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Elizabeth Tracey Mae Wettlaufer of Woodstock, Ontario, appeared in court on Tuesday morning. The victims were residents in two long-term care facilities where Ms Wettlaufer worked and were between 75 and 96 years old. Police said seven of the victims were given a fatal dose of a drug. The victims were five women and three men and were all residents of Caressant Care in Woodstock and Meadow Park in London, Ontario. "The victims were administered a drug... there are obviously a number of drugs that are stored and are available in long-term care facilities," Woodstock Police Chief William Renton said at a news conference. The chief declined to comment on a possible motive, but did add that investigators are confident that they have identified all victims. Caressant spokesman Lee Griffi said the accused was a registered nurse and left their employment approximately two and a half years ago. "We deeply regret the additional grief and stress this is imposing on the families involved," Mr Griffi said in a written statement. The deaths took place between 2007 and 2014.
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Kevin De Bruyne believes his form for Manchester City has answered Jose Mourinho's criticism that he was incapable of fighting for a first-team place. The former Chelsea midfielder returned to the Premier League with City in a £55m deal last summer, 18 months after leaving Stamford Bridge for £18m. De Bruyne made just two Premier League starts for Chelsea under Mourinho before departing for Wolfsburg, leading his former boss to question his ability to compete for a starting spot. The Belgium international, who won City's Player of the Year award in his debut season at the Etihad and has been nominated for the 2016 Ballon d'Or, says his performances since returning to England prove Mourinho wrong.
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Audi plans to buy back as many as 25,000 Q7 SUVs equipped with the 3.0-liter diesel engine, German weekly Der Spiegel reports. The expected move is prompted by the automaker's inability to bring that version of the V6 TDI engine into compliance, the paper said, confirming rumors that the 3.0-liter diesels across the Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche lineups will get different technical fixes depending on generation. Diesel Q7s affected by the EPA's Notice of Violation include 2009 through 2016 model year vehicles; the VW Touareg TDI was offered with a similar engine, but Der Spiegel did not indicate why only the Q7 faces the prospect of buybacks. In all, versions of the 3.0-liter TDI engine that were named in the Notice of Violation were installed in Audi A6, A7, A8, A8L, Q5 and Q7 vehicles, in addition to the Porsche Cayenne Diesel and the VW Touareg.
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Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho says he will never reach the position where he feels forced to sell Wayne Rooney. Rooney has been in and out of United's side since Mourinho took over from Louis van Gaal during the summer, with his last three Premier League appearances all coming as a substitute. But Mourinho feels Rooney's stature as a United great, after playing more than 500 games and scoring nearly 250 goals for the club, means it will be the player who decides when to bring his Old Trafford career to an end. Speaking to Sky Sports News HQ, Mourinho said, when asked if he would ever be as ruthless as to sell the 30-year-old: "No, never.
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TOKYO -- Carlos Ghosn officially folded troubled Mitsubishi Motors into the Renault-Nissan alliance and appointed himself chairman, forecasting nearly half a billion dollars in savings as soon as next year as the group joins a small club of automakers operating at a massive scale. Nissan Motor Co. and Mitsubishi outlined plans to reap combined savings of 49 billion yen ($473.2 million) in the next fiscal year through joint manufacturing, product sharing, combined purchasing and other combined operations that spread costs over a higher volume of vehicles. The tie-up, finalized on Thursday when Nissan completed its 237 billion-yen ($2.29 billion) purchase of a controlling 34 percent stake in Mitsubishi, also unleashed a cascade of executive changes. “Today, our global alliance has reached an inflection point,” Ghosn said. “With Mitsubishi, the alliance will have a scale advantage over most carmakers and a handicap to none.” Ghosn said he asked current Mitsubishi Chairman and President Osamu Masuko to stay on as president of Mitsubishi, even though Masuko will relinquish his title of chairman to Ghosn. Because Ghosn will be wearing his third hat as chairman –- after identical roles at Renault and Nissan –- he also appointed Nissan Vice Chairman and Chief Competition Officer Hiroto Saikawa as his co-CEO at Nissan. Ghosn will continue to serve as CEO and chairman of both Renault and Nissan. “There will be no loss or dispersion of attention on Nissan,” Ghosn said of the decision to appoint a co-CEO to cover the top spot. “You want a decision from a CEO, here he is. We want to move fast, decisively… There is no difference between what I think and what he thinks.” As part of the tie-up, Ghosn appointed three other Nissan executives to a downsized 11-member Mitsubishi board. Nissan will also install its pillar executive Trevor Mann as Mitsubishi’s new chief operating officer. Mann will leave his post as chief performance officer at Nissan. Filling Mann’s role as chief performance officer will be Jose Munoz, who currently serves as chairman of Nissan’s North American operations. Munoz will do double duty in both roles. Also at Nissan, Alliance Executive Vice President of Purchasing Yasuhiro Yamauchi will take Saikawa’s position as chief competitive officer. Veronique Sariat-Depotte was promoted to take Yamauchi’s old role and will head the Renault-Nissan purchasing organization.
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Carlisle have re-signed forward Derek Asamoah on a two-month contract. The 35-year-old former Ghana international had been released by Carlisle at the end of last season following an 18-month spell, during which he clocked up 79 appearances and scored 14 goals. Carlisle manager Keith Curle said on the club's official website: "He wasn't engaged for this season because I wasn't going to be able to offer him the game time someone of his age wants. He didn't want to sign a contract and just be a squad player. "The situation has slightly changed for both parties where I haven't been able to bring in the type of striker I wanted with that kind of pace. He hasn't managed to secure anything for himself but he's out there and still available."
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German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt is proceeding with the ministry's plans to close a legislation loophole that has been blamed for emissions discrepancies in a number of vehicles, Automotive News Europe reports. Specifically, the ministry is seeking to eliminate a provision in EU legislation that allows manufacturers to use software that temporarily disables a vehicle's emissions control systems to protect the engine, such as in instances of starts in cold temperatures. The Ministry of Transport (KBA) has previously made statements regretting the existence of this loophole, which has reportedly permitted Volkswagen to avoid violating EU emissions regulations in Europe, a fact lamented by a number of EU officials who have called for compensation from the Wolfsburg-based automaker. The ministry has blamed existing legislation for giving automakers wide discretion to disable emissions control in instances in which their use is not objectively warranted. The provision that allows automakers to turn off emissions control devices in instances when they are needed to protect the engine has received scrutiny earlier this week when Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Chief Technical Officer Harald Wester was forced to defend the company's engine management software in the diesel Fiat 500X before a EU Parliament inquiry. In prior months, German officials have accused the diesel version of the 500X of containing what they claimed to defeat devices, alleging that its emissions control systems were designed to deactivate after 22 minutes, noting that the standard emissions test takes 20 minutes. In testimony before the EU panel this week Wester maintained that the software in the 500X was designed to protect the engine and did not constitute a disallowed defeat device.
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Barcelona striker Neymar has agreed a new contract which keeps him at the Nou Camp until the summer of 2021. The Catalan club has fixed his buy-out clause at £181m for the first year of his new contract, £200m for the second year and £226m for the remaining three years of his deal
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Ahead of the upcoming Specialty Equipment Market Association trade show -- aka SEMA Show -- Ford shed light on a few of the hot hatchbacks it plans to show off in its booth. Along with custom versions of most of its lineup, Ford will have an array of modified Focus and Fiesta hatchbacks. The custom-built performance cars range from the lightly massaged Focus ST to a race-ready Focus RS with 500 hp. There is only one Fiesta ST, which was tuned by Tucci Hot Rods, but it’s far from stock and features a wide-body kit and enough engine mods to double the stock Fiesta ST's output. The mods made to the Focus STs might inspire owners of the po[CENSORED]r performance hatch, but the three custom Focus RS hatchbacks will be the talk of the hot-hatch world. While one is just an attempt at a streetable rally machine, the two other Focus RS hatchbacks have the figures of absolute handfuls on a racetrack. Roush put together the more powerful of the two Focus hatchbacks; it apparently makes 500 hp. While it doesn’t mention too many other driveline mods, we imagine nearly every part of that Focus powertrain was beefed up accordingly. There aren’t any real pictures of these SEMA machines because many are likely finishing up their builds, but we’ll make sure to hit the Ford booth at this year’s show to get more details about these hot hatchbacks. For the full list of modifications for these cars, click here.
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Gerard Pique has been ruled out for three weeks and will miss Barcelona's Champions League return clash at Manchester City. The centre-back turned his ankle before half-time in Wednesday night's 4-0 Champions League hammering of City at the Nou Camp. The club has confirmed that the 29-year old will be on the sidelines for some crucial upcoming encounters - including the return to City on 1 November. As well as the trip to Manchester Pique could miss La Liga games with Valencia, Granada and Sevilla. A Barcelona statement read: "Gerard Pique has sprained the external lateral ligament in the right ankle, and the estimated time he will be out will be three weeks. Fellow defender Jordi Alba had to be replaced after just nine minutes and he is expected to be out for two weeks. Boss Luis Enrique said: "It's always worrying when you lose players through injury.I'm certain we will find it difficult in Manchester."
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Aston Martin and Red Bull Racing’s long-rumored hypercar is getting closer to destroying streets -- that’s no overstatement. The Wall Street Journal sat down with the folks responsible for the mind-bending creation and shed some interesting light on the car’s direction. The aerodynamic team has managed to generate around 4,000 pounds of downforce with the model -- so much grip that the car could theoretically drive up the wind tunnel and stay planted. Adding to the team’s aerodynamic bag of tricks, the AM-RB 001 will generate all this downforce without a massive drag-inducing rear wing. Instead, the Aston Martin hypercar ducts air throughout the body and underbody to generate downforce. Aston Martin will also use an active suspension to further the effects of the downforce. The suspension will rely on computers to help figure out the road surface and adjust the ride height accordingly. This will allow for an extremely low ride height out on the racetrack, while it can be raised to a suitable level for the commute home -- that is, if you plan on commuting in your $3 million road-going race car. All of these figures mean Aston’s hypercar will hold four gs of lateral acceleration -- a number you’ll only see bested by Formula 1 and Top Fuel race cars. Combine that much grip with the rumored 1,000-hp V12, and we're guessing that the AM-RB 001 will be an absolute missile. Aston says there will only be 175 built: 150 for the road and 25 slated for race use only. These are apparently going to hit the street in 2019, but if this keeps going on the path predicted, we’ll hopefully see some seat time before then.
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Jaguar Land Rover sees a major role for virtual reality as it redesigns its dealerships and sales process, its top North American executive said. “We will have some virtual reality experiences in our dealerships,” Joe Eberhardt, CEO of Jaguar Land Rover North America, said at the auto show here. “I think that will be a big part of the showroom experience.” Virtual reality probably will be most valuable before a new vehicle arrives in showrooms, allowing customers to experience the interior and check out color combinations, Eberhardt said. “I think there’s definitely a space for that, and we’re working on that as we speak,” he said. “It will never replace the real dealer experience, but it will have a big role, a very prominent role in the sales process going forward.” Jaguar Land Rover is converting dealerships to its new arch store design that houses both of its brands, as well as developing a way to connect online and in-store shopping. The first store with the new design has opened: a dealership owned by Penske Automotive Group Inc. in Darien, Conn. Four more under development will be completed this year, Eberhardt said. They are in Manhattan, Honolulu, Fairfield, Conn.; and Grand Rapids, Mich. More than 100 projects are in various stages of planning, Eberhardt said. Having both brands in the same store is meant to improve dealer profits, he said, “Because it allows us to have complementary product portfolios where we can cross-sell between the brands, but also where we don’t have to develop a product for each need for each of the brands. “We can fill different needs with different brands, and we get a better throughput for the fixed operations, i.e., the service and parts department.” Eberhardt said Jaguar Land Rover has formed a “retailer cabinet” to define new processes and customer expectations in a digital world.
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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says he hopes Lionel Messi finishes his career at Barcelona but does not think a move to England is completely out of the question. And Guardiola implied that he would be among the many suitors sure to target the brilliant Argentinean, were he to decide on a change of scenery. Messi was one of the shining lights in the brilliant Barcelona teams which Guardiola steered to three La Liga titles and a pair of Champions League wins.
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Philippe Coutinho (right) joined Liverpool three years ago from Serie A side Inter Milan Former Real Madrid and Brazil striker Ronaldo would like to see Philippe Coutinho leave Liverpool for the Bernabeu. Ronaldo spent five seasons in the Spanish capital, scoring 104 goals in 177 appearances for Real and winning two La Liga titles. The former Inter Milan forward said Coutinho, who has emerged as a key player for Liverpool since signing from Inter in 2013, should test himself in Spain.
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This latest look at the heavily camouflaged Corvette ZR1 shows that convertible and coupe models will both get massive wings, but the convertible's wing will sit closer to the decklid. We can only assume the different wing placement on the convertible is to help the driver see something besides a wing in the rear-view mirror. With the mid-engine Corvette inching closer to the streets, the front-engine 'Vette's days seemed numbered. If that actually turns out to be the case, and the mid-engine Corvette doesn’t get shelved again, the seventh-generation Corvette ZR1 will be a fitting farewell to the Corvette's winning original formula. We don’t know what is going on under the Corvette ZR1’s hood, but we imagine it’ll be at least as powerful as the 650 hp 6.2-liter V8 used in the current king Corvette – the Z06. If we look at the previous generation of Corvette, we can see the ZR1 was substantially more powerful than the then-naturally-aspirated Z06. The C6 Z06 ‘Vette was no dog with its 505 hp 7.0-liter V8, but the supercharged 6.2-liter V8 in the ZR1 made 638 hp. What we do know is that wing makes the Corvette ZR1 look like it means business. Hat tip to Indiansautoblog.com for originally posting the video.
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Votes are equal ! Reason of closing topic is becouse the challanger is banned ! T/C
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Angry Haitians looted aid trucks as the UN secretary general visited parts of the country hit by Hurricane Matthew, which killed 900 people. Ban Ki-moon said he witnessed a looting incident in Les Cayes, where he promised more aid to Haiti. He also urged countries to donate more. Officials say more than 1.4 million people urgently need humanitarian help. There are also fears of a cholera outbreak, with spikes in cases and deaths reported in the south west. The waterborne disease reached the island via Nepalese UN troops after the deadly earthquake in 2010, causing the deaths of nearly 10,000 people.
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It was 115 years ago this month that Henry Ford won his first and only automobile race. While the trappings and technology of big-league racing have evolved through the intervening century, the essential point for automakers hasn’t changed a whit. Ford Motor Company duly observed the anniversary of Henry’s win with a commemorative ceremony joining its first race car and its latest: the 2016 Le Mans-winning GT driven by Joey Hand, Dirk Mueller and Sebastien Bourdais. The company allowed no drives or even rides in the GT, but it did offer rides in a replica of Henry’s first race car. The original remains in the Henry Ford museum. In October of 1901, Henry Ford was 38. His first effort to mass produce automobiles -- the Detroit Automobile Company -- had just dissolved in failure after a production run or 19 or 20. Never a fan of racing, or at least not race driving, a desperate Ford nonetheless had a plan. If he could build a car to beat Alexander Winton -- at the time, America’s most famous racer, and also one of its most successful car builders -- he might re-establish his credentials as an engineer and kick start his flagging automotive career. In May of that year, Ford and a handful of associates began construction of the Sweepstakes, named for the race in which it would participate, at a shop in Detroit. The Sweepstakes’ primary load-bearing structure was two ash wood rails. It was driven by chain and sprocket, with a two-speed planetary transmission, full leaf-spring suspension and constricting-band brakes on the rear wheels only.
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The 35-year-old former Ghana international had been released by Carlisle at the end of last season following an 18-month spell, during which he clocked up 79 appearances and scored 14 goals. Carlisle manager Keith Curle said on the club's official website: "He wasn't engaged for this season because I wasn't going to be able to offer him the game time someone of his age wants. He didn't want to sign a contract and just be a squad player. "The situation has slightly changed for both parties where I haven't been able to bring in the type of striker I wanted with that kind of pace. He hasn't managed to secure anything for himself but he's out there and still available."
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American Honda is recalling approximately 350,000 Civic coupe and sedans in the U.S. from the 2016 model year to fix an issue with the vehicles’ electronic parking brake. The automaker, in a statement, said software that controls the vehicle stability control unit “may prevent application of the EPB when it is applied immediately after turning the vehicle ignition off.” Without the EPB properly engaged and the vehicle in Park, the Civic could roll away, causing injury. No accidents or injuries have been reported as a result of the issue, Honda said. The problem was discovered through warranty claims related to "the illumination of the brake warning light," Honda said. Honda will begin notifying affected Civic owners in November; dealers will install a software update free of charge. Honda’s recall comes just a day after Toyota recalled 92,000 Prius models in the U.S. from the 2016 and 2017 models years to correct an issue with the vehicle’s parking brake. "Honda recalls 350,000 Civics for electronic parking brake glitch" was originally published at Automotive News on 10/14/16.
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