Nico Hulkenberg expects new team mate Daniel Ricciardo to provide Renault with some valuable technical knowledge collected from his previous team, Red Bull Racing.

Formula 1’s regulations are upgraded for this year with a series of aerodynamic changes, but Hulkenberg still believes the Aussie’s insight could give Renault a technical boost.

“As drivers we’re not engineers and certainly not aerodynamicists,” the Hulk told Auto Motor und Sport.

“He cannot tell us how to make the bargeboard, but he could help us by explaining what Red Bull did with various systems or on setting up the car.

“He will certainly have some information from Red Bull for us, that will be interesting for sure,” said the German who thinks Ricciardo’s arrival at Renault will bring “a breath of fresh air” to a team that is pushing to close the gap to Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull.

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The 2019 aero tweaks, destined to improve overtaking, will include a simpler, larger front wing, simplified front brake ducts with no winglets and a wider, deeper rear wing.

The jury is still out however on whether the changes will allow a mid-field team such as Renault to edge significantly closer to F1’s trio of front-runners.

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“With the new front wings no one knows exactly where to go,” Hulkenberg said.

“But it’s not a full reboot, more of a soft reset. As a factory team, it must be our claim to be much closer to the front.

“In the last races we were missing between one and two seconds to the top teams, and we need to at least try to get rid of half of that.”

But Hulkenberg also insists that Renault, which is still building up its base, will require time to bridge the gap with its rivals up ahead.

“It also took time for Ferrari and Red Bull to catch Mercedes. We need that same time,” he added.

“Today nobody gets into Formula 1 and blows the others away. Everything has just become too complex for that. The first thing is finding the right people. It all takes time.”

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Here in Kabul, young friends with the Afghan Peace Volunteers look forward  to learning more about “The Tea Project” in late December, when Aaron Hughes arrives, an artist, a U.S. military veteran, and a core member of Iraq Veterans Against War. He’ll carry with him 20 plaster replicas of a standard-issue, factory-made Styrofoam cup. They’re part of a set numbering 779 replica cups, each cup dedicated to prisoners detained in Guantanamo. In the entire collection, 220 of the cups bear names of Afghan citizens imprisoned in Guantanamo.

In Guantanamo, with each evening meal, Guantanamo prisoners are served tea in styrofoam cups. Many prisoners etch floral designs into their cups, which become a nightly artistic outlet for men with few other freedoms allowed them. Aaron had heard a former Guantanamo guard describe how deeply he grew to deeply love the cups that had become works of art.  

The cups would then be collected, each night, and turned over to military intelligence which most likely just dumped them. Aaron’s cups are more durable. A Guantanamo prisoner’s name is written on the base of every cup, and each carries a unique design. Following the practice of the prisoners, Aaron focused on etching floral patterns into the cups he created, displaying flowers that are native to each prisoner’s homeland. 220 of the cups he has sculpted bear the names of prisoners from Afghanistan.

Life stories represented by each cup are reaching a wide variety of individuals and groups during Aaron’s travels on behalf of the project. He invites people to sit with him, sip tea from the cups, and talk about their stories related to war, destruction, peace, love, creativity …the conversations range freely, but the cups bring a certain focus, remembering the prisoners in Guantanamo.

I wish that Aaron could somehow sit across from Tariq Ba Odah and serve him tea. Now 36 years old, Tariq Ba Odah, a Yemeni citizen, arrived in Guantanamo in 2002, when he was only 23. Detained without charge in Guantanamo since 2002, Tariq has maintained a hunger strike since 2007. He now weighs 74 pounds. His lawyers say that he visibly suffers from severe effects of malnutrition and is at serious risk of permanent physical and neurological impairment and death. Tariq Ba Odah endures horrible force feeding rather than cooperate with the system that has separated him and the other prisoners from loved ones, subjecting them to torture and dehumanizing conditions.  

Witness Against Torture activists from the U.S. focused on Tariq Ba Odah’s life in Guantanamo when they set up their encampment, in late November, 2015, in Cuba, outside the U.S. naval base. Like Aaron, they feel great empathy for the people imprisoned in Guantanamo, along with responsibility to keep educating U.S. people about the plight of 107 prisoners still held there. The delegation demanded that the prison close. They reject a new plan being developed by the Obama administration which would move the Guantanamo prisoners to prisons in the U.S., some still to be held indefinitely without charge or trial.

“Simply moving Guantanamo is no solution,” says Helen Schietinger of Washington, D.C. “That would mean holding on to the barbaric practice of indefinite detention. Besides, the entire domestic system of “correctional’ institutions is a travesty, poisoned by racism. We need to overhaul the U.S. justice system, not add Guantanamo to it.”

Enmanuel Candelario, an artist from New York, spoke bluntly about the base itself, calling it “an unwelcome symbol of U.S. power, which houses a torture chamber.”

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A cancer patient was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia on Wednesday after allegedly “disrupting” the negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in a protest aimed at maintaining access to affordable cancer medicines in the dozen countries, including the U.S. and Canada, that would be impacted by the colossal trade deal.

Video footage showed Zahara Heckscher—who was wearing a t-shirt that read “I Have Cancer. I Can’t Wait Years” and holding a hospital drip pole that read “TPP: Don’t Cut My IV”—being handcuffed and led away by police after she refused to leave an area within the Westin Hotel where trade ministers were holding the high-level and secretive talks.

Heckscher is part of a group of cancer patients and survivors who, alongside other healthcare advocates, have demanded the secret text of the TPP be released so they can verify that a final agreement would not include a “death sentence clause”—a proposal submitted by the U.S. delegation and included in earlier drafts that would see de facto monopolies on biological medicines extended for up to 8 years.

As she attempted to read a statement to gathered press in the hotel lobby, Heckscher refused to stop talking or leave the area:

According to Public Citizen, the Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group that has raised rounded objections to the TPP and similar deal, Heckscher has been treated by biologicals including trastuzumab (Hercepin) and pertuzumab (Perjeta). She is currently undergoing chemotherapy as part of a clinical trial, the group explained, and continues on denosumab (Xgeva) treatment as well. 

“[This rule] represents the worst of secretive trade deals – a rule that has nothing to do with trade, but will lead to preventable suffering. You can put a suit and tie on this, but it still stinks.” —Peter Maybarduk, Public Citizen

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Human tragedy unfolded during the annual Muslim hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia on Thursday as more than 700 people were crushed to death, and hundreds more injured, as a stampede took hold during a procession in Mina, outside the holy city of Mecca.

Early estimates and official statements about the number of people killed or harmed have continued to rise amid a chaotic scene. According to CNN:

The stampede occurred Thursday morning during the ritual known as “stoning the devil” in the tent city of Mina, about 2 miles from Mecca, Islam’s holiest city.

Hundreds have been killed in past years during the same ceremony, and it comes only 13 days after a crane collapse killed more than 100 people at another major Islamic holy site, the Grand Mosque in Mecca.

“We have a stampede accident in Mina, and civil defense is dealing with it,” said Brig. Gen. Mansour al-Turki, an Interior Ministry spokesman.

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Civil defense authorities said the latest death toll is 453, but the numbers have been climbing steadily. Officials deployed 4,000 workers and 220 ambulances and other vehicles to Mina to help with the disaster.

Robert Downey Jr. welcomed his on-screen nemesis and real-life friend Tom Hiddleston to Instagram in a way that only he could. Despite being a little late to join, Hiddleston was greeted by friends and fans with open arms on Tuesday—most notably (and sarcastically) by his Marvel co-star.

Downey Jr., who plays Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) alongside Hiddleston’s Loki in the Marvel Avengers franchise, poked a bit of good-natured fun at Hiddleston’s high-profile romance with pop princess Taylor Swift.

“Join me in welcoming the biggest T. Stark fan of them all to Instagram! @twhiddleston” Downey Jr. captioned a photo of Hiddleston wearing an “I [heart emoticon] T.S.” tank top at the beach during Hiddleswift’s epic Fourth of July weekend in Rhode Island. The shirt is, of course, a shoutout to his lady love, but Downey Jr. understandably couldn’t resist teasing his friend.

As for Hiddleston’s first post on the popular photo sharing app? The handsome Brit teased the return of his character Loki, whom he will play once again in the upcoming movie Thor: Ragnarok. “He’s back!” the actor wrote along with a selfie of himself in costume.

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We’re looking forward to plenty more selfies and maybe some retaliation from Hiddleston in the future.

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