (end of Hangar Straight, used to assess effects on top speed) and minimum speed (either at the exit of the Vale chicane or at Luffield, used to assess effects on cornering speed and mechanical grip) around the lap.
Please find below the values about which I found out something new. Former names are from CMagic; they're not their CSM equivalents.
Player downforce and drag (CC drag) formerly Ride height – This is a simple master downforce setting for the player car – the higher it is, the more speed you can carry around the corners, but the slower you are on the straights. On 1400, you are literally flat from Copse to the Vale. Beware, however, that it seems it simply doesn't provide the downforce benefit for the AI, so it basically acts as another drag value for that. It cannot be ride height as that would have no or minimal effect on top speed, unless it causes the car to bottom out which it does not.
Player tyre wear factor, formerly Tyre wear player – I can confirm that this is a tyre wear % value for the player that adjusts the player's tyre wear in % of the master tyre wear value, i.e. the CC shuffler. So if tyre wear is 0, you get no wear for the player even if the player tyre wear factor is positive, but if you increase tyre wear, the player is affected as well – up to how much the player tyre wear factor allows it. Conversely, regardless of whether the player tyre wear factor is 0 or not, the CC cars are not affected at all. The new info here is the % bit, all in all.
CC aggressiveness (added to car.field_108. related to cc grip factor, 32769 low, 65536 & 0 mid, 32768 high) formerly AI grip and "track improvement value" – This value regulates how sensitive the CC cars are to direction changes in the CC-line. Near its minimum (so around 32769-45000), the AI almost stops for the low-speed corners while near its maximum (so around 20000-32768; I know, it's tricky), the AI is spinning off everywhere. You can see it is CC-line dependent, because at really low values the AI adjusts its speed at every single change of direction in the line. Likely affects the auto brakes driving aid as well, not tested yet.
CC aggressiveness finetune, formerly AI grip finetune – Just a confirmation that this one, like its "parent" is related to the CC-line and not grip in general.
Tyre wear, formerly CC shuffler – This is still the big one. We already postulated that there seems to be an odd upper limit coded into tyre wear in GP4 (maybe 2.0 or 3.0 on the plank / tyre wear monitor) after which laptimes don't fall any further. Perhaps nowhere is this clearer to see than in 100% race trim without pitstops – at around 1/3 distance, if it's set to high, the cars are simply starting to get faster again as the fuel burns. (And it's no use decreasing fuel / player fuel consumption / cc fuel consumption because it'd mess up the weight effect.) And there is no way the AI is going to box because of tyre wear only – although you can trial and error a pitstop strategy where most cars pit just before the laptimes hit the 'ceiling,' off course, for a pseudo-designed to degrade world. Affects CC cars and player car in equal measure, but can adjust the latter with the player tyre wear factor, see above.
CC crossover point (higher, sooner) formerly Change for drys/wets timing AI finetune? – The only new info here is the fact that it's actually what we previously thought was the finetune value (desc77) that is driving the crossover points and not the main figure (desc76). CC only – the player car gets the automatic pit signal to pit for a different tyre at the same point of the race in changing conditions.
CC engine mapping wet (higher, more detuned) formerly unk (dw) AI wet? – This is another easy one. It affects top speed and top speed only and only in the wet, so no cornering speed difference, no dry running effect, etc. We know wet engine mappings were beginning to become a thing around 2001 so this is a natural conclusion.
CC tyre wear and grip factor wet (higher, more) formerly unk (dw) AI wet? – This is a lot trickier. It affects top speed in the wet from the get go (the more water there is on the track, the more) and acts as a master tyre wear factor for wet weather tyres with a constantly and clearly steeper drop-off in cornering speeds if set to higher than its default setting. The assumption is that the worse minimum speeds mean the drivers carry comparatively lower top speeds onto the upcoming straights, hence the grip factor nature.
CC tyre wear factor wet (lower, more) formerly unk (dw) AI wet? – This seems to influence wet weather tyre wear only, in much the same way as the previous value, but without the top speed drop. Also be wary as it works in the opposite way – decrease it for more wear, increase it for less.
CC grip factor wet (lower, more) formerly unk (dw) AI wet? – You guessed it, the fourth one of the previously unknown values sets CC grip in the wet. (And grip only.) It causes huge shifts in laptimes and cornering speeds with top speeds less affected – again, probably only due to carrying different amounts of speed on the exits – but it does so in a consistent manner, so no trace of extra tyre wear unlike in the case the previous two values.
That's it for now – thank you for your patience and for bearing with me during this long post. Next up, I'm going to discuss what I have tried for the remaining 7 (!) values that remain unknown for now.
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The following values are likely to remain unknown even after my most recent investigations. The upshot is that it is only 7 (!) values that we are talking about here, which is a lot less than what we've had before.
Slipstream? (subtracted from diff between field_e2 of 2 cars and then compared to speed of first car) – A surprising amount of information is known about this value despite not being cracked yet. We know that field_e2 of a car is NumFeetIntoLap, in other words where the car is on the track at any given moment, so if (NumFeetIntoLap)Car1 – (NumFeetIntoLap)Car2 – Slipstream? > (Speed)Car2 then something is triggered. See this post for reference.
Comparing distance to speed looks odd at first, but it can make sense, e. g. 320 feet is comparable with 310kph which is exactly around the mark where slipstream begins to kick in. Note that this is NOT the slipstream effect itself – that was modified in the 1.02 patch, according to the GP4 patch readme file, but I haven't found any changes to these values in the original tracks' magic data from 1.00 to 1.02, so it simply cannot be it. (Thank you, SchueyFan again for re-uploading CMagic4 1.00 that allowed me to to come up with this proof.) This is, in effect, just the trigger, potentially for dirty air, but we cannot know for sure. Tested 0-65536 and some values in between for both player and AI, but no luck so far.
Segment nr (start of some range) related to pit in/out – Still have no idea what this does. I did notice something very odd: basically, if I rebuild a pitlane in a .dat and create the .bin files and put them into the game, the dynamic tarmac map is always showing 6 pit sectors less at the beginning and at the end of the pitlane. (Properly built, so it doesn't merge into the track in a way that it disappears below or something.) It does the same for the vanilla tracks, it doesn't show the first and last 6 sectors. (Regardless of the pitlane flags.) It's there physically, it can be felt while driving and it also "drives" the cars, as it's supposed to do, it just doesn't show up on the screen visually. The original .dats doesn't contain magic data, of course, and I have no idea how the .bin files would know how many sectors to show in the process of being created from the .dat otherwise. (So without input from the GP4.exe which has these values be default.) Not tested yet what happens if I create the .bins from a .dat that has magic data.
Segment nr (end of some range) related to pit in/out – Same.
CC race grip? (another perf factor) – Again, I have found no changes in-game by changing this value. Not in performance, nor otherwise.
Unk (dw) player wet? – I tested if it's something similar to the "AI wet" values, but it made no difference while driving in the wet.
Unk (dw) player grip? – Same here.
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desc82=????? - unk (dw) player wet?
desc83=????? - unk (dw) player grip?
Thank you once more for following these developments – use it well and let's hope we can find out the last bits of mystery as well, eventually.
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Thanks for your nice investigations and for the descriptions of the new findings. It must have been a lot of work for you. It reminds me on my investigations regarding the ccshuffler a few years ago.
I'm looking forward for your cmagic4.ini description. In an overview it might get even more clearer to us, what value has which effect, I think.
Thank you. Good times indeed.
I've grown so much since then as a person, but here I am still deciphering this mystery, haha.
Added content to the two placeholder posts as well, including the updated cmagic4.ini descriptions.
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Do you have a value you can recommend for realistic crossover?
> crossover points and not the main figure (desc76).
> point of the race in changing conditions.
I think the default values are quite realistic - e.g. they are by far the lowest for Spa, which is a long track and is known for it's weird rain patterns geographically-speaking, so that seems realistic.
In terms of track building, one has to consider the length and footprint of his custom track and choose a value similar to the respective value of a similar original track.


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← NYC Events,"Only the Best" (08/28) + US Tennis Open (Day 2)
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Today's Super 7 NYC Events > WEDNESDAY/ AUGUST 29, 2018
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David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Eternity Band
Birdland, 315 W 44th St./ 5:30PM, $30
"Inspired by the noble jazz pioneers Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton and their colleagues, David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Eternity Band breathes life and passion into America's own great art form. Legendary record producer George Avakian describes the band in this way:
"There has never been a band quite like this one. Most groups, past and present, stick to one style. Some current groups attempt to recreate early recordings in their entirety. These guys do neither. Inspired by divergent bands of the 1920s and 30s, you'll hear them swing a variety of styles in music by a wide range of composers, always true to the joy and heart of the music."
Now in its 14th year of residency at Birdland, the weekly post-workday engagement is the city's best musical bargain! Tuba player David Ostwald leads a rotating lineup that features talents such as clarinetist Anat Cohen, trombonist/vocalist Wycliffe Gordon, pianist Ehud Asherie, drummer Marion Felder and more!"
>> Katie Thiroux
>> Roy Hargrove
>> Summer HD Festival: Lulu
>> Joe Lovano
>> Michael Feinstein and Christine Ebersole:
>> WILLIAM PARKER'S IN ORDER TO SURVIVE
>> Today's Top Event – U.S. TENNIS OPEN
>> Metropolitan Opera Summer HD Festival
>> Fear & Force: New York City's Sons of Liberty
Katie Thiroux (Aug.29-Sept.1)
Birdland Theatre, 315 W. 44th St./ 7PM, $20-$30
A bassist with a sound as massive as a cruise ship and a singer with a pocket-size voice that she maneuvers with expressive agility, Thiroux is as seriously musical as she is serenely entertaining. Her quartet includes the virtuosic clarinettist and saxophonist Ken Peplowski." (Steve Futterman, NewYorker)
Roy Hargrove (Aug.28-31)
Blue Note / 8PM, +10:30PM, $30-$45
"Fiery trumpeter Hargrove has deep crossover appeal—you can hear him grooving with Erykah Badu and Common on his early aughts album Hard Groove alongside his slick funky combo RH Factor. Since then, he's proven himself a veritable multitalent, switching over to a soulful neobop quintet. You'll be hearing him in the latter mode in the second half of his Blue Note residency (Aug 28–Sept 2) and in a duet format with Grammy-winning vet Paquito D'Rivera earlier in the month (Aug 13–Aug 16)." (TONY)
Summer HD Festival: Lulu
Metropolitan Opera Plaza, Lincoln Center / 7:30PM, FREE
"Berg's riveting 20th-century masterpiece bursts to life in William Kentridge's stunning production, with soprano Marlis Petersen as the alluring yet elusive title character. Original transmission: November 21, 2015 Approximate running time: 3 hours"
"The tenth Summer HD Festival features ten thrilling performances from the Met's Live in HD series of cinema transmissions. The showings run from August 24 through September 3, with approximately 3,000 seats set up in front of the opera house each night, as well as additional standing room around Lincoln Center Plaza."
Joe Lovano (Aug.28-Sept.2)
Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Ave. S., at 11th St./ 8:30PM, +10:30PM, $35
"Too young at age sixty-five to be considered an elder statesman, but with enough experience and wisdom to have secured a position in the jazz firmament, Lovano can safely be called a master, a saxophonist and bandleader of rare inspiration. For this engagement, he steers an intergenerational quartet that includes Marc Johnson (the last bassist to work with Bill Evans) and the septuagenarian drummer Andrew Cyrille (a valued associate of Cecil Taylor)." (Steve Futterman,NewYorker)
Michael Feinstein and Christine Ebersole: Two For the Road (Aug.21-31)
54 Below / 7PM, $85+
"Feinstein, the popular and polished standard-bearer of American song, returns to the club that bears his name for a long run that teams him with one of the best cabaret performers out there: Broadway leading lady Ebersole (Grey Gardens), who is equally skilled at comedy and sentiment and who moves with ease between her lustrous belt and legit soprano. Among the selections in their Great American Songbook–centered set are "Stormy Weather," "Time After Time" and "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe." (TONY)
WILLIAM PARKER'S IN ORDER TO SURVIVE (Aug. 28-29)
at Dizzy's Club / 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.,$35
"Mr. Parker, an eminent avant-garde bassist, has convened bands for over two decades under the title In Order to Survive. His collaborations vary widely, but the music he tends to make under this moniker is quintessentially Parker: rangy, big-toned free jazz with a mix of sly melodicism and slipping-off-the-cliff unease. At Dizzy's, Mr. Parker is joined by the trombonist Steve Swell, the saxophonists James Brandon Lewis and Rob Brown, the pianist Cooper-Moore and the drummer Hamid Drake." (NYT-GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO)
Today's Top Event
U.S. TENNIS OPEN (Day 3)
The U.S. Open begins play today (11AM) at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens (about 45 min. from Times Square) and runs through Sept.09. This tournament, which serves up the world's best tennis players right in our backyard, is the fourth and final Grand Slam tennis tournament of the year.
subway: @ Times Square take #7 to Willets Point.
Today's tips: Arrive Early. Security screening seems to have been ratcheted up which may cause delays to enter. Best not to bring a bag. The most comprehensive review of the tournament and the current state of tennis can be found at the NYTimes/Sports.
OR for a useful guide to the U.S. Open, try TimeOutNewYork's guide.
Early in the tournament forget the Big House (Arthur Ashe Stadium), which is a full 50% larger than any of the stadiums at the other majors and not a good place to watch tennis. Get a grounds pass and once inside check out one of the electronic scoreboards listing matches in progress. Find a match or players that interest you. Head over to their court for some great tennis, because in this tournament even the qualifiers are great players. There is no other major sporting event where you can get so close to world class athletes as at the U.S. Open – at least on the outer field courts, and the Grandstand court. These are courts where you can get a real sense of the pace of the game.
Unfortunately, the brand new Armstrong stadium carries on the USTA tradition of building humongous stadiums which provide good viewing only for those on expense accounts who can afford to sit in their lower bowls. Not nice places to watch tennis for the rest of us. But we still have the outer courts and Grandstand.
Metropolitan Opera Summer HD Festival (Aug.24-Sep.03)
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
"Think you can't afford the finer things? Think again. We got the hookup on free opera. For its tenth summer in a row, the Metropolitan Opera invites you to Lincoln Center Plaza for nightly alfresco screenings of epic performances from previous seasons. From August 24–September 3, the Met will set up over 2,800 seats in front of the Opera House, where you and your date can eat and enjoy tapes of the shows under the stars.
The Met opens the series with a self-aware screening of the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera on August 24. After that, you can check out classics like Anthony Minghella's stunning Madama Butterfly production (September 3 and 8) and many more. Here's the lineup: A Night at the Opera (August 24) Roméo et Juliette (August 25) Norma (August 26) Elektra (August 27) Il Barbiere di Siviglia (August 28) Lulu (August 29) Rusalka (August 30) L'Elisir d'Amore (August 31) Un Ballo in Maschera (September 1) Der Rosenkavalier (September 2) Madama Butterfly (September 3 and 8)" (TONY)
Fear & Force: New York City's Sons of Liberty
Fraunces Tavern Museum, 54 Pearl St./ 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm, $7
"We may not like paying taxes, but we would never think to tar and feather the tax collector. Yet as many of the colonists prepared for what would be the American Revolution, there was an organized group who opposed the government through violent resistance. Come see objects preserved from pivotal moments relating to the New York Sons of Liberty, like the tearing down of the King George statue in Bowling Green Park, and throwing chests of tea into the New York Harbor."
Town Hall – 123 W43rd St. (btw 6/7), thetownhall.org, 212-997-6661
Sony Hall – 235 W 46th St. (btw 7/8), sonyhall.com, 212-997-5123
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Marxist Explanations of Warfare
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Within Marxist theory, modern warfare is described as existing as result of capitalism. Marxist theory states that all modern wars are caused by competition for resources and markets between great and imperialist powers, claiming these wars are a natural result of the free market and a class system.[1]
The Marxist theory includes the belief that war will only disappear once a proletarian world revolution has occurred which overthrows free markets and class systems.[1]
Marxist philosopher Rosa Luxemburg theorized that imperialism was the result of capitalist countries needing new markets. Expansion of the means of production is only possible if there is a corresponding growth in consumer demand. Since the workers in a capitalist economy would be unable to fill the demand, producers must expand into non-capitalist markets to find consumers for their goods, hence driving imperialism.[1]
Vladimir Lenin expanded upon Marx's ideas, providing an analysis of what Lenin described as monopoly capitalism. In his theory, Lenin suggested that as capitalism developed as a system, monopoly capitalism was the highest stage of its development. According to Lenin, "imperialism is capitalism" when "the formation of international capitalist monopolies will share the world among themselves and the territorial division of the whole world among the greatest capitalist powers is completed".[2]
In this way, Lenin is suggesting that capitalist powers will cause wars with weaker nations to increase their holding of monopoly capital. As capitalism develops, its natural progression is for core capitalist nations to exploit those on the periphery through imperialist wars in search of new markets and resources. Lenin's theory provided the origins of the world-systems theory.[3]
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^ a b c O'Callaghan, Einde (25 October 2007). "The Marxist Theory of Imperialism and its Critics". Marxists Internet Archive. Retrieved 2011.
^ Lenin, V.I. (1996) 'Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism', London, Pluto Press.
^ Hobden, S. and Wyn Jones, R. (2008) 'Marxist Theories of International Relations', in Baylis, J., Smith, S., and Owens, P. (2008) (Eds) 'The Globalization of World Politics. An introduction to international relations', New York, Oxford University Press, p.147
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On 8/29/2014 the Principals at Davis Partnership Architects were challenged to the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge by the Saint Joseph Heritage Project Design Team as they were challenged by Mortenson Construction.
The Principals then raised money for ALS and were drenched with buckets of icy, icy water. However the buck did not stop there! No, the Principals quickly challenged the Associate Principals who were also soaked in icy H2O goodness.
Now the Associate Principals have challenged HW Houston Construction and we look forward to more good natured shenanigans for a great cause!
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It takes inspiration from Sicilian basket "paniere", an essential work tool used to pick generous island fruits and an iconic serving basket on tables loaded with food and drinks. Symbol of prosperity and flourishing, it recalls the indissoluble bond between man and the land that hosts and nourishes it, and the wisdom of ancient crafts.


Children in grades 1-3 are invited to join our Children's Living Nativity that will be held on Saturday, December 15. Directed by our Music Minister, Maggie Hanson, registration is available online or registration forms are available at the church entrances and parish office. Come and join in the singing, acting and costume fun! There will be 5 rehearsals beginning Wednesday, November 7 from 5:30 -6:05 pm.
Bring the family to the Pancake Breakfast on Sunday, October 28 from 8 am until 11 am in the Fr. Ed Center. All you can eat for $6/adult, $4/child, free for children age 3 and under with a maximum cost of $30/family. Hosted by the Knights of Columbus. Proceeds to benefit their charitable efforts.
Spread the joy of the season by participating in the Poinsettia fundraiser. Pick up a plant or two to decorate your home and donate one for the homebound or for our Church's Christmas floral display on the altar! Event ends November 4. Plants will be delivered to the St. Patrick campus and ready for pick-up on Monday, November 26.
Come and see what our exceptional Nationally Certified STEM AdvancED, Blue Ribbon school has to offer! Open houses will be held on Wednesday, November 7 from 7:30 pm-9 pm and Thursday, November 8 from 9 am-11 am. For more information, please contact our parish school at 973-635-4623.
On Friday, November 2 at 7 pm, St. Patrick Parish celebrates a Mass of Remembrance with special intentions for those who passed in the last year. If you lost a loved one in the last 12 months, please contact the office to include your loved one in the program. All are invited to attend this very special Mass.
Join us on October 16, 2018 for a discussion with Morris County Sheriff James M. Gannon on current issues affecting our children, including cyber safety. The discussion begins at 7:30 pm in the East Room of the Fr. Ed Hinds Parish Center. Parent Education Night is hosted by St. Patrick School. All are welcome to attend!
On Sunday, October 21, we will be colleting coats as well as hats, scarves and gloves for men, women, and children. Donations will benefit Market Street Mission's Annual Coat Giveaway. Bring your gently worn items to the Fr. Ed Center lobby before and after all masses.


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Automation Is Taking Humanity Beyond A "Jobs Economy," Utopian Paradise and Dystopian Nightmare?
The future is often envisioned as some scenario between a utopian paradise and a dystopian nightmare. Sometimes, it is a utopia for an elite few and a dystopia for the rest of humanity. Technology almost always plays a central role in determining the fate of the world. As the year 2000 approached, the so-called Y2K Bug fueled fears modern technology would suddenly be lost. At the time, the modern lifestyles of those living in the developed world were increasingly dependent on technology. A programming oversight, i.e. the truncation of the year by the majority of software, had the potential to shutdown critical computer systems and infrastructure. Years later, the human race is unable to function without technology as it continually finds new technologies to do new things. While key advancements in automation and artificial intelligence have been made over decades, the introduction of Tesla's semi-autonomous truck in 2017 may well prove to be a defining moment.
The Industrial Revolution transformed the lifestyles of the human race in many ways. Most significantly, it created a modern economy that allowed more and more people to move away from subsistence farming to formal employment. The human population was freed to grow as factory workers migrated to cities that were fed by professional farmers specializing in the mass production of food. Thanks to mass formal employment, most people were able to specialize their skill sets and devote their time to jobs that offered them the incomes needed to purchase what they needed. Because manufacturing utilized a massive amount of high-skilled, high-value labor , it provided the perfect vehicle for economic development for highly-populated, resource-rich nations like the United States. Further technological advances allowed workers to become increasingly productive while spawning new industries.
Unfortunately, technological advances have the tendency to decrease the number of workers needed. When the number of new jobs being created by technological advances started to lag behind the number of jobs destroyed by automation, people started losing their jobs and their incomes. Today, this trend has accelerated. Because jobs are the means by which wealth is distributed and wealth is the means by people are able to support their modern lifestyles, an insufficient number of jobs, as well as an insufficient level of income, prevents people from living in the modern world. For anyone who lacks an income, or has a perpetually insufficient income, living in the modern is a dystopian nightmare. Those not able to access the formal economy cannot access the benefits of society. Not only are they unable to thrive as individuals and contribute to society, they struggle to survive. Due the size of the world's population, few can return to the struggle of the subsistence farmer, thus the problem is only likely to get worse.
As the manufacturing sector started to shrink in the face of free trade-accelerated globalization and outsourcing, service sector jobs were supposed to replace manufacturing jobs. In the "new economy," logistics and transportation, which have provided high-income opportunities for workers, became the economic sector capable of providing for the incomes of average workers. With the advent of automated vehicles and the commercialization of drones, this pivotal source of jobs is now undergoing a transformation. At first, large companies will experiment with automated trucks, but most will be unable to afford automated vehicles. In time, however, trucking companies will build fleets of automated trucks that can be utilized by smaller companies at lower costs, thus automated vehicles will replace professional drivers.
From Amazon's delivery drones to computerized kiosks at McDonald's, automated vehicles are only part of a larger shift that will destroy service industry jobs. Machines are beginning to take over more and more basic tasks humans carry out. Machines are talking more and more jobs from people. The kind and numbers of jobs available today will not exist in the future. Unfortunately, what people will do when machines do everything is a question most visionaries tend to glaze over. Many assume a global socialist paradise will arise where people either enjoy a guaranteed income or money ceases to exist. It is easy to assume social welfare spending will increase, but the political reality is that it likely will not. More importantly, people on public welfare do not live in a paradise. It is a nightmare of stagnation and uncertainty that prevents enterprising individuals from seizing opportunities and capitalizing on their full potential. Most assume machines will perform menial tasks and humans will be freed to explore creative endeavors, but that can only happen if people have access to the resources needed to pursue their dreams.
In reality, the destruction of the "jobs economy" will continue to mean less and less wealth is distributed to the bulk of the human population. Today, growing income inequality and the concentration of wealth into the hands of a wealthy elite is only the beginning. If technology is truly to free humanity from menial tasks, thereby freeing people to fulfill their full potential, new economic mechanisms will have to be devised to distribute wealth. A technology-fueled utopian paradise will not spontaneous emerge with the creation of new technology. Society has always needed great leaders to become great. Instead of glancing over a very serious problem with assumptions, visionaries need to confront the human cost of automation. Society needs leaders who represent the Peoples of the world. People need leaders who will address their interests in a future where all work is done by machines.


Dr. Abidi came to the Greenwood Genetic Center (GGC) in 1995 as a Postdoctoral Fellow. She joined the Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory as a Clinical Molecular Fellow in 2012. After completing her fellowship in 2014, she assumed the position of Clinical Molecular Specialist. Upon her certifictaion by the American Board of Genetics and Genomics, she became Assistant Director of the Molecular Diagnostic Lab. Her primary responsibilities include reviewing and interpreting molecular diagnostic tests, clinical report writing, and participate in the development of new test technologies and procedures.
Dr. Abidi's past research interests focused on understanding the causes of X-linked Intellectual Disability (XLID) and birth defects. She has had extensive experience in long-range genome mapping, molecular cloning, mutation analyses and the characterization of gene structure and function.
Her research on the Coffin-Lowry syndrome has led to the identification of over 20 different mutations in the RPS6KA3 (RSK2) gene. She has done extensive work on the XLMR hypotonic facies syndrome (ATRX syndrome) where mutation analyses of the XNP gene have led to the identification of several different mutations that causes this syndrome. This work has also shown that mutations in the XNP gene cause a number of other similar syndromes such as Carpenter-Waziri syndrome, Holmes-Gang syndrome and Chudley-Lowry syndrome. She was also involved with the identification of genes responsible for XLID on chromosome Xp11.4-Xp11.1, which has led to the identification of the mutation in the PQBP1 gene that causes Golabi-Ito-Hall syndrome.
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Homan CC, Kumar R, Nguyen LS, Haan E, Raymond FL, Abidi F, Raynaud M, Schwartz CE, Wood SA, Gecz J, Jolly LA. Mutations in USP9X are associated with X-linked intellectual disability and disrupt neuronal cell migration and growth. Am J Hum Genet. 94:470-8, 2014.
Grafodatskaya D, Chung BH, Butcher DT, Turinsky AL, Goodman SJ, Choufani S, Chen YA, Lou Y, Zhao C, Rajendram R, Abidi FE, Skinner C, Stavropoulos J, Bondy CA, Hamilton J, Wodak S, Scherer SW, Schwartz CE, Weksberg R. Multilocus loss of DNA methylation in individuals with mutations in the histone H3 lysine 4 demethylase KDM5C. BMC Med Genomics. 28;6:1, 2013.
Simensen RJ, Rogers RC, Collins JS, Abidi FE, Schwartz CE, Stevenson RE. Short-Term Memory Deficits in Carrier Females with KDM5C Mutations. Genetic Counseling. 23:31-40, 2012.
Whibley AC, Plagnol V, Tarpey PS, Abidi F, Fullston T, Choma MK, Boucher CA, Shepherd L, Willatt L, Parkin G, Smith R, Futreal PA, Shaw M, Boyle J, Licata A, Skinner C, Stevenson RE, Turner G, Field M, Hackett A, Schwartz CE, Gecz J, Stratton MR, Raymond FL. Fine-scale survey of X chromosome copy number variants and indels underlying intellectual disability. Am J Hum Genet. 87:173-88, 2010.
Shoubridge C, Tarpey PS, Abidi F, Ramsden SL, Rujirabanjerd S, Murphy JA, Boyle J, Shaw M, Gardner A, Proos A, Puusepp H, Raymond FL, Schwartz CE, Stevenson RE, Turner G, Field M, Walikonis RS, Harvey RJ, Hackett A, Futreal PA, Stratton MR, Gécz Mutations in the guanine nucleotide exchange factor gene IQSEC2 cause nonsyndromic intellectual disability. J. Nat Genet. 42:486-8, 2010.
Hackett A, Tarpey PS, Licata A, Cox J, Whibley A, Boyle J, Rogers C, Grigg J, Partington M, Stevenson RE, Tolmie J, Yates JR, Turner G, Wilson M, Futreal AP, Corbett M, Shaw M, Gecz J, Raymond FL, Stratton MR, Schwartz CE, Abidi FE. CASK mutations are frequent in males and cause X-linked nystagmus and variable XLMR phenotypes. Eur J Hum Genet. 18(5):544- 52, 2010. Erratum in: Eur J Hum Genet. 18:552, 2010.
Tarpey PS, Smith R, Pleasance E, Whibley A, Edkins S, Hardy C, O'Meara S, Latimer C, Dicks E, Menzies A, Stephens P, Blow M, Greenman C, Xue Y, Tyler-Smith C, Thompson D, Gray C, Andrews J, Barthorpe S, Buck G, Cole J, Dunmore R, Jones D, Maddison M, Mironenko T, Turner R, Turrell K, Varian J, West S, Widaa S, Wray P, Teague J, Butler A, Jenkinson A, Jia M, Richardson D, Shepherd R, Wooster R, Tejada MI, Martinez F, Carvill G, Goliath R, de Brouwer APM, van Bokhoven H, Esch HV, Chelly J, Raynaud M, Ropers HH, Abidi FE, Srivastava AK, Cox J, Luo Y, Mallya U, Moon J, Parnau J, Mohammed S, Tolmie, Shoubridge C, Corbett M, Gardner A, Haan E, Rujirabanjerd S, Shaw M, Vandeleur L, Fullston T, Easton DF, Boyle J, Partington M, Hackett A, Field M, Skinner C, Stevenson RE, Bobrow M, Turner G, Schwartz CE, Gecz J, Raymond FL, Futreal PA, Stratton M. A systematic, large-scale resequencing screen of the X chromosome coding exons in mental retardation. Nat Genet. 41:535-43, 2009.
Abidi FE, Holloway L, Moore CA, Weaver DD, Simensen RJ, Stevenson RE, Rogers RC, Schwartz CE. Mutations in JARID1C are associated with X-linked mental retardation, short stature and hyperreflexia. J Med Genet. 45:787-793, 2008.
Froyen G, Corbett M, Vandewalle J, Jarvela I, Lawrence O, Meldrum C, Bauters M, Govaerts K, Vandeleur L, Van Esch H, Chelly J, Sanlaville D, van Bokhoven H, Ropers HH, Laumonnier F, Ranieri E, Schwartz CE, Abidi F, Tarpey P et al., Submicroscopic duplications of the hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase HSD17B10 and the E3 ubiquitin ligase HUWE1 are associated with mental retardation. Am J Hum Genet. 82:432-443, 2008.
Marco EJ, Abidi FE, Bristow J, Dean WB, Cotter P, Jeremy RJ, Schwartz CE, Sherr EH. ARHGEF9 disruption in a female patient is associated with X linked mental retardation and sensory hyperarousal. J Med Genet. 45:100-105, 2008.
Zhang L, Jie C, Obie C, Abidi F, Schwartz CE, Stevenson RE, Valle D, Wang T. X chromosome cDNA microarray screening identifies a functional PLP2 promoter polymorphism enriched in patients with X-linked mental retardation. Genome Res. 17:641-648, 2007.
Kesler SR, Simensen RJ, Voeller K, Abidi F, Stevenson RE, Schwartz CE, Reiss AL. Altered neurodevelopment associated with mutations of RSK2: a morphometric MRI study of Coffin- Lowry syndrome. Neurogenetics 8:143-147, 2007.
Ramser J, Abidi FE, Lenski K, Toriello H, Wen G, Lubs HA, Stevenson RE, Meindl A, Schwartz CE. A unique exonic splice enhancer mutation in a family with X-linked mental retardation and epilepsy points to a novel role of rennin receptor. Hum Molec Genet 14:1019-1027, 2005.
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Head of BMW Motorsport, Jens Marquardt, professed that the team which developed the race car version had to work in close cooperation with those in the road-going production sector of BMW.
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India – Dilemma Of A Nominee Director On The JV Company's Board – Is There A Conflict In His Fiduciary Duties?
March 15, 2022 by Soniya BK
The fiduciary relationship between a director and the company is among the foremost principles of company law, which was first enshrined by common law courts of equity. The Supreme Court of India ("SC") first recognised this common law principle in its celebrated judgment in the Nanalal Zaver case[1], which noted that directors can be considered as "trustees" of the company, and "must exercise their powers for the benefit of the company and for that alone".[2]
While it is well-settled that a director should always act in the company's best interest, it is often easier said than done, as there may be various competing interests that a director would have to weigh, before exercising his "independent judgment".
Such conflicting duties and interests arise especially for nominee directors, who would be required to consider the interests of the nominator entity, as well as the interests of the company, on whose Board he serves as a director.
One scenario under which a nominee director may have conflicting duties is on the Board of a JV company, where the interest of the nominator shareholder [who has appointed the director on the JV's Board] may conflict with the interest of the JV company.
To illustrate, Company A and Company B have set-up Company AB, pursuant to a 50:50 JV Agreement. Mr. X has been nominated to the Board of Company AB by Company A. The JV Agreement also provides affirmative voting rights on certain matters ("AVMs") to the nominee director of Company A.
Now, there may be situations where the nominee director may have to cast his vote on a matter where the interests of Company A directly conflicts with the interests of the JV [Company AB]. For instance, Company AB may be in genuine need of capital – and may propose to undertake a rights issue.
Company A may oppose the rights issue on the ground that it would be unable to subscribe to the rights issue, or on the ground that there is no genuine requirement of capital.
If Company AB proceeds with the rights issue, then Company A's shareholding may get diluted down, and the nominee director would have to take into account Company AB's genuine requirement of funds, which is in conflict with the nominator shareholder's interest. In this specific example, the question that arises is whether the nominee director can exercise AVMs to block the board resolution for approving the rights issue?
The larger issue is whether AVMs or similar veto rights can be abused by a nominee director, to block an action that is in the best interests of the company? The authors shall examine the legal position in this regard, in accordance with the jurisprudence on this aspect.
Jurisprudence on conflicting fiduciary duties of a nominee director
One important judgment which deals with the fiduciary duty of nominee directors is the Bombay HC's decision in Rolta India Limited v. Venire Industries,[3] ("Rolta"), where it was held that private arrangements which prevented the nominee directors from appointing an additional director despite such appointment being in the company's best interests could not be used to place fetters on the powers of such directors. It was held that the directors cannot abdicate their independent judgment by entering into pooling agreements – which essentially protect the proprietary interest of the shareholders.
Interestingly, the Bombay HC referred to the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Ringuet v. Bergeron,[4] which held that a director's discretion to act in the administration of the company's affairs cannot be fettered by an agreement. The Bombay HC also noted that an agreement that would 'sterilise' the powers of directors would not be enforceable.
In AES OPGC Holding (Mauritius) v. Orissa Power Generation Corporation Limited,[5] it was held that if a director is placed in a situation where there is a conflict between the interests of two or more persons/entities to whom the director owes allegiance, then he is duty bound to take the decision which would be in the interest of the company, failing which he would be in breach of his fiduciary duties. It was noted that this is more so in case of nominee directors, where there is a clash of interest between the company and the nominators.
A similar view has also been taken by English Courts. In Boulting v. Association of Cinematographer,[6] it was held that in so far as the nominee director is concerned, there is no discomfort so long as such nominee is in a position to exercise his judgment in the interest of the company to whose Board he is appointed.
However, if conditions are put upon him such that the director is bound to act in the company's affairs under "the directions of his patron", then such action is unlawful or, if such director agrees to subordinate the interests of the company to that of his nominator, then such conduct is oppressive to the other shareholders for which action can be initiated against the nominator.
This was reaffirmed by the Court of Appeals in Hawkes v. Cuddy, re Neath Rugby Limited,[7] where it was held that the very fact that a company's director has been nominated to that office by a shareholder does not, by itself, impose any duty on such nominee director. Such a director may owe duties to his nominator if the former is an employee or officer of the latter, or if there are formal or informal arrangements to this effect.
However, such duties do not arise out of the nomination itself, but out of a separate agreement between the nominee director and the nominator. It was pointed out that such duties towards the nominator cannot detract the nominee director from his duty towards the company of which he is a director, and it was observed that even a nominee director is required to exercise independent judgment.
The jurisprudence indicates that where there is a conflict between the interests of the nominator shareholder and the JV company, the nominee director on the Board of the JV company is duty-bound to protect the interests of the JV company[8], and AVMs or similar veto rights arising out of private contractual arrangements cannot be used to subordinate the fiduciary duties of the director.
Interplay with Section 166 of the Act
In the above context, it is instructive to note that Section 166 of the Act has, for the first time, codified the fiduciary duties of directors, in accordance with well-established common law principles. Section 166(2) provides that the director shall act in good faith to promote the objects of the company, for the benefit of its members as a whole, and shall act in the best interests of the company, employees, shareholders, etc.
Section 166(3) provides that a director shall exercise his duties with due and reasonable care, skill, and diligence, and shall exercise independent judgment – which broadly corresponds to the requirements under Sections 173[9] and 174[10] of the English Companies Act, 2006.
A nominee director on the Board of a JV Company will be required to exercise independent judgment before casting his vote, and cannot solely take into account the views and the interests of the nominator shareholder.
As noted in Palmer's celebrated treatise on Company Law, the duty to exercise independent judgment "applies equally to nominee directors, who cannot blindly follow the judgment of those who appointed them, although they may rely on their advice provided they make the judgment their own".[11]
Along with exercising independent judgment, the nominee director would also be required to exercise reasonable care, skill, and diligence before taking a decision.
Hence, in case of a conflict between the interests of the JV Company and the interests of the nominating shareholder, Section 166 of the Act would require the nominee director to give primacy to the interests of the company. A view may also be taken that by virtue of the nominee director's fiduciary duties under Section 166 of the Act, the nominee director cannot exercise his AVMs or other veto rights in a manner that would flagrantly contravene the company's interest.
This view also gives effect to the legislative intent behind codifying the fiduciary duties of directors – and ensures that Section 166 would not be rendered completely redundant on the statute book.
To take forward the illustrative example discussed above, if the Board of the JV Company AB proposes to undertake a rights issue, which is opposed by one of the JV partners, a nominee director [of one of the JV partners], may not be permitted to exercise his AVMs to block the rights issue, if Company AB is in genuine need of capital.
Further, as noted by the SC in its celebrated judgments in Needle Industries[12] & Nanalal Zaver, the directors have wide discretionary powers to undertake a rights issue, if such a rights issue is for the larger benefit of the company. If the rights issue is for the larger benefit of the JV company as a whole, the nominee director would be duty-bound to give primacy to the JV Company's interest, and may not be permitted to block the rights issue by abusing his AVMs.
In the context of the conflicting duties of a nominee director on the Board of a JV company, it is also pertinent to refer to Section 6 of the Act, which provides that the provisions of the Act will have effect notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any agreement entered into by the company. The provisions of any agreement entered into by the company shall be void, to the extent to which it is repugnant to the provisions of the Act.
Pursuant to Section 6 of the Act, a view may be taken that the AVMs conferred by a JV Agreement [or by other private contracts such as an SHA] cannot be exercised in a manner that would be repugnant to a nominee director's fiduciary duties towards the company, under Section 166 of the Act.
In accordance with the Bombay HC's judgment in Rolta, the AVMs or other veto rights conferred under a private contractual arrangement may be declared void, to the extent to which it confers voting powers that fetters the director's fiduciary duties under Section 166.
Now, what would be the potential remedies available to the other JV partner, if a nominee director gives primacy to the nominator shareholder's interests, and abuses his AVMs in a manner that contravenes the JV company's interest?
In such situations, the other JV partner may initiate arbitration proceedings if the JV Agreement contains an arbitration clause. Alternatively, the other shareholder may also file a petition for 'oppression and mismanagement' before the National Company Law Tribunal, under Sections 241 and 242 of the Act.
While there is nascent jurisprudence in support of a view that the arbitration proceedings initiated by a party for abuse of AVMs cannot be scuttled if the opposite party clothes up a petition for 'oppression and mismanagement', we still need greater clarity from Courts, regarding the inherent statutory limits against abusive exercise of AVMs or similar veto rights.
Given that the conflicting interests of the JV Company and the nominator shareholder often results in a 'Catch-22 situation' for a nominee director, it would be instructive for Courts to settle the legal position in ongoing litigations, and adopt a conclusive view that a nominee director's fiduciary duties towards the company attain primacy over the interests of the nominator shareholder.
Bharat Vasani, Partner, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
[1] Nanalal Zaver v. Bombay Life Assurance Company Limited, AIR 1950 SC 172.
[2] In the context of the fiduciary duties of directors, see also, Sangramsinh P. Gaekwad v. Shantadevi P. Gaekwad, (2005) 11 SCC 314.
[3] 2000 (2) Bom CR 241.
[4] 1960 (24) D.L.R. 449.
[5] (2005) Comp Cas 299.
[6] (1963) 2 QB 606.
[7] [2009] EWCA Civ 291.
[8] In this regard, reference may also be made to Dairy Containers Limited v NZI Bank Limited & ORS; Dairy Containers Limited v Auditor General & ORS [New Zealand, 1994].
[9] Section 173 of the English Companies Act, 2006 reads as under:
"Duty to exercise independent judgment
(1) A director of a company must exercise independent judgment.
(2) This duty is not infringed by his acting-
(a) in accordance with an agreement duly entered into by the company that restricts the future exercise of discretion by its directors, or
(b) in a way authorised by the company's constitution"
[10] Section 174 of the English Companies Act, 2006 reads as under:
"Duty to exercise reasonable care, skill and diligence
(1) A director of a company must exercise reasonable care, skill and diligence.
(2) This means the care, skill and diligence that would be exercised by a reasonably diligent person with—
(a) the general knowledge, skill and experience that may reasonably be expected of a person carrying out the functions carried out by the director in relation to the company, and
(b) the general knowledge, skill and experience that the director has".
[11] Palmer's Treatise on Company Law, Volume II, at Para 8.2704.
[12] Needle Industries (India) Ltd. v. Needle Industries Newey (India) Holding Ltd., (1981) 3 SCC 333.
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Exactly right. This is not just the case of one charismatic person managing to get elected, this is the rebirth of the John Birch Society, the Know Nothings and other bigoted, nativist, xenophobic movements that have long plagued this country in spurts. Trump has tapped into and unleashed those tendencies that are never far from the surface with his sheer demagoguery, scapegoating and demonizing Muslims, immigrants, racial minorities and other marginalized communities. The genie is now out of the bottle once again, as it was in the 1960s, the 1920s, the 1880s and previously. And putting it back in will be a task that long outlasts Trump's political career.
I don't know about AOC's proposed solution here. Talking to our political opponents, it seems to me, holds little hope of success. I do not propose a better solution, unfortunately, because I don't have one. But let's not be pollyannaish about this. It's going to be a long, difficult slog to fight this scourge and it's going to get very ugly in the process. Strap in, folks. It's gonna be a bumpy ride.
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Kino Lorber Celebrates the Holidays with Death Ship
The title of this one is fairly self-explanatory.
By L.B. Lubomski
November 7, 2018, 8:00 PM EST
Death Ship
Sadly, our Halloween holiday season is over as we slowly approach everybody else's holiday season, consisting of Thanksgiving and Christmas. However, Kino Lorber has not forgotten horror fans entirely, offering up a new release of the '80s British horror film, Death Ship. Featuring Academy Award-winning actor George Kennedy and Black Christmas actor and horror royalty Nick Mancuso, this release features a brand-new 2K scan or the original "director's cut" of the film.
Synopsis: The DEATHSHIP has a life of its own... pray you are never rescued by the DEATHSHIP! Academy Award winner George Kennedy (Cool Hand Luke, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, The Naked Gun and Airport franchises) stars with Richard Crenna (The Evil, Wait Until Dark, First Blood), Nick Mancuso (Nightwing, Rapid Fire, Blame It on the Night) and Saul Rubinek (Unforgiven, Against All Odds, Agency) in this terrifying tale of a possessed ship searching for new victims on the high seas. An ocean liner carrying vacationing passengers collides with a mysterious freighter. The handful of survivors seek refuge aboard the sinister freighter, which turns out to be possessed by the evil forces that once commanded it. Also starring Sally Ann Howe (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) and Kate Reid (Shoot, The Andromeda Strain) and directed by Alvin Rakoff (City on Fire, Say Hello to Yesterday) and based on a story by Jack Hill (Coffy, Foxy Brown). Now see this horror classic from a brand new 2K scan of the original longer cut with extensive color correction!
Bonus Features: Audio Commentary with Director Alvin Rakoff | "Stormy Seas" Featurette with Director Rakoff, Writer Jack Hill, Actors George Kennedy and Nick Mancuso | "What the Ship is Saying" Featurette | Play Movie in "Nightmare Theater Mode" | 5.1 Surround and 2.0 Audio | Reversible Art | Theatrical Trailer
Death Ship is available for pre-order now on DVD and Blu-ray for $19.95 and $29.95 respectively with a release date of December 11th. Will you be taking a trip on the Death Ship this December?
L.B. Lubomski
Lawrence "L.B." Lubomski is an avid horror movie fan, gamer, musician, historian, and aspiring author. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, L.B. was exposed to the works of local filmmaker and godfather of zombie cinema George A. Romero early on. He has since developed a particular fondness for Italian zombie/cannibal and slasher films. This passion for horror extends into other media, from survival horror video games such as Resident Evil to horror-inspired musical artists. In his spare time, L.B. pursues many interests including building his collection of vinyl records, action figures, and vintage video games as well as drumming in various local bands.


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Special Features: clear waters and tumbling falls of Squaw Valley Creek, recently renamed Cabin Creek; spring and summer wildflowers; summer swimming holes; bountiful autumn color in October and early November.
Directions to the Trailhead: Take Highway 89 to McCloud and turn south on Squaw Creek Road. Drive 5.9 miles and then go right onto a road marked for Squaw Valley Creek and the Pacific Crest Trail. Go 3 miles and park in the lot just beyond the concrete bridge spanning Squaw Creek.
Controlling Agency: McCloud Ranger Station, Shasta-Trinity National Forest, P.O. Box 1620, McCloud, CA 96057; (530) 964-2184. www.fs.fed.us/r5/shastatrinity. Visit the office at 2019 Forest Road on the north side of Highway 89 on the east side of McCloud.
Maps: USGS 7.5″ Girard Ridge, USGS 7.5″ Yellowjacket Mtn. Download a map here.
Head toward the creek and follow the path downstream to a meeting with the Pacific Crest Trail. Watch the water flow from the center of the bridge and then take the path headed downstream, which you follow for the remainder of the hike. Look for small side trails sprinkled along the route that lead to swimming spots.
The way stays near the rushing waters as it travels through a Douglas fir forest sprinkled with ponderosa pine, Pacific yew, dogwood and vine maples. Willows and alders frequent the stream banks, as do tiger lilies and horsetails.
Reach a good campsite at 2 miles. An 8-foot waterfall arrives soon after, followed by a 15-footer at 2.8 miles. Pass two smaller waterfalls before the trail reaches the dirt road near Beartrap Creek at 5.0 miles.
Find the trail and cross the footbridge over Cabin Creek/Squaw Valley Creek. Follow the path for a short distance to another footbridge, part of the Pacific Crest Trail. Watch the flow of the creek from the center of the bridge, and then go downstream and uphill for about 500 feet.
Quickly cross Beartrap Creek and begin hiking upstream along Squaw Valley Creek/Cabin Creek for the final 5 miles to the trailhead. Look for small side trails sprinkled along the route that lead to swimming spots. The path undulates near the surging waters of the creek as it initially passes scrub oaks, and later Douglas firs sprinkled with ponderosa pines, Pacific yew, dogwoods, and vine maples. Look for willows and alders bordering the stream, and also tiger lilies, Siskiyou Lewisia, Indian rhubarb, and horsetails. Spy a 15-foot waterfall about 2.0 miles from the dirt road, followed by an 8-footer in another mile or so.


Calling All Kids Ages 5 – 11 Years Old!
During the months of June & July, Centre Stage Dance Studio will be provides 7 different themed dance camps. These SUMMER DANCE CAMPS are perfect for young dancers that love to have a break from school but still be a part of something fun and exciting.
Every week is a different theme. Inside each week dancers will have the opportunity to learn fun dance routines but also participate in themed based crafts, games and special guest.
At the end of each week we even invite family and friends to the end of each camp to check out the dances they learned that week!
ENROLL ONLINE! At the bottom of this page is a form to fill out. Simply fill the form out, pay online, and your dancer is registered!
Please fill out the registration form below and bring to the studio with you or register online at the bottom of this page.
By going to more than one FULL WEEK camp you will receive an additional $10 off each camp! For example, if you enroll in Camp 1 (Americas Got Talent!) & Camp 2 (Rockstar!) before May 1 it would cost $159 for the first camp and $149 for the second.
Dancers need to be dropped off in our Blue Room at 9:00am. We ask that you do not drop them off any earlier than 8:55am, as our staff is finalizing plans for the day and cannot be responsible for dancers until they start the camp at 9:00am. At the time of drop off, you need to let the instructors know if anyone, other than the dancer's parents, are picking them up. That way we know who to expect and feel confident in releasing your child to them. Dancers need to be SIGNED out by the person picking them up in the Blue Room at the end of camp each day (3pm). We will not release your dancer to go out to the parking lot to meet you.
Dancers should wear comfortable clothing to camp. Spandex shorts and a sports bra or tank is best. As the kids will be tumbling, baggy shorts and/or top is not recommended. Bare-foot is fine for all classes, but kids are welcome to wear foot undeez or jazz shoes if they'd like. Please send your dancer with their hair put in a pony or bun. We do not supply hair bands, and it is a big distraction if your dancer's hair is down in their face.
It's best if your dancer brings a small bag to put all their belongings in… snacks, lunch, shoes, etc. Please have everything labeled so we can get it back to them if it is lost!
We will give a snack break in the morning for those doing the morning or full day camp, and lunch will be taken around 12-1pm for those doing the full day camp. Please send your dancer with snacks and a lunch that does not require a refrigerator or microwave. We'd recommend them to bring their own water bottle (labeled with their name) as well.
We will be doing a craft every day. All crafts will be provided by Centre Stage.
Every week of camp we will be bringing in a special guest (Magician/Face Painter/Etc). Just something fun for the dancers to get excited for!
On the Thursday of camp, we will be doing a performance for parents. We will do a short performance @ 11:45am for the few kids only doing the morning camp. Parents of kids doing full day or afternoon camp are invited to come at 2:30pm on the Thursday of camp to see the dancers perform the dances they have learned. Please arrive early as parking is tight.
(DO NOT PARK IN THE SPOTS DESIGNATED FOR FITNESS OR THE PARKING LOT NEXT DOOR… THEY WILL TOW. PARKING IS AVAILABLE ON THE STREET IF NEEDED)..


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Membership selection requires thoughtful consideration and full participation in all facets of the membership recruitment program. Active members have the responsibility for selecting members of their choice. Gamma Pi Chapter members, both undergraduate and alumna, have shared with Fraternity representatives their confidence and belief in the chapter's own internal process and that proper procedures were followed throughout formal Recruitment. While all information concerning Kappa Recruitment and membership selection is confidential, Kappa Kappa Gamma continues to seek members who will further the mission and purpose of the Fraternity.
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