OK I’m out.
Are you OK, mate?
Box this lap, Charles. Drive through the pit lane this lap. Toggle down.
Right-rear puncture. We’re going to be switching to the [hard] tyre for a long stint. We’re going to go down one-and-a-half turns
Gone yellow again in turn one so DRS is disabled again.
Fernando should have the DRS.
You’re currently plus four to Rosberg. It’s worth dropping back to save your tyres. Two second gap is good.
Multifunction strategy A. Multifunction strategy A. Now, please.
You are in your Safety Car window and do not boost out of turn seven, not in the race schedule, not good.
Sorry guys.
You’ll be racing Maldonado.
Nico I go minus three clicks for [hard], OK?
So target three, important to pull the gap to Massa, currently 1.8 seconds. So Nico if you’re feeling comfortable like some hoagie 25s, just to help on fuel.
What happened with that Mercedes?
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Benny Chan Thriller 'The White Storm' to Close Rome Film Fest
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Rme artistic director Marco Mueller
ROME – The international premiere of The White Storm (Sou Duk /Saodu), an action film about a clash between a drug lord and an undercover cop, will be the closing film of the 8th Rome Film Festival, organizers said Friday.
The film is the latest from popular action film director Benny Chan, a former protégé of fellow Hong Kong director Johnnie To, whose thriller Drug War (Du zhan) premiered at the Rome festival a year ago.
The festival also announced that the world premiere of The Seventh Walk (Saatvin Sair), directed by India's Amit Dutta, would be the closing film in the festival's well-regarded CinemaXXI section, which is dedicated to trends in filmmaking.
The Seventh Walk is an examination of contemporary Indian art and the fourth feature-length film directed by Dutta, who had films screen in the Venice Film Festival's Horizons sidebar in consecutive years, winning a special mention in 2009 for The Man's Woman and Other Stories (Aadmi Ki Aurat Aur Anya Kahaniya).
Dutta also had a short film, The Museum of Imagination, screen in Rome's CinemaXXI section a year ago, meaning he has had a film screened in each of the last five festivals headed by Rome artistic director Marco Mueller who came to Rome from Venice last year.
Both The White Storm and The Seventh Walk will screen out of competition in their respective sections.
The festival previously announced that Giovanni Veronesi's comedy The Fifth Wheel would open the main section and that CinemaXXI would open with L'amministratore, a dissection of contemporary Italy from a Neapolitan point of view directed by Vincenzo Marra.
The lineup for Rome's official selection was announced Monday, but the full lineup for CinemaXXI won't be announced until Wednesday.
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Jamaica police erasing gang murals in slums
In this Oct. 12, 2013 photo, a painted mural depicting famed Jamaican gang leader Lester Lloyd Coke, better known as Jim Brown, takes up a stretch of wall next to a casket supplier in the Denham Town slum, in Kingston, Jamaica. Police are erasing street-side images of leaders of Jamaica’s violent underworld in hopes of changing the culture of gang-steeped West Kingston as they make progress in reducing some of the lawlessness that has defined the area for decades. (AP Photo/David McFadden)
In this Oct. 12, 2013 photo, a painted mural depicting famed Jamaican gang leader Lester Lloyd Coke, better known as Jim Brown, takes up a stretch of wall next to a casket supplier in the Denham Town slum, in Kingston, Jamaica. Police are erasing street-side images of leaders of Jamaica’s violent underworld in hopes of changing the culture of gang-steeped West Kingston as they make progress in reducing some of the lawlessness that has defined the area for decades. (AP Photo/David McFadden)
In this Oct. 9, 2013 photo, a schoolgirl walks past a mural memorializing a young man cut down by bullets in West Kingston, Jamaica. Police are hoping to beat back the lawless culture that has defined the gang-steeped area for decades, erasing images of famed leaders of Jamaica’s violent underworld. Also slated for removal are murals of lesser-known gunmen memorialized where their bodies fell. (AP Photo/David McFadden)
In this Oct. 12, 2013 photo, a market vendor wheels a handcart down a prominent corner in West Kingston, Jamaica, where graffiti scrawls vow allegiance to former Shower Posse gang leaders Christopher 'Dudus' Coke and his father, Lester Lloyd Coke, better known as Jim Brown. The crime boss most often glorified on the streets is Jim Brown, whose ruthless syndicate was responsible for 1,400 murders on the U.S. East Coast, according to the FBI. (AP Photo/David McFadden)
In this Oct. 12, 2013 photo, art student Jason Lorraine stands before a wall mural he designed calling for an end to violence in a corner of Tivoli Gardens, a slum in Kingston, Jamaica. As police work to erase street-side images of gang leaders, residents are encouraged to replace gang images with murals of high-achieving students or athletes from the neighborhoods. But residents say painting over the murals wonÃt change attitudes until the Jamaican government delivers more services and opportunities to slums where joblessness is pervasive. (AP Photo/David McFadden)
In this Oct. 12, 2013 photo, a painted mural depicting men playing soccer is displayed on a wall in Tivoli Gardens, a slum in Kingston, Jamaica, where at least 76 civilians were killed when security forces raided the slum to capture gang boss Christopher “Dudus” Coke. Police erasing street-side images of gang leaders hope that more positive murals such as this one will go up across West Kingston as they make progress in reducing some of the lawlessness that has defined the area for decades. (AP Photo/David McFadden)
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Black-clad police toting submachine guns entered the slum of narrow streets lined with wooden shacks and crumbling concrete buildings in Jamaica's capital. As usual, they were looking for fugitives, drugs and guns. But this time, they were also after a different quarry, one they say has a no less corrosive impact on society.
The force descended on bright, intricately painted murals and graffiti scrawls celebrating leaders of Jamaica's violent underworld. With rollers and paint, the officers erased images of gang strongmen known as "dons," who have long been hailed as latter-day Robin Hoods by poor residents of the slums. Also slated for removal were murals of lesser-known gunmen memorialized where their bodies fell.
As shirtless young men looked on, the police were hoping to beat back the lawless culture that has defined the gang-steeped area for decades. In slums across Jamaica, but particularly in West Kingston, the aerosol artistry starkly highlights the influence of drug-and-extortion gangs that have long driven Jamaica's eye-popping violent crime rates. Since 2009, Jamaica's bloodiest year on record, curfews in hotspots and an aggressive anti-gang crackdown have steadily reduced the homicide rate. Still, the island of 2.7 million people has seen 1,000-plus killings every year since 2004, giving it one of the highest murder rates in the hemisphere.
In recent years, the government has asserted its presence in slums such as West Kingston, with the anti-mural effort only the latest sign of the campaign. The tug-of-war for the hearts and minds of slum dwellers began after security forces killed at least 76 civilians in a 2010 siege while hunting for second-generation "Shower Posse" gang boss Christopher "Dudus" Coke, whose criminal empire seemed untouchable until the U.S. demanded his extradition.
Still, more than three years later, many West Kingston residents consider the dons cultural touchstones and speak about them with pride. They complain that authorities are trying to erase history by painting over the murals commissioned by the gangs.
"These pictures are part of our memories. The dons have always been a big part of life here. It's not like anybody can just get some paint and make our traditions different," said Patrick Jemson, a middle-aged resident of Tivoli Gardens, the backbone of the Shower Posse's longtime slum fiefdom.
The crime boss most often glorified on the streets is Coke's father, Lester Lloyd Coke, better known as Jim Brown, whose ruthless syndicate was responsible for 1,400 killings on the U.S. East Coast, according to the FBI. One of the few remaining murals of Brown, who died in a mysterious jail fire in 1991 while awaiting extradition to the U.S., remains on a wall next to a casket shop in the troubled Denham Town slum. Below his face, a local artist has declared him the "don of dons."
"He was a world boss," said a teenage boy who would only give his name as Oneil as he looked hard at Brown's grinning image.
Powerful, politically connected dons like Brown and his son ruled West Kingston's slums, which were long abandoned by political leaders, at least until election time, when gang henchmen rustled up votes for both of Jamaica's main political parties. The dons enforced a fearsome discipline while supplying groceries to families in need and paying pensions to the kin of fallen "soldiers."
Police Superintendent Steve McGreggor, who took over leadership of the tough West Kingston police division last month, said that culture is changing and vowed to erase every painted image paying respect to gangsters.
"I've issued a warning to people that if any of these communities puts them back up and defies this new development they will feel the wrath of the police," McGreggor said.
The superintendent added that he plans to encourage residents to replace gang images with murals of high-achieving students or athletes from the neighborhoods. He's also quipped to slum dwellers that they could even paint his likeness on a wall in another year if he brings order to the area sometimes referred to as the "wild, wild West."
The effort comes as police report that feuds over "donmanship" in the area have intensified. A dispute pitting members of the Coke clan against relatives of former strongman Claude Massop flared up in recent weeks, but police say they have since brought it under control.
Rivke Jaffe, an anthropologist at Leiden University in the Netherlands who has conducted extensive fieldwork in Kingston, said the murals are only one among many elements legitimizing don authority to residents.
"A lot of their authority has to do with the things they offer residents that the state does not," Jaffe said in an email.
In bullet-pocked Tivoli Gardens, unemployed laborer Ernest Rennie said he's confident painting over the murals won't change attitudes until the Jamaican government delivers more services and opportunities to slums where joblessness is pervasive.
"The government has never treated the people here fair, and the old lions and the young cubs know it," Rennie said from his spot on a curb. "With Dudus gone, things are harder now."
Although Coke was Jamaica's biggest gang leader, no murals depict the pot-bellied, 5-foot-4-inch Jamaican dubbed "president" by his followers. He may have looked unassuming, but U.S. authorities said he was one of the world's most dangerous drug lords before his capture in 2010, controlling a network of large-scale drug dealers in the U.S. and trafficking illegal guns into Jamaica.
Plenty of streetside scrawls around Tivoli Gardens vow allegiance to him and his father, a sign that authorities are in for a long fight. A wall on one corner declares in Jamaican patois: "Dudus 4 life."
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Chinese Viral Cartoon Sends Up U.S. Elections, Explains Secret of Country's Success (Video)
A big hit on the Internet in China right now is a professionally produced cartoon called How to Make Leaders, which satirizes the American and U.K. election systems and shows how China's six most important leaders rose from grassroots politics to the apogee of power in the country.
It's a cartoon that is extremely rare in China, as even gentle satire is not tolerated, but its positive spin on the process of appointing China's leaders has prompted some commentators to suspect it may be a clever piece of propaganda in disguise.
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The high production values, combined with the release in Chinese and English with subtitles, suggests that the Propaganda Ministry may be getting wise to disruptive marketing and more sophisticated on-message content.
The five-minute cartoon compares the systems of the U.S. and Britain, saying that you can rise to power either by "a single vote that gets the whole nation out to vote" or alternatively endure "a meritocratic screening that requires years of hard work like the tempering of a kung fu master."
The process of appointing leaders in China is an arcane, secretive process that takes place behind closed doors before the outcome is revealed at one of a number of Communist Party congresses.
The cartoon's message is that the system is actually extremely representative.
"As long as the people are satisfied, and the country progresses and develops as a result, it's working," is the conclusion.
The cartoon shows how current President Xi Jinping took more than 40 years to get to the top, passing through various community-level offices before jumping up the ladder of provinces and finally to the top office, in a scene like a video game.
"He has comprehensively understood the actual conditions of the country before being elected as the president," according to Chinese state media reports about the video, which again feeds into the theory that it might be a propaganda piece.
The video also features other top current political leaders, as well as late chairman and founding father of the Communist revolution in 1949, Mao Zedong, the architect of reform Deng Xiaoping and former presidents Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao.
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In an amusing tableau, the cartoon shows President Barack Obama donning boxing gloves to fight his way to the top, gathering large amounts of funding en route, and concludes that becoming president in the U.S. is harder than winning American Idol.
Intriguingly, the cartoon comes out just days after the Xinhua news agency carried a commentary calling for a "de-Americanized" world.
Meanwhile, British Prime Minister David Cameron, his head similarly oversized, has to juggle various interest groups to make his way in the Houses of Parliament and says that the ordinary person's chances are slimmer than "Susan Boyle's chance of winning Britain's Got Talent."
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'Grey's Anatomy' Recap: Love's Divide?
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"Grey's Anatomy's" Tessa Ferrer, left, Jessica Capshaw and Sara Ramirez
[Warning: This story contains spoilers from the "I Bet It Stung" episode of Grey's Anatomy.]
Meredith returned to work on Thursday's episode of ABC's Grey's Anatomy, but the mother of two found that juggling a demanding career and young children isn't easy when your husband has a position that's just as pressing.
Meanwhile, Arizona and Leah rang the potential new couple alert as Callie learned it was finally time to put herself first and reclaim her life. Here's a look at how everyone fared during "I Bet It Stung."
Alex and Jimmy
Alex (Justin Chambers), worried that he'll resort to fighting with his father Jimmy (James Remar), reveals he took his mother's last name, and still refuses to speak with him. Jo (Camilla Luddington), meanwhile, pushes Jimmy to check into recovery. After Jo successfully gets Jimmy into rehab, he reveals he doesn't want to let her down -- just like he did with his family. In the closing moments, Jimmy fails to recognize Alex, who seemed poised to break the silence with his father.
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Arizona, Leah, and Callie
Arizona (Jessica Capshaw), who got hammered at the hospital after the gala, thinks she slept with Leah (Tessa Ferrer). After noting that she won't tell anyone about "the other night," Leah attempts to take Arizona up on her offer to join one of her surgeries. Leah instead is asked (politely) to leave because it's too crowded in the OR. Arizona and Callie, meanwhile, are still on the outs. For her part, Callie jokes that she's rebounding with Derek and Meredith. "I rebounded to the McDreamys," she says to Owen in one of the episode's best moments. At the end of the hour, Callie tells Arizona she needs her place back and that Arizona needs to move out as she has to start taking care of herself. "I need my life back. I need me back," Callie says, noting that she's having an intern pack up Arizona's belongings. Leah overhears the entire conversation at the bar and offers to have Arizona stay at her place. Turns out Leah helped a drunken Arizona inside her apartment after the gala, and they shared a dance party and grilled cheese, while watching films of Derek to prep for the surgery the intern was booted out of. "It was the first time I felt like I had someone around here who got me," Leah explains to a clueless Arizona, who had assumed they slept together. After setting the record straight, Leah flirts with Arizona, going back to a compliment the separated doc just handed out. "Let's go back to the part where you said I was pretty," Leah tells her. Callie winds up taking advantage of her newly empty house for a one-woman dance party, as she enjoys being back at home. It's a long overdue (and great) moment for Callie.
Owen
Owen, meanwhile, is rebounding, too, with the doc he met at the gala, Emma, who is behaving in a very un-Cristina-like fashion and baking bread for him.
Meredith and Cristina
Meredith is back at work, but quickly finds that Cristina -- and Shane -- both seem to think that she can't juggle her career with being a mother of two. Almost immediately, she discovers that she has childcare issues and a case of bad timing when she needs to go pump in the middle of a moment with Cris. Mer's bad timing continues after Zola cuts her head and needs stitches, which forces Cris to bump her off her big surgery, thus opening the door for the BFFs to begin their potential separation as star Sandra Oh prepares to exit the long-running drama. The sting is much more brutal for Meredith, who left Zola with Alex and a nurse in a move she feared was something her mother would have done. "You have different priorities now," Cris says, noting she doesn't do research, and is logging fewer hours in her effort to be a good mom. "Bailey never let up, she lives here; Callie never let up; Ellis Grey never let up; and I know you don't want to be your mother. I'm saying you and I started running down the same road at the same time and at a certain point, you let up, you slowed down … but don't pretend [your priorities] don't affect your skills. You are a very good surgeon, but we're in different places now -- and that's OK." Mer takes out her frustrations with Derek, clashing with her husband about not being there, as she claims that she's being forced to pick between being a good mother and a good surgeon.
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Jackson and Stephanie
The Chief (James Pickens Jr.) is recovering quickly with Catherine Avery (Debbie Allen) around to see his progression. She tells him that everyone is coddling him and, at that rate, his recovery will take forever. Meanwhile, Mama Avery meets her son's new girlfriend, Stephanie (Jerrika Hinton), in the worst way possible: walking in on her with Jackson in the on-call room. Stephanie and Catherine continue to clash as Mama Avery believes the intern is beneath her son, though the latter winds up coming around after the intern finally stands up for herself.
What did you think of Grey's Anatomy? How do you feel about Arizona and Leah as a potential pairing? Hit the comments below with your thoughts. Grey's airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. on ABC.
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Thursday, October 17, 2013
Four Things To Know About Cory Booker's Election
Mayor Cory Booker talks to supporters during a Senate election night victory party Wednesday in Newark, N.J.
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Cory Booker's victory Wednesday in New Jersey's special Senate election didn't surprise anyone.
From the moment he captured the Democratic nomination in the reliably blue state, the Newark mayor was the heavy favorite to defeat Republican Steve Lonegan.
With his media savvy and national celebrity, the senator-elect is already a recognizable figure outside his home state.
But here are a few things you might not have known about Booker's election:
An Historic Election
When Booker is officially sworn in, he will become the ninth African-American in history to serve in the U.S. Senate, and just the fourth to have been popularly elected.
The last African-American elected to the Senate? Barack Obama, out of Illinois in 2004. The other two were Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke in 1966 and Illinois Democrat Carol Moseley Braun in 1992.
The only current African-American senator is Tim Scott, the South Carolina Republican appointed by Gov. Nikki Haley last December after Jim DeMint resigned to head the Heritage Foundation.
New Jersey, A Republican-Free Zone
Counting Booker's victory, Democrats have now won 14 straight U.S. Senate races in New Jersey — the party's third-longest winning streak in the nation.
The last Republican Senate victory in the Garden State came in 1972, when Sen. Clifford Case won his third term (other Republicans were appointed to the Senate during this period, but not elected).
Hawaii and West Virginia are the only states with a longer GOP drought. A Republican Senate candidate hasn't won in Hawaii since 1970 or in West Virginia since 1956.
Booker vs. Obama
Booker won fairly comfortably Wednesday night, earning about 55 percent of the vote to Lonegan's 44 percent. Still, the score was closer than many expected — and Booker even lagged behind President Obama's state performance in 2012 when he won 58 percent to Mitt Romney's 41 percent.
Of course, it isn't a perfect comparison. Off-year or special Senate races garner far less attention than presidential contests, meaning dramatically lower turnout. And on top that, the election occurred on a Wednesday, rather than the traditional Tuesday.
The Never-Ending Campaign
Booker supporters shouldn't even bother to take down their yard signs: He's back on the ballot again in about a year.
While senators typically have a six-year respite between elections, Booker only gets a short breather — he won a special election to serve out the remainder of the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg's term, which ends in January 2015.
That means Booker will be back on the campaign trail in no time, and that Democrats can expect more fundraising pleas from him in the coming weeks.
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6 ways social media can boost your business
October 16, 2013
If your company isn't fully taking advantage of social media, it might be missing out on opportunities to connect with customers, gain market share, and bring needed talent into the organization.
Experts say virtually every type of business can benefit from using social media as a business tool.
"We really are seeing interest and the potential for business value across the board," says Jeffrey Mann, research vice president at Gartner. "No one is immune, although it will be easier for some than others."
The most likely to see value, Mann says, are knowledge-based and highly collaborative industries, such as media, education, consulting, and high technology; industries or organizations that aren't hamstrung by regulation; and organizations with younger employees who are accustomed to working with social media.
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