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Phone Nets On Call
By: eWeek Editors | September 17, 2001
When the whole world heard New York and Washington, D.C., had been attacked, the whole world called New York and Washington to ask, "Are you OK?" And the nation's public switched telephone network answered exactly as it was supposed to, blocki
When the whole world heard New York and Washington, D.C., had been attacked, the whole world called New York and Washington to ask, "Are you OK?"
And the nations public switched telephone network answered exactly as it was supposed to, blocking incoming calls to make room for critical emergency communications and outgoing calls.
When the wireline network got clogged, users turned to their cell phones, wireless e-mail and voice-over-Internet services to get their messages through, with varying success.
By late last week, however, it was clear that the destruction of switching offices near the World Trade Center will cause long-term problems. Verizon Communications said all phone lines to the New York Stock Exchange were damaged. Telecommunications services could be further affected by power outages that continued through the end of the week.
In the hours following the suicide airplane crashes into the twin World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon, when call volume more than doubled the norm in New York and Washington, the wireline network remained operational.
"The traditional public switched telephone network is pretty darn amazing," said David Frankel, chief technology officer and founder of IP and DSL gear maker Jetstream Communications.
"While it was congested, and some calls were blocked, the network stayed up and handled a record number of calls. Any frustration you experienced, like you couldnt make calls into New York, that was absolutely by design."
When traditional forms of voice communications were sluggish, many turned to tools that use next-generation technology, such as Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and wireless messaging, to make their calls.
"Our network was definitely in overdrive," said Bart Bartolozzi, a Net2Phone spokesman.
Net2Phone is a communications provider that lets people make phone calls using their PCs.
Bartolozzi said the peak last week came right after the attack, especially in international calls coming directly into New York. While the city is traditionally one of the largest destinations for international calls on Net2Phones network, during the period following the attack, 95 percent of all international calls coming into the U.S. were to New York.
Bartolozzi said those from abroad who have family living in the city typically have no idea if their loved ones live near the Twin Towers or Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, so after seeing the damage on television, there were plenty of panicked calls being made.
"According to our network guys, we never got to a point of congestion," Bartolozzi said. "I think, luckily for us, service was maintained and, luckily for those using it, they were able to get in touch with friends and family."
David Gilcreast, a spokesman of VoIP communications provider Dialpad Communications, said that after the incident, the network saw a 25 percent to 30 percent overall jump in traffic, which the company was able to handle. The most successful calls were those coming directly from PCs with broadband connections, since they were able to bypass the congested local telephone network altogether.
Some wireless users with data-capable phones found that though they couldnt make voice calls, they could send and receive text messages. Thats because when a user sends a text message, the network holds it until capacity is available and then sends it. With a voice call, if capacity is full, users cant connect - period.
Verizon owns most of the last-mile pipes in the area and sustained the worst damage. Several of its central offices, the telephone substations that switch phone calls, were damaged or destroyed. The company said its outages will have a direct impact on telephone connections not only to the stock exchange but also to companies working in lower Manhattan.
The wall of one central office was breached when Building 7 at the World Trade Center collapsed. The CO, about five stories below ground, was flooded, covered with debris and without power. A second CO, on Broad Street, was also experiencing power problems late last week.
Verizons troubles were affecting network operators, which were beginning to see their high-speed data lines go down. Ordinarily, such lines would be tested and restarted, but Verizon was in disaster mode and was not performing such services.
AT&T, which moves about 60 percent of all long-distance traffic in the U.S., reported that call volume at midday Tuesday was double normal, with big spikes in New York and Washington.
"Thats fairly typical of any disaster, natural or man-made," spokesman Dan Lawler said.
AT&T had one local-service node in the basement of one of the World Trade Center towers. "Obviously that is out of commission right now," Lawler said. "But there was no network damage. The systems are running as designed. Theyre just hanging on and running it."
BellSouth, Broadwing, Qwest Communications International, SBC Communications and Telseon said their networks were fully operational even as they received a higher number of calls.
Wireless operators added that their networks were extremely overloaded, though none failed completely.
Cingular Wireless reported a 1,000 percent increase in call attempts Tuesday morning. Cingular Interactive reported that eight cells on its wireless data network went down in Manhattan, but the network remained operational with lower than normal use.
Operators including Verizon Wireless lost cell sites in lower Manhattan, but had enough redundancies built into the network so that users were able to continue to make calls, a spokesman said. Verizon Wireless immediately rolled mobile cell sites to New Jersey, trying to increase capacity and coverage lost due to damaged gear near the World Trade Center.
Verizon Wireless introduced cell sites in the vicinity of the Pentagon and nearby Shenendoah National Park to ensure that rescue workers could rely on the network. Cingular Wireless also introduced cell sites to beef up its network.
Nancy Gohring, Brian Ploskina and Bill Scanlon contributed to this report.
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scott murray
Why is Cheney even aloud to walk around a free man?....He is a war criminal ;Saddam's non existent WMD"S ,He gave NORAD the stand down order to (do not intercept) incoming Pentagon plane on 911... Please spare us another visit more (do-do) from this resurrected corpse!
April 10, 2013 12:06 pm at 12:06 pm |
I wish you were here to help the Syrian people getting rid of Asaad criminal fascist murderer regime. Not to mention Iran and it is threat to the world peace and security.
Why would anyone care what this war criminal has to say?
hillbillynwv
Dick Cheney = Worst Vice President Ever
Name Kim
If he was still the VP we would still be at war on a few fronts.
Here's an idea: Let's send Dick Cheney and Kim Jong Un hunting together. No matter who shoots whom, we'll win for sure. I know, that's a terrifyingly bad statement but consider this: While Kim Jong Un has enslaved millions of his own citizens, Dick Cheney has certainly caused more damage to our country than the North Korean leader will be ever able to do before actually developing an ICBM with appropriate warheads (and firing it).
AtlasObjectivist
I remember when great statesmen like Cheney were at the helm. Thank you for your service Mr. Vice President, the country misses you.
Madtown
Cheney the war criminal just wants us to invade as soon as possible. It's who he is and what he does.
ANNIER
Should be required viewing for all morons who support this criminal: "The World According to Dick Cheney". He is an arrogant criminal.
teachemwell
When will he learn to just SHUT UP???
1UNVE
Cheney has no credibility. Everyone talking about what Bush would have done. Bush had the opportunity to deal with north korea. He gave them food and pet them on their heads and said be good boys we have no issues with you. Meanwhile Osama was reeking hell throughout the world. But the U.S army was sent to Iraq to take care of the problem in Afghanistan. Cheney the author of ano bid contract for haliburton his former organization. Threaten to give South Korea Nuclear weapons and watch how quick the problem in North Korea go away. China would put a collars on that fat poodle in the North. Bush and Cheney caused thousands of lives to be lost and we didn't find so much as a speed stick in Iraq. Blame them for your deficit problem.
The Cheney/Bush stance on North Korea caused this. President Clinton brokered a deal, which was completely thrown out when the two deadbeat Republicans threw it out. Now how would your country treat you if the largest super power identified you on the Axis of Evil. It is common sense the previous administration severed an already difficult relationship.
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Hey road rage 1. How did Cheney protect us from terrorism? He was the VP when terrorist flew planes into the WTC. Lets go to war is the republican way as long as their kids stay home.
Didn't put much thought into this tripe before you posted it, did you? Who put is into WWI, WWII, Korea and expanded our role to full combat in Vietnam????? Revisionist history or just pain ignorance, either way – educate yourself. You sound ridiculous.
Liberal, conservative..who cares? Anyone can see that Cheney is a joke! Give me something constructive when flapping your mouth. This guy must have an ego the size of Texas, or does he just have a guilty conscience.
1 a: the sense or consciousness of the moral goodness or blameworthiness of one's own conduct, intentions, or character together with a feeling of obligation to do right or be good
mpouxesas
Cheney: "We are in big doo doo with NK" He must know something about doodoo...he put us in to so much of it....
This is the very situation he created when the Bush administration walked away from the prior agreement with NK. We gave them food for not researching nuclear weapons and there were guidlines for a peace treaty. NK saw the Bush move as being a gearing up for war. They then saw Iraq invaded. So what do you think they will do?
I love the posts that state what the Dems said about going into iraq, just don't forget that they were being fed all the lies from cheney and rice and bush of sh-t so of course they said that. they were being lie to about everything over and over about WMDs so what do you think they were going to say. If you were lied to about EVERYTHING you would say the same too.
Jackie Treehorn
"Cheney added the current North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, is unpredictable and doesn't share the United States worldview."
Huh? I thought Cheney and Kim Jong Un had exactly the SAME worldview! Unlimited executive power, detention without due process, state-sponsored torture, foreign policy based on military coercion...where exactly is the difference?
I am genuinely frightened that Cheney is in any discussion on Capitol Hill about North Korea. He and Haliburton believe that War is the answer to every question. They faked the data on WMD in Iraq in order to start a war. How far is he willing to go to start a war with North Korea?
After Cheney spoke and left the room, Dan Quayle was invited in to give his opinion. He was overheard telling the republican congressman he had just passed by Mr Potatoe head in the hallway. Cheney needs to learn from the much wiser ex vp and keep him mouth shut.
You lefties have nothing but bad to say about a great man but you love the POS who is turning oour country into a joke. I can't wait till everything goes bad and you lefties won't know what to do when the goodies run it and they will.Fast and Furious, Benghazi, lie after lie by the half breed.
Cheney, the ultimate chicken-hawk. He's real brave your children's life and limb. Count'm folks, not one, two, or three deferments to serve for his country but FIVE. Like I said, he won't hesitate to send your children to fight the "noble cause".
craig in Houston
What a relief!! Considering his lousy track record at predicting international threats, we must be totally safe.
So ya saying we shoulda invaded North Korea instead of Iraq or both?
George Inman
If nobody wants to talk to the man. And I don't reaaly blame them. Dennis Rodman is always available. Get Dennis to call him and tell him to chill out, so he can come back and talk with him. Why Not??? It wouldn't hurt??
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The Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota presents Silver River (August 13, 2016 through February 12, 2017)
Silver River features artworks that address environmentalism and human impact on the current state of the Mississippi River.
In the centenary year of the National Parks Service,
Silver River features artworks that address environmentalism
and human impact on the current state of the Mississippi River.
MINNEAPOLIS – The Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota presents Silver River (August 13, 2016 through February 12, 2017), a survey of the changing landscape and health of the Mississippi River. Rivers have always been an important source for life. They have an abundance of fresh water, are essential in commerce and industry for mercantile passages and hydropower, and have provided artistic inspiration for centuries. Due to the sheer length of the river, it took nearly two hundred years for America to catch up to the negative environmental consequences of the industrialization of the Great River. Maya Lin's sculpture and namesake of the exhibition, Silver River – Mississippi (2007), serves as an entry point of conversation for Minnesota-based artists' thoughts on the current state of the Upper Mississippi River. Many of the contemporary works display the impurities and damming of this polluted river, while reflecting on the Mississippi River's role in American history as the shining silvery light of opportunity, stimulating artists from the nineteenth century to today.
As the National Parks Service celebrates it's centenary anniversary, Silver River explores the lasting impact of industrialization on the only national park dedicated to the Mississippi River. The Mississippi National River and Recreation Area (MNRA) stretches across five counties in the Minneapolis – St. Paul metropolitan area. The sculpture River of Iron: Mississippi Iron Pour, by University of Minnesota assistant professor of art Tamsie Ringler, explores the endangerment of Mississippi River. The twenty-by-twenty foot wide sculpture, laid out on the gallery floor, is a map of the entire watershed. Originally the sculpture was poured outside the Weisman Art Museum on the banks of the Upper Mississippi River as part of the Northern Spark Arts Festival in 2015. Ringler started from the Gulf of Mexico and poured the map backwards to signify the distress of the River, much like when a U. S. flag is flown upside down to signify the distress of the country. Other artists featured in the exhibit include Mary Abbott, Alfred Thompson Bricher, Henry Bosse, S. Chatwood Burton, Edwin M. Dawes, Jim Denomie, Luke Ericson, Chris Faust, Gary Hallman, George Morrison, and Jonathan Wells.
The Mississippi River has been a lifeline for the Twin Cities since the foundation of Minneapolis and St. Paul nearly two centuries ago. It is the major source of drinking water for the Twin Cities and still plays an important role in transportation in the United States. While earlier depictions of the Mississippi may reflect a more romanticized notion of the river, contemporary artists have not run away from controversy surrounding the Mississippi. Instead, they have chosen the current problematic state of the river as their fountainhead of artistic inspiration. By placing contemporary perspectives in context with earlier depictions of the river, we can begin to appreciate the nuances and cultural importance the Upper Mississippi River has had, and will continue to have, on our community and our nation.
Silver River was curated by the 2015 – 2016 E. Gerald and Lisa O'Brien Curatorial Fellow, Kate Heller.
ANTHROPOCENIC MIDDEN SURVEY: Mississippi & River Cleanup
Saturday, August 13, 2016 | 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
What can garbage in the Upper Mississippi River tell us about human social systems? What role do individuals play in the health of our nation's great river? The museum's student group, WAM Collective, have teamed up with University of Minnesota adjunct professor and River of Iron at the Weisman Art Museum during Northern Spark 2015. Image by Heidi Bohnenkamp. Weisman Art Museum | 333 East River Road | Minneapolis, MN 55455 | P: 612.625.9494 | F: 612.625.9630 | WAM.UMN.EDU teaching artist, Sean Connaughty. Together Connaughty and the Collective have organized two river cleanup days, Saturday, August 13 and Saturday, September 3, where they are collecting, researching, and classifying refuse found on the East and West Banks of the Twin Cities campus. The Collective is working with the Office of Sustainability at the U of M as well as many other local organizations dedicated to the health of the Mississippi River.
The project will culminate in a large scale public installation utilizing materials collected from the river and be displayed on WAM's front plaza during Open Streets on October 1, 2016. The sculpture, along with other reuse projects presented during Open Streets at the University of Minnesota, highlight the importance of our everyday, individual actions in preserving our natural resources.
Open Streets is cosponsored by the City of Minneapolis and is a celebration of our neighborhoods encouraging residents to think about active transportation, healthy living, and caring for our streets as public spaces. Sign up to participate in a river cleanup day at Z.UMN.EDU/WAMTRASH.
ABOUT WAM
Since its origin in 1934, the Weisman Art Museum has been a teaching museum for the University of Minnesota. Today, education remains central to the museum's mission to create art experiences that spark discovery, critical thinking, and transformation, linking the University and the community. The Weisman Art Museum is located at 333 East River Road, Minneapolis, on the University of Minnesota campus. Admission to exhibition galleries is always free.
Media Contact: Brittany Vickers, 612.625.5266, bvickers@umn.edu


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Review of the Criminal Organisation Act 2009: Submission by the Crime and Corruption Commission
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Transparency and accountability in local government-Report 2015
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At 4:14 PM +0300 2/13/98, Anni wrote:
Hello, dear Gabriel, thanks a lot for your reply. Yes, you have understood me correctly, I am going to sell these books. Besides these editions of Nabokov's books I could also offer quite a number of newly published Russian language titles, which might pose interest for those who care for the Russian literature, history or art. I also carry out a search for out-of-print and rare books upon requests of book-collectors and readers.
Thank you very much for your assistance, any contact address of the warehouse you have mentioned will be much helpful.
Are you in Washington, DC. or the State of Washington? Could I be of any help to your bookstore, (I am located in Moscow, Russia, which has some pleasant advantages.)?
Hi again Anni,
First of all, I am in Washington, DC. Secondly, a few minutes of research turned up some very helpful information. I telephoned the local Russian Language Bookstore, which is really a large warehouse as I recall from my only visit there, explained myself on your behalf, and was greeted with enthusiasm by a thickly-accented (Russian of course) elderly woman who welcomed your contact. The details are:
Viktor Kamkins Bookstore
4956 Bolingbrook Parkway
I am a fledgling web designer and webmaster for several corporate clients. Since bookselling is not really my principle business, and my web sites http://www.imote.com and http://www.scenewash.org are barely off the ground and therefore do not generate a lot of traffic at this time, I am afraid I am at a loss to know how else I can be of service to you.
I am pleased however that you discovered my interest in a few Russian authors and their literature via my online bookstore, and felt confident enough to contact me. I have enjoyed our short communications. While I have two or three local acquaintances who have traveled to Russia and Moscow in particular several times, I cannot write.
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Source: Page A01 of the Boston Globe on 10/12/2000
B'nai B'rith Award Now Under Review
A veteran's story of WWII exploits raises questions
By Thomas Farragher and Walter V. Robinson, Globe Staff
B'nai B'rith International is questioning a prestigious award slated to be given to former Massachusetts education secretary Paul Parks for his role in liberating the Dachau concentration camp in 1945 after other veterans asserted that Parks was not there.
Moreover, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who has studied records of Parks's military unit has said that Parks's account of his harrowing experiences on a Normandy beach on D-Day is also false.
Parks, who at 77 has been a major civil rights figure in Massachusetts for four decades, insisted last night that he was indeed at Dachau, and said he intends to collect the Raoul Wallenberg award from the B'nai B'rith chapter in Berlin later this month.
But Eric Rozenman, a spokesman for B'nai B'rith International, said in the face of questions from veterans who contend that Parks was not at the Dachau concentration camp in the spring of 1945, Parks's selection is under review.
''We're trying to ascertain exactly what the facts are,'' Rozenman said. ''We're trying to find out how this particular person came to [the Berlin chapter's] attention and what criteria they use for this award.''
Since 1987, Parks's public claims about his presence at Dachau have made him a sought-after speaker by Jewish groups, including Holocaust survivors. For the same reason, he was also co-chairman of the Cornerstone Project of the New England Holocaust Memorial, the six glass towers honoring Holocaust victims that are located in a small park behind Boston City Hall.
In a letter to B'nai B'rith, a copy of which was sent to the Globe, retired Army lieutenant colonel Hugh F. Foster III said that Parks's longtime claim to have been a liberator of the Dachau death camp is contradicted by military records.
And in an interview yesterday, retired brigadier general Felix L. Sparks, who as a 27-year-old lieutenant colonel led the liberation of the main camp at Dachau, said flatly that Parks was not there when the camp fell to American forces in April 1945. To buttress his assertion, Sparks said there were no black soldiers at Dachau at all.
''He's been claiming that for years,'' Sparks said of Parks. ''It did not happen.''
Parks, a member of the 365th Engineer Regiment from 1943 to 1945, said his military records were lost in a 1973 fire. But he acknowledged that his regiment was not near Dachau for its liberation.
''My outfit was never at Dachau, but I was,'' Parks said. ''I was there by sheer accident.'' Parks said he was trained and ordered to activate and deactivate land mines throughout France, a special detail that led him to the concentration camp.
''I don't have the slighest idea where I was. All I know is that we went to Dachau,'' said Parks. ''... I was a foot soldier who did what I was told.''
Veterans, including Sparks, Foster, and Cranston Rogers, a 75-year-old veteran from Medway, who were among the liberators of Dachau, said they have followed for years newspaper stories about Parks's military service.
''I don't have a vendetta against him,'' Rogers said. ''I just don't like people claiming things that are not true.''
Parks said yesterday that he has never exaggerated his military record. When asked to review the discrepancies his fellow veterans cite in published accounts of his service in Normandy and, later, at Dachau, Parks declined.
''This is crazy,'' he said. ''I'm not going to deal with it anymore.''
In the letter sent to B'nai B'rith, Foster calls Parks's accounts of battlefield derring-do ''outrageously false.''
Critics like Foster and records obtained by the Globe raise questions about Parks' oft-told vivid accounts of his frightening experience as a black GI on Omaha Beach on D-Day, 1944.
Records at the National Personnel Records Center, which survived the 1973 fire, show that Parks's engineering unit was still in England as the allies stormed the Normandy beaches on D-Day. Parks acknowledged that his unit was in England during the invasion - although in one published interview he said his unit was part of the invasion force and suffered 60 percent casualties. Last night, Parks said he was at Normandy on D-Day after volunteering for mine detection duty.
But Parks's critics say the detail he has provided over the years cannot survive close scrutiny.
For example, in June 1994, Parks told the Globe that when he ran ashore on June 6, 1944, he could feel the breeze as bullets zipped past his head. He said he and a buddy, Robert Orr, took cover behind a concrete barrier as a German machine gun peppered them with fire. Orr, Parks said, fell over dead, a bullet in his forehead. Another comrade also died in the gunfire.
''Like anybody else who made it off that beach that day, I ask why,'' Parks said then. ''I mean, two guys, shoulder to shoulder with me. They die and I don't. I don't have an answer.''
But Foster, the retired lieutenant colonel, said the master list of World War II deaths contains the names of seven men named Robert Orr who were killed or died overseas during the war.
The only Robert Orr assigned to the 365th Engineer Regiment died in England three months before D-Day and is buried in a US military cemetery there, according to Foster's letter to the B'nai B'rith.
Yesterday, Parks said the Globe's 1994 account of Orr's death was in error. ''I didn't say he was killed on D-Day. Never did,'' Parks said. ''I said he was killed in Normandy and he was killed in Normandy.''
The Globe has been aware of questions about Parks's military record for some time. Foster wrote to the newspaper's editorial page in September 1998 questioning an opinion piece by William H. Smith that criticized the film ''Saving Private Ryan'' for ignoring the role that Smith said black veterans like Parks had played at Normandy. Foster said in the letter that according to military records, Parks's regiment was not on the beaches at Normandy.
William Ketter, then interim editor of the opposite-editorial page and now chairman of the Boston University Journalism Department, said yesterday that he and H.D.S. Greenway, then editor of the editorial page, questioned Parks about the allegations. But they deemed the evidence insufficent to publish in the face of his claims that he was detached from his unit. Greenway, now retired, could not be reached for comment.
Parks's military records show that he was on active service from April 2, 1943, until he was discharged on Jan. 5, 1946. He was assigned to Company E, 365th Engineer Regiment, from Sept. 30, 1943, until June 25, 1945.
His engineering unit arrived at Utah Beach, France, on June 30, 1944.
B'nai B'rith International said its inquiries into Parks's service record had just begun. It is not clear how, or whether, that review would affect the Wallenberg award that Parks is scheduled to receive later this month in Berlin, along with two British soldiers, two Russians and another American. Wallenberg was the Swedish diplomat who saved some 100,000 Hungarian Jews from the Nazi gas chambers.
''It's the B'nai B'rith Lodge in Berlin that's giving the award,'' said Rozenman, the B'nai B'rith International spokesman in Washington. ''I'm not sure what criteria they used to select the nominee. Those are things that have to be checked.''
Over the last four decades, Parks has been among the most prominent black leaders in Boston and Massachusetts. He was vice president of the Boston branch of the NAACP during the 1960s, Boston's first Model Cities director under Mayor Kevin H. White, state education secretary under former Governor Michael S. Dukakis, and one of the founders of the METCO program, which for 34 years has bused black children from Boston to schools in predominantly white suburbs.
Under mayors Raymond L. Flynn and Thomas M. Menino in the early 1990s, Parks was also the chairman of the appointed Boston School Committee.
Over time, Parks has sometimes told conflicting tales to reporters about his wartime experiences in Europe. In 1984, for instance, he claimed in a Globe interview that he had been wounded on D-Day, an assertion that was not reported in subsequent accounts of his service there. His military records include no Purple Heart. Parks has variously described himself as a private when he arrived at Dachau, but as a platoon sergeant when he was in England two years earlier.
Despite his twin claims about his presence at two of the war's most significant events - the D-Day landing and the liberation of a major concentration camp - a half dozen newspaper profiles of Parks during the 1960s and 1970s barely mentioned that he was a World War II veteran.
The first apparent public mention of his Dachau experience came when Parks, then state education secretary, spoke at a 1978 rally outside the German consulate demanding an extension on statutes of limitations for Nazi war criminals.
At that rally, Parks recalled helping to liberate Dachau, and said he remembered being shocked at the mountains of gold teeth piled up inside Dachau, and the stacks of bodies of victims of the death camp.
In a 1996 Globe interview, Parks said when he helped liberate the camp, and saw the survivors, ''It was unbelieveable. ... Understanding slavery in my country, I related to these people.''
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Source: page A01 of the Boston Globe on 10/19/2000. © Copyright 2000 Globe Newspaper Company.
Despite Questions, Parks to Get Award
By Thomas Farragher, Globe Staff, 10/19/2000
B'nai B'rith leaders in Europe said yesterday that Boston civil rights leader Paul Parks will receive a prestigious award for taking part in liberating the Dachau concentration camp despite evidence that Parks was not there when the death camp was taken from the Nazis.
''They've made their inquiries and they're satisfied that there's no reason not to give [Parks] the award,'' said Seymour G. Saideman, president of B'nai B'rith Europe.
Parks, a former state education secretary and Boston School Committee chairman, has claimed that special volunteer mine-clearing duties put him on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day and at the concentration camp outside Munich in 1945.
But senior US military historians say no black soldiers were present when Dachau was liberated. And a Globe review of Parks's military record shows that his unit was hundreds of miles from Dachau the day the camp was freed on April 29, 1945.
There is no evidence in the detailed daily reports from Parks's Army company that he was detached for mine duty in the days before the camp's liberation.
Saideman said B'nai B'rith conducted no independent review of Parks's military record.
Andras Kain, president of the B'nai B'rith Raoul Wallenberg Lodge in Berlin, which is hosting Sunday's awards ceremony, said his chapter relied in part on the 1998 Steven Spielberg Holocaust documentary, ''The Last Days,'' and its companion book as evidence that Parks was a Dachau liberator.
In the book, Parks says he was at Dachau ''by sheer accident'' and says he never considered himself a hero.
''Several people have called me already saying that Paul Parks was never in Dachau,'' Kain said in a telephone interview from Berlin yesterday. ''So what can I do with these? He will get the prize because I don't think we have time enough to prove, to check.''
Kain said if he receives conclusive proof that Parks was not a Dachau liberator, his chapter would consider revoking the award retroactively, drawing a parallel to a triumphant Olympian later disqualified for illegal drug use.
''That's what we would do if we have positive things to show he was never in Dachau,'' said Kain. ''But we don't have anything.''
Kain said Parks left Boston last night and was to arrive in Berlin today for the Sunday night ceremony, where some of the 400 guests will be Dachau survivors.
The other American who will receive the award, William P. Donahue of Racine, Wis., disputes Parks's claims to being at Dachau and said he is considering snubbing Parks at the ceremony.
''If this man wants to accept the award, it's his problem,'' said Donahue, who was a 19-year-old private when he was among the first US soldiers inside Dachau.
Indeed, yesterday's B'nai B'rith announcement that Parks will receive the award named for Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who worked to save an estimated 100,000 lives during the Holocaust, enraged some of the soldiers who were there when Dachau was liberated.
''He claims to have just wandered into the liberation of Dachau,'' said Russel R. Weiskircher, a retired brigadier general who was with the 157th Infantry when Dachau fell. ''Those assertions demean those who were there and those who died there.''
Weiskircher, a member of the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust, called Parks ''an enterprising opportunist.''
''I feel sorry for him,'' Weiskircher said. ''Unfortunately, we have found a significant number of people like Paul Parks.''
Cranston Rogers, 75, of Medway, who was patrolling outside the camp's east wall when it was liberated, called the B'nai B'rith decision ''preposterous.''
''It ignores the actual persons who were there and participated in the liberation,'' said Rogers. ''He clearly was not even present, much less had anything to do with the liberation of the camp. It really is an insult to the veterans who where there.''
But Nancy K. Kaufman, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council, said she does not disagree with the B'nai B'rith decision.
''I think he deserves [the award],'' Kaufman said. ''Paul Parks has been a friend of the Jewish community. He's been an outspoken, passionate witness to the events of World War II. I really think he has been someone who has stood up and spoken to the horrors.''
Eric Rozenman, a spokesman for B'nai B'rith International in Washington, said yesterday's decision is not the end of the organization's review into how award nominees are selected.
''Serious issues were raised and they just can't be put aside because the local unit [in Berlin] goes ahead and carries out a program that was already planned,'' said Rozenman.
He said if Parks's claim to be a Dachau liberator is proven false, ''we'll have to make sure that the process by which local units make these selections is upgraded.''
Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, who presided for 25 years at Temple Beth El in Sudbury and is now rabbi-in-residence at Hebrew Union College in New York, said it is important to determine whether Parks has manufactured parts of his military record.
''If the allegations were to be proven true, it would be more than just a swindle,'' Kushner said. ''It would be a defamation of the extraordinary and often life-risking courageous efforts of those who did put their lives on the line to save Jews during the war.
''That's what makes it so potentially disturbing.''


Women's 2018 – Coach's Review – Old Ivanhoe Grammarians Football Club
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Women's 2018 – Coach's Review
by Ryan Naughton
For the girls, the season began on the 22nd of November 2017 and finished on the 12th of August 2018. A near nine-month journey that saw the beginning of something special at Old Ivanhoe. The players developed their understanding of the rules of the game, improved their fitness levels and honed their skills, growing a tremendous amount as a group. They did this in searing heat and freezing cold, through humidity and rain.
They showed commitment levels that rivalled seasoned veterans and their dedication led them to astonishing achievements. Overall finishing second on the ladder, they won 10 games out of their 14 and had several highlights, including:
62 girls trained throughout the year
Jacqueline Mitchell Hill was announced as the inaugural Captain.
Sarah Foley kicking the team's first ever goal
The team's first win in round two against Old Melbournian's
The team's first 50-point win in round three against Yarra Old Grammarians, featuring seven individual goal kickers
A heart-stopping win against Oakleigh in round five
Knocking off top-placed Old Melbournian's for the second time of the year, this time by 59 points, in round eight
Securing the team's first ever finals birth in their first season after the round twelve win over Oakleigh
Finishing the season with a 34-point win over Aquinas, ensuring second place on the ladder
Playing a hard-fought finals series
Wearing the brown and white with pride all year long
The team's work has made their club mates, family, friends, supporters, board members and of course their coaches, incredibly proud. Everyone has loved seeing how far the team has come and is eager to start it all again in season 2019.
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Ivies go 7-0 on opening night
November 7, 2018 by Rob Browne
While most of the nation's attention was focused on Election Night coverage, seven of the 16 Ivy teams opened the 2018-19 season. When the evening was over, the four men's and three women's teams were victorious and there was no need for any recounts. After noting the highs and lows for the Penn men, below are summaries for the other six squads.
Read moreIvies go 7-0 on opening night
Categories Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, General, Ivy League, Penn, Princeton, Yale Tags Abby Meyers, Adrease Jackson, Bella Alarie, Brendan Barry, Camilla Em, Camilla Ems, Carlie Littlefield, Chris Knight, Chris Lewis, Christian Juzang, Ivy League, James Foye, Jimmy Boeheim, John Bajusz, Justine Gaziano, Matt Morgan, Noah Kirkwood, Roxy Barahman, Shayna Mehta, Taylor Baur, Will Emery Leave a comment
Ivy League coaches' roundtables: About the brand, not the players
October 28, 2018 by Rob Browne
In past years, the Ivy League office organized a teleconference call for the men's basketball coaches, a few days after the preseason media poll. At those events, the coaches would talk about their teams, as well as answer questions from the Ivy League moderator and a small number of reporters. In addition, Reggie Greenwood, the league's Coordinator of Officials, would discuss any rule changes for the upcoming season. This year, the league decided to do away with the call in favor of having roundtable conversations with the men's and women's coaches.
The two 30-minute videos, which were shot in New Haven on Sept. 5 (women's coaches) and Sept. 12 (men's coaches), focused on the general improved state of Ivy recruiting, the difficulties in scheduling nonconference games as an improved mid-major conference, the unique challenges in playing back-to-back Ivy weekends, the importance of the Ivy Tournament for late-season competitiveness, and the significance of the league's partnership with ESPN. What fans did not hear was anything related to the specific teams and players.
Read moreIvy League coaches' roundtables: About the brand, not the players
Categories Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, General, Harvard, Ivy League, Penn, Princeton, Season Previews, Yale Tags AJ Brodeur, Andy Katz, Bella Alarie, Bill Bradley, Bryce Aiken, Bryce Washington, Camilla Emsbo, Chris Lewis, Courtney Banghart, Desmond Cambridge, Devin Cannady, Eleah Parker, Ike Nweke, Isaiah Kelly, Ivy League, Ivy League Tournament, Ivy tournament, Jaelin Llewellyn, Jeannie Boehm, Jeff Goodman, John Bajusz, John J. Lee Amphitheater, Justin Bassey, Justine Gaziano, Katie Benzan, Maka Ellis, Matt Cotton, Matt Morgan, Michael Wang, Mike Smith, Miye Oni, Myles Stephens, Niveen Rasheed, Noah Kirkwood, Palestra, Payne Whitney Gym, Reggie Greenwood, Roxy Barahman, Ryan Betley, Ryan Wittman, Seth Towns, Shayna Mehta, Spencer Freedman, Stone Gettings, Tauraus Samuels, Taylor Will, The Palestra, Trey Phills, Wes Slajchert Leave a comment
New recruits aim to keep Cornell men's basketball in the Ivy's upper division
October 28, 2018 August 9, 2018 by Rob Browne
Picked for sixth in the 2017-2018 Ivy League preseason poll, the Cornell men's team (12-16 overall, 6-8 Ivy) exceeded expectations to finish the season in fourth place and secure the team's first ever appearance in the Ivy Tournament. After starting conference play with three straight losses by a total of 71 points, the Red and their second-year head coach Brian Earl regrouped. Over the next four weeks, they went on a 4-2 run, punctuated by a 22-point second half comeback in a 107-101 triple overtime win over Princeton, to get back into the thick of the race for the upper division. After losing a thrilling double overtime at Harvard on the penultimate night of the regular season, Cornell bounced back again to defeat Dartmouth and claim the Ivy's fourth golden ticket.
In the semifinal against Harvard, the Big Red found themselves up seven with three minutes to go in the first half, but the Crimson closed the stanza on a 16-4 run. Without any answers in the second half, their season ended with a 74-55 defeat. With the return of Matt Morgan and Stone Gettings for their senior seasons, things looked up for the Cornell faithful. In May, however, Gettings changed all of that with a surprise announcement that he would forgo his senior season, graduate in December and become a graduate transfer for 2019-20. Despite the loss of their second-team All-Ivy forward, the Big Red look to jump over the .500 mark and make it back to Ivy Madness.
Read moreNew recruits aim to keep Cornell men's basketball in the Ivy's upper division
Categories Cornell, Season Previews 2018 Tags Barry Leonard, Brendan Barry, Chaz Mack, cornell, Dan Earl, Dean Noll, Jodan Abdur-Ra'oof, Joe Kessler, John Bajusz, Kobe Dickson, Kyle Brown, Matt Harshany, Matt Morgan, Max Samberg, Ryan Whittman, season preview, Steve Julian, Stone Gettings, Thurston McCarty, Troy Whiteside, Wil Bathurst 2 Comments
Brett Kavanaugh and the '85-'86 Yale Bulldogs
July 21, 2018 July 21, 2018 by Rob Browne
Following the recent nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the Yale Daily News noted that the Eli alum ('83-'87 Undergrad; '87-'90 Law) was once a writer at the paper's sports department. While journalists and commentators across the nation scour and highlight his voluminous legal output, we here at IHO have looked at his writings to take a (lengthy) look back at his work with the 1985-1986 Yale men's basketball team.
The Bulldogs finished the 1984-1985 season with a 14-12 overall record and a 7-7 mark in the Ivy League. They were tied for fourth with Harvard and Princeton, three games off the pace of league champ Penn, two games behind Columbia and one game back of Cornell. Yale won five of its last seven, including a home sweep of the Empire State Ivies and a 77-75 victory over the Quakers at the Palestra. Sophomore center Chris Dudley, who averaged 12.6 points, 10.2 rebounds and 2.0 blocks per game, was named to the All-Ivy first team.
Penn, led by first team All-Ivy junior guard Perry Bromwell and junior center Bruce Lefkowitz, was the preseason favorite to win the conference. In his November 21, 1985 season preview, Kavanaugh wrote, "Penn finished 10-4 in the Ivies last season, and their four losses were by a total of only 11 points. If they are disciplined and play as a team under new coach Tom Schneider, the Quakers should repeat as champions." According to the coaches preseason poll, Yale was picked second, followed by Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, Harvard, Dartmouth and Brown. Kavanaugh predicted a similar top five with Dartmouth, Brown, and Harvard in the bottom three spots.
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Categories General, Yale Tags Brett Kavanaugh, Brian Fitzpatrick, Brian Kasbar, Bruce Leftkowitz, Chris Dudley, Dan Levy, Dick Kucich, james jones, Jim Turner, John Bajusz, Kenny Wheeler, Matt Whitehead, Mike Cingiser, Mike Waitkus, Paul Cormier, Paul Maley, Perry Bromwell, Pete Carill, Ricky Ewing, Tom Brennan, Tom Gwydir, Tom Schneider, Tyrone Pitts Leave a comment
Matt Morgan withdraws from NBA Draft and looks to return to Cornell basketball
June 14, 2018 May 31, 2018 by Rob Browne
On Monday, ESPN's Jeff Goodman tweeted that Cornell's Matt Morgan would withdraw from the upcoming NBA Draft. That same day, Raphy Gendler of the Cornell Daily Sun reported that Morgan will return to the school and the team for his senior year. Noted Morgan in a text to the school paper, "It was in my best interest to come back and play one more year and finish out not only my athletic career but also my academic career. It was great going through the process again but I'm glad to officially be back and getting ready for another run with my team."
Morgan had tested the NBA Draft waters for the first time in the spring of 2017. During that time, he received interest from the Golden State Warriors, Minnesota Timberwolves, and Washington Wizards. He took the information from that process and used it to have his strongest season at Cornell. Not only did he lead the Ivy League in scoring for the third straight season, but his career-best 22.5 points per game was the 11th highest in the nation. The Concord, N.C. shooting guard ended the 2017-2018 season with an active 51-game double-digit scoring streak, while being named a member of the All-Ivy first team and the Lou Henson All-America team. His 1,646 points are third on the Big Red's all-time list, 17 points behind John Bajusz and 382 points behind Ryan Wittman's record 2,028.
Read moreMatt Morgan withdraws from NBA Draft and looks to return to Cornell basketball
Categories Cornell Tags Brian Earl, Chaz Mack, Cornell Daily Sun, Jeff Goodman, Jimmy Boeheim, Joel Davis, John Bajusz, Josh Warren, Matt Morgan, Ryan Whitman, Steve Julian, Stone Gettings, Terrance McBride, Troy Whiteside 1 Comment
Ivy 60 for 60: Louis Dale, Jeff Foote and Ryan Wittman
April 14, 2016 April 14, 2016 by Barry Leonard
Following our countdown of the top 10 moments in each Ivy school's men's basketball history this summer, Ivy Hoops Online is delighted to continue celebrating the 60th anniversary of modern Ivy League basketball by honoring the top 60 players in Ivy hoops history (in no particular order). For the next entry in our Ivy 60 for 60 series, three of the greatest players in Cornell basketball history whose legacies are inextricably linked, as recalled by legendary Cornell broadcaster Barry Leonard, who wrapped up his 24th season of calling Big Red hoops in 2016:
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Ivy 60 for 60: John Bajusz
April 5, 2016 April 5, 2016 by Rob Browne
Following our countdown of the top 10 moments in each Ivy school's men's basketball history this summer, Ivy Hoops Online is delighted to continue celebrating the 60th anniversary of modern Ivy League basketball by honoring the top 60 players in Ivy hoops history (in no particular order). For the next entry in our Ivy 60 for 60 series, we focus on John Bajusz, one of the greatest players in Cornell basketball history…
In the fall of September 1986, Philadelphia Inquirer writer Dan Rottenberg described his disappointment in then-first year Eagles coach Buddy Ryan, who refused to shake hands with opponents following games. When looking for the antidote to Ryan's unprofessional behavior, Rottenberg remembered the actions of Cornell star John Bajusz.
In March 1986, the Big Red went down to the Palestra with a one game lead on Brown with two games remaining. Cornell's star captain was blanketed by Penn defenders all evening, forcing him into extremely long outside shots. Although miraculously making nine of 12 shots and going 6-for-6 from the charity stripe, his team was down eight with a minute to go. After being removed from the game by coach Tom Miller, a disappointed Bajusz (pronounced BAY-us) refused to go to the bench until he ran to midcourt to warmly shake the hands of the three Quakers defenders and wave congratulations to the remaining two Penn players under the basket. Without a title, the 21-year-old Bajusz was more of a champion than a Super Bowl winning coach greater than twice his age.
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Categories Cornell Tags Benet Academy, Buddy Ryan, Carrier Dome, cornell, Dan Rottenberg, Dwayne "Pearl" Washington, Ivy 60 for 60, Jan Van Breda Kolff, Jim Turner, John Bajusz, Mike Davis, Perry Bromwell, Philadelphia Inquirer, Ryan Wittman, The Palestra, Tom Miller 7 Comments


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Federalist 1 Federalist 1 1 Alexander Hamilton By the time the members of the New York ratifying convention gathered in June 1788, ratification had succeeded in eight states—only one shy of the nine required. The pro-ratification Federalist Party in New York was weak, outnumbered at the convention by more than two to one. Hamilton, sensing the danger posed by attacks on the Constitution that had been published in newspapers across the state, suggested to James Madison and John Jay that the three of them write a series of essays defending and explaining the Constitution. Published under the pen name "Publius" in three New York City newspapers beginning in October 1787, The Federalist was called by Thomas Jefferson "the best commentary on the principles of ...
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First drive review: 2019 Lamborghini Huracán Evo takes a tech leap forward
Kirk Bell June 14, 2019 Comment Now!
Big Willow at Willow Springs Raceway is a daunting 2.5-mile stretch of undulating asphalt in California's Mojave desert. It provides a bumpy, off-camber, high-speed rollercoaster ride that only becomes more intimidating the higher the speeds rise and the harder the dampers are. On this 99-degree scorcher of a June day, it will put the revisions made to the 2019 Lamborghini Huracán Evo to the test. Will this super sports car ride buckboard hard on this bear of a track or handle it with ease? I'm about to find out.
I have my own personal escort on this four-lap journey. His name is Kevin Conway. He's a Lamborghini Squadra Corsa driver, and the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Rookie of the Year. He doesn't know me from Adam, and that could be a problem.
2019 Lamborghini Huracán Evo first drive, Willow Springs Raceway, June 2019
With one crack at the track, I dial up Corsa (Italian for Track) mode on the red toggle on the bottom of the steering wheel and head out behind a pro racing driver. Corsa is meant to get me around the track as quickly as possible. If I wanted to have more fun and hang the tail out in corners, I'd choose Sport.
Conway isn't messing around and we accelerate with gusto out of the pits, approaching the car's ludicrous 2.9-second 0-60 mph sprint, then head into the turns. Speed builds like a bull shot out of the shoot, and Corsa mode demands manual shifts via the large titanium paddles behind the steering wheel. Blue lines in the digital gauge cluster act as shift lights, coming together to tell me when it's time to grab the next gear. The 7-speed dual-clutch transmission fires off shifts with the immediacy of a silenced rifle blast, and the raucous V-10 crackles and spits between gears.
Improved breathing through a revised intake manifold and new titanium intake valves squeeze more power from mid-mounted 5.2-liter V-10. It now makes 29 more horsepower for a total of 630 horses at a dazzling 8,000 rpm and 30 additional pound-feet of torque to bring the total to 443 lb-ft at an also high 6,500 rpm. The naturally aspirated V-10 sings its thunderous song through a reworked exhaust system.
In addition to those shifts, Corsa sets some other parameters for the car. The all-wheel-drive system aims for a 20/80 front/rear bias but adjusts based on the situation, and the steering ratio changes from Strada's 16:1 to a razor sharp 9.5:1.
If I had the time right now, I could be watching the Huracán Evo's new 8.4-inch center touchscreen, which I've set to its LDPI (Lamborghini Dinamica Veicolo Integrata) screen, to watch the percentages of power front to rear and steering angle front and rear. Instead, my eyes are forward, switching between Conway's line and the entry, apex, and exit points of the track's nine turns.
Building on success
Lamborghini had a problem with the last Huracán. It was too good. Though it had less power and cost much less than the V-12-powered Aventador, the lighter Huracán challenged and beat its bigger brother for lap times. So, Lamborghini gave the Aventador rear-axle steering to help it around racetracks. Then, when the Huracán Performante with the new Aerodinamica Lamborghini Attiva (ALA) system set a new Nürburgring production car track record, that system moved over to the Aventador SVJ where it helped the SVJ claim the same record.
For 2019, Lamborghini massaged the body lines for improved downforce and aero efficiency, while also adding chassis technology to make the car more nimble and controlled. A new front splitter with an integrated wing, a reshaped underbody, and a slotted rear spoiler help improve aero efficiency by a multiple of six. The car has seven times more downforce thanks to that rear spoiler and a new rear diffuser. New front ducts help clean up turbulence and channel air to the rear cooling ducts where they help improve cooling by 16 percent.
The chassis tech is even more extensive. With the Evo, the rear-axle-steering system is adopted by the Huracán for the first time. It turns the rear wheels up to 3 degrees opposite of the fronts at speeds of 50 mph or lower, then turns them with the fronts at higher speeds for more stability. The car also adds brake-based torque vectoring and the LDPI system. The latter is a big computer brain that takes in information from all of the car's other dynamics systems (rear-axle steering, stability control, all-wheel drive, magnetic ride control dampers, and the series of accelerometers and gyroscopes placed at the car's center of gravity that make up the Lamborghini Piattaforma Inerziale system) and predicts where the car is going and helps it get there. This system can react to constant changes in driving conditions within 20 milliseconds. Previously, each system acted more or less independently and reacted to the driving situation instead of anticipating it.
Thanks to these changes, the one and only Huracán is now quicker on smaller tracks like the road course at Italy's Nardo test facility than the Huracán Performante, the ultimate track version, had been. The massive amounts of downforce and air vectoring capability of the ALA system, however, mean that the Performante is still the Huracán king on longer, higher-speed tracks. Can a Huracán Evo Performante be far off?
Following Conway through the track's early corners, I grow confident in what this car can do. I stay about two car lengths off his tail and follow his line. The Alcantara-upholstered steering wheel provides great feedback, and I don't have to turn it far to make the car follow his path.
Turns 2, 3, and 4 are tighter and require lower speeds. This is where the rear-axle steering makes the Evo more nimble than the previous Huracán. What that doesn't handle, the new brake-based torque vectoring can accomplish. Both systems shorten these turns, and the LDPI system controls it all.
In the press briefing before the drive, Lamborghini's U.S.-market chief Alessandro Farmeschi said of the LDPI system, "The effect is that you start becoming a superhero."
Gradually I grow even more confident and shorten that gap to perhaps a car length.
Conway's voice comes over the in-car radio: "Back off a bit and give me more room."
Speed up and create more room. You're the pro race driver.
Still, I reluctantly do what I'm told, though I know there's a lot more room to play with this car's capabilities.
As we head into the track's test of manhood, the bumpy, bending turn 8 and the lead up to turn 9 with its breathtaking dip, we maybe reach 110 mph, though I've been close to 125 mph here in the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series. This car's magnetic dampers (retuned and more responsive), low and wide stance, and massive Pirelli P Zero 20-inch tires can handle this track better than just about anything on the market today, let alone six years ago. I expected to get to 125 or maybe 130 mph here. Conway isn't having it.
We do reach 150-plus on the front stretch, but even that involves early braking before turn 1. That's not a challenge for the 15-inch front and 14-inch rear carbon-ceramic brakes with their 6-piston front and 4-piston rear calipers.
I'm feeling my oats as we hit turn 1. The quick steering makes for equally quick turn in, the car stays defiantly flat through the corner, the wide Pirelli P Zero tires grab the sticky pavement, and I push up closer through the next series of turns.
Again, he tells me to back off. Again, I think he should go faster. Again, I defer reluctantly.
Farmeschi is right. The Huracán Evo does make me feel like a superhero, but Superman doesn't fly with restricted airspeeds, Batman isn't limited to what he can carry on his utility belt, and Iron Man isn't limited to 1930s technology. I want to explore more than 6/10ths of this car's capability.
Even at this pace, though, the Evo's colors shine through. It's a considerable step up from the excellent car it replaces. The rear-axle steering makes it more nimble through the tight stuff. The improved aerodynamics give it more downforce without reducing its 202 mph top speed, and that means it can stick to the track better in high-speed corners, too. The big brain that is the LDPI system helps put the car on its intended path but doesn't intrude on the driving experience. And the updated infotainment system appears to be much more user friendly, though I've only had limited exposure.
The 2019 Lamborghini Huracán Evo certainly conquers the gauntlet that is Big Willow. The new Huracán may not be entirely new, but it's evolved in the best way possible.
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High-Res Gallery: 2019 Lamborghini Huracán Evo first drive, Willow Springs Raceway, June 2019
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