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An AMT, or Automated Manual Transmission, uses a manual gearbox and a clutch (there is no clutch pedal, though), but acts like an automatic, changing gears for the driver with the help of a dedicated ECU and actuators. Unlike automatic transmission, an AMT doesn’t have a torque converter. Maruti Suzuki has branded its ... |
The Vitara Brezza is available only with a diesel engine—the 1.3-litre DDiS 200. The AGS is mated to this engine. |
for manual. It doesn’t have the ‘P’ slot—for parking. |
The engine will start only if the lever is in the ‘N’ mode. Once it starts—it’s a noisy engine—you have to shift to the ‘D’ mode and release the brake. The car will start moving, but slowly, which is very effective in urban stop-and-go traffic. If you want to change gears yourself, you first shift to ‘M’ and then shift... |
The AGS takes about half a second to change gears. But the lag is not ‘that’ apparent. The reason is the engine, which generates a peak torque of 200Nm, is powerful enough to nullify the gear-shift lag, or the feel of it. Also, because it doesn’t have the ‘P’ slot, you have to engage parking brake when you come to a co... |
Rs 8.54 lakh—Rs 50,000 more than manual. While it’s relatively affordable, the drive is not as smooth as that of the CVT. |
As the workplace becomes more mobile and people integrate computers into their hobbies, laptops are becoming more and more common. There may come a time when your 10- or 13-inch screen just doesn't cut it. However, many laptops have a built-in, female 15-pin VGA port for the easy connection of an external monitor. Conn... |
Locate the 15-pin, female VGA port on your laptop and plug in the 15-pin male adapter from your flat-screen monitor. |
Place your laptop into its "External Monitor Mode." This is accomplished by holding down the "Function" key, sometimes abbreviated with "Fn," and pressing one of the function buttons located above the numbers on the keyboard. Look for the function button that has a small computer screen icon. |
Press the "Auto Adjust" button on your Dell flat-screen monitor. This will ensure the monitor's resolution is property synced with the settings on your computer. |
A prosecutor who worked on the Watergate case said this week that President Trump's remarks on the ongoing Russia investigation may warrant a gag order for the president. |
“This could be grounds for Mueller to obtain a gag order on Trump,” prosecutor Nick Akerman told Politico, referring to special prosecutor Robert Mueller. Mueller is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible ties between Trump's campaign and the Kremlin. |
The comment follows Trump publicly accusing his former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos of lying about the campaign's dealings with Russia. Papadopoulos earlier this month pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents about his connections to Russia. |
Trump blasted Papadopoulos as a "liar" and a "low-level volunteer" who has mischaracterized his work with the campaign. Trump has maintained there was no collusion between his campaign and Moscow. |
According to Akerman, the comments by Trump may interfere with Papadopoulos's right to a fair trial. |
"It would be unprecedented, but he is interfering with the government’s right to a fair trial," Akerman said. Papadopoulos may be called to witness in further court proceedings on the issue, raising questions over whether Trump's comments on his former adviser may be improper. |
Papadopoulos reportedly suggested in a campaign meeting with then-candidate Trump that he could potentially set up a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, boasting about his high-up contacts with the nation. |
Papadopoulos was among three former Trump aides who received the first criminal indictments in the Russia investigation. |
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Senator Wilkerson said, “The Progressive Labour Party agrees with the Bermuda Government and Bermuda Business Development Agency’s condemnation of the inaccurate and misleading report released by Oxfam labeling Bermuda as the worst corporate tax haven in the world. |
“It is extremely disappointing that Oxfam would release such an alarmingly under-researched report. Nowhere in the 46-page report [PDF] is there an explanation as to how the researchers applied their ranking criteria to Bermuda. |
“It is evident that it could not have been applied appropriately because one criterion examines the lack of cooperation with international efforts against tax avoidance. |
“Considering this, it is alarming that the 41 Tax Information Exchange Agreements [TIEAs] Bermuda has entered into with other jurisdictions have been completely excluded from the review. |
“Ensuring Bermuda is viewed globally as a credible jurisdiction was a high priority under the last PLP Government when significant efforts to achieve this were undertaken. The OBA Government has also clearly committed to preserving and expanding Bermuda’s excellent reputation. |
“Similarly, the hard work of the Bermuda Monetary Authority in obtaining Solvency II equivalency for Bermuda must not be undermined by a report of this nature. |
“The International Business sector is a key pillar of our economy and a true contributor to the economic and social fabric of both this country and, importantly, many others. |
“The PLP, therefore, supports all efforts by the Government, the Bermuda Business Development Agency and industry stakeholders in refuting the Oxfam report and protecting the reputation of our island home,” concluded Senator Wilkerson. |
“Oxfam, directly and indirectly, appears simply to have ignored Bermuda’s internationally recognised role as a centre of corporate and tax transparency and compliance, a key ally in the fight against money-laundering and all criminal activities, and a committed partner in the initiatives of the OECD on tax reform under... |
“We have long been at the forefront of transparency, cooperation and compliance with the highest international standards. That is more than evident in Bermuda’s numerous treaty partnerships with nations around the world and our leadership on guiding the evolution of regulatory best practices,” he said. |
Oh this is gonna be a good one. |
The PLP agree with Government !!!! OMG. I need some pepper spray ! |
Well here we have the PLP claiming to agree and support the OBA Government. It’s all just a show for the outside world, folks. |
Give it a few weeks in the House of Assembly sessions next year and the PLP will be damning the OBA for not doing enough to keep Bermuda’s reputation solid. It’s bound to happen. |
Well, if any group would know about ‘inaccurate and misleading,’ it’s surely the PLP parliamentary caucus. |
Well said Senator Wilkerson. Nice to see the parties stick together on this critical issue. |
Defenseman Greg Zanon has signed with the Colorado Avalanche, according to TSN. |
The contract reportedly is for two years, $4.5 million. |
Zanon, 32, played 56 games for the Minnesota Wild and Boston Bruins last season. He had three goals and five assists. |
In 449 career games, he has 12 goals and 44 assists. |
Fans will have a wide choice of racing events this weekend. Star Speedway in Epping, N.H., will host the IMSA Super Modified Series' Bob Webber Sr. Memorial Classic on Saturday night There's also a NASCAR program at Seekonk Speedway starting at 6 p.m. |
It's another big weekend for racing in New England. Canton's Richard Savary may take in Saturday night's Valenti Modified Racing Series 100-lap race at Beech Ridge Speedway in Scarborough, Me. |
"We have not made up our mind about going. It may be a last-minute deal, especially if we are able to complete all of the adjustments needed on my race car. If we don't go then we'll definitely make the VMRS event at New London-Waterford the following Saturday night, Sept.r 15," said Savary, who posted his first win on... |
Fans will have a wide choice of racing events this weekend. Star Speedway in Epping, N.H., will host the IMSA Super Modified Series' Bob Webber Sr. Memorial Classic on Saturday night. It's a 150-lapper for the winged Super Modifieds. There's also a NASCAR program at Seekonk Speedway starting at 6 p.m. Also on Saturday ... |
Between Beech Ridge and Claremont, New England Modified fans and race teams are all going to have to make a choice on where to go and spend their hard-earned entertainment money. That's not all as the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour will also be in action on Saturday night at Riverhead Speedway on Long Island, N.Y. |
With the Valenti Modified Racing Series event rained out last month at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway and the make-up date rescheduled for Saturday evening, the battle for the championship has taken on a whole new twist since last week's series race at Stafford Springs, Conn. |
If they said early on they were not running for points, there are some in the past few weeks have realized they are. Here’s why. |
Tough luck and mechanical woes have hampered VMRS reigning champion Anthony Nocella as of late. His run to another championship suffered another setback last week when the Woburn driver was unable to compete because of engine troubles. |
All the while, 16-year-old Sammy Rameau of Westminster has been inching his way closer to the top of the points standings with solid runs, a podium finish, and a strong desire to become the youngest driver to win a VMRS championship. |
Rameau’s ninth-place finish at Stafford and Nocella’s misfortune finds him atop the standings, but only nine points ahead of 2015 series champion Woody Pitkat of Bellingham, who has also made a late-season rush near the top of the standings. That’s not all. Factor in that Mike Willis Jr. of Grantham, N.H., is only thre... |
Four races remain as it could be anyone’s title come banquet time. |
While Savary sits by himself in fifth place, Donnie Lashua and Todd Patnode are separated by four points in a battle for sixth, Rookie of the Year candidate Cameron Sontag is eighth, Jeffrey Gallup, coming off his best finish of the season at Stafford is ninth, and rookie candidate Jacob Perry is 10th. Qualifying races... |
Rowan Pinnink was the driver for Mike Boehler's Modified car out of Freetown but he's bowed out due to severe back problems. Matt Swanson, a young driver, got the nod to fill the seat last weekend at Oswego Speedway in central New York state. Swanson came in a respectable sixth place in that event. Swanson also got a s... |
On Sunday, Thompson Speedway in Connecticut offers a NASCAR program of Sunoco Modifieds, Late Models, Limiteds, Street Stocks and Mini Stocks at 1:30 pm. |
Members of the UB Women in STEM Cooperative (UBWISC) are joining with Cornell University to present an online series of lectures during the lunch hour that focuses on increasing the participation of undergraduate women in STEM fields. |
Rather than concentrating on behavior changes that undergraduate women can adopt to thrive in STEM classes, the series — “The Next 10 Years: Helping STEM Students Thrive” — takes a closer look at some of the systemic influences in the campus culture and environment that are needed for these women to thrive. |
It features insights from a group of distinguished national scholars — among them Jay Labov from the National Research Council, Cathy Middlecamp from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jeanne L. Narum from Learning Spaces Collaboratory, Nancy Shapiro from the University System of Maryland, Renetta Tull of the Univers... |
UB speakers include Liesl Folks, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Elisabeth Etopio and Richard Lamb, faculty members in the Graduate School of Education; Letitia Thomas, director of STEM diversity programs in the engineering school; Rebecca Rotundo, instructional technology specialist in the Cent... |
The sessions are interactive, so participants will be able to join the conversation, ask questions, share experiences, build networks and learn more about effective evidence-based teaching practices. |
The free series kicks off on Oct. 11 with a session titled “Higher Education Trends.” Speakers include Molter, professor of engineering at Swarthmore who has received numerous grants to study and increase participation in STEM; Julia Thom Levy, associate professor of physics at Cornell; and Etopio and Lamb from UB. |
Other topics to be discussed during the series are “Institutional Practices” (Nov. 8), “Learning Spaces” (Jan. 10) and “Introductory Undergraduate Courses in STEM” (Feb. 14). The series will conclude with a wrap-up session on March 14 led by Murphy and Patrice Prusko, instructional designer, Academic Technologies at Co... |
The full schedule is available on the UBWISC website. |
Sessions take place from noon to 1:30 p.m. via online video conference, so participants can take part from the comfort and convenience of their office or home. |
Internet access and a web browser are required to participate; video conference setup details will be provide upon registration. |
Middle-aged: Basement Jaxx's Junto is familiar and immaculately crafted. |
Great fun: Pinchgut Opera's Cavalli's Giasone was recorded live during the company's 2013 season. |
Junto, the first Basement Jaxx album in five years, finds the London dance music duo strolling into middle age, with clipped, familiar rhythms underpinning disco-y house grooves. Tracks such as the slyly effective Unicorn are immaculately crafted, with little gambits such as wavering sci-fi melodies and perky keyboard ... |
Highly influenced: Richard in Your Mind have pieced together many psychedelic styles on Ponderosa. |
This small Sydney group specialising in baroque opera has demonstrated consistent excellence beyond its means, and Francesco Cavalli's Giasone has become exhibit A. It was recorded live during the company's short season in December, 2013. Judging by the pictures in the booklet (libretto included), the production was gr... |
I wonder if someone issued a challenge to Richard in Your Mind – possibly while all involved were under the influence of something we innocents couldn't possibly guess. It may have gone something like this: "OK smarties, let's see how many psychedelic styles can you fit on one album." If so, the always interesting Sydn... |
I have suffered from mental illness for the majority of life, since being a preteen. It is something that has made life extremely hard, and when it was joined by fibromyalgia and mobility issues, daily life became something to really contend with. |
I’ve been through a great many tough times and continue to battle on. These hard times are a constant part of my life due to my illnesses, but it’s something that I have come to terms with and fight on in spite of. I see myself, as many others with chronic conditions and mental illness do and rightly so, as a warrior. ... |
Keeping a positive attitude, as hard as this can be at times, is how I keep moving forward. I’ve always been a fundamentally positive person in general but choosing to focus on the positive side of things as much as I can, even when my brain only wants to see the negatives, is a skill that I have developed over time. |
Maintaining this determination to get through every day, and not to just survive but to thrive, is what keeps me going. I may have to work around my illnesses, life may be different than I had pictured it, but that doesn’t mean I can’t achieve the happiness I seek. I can work hard towards these things and adapt my thin... |
If I’m having a bad day, I think of the things that are wonderful in the world and in my life. If I feel low, I do something to try and cheer myself up whether this is a small act of pampering myself like doing my nails or doing something silly like putting on a really cheerful song and dancing about to it. When I feel... |
This doesn’t mean that I bottle things up or set aside my feelings or try to ignore them. If I am upset, angry or experiencing any other emotion that I feel is something that needs to be dealt with and not just distracted from, then I will deal with it head on by addressing it with myself, talking about it with my supp... |
It’s not always easy to remain positive and it’s fine not to be positive at times. In fact, it’s fine to be the complete opposite of positive sometimes. No one can have a positive attitude all the time, especially not when you have mental health issues or other illness to deal with, it’s just not possible. This isn’t a... |
I am far from constantly positive, I allow myself to feel how I feel and I deal with it as I go. Trying to have a positive attitude isn’t for everyone, it’s just how I cope and what I find works for me. Everyone has their own way of coping with their situations and they are all valid if they help you and don’t cause yo... |
189 Millen Rd., Stoney Creek, Ont. |
Listing agent: Michael St.Jean, St. Jean Realty Inc. |
The house benefits from a front sunroom, contemporary eat-in kitchen and open entertaining area. |
When originally listed late last year this recently renovated, 1½-storey house near Lake Ontario’s southwestern shoreline had an asking price of $629,900. With little buyer interest at that level, it was relisted at a price less than $600,000, which one party considered an invitation to negotiate and a final price of $... |
The home also has new roofing, windows, and heating and cooling systems. |
In a community where average lot depths run 100-feet deep, this 1,150-square-foot house sits on a property measuring 58-by-220 feet, allowing for a four-bedroom plan and a double garage. |
New roofing, windows, heating and cooling systems give new life to the roughly 40-year-old structure, which also benefits from a front sunroom, contemporary eat-in kitchen and open entertaining area. |
Other amenities include a main-floor laundry room, three bathrooms and secondary cooking, entertaining and sleeping quarters in the basement. |
“There are lot of older homes in that pocket and some newer, custom homes being built, but this is an older home with a pretty unique, massive lot and had been completely renovated,” Mr. St. Jean said. |
It’s been more than two years since the debut of SecureDrop, a piece of software designed to help whistleblowers easily and anonymously leak secrets to media outlets over the Tor anonymity network. Now, that system is finally bearing fruit, in the form of a massive dump of files from one of the country’s largest prison... |
On Wednesday, the investigative news site the Intercept published a story based on a collection of 70 million call records taken from a database of Securus, a Dallas, Texas-based company that provides phone service to more than 2,200 prisons around the United States. The database, which the Intercept says was stolen fr... |
Just as significant as those revelations, perhaps, is how the Intercept obtained the documents that enabled them: The news site has confirmed that it first made contact with the anonymous source who provided the Securus files through the Intercept's SecureDrop platform, starting with an initial sample of the Securus da... |
That Tor-enabled leak marks a landmark for a still-evolving form of journalism that takes a page out of the playbook invented by WikiLeaks: Like Julian Assange's secret-spilling organization, SecureDrop allows anyone to run a cryptographically anonymous submission system for leaks and tips. Because that upload site run... |
The Intercept's lead security technologist—and a co-author of the Securus story—Micah Lee says SecureDrop's benefit isn't just anonymity, it's ease of use. Instead of carefully using Tor to create an anonymous email address and figuring out how to encrypt email so that service can't read their leaked secrets, sources c... |
Lee says that this is far from the first time the Intercept has received useful leaks through the SecureDrop system. But the Securus revelations represent the first story of national significance where a news outlet has publicly revealed that the story's source used SecureDrop anonymous submissions. |
"We use SecureDrop on a regular basis, but this story is a little exceptional because we decided it was safe for us to mention that it came from SecureDrop," Lee says. "This is exactly why we decided to run SecureDrop: to get juicy stories like this and do it in a way where we protect our sources." |
SecureDrop, initially called DeadDrop, was created by the late digital rights activist Aaron Swartz, working with former WIRED editor Kevin Poulsen. The software was first put in place by the New Yorker. Within months, care of the open-source code was taken over by the non-profit Freedom of the Press Foundation, which ... |
None of those other newsrooms, however, has invested as much in SecureDrop as the Intercept. Aside from running the site's SecureDrop implementation, Lee has also added features and improvements to the open-source codebase. He's also the creator of Onionshare, a SecureDrop-like system that allows users to create a temp... |
Despite SecureDrop's proven usefulness to the Intercept's operation, it's still far from a perfect system. It only allows for a maximum upload of 500 megabytes. In the case of the prison phone leak, that meant that after receiving a sample of the database, Lee and the source had to work out another Tor-based method, wh... |
Still, as this Intercept story demonstrates, SecureDrop's usefulness far outweighs its drawbacks. It provides sources with anonymity without requiring intimate understanding of security protocols. |
Does Lee hope that revealing SecureDrop's role in the Intercept's latest scoop will lead to more leakers using that system? "Really we're just trying to be transparent about the source of our information for this story," he says. "That would be a nice side effect." |
As the historic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, was engulfed by flames on Monday, Donald Trump took to Twitter with a solution. |
The cathedral is filled with irreplaceable historical artifacts and documents, as the Notre Dame Cathedral online site notes, including “drawings, plans and engravings which showed the old and hidden mysteries of several of the church developments and how the city of Paris came into being.” The cathedral also houses a ... |
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