Pedrosa conquers mixed conditions for P1 at Aragon

Number 26 the only man under the two minute barrier after a rain-affected and damp day

Tags MotoGP, 2017, GRAN PREMIO MOVISTAR DE ARAGÓN, FP2, #AragonGP

Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda Team) is the man with a target on his back after Day 1 at the Gran Premio Movistar de Aragon, as the 2012 winner at the track went fastest in FP2 to top the combined timesheets on – the only man under the two minute barrier after weather affected track time for the premier class. Jorge Lorenzo (Ducati Team) was second quickest after similarly striking late on in the second session, ahead of rookie Johann Zarco (Monster Yamaha Tech 3).

FP1 was fully wet and saw reigning Champion Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) hit the ground running to go quickest, and the local rider was fourth overall after FP2. The skies were largely dry for the second session, but riders remained on rain tyres with some parts of the track much wetter than others and spray kicking up. That’s when Pedrosa and Lorenzo shone and laptimes improved, with the man in fifth also impressing – Pull&Bear Aspar Team’s Karel Abraham.

The biggest story of the day, however, belonged to Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP), who ventured out in the wet in FP1 to put in some laps and test his fitness, then managing another 13 laps in FP2. The ‘Doctor’ suffered one run off but did over 20 laps on Day 1 as he attempts to race in the Aragon GP after missing only Misano due to his broken leg.

Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda) had a good first day to go P6, ahead of compatriot Sam Lowes (Aprilia Racing Team Gresini) in an impressive seventh – the man who won the intermediate class race at the track last season. Championship challenger Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team) had a more muted Day 1 on the timesheets for eighth overall, just ahead of the second Aprilia of Aleix Espargaro. His brother Pol Espargaro (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) was another top performer on Day 1, locking out the top ten on the KTM.

Alvaro Bautista (Pull&Bear Aspar Team), Jack Miller (EG 0,0 Marc VDS), Bradley Smith (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing), Andrea Iannone (Team Suzuki Ecstar) and wildcard KTM test rider Mika Kallio (Red Bull KTM Factory Racing) – who was fifth in the wetter FP1 session – completed the top fifteen on combined times for Friday.

With weather set to change for tomorrow – and improve – it’s now all eyes on the sky for FP3 and direct entry to Q2, and then qualifying from 14:10 (GMT + 1).

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WHITE HOUSE REPORT

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President Trump Approves Emergency Declarations for those in the Path of Hurricane Irma 
Yesterday, President Trump approved an emergency declaration in the State of Florida, the territory of the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The President ordered Federal assistance to supplement the response efforts due to the emergency conditions resulting from Hurricane Irma beginning on September 5, 2017, and continuing.

Tax Reform 
Today, the President is traveling to Bismarck, North Dakota, to participate in a tax reform event with workers from the energy sector. President Trump is committed to unleashing America’s economic potential and his plan for tax reform will revitalize the American economy and create millions of jobs.
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Dr. Jerome Adams Sworn in as U.S. Surgeon General 
Yesterday, Vice President Pence participated in a swearing-in ceremony for U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams.
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Photo of the Day

Vice President Mike Pence swears-in Dr. Jerome Adams as U.S. Surgeon General | September 6, 2017 (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)

POTUS and VP Today

Today, the President and Vice President will meet with House and Senate leaders from both parties at the White House. In the afternoon, the President will travel to Bismarck, North Dakota, where he will participate in a tax reform event. The Vice President will then travel to the U.S. Capitol to participate in the Senate Republican Policy Lunch. Later in the day, the Vice President will join Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) Michael Rogers to tour the agency and participate in a series of briefings.

Coming Up This Week

The Amir of Kuwait will visit the White House tomorrow to meet with the President and Vice President.

White House Spring Internship

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WEST WING MHI Daily

“What Dreamers really need is compromise in Congress”

– The New York Post Editorial Board

The New York Post editorial board writes President Trump’s plan to wind-down the Obama-era program for “Dreamers” in six months, gives “Congress time (and a deadline) to pass a law to resolve one of the toughest immigration issues.” The President’s plan “keeps his campaign promise to reverse his predecessor’s clearly illegal action, while showing heart for people stuck in a bind through no fault of their own,” the Post writes. President Obama repeatedly said he couldn’t change the law, and that the DACA program was only temporary, yet Congress failed to pass any meaningful legislation even when it was under Democratic control. The Post concludes, “If Congress is ever to find a way to function again,” immigration reform is a “good start.”

In The Hill, the Heritage Foundation’s Hans von Spakovsky and David Inserra write that “DACA is bad public policy and violates core constitutional principles,” saying that ending this program “is a crucial step in fixing our immigration system.”

In economic news, economist and columnist Robert Samuelson highlights in The Washington Post the flurry of recent studies and polls showing stronger economic confidence and an increasing number of Americans who identify as middle class.

The National Tax Limitation Foundation’s Lewis Uhler and Peter Ferrara write in Investor’s Business Daily, that the U.S. corporate tax rate is “outdated and counterproductive,” and say President Trump’s reforms to the corporate taxes would benefit “blue collar workers and the middle class, with millions more new jobs and the return of rising wages.”

In regards to Hurricane Harvey, RealClearPolitics columnist and former Bush speechwriter Anneke Green praises President Trump’s response to Harvey and attacks the media for finding small and often contradictory reasons to criticize the President.

WEST WING MHI 

MHI NextDraft

1 THE APPLE OF YOUR I I’ve been a tech addict and Apple fanboy since the 80s. Apple could release a 2×4 with a rotary dial for two grand and I’d buy it in a second. Today, Apple celebrated the tenth anniversary of the iPhone (the product that changed everything) by sharing a selection of updated products that serve as a reminder of how far personal technology has come, and the remarkable hold it has over most of us. In addition to updated iPhones that unlock when they recognize your face, Apple introduced a new version of its watch with a cell connection that keeps you connected at all times, while monitoring your heart rate and other vitals. That’s how integral tech wants to be to your life, and we’re only a decade into the iPhone revolution. As we’ve seen with all other tech advances, these will come with positives and negatives. Here’s a rundown of Apple announcements. + As I reported last week, facial recognition of all types will herald in a period of greater convenience, coupled with less privacy and increased weirdness. + As we put more of ourselves into the cloud, it’s worth remembering that pretty much everything we’ve ever shared has been stolen. The Equifax hack was the latest example, and exposes our identity crisis. “Considered along with the data stolen from various other breaches, hacks, and leaks, ‘it’s a safe assumption that everyone’s Social Security number has been compromised and their identity data has been stolen.'” + How does our tech keep moving forward while our security lags far behind? In the NYT, Zeynep Tufekci takes a look at Equifax’s Maddening Unaccountability. (Who would have guessed a company that named itself after a Fax would fail to be armed for modern threats?)

2 BRING YOUR OWN BORSCHT “Russian operatives hiding behind false identities used Facebook’s event-management tool to remotely organize and promote political protests in the U.S., including an August 2016 anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim rally in Idaho.” As the Daily Beastreports, it wasn’t just fake news. Russia Used Facebook Events to Organize Anti-Immigrant Rallies on US Soil. + Buzzfeed: Russia Sought A Broad Reset with Trump, Secret Document Shows. “The Kremlin’s reset plan came with an ambitious launch date: immediately.” + “Overall, the existence of ‘disputed’ tags made participants just 3.7 percentage points more likely to correctly judge headlines as false.” It turns out that tagging news as fake doesn’t make people much more likely to view it as being false. (We can’t get people to believe that evolution is real or that the earth isn’t flat. They’re not gonna believe a few measly tags…)

3 ON THIN ICE “The ability of Beijing and Moscow to shape the new sanctions hints at their power to also shape how the Korean drama unfolds in the years ahead.” Steve Mollman in Quartz: Russia and China are proving Trump right on North Korea: They hold all the cards. + “Organizers hope to attract more than a million spectators to the Games in five months’ time. Events will be held 50 miles from the South’s heavily armed border with North Korea.” Ticket sales are pretty sluggish for the upcoming Winter Olympics.

4 YOU’RE DRINKING PEA “In recent years, alternative sources of milk have begun to disrupt the dairy industry, from soy to almond to rice. The latest contender for space in your refrigerator is milk made from yellow peas.” Bloomberg: For One Silicon Valley Startup, This Vegetable Is the Future of Milk. + Sports Drinks Makers are Waging an $8 billion Thirst War. (Because, everyone knows you can’t hydrate with water…)

5 WHEN THE SHISHITO HITS THE FAN “Let’s say you and I are neighbors. You’re an emergency room doctor, and I don’t work, thanks to a pile of money my grandparents left me. You spend your days and nights stitching up gunshot wounds and helping children survive asthma attacks. I’ve gotten really good at World of Warcraft, winning EBay auctions, and frying shishito peppers to just the right crispiness. Let’s also say we both report $300,000 in income to the Internal Revenue Service this year. Who pays more in taxes?” As tax reform moves to center stage, Ben Steverman provides a good overview of why American Workers Pay Twice as Much in Taxes as Wealthy Investors. + “Economists hailed the news as evidence the recovery is finally taking hold after years of frustration for the middle class, which watched the stock market soar while the average American’s income barely budged.” WaPo on the Middle-class income boost of 2016. (Lots of interesting numbers here.)

6 HOW AM I DOING SO FAR? “Enormous foreign-policy failures are like heart attacks: unexpected and dangerous discontinuities following years of neglect and hidden malady. The vertigo and throbbing pulse one feels today augur something much worse tomorrow.” From The Atlantic’s series on the Trump Presidency Damage Report, Eliot Cohen argues that “for all the visible damage the president has done to the nation’s global standing, things are much worse below the surface.” + And from the same series: “Norms, not laws, create the expectation that a president will take regular intelligence briefings, pay public respect to our allies, and not fire the FBI director for declining to pledge his loyalty. There is no canonical list of presidential norms. They are rarely noticed until they are violated.” Jack Goldsmith: Will Donald Trump Destroy the Presidency? + And this update from WaPo: In 232 days, President Trump has made 1,145 false and misleading claims. + “No man ever entered the Presidency so profoundly and widely distrusted as Chester Alan Arthur, and no one ever retired from the highest civil trust of the world more generally respected, alike by political friend and foe.” From Politico: The Man the Presidency Changed.

7 WHAT IRMA LEFT BEHIND “More than 30,000 out-of-state utility workers were aiding the effort to turn lights on across the state.” But it’s still going to take a long time to get power back on for 16 million people without power in Florida and across the region. USA Today on Irma’s Aftermath. + Miami Herald: Devestation in the Keys. + Vox: What Hurricane Irma’s destruction in the Caribbean looks like on the ground.

8 TIL DEATH DO US PART “Ms. Windsor’s 2013 Supreme Court victory was followed by an avalanche of lawsuits attacking same-sex marriage bans in jurisdictions where they remained. And on June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage a constitutional guarantee all over the land.” From the NYT: Edith Windsor, Whose Same-Sex Marriage Fight Led to Landmark Ruling, Dies at 88.

9 SEATTLE NOT TAKING THE FIFTH “While the allegations against me are not true, it is important that my personal issues do not affect the ability of our City government to conduct the public’s business.” The Seattle Times: Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has resigned hours after a fifth man — a relative — made public allegations Murray molested him when he was a child. (Amazingly, Murray’s political career had managed to survive the first four allegations…)

10 BOTTOM OF THE NEWS “Some of the videos depicted the Martins yelling at their children until they cried, screaming obscenities at their children, and — in one instance — shoving a child who then got a bloody nose.” The parents who ‘pranked’ their kids on YouTube have been sentenced to five years probation for child neglect. + Apple’s keynote is getting all the attention today, but do spare a few minutes to recognize Jack Ma’s performance (and I do mean performance) at the Alibaba anniversary event.     MHI NextDraft