Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Chandhok fears 2013 Indian GP could be the last | F1 Fanatic Round-up


Start, Buddh International Circuit, 2012In the round-up: Indian motorsport boss Vicky Chandhok is concerned India’s F1 race won’t come back after its year off in 2014.


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Indian F1 Grand Prix on Sunday could be last, warns Vicky Chandhok (The Guardian)[2]


“If we lose it, I would be very disappointed, because it took us ten years to get the race in the first place. It was in 1999 that Bernie Ecclestone first had talks with organisers and sponsors in India.”


UP government withdraws entertainment tax exemption to F1 (The Times of India)[3]


“Four days before the third edition of India’s F1 race gets rolling at the Buddh International Circuit (BIC), the Uttar Pradesh government on Monday sought the Supreme Court’s permission to withdraw its 2011 decision to grant entertainment tax exemption to Indian Grand Prix organizer Jaypee Sports International.”


Di Resta faces uncertain Formula One future (Reuters)[4]


“It’s tough because of circumstances that don’t help drivers that don’t have big funding. The team know knows what I can do. They gave me the tool to achieve what I can.”


McLaren: Hard work ahead with Honda (F1)[5]


Jonathan Neale: “We’d be happy if [Peter Prodromou] was starting first thing tomorrow morning, but we do fully respect Red Bull’s position as we do when we’re recruiting anybody from another organisation.”


Looking beyond the F1 paddock (Carlin)[6]


“There are a handful of drivers in each junior category, racing for various teams that are capable right now of racing in Formula One. That’s not to belittle what it takes to drive in Formula One. That’s highlighting how good these junior drivers are.”


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WillP argues F1′s process of picking tracks for races is back-to-front.



The whole process is backwards.


If a country wants to run an F1 race these days, it needs to build a circuit. The circuit is given some land and it is created within the boundaries of the rules. That’s what we now end up with. Sometimes it is successful, sometimes not so.


In earlier years, a country would apply for an F1 race because it had a track – often a great track. But even if it wasn’t that great, it would often come about through a love of motor sport, an evolution of tarmac through the local terrain.


This is probably overly romantic but there is a point in there somewhere. You can’t force a natural track rhythm and atmosphere.
WillP



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Kanye West Flashes Peace Sign After Kim Kardashian Proposal, Engagement: Picture


Happily engaged! Kanye West appeared to be in great spirits after getting engaged to Kim Kardashian on Monday, Oct. 21. The 36-year-old rapper was spotted flashing the peace sign to photographers the following day.


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West, wearing a casual gray henley shirt, jeans and boots, had a smile on his face while stepping out as a newly-engaged man. The "I Am a God" rapper pulled out all the stops to give the mother of his 4-month-old daughter North a romantic marriage proposal on her 33rd birthday.


PHOTOS: Kim Kardashian's post-baby body


A source tells Us Weekly that West personally invited about 50 guests, including friends, family and Silicon Valley billionaires, to help surprise her at San Francisco's AT&T stadium. Guests hid while West led his future wife out onto the field blindfolded. He then got down on one knee and the JumboTron illuminated to read, "PLEEEASE MARRY MEEE!!!" as a full orchestra played.


PHOTOS: Kim's pregnancy with North


After the lights went up, Kardashian's loved ones ran out to from the dugout to share their congratulations -- and check out her massive engagement ring, which West co-designed with Lorraine Schwartz.


"It was magical," an insider told Us. "It was the most romantic thing ever -- the ultimate surprise!"


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Tesla CEO mulls in-car Android emulator, Chrome browser upgrade

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Tesla 'considering adding a pure Android emulator' to vehicles, says Elon Musk

At a recent event in Munich, Germany, Tesla CEO Elon Musk hinted at the possibility that his company's cars may one day be able to run Android apps. Fielding a question on app development for the Tesla Model S, Musk said the company was "considering adding a pure Android emulator," allowing users to run an Android app in a window on the car's Linux-based front-end.

The Android emulator is one of a few app development avenues being considered for the vehicle, which Musk expects to be opened up to developers "towards the end of next year." Musk also outlined several software additions that had to be made before this could take place, including adding local language and navigation data, and upgrading the cars' built-in browser to Google Chrome.

If these plans come to fruition, the Android emulator could give Tesla's vehicles access to a large library of mobile apps in a relatively short space of time. And it also begs the question: how long until we see an Android-powered car?

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FDA reviews 2 promising new drugs for hepatitis C


WASHINGTON (AP) — Doctors may soon have two new drug options for patients with hepatitis C, just as the liver-destroying virus becomes a major public health concern for millions of baby boomers.

The Food and Drug Administration holds a public meeting this week to review two experimental medications from Johnson & Johnson and Gilead Sciences. The new drugs, if approved, could offer a quicker, more effective approach to eliminating hepatitis C, a blood-borne disease blamed for 15,000 deaths in the U.S. this year.

In a review posted online Tuesday, the FDA reported that J&J's drug simeprevir has a slightly higher cure rate than currently available treatments, though it also caused rashes and sunburn in some patients.

On Thursday the FDA will ask a panel of outside experts whether the drug should carry warnings about rashes and sunburn on its label. The agency is not required to follow the panel's advice, though it often does.

The meeting comes at a time when federal health officials are urging baby boomers to get tested for the virus, which can go unnoticed for decades before causing symptoms.

Between 3 million and 4 million Americans are infected with hepatitis C, and people born between 1945 and 1965 are five times more likely to have it than people of other age groups, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Many baby boomers contracted the virus by sharing needles or having sex with an infected person in their youth. The disease was also spread by blood transfusions before 1992, when blood banks began testing for the virus.

"If something is not done soon, all these people who were infected in the 60s and 70s are going to start experiencing the long-term consequences of liver disease," said Gaston Picchio, head of hepatitis drug development for J&J's Janssen Therapeutics unit.

Most people with hepatitis C do not even know they have the virus until after liver damage has occurred, causing abdominal pain, fatigue, itching and dark urine.

For most of the last 20 years, the standard treatment involved a grueling one-year regimen of pills and injections that caused flu-like symptoms and cured less than half of patients. Many patients failed to complete the full treatment cycle. Others delayed starting treatment at all in the hopes that more effective treatments would come along.

Two drugs approved in 2011 kicked off a new effort to treat the disease. Research shows that adding the two new drugs — Vertex Pharmaceuticals' Incivek and Merck & Co.'s Victrelis — to the older drug cocktail can boost cure rates to between 65 and 75 percent.

And the drugs the FDA is reviewing this week have the potential to push cure rates even higher.

J&J's simeprevir cured 80 percent of patients who had not previously been treated for the disease, according to the FDA's review. Additionally, the vast majority of patients were able to cut their treatment time in half to 24 weeks, compared with the usual 52 weeks. The New Brunswick, N.J., company is seeking approval to combine the daily pill with the older treatment regimen for patients with the most common form of the virus. J&J developed the drug with Swedish drugmaker Medivir.

On Friday, the same FDA panel will review another hepatitis C drug from Gilead Sciences Inc. that some analysts say will become the first-choice for treating the disease. The pill, known as sofosbuvir, has been shown to cure up to 90 percent of patients after just 12 weeks of therapy, according to one company study. Additionally, analysts believe the drug will eventually be used without interferon, the injectable medication used in the current drug cocktail that causes nausea, diarrhea and other unpleasant side effects.

Gilead is racing against other drugmakers to develop the first all-pill approach to treating hepatitis C, long viewed as the holy grail by drugmakers. Similar efforts are underway from Abbott Laboratories, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Vertex Pharmaceuticals and others.

Pharmaceutical industry consulting firm Decision Resources estimates the market for hepatitis C drugs will grow to more than $23 billion by 2018. Sales of the drugs are expected to decline to $17.5 billion by 2021 as more patients are cured of the virus.

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What To Watch For In The World Series

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Reds choose Bryan Price for next manager

Bryan Price smiles after being named manager of the Cincinnati Reds, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013, at a news conference in Cincinnati. Price, who had been the National League baseball team's pitching coach, was signed to a three year contract. Price replaced Dusty Baker. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)







Bryan Price smiles after being named manager of the Cincinnati Reds, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013, at a news conference in Cincinnati. Price, who had been the National League baseball team's pitching coach, was signed to a three year contract. Price replaced Dusty Baker. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)







FILE - In this May 26, 2012, file photo, Cincinnati Reds pitching coach Bryan Price watches a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, in Cincinnati. The Reds have chosen Price to replace Dusty Baker as their next manager, according to a person familiar with the decision. The club plans to introduce the 51-year-old Price at a news conference later Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because no announcement had been made.(AP Photo/David Kohl, File)







Cincinnati Reds starting pitcher Bronson Arroyo (61) talks with pitching coach Bryan Price during the third inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)







Bryan Price speaks at a news conference with general manager Walt Jocketty, left, and owner Bob Castellini, right, after Price was named manager of the Cincinnati Reds, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013, in Cincinnati. Price, who had been the National League baseball team's pitching coach, was signed to a three year contract. Price replaced Dusty Baker. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)







FILE - This is a Feb. 16, 2013, file photo showing Cincinnati Reds pitching coach Bryan Price. The Reds have chosen Price to replace Dusty Baker as their next manager, according to a person familiar with the decision. The club plans to introduce the 51-year-old Price at a news conference later Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because no announcement had been made. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)







(AP) — Pitching coach Bryan Price was first on the Reds' list of manager candidates. Three hours of answering every question tossed his way ended their search rather quickly.

After one interview, it was over.

The Reds stayed in-house for their next manager, giving Price a three-year deal Tuesday that came with expectations that he'll take them deep into the playoffs right away.

"Bryan is exceptional," owner Bob Castellini said. "We've been fortunate to be with him long enough to know how exceptional he is.

"I can't tell you how well this has fit in for us. We did not have to go out and do a search," he said. "We had the person we felt could take this team deep into the postseason and then some."

Dusty Baker led the Reds to three 90-win seasons and three playoff appearances in the last four years, their best stretch of success since Sparky Anderson managed the Big Red Machine in the 1970s. But Cincinnati got knocked out in the first round of the postseason each time.

The Reds fired Baker with a year left on his two-year deal after a final-week fade that included an implosion by the pitching staff.

Cincinnati lost its last six games, including a 6-2 defeat at PNC Park in the wild-card playoff against the Pirates. General manager Walt Jocketty said the closing slump was a major factor in the decision to make a change.

Jocketty considered two in-house candidates: Price and Triple-A manager Jim Riggleman. Price got the first interview and impressed everyone so much that Jocketty didn't interview anyone else.

"I was convinced that Bryan was our guy just because of the past association we've had with him," Jocketty said. "I think that to bring other people in just for the process of going through an interview — to me, I wouldn't want that."

The job carries enormous expectations for the 51-year-old Price, who has been one of the most successful pitching coaches in the majors but has never managed at any level. He interviewed for the Marlins' job last year, which got him thinking that he'd like to be a manager some day.

Given his four successful seasons in Cincinnati, he wanted to stay if possible.

"It's a team that's capable of doing even more," Price said. "I think we certainly should talk very optimistically about the three playoff appearances in the last four years, which were maybe somewhat discredited because we hadn't gotten past the first round.

"Considering the 15 years prior, it was definitely a huge step in the right direction," Price added. "But we all have expectations of getting beyond that."

Price was a left-handed pitcher for six years in the minors, his career scuttled by elbow surgery. He started his coaching career in Seattle's farm system and was the Mariners' pitching coach from 2000-05. He moved to Arizona as pitching coach from 2006-09, resigning there after Bob Melvin was replaced.

Jocketty hired him to replace Dick Pole in Cincinnati, where he helped the Reds' staff develop into one of the NL's best during his four seasons working with Baker. Now, Jocketty has several important lineup decisions to make to try to keep the Reds competitive in the NL Central, which sent three teams to the playoffs.

Division champion St. Louis opens the World Series against Boston on Wednesday. The Pirates passed the Reds for second place and home-field advantage for the wild-card playoff during the final week of the season.

The pitching staff will have some changes, with starter Bronson Arroyo eligible for free agency. Left-hander Tony Cingrani made his debut last season and showed he could win in the majors, but was sidelined by back problems in September. Ace Johnny Cueto missed most of the season with shoulder problems.

The Reds have to decide whether to keep left-hander Aroldis Chapman as their closer or move him into a starting role. Price would have preferred making him a starter. If he gets moved into the rotation, the Reds don't have anyone with appreciable experience at closing games.

He and Jocketty said they hadn't made any decisions on the pitching staff or the everyday lineup.

The offense struggled last season with no consistent right-handed hitter. Cleanup hitter Ryan Ludwick tore cartilage in his right shoulder on a slide on opening day and missed most of the season. He returned in mid-August and hit only two homers with the shoulder still bothering him.

Joey Votto and leadoff hitter Shin-Soo Choo led the NL in on-base percentage, but Choo is a free agent. Billy Hamilton created a sensation with his speed when he was called up in September, but struggled to get on base consistently in Triple-A before his first promotion to the majors.

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Open source needs more tech savvy lawyers, Linux Foundation says


To avoid legal difficulties when managing intellectual property for open source projects, more tech savvy lawyers are needed, according to the Linux Foundation.


Educating lawyers, however, is not the only solution, argued other open source insiders at the LinuxCon Europe conference in Edinburgh this week.


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Open source software adoption is outstripping the legal knowledge of parties involved in open source projects who have difficulty dealing with copyright, patent, licensing and compliance issues, said Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin. During the conference's opening speech on Monday, Zemlin said the open source community needs more lawyers who have an understanding of the technology and how open source collaboration works.


Having lawyers with a better understanding of the technology involved in open source projects would indeed be a way to overcome legal difficulties, said Deb Nicholson, community outreach director of the OIN (Open Innovation Network).


"I would agree that having more tech savvy lawyers that understand open source legal issues would be good," Nicholson said. "Smaller companies are desperate to find someone who can advise them," she said, adding that even if they can pay them, finding an attorney who understands the issues can be difficult.


The problem is that most free and open source software projects are becoming more legally complicated, said Catharina Maracke, a lawyer and associate professor at Keio University, in Japan, who focuses on intellectual property law and policy as well as standardization efforts for public licensing plans.


For one thing, open source projects often call for separate agreements for copyrights and patents, Maracke said. Copyright and patent issues are different, and this can cause communication problems for developers and lawyers negotiating related agreements.


Being a lawyer with a consulting practice herself, Maracke sometimes has trouble understanding what developers try to tell her, while there are similar problems the other way around, she said.


This lack of understanding can lead to friction between parties who are trying to manage intellectual property for open source projects, and protracted negotiations can drive up the legal costs, Maracke said.


Educating lawyers isn't the only option, though. To bridge the gap, standardization of legal terms could also be an important step, Maracke said.


While public licenses such asCreative Commons, the GNU General Public License or other free and open source software licenses have emerged as relatively easy-to-use standardized copyright agreements, more work can be done to make licensing easier, according to Maracke.


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