The holes in the benchtop are drilled to take dogs for gripping workpieces. Don't be sparing with these!
A couple of coats of finishing oil and the bench is complete!
The brief for this project was to produce a bench that would be useful in a very small workshop. Thinking about it, I was inspired by a carvers' bench, and thought that an adaptation of this design would be of use to both general woodworkers with a very small workshop, and any woodcarvers with similar space constraints.
I was using up some standard 3 x 2 PAR softwood, and a couple of rather tatty boards of 1 1/12in ash.
to get the relative height of the seat and bench just right for you.
I spent some time playing around with a small stool and a desk on blocks of wood to be sure the finished heights were suitable.
I fitted a conventional woodworking vice, to which I added a front dog, along with a series of holes in the benchtop for both fixed and screw adjusting bench dogs.
I also made provision for the quick fixing of a heavy-duty pivoting vice for anyone who wanted to use the bench for carving in the round.
Construction is very simple - I just used dowels, but the alternatives are mortise and tenon joints, Dominos, or biscuits.
I always feel that the strength of modern adhesives makes heavy structural joints like the mortise and tenon less necessary these days, but the choice is of course yours.
The first stage is to cut out the longest lengths of frame material and here a chop saw with outrigger supports is a real advantage, but make a trial cut first to check that the saw is actually cutting spot-on, or the frame will not end up flat or square.
Each component can be cut to exact size when you are dowelling - there is no need to allow anything for the joint. Lay out each frame on the bench and clearly mark a face side and face edge to ensure proper dowel orientation later.
The top and bottom rail ends are marked out with a simple curve - I have cut out a series of aluminium circular templates just for this purpose.
Cut the shape carefully using a jigsaw - a sharp clean-cut blade and steady feed pressure should ensure that the cut stays true and does not end up angled. Cut just clear of the line and then sand back to a smooth curve using a bench mounted disc sander, but once again, check that the table is perfectly square to the disc.
For the dowelling I use a Joint Genie jig - in fact two jigs bolted together to give me the double row of holes. The jig is clamped in place with a couple of F-clamps. As it will not necessarily centre perfectly, it is essential that you work from the face side and edge on each piece to ensure the mating halves align perfectly. I use six 8mm dowels for each joint, setting the depth stop carefully with just a fraction of clearance so the dowels wouldn't bottom before the joint was firmly closed. You can't use the end stop on the jig for the joints in the base rail, so set this out manually with some careful measuring.
Assemble each frame, ensuring the dowels are well covered with glue.
Clamp up carefully making sure the frame remains square - it is so easy to pull it out of line if the clamps are even slightly angled, so keep checking and don't overdo the pressure. The frame for the central support and the swing out seat are made in exactly the same way, but this time just using three dowels per joint as the material is thinner.
The top cross rail on one of the frames is set down lower to accommodate the vice, but then glue in a couple of riser blocks to support the top at the same height as the other frame.
Follow our Top Tip (see opposite) and when you apply clamps, any glued blocks will not slide.
Repeat the same procedure for the lower support blocks.
Once the frames are thoroughly dry, clean them up and remove any pencil marks using a sander. I prefer the controllability of a small palm sander for narrow section material.
To minimise the possibility of splintering or otherwise damaging the edge on benches like this, which are bound to get a bit knocked about, I always radius over all the framework edges using a tiny bearing guided router bit. For this type of work, I feel that the tiny rounded edge gives the finished frames a much more professional look, but don't overdo the size of the radius.
The top is made from some kiln dried ash. I am always worried about the stability of this type of material in wide pieces, particularly when it is a long way off being quarter sawn, like these two boards.
To overcome this stability problem, and also to produce a thicker top, rip it up on the bandsaw into 64mm wide strips.
Plane and thickness these all round and then glue them together on edge to produce a thick top - the grain orientation now makes the potential for movement far less.
Breadboard ends complete the top and these are just dowelled in place. Normally this would not be recommended practice as a conventional top would move much more relative to the ends, but a laminated construction like this will minimise any problems with later movement.
Once dry and cleaned up, the top can be drilled to take dogs which will suit whatever holding arrangements would want to fit. Don't be too sparing with the holes - the more you have the easier it will be to accommodate a variety of different workpiece sizes. For the sake of neatness and also to make it easier to drop in the dogs, run a tiny chamfer round the top of each hole. It is probably best to avoid your glue line when drilling just to be on the safe side, so as not to introduce unnecessary weakness.
For the seat, I laminated up a couple of offcuts of the top material and cut out the circle with a jigsaw.
To trim it perfectly circular, use a trammel bar on the router with a straight cutter, taking two or three passes to achieve the full depth. Use double sided tape to stick the top to a piece of sacrificial MDF.
The top and bottom edges of the seat can then be radiused on the router. It locates in the leg frame with a long bolt which is held captive by recessing the head into a small square of offcut material.
This square is then glued into place on the underside of the seat. I did consider screwing it as well, but I'm convinced the glue joint will be strong enough on its own.
Fit as many of the hinges as possible on the bench as it is so much easier working with the frames flat. I use simple lay-on hinges which do not require recessing in.
Use props on the floor to hold the central and the leg frames in position while you attach the other leaf of each hinge.
Drill a hole in the leg of the swing out frame to take the seat bolt. I did think afterwards that recessing a nut into the top of this hole would allow you to raise and lower the seat by simply winding it up and down, but in this case, a bigger bolt would have been preferable.
To fit the vice, you need to rout out a recess in the end of the top to take the back flange. I held the top upright in the vice and clamped on a piece of scrap to provide more support for the router base. Fine tune the fit until a flange fits flush with the end of the top - you may need to taper the recess slightly to accommodate the thicker web at the bottom of the flange.
Before fitting it in place, attach the inside wooden jaw plate by screwing through the back of the flange.
The vice can then be firmly fixed to the top using 50mm coach screws, drilling the appropriate pilot holes first to maximise the grip.
Now, tighten up the vice to hold the front wooden jaw plate in position, and screw through the two front holes. Use a finely set plane to trim the plates to be flush with the benchtop.
For the front vice dog, I drilled a hole in the jaw plate and then turned a small dog, though as the hole is the same size as the bench top holes, any of the other metal dogs can be used.
To hold the top in place, drill a 10mm hole on either side of each end frame. Then temporarily insert a dowel marker in each hole and drop the top down onto them.
This should leave a clear mark for the matching holes in the top which can then be drilled with the same drill. The locating pins are short lengths of 10mm brass bar epoxied into the top.
The pivot vice is held similarly to the seat top, with a captive bolt countersunk into a mounting block, with a large washer and locking handle to secure it to the bench.
I actually drilled a dedicated 10mm hole just for this vice, though there is nothing to stop you using the bigger dog holes if need be.
The swing out frame also needs some extra support blocks top and bottom, which again are simply glued in place. However, it is often very difficult to stop these blocks sliding as you clamp up, so knock in a couple of very fine panel pins. Then use some pincers to snip off the heads, leaving just a couple of millimetres of the pin proud of the surface.


The Chigorin Memorial Tournament in St. Petersburg, Russia, has had a long tradition. It is named after the founder of the Soviet Chess School Mikhail Chigorin. A list of strong grandmasters competed in the 2016 edition for the prize fund of 18,00,000 rubles ($28000/26000 euros). GM Deep Sengupta had the sole lead with 5.0/5. But he faltered in the second half. Chandigarh's Himal Gusain played a beautiful tournament, to become an international master with a crushing win in the final round.
The Chigorin Memorial Tournament in St. Petersburg, Russia, has had a long tradition. It is named after the founder of the Soviet Chess School Mikhail Chigorin. A list of strong grandmasters competed in the 2016 edition for the prize fund of 18,00,000 rubles ($28000/26000 euros). More than 30 grandmasters were playing in a field of 372 players with 16 of them rated above 2600.
GM Deep Sengupta (2570) won a beautiful game against GM Denis Khismatullin (2617) in the fifth round.
1. c4 g6 2. e4 Bg7 3. d4 c5 4. Nf3 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Nc6 6. Be3 Nf6 7. Nc3 Ng4 8.
28. gxf3 Bh6 29. Rc3 Bh3 $1 (29... Bf4 30. Bb6 Rb7 31. Bf2 Bh3 32. Bd3 Rbe7 33.
But the man who stole the show was certainly (IM) Himal Gusain (2428) who scored a GM norm by making 7.0/9 finishing eighth.
Himal had been fluctuating around the 2300-range for some three years until 'something happened' in January 2016. Now he is close to 2450, has become an international master and also has one grandmaster norm.
This spectacular game where he crushed GM Ivan Rozum with a showpiece queen + rook sac is worth watching.
Attacking e5, but...} 25. Bxe6 Nxe5 (25... fxe6 26. Nxe6 Nf5 (26... Qc8 27.
GM Kirill Alekseenko (2554), who was in India to play the World Juniors recently, won the tournament with 8.0/9.
h6 9. Bg2 Ne5 10. h3 g5 11. f4 gxf4 12. Bxf4 e6 13. Qe2 Bb7 14. O-O Nfd7 15.
c4 28. Qh5 Rh8 29. Qg6 Bd4 30. Rh7 Rd8 31. Bg5 Ne5 32. Qf6 Re8 33. Rh8 Qd7 34.
47. Kh3 Qf6 48. h5 $1 Qe6+ 49. Kh4 Qf6+ (49... Qxb3 50. Qxe5) 50. Kg4 Qe6+ 51.
GM S.L. Narayanan (2536) could muster up only 6.5/9.
79th seed FM Nodirbek Abdusattorov (2395) also scored 7.0/9. The 12-year-old performed at almost 2700 for his GM norm and finished sixth!
You have to CREATE a tactic here. What is the only move that White has to gain an advantage using a tactical plan.
17. Rxd7 Bd6 18. exd6 Qxd7 19. dxc7 Qxc7 20. Qe2 $14) 15. Ne4 c3 16. Rd4 (16.
bxc3 bxc3 17. Nxc3 Bb4 $11) 16... Rb6 17. Bxd7 Bxd7 18. Qd1 f5 19. exf6 Bd6 20.
29. b3 f5 30. bxc4 fxe4 31. Rd2 Bxc4 32. Rad1 Bb5 33. Nb2 c5 34. Rc2 Nxb2 35.


A lovely addition to your Remembrance Garden, this chalkboard can be displayed outside all year round. Encourage children to write words of reflection and what Remembrance means to them.
UV light and weather resistant. Supplied pre-drilled with fixing pack for easy installation.
Made from durable 5mm foamex.
We recommend using traditional chalks only on our chalkboards.


Initial Coin Offering technology or ICO is about to be piloted by Russia at its central bank's regulatory platform. The platform was designed to test unregulated tech since its launch in April 2018.
The process is thought out to end with results that will give various conclusions which are related to digital token assets. It targets to launch the first transaction that includes tokenized assets and assess the characteristics of the transfer while mitigating associated risks.
The corporate and investment banking business of Russia's state-owned bank the Sberbank CIB, and NSD – the National Settlement Despository. Russia's financial market infrastructure, have announced they will soon be piloting ICO technology at the Bank of Russia's regulatory platform.


Staff and students across the district are proclaiming their love for OnTrack, the district's new assessment platform that will launch districtwide during the 2017-18 school year. Currently a group of campuses are testing out the new system and response has been overwhelmingly positive.
Check out the reaction and "love-o-meter" ratings from students and staff at the High School for Law and Justice in the video below. The school is one of 18 elementary, middle, and high schools across the district who began piloting the new system last month.


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Detroit Lions 2019 Season Outlook
July 29, 2019 July 29, 2019 Mason Thompson
Mason Thompson | July 29th, 2019
The Lions 2018 season left much to be desired. After a great first play from scrimmage resulting in an interception returned for a touchdown, the Lions season turned completely upside down. Matthew Stafford had one of his worst seasons as a pro and offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter would be replaced during the offseason by Darrell Bevell. After an up and down start resulting in a 3-3 record midway through October, they would go on to lose seven of the next ten games ending the season with a 6-10 record, their worst since 2012.
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The move that will change the direction of this team the most was the hiring of new offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell. Bevell had a run-centric offense during his time with Seattle from 2010-2017. With the trade of Golden Tate midway through the 2018 season, the Lions had to find a new slot receiver and may have found that with the addition of Danny Amendola. The Lions 17th ranked defense was the main priority during free agency as they handed out contracts to defensive end Trey Flowers, as well as cornerbacks Justin Coleman and Rashaan Melvin.
Following a big free agency period, the Lions followed it up with a good draft. In the first round, they drafted Iowa tight end T.J. Hockenson with the eighth pick in the draft. The Lions then turned to the defense taking linebacker Jahlani Tavai, safety Will Harris, defensive end Austin Bryant, and cornerback Amani Oruwariye. The sleeper of the draft class could wind up being wide receiver Travis Fulgham out of Old Dominion. The Lions also signed former Packer Mike Daniels this past week after he was released.
The core of the offense is still intact as the Lions have retained eight starters from the 2018 season. Stafford should have the majority of the load taken off of him as running back Kerryon Johnson should finally emerge as the lead back and be the three-down back in Bevell's offense with the release of Theo Riddick. Kenny Golladay and Marvin Jones are the top two receivers on the team with Amendola, Fulgham, Hockenson, Jesse James, and Isaac Nauta rounding out the playmakers. The offensive line retains four of the five starters from 2018 with the only loss coming from the retirement of T.J. Lang.
Coach Matt Patricia grew frustrated with this unit as the season went on and it showed as the majority of the offseason was spent trying to improve this side of the ball. The Lions have one of the best front four in the league with the likes of Damon Harrison, A'Shawn Robinson, and the additions of Flowers and Daniels. The linebacker position still needs some help as Jarrad Davis hasn't lived up to his potential and there isn't much help behind him. Darius Slay is the leader of the secondary as one of the best corners in the game and the front office has finally decided to give him some help with the additions of Coleman, Melvin, and Oruwariye.
QB (2) Matthew Stafford, Tom Savage
Stafford is the team's unquestioned starter. Behind him, the Lions have an ongoing competition for the backup position between Savage and David Fales. With Savage's starting experience, he should get the backup spot.
RB (5) Kerryon Johnson, C.J. Anderson, Zach Zenner, Ty Johnson, Nick Bawden(FB)
Johnson is one of the league's best up-and-coming backs in the league. Anderson showed flashes late last season with the Rams and could handle goal-line work. Zenner is a fan favorite while Ty Johnson is a rookie from Maryland who will make it while also getting a chance as a returner. Bawden makes it as the fullback.
WR (6) Kenny Golladay, Marvin Jones, Danny Amendola, Travis Fulgham, Brandon Powell, Jermaine Kearse
The top three receivers are set in stone but behind them are some major questions. Fulgham is a sixth-round pick who should have no issue making the team as he provides help in the red-zone. Powell is a young guy who could have some work in the slot. Kearse is a veteran who will take the final receiver spot.
TE (3) T.J. Hockenson, Jesse James, Isaac Nauta
This position is probably the easiest to sort out. Hockenson is one, if not the most complete tight ends to come out in a long time. James got a big contract during free agency and should be used frequently. Nauta was a late-round pick who does his best work as a blocker but will also contribute in the receiving game.
OL (9) Taylor Decker, Ricky Wagner, Frank Ragnow, Graham Glasgow, Kenny Wiggins, Tyrell Crosby, Oday Aboushi, Joe Dahl, Luke Bowanko
The starting five is set beside the right guard spot where Wiggins and Aboushi should battle it out for the starting position. Crosby is a solid young backup who could start if injuries were to happen to Decker or Wagner.
DL (5) Damon Harrison, A'Shawn Robinson, Da'Shawn Hand, Austin Bryant, P.J. Johnson
The Lions go three deep with reliable interior rushers with Harrison, Robinson, and Hand. Bryant was the fourth man on a monstrous Clemson defensive line. Johnson is a bubble player who was their last selection in the draft.
LB (4) Jarrad Davis, Jahlani Tavai, Garret Dooley, Jalen Reeves-Maybin
Davis and Tavai are locks to make the roster. Dooley and Reeves-Maybin make the roster as virtual unknowns who can play multiple roles for Patricia's defense. This position group is the weakest on the roster.
EDGE (5) Trey Flowers, Mike Daniels, Romeo Okwara, Devon Kennard, Christian Jones
Flowers was the prized pickup during the offseason. Daniels can play on the interior as well as on the edge. Okwara, Kennard, and Jones had 15.5 sacks between themselves last year.
CB (7) Darius Slay, Justin Coleman, Teez Tabor, Amani Oruwariye, Rashaan Melvin, Mike Ford, Jamal Agnew
Slay is arguably the best corner in the game. Coleman is now the highest-paid slot corner in the league. Oruwariye was one of the biggest steals of the draft. Melvin can play some outside corner if Tabor struggles again. Ford and Agnew round out the group.
SAF (4) Miles Killebrew, Quandre Diggs, Tavon Wilson, Will Harris
This group is going to have a ton of competition for the two starting spots. Harris was added in the third round to provide competition. Former third-round pick Tracy Walker is the odd man out in the group.
ST (3) Matt Prater, Sam Martin, Don Muhlbach
The same group as last year. Ryan Santoso was brought into camp as extra competition for Martin but Martin should win the job.
The lions added a slew of different pieces to help both the offense and the defense. Bevell should take the offense to a different level, especially the rushing attack. Kerryon Johnson should be able to put the team on his shoulders and become one of the top backs in the league. The Lions have certainly gotten better since last year but are also in one, if not the best division in football. The Bears are a super bowl contender who lost some pieces but should be in the playoffs again, the Packers made several additions on the defensive side of the ball, and the Vikings are going to be in the hunt as well. Patricia needs to gain the team's trust as it was rumored they didn't like the way he scheduled practices. If this season doesn't go well, he could be on his way out. This ownership is not very patient as they fired Jim Caldwell after a 9-7 season just two years ago.
Season Prediction: 7-9 and miss the playoffs, enough talent but in the best division in football.
Follow Mason Thompson on Twitter @Thompson22Mason
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A Királyok völgye 27 (KV27) egy egyiptomi sír a Királyok völgye keleti völgyében, a fő vádi délkeleti ágában. Tulajdonosa ismeretlen; nem királyi sírnak épült.

A sír egyenes tengelyű, hossza 20,78 m, területe 91,87 m². Alaprajza szokatlan. Egy négyszögletes bejárati aknából négyszögletes, hosszúkás, az aknára merőleges tengelyű kamra nyílik. Ebből a kamrából a szemközti falon két, balra pedig egy oldalkamra nyílik. A sír díszítetlen, és a belőle előkerült tárgyak sem datálhatóak teljes bizonyossággal, így nem tudni pontosan, mikori sír. A KV20 és KV43 sírokhoz való közelsége, valamint építészeti jellegzetességei alapján a XVIII. dinasztia idejére datálható. Az egyik oldalkamrából IV. Thotmesz vagy III. Amenhotep korabeli kerámiák kerültek elő.

Eugène Lefébure röviden leírta, John Gardner Wilkinson pedig feltérképezte, de dokumentált feltárása csak 1990-ben kezdődött meg Donald P. Ryan vezetése alatt. A sírt ellepő törmeléket legalább hét különböző árvíz sodorta be.

A bejárati akna elé alacsony falat emeltek, hogy védjék a sírt a további áradásoktól.

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The island of Othonoi is the first (or the last) of the Ionian islands. It lies opposite Albania. Its name means "throne", because in Paleolithic, three islands — Othonoi, Mathraki and Erikoussa — were one land and also connected to Corfu, as the sea level was lower … Although small and with as few as 60 year-round inhabitants, Othonoi has its very particular and strong character. It has an intensive history, being close to Italy on the fringe of the Strait of Otranto. In recent history, most islanders spent their productive time in the USA and came back with their savings. Now the island is flourishing! Why?
Five years ago, one man, Yiannis Katehis, returned to his father's island, and step by step, his vision was put into practice by 21 members of the KIPPKO association. What do they do? As an independent group with a lot of followers, they are taking over the island, investing their own time and money: the port, water, waste, clearing old walking trails, promoting sustainable agriculture, everything connected with tourism … All of this is already happening here. According to Yannis, the only threat for the future of the island is the ongoing occupation of Greece, which is targeting the oil basin that lies beneath the Othonoi part of the Ionian sea.
Yiannis: "The name of the island comes from the Greek word thrónos, which means "throne", because in Paleolithic, the three islands — Othonoi, Mathraki and Erikoussa — were one land and also connected to Corfu, as the sea level was lower."
Yiannis: "Homer describes the island of Ogygia as smelling of cypresses and olives, which is true here [for Othonoi]. He also describes the cave in the sea. And we have the cave in the sea. He describes it as a very small island – which is also the description of Othonoi. And another interesting fact: when Odyssey wanted to leave the island, to go back to Ithaca, he arrived right at Corfu (he didn't know it was there). And because his raft was destroyed, he had to swim. And how far can you swim? Distance from here is 12 miles – it's a very logical assumption that he could swim there … It fits the description. It looks like this [Othonoi] was the Calypso's island [Ogygia]."
At our first meeting, Yiannis explained the origin of the name of the island, its history and mythology, of Phoenicians and their Palestinian origin, and of the recent history in one blow. Click on "AUDIO" below to listen to his story!
Yiannis: "I do not live off the island and I do care for the island. The others, they make money from the island, but they forget about the things ... They disregard the problems. You know, if they would go and tell him not to fish with oxygen bottle, he could leave ... So for that reason, the board members [of KIPPKO association for environment and cultural heritage that Yiannis started] are those who already have sources to live, and that is why I did not choose shop owners or people like that. I choose people that are independent."
Yiannis: "The vision of KIPPKO organisation is being implemented, because people are fed up of promises, and I think it is the right time for changes to happen worldwide, it is a time for people to win the liberation back ... Not with war, but with ideas. Our governments are already backing up a bit. It is the right time to start demanding correct life. We want to be on the island and manage our island. We live here and we will tell you what to do here. You want to collect your taxes, but this is it! You do not know what we need. We see the problems, we should manage them, I would even change the flag if you want, I know what is best for the place … It is an independent Greek Island … My fears are big ones! I know we have a huge deposit of petroleum here, there are three 'hot spots' around this island . My fear is that this oil will come out, because the Arab oil will run out and the Americans will want to take the oil. Well, they already took the oil ... How? They put Greece in crises just to take this oil. People do not realize what happened, we are siting on a huge oil wealth here ... I know this since 1985, because you can see on satellite images where the oil deposits around the world are, the red spots. When you have a treasure, everybody wants to steal it. I know how international politics work. I am afraid that if they will start to drill for oil here, they will spoil everything ... Oil refinery platform – there goes you tourism ... bye-bye. I think we need Greenpeace here. There will be accidents, oil spills ... They already signed the contract and it will all probably begin to unfold in the next year or so."
Yiannis: "First of all, we need a good port ... We have a dangerous port now! What happened is, some years ago, they took some money and made a terrible plan and did not protect the port. We [KIPPKO] brought a civil engineer and he started the project by first collecting information from local people at the meetings. He came up with the solutions for 2 or 4 million, which is what we need. A 12 million port that is being forced is overdoing it in my opinion ... Syriza, I do not know what the hell they are, they are not left or right. They do things as extreme right. All they do is they tax the people. So the next two years, until the government changes, we [KIPPKO] will continue to do the things even if they don't want that ... We got a new study of the new port project ..."
In 1537, Barbarossa (a pirate who the Turks selected to be their admiral), tried to take over Corfu, together with the three islands [Othonoi, Erikoussa, and Mathraki], but they couldn't, because Venetians had two castles there that everybody could flee to. All who didn't go into the castles were slaughtered. Turkish army paid their soldiers by robbing everything, and because they couldn't rob Corfu, they had to look everywhere else – so they came here. They went up to the place we call Stavros (a place with a little cross in the center of the island, which is the mark of the battle of 1537). At that time, there were around 1,000 inhabitants of the islands, and they won the battle.
Yiannis: "It looks like the southern part of Europe, all the Mediterranean countries are going to be united. There will be two Europes, another European Union, because it looks like we can not live with the currency. Southern people have to be unified against the northern ones. England jumped out, other countries will jump out, but they will have to be unified because you can not stand alone against all the other problems and dangers around. It will happen in the next 10 to 15 years."
Yiannis: "I was studying robotics in order to be able to also create other things. You have to do good drawings and you need to know 3D. Flight simulator is a 3D application, and robotics helped me to know how things work in an airplane or a boat ... Now, I do 3D scenery and models ... Even when I was five, I used to play instruments but I always wanted to expand, I studied piano accordion, I wanted to study to become a conductor ... To learn more, that was my personal interest, the other one was my technical part and my work, which I separated. Music was my long-standing wish, I wanted to learn more. So I was studying conducting and jazz music, on and off fro about ten to twelve years, and I completed both. And now I am just playing around with both. Now is the time when I work with my ideas in the simulator. In addition to the flight simulator, I also want to do other simulations. For instance, i want to do an electric car, electric airplane ... I have this island in 3D in the simulator, so you can come here and land on the mini airport or heliport. I have done it as is, and now, I am doing the port and villas around the island. Traditional looking homes, 2, 3 room apartments. The very important thing is that the island goes beyond the season, otherwise we would lose the game."
Yiannis: "My motivation is my love for the island, it's as simple as that ... Nobody forced me to come here. I do music because I love the music. Here, I write a completely different music, because I have different motivation, a more romantic one. At the moment, I am experimenting with some contemporary Byzantine music. It is something they do in church; the sound is another thing ... We have a different culture, we are in the middle between the East and the West. Arabic music doesn't exist. If you go back 500 years, for instance, the Arabs and the Turks were playing sitar, Arabic flute, or the canon. Today, you hear Byzantine music reproduced ... I want to take the original Byzantine music and bring it up, the real Byzantine music that you can only hear in churches, and bring it up to date. Byzantine music includes semitones, so you need to untune the instruments! Semitones are due to Pythagoras, who made his own tuning system with algebra, with equal spaces between colors or sounds. If you take 7 iridium colors, they have the same space in-between. He wrote the music that should be played like the colors. These spaces are the sound of Byzantine music … Western music has a different system, 440 Hz divided. Some of the notes are equal, but Byzantine music used the Pythagorean system. The Byzantines invented classical church organ but they gave it away because it had no semitones. I have a studio, I play many instruments and write and record most of the tracks. I can use instruments that can play semitones. One song can take me up to 3–4 months, like a minute a month."
Yiannis: "My top four spots on the island are Calypso cave, sunset above the Calypso cave, Fiki beach, and Dafni village. As a child, I read Robinson Crusoe so many times, he was my hero, and living on a deserted island was my dream ... I could do it! Find an island and make it paradise, so I think this came right now ... I think I still feel like Robinson Crusoe. The other thing I wanted to do, of course, I wanted to become an astronaut. But I do not have the time to learn all this things, tt would take forever ... So I decided differently. My mother was playing music, my uncle was a musician, so it was in my DNA. To me, the island means above all tradition, history, becoming one with nature – in other words, not going away from where we came from. My DNA is here ... We search too far, sometimes what we need is right in front of us, but we don't see it. So it's like Odyssey, looking for his home bead. I feel like him, I feel I had to come back to find my home. I think I achieved that, and I am proud of that, because I could still be in America in the middle of a crazy town with crazy people looking for crazy things. It's war over there, it's a battle ... Who wants that war, where nobody wins? You go there and you have this battle of life, you fight to create, to make money ..."
... and then, you realize it was not really important, you spent too much time trying to do things that are right in front of your eyes, so let's go back.
Yiannis: "Here, there are enough of fish, but we have to make sure that Italians will not come to fish with oxygen bottles, or fishing with Chlorine ... We do cooperate with the coastguard, and since we put on some pressure, they got a new boat and a car, so they can act ..."
Yiannis: "In Greek, Mithos means a short story. It means we know that things happened, but we do not know if it all happened exactly like that ... The whole Iliad and Odyssey, it is not mythology, because we found facts ... For instance, Homer was speaking of cyclops, and recently, it has been found that cyclops is a disease that happened and is still happening sometimes. They found skeletons with this deformity ... So when I did a study about Calypso, I was looking for what Homer said, and it looks like 90% of what he said is here ..."
Who is Yiannis, actually? During the 3 days on the island with him, I could see that he does many things, has many skills, and uses them well, most of them for people who have a need to fix this and that. Even if he is not asked, he offers his help. People were stopping or calling him all the time, but he still managed to notice that my autopilot on the boat was broken, and the night before I left, he took it to his workshop to fix it!
So at the end, I could understand his statement that it doesn't matter where you are, but what you carry with you. The environment affects you, but your main character is your main character ... If you are a bad person and you come to Othonoi, it is unlikely that you will become a good person.
Yiannis: "I would like an island where a traveler who would stop by accident would find everything that he needs, but only what he needs ... I envision the island as an oasis in the middle of the desert, an oasis that would be a resting place, a place for recreation, not over touristic, just enough to support business to prosper here. I would not like to see frozen fish to be served, but locally made fresh vegetable, fresh fish, chicken ... In order for young families to come, we need to extend the season, so a few more businesses will be able to open. It is a hard land ... Well, you can collect oil, but for this, you need young people, and they need motive, they need to have a doctor, good port, water, electricity ... I want the correct balance between going forward and sustaining our tradition, lets fix and restore what we have, clean the island, and ... make it livable. Computer is a tool to find and see things easier, and to communicate. That is why I can live here now, and work with flight simulators, and send it to the end of the world. We have WI-FI here, fine, but you do not want to copy a city. If you copy a city, you will have night clubs here ... Instead, I can imagine a small, simple piano bar, for everybody, where people would come in their everyday clothes ... Where people would come together to be one big company and sing together, that is what I would like to see."
UPDATE ! MAY 2018: After one year, we land on this divine island once again. And the first one we met that morning was Yiannis. We embraced like we really feel, like being good friends. I asked him, "what are the news for this past year," and in the next 10 minutes, I was already recording his really great achievements in challenging his biggest fear, oil. Summary below!
In 1997, the government slowly started to talk about the possibility of extracting oil from the Greek land, without giving any further information to its people. In 2010, when the economic crisis was at its highest, Greek government really got into this new logic: sell Greece for oil. It appeared that the way to give back the loaned money was to use the country as a "collateral": that means that the financers (European & international banka) could sell the land (together with oil) to refund the debt. Othonoi was in the middle of this strategy because the island lies above huge oil reserves.
Yiannis is ready to help and do things for everybody on the island. Discussing "things about the island" with Yiannis also comes with the package.
By seeing and understanding this strategy, undisclosed to the general public, Yiannis and other environmental activists of the region decided to react. Because it was about the environment, but also about tourism and development.
The Greek part of the Ionian Sea is a seismic area, and the extraction itself creates small earthquakes. People won't spend time in an area full of wells and oil extraction machines. Moreover, if an accident occurs, the area will be contaminated for the next 200 years, and Greek people are the ones who will suffer from it.
Yannis created the association KIPPKO that unites many regional environmental associations to protect the environment against any enemy. First, they worked through petitions and signatures. But since the government didn't answer their requests, they started sending more detailed letters to different ministries. The questions were the following: How are you going to extract the oil? What technology are you going to use? What are the guarantee for the security of people and of the earth? How will the oil be transported? What about seismology? What will Greece gain with it, and what will people from the area directly gain with it?
The first conference happened in Corfu, with ministries, oil companies and non-governmental representatives. The result? The government couldn't answer to any of these questions. The answer was: no answer. The government was completely unqualified to sell this land and had no idea of the consequences it could have – except for the money. A second conference took place, demanded by the supreme court. Once again, the government was totally unable to answer KIPPKO questions. Right now, the government has stopped the plans for drilling. And the idea of KIPPKO association is clear: postpone this oil extraction as much as they can, for the clean energy to replace petrol in the meantime.
drinking water coming from mainland only will be soon forgotten past !
Yiannis: "The next big problem is lack of water! Weather changes, growing population ..." Now, owing to the initiative and hard work by KIPPKO, fresh drinking water from the stream will be available on the island soon!
Yannis went into politics because it was his way of having a voice, a way to influence decisions and to make things change on his island. He decided to join the conservative party, not because he believes in their special ideas, but because he wanted to join a party that will give him an access to government. His main idea is to make things change on Othonoi Island, and to make it prosperous. First, they need electricity and water. "Politics is a means to speed up things and to make things happen. And if you use conservative party in the right way, you can make a place grow." And things are already moving. The area of Othonoi, Mathraki, Erikoussa and Corfu should be divided in two principalities, so that the islands are not linked with Corfou anymore but have their independent Mayor. That is the only way to make Athens look toward the islands, to make sure the local needs are being fulfilled and to develop!
Released by MED Land project / photography, audio conversations, editing: BB / on-location team: Yiannis Katehis, Marko Vodanović, BB / reserch : Nejc Jordan, BB / text editing: Tadej Turnšek / godfathers of the story: Gaja Brecelj, Tadej Turnšek, Barbara Čeferin, Anuša Homec.


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Film Review – The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019)
by Brian Connor · Published August 1, 2019 · Updated August 1, 2019
Netflix can be a new route for films to reach an audience, a new distributor for good work that might not have the commercial pull to reach a deserved level of people in cinemas. Too often though, it's a dumping ground for movies that would have failed to reach a cinema audience, not because they don't have a nifty elevator pitch or a big name star, but because they're just not very good. The Red Sea Diving Resort is merely the latest example of Netflix struggling to find solid original films.
Directed By: Gideon Raff
Written By: Gideon Raff
Starring: Chris Evans, Haley Bennett, Michael Kenneth Williams, Alessandro Nivola, Ben Kingsley, Michiel Huisman, and Chris Chalk
In the early 1980s, thousands of Ethiopian civil war refugees were languishing in camps in Sudan. The Israelis decided to rescue the displaced and bring them to new lives in Israel. "Operation Brothers" was one action carried out that rescued thousands of unsettled people via an abandoned hotel on the Sudanese coast that was used as a cover for the Mossad agents.
Chris Evans is…White Savior Man
Everything about the pitch for The Red Sea Diving Resort screams "Star tilts for kudos." This is a serious film! About serious matters! Evans even has a beard, he's that serious! Presumably, given the surface similarity of "People pretend to do something to cover a rescue mission, and it's a true story" the studio was aiming to create a prestige picture like Argo. The story of Operation Brothers is a great setup, that deserves to be known. Many great people worked very hard in risky conditions to save lives. It's a shame then that instead of giving them the spotlight, they gave it to an entirely fictional character, Ari Levinson, played by Evans. Levinson is too good to be true, distractingly so. A handsome Adonis who, when he isn't doing pull-ups in a tight shirt or standing shirtless in magic hour lighting, is rescuing photogenic children from gunmen and gruffly intoning "No one gets left behind."
Image via Military.com
Levinson (who again, wasn't real) is a brash, doesn't play by the rules Hollywood hero who those suits in Washington Jerusalem don't know what to do with. Coincidingly, Ben Kingsley gives a caricature performance as one of the suits whose sole purpose is to call people out for being "reckless and out of control."
A Waste Of An Excellent Cast
Kingsley is not alone in being given little to work with. Haley Bennett is introduced as a kickass woman, making a lecherous creep regret his behavior. She doesn't get anything that interesting to do for the rest of the film. Of the rest of the team, only Alessandro Nivola makes an impression as the reticent brake on Evans' loose cannon attitude.
The team's most memorable scenes are sadly the most misguided. They're assembled in a jarring Ocean's Eleven style montage complete with sliding screens. This is nowhere near as badly judged as a frankly baffling musical montage. The agents are shown fixing up the resort to the strains of 'Hungry Like The Wolf'. It plays like a Hanna-Barbera cartoon and is then followed almost straight away by a scene where refugees are made to kneel before being shot in the head. To say it's a shocking flip is an understatement.
The African characters in the story are also very poorly served. Michael Kenneth Williams is the only one given any real dialogue, and he disappears for half of the film. There's only so much mileage even an actor as good as Williams can do with 'constant worry' as their sole emotion.
Chris Chalk, as Colonel Abdel Ahmed plays his part well but his part is the stock "Evil African military officer" character down to the scary sunglasses and oversized cigar. I found this character very confusing. He's the commander of the refugee camp and is receiving money for each refugee. So with each refugee that is smuggled to Israel, he loses funding. That is the motivation to keep the refugees or to return them. Killing them doesn't get him paid, so the slaughter committed is the action of a lunatic, not a real-life person.
Image via Collider
"Based On Real Events?"
I was unfamiliar with the events of Operation Brothers but there are so many points in The Red Sea Diving Resorts where it stretches belief. 10 seconds of Googling confirms that the reason it's unbelievable is that many of these events didn't happen. The climactic set piece is lifted almost wholesale from the end of Fast & Furious 6. Surprisingly, that's nothing like real events. The operation didn't end due to exciting shootouts and chases. It ended because the Israeli government started Operation Solomon instead. This was a series of airlifts that moved a much greater number than Operation Brothers.
This is not to belittle the achievements of Israelis; they saved a lot of lives. But the film had no need to invent "bad guys with guns" as adversaries, however cinematic that might be.
Image via Polygon
Trust The Audience
This jazzing up of events is symptomatic of the maker's problems. The Red Sea Diving Resort has a real issue with hand-holding the audience and telling instead of showing. Twenty minutes in, an Israeli official says "You want Mossad, the Israeli Intelligence service, to purchase an abandoned resort from the Sudanese government?" In what world does an Israeli need to explain what Mossad is to Mossad agents? I half expected them to turn to the camera a la Basil Exposition and check that we understood.
I think this story needed the room to breathe in a mini-series. In fitting the story into 2 hours, it's become forced and oversimplified. There are years of events and hundreds of people that were involved in this operation. They've been sacrificed to give the screen time to the big star of the project. The real participants deserve better.
Image via Roger Ebert
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Tags: Alessandro NivolaBased on true eventsChris ChalkChris EvansDHaley BennettMichael K WilliamsMichiel HuismanMilitary OperationsNetflixNetflix MoviesOperation BrothersSir Ben KingsleyThe Red Sea Diving Resort
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Carlin Teammates Jones, Chilton Lead the Way with New Indy Lights Dallara IL-15
Ed Jones and Max Chilton led the way for European powerhouse open-wheel team Carlin as the Dallara IL-15 and turbocharged 2.0-liter Mazda MZR-R engines made their official track debut today with a pair of practice sessions for this weekend's Indy Lights Presented by Cooper Tires season-opening Mazda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Presented by Peninsula Pipeline.
Jones was fastest in this morning's opening practice session with a time of 1:07.1401 (average speed 96.515 mph), which was already faster than the existing race lap record of 1:07.2141 set by Sebastian Saavedra in 2009. A heavy rain shower precluded any activity in the scheduled afternoon session, so Jones' morning time remained as the fastest.
Andretti Autosport, Road to Indy St. Pete report
Matthew Brabham
MATT BRABHAM
NO. 83 ANDRETTI AUTOSPORT MAZDA
- Came away P5 in the IL15's first official practice session of the 2015 Indy Lights Championship
- Ran 17 laps in the morning session with a best time of 01:07:9134
"It was a day of ups and downs really. This morning was okay - it was only my second day in the car, so to get out there and come away P5 was okay. Obviously I want to be P1, and we're still working towards that. We made quite a lot of setup changes from the first session to the second session, it's just unfortunate that the second session got rained off and canceled. We didn't get to try those changes but we'll go into qualifying and see how it goes tomorrow. Having a lot of fun so far - it's good to be back in St. Pete."
Andretti Autosport -- St. Pete Practice report
Ryan Hunter-Reay
NO. 28 DHL HONDA
"There was some promise in our early speed; the DHL Honda was up at the top of the time charts there for the first couple of runs, but as the session went on we just didn't get the most out of the car. We need to do some changes to react to the balance that we now have. On our new tire runs we had yellow flags in the corner so I had to slow down. I think at best we could have been P9, P8. A lot of the front runners ran three sets of tires instead of the two sets that we ran. Hopefully with our changes we can move forward tomorrow."
On aero kits:
First day of NHRA Four-Wide Nationals Qualifying cancelled due to weather
The first day of qualifying at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals was cancelled when persistent rain throughout the day followed by cold temperatures and a rising dew point plagued the zMAX Dragway facility.
Qualifying was halted before any of the action even began, and neither of the Summit Racing Chevrolet Camaros, driven respectively by Greg Anderson and Jason Line, were allowed a pass before Mother Nature had her say.
Qualifying will continue with two sessions on Saturday: one at 1:15 p.m. and the final session at 4:15 p.m., before the fields are set for final eliminations at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday.
Newgarden and Filippi Press Conf. Transcript
JOSEF NEWGARDEN, NO. 67 HARTMAN OIL CFH RACING CHEVROLET: ABOUT THE SEASON-OPENING WEEKEND AT ST. PETERSBURG: "It's great to be here always. First off, it's the first round. I'm very excited to be back and racing again. It was a long offseason for all of us. We've done a lot of work, all the teams have. For us, we're a new group with the merger of Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing and Ed Carpenter Racing. There's been a lot of work merging both teams. It's nice having a teammate and having Luca (Filippi) this weekend. It's been fun working with him and working both sides of the garage with having two cars. I'm having a good time. We just need to find more speed. We were good at the start of the session but didn't finish well. We just need to find speed."
Medical Update on Pro Mazda Championship Driver Michael Johnson
The following is a medical update on Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires driver Michael Johnson of JDC Motorsports, who made contact with the Turn 3 wall in the opening practice session of the Allied Building Products Grand Prix of St. Petersburg this morning:
Jeffery Johnson, MD, FACS, Trauma Surgeon, of Bayfront Medical Center, stated that Michael Johnson is in ICU under observation with fractures to the hip and pelvis and is being monitored. Additional updates will be released when available.
Late afternoon update from St. Petersburg (Update) UPDATE The 2nd session for the Indycars is over and no one went out on the wet track. New aero kit parts are in short supply and no one was going to risk it. The times would have been meaningless anyway since the rest of the weekend should be dry.
03/27/15 The second practice session still has not started as officials attempt to dry the track. The rain has stopped but the skies are still threatening.
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'But the industrial town of 1,500 now looks poised to lose another of its well-known features after the City Council voted to approve plans to demolish the Irwindale Speedway to make way for a 700,000-square foot outlet mall.
Pirelli World Challenge, SRO's Blancpain GT Series Announce COTA race in 2016
WC Vision president and CEO Scott Bove announced today that the Pirelli World Challenge Championships series will be joined by the European-based Blancpain GT Series for the 2016 season opener at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.
This global premiere of North America's top production car-based sprint racing championships and the SRO Motorsports-owned International Blancpain tour will take place at the state-of-the-art 3.427-mile, 20-turn circuit on March 4-6, 2016.
Chevy dominates opening practice in St. Petersburg
The first practice session of the Verizon Indy Cars began under threat of rain, but it was just a threat, the sun was in and out of the clouds throughout, and the temperature was a cool 77 degrees. It was interesting to watch the times with the new aero package, they were dropping consistently, with Juan Pablo Montoya getting down into the 101's early, along with Will Power.
There's a good possibility that this will be the only dry practice session today as the rain seems sure to arrive this afternoon. There were a couple of spins as the drivers tested the limits of adhesion on this street circuit, but all was well thanks to the forgiving runoff of the St. Petersburg circuit. The first practice session was very clean with no real situations to speak of, and the rain never came.
KV Racing Technology Team Notes
Stefano Coletti
NO. 4 KV RACING TECHNOLOGY CHEVROLET/DALLARA/FIRESTONE
Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg – March 27 – 29, 2015
Stefano Coletti will make his debut in the Verizon IndyCar Series with KV Racing Technology this weekend at the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. The GP2 veteran has already been very impressive, finishing third on the time sheets at the Barber Open Test earlier this month.
The 2015 Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg will be Coletti's first Verizon IndyCar Series start, first with KV Racing Technology and first on the streets of St. Petersburg.
Noon update from St. Pete
At 12:30 PM Eastern time the IndyCars finally made it onto the track with their new aero package, however, rain is coming. We think they will get this session done in the dry, but there is a very high chance that the 2nd practice late this afternoon will be rained out. So far the lap times are all over the place as drivers and engineers figure out the best setup with the new aero kits. Much more news later..... Mark C. reporting from St. Pete.
'Big Bill' tells the story of the man who started it all in NASCAR
'Big Bill' France Sr.
You can't mention the sport of NASCAR, all of its ups and downs, all of its success and popularity or where it is today without focusing first on its founder: Bill France Sr.
Before there was Richard Petty, Cale Yarborough, David Pearson or Darrell Waltrip. Before there was Dale Earnhardt Sr., 100-thousand seat tracks overflowing with fans and skyrocketing success. Before there was Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kevin Harvick, Joey Logano or Chase Elliott, there was Big Bill, the 6-5 giant of a man with a huge frame and even bigger dreams.
France had a vision of making NASCAR the biggest thing around. When he founded the organization in December 1947, it may have been hard to imagine the popularity and success the sport would garner. It quickly became a staple of the South with its colorful characters, big-time sponsorship with R.J. Reynolds/Winston and rapid fan support.
St. Pete pit assignments
According to rule 7.4.1.1. pertaining to entrants shall be assigned a pit location as follows:
1) Entrant points
2) Blind draw
The above rule applies to all races but the Indianapolis 500 and Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg.
For the first Race Location of the season, pit locations shall be assigned based upon prior season ending Entrant point standings. INDYCAR shall determine an Entrant's eligibility. Entrants without points shall be assigned by the date that Entry was received.
Buret leads opening practice
Rank Car Driver C/E/T Time Speed Diff Gap Best Lap
1 6 Buret, Timothe M/C 01:12.6605 89.182 --.---- --.---- 15 19
2 3 Alberico, Neil M/C 01:12.7944 89.018 0.1339 0.1339 17 21
3 22 Tan,Weiron M/C 01:12.9013 88.887 0.2408 0.1069 12 20
4 5 Grist, Garett M/C 01:12.9500 88.828 0.2895 0.0487 19 19
5 19 Owens, Raoul M/C 01:13.1146 88.628 0.4541 0.1646 20 22
6 23 Owen, Will M/C 01:13.3235 88.375 0.6630 0.2089 15 20
7 7 Gutierrez, Jose M/C 01:13.3576 88.334 0.6971 0.0341 10 19
8 10 Latorre, Florian M/C 01:13.4289 88.249 0.7684 0.0713 17 19
9 82 O'Ward, Pato M/C 01:13.5822 88.065 0.9217 0.1533 19 20
10 81 Urrutia, Santiago M/C 01:13.6105 88.031 0.9500 0.0283 11 18
11 28 Kellett, Dalton M/C 01:13.8046 87.799 1.1441 0.1941 10 18
12 91 Connery, Kyle M/C 01:13.8728 87.718 1.2123 0.0682 16 19
13 2 Burkett, Daniel M/C 01:13.8736 87.717 1.2131 0.0008 16 20
14 54 Johnson, Michael M/C 01:14.5414 86.932 1.8809 0.6678 16 17
15 14 Latif, Alessandro M/C 01:14.5674 86.901 1.9069 0.0260 18 20
16 13 Eberle,Bobby M/C 01:16.6581 84.531 3.9976 2.0907 15 18
17 26 Nicklin, Parker M/C 01:16.6865 84.500 4.0260 0.0284 10 18
18 37 Horak, Jay M/C 01:17.2177 83.919 4.5572 0.5312 17 18
VisionAire Jets Flying Again With Jonathan Byrd's Racing and KVSH
VSH/Jonathan Byrd's Racing is proud to present the newest sponsor of the Indianapolis 500 entry that will be piloted by Bryan Clauson, as VisionAire Jets rejoins the Jonathan Byrd's Racing family, and revives a relationship that first took flight in 1996.
VisionAire Jets, LLC (www.visionairejets.com) is located in Newton, North Carolina where aerospace and particularly composite construction is gaining a strong foothold, first with racing teams and now with aircraft development and manufacturing. VisionAire Jets, LLC, provides innovative aircraft solutions to the aviation industry. With its flagship product, the Vantage single engine business jet, the company is targeting a gap in the general aviation market between high-end piston-driven and turbo-prop propeller airplanes and the more expensive light-class business jet aircraft—a market segment which represents a large, fast-growing and under-served market.
Carlin drivers 1-2 in opening Indy Lights practice
Proving that European open wheel teams are tough to beat, Carlin Motorsports brought its team to Indy Lights this year and already they are establishing themselves as the team to beat.
Carlin Driver Ed Jones and former Marussia F1 driver Max Chilton ran 1-2 in opening practice on the streets of St. Petersburg Friday morning.
Morning update from St. Pete
After some pre-dawn thunderstorms and rain, the morning road-to-Indy practice sessions have started under partly cloudy skies and warm temperatures with the track almost completely dry. This morning brings news that Kevin Magnussen definitely looked at racing in IndyCar but instead to be a reserve driver for McLaren where he will sit the bench the rest of the year for the backmarker McLaren-Honda team.
The IndyCar partnership with USA Today is paying early dividends with good coverage all week and today the entire back page of the sports section is dedicated to IndyCar.
Williams handed $10,000 suspended fine in Malaysia
The Williams Formula 1 team has been handed a suspended $10,000 fine after Felipe Massa used a set of tires outside the permitted times during first practice.
Each driver is given an extra set of prime tires which can only be used during the first 30 minutes of the session before they must be handed back.
Massa was still seen to be using them after the 30-minute mark, but the FIA accepted no benefit had been gained and therefore applied a suspended fine which must only be paid if a similar infringement is committed this season.
Ecclestone lets frustration show in Malaysia
Ecclestone watches as the sport he built plummets. The fabulous F1 'scream' is gone and the boring Mercedes 1-2 parade is locked in for years, their advantage protected by the token based engine freeze.
(GMM) Bernie Ecclestone cut a frustrated figure on Friday.
Speaking to reporters in Malaysia, the F1 supremo refused to accept the blame for the axe of the German grand prix.
The 84-year-old said organizers simply would not pay the right price.
"It's funny how these people dig up all this money for things like the Olympics, swimming championships, European athletics and god knows what else," he said.
Tension high as Red Bull and Renault head for divorce
Horner has had it with Renault. AR1.com has told you for over a year their engines were substandard.
(GMM) The tension between Red Bull's Christian Horner and Renault's Cyril Abiteboul was palpable on Friday, as the warring F1 partners appeared headed for divorce.
Horner said Frenchman Abiteboul, who earlier this week accused Adrian Newey of telling "lies", was "brave" to be seated right alongside him in the official FIA press conference.
Franz Tost, the boss of Red Bull's second team Toro Rosso, confirmed media reports that the Faenza based team is in discussions about being acquired by Renault.
Malaysian GP: Hamilton puts Mercedes on top again
After sitting out the morning track cleaning session due to an engine problem, Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton was fastest Friday in the second practice for Formula 1's Malaysian Grand Prix.
The reigning world champion only ran 5 laps when his Mercedes engine had a technical problem and his car ground to a halt on the circuit.
The Briton clocked the fastest lap of the day - a 1m39.790s on the medium Pirellis to finish 0.373 seconds clear of Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen.
Casey Stoner returns to racing in 2015 Suzuka 8hr
Honda Racing Corporation are pleased to announce Casey Stoner's return to competition racing. The two-time MotoGP Champion (2007 and 2011) will form part of Honda's MuSASHi RT HARC-PRO three person team at this year's Suzuka 8hr race, taking place on Sunday 26th July.
Casey, together with Honda's World Superbike rider Michael van der Mark and MFJ All Japan Road Race JSB1000 Championship and HRC test rider Takumi Takahashi, will be looking to clinch Honda's sixth consecutive win in the prestigious endurance event which runs for eight hours consecutively where entrants (composed of two or more riders) alternate during pit stops.
Rosberg with his wife Vivian Sibold
Doubts remain as Rosberg says Alonso saga 'strange'
Massa denies doubting Mercedes engine parity
Rosberg's pregnant wife unwell - report
Engine customers no fix for Honda troubles
Ricciardo admits Red Bull chassis not best in 2015
Rule stops Hamilton from wearing green helmet
Mercedes made fuel mistake with Rosberg in Australia


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Spotlight on 'old school' motorbikes
This Triumph racing machine is still a good looking machine today.
A TRIBUTE to 'old school' British motorbike marques will be paid by the National Motorcycle Museum at next month's Footman James Classic Motorbike Show.
Taking place at Birmingham's NEC from November 11-13, the Museum will show six fantastic bikes from the past, along with one owned by stand organiser Neil Payne.
Neil said: "1971 was the last full year of official factory participation of the 'old school' British manufacturers Triumph and BSA. The bikes were prepared and maintained by personnel at the experimental department at Triumph's factory at Meriden. During the course of this momentous year, the factory team of Triumph/BSA swept virtually all before them in whatever race their machines were entered. This year marks the 40th anniversary of this final glorious year of British motorcycle success, worthy I think of remembering with a great deal of pride."
The display of 1971 machines which the museum is putting on includes the Triumph Bol D'Or winning bike, one of the three production racers and three Formula 750 Triumphs ridden by Percy Tait, John Cooper and Paul Smart, plus the bike ridden to second place at that year's Daytona 200 by Gene Romero.
Neil's own machine, built to the specification in place at the end of the 1971 season features all the developments which had taken place that year. The most notable of these is the "Lightweight Primary Transmission" and it is believed that this is now the only surviving example of this.
A timeline of all the team's success will be a highlight of the tribute along with a reunion of former team members — riders, mechanics and other personnel. The stand will be dedicated to team members who are no longer with us, such as Doug Hele (chief engineer), Jack Shemans (chief mechanic) and the legendary rider Ray Pickrell.
Further details and updates on the show can be found at www.classicmotorbikeshow.com.
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This is a universal Book of Mormon scripture mastery poster for use in your Seminary classroom. This poster is different than what I've done before in that I am going by scripture mastery passage instead of student. Each scripture reference is represented by the text of the passage written on the "sealed" portion of a set of plates. Students will write their name on the blank area of a set of plates when they have memorized a scripture passage.
Additionally, this takes the embarassment and competitiveness out of scripture mastery. Some students are into the competition, but I would rather foster a feeling of team work ("let's fill up this poster"), rather than pressuring individuals ("Jimmy will never win at scripture mastery"). I'm hoping it will help reluctant students participate more willingly, rather than feeling that I'm trying to pressure or shame them into scripture mastery.
The "universal" part of the Book of Mormon scripture mastery poster means that you don't have to put any names on the poster. If you're like me, it's just a few weeks until Seminary starts and the Bishop hasn't given you a class list yet. With this poster, it doesn't matter if I end up with 12 or 20 students, I'm all set.
This poster measures 2×3 feet. Yes, FEET. You will need to have it printed at a shop that does "engineering prints". Engineering prints cost about $3.50 per print at Staples on the 2×3 foot size (July 2013).
There is a letter-sized 8.5 x 11 inch version here also. I don't recommend it for classroom use, but you could print out individual sheets for students to track their own progress privately.
This poster is available below as a PDF or EPS. Your print shop should be able to handle either.