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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling and others agreed to a $2.5 million settlement to end their part of a lawsuit brought over Rhode Islands disastrous $75 million deal with 38 Studios, his failed video game company.If approved by the judge overseeing the lawsuit, the agreement filed Monday with four 38 Studios officials brings an end to Schillings involvement in the case. Schilling has strenuously denied wrongdoing and said the company failed in 2012 in part because the state didnt do enough to help. Neither he nor the other company officials admit liability in the settlement with the Rhode Island Commerce Corp., the states economic development agency.Retired Superior Court Judge Francis Darigan, who was acting as mediator in the case, said during a news conference that none of the defendants would pay out of pocket. Instead, 38 Studios insurance company would pay.No one is going to be perfectly satisfied with this, Darigan said. Its a practical move on the part of the state.The Commerce Corp. signed off on the deal after it determined through an exhaustive study that the combined assets of Schilling and the other three would not exceed $2.5 million, Darigan said. He added that the attorney who did the review was satisfied that there were no hidden assets that could be reached.Schilling has said in the past that he lost as much as $50 million of his own money that he invested in 38 Studios. Darigan said the examination of his finances was confidential, and he himself did not know the details.Schilling was fired by ESPN this year for unacceptable conduct following an insulting post he made on Facebook about transgender people.He recently signed a contract to host an online radio show. Darigan said that contract was part of the information the Commerce Corp.s lawyer had considered when examining assets.Schilling tweeted Monday afternoon that he wanted to tell his side of the story publicly once all is approved, but did not say when that would be.If Superior Court Judge Michael Silverstein approves the settlement, it would bring the amount of settlements in the case so far to about $45 million, and leave one defendant, First Southwest, which acted as Rhode Islands financial adviser in the deal.Lawyers for the Commerce Corp. asked the court to approve the settlement, saying in court documents that its a highly unusual case in which it makes no economic sense whatsoever for the parties to proceed to trial rather than proceed with the proposed settlement.38 Studios agreed to move to Rhode Island from Massachusetts in 2010 in exchange for a $75 million state loan guarantee. It went bankrupt less than two years later.Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo reiterated Monday that she thinks 38 Studios was a bad deal for the states residents. She said shes focused on recovering as much taxpayer money as possible and her team is preparing for trial with the remaining defendant.About $2 million from Mondays settlement will be applied to paying back bonds, according to the Commerce Corp. It said Rhode Island taxpayers would still owe about $28.2 million on the bonds.Rhode Island last month reached its biggest settlement in the case, amounting to $25.6 million from Wells Fargo Securities and Barclays Capital Inc.---Associated Press writer Jennifer McDermott contributed to this report.Fake Nike MLB Jerseys .ca. Kerry, Just watched the shootout in the Coyotes/Leafs game and I have to ask, why was the James van Riemsdyk goal allowed to count? All of the video replays we were shown on TV were inconclusive about whether the puck had entirely crossed the line or not. 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The result is the stunning Aston Martin AM-RB 001 -- a hypercar of jaw-dropping beauty that is designed to lap the Silverstone grand prix circuit faster than an F1 car.Those in the supercar market have been spoilt for choice in recent years, with La Ferrari, the McLaren P1 and the Porsche 918 all raising the bar to a new level. But where most people saw automotive perfection in those three models, Newey saw room for improvement.The ideas behind the car are almost in the opposite direction to some of the cars youve just mentioned, in that its much smaller and lighter, he explained at the launch on Tuesday. Its about trying to keep it pure and simple and light, with a tightly packaged, aerodynamic body.Although the exact details of the car and its engine have not been released, the defining rules of the AM-RB 001s design have been mapped out. The car will weigh less than 1,000kg (La Ferrari weighs 1255kg, the P1 weighs 1,345kg and the 918 weighs 1,704kg) and have a 1:1 power-to-weight ratio -- meaning close to 1,000bhp.It will benefit from underfloor aerodynamics, producing unprecedented levels of downforce for a road car and the potential to pull serious G-force in corners. Some of the ideas are based on Neweys F1 experience, but other concepts were developed in virtual reality when designing a race car for PlayStation game Grand Turismo.Its been an evolution of ideas that Ive thrown in the box over the years. In some ways it is an evolution of an F1 car, morphing into the PlayStation X1 car and then this. There is a similarity and in some ways it is a covered X1 PlayStation car and its trying to get those principals together to get the aerodynamics form underneath, and get a canopy to fit two people inside.In that way its a bit of a Tardis, because weve tried to keep this small, many cars have become big and clumsy, but weve tried to keep this small and compact. Initially when a lot of people look at it from the outside they think its a single seater, but its not, its a two-seater. Its using the packaging experience that we have developed in Formula One to get a lot of the components -- the driver, the enginne, the radiators and everything else into the form that you see here.dddddddddddd And that has been a challenge.The engine will not be turbocharged but instead a bespoke, normally-aspirated, high-revving V12. Aston Martin have promised the compact V12 will break ground with new technology and a hybrid element has not been ruled out.We studied V6 twin turbos, V8s, single turbos and all the rest of it, Newey explained. Weight and packaging are large factors, the car is tightly packaged, and while turbochargers initially look attractive because the engine is so small, you have to put the turbos and intercoolers somewhere, so there are lots of extra bits and pieces that come associated with turbos.So in the end the engine that offered the most performance in terms of the overall package, was a normally-aspirated engine and to get a normally aspirated engine with the sort of power we wanted, it had to be a V12.Although 25 track-focused cars will be added to the end of the production run, both Aston Martin and Newey have stressed that the road-going model is not simply a race car for the road. The cockpit has been designed to accommodate Marek Reichman, Aston Martins six-foot-four-inch Chief Creative Officer, in comfort and it will have all the mod cons expected of a supercar, including air conditioning.First of all its a road car and that means it really has to be a car of two characters, one that is capable of extreme performance when you want it -- probably by taking it to the track -- but equally it has to comfortable driving down the Kings Road, Newey said. So if it comes across as an LMP1 car on the road with all its discomforts and compromises then we would have failed.But take it to the race track in its road going guise as you see here, then its performance would be very high. Going to the next level, there will be a small production run of track-only cars that we will put on the end and they will be in the LMP1-type areas of performance.The bad news? We will have to wait until late 2017 to see the first working prototypes before the car finally reaches customers in early 2019.Over to you Ferrari and McLaren ... ' ' '