The new Bayern Munich kits for 2015-16 will be made by german sports brand Adidas again and three new kit design will be released this summer for the next season. The home kit comes in traditional Bayern Munich red colour while white away kit is inspired by German national team kit for world cup 2015 and the third alternative kit features dark grey and red application.
The all new Bayern Munich 2015-16 home kit has been released during the Bundesliga match against Augsburg on 09 May 2015. Here are the official images of the new home kit.
The home shirt comes in red design with slightly darker red tone application on the shoulders, collars and at the bottom of the shirt. There is also a small faded design in the dark red colour at bottom of the shirt which is inspired by the club logo and the bavarian flag. Shorts for the new home kit will be matching red with the shirt.
The away kit comes main white color which is supporter by dark red and dark grey applications as Adidas stripes on shoulder, collar, sleeves. There is a design inspired by German national home kit from 2014 world cup in red, grey, dark grey on top of it there is sponsor logo.
The third kit will feature a dark grey design with red application and here is the draft for the third kit.
The home kit has been released on 09 May 2015 while the Away & Third kits will be released in July just before the start of 2015-2016 German Bundesliga gets underway.
I am going to buy my Bayern Jersey when I get paid very Awesome!


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Game violence could desensitise young players
28 Nov, 2014 10:14 PM 2 minutes to read
Games with extreme acts of violence, cruelty and drug use could desensitise younger players. Photo / Getty Images
By: Matthew Theunissen
matthew.theunissen@nzherald.co.nz
Controversial video game Grand Theft Auto V could desensitise younger players to extreme acts of violence and cruelty, the Office of Film and Literature Classification has ruled.
New Zealand's classification watchdog released its report on the R18 game to the Herald on Sunday this week; just days after two of the country's largest retailers, the Warehouse and Noel Leeming, pulled it from their shelves.
Despite the game offering "unlimited possibilities for rampant acts of extreme violence and cruelty", the office did not ban it outright because, it concluded in the report, adults would still have the maturity to play it without being negatively affected.
Among the game's strongest material, the Office said, was when one of the lead characters "Trevor" - a possibly psychopathic drug dealer - tortures a man in order to gain intelligence to be used in an assassination attempt.
"The techniques are water-boarding with gasoline, tooth extraction with pliers, battery with a wrench, and electric shock treatment," the report said.
It added that the torture, cruelty and violence were moderated to a degree by the over-the-top satirical nature of the game and because they focused on character development.
Other aspects of the game cited by the Office included Trevor smoking a crack pipe, another character using a water bong, players having the ability to commit suicide, and numerous acts of sex and extreme violence.
However, "there is never any sense that it promotes or encourages criminal behaviour outside of game play," the report said.
It found the game to have artistic merit in terms of its visual design and storytelling, calling it "an immersive and sophisticated interactive game centred around characters with violent criminal lifestyles".
Office advisor Michelle Baker said it was a high test before a publication was banned in this country.
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You may have guessed that we don't like to do things in the usual way. And the way we slow-cook our meat is no different.
All of our meats are slow-cooked for up to 18 mouth-watering hours, to be served fresh in front of you fast!
Like no one else in the market, we slow-cook our meats like the French do using the gourmet cooking technique, sous-vide.
Some say it's a little bit fancy. We think it's the only way to seal in all of the goodness with more flavour!
We champion our Plate 4 Plate initiative, but we're not only humanitarian at Zambrero.
We want to ensure everything that we do, right down from the sourcing of our meat, to our uniform and food packaging is sustainable and ethical.
We want our customers to feel good in the knowledge that 100% of our chickens farmed through the Australian supplier Cordina are RSPCA Approved and that 100% of the pork served in our restaurants is sow-stall free.
When it comes to our packaging, we choose certified carbon-neutral packaging provided by Biopak, made from sustainably sourced and rapidly renewable sugar cane pulp that reduces C02 emissions.
And, as innovation continues, so will our commitment to being conscious.


Pictured above is the psallmelodikon, with its inventor Johannes Weinrich. Weinrich, a writer and shoemaker from Heiligenstadt, Germany, was awarded a patent for his instrument in 1828. The psallmelodikon consisted of a brass tube about a foot long, with six fingerholes and 20 keys and a set of silver alloy free reeds that gave a range of just over two chromatic octaves.


Shoes Manolo Blahnik, Dress Anna Sui, Clutch Prada and Ring Annoushka London (sample).
This was another outfit I wore for NYFW.
I am now back in London and trying to get to grips with my schedule for LFW.
Hopefully I will be able to post some more pictures soon!


After two long days of breed judging at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, the best dogs came out to compete in their respective groups. A grand audience at Madison Square Garden watched closely as these beautiful dogs made their way around the ring. Here are the winners for 2018.
GCHG CH Belisarius JP My Sassy Girl, a Borzoi known as "Lucy," owned by Michele Molnar & Jamie Danburg & Minoru Kato.
GCHS CH Hill Country's Puttin' On The Ritz, a Pug known as "Biggie," owned by Carolyn Koch.
GCHP CH Belle Creek's All I Care About Is Love, a Bichon Frise known as "Flynn," owned by Patrina & Bruce Odette & Lindsay Van Keuren & Lorrie Carlton & L Letsche DVM.
GCHP CH Majestic Elite Clever Endeavor a Border Collie known as "Slick," owned by Ricki Johnson & J Frank Baylis & Ronni Delay.
GCH CH Kamand's Full Of Beans @ Erinhill, a Sussex Spaniel known as "Bean," owned by Karen Ann Toner & Amanda W Toner.
GCH CH Ingebar's Tynan Dances With Wildflowers, a Giant Schnauzer known as "Ty," owned by Sandra Nordstrom & Carol Mann & Maryann Bisceglia.
GCH CH Yarrow Venerie Winning Ticket, a Norfolk Terrier known as "Winston," owned by Victor Malzoni Jr & Nancy Shaw & Pam Beale.
And after two days of tough competition, Mrs. Betty-Anne Stenmark decided which dog would take home the coveted Best in Show title.
Congratulations to all dogs, owners, and handlers.


Drop Ship 0pportunities fill the internet and many of these promise fantastic profits with little or no effort, headaches, or hassles. You are about to find out the Truth about the Drop Ship Business!
By definition a True Drop Ship Supplier is willing to ship out products one at a time for you. This allows you to sell the item without dealing with inventory or bulk orders. The internet is full of companies claiming to be dropshippers who are in fact, middlemen.
After you have an order placed from your Website or Auction, you may be under the impression that the order will be fulfilled directly from the manufacturer, but in most cases, it is not. The order goes to your so called " Wholesale Drop Ship Company ," and they are supposed to DropShip products for you, but in actuality, they contact another company to fulfill the order. This really adds an unecessary step and opens up all kinds of possibilites inviting problems for YOU.
If you are involved with REAL Drop Ship Wholesale Companies they will be very helpful to you in the order fulfillment process, as well as, helping to educate you on the finer points of this business. On the other hand, if you are involved with a ripoff company(which 99% of them are) you will waste your time, not to mention A LOT of money. Oh yeah, you will also have a bunch of angry customers to deal with!
These worthless Programs and Huge Promises that you see all over are just the Hooks for a sales barage that will end up with you paying THOUSANDS. The "Free" Programs are the very worst. These promise you a foolproof "System" and you simply have to pay the Shipping and Handling. What really happens is that they Hammer on you with emails and calls wanting you to pay for "coaching." Not to mention the fact that, if you don't read the fine print and return it on time, they WILL continue a monthly fee almost impossible to stop.
There are people offering their "expertise" on Drop Shipping, on every type of Media there is telling you how simple it is. They want BIG BUCKS! It is totally unecessary to pay these people ridiculous fees.
There are a few good Drop Ship Companies and Programs with excellent training. Obviously, you should know as much as possible before starting any business. This will save you from experiencing all the negatives like Shipping Delays, Non-Shipment, Accounting Problems, and Unhappy Buyers, in other words, Hassles and Headaches!
Dropshipping Wholesalers is a dropshipping company that, in addition to finding excellent suppliers of wholesale products, will set up a website for its members so that you can immediately start selling products from you site. This is why it is our top pick.
While many people prefer selling on eBay, having a website gives dropshippers the flexibility to charge any amount that is desired (within market demand, of course). When an item is placed on eBay, it will only sell for the going eBay price.
However, when one has their own website, the products' prices are not limited to what eBay demands. In this way, there is more profit potential for the items that one sells.
Salehoo (Salehoo.com) is continually one of the best selling dropship wholesale directories on the internet. Hundreds of new members every month join because of its impressive and large list of suppliers as well as an extensive product list. Top notch customer service and an active user forum make learning a breeze, and the easy to navigate database takes users directly to the source so that transactions can be made quickly and easily.
This Secrets Revealed Guide will give you simple techniques to repair your credit report at any major Credit Reporting Bureau and these techniques are extremely valuable for anyone with negative blemishes on their report. David will show you how to eliminate late payments, bankruptcy, charge-offs, tax liens, and others. This is all explained in easy to follow steps and there is no need for any outside help.
Dennis Murphy is one unique individual and his approach to DropShipping is very unusual as well. He claims that it is a totally self-devised system and that it is.
We have not seen anything like this before! He really focuses on starting up a Drop Shipping Business on a shoestring budget and for most newbies that is a very good thing.
Even though original, the techniques in this program are solid, effective, and they work! He does show you how he has has success outside of EBay Auctions, but that is his forte, so he spends the majority of the time on that subject. This course is worth your time especially if EBay is what you are really interested in.
Tim Knox has created a very good program to give you all the insider info on DropShipping. Tim is an established Ebay Authority, but his program is mainly focused on that.
He does go into Drop Shipping other than for EBay and gives some very useful. in-depth information. He actually does sell hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of product each year. Obviously you are not going to start out doing that, but it is possible, following this information, that you can do well quickly.
This program costs a little more that is why it is not ranked higher, but if you have the extra money to spend it is WELL worth it!


A year ago, with the coronation of Rahul Gandhi as Congress president, the Grand Old Party was signalling a generational shift in its organisation. Though there was no official proclamation that Rahul's ascension to the top post was a move in that direction, such a line of thought was vital to the party to align with the political realities of present-day India.
With half of India's more than a 1.3 billion population under 25 years of age, the political narrative of the nation warranted such a move.
The youth are more in pursuit of vaulting aspirations rather than archaic moorings of yore.
Like for instance construction of a temple, which does not seem to be catching their fancy.
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi with his mother and predecessor Sonia Gandhi.
So the purported shift of the reins of power in Congress to the next generation, albeit by default, was a welcome initiative.
Now, if the party needs to reinvent itself to gel with the aspirations of New India, this generational shift needs to trickle down to the grass-root level via its state, district and booth level units.
This does not seem to be happening as we track the leadership deadlock in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh and the subsequent selection of chief ministers by Rahul.
These are states where the party had a veteran as well as a youth leader to power its election strategy and machinery.
Indira Gandhi with Jawaharlal Nehru.
That the Congress is still caught in a time warp is evident from the fact that its elected legislators just adopted a one-line resolution empowering the high command to take a decision on who would be the CM in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.
Why didn't they choose a Congress Legislature Party leader on their own rather than clinging on to a referral system?
The answer lies in the party's archaic leadership structure wherein all decisions are taken only at the top level.
India Gandhi with Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi.
The Congress needs to unshackle itself from ageing corridors of its power structure. This does not necessarily mean it has to altogether shun experience and favour youth.
Rather, it has to build a youthful organisational structure and empower its state level units.
The experience of its veterans should be tapped as guiding forces to unleash such a movement within the party if it is to put up a decent show in the coming Lok Sabha polls.
That Rahul Gandhi has asked legislators and workers alike to share their views with him on who would they like to have as CM in these states is commendable.
But the Congress president should have gone a step ahead and announced unequivocally that majority of the legislators in these states wanted a youthful face as CM.
This would not harm the party as, from time immemorial, factionalism was an accepted reality in the state units of the party.
While it is for the party to decide whether it should have a veteran or a young leader, any decision on this count would have adverse as well as favourable political implications.
So the Rajasthan-MP leadership issue presented a defining moment for Rahul Gandhi to gradually dismantle its ageing power structure and tune in to the aspirations of a New India.
If Sachin Pilot was made Rajasthan CM overlooking veteran Ashok Gehlot, who did not have much to tout about after two stints at power in the state, heavens wouldn't have fallen to crush the Congress.
Perhaps such a move would have, instead, redefined the electorate's perception of the Congress as a party clinging on to Independence era moorings.
Rahul Gandhi, it seems, squandered this opportunity. Period.


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The Land Portal Foundation and the NRMC Center for Land Governance partnered with key organizations to hold a series of three webinars on Forest Rights and Governance in India, Land Rights for Slum Dwellers in the East Indian State Odisha: Making technology work for the urban poor and Women Inheriting Land: Rights and Realities, leading up to the third annual India Land and Development Conference (ILDC), which will take place from 12-14 March, 2019. The results of these webinars will inform discussions at respective panel sessions during the conference with the aim of making panel-conversations more nuanced while also ensuring deeper dives into the subject, thereby achieving more actionable results. The ultimate goal of these webinars is to contribute to desirable changes in institutional frameworks and to eliminating barriers that are limiting implementation of legal and policy frameworks, through enhanced awareness and understandings of stakeholders. In addition, these webinars will connect local and global discourse and audiences, with the immediate outcome of enhanced and nuanced appreciation of the issue and more informed actions that contribute to better results.
The webinar on Women Inheriting Land: Rights and Realities took place on 22 February. The webinar was co-organized by Landesa and the Working Group for Women and Land Ownership (WGWLO) with support from the NRMC Center for Land Governance and the Land Portal Foundation.
Ownership and control over land is essential to ensuring gender equality and improve the quality of lives of not only women, but also of their families and communities. Despite a hoard of international and national commitments, ownership of land continues to be an area with appalling disparities between men and women. An overlapping web of legal, structural, socioeconomic, and cultural factors prevent women from realizing their right to own land. These complexities and the opportunities therein, lay the background of the proposed webinar.
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Mozambique: The Protection Of Trademarks Through ARIPO
by João Francisco Sá
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The African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO), formerly known as English Speaking African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ESARIPO), was created with the Lusaka Agreement (1976) and currently boosts 19 member-states, which are mostly English speaking countries. ARIPO intends to promote the cooperation between members regarding the protection of intellectual property rights and with time it developed to a regional system that allows the registration of patents, trademarks and plant varieties.
The registration of trademark rights is regulated by the Banjul Protocol (1993) which currently has 10 members, including Botswana, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, Swaziland, Uganda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and more recently, São Tomé e Príncipe.
When a trademark owner files an application directly at ARIPO or through a member-state's IP Office, ARIPO only conducts a formal examination, checking, amongst others, if the form has the correct applicant information or if the goods and/or services are in accordance with the Nice Classification; if the application complies, ARIPO notifies the national IP Offices so that they are able to conduct a substantive examination according to their national laws.
The national IP Offices have 9 months counting from this notification to conduct substantive examinations and inform ARIPO if the mark should or should not be registered, either from absolute or relative grounds, which might include the existence of previous third party rights such as trademarks.
One of the advantages of the ARIPO system is that if the mark is rejected by one or several of its member-states, it can still proceed to registration in regards to the remaining member-states that were originally designated during the application procedure. This contrasts with other regional trademark protection systems such as, mutatis mutandis, the European Union Trademark (EUTM) or the Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle (OAPI), which have unitary systems. In other words, an ARIPO trademark might be valid only in some of its member-states.
Coming back to the substantive examination, if a mark is rejected, the national IP Office shall notify ARIPO, which in turn will notify the applicant of the rejection, giving him the possibility of replying directly to the IP Office, arguing why the mark should not have been rejected. This procedure is similar to the international registration of marks under the Madrid Protocol, which might be familiar to most applicants.
If no communication is received by ARIPO within the prescribed 9 month limit, the mark shall be deemed as accepted and will be published in ARIPO's official journal. From this publication onwards, the mark faces an opposition period that lasts for 3 months. During this time period, third parties who find their rights affected by the registration are able to file a notice of opposition. However, the Banjul Protocol is very scarce regarding the subsequent opposition proceedings which follow the member-state's national provisions.
If a third party wishes to oppose an ARIPO trademark, he will have to file several oppositions in the countries where an eventual registration affects his rights. This creates a heavier burden to opposing parties, specially comparing to regional systems that have trademarks with unitary effect but also when comparing to the international registration under the Madrid Protocol which allows cancellations or limitation of the international trademark through a central attack against the basic application.
Another peculiar aspect of the opposition procedure is that some member-states actually publish ARIPO trademarks in their own IP journals during the aforementioned 9 month period of reflection. São Tomé and Príncipe, which recently joined the Protocol, provides in its recent IP law that regional or international marks shall be published it its national IP journal (article 190). This provision was probably created for international applications under the Madrid Protocol taking into account that the international publication of the mark does not open a window to third party oppositions.
This leads to a very peculiar and unprecedented situation where trademarks face a double opposition period as it is possible for third parties to file an opposition against the same mark based on its national publication as well as its regional publication. A better interpretation and practice of São Tomé's law would prevent a national publication of ARIPO trademarks as its purpose is to allow an opposition period for third parties which is already achieved through the publication in ARIPO's IP Journal, however such would go against the letter of the law.
Another side effect of this national publication and, generally, of the backlogs, results from the fact that national IP Offices face difficulties in keeping up with the 9 month period set forth in the Banjul Protocol, as the São Tomé IP Law creates a 3-month opposition window after publication. If an opposition if filed, the applicant has 3 additional months to reply and the IP Offices still has to analyze the validity of the arguments filed by the parties, which makes the 9-month window too difficult to meet and leaves the door open to questions about the real validity of ARIPO marks in certain countries. In comparison, countries that are part of the Madrid Protocol have 12 or 18 months to issue a provision refusal.
However, if no problems arise during the application process or if they are overcome, the applicant will obtain the registration of his mark across the countries that he initially designated, lasting for 10 years from application date, with a unified and digital application procedure. The mark will have the same effect of a nationally registered mark.
An additional challenge exists for trademark owners that wish to apply for ARIPO trademarks. Except for São Tomé, the remaining member-states have Common Law systems which require that international agreement are incorporated in their own national laws in order to be effective. At the moment, only Botswana, Zimbabwe and Liberia have specific provisions regarding the validity of ARIPO trademarks, even though the remaining national IP Offices have taken measures and are currently applying the Protocol. This makes protection somewhat dubious in regards to the countries that have not incorporated the Protocol in their national bodies of law.
All in all, applicants should be aware of the advantages and limitations of protecting trademarks through ARIPO so that they can make informed choices when time comes to expand their portfolios across the region.
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Bob Bradley not interested in coaching USMNT again
By Franco Panizo April 14, 2020 7:13 pm Follow	@FrancoPanizo
By Franco Panizo | April 14, 2020 7:13 pm	Follow @FrancoPanizo
Bob Bradley has goals for himself and his career. Coaching the U.S. Men's National Team again is not one of them.
Bradley spoke about a range of items on a videoconference on Tuesday, and one topic the LAFC manager discussed was whether he would consider leading the USMNT for a second time at some point in the future. Bradley said straightforwardly he would not, and that he was pleased with what he accomplished as head coach of the national team program from 2007-2011,
"No, I had my time with the national team. I'm proud of it," said Bradley, who finished his USMNT stint with a 43-25-12 record. "When I left, I was always excited for every new challenge. I fully support (current USMNT manager Gregg Berhalter), and no. I'm very proud of what took place during those five years.
"… I don't think about coaching our national team again."
Bradley, 62, is currently in his third season in charge of LAFC. The American manager took over as head coach of the MLS team ahead of the start of its expansion season in 2018 and has helped LAFC become one of the league's powerhouses. LAFC has gone 38-13-19 in regular season play, won the Supporters' Shield last year, and has broken a number of records under Bradley's watch.
His USMNT tenure had its share of accomplishments, too, including winning the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup and finishing first in group play at the 2010 World Cup ahead of England. The USMNT also reached the final of the 2009 Confederations Cup under Bradley, beating a historically-successful Spain side in the semifinals before falling to Brazil in the title game.
"You share experiences and those experiences, man, they stick with you," said Bradley. "No matter what happens, when a group of guys have been in something together, those are things that no one can ever take away. The group of guys in 2009 and 2010, I think we had a real team. I see a lot of those guys still, and when a game like that comes up on TV it's funny how all of a sudden people start reconnecting."
Bradley might not have any interest in leading the USMNT again, but he is laser focused on trying to help LAFC win an MLS Cup. The MLS side has fallen short of that goal in each of the past two seasons, but is a favorite to win it all once the current campaign resumes play.
"I was just blown away by the way people who had been involved in the organization from Day 1," said Bradley of LAFC, "that had created a connection with the city of Los Angeles and with the fans and really wanted to make something where people felt like they were in it together. I was thrilled to be part of that."
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While I wasn't a fan of Bradley, I didn't think he did all that bad of a job with the USMNT. The problem he had is the same that Arena had before him and Jurgen had after him…. He stayed on too long as the manager. The tactics became stale and the player pool wasn't purged after their 1st cycle.
Hopefully USSF has learned from their past mistakes and won't extended Berhaulter beyond this cycle.
don nelson
No Mikey to promote now?
eastdeflection
in the movie of Bob's life, i'd cast Ed Harris for the lead
It's Ok 2 Think
Good luck to Coach Bradley! Better than Arena & Klinsmann! He put in his time with USMNT, and now he's having fun in LA.
Mikey, is that you?
A hater can't ever be real!!
Great, because we're definitely not interested in him ever coaching the squad again. On a side note, i went to ~30 games when he was our HC, including the WC in SA, and i never saw him get as excited, or animated as he does on the LAFC sideline. I find that strange.
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He has grown quite bit as a coach since then. As an LAFC fan- I've been very happy with the way he's run the team. We could do much worse, but….. it would be a pretty bad sign if we had to try and drag him back. He's with a class org where he is now- other than being of service- not sure why would he want to return to that sheeetshow. With the lack of vision and stones in the organization—- just the sort of move I would expect US Soccer to try though.
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They forgot to remove the autopilot I did not pay for!!!
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eyespii
Just curious why someone WOULDNT opt for eap. IMO it's the #1 selling point of the car. Only reason I could see not wanting it would be if you don't really drive much I guess.
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eyespii said:
its still in beta and costs $5000, some are not as willing to take the risk or have trust in automation
plus the car is fun to drive
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SMAlset
So what did you think of it? Assume you've tried it. My husband uses the TACC all the time and don't think he'd now own a car without it.
whitex
Seattle area, WA
It's a Level 2 driver aid today which cannot be safely implemented (as the recent fatal accident in CA sadly illustrates). It requires more mental effort than driving yourself in order to drive safely on auto-pilot, i.e. supervise the system so it doesn't kill you or cause a non-fatal accident. Note that I underlined "safely", because it is possible to pay no attention at all, wedge an orange in a steering wheen, bag of patatos on the driver seat and nap in the back seat while doing 75mph on the highway, and actually survive. As the AP gets better, it ironically becomes more dangerous:
Robot Cars Can't Count on Us in an Emergency
There's growing evidence Tesla's Autopilot handles lane dividers poorly
Also, it's unlikely that current hardware will ever reach FSD. Elon hasn't even solved simple problems like how to keep the cameras around the car clean (I know, he's been busy while living in California, didn't occur to him that it rains in some parts of the world). Other reasons below:
People who paid Tesla $3,000 for full self-driving might be out of luck
If I'm wrong and I can in fact summon my AP2.5 car from New York City to Seattle, I will write Tesla a $10K check to enable it.
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South Surrey, BC
Because it can lull you into a false sense to security and then whamo!...
Plus, add two others to the fatality list. Then again, how many lives has AP saved? We'll never know -- but probably more than the lives it's cost. I just couldn't live with myself if one of them was my life (pun) --- or worse, one of my loved ones driving my Tesla.
Yes, it's the driver's fault, yada, yada, yada, but I only had an AP on a loaner for a week (right around the time of the Joshua Brown fatality) while considering whether to upgrade to get it, and quickly decided I'd wait for it on my Model 3. Now with my 3 to arrive next month, I'm concerned about my wife and kids using AP -- which they will only do after I have them watch the above video a few times so they understand its severe limitations and potential death trap (too strong? -- probably -- but he did ask).
As to it being the #1 selling point of the car -- I still really look forward to driving my 80 amp, large frunk, no-AP classic that I ordered when AP hardware was only a rumour -- and it's been one of the best purchases I've made in my life. Not everyone lives in California and drives on freeways with bumper to bumper traffic where AP is a must. Some of us love to drive but more importantly, when we don't want to drive, we don't want to have to always be alert or risk death, which is what the current AP, regardless of version, absolutely requires.
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Now with my 3 to arrive next month, I'm concerned about my wife and kids using AP -- which they will only do after I have them watch the above video a few times so they understand its severe limitations and potential death trap (too strong? -- probably -- but he did ask).
Herein lies the trap - you think you can watch a video and know it. I know very well and actually understand the sources of the drawbacks of the AP, including a bunch engineering details that no video is going to impart on a non-engineer. That said, I found that even though I know I should be paying attention and how severe the consequences can be, I have caught myself paying much less attention that I should be, including one close call. This is why I simply decided not use it and definitely would not want my family to use it either. I don't want to pay for progress of AP with me or my family. Imagine if AP got so good you'd only have to intervene once every 6 months. Guaranteed the driver stops paying attention. Do you really want to gamble with your life every 6 months?
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Herein lies the trap - you think you can watch a video and know it. I know very well and actually understand the sources of the drawbacks of the AP, including a bunch engineering details that no video is going to impart on a non-engineer. That said, I found that even though I know I should be paying attention and how severe the consequences can be, I have caught myself paying much less attention that I should be, including one close call. This is why I simply decided not use it and definitely would not want my family to use it either. I don't want to pay for progress of AP with my of my family. Imagine if AP got so good you'd only have to intervene once every 6 months. Guaranteed the driver stops paying attention. Do you really want to gamble with your life every 6 months?
Good points you raise and you do have me thinking. I also got lulled into such a false sense of security after using it constantly for a week that even with it off, my brain fooled me to thinking it was on, since I just expected the car to react.
MarcusMaximus
It requires more mental effort than driving yourself in order to drive safely on auto-pilot, i.e. supervise the system so it doesn't kill you or cause a non-fatal accident
Couldn't disagree more. I've done many 400+ mile road trips with AS on almost the entire time(barring taking exits and parking and such) and remain constantly vigilant, with hands on the wheel and eyes up. Despite having to pay constant attention, I arrive feeling far more awake and alert than I used to before EAP reached this level(or even before having the Model S). Being free to pay attention to the more high-level dynamics of the road/cars around me, rather than having to do that plus constantly dealing with the minutia of keeping centered in the lane for hours straight makes the whole driving task much easier, less draining and allows me to pay more attention to the safety risks that are there.
People react differently to things, so I've been careful here to try to keep everything in 1st person. But I think giving a general proclamation that Autopilot is unsafe or requires more mental effort to be equally safe in all people is misleading an irresponsible. If it doesn't work for you, that's fine, and you can say as much. But not everybody has your same experiences with it.
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But I think giving a general proclamation that Autopilot is unsafe or requires more mental effort to be equally safe in all people is misleading an irresponsible. If it doesn't work for you, that's fine, and you can say as much. But not everybody has your same experiences with it.
I think that's a bit unfair to @whitex. Can you really say that you have never caught yourself paying less attention than you should be while on AP? After only a week I found that happening to me -- and it scared me. If it's never happen to you, you're a more disciplined person than me, and probably most others using AP.
In my view, the fact that a momentary lapse of attention can kill you while on AP makes me appreciate that @whitex has made his comments more objective than subjective. If they don't apply to you, fine. But to say his comments are limited to him, and as such should be said to be limited to him (and thus in first person), is not a fair objection, at least in my view.
Couldn't disagree more. I've done many 400+ mile road trips with AS on almost the entire time(barring taking exits and parking and such) and remain constantly vigilant, with hands on the wheel and eyes up.
That is exactly what I'm talking about. AP gets good enough that you can not pay as much attention for 400+ miles. The problem is when the dangerous situation occurs every 5000 miles and you've stopped paying attention. The first little while of using AP I was white-knuckling it, then came a more relaxed driving, then came situations where I realized my mind has drifted, especially in situations where you're stuck in stop-and-go traffic which after 40 minutes traffic clear and the car starts going fast and the brain has drifted not realizing the car is heading for a lane divider (more lanes is the reason traffic starts moving faster).
Being free to pay attention to the more high-level dynamics of the road/cars around me, rather than having to do that plus constantly dealing with the minutia of keeping centered in the lane [...]
That minutia of keeping in the lane is what keeps you from hitting a lane divider. If you offload it to AP and are not dealing with it yourself, then you are the mercy of that lane keeping system while you're paying attention 200ft ahead.
Being free to pay attention to the more high-level dynamics of the road/cars around me, rather than having to do that plus constantly dealing with the minutia of keeping centered in the lane for hours straight makes the whole driving task much easier, less draining and allows me to pay more attention to the safety risks that are there.
If your brain is less drained that means it's doing less, meaning you are paying less attention. I agree that if you could offload the lane keeping reliably to AP then you could claim less effort required, however you cannot because it is not 100% reliable. It's like driving with a student driver who in addition to being inexperience, occasionally has epileptic seizures. Most of the time you don't need to do anything, but have to be more vigilant than if you were just driving yourself.
I linked to an article above why Waymo (Google) decided Level 2/3 cannot be safely implemented. That article talks about studies done by them and some universities that support their theory. So my personal experiences (first person here) match the studies with other people agree (I can't use first person here as I wasn't participating in the studies, just looking at results).
By the way, I am just sharing my own experience, opinion, and information I found from various sources. In the end, you are free to so as you wish, hopefully not endangering others while you're at it.
Not never, no. But then I also can't say that I've never caught myself paying less attention than I should while manually driving either. Such momentary lapses are, fortunately, much less likely to be disastrous with AS engaged.
That out of the way, to be clear: my objection is solely to the implication that using autosteering is inherently more dangerous for all(or even most) people than not using it, or that it universally requires more mental effort to use safely vs. manually driving.
croman
I find EAP to be kick ass. 28k miles and almost 24k probably have been with EAP. Now that its not sucky, its a pleasure to use (yes, I'm paying attention all the time).
I supervise and it does the grunt work. I don't lose sight of what matters most and that's safety.
I find myself more into the driving because I can better monitor my surroundings and defensively react if need be. I'm always ready to take over and I can feel any funny business before it goes anywhere. EAP is great now. No way is it close to perfect it close to FSD but it's still great. Worth 5k now with promise of more features to come.
That minutia of keeping in the lane is what keeps you from hitting a lane divider. If you offload it to AP and are not dealing with it yourself, then you are the mercy of that lane keeping system while you're paying attention 200ft ahead
This part of it has always seemed strange to me. I can see missing that I'm too close to a divider if I'm reading something on my phone or otherwise not paying attention at all. But human peripheral vision is very good and sudden motion, rapidly approaching objects, etc, grab our attention and provoke a response extremely quickly, without any conscious monitoring.
Notably, all of this is also true if you're driving manually. You still need to pay attention to that car 200 ft ahead, and tend to rely on subconscious processing and peripheral vision for things like maintaining a lane and avoiding unexpected obstacles. The only real difference is that the computer doesn't tend to just lose attention entirely, or get mentally exhausted and fall asleep.
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That is the part that I would disagree with completely. When driving, your brain handles a of things automatically, such as when you walk, you're not constantly telling yourself "left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot..." and I'm sure a lot of times simply don't remember how you walked somewhere, but you obviously did. Many of times I've arrived at my car trip destination having little recollection of the drive there - the brain has a built-in auto-pilot. The problem with AP engaged is that our brains disengage completely so a lapse in attention is MORE dangerous on AP than while driving yourself because it takes precious time for the brain to re-engage.
I think we actually agree here, but you give far more credit to your brain's capabilities when on that form of autopilot than I do. Road hypnosis leads to many, many accidents even leaving aside its tendency to move the brain closer to sleep.
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Each time I read a reply I'm persuaded until I read the rebuttal.
I remember when seat-belts were mandated and my grandfather said he'd rather be thrown from a crash than die in one. But it didn't take him long to buckle up -- because of the potential fine. I wonder if AP is the same and I'm being like my grandfather? People still die today in crashes belted in -- when they'd otherwise be thrown clear -- but far more are saved wearing them. Same with AP?
There is no getting around the fact Ap has tried to crash me three times but I was on it each time
Once into the concrete barrier as it post a curve on 17.11.3. once almost off a bridge after the car bounced a bit because the bridge was concrete and road was lower asphalt. 17.26. And once on 2018.10.4 where it sent me into oncoming traffic.
But it's also saved me from a potential 30mph collision with a deer and I'm sure other potentials that I'll never know. I also know it's the only way I can safely in one go drive to and from my in laws. I would otherwise need to stop and recharge. I am mentally energized thanks to AP and some timely Dunkin donuts coffee in Sheffield Ohio.
I don't think there is a clean analogy and I don't think AP is for everyone. I don't mind supervising and it's not mentally taxing for me to do that. On my last drive AP could maintain a lane in the heaviest fog I've considered driving in. It was perfect but I limited to 35mph because I couldn't supervise it properly at higher speeds even though it handled it at 65mph initially before the fog thickened. It's also done a great job with heavy rain.
I just like having the option and this latest NN is nothing short of amazing. What I expected a long time ago. It's fun to use it and see what it does and how capable it is now versus the white knuckle terror from 2017.
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Moderator, Supercharger Hunter
Lafayette, CA, USA
Somewhere along the way, this thread stopped being about having AutoPilot enabled on a car when it shouldn't have been, and started being a discussion of the pros and cons of auto-steer. That should be a new thread (or preferably one of the existing threads where that's already been discussed).
Bruce.
Robotpedlr
To the OP question - you have done your part by letting them know.
So if it remains on your car - bonus for you. It cost Tesla nothing. Granted it's a $5k option but if you weren't going to buy it they didn't lose anything by the oversight.
Canyon Lake,CA
For those who do not believe that self driving is not a big deal, just imagine if Tesla made an announcement that it was going to be turned off for a while for all those used to using it. Riots in the streets.
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Love and Life: Spohr's 'Ghasel'
by Maureen Buja October 19th, 2020
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Ludwig (Louis) Spohr 1824 in Kassel
During his lifetime, Louis Spohr (1784-1859) was considered the greatest composer after Beethoven. The fact that he's so little known today speaks volumes about changes in taste. Famous primarily as a violinist, then as a composer, his reputation did not survive his death and it wasn't until nearly 80 years later, after WWII, that he began to come back into our ears.
Spohr started writing Lieder when he was in his late teens and, although he had a great sensitivity towards the text, he initially lacked a competent hand at the keyboard.
His collection of Six Songs, Op. 72, in 1826 is his first use of true Romantic poetry. At age 42, he was finally starting to come into his own as both a composer and a Lieder writer. Poem No. 3, 'Ghasel', was written by Henriette Wilhelmine Auguste von Schorn (1807 – 1869), as Adil. Von Schorn was a German poet and fairy-tale collector. The poem is one of the unrequited lover lamenting, '…If only she loved me…" but then concludes that the experience has been to his benefit, "Had I never loved you, I would never have loved." The poem, as the title indicates, is a gazel, a form of Persian love poetry with a particular rhyme scheme. In doing this, Spohr was aligning himself with the early nineteenth-century fashion of using oriental or exotic inspiration.
Spohr: 6 Songs, Op. 72: No. 3 Ghasel
Marjorie Patterson is a graduate of The Juilliard School and at the time of this recording in 1995, had a career in both lieder and opera, covering roles from Mozart to Wagner to modern contemporary works.
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The Covid pandemic sparked panic; panic fuels overreaction.Enter vaccine mandates.Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York in October 2021, declared a city-wide vaccine mandate for municipal workers. "This mandate is a bold step that protects our families, friends, and communities, including those that are not yet eligible for the vaccine such as our city's youngest residents," he said weeks before expanding the requirement to private-sector workers employed by 184,000 businesses. Similar strictures quickly spread across the nation.Setting aside the debate between personal autonomy and the public good, it has since become clear that the rationale for the mandates—that unvaccinated people were spreaders—was flawed. Thousands of workers who were fired for refusing the shot were wronged. They ought to be compensated.The injustice resulted from that most common of honest mistakes committed by government committee: a conclusion based upon information that was out-of-date. Seven months before de Blasio's decision, clinical trials had indicated the Pfizer and Moderna double-doses were highly effective (94-95%) at preventing COVID-19. Eager to lift lockdowns and restart the economy, de Blasio and other mayors believed restoring municipal services and in-office work depended upon citizens not having to fear infection from city employees, as well as private-sector workers.By the time public-health officials and politicians had imposed mandates, however, the dominant delta and omicron variants had already radically changed the calculus. The first round of vaccines, it was evident by summer 2021, were a lot less effective at preventing "breakthrough infections" of these less severe, more contagious versions of the disease. Government was fighting the previous battle.The newer bivalent vaccines didn't fix the problem. According to a CDC study released in November 2022, people who received the original monovalent vaccine 2 to 3 months before receiving the new bivalent booster enjoyed a vaccine effectiveness rate of just 28-31%. An overwhelming majority of Americans, vaccinated or not, have been infected."We can no longer say this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated," Cynthia Cox, vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation, told the Washington Post on November 27, 2022. The foundation had earlier determined that most people dying of Covid had been vaccinated.As liberals liked to say during the pandemic: follow the science. By the time vaccine mandates went into effect, science said the odds of a vaccinated NYPD officer contracting and spreading the virus weren't much lower than those of an unvaccinated cop. Whatever you think of the anti-vaxxers who lost their jobs to mandates—that they were ignorant, paranoid, selfish—they didn't represent a significantly greater threat to public health than those who did get the jab. Since that supposed danger—that higher danger—was the reason given for letting them go, and that danger differential wasn't a big deal at the time, they never should have been targeted for termination in the first place.Mandates no longer apply to private businesses in New York. Yet it remains in force for city employees. Asked in October 2022 about the contradiction, Mayor Eric Adams replied: "I don't think anything dealing with COVID is—makes sense, and there's no logical pathway." State and city employees remain subject to mandates across the nation.This is not an attack on vaccines. I'm fully vaxxed, boosted four times, and even though I've gotten Covid twice after being vaccinated, I'm pro-vaccine. If you're vaccinated and get a "breakthrough infection," you almost certainly won't be hospitalized or die. That's the benefit being touted by the CDC and the medical community. I have asthma but my recent illness, as the XBB.1.5 subvariant raged, felt like a cold. I believe the vaccine has saved my life.Dr. Anthony Fauci declared the pandemic over in April 2022. As we return to our normal activities and assess the traumatic politics of the last few years, we should follow the example of former President Ronald Reagan, who signed a law apologizing to Japanese Americans sent to detention camps and paying them compensation.Let's cancel mandates and rehire the thousands of teachers, nurses, police officers, firefighters and other workers who lost their jobs because they refused vaccines at a time that their employers couldn't see clearly. We should issue back pay and an apology to these victims of hysteria.Penance is good for the soul. In this case, it would also alleviate the shortage of workers in these key professions.(Ted Rall (Twitter: @tedrall), the political cartoonist, columnist and graphic novelist, co-hosts the left-vs-right DMZ America podcast with fellow cartoonist Scott Stantis. You can support Ted's hard-hitting political cartoons and columns and see his work first by sponsoring his work on Patreon.)
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Once every generation or two, a crisis prompts the hysterical demands for quick solutions that lead to unsound decisions. Post-Pearl Harbor, worries about fifth columnists were followed by the deportation of Japanese Americans to internment camps. 9/11 led to two wars, excessive airport security and the privacy-destroying USA-Patriot Act.
The Covid pandemic sparked panic; panic fuels overreaction.
Enter vaccine mandates.
Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York in October 2021, declared a city-wide vaccine mandate for municipal workers. "This mandate is a bold step that protects our families, friends, and communities, including those that are not yet eligible for the vaccine such as our city's youngest residents," he said weeks before expanding the requirement to private-sector workers employed by 184,000 businesses. Similar strictures quickly spread across the nation.
Setting aside the debate between personal autonomy and the public good, it has since become clear that the rationale for the mandates—that unvaccinated people were spreaders—was flawed. Thousands of workers who were fired for refusing the shot were wronged. They ought to be compensated.
The injustice resulted from that most common of honest mistakes committed by government committee: a conclusion based upon information that was out-of-date. Seven months before de Blasio's decision, clinical trials had indicated the Pfizer and Moderna double-doses were highly effective (94-95%) at preventing COVID-19.
Eager to lift lockdowns and restart the economy, de Blasio and other mayors believed restoring municipal services and in-office work depended upon citizens not having to fear infection from city employees, as well as private-sector workers.
By the time public-health officials and politicians had imposed mandates, however, the dominant delta and omicron variants had already radically changed the calculus. The first round of vaccines, it was evident by summer 2021, were a lot less effective at preventing "breakthrough infections" of these less severe, more contagious versions of the disease. Government was fighting the previous battle.
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The newer bivalent vaccines didn't fix the problem. According to a CDC study released in November 2022, people who received the original monovalent vaccine 2 to 3 months before receiving the new bivalent booster enjoyed a vaccine effectiveness rate of just 28-31%. An overwhelming majority of Americans, vaccinated or not, have been infected.
"We can no longer say this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated," Cynthia Cox, vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation, told the Washington Post on November 27, 2022. The foundation had earlier determined that most people dying of Covid had been vaccinated.
As liberals liked to say during the pandemic: follow the science. By the time vaccine mandates went into effect, science said the odds of a vaccinated NYPD officer contracting and spreading the virus weren't much lower than those of an unvaccinated cop.
Whatever you think of the anti-vaxxers who lost their jobs to mandates—that they were ignorant, paranoid, selfish—they didn't represent a significantly greater threat to public health than those who did get the jab. Since that supposed danger—that higher danger—was the reason given for letting them go, and that danger differential wasn't a big deal at the time, they never should have been targeted for termination in the first place.
Mandates no longer apply to private businesses in New York. Yet it remains in force for city employees. Asked in October 2022 about the contradiction, Mayor Eric Adams replied: "I don't think anything dealing with COVID is—makes sense, and there's no logical pathway." State and city employees remain subject to mandates across the nation.
Pfizer CEO Grilled on 'Ineffective' COVID-19 Vaccine at Davos Summit
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This is not an attack on vaccines. I'm fully vaxxed, boosted four times, and even though I've gotten Covid twice after being vaccinated, I'm pro-vaccine. If you're vaccinated and get a "breakthrough infection," you almost certainly won't be hospitalized or die. That's the benefit being touted by the CDC and the medical community. I have asthma but my recent illness, as the XBB.1.5 subvariant raged, felt like a cold. I believe the vaccine has saved my life.
Dr. Anthony Fauci declared the pandemic over in April 2022. As we return to our normal activities and assess the traumatic politics of the last few years, we should follow the example of former President Ronald Reagan, who signed a law apologizing to Japanese Americans sent to detention camps and paying them compensation.
Let's cancel mandates and rehire the thousands of teachers, nurses, police officers, firefighters and other workers who lost their jobs because they refused vaccines at a time that their employers couldn't see clearly. We should issue back pay and an apology to these victims of hysteria.
Penance is good for the soul. In this case, it would also alleviate the shortage of workers in these key professions.
(Ted Rall (Twitter: @tedrall), the political cartoonist, columnist and graphic novelist, co-hosts the left-vs-right DMZ America podcast with fellow cartoonist Scott Stantis. You can support Ted's hard-hitting political cartoons and columns and see his work first by sponsoring his work on Patreon.)


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The Dow component that led the way higher today was Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE:WMT), which sported a 17-cent gain (+0.2%) bringing the stock to $78.05. Holding the Dow back today was International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM), which lagged the broader Dow index with a $3.11 decline (-1.8%) bringing the stock to $171.29.
Holding back the Dow today is Home Depot (NYSE:HD), which is lagging the broader Dow index with a 63-cent decline (-0.6%) bringing the stock to $108.08.
Holding back the Dow today is Travelers Companies (NYSE:TRV), which is lagging the broader Dow index with a 99-cent decline (-1%) bringing the stock to $101.86.
The Dow component leading the way higher looks to be 3M (NYSE:MMM), which is sporting an 81-cent gain (+0.5%) bringing the stock to $157.78.
Holding back the Dow today is UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH), which is lagging the broader Dow index with a 56-cent decline (-0.5%) bringing the stock to $113.05.
The Dow component leading the way higher looks to be American Express (NYSE:AXP), which is sporting a 35-cent gain (+0.5%) bringing the stock to $77.51. Holding back the Dow today is Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), which is lagging the broader Dow index with a 28-cent decline (-0.6%) bringing the stock to $48.77.
The Dow component that led the way higher today was Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT), which sported a $1.30 gain (+1.5%) bringing the stock to $87.50. Holding the Dow back today was Boeing (NYSE:BA), which lagged the broader Dow index with a $1.36 decline (-0.9%) bringing the stock to $146.15.
Holding back the Dow today is Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG), which is lagging the broader Dow index with a 51-cent decline (-0.6%) bringing the stock to $79.91.
Holding back the Dow today is UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH), which is lagging the broader Dow index with a $5.34 decline (-4.5%) bringing the stock to $112.26.
The Dow component leading the way higher looks to be AT&T (NYSE:T), which is sporting a 14-cent gain (+0.4%) bringing the stock to $35.


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Weighing just 2.4 kg and with a compact design, the EHL 65 electric planer is not only the lightest and lowest one-handed planer in its class, but also the most powerful. 4 mm planing and 23 mm rebate depth and excellent surface finish thanks to the unique spiral blade with pulling cut. With SoftGrip handle and cutting depth adjustment, single-button operation and non-slip ridges on the housing for a secure hold. This means that the planer can be guided effortlessly, whether it's horizontally or vertically, with one or two hands, with the left hand or right hand. In short: It's ergonomic. Fast. Precise. The one-handed planer for professionals.
Noticeably finer planed surface without chatter marks thanks to the diagonally angled spiral blade and pulling cut.
Perfectly balanced working weight of just 2.4 kg and a resulting reduction in weight of up to 30%.
With a compatible plug-it connection – simply connect it to use it with a number of other Festool system tools.
The EHL 65 works with a pulling cut for a particularly accurate planing result. No chatter marks, no reworking. This is made possible by the spiral blade, which works at an incline and planes the wood in a way that is gentle on both the material and the tool.
The planing width of 65 mm enables versatile use as an assembly plane. Weighing just 2.4 kg, it is extremely handy: Compact installation height, soft grip on the handle and cutting depth adjustment, additional grips for an even more secure hold. Further impressive details: Convenient single-button operation for switching on and off.
The blade replacement system with automatic adjustment function eliminates the need to adjust the cutting circle diameter. Practical: The blade replacement tool is attached directly to the machine.
The EHL 65 is significantly quieter than other planers. In fact, it is so quiet that it makes less noise under load than other planers do when idling. This is an important contribution to safety while working. Yet another benefit of the special shape of the spiral blade.
23 mm rebate depth for a greater application spectrum.
No slipping or running off course: The 90° V-groove in the planer foot makes the HL 65 electric planer feel like it is gliding along a rail when chamfering boards and beams.
The spring-loaded shoe keeps the blade away from the surface. The shoe folds inwards automatically when the machine is set down – even on narrow edges.
The "rucksack" on the back of the plane picks up the exact width of the blade. The plane blade width is 65 mm, which is optimised for typical installation applications.


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As we prepared to see this legendary rock group, we checked for the camera's batteries, loaded the car and proceeded to drive an hour and half to see the concert featuring Van Halen at the sold out Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, Virginia. The closer we got to the venue, traffic was bumper to bumper, and we knew we were headed in the right direction.
As we stood in line, our anticipation grew and grew. We drove into the parking lot and we saw an endless amount of cars as far as our eyes could see. As we walked to the office to get our credentials, we were greeted by the wonderful staff and administration of the Jiffy Lube Live and were escorted by Claudia to the staging area where we would be able to capture this historical night.
As we waited, we noticed there were thousands of loyal Van Halen fans sitting, chatting and on their feet anticipating the moment that the band would hit the stage. The lights dimmed and the bass player thumped. At that point, everyone jumped to their feet because the moment had arrive and I have only two words to describe the night, ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!
This American rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972 sang all their fans favorite songs. From 1974 until 1985, the band comprised guitarist Eddie Van Halen, vocalist David Lee Roth, drummer Alex Van Halen, and bassist Michael Anthony.
Van Halen would not be complete without Eddie. He is definitely one of the greatest guitar players of any generation. His guitar solo set the entire house on fire. They played favorites such as; Light Up the Sky, Runnin' With the Devil, Romeo Delight, Everybody Wants Some, Drop Dead Legs, Feel Your Love Tonight, Somebody Get Me a Doctor, and She's the Woman to name a few.
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Fort Pierce police arrested a man who fled from police in a vehicle and on foot. The man allegedly ran because he was trying to avoid weapons charges and drug charges. It all began when the police noticed the man driving without wearing his seat belt.
Law enforcement officials say that they tried to stop the driver to talk to him about his seatbelt. Instead of stopping, the man sped away. Eventually, he left his vehicle and ran on foot. By the time law enforcement caught up with the man, he was in a locked room. A search of the room revealed that the man had a stolen weapon.
In addition to weapons and drug charges, the man also faces charges of driving without a license. He may work with a Port Saint Lucie criminal lawyer to defend against the allegations. Florida law 316.1935 says that a driver must stop if a police officer lawfully orders them to stop.
A Port Saint Lucie criminal defense attorney can help you explore all avenues of defense that may apply when a person faces charges of fleeing and eluding a law enforcement officer. Because of the nature of the crime, penalties can be quite steep. You face time in jail and a felony conviction that can spell disaster for employment opportunities.
Until recently, if the police pulled you over only for driving without a seatbelt, they'd be in violation of the law. A Port Saint Lucie criminal defense attorney could have helped you bring a motion to dismiss your case under the old law. If they stopped a driver for another reason, they could also give the driver a seat belt ticket if they noticed them without a belt. However, until several years ago, Florida law didn't allow the police to stop someone for a traffic ticket alone.
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2017 Fr 11 114 1 0 1 32 22 28 20 206 2 24.0
2018 So 12 97 0 1 2 26 15 18 14 215 0 15.0
2019 Jr 16 42 0 0 0 7 1 3 7 77 0 1.0
Total 28 0 0 9 5 7 7 65 0 5
Sep 1 Minnesota 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 0 1.0
Sep 9 Wright State 4 0 0 1 2 1 1 15 0 2.0
Dec 4 Syracuse 3 0 0 1 0 0 1 14 0 0.0
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Aug 24 Georgia Southern 4 0 0 2 1 1 1 15 1.0
Aug 24 Connecticut 3 0 0 4 0 1 1 11 0.0
Aug 25 Wright State 4 0 0 1 2 3 1 12 2.0
Sep 15 Penn 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 2.0
Sep 15 Wake Forest
Sep 19 Iowa State
Sep 26 Kansas State 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sep 29 Texas 3 0 0 1 0 0 1 6 0.0
Oct 13 Baylor 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0.0
Oct 24 Texas Tech 4 0 0 0 2 1 0 13 2.0
Oct 31 Kansas 4 0 0 4 2 0 0 8 2.0
Nov 7 Marshall 4 0 0 1 0 2 0 9 0.0
Nov 14 TCU 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 4 0.0
Nov 17 Oklahoma 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0.0
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Aug 31 Coppin State 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.0
Aug 31 Binghamton 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
Sep 5 Arkansas
Sep 6 San Diego State 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
Sep 7 Arizona 1 0 0 0 1 0 0.0
Sep 12 Hawaii 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.0
Sep 13 UCLA 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Sep 14 Utah Valley State
Sep 20 Duquesne
Sep 21 Eastern Kentucky
Sep 21 Navy
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Oct 12 Kansas State 4 0 0 1 1 10 0.0
Oct 19 Texas 3 0 0 0 1 1 0.0
Oct 24 TCU 3 1 0 0 0 10 0.0
Oct 26 Baylor 4 0 1 1 1 8 1.0
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Nov 16 Texas Tech
Nov 22 Oklahoma
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October 31, 2018 Connecticut
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Q: Can I apply an 'onchange' event by radio group I'm a little lost here.
I have a few radio buttons, all with the same name so they are grouped.
What I can't work out is, what would I apply the change event too? I can't get the elementsByName as this would return an array.
So, as is usually true with radio buttons, there can only be 1 selected. I want an event to trigger when it's changed.
My question is, do I have to apply an event to each radio button, or can I apply an 'onchange' event by group?

A: Use the console to see it in action it works as requested. The trick is to target the parent then compare what was clicked and what is considered currentTarget.

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Lowestoft Air Festival boosts Air Scouts
PUBLISHED: 16:31 26 February 2010 | UPDATED: 16:32 06 July 2010
KEEN volunteers have been boosted for their efforts with a cash donation.
Providing volunteers at last year's Lowestoft Seafront Air Festival has led to the 1st Carlton Colville Air Scouts receiving a welcome reward.
The Air Scouts' leaders, friends and supporters staffed an entrance gate at Pakefield on both days of the air show and the £660 they received for this help has enabled them to buy archery equipment for the youngsters to use.
Leader Rodney Turner said: "We were able to purchase the new archery equipment entirely from the commission we received for helping at the airshow. This will provide a new activity for us and will benefit up to 80 children. We already have a qualified archery instructor but previously we have had to borrow equipment."
Mr Turner added that the senior Scouts section was currently full but the junior section, for cubs and beavers, was open to new members, and for more information contact Mr Turner on 01502 584000.
A total of 27 local clubs, organisations and charities helped out at the 2009 Air Festival. They provided an army of volunteers who staffed the park and ride operation, acted as stewards and collectors and sold programmes and merchandise.
Their bucket collections brought in a record £120,000, which went towards the £300,000 cost of the Air Festival and, as a result, organisers were able to hand back more than £28,000 to all the helpers.
Brian Hunter, the Air Festival director responsible for stewards and collectors, said: "This active involvement and assistance from so many local clubs and organisations has resulted in air show donations enabling them to continue to support our local community by providing and enhancing opportunities in their own fields of interests."
Many of these organisations are already offering assistance at this year's Air Festival, which is being held on Thursday, August 12 and Friday, August 13.
For information about the air festival visit www.lowestoftairfestival.co.uk


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FIRST LOOK AT GIRAFFE AND RHINO LODGES AT SAFARI PARK…
West Midland Safari Park have opened its new luxury lodges, offering overnight stays with views of giraffes and rhinos.
Eight two-storey lodges are now ready to welcome guests and are integrated into the white rhino and giraffe habitats, giving guests a truly unforgettable and immersive experience.
The white rhino lodges sleep up to six people and are the only experience of their kind in the UK. The ground floor has an open-plan living space, secluded chill out nest which doubles up as a cosy double bed and has a balcony offering ground-level views of the rhinos.
Guests enjoy the view from the brand-new Giraffe Lodges at West Midland Safari Park
Two bedrooms and a bathroom are located on the first floor, along with a balcony providing panoramic views of the rhinos and Safari.
In the giraffe lodges, guests are able to come eye-to-eye with the Park's charismatic tower of eight giraffes from the balcony on the first floor, which is where the living room, kitchenette and dining room are situated. A bathroom and two bedrooms are downstairs, providing accommodation for five people.
The introduction of the new lodges has enabled the Park to update and improve the habitats of the animals, giving them 24-hour access to both their indoor and outdoor environments.
Managing Director, Chris Kelly said, "We're thrilled that the new giraffe and rhino lodges open on Friday and they look spectacular. Our teams have been working incredibly hard over the past six months to get them ready and add all the finishing touches that will make our guests' stay truly memorable.
"Alongside the lodges, we have upgraded and built brand-new facilities and habitats for the giraffes and white rhinos. The rhinos have moved into their new home and have settled in well. The giraffes are a bit more tentative in nature and needed coaxing in with some of their favourite treats. They are enjoying exploring their new surroundings and seem to be very captivated by their new human neighbours, often watching them, curiously!"
He continued, "I hope our guests enjoy their experience with us and we look forward to starting our next stage of development with the Tiger Lodges, which we hope to open later in the year."
White rhino and Rothschild's giraffe are classified as "Near Threatened" by the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature), with both species facing threats in the wild such as poaching and habitat loss.
The Park's white rhino and Rothschild's giraffe are both part of an EEP (EAZA Ex-Situ Programme), an international, collaborative breeding programme by European zoos, supporting the conservation of their wild counterparts by creating a reserve population. The new facilities enable the Park to continue their important work with the EEP.
The giraffe lodges are almost sold out until 30 September 2022, but there is some availability for the Rhino Lodges, with prices starting at £490 per night for two guests.
Safari Lodges short breaks include breakfast and dinner, spectacular views of the animals, admission to the Park for two days and Theme Park wristbands, during the summer season. The lodges also include free Wi-Fi, smart TV, robes, Noble Isle toiletries, 24-hour concierge and hot drink facilities.
Bookings for the lodges and further information can be found on the Safari Lodges website: www.safari-lodges.co.uk.


At Perryfields Infants School the children use a range of computing devices on a regular basis, including accessing the internet, to enhance the children's learning. In school, we have regular 'e-safety' lessons, activities and assemblies to remind children of the importance of keeping themselves safe online.
Top Tips to tell your child!
Top tips for us all to remember!
You might be struggling to keep up with the things your child is doing online, you might wonder whether what they are doing is safe, and you might also be thinking how can I be as good a parent online as I am offline?.
Talk to your child about who they're talking to online and encourage them to think before talking to people they don't know in person. Encourage them also to think about what sort of information they might be sharing. This might include gaming devices where they can play with people beyond their home.
Try to understand and guide your child's online behaviour - negotiating and establishing boundaries and discussing sensitively the issues around concepts such as 'friendship'.
Familiarise yourself with any programmes or websites your child's shows an interest in.