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May 7, 2012 (REVISED July 19, 2012) Local Teachers Selected to Participate in National Educational Program
Press Contact: John Sayers, Office of Communications (202) 707-9216
Public Contact: Kathy McGuigan, Educational Outreach (202) 707-8545
Several educators from around the country have been selected from a pool of more than 300 applicants to participate in a series of Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Summer Teacher Institutes to take place from May to August.
Each year, the Library of Congress provides the opportunity for a carefully chosen group of K-12 educators to attend one of its seven teacher institutes in Washington, D.C.
During the five-day program, participants work with Library education specialists and subject-matter experts to learn effective practices for using primary sources in the classroom, while exploring some of the millions of digitized historical artifacts and documents available on the Library's website.
Educators attending the teacher institutes develop primary-source based teaching strategies that they can take back to their school districts, apply in the classroom and pass along to colleagues. Teaching with primary sources is a powerful way to help students ask engaged, probing questions, develop critical thinking skills, and construct knowledge.
Applicants to the Teaching with Primary Sources Summer Teacher Institutes reflect the diversity of the world of K-12 education. Participants in a teacher institute session typically include school library media specialists and school administrators in addition to classroom teachers. Participants come from many different states, representing large metropolitan school districts and smaller, rural school districts. The expertise provided by the Library of Congress during the institutes can benefit every level of K-12 education.
Primary sources are the raw materials of history — original documents and objects that were created at the time under study. They are different from secondary sources, accounts or interpretations of events created by someone without firsthand experience. Students working with primary sources become engaged learners while building critical thinking skills and constructing new knowledge. Teachers working in the Library's collections will explore the largest online collection of historical artifacts with access to millions of unique primary sources for use in instruction.
The Library of Congress, the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, is the world's preeminent reservoir of knowledge, providing unparalleled integrated resources to Congress and the American people. The Library serves the public, scholars, Members of Congress and their staffs—all of whom seek information, understanding and inspiration. Many of the Library's teaching resources may also be accessed through the Library's website at www.loc.gov/teachers/.
Participants in the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Summer Teacher Institutes (May–August 2012)
- Kathleen Allen, Hudson Country Montessori School, Danbury, Conn.
- Lyndsay Ames, Maternity BVM School, Chicago
- Barbara Apodaca, Pahrump (Nev.) Valley High School
- Deborah Atkinson, the Curtis School, Los Angeles
- Jeremy Battaglia, Bronson (Mich.) High School
- Betty Beal, Successlink, Jefferson City, Mo.
- Lia Berry, Eisenhower Middle, Laurel, Md.
- Collette Bloom, Texas Southern University, Houston
- Ellen Brooker, Southwest High School, San Antonio, Tx.
- Pat Brown, DC Public Schools, Washington, D.C.
- Matthew Bruneel, Walt Whitman High School, Bethesda, Md.
- Elizabeth Bryant, Indian Land (S.C.) High School
- Deloris Burke, McMurray Middle School, Nashville, Tenn.
- Patricia Carlton, Mount Dora (Fla.) High School
- Emily Chambers, Culpeper (Va.) Middle School
- Tiffany Cobb, Ohio Connections Academy, Mason, Ohio
- John Cochran, Darby Elementary School, Sasebo Naval Base, Japan
- Jennifer Connors, Albany (N.Y.) Academies
- Jennifer Crow, Warden (Wash.) School District
- Lori Cuevas, St. Paul Catholic School, Pensacola, Fla.
- Crystal Culp, McCracken Regional Juvenile Detention Facility, McCraken, Ky.
- Judy Dalgo, Keys Tech Center, Ocean Springs, Miss.
- Cookie Davis, A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, West Palm Beach, Fla.
- Lorelei Darga, St. Paul Catholic School, Pensacola, Fla.
- Katie Dorr, Horizon Middle School, Ferndale, Wash.
- Barbara Duffy, David Starr Jordan High School, Long Beach, Calif.
- Denise Dumas, Cardozo High School, Washington, D.C.
- Maggie Dunford, Riverbend High School, Fredericksburg, Va.
- Maggie Elliott, Victor (N.Y.) Intermediate School
- Philip Engle, TC Williams High School, Alexandria, Va.
- Julie Esanu, Oakridge Elementary School, Arlington, Va.
- Denise Ethun, Boylan Catholic High School, Rockford, Ill.
- Keisha Evans, Woodson Elementary School, Crisfield, Md.
- April Francis, Lawrence Road Middle School, Hempstead, N.Y.
- Elizabeth Galaska, Robeson Elementary Center, Birdsboro, Pa.
- Linda Godsey, Clarksville (Ind.) Middle & High Schools
- Kendra Gragg, Costano Elementary School/49ers Academy, East Palo Alto, Calif.
- Cassandra Gunkel, Manor College, Jenkintown, Pa.
- Jennifer Gutleber, Marsteller Middle School, Bristow, Va.
- Anna Harding, L. Thomas Heck Middle School, Litchfield Park, Ariz.
- Patricia Harmon, St. Joseph's Catholic School, Herndon, Va.
- Lauren Harwood, P.S. Dupont Middle School, Wilmington, Del.
- Andrew Hatt, Bronson (Mich.) High School
- April Hines, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.
- Allison Holzgang, Osbourn Park High School, Manassas, Va.
- Rachel Hull, W.Va. Department of Education
- Mary Johnson, Colorado Springs, Colo.
- Ashley Johnston, Trinity School, Atlanta, Ga.
- Jimmy Jones, Cook Elementary School, Syracuse, Utah
- Jennifer Kalletta, Annandale (Va.) Terrace Elementary School
- Carol Kirstein, Zukeran Elementary School, Okinawa, Japan
- Jill Knight, Mayo High School, Darlington, S.C.
- Eden Kuhlenschmidt, River Valley Middle School, Jeffersonville, Ind.
- Sonali Kumar, Washington International School, Washington, D.C.
- Alana LaBeaf, St. Catherine, Sienna School, Trumbull, Conn.
- Lauren LaFrance, Neptune (N.J.) Middle School
- Elise Langan, Macon (Ga.) State College
- Reanna Laney, Moses Brown School, Providence, R.I.
- Linda Larrabee, Burlington (Wash.)-Edison North High School
- Martha Leaf, Wichita (Kan.) Collegiate School
- Angela Loan, Waynesboro (Va.) High School
- Dianna Locke, Heards Ferry Elementary School, Sandy Springs, Ga.
- Gail Lovely, Friendswood, Tex.
- Sheila MacDowell, Crossroads School for the Arts and Sciences, Santa Monica, Calif.
- Laila Marquez, Stoddert Elementary School, Washington, D.C.
- Jackie Martin, Bishop Ireton High School, Alexandria, Va.
- Gale McKim, Pacific Lutheran High School, Torrance, Calif.
- Michael Mainor, Hazelwood Central High School, Florissant, Mo.
- Eric Makelky, Pinedale (Wyo.) Middle School
- Francine Miller, Kirby Middle School, Wichita Falls, Tex.
- Kristie Miller, Alexander (N.Y.) Schools
- Linda Mills, Greensburg (Ind.) Elementary School
- Pam Miner, Marsh Elementary School, Rockford, Ill.
- Ellen Mitchell, P.S. 44, Staten Island, N.Y.
- Jane Moody, Bamberg (S.C.) Ehrhardt High School
- Jaime Moore, MacFarland Middle School, Washington, D.C.
- Tim Morford, Columbus Academy, Gahanna, Ohio
- Melody Morris, Mount Baker Junior High School, Deming, Wash.
- Katrina Mougey, St. Paul Catholic School, Pensacola, Fla.
- Grace Nall, Walker Elementary School, San Diego
- Emily Nault, Rock Canyon High School, Highlands Ranch, Colo.
- MJ Nazaka, Rundlett Middle School, Concord, N.H.
- Dawn Netzel, Catalina Foothills High School, Tucson, Ariz.
- Sandra Nelson, Albany (N.Y.) Academies
- Rebecca Newland, Kemps Landing Magnet School, Virginia Beach, Va.
- Pamela Oehlman, Polytechnic High School, Long Beach, Calif.
- Beth Pace, Chapman and Landrum High Schools, Inman and Landrum, S.C.
- Heather Palmer, Valley View Middle School, Edina, Minn.
- Angelo Parodi, John Eaton Elementary School, Washington, D.C.
- Robert Paugh, Bowling Green (Ky.) Junior High School
- Samuel Perry, Young Women's Leadership School of Brooklyn (N.Y.)
- Carina Pierce, Couger Mountain Junior High School, Graham, Wash.
- Linda Polak, Sunset Ridge School, Northfield, Ill.
- Maryanne Prosser, Stoddert Elementary School, Washington, D.C.
- Christopher Quirarte, Lou Henry Hoover School, Whittier, Calif.
- Anna Rabin, Ellis Elementary School, Manassas, Va.
- Katie Richardson, Pactolus Elementary School, Greenville, N.C.
- Lenora Richardson, Cabell County (W.Va.) Schools
- Sharon Roualet, Edgewood High School, Elletsville, Ind.
- Sarah Scott, Vineyard (Utah) Elementary School
- Melissa Schreiber, Yorktown (Va.) Middle School
- Victoria Schwoebel, Friends' Central School, Wynnewood, Pa.
- Sonya Shockey, Hedgesville High School, Hedgesville W.Va.
- Jane Shrader, Pactolus School, Greenville, N.C.
- Deborah Shultz, Nisqually Middle School, Lacey, Wash.
- Jennifer Stretch, Council Rock School District, Newtown, Pa.,
- Jeanne Staley, Frontier Junior High School, Graham, Wash.
- Cathy Stoll, Academy of the Holy Cross, Kensington, Md.
- Ted Strickland, Tesseract School, Phoenix, Ariz.
- Heather Sweeney, Alexander (N.Y.) Schools
- Amanda Szabela, Rossville (Ind.) High School
- Linda Tabit, Victor (N.Y.) Junior High School
- Mary Ellen Tomson, Albany (N.Y.) Academies
- Faith Waddy, Lancaster Middle School, Kilmarnock, Va.
- Vickie Weiss, City School at Perry Center, Grand Blanc, Mich.
- Danyelle Westbrook, Victor (N.Y.) Senior High School
- Jennifer White, Museum Center at Five Points, Cleveland, Tenn.
- Brian White, Hazelwood Central High School, Florissant, Mo.
- Michele Widdes, Sunset Ridge School, Northfield, Ill.
Note: Additional names will be added as each seminar is finalized.


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Tomorrow night is December's full moon.
It has not been cold enough for large sections of the St Croix to be frozen yet.
And, there is a Leeland Concert tomorrow night. So, the verdict is still out on whether I'll run tomorrow night.
In January, the full moon is on the 9th, a Monday.
In February, it's mid-week.
However, keep Feb 3 or 10th open as potential Full Moon River run nights.

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OK, disclaimers upfront:
- Everything I'm going to say in this post is about my own taste.
- If your taste is different (entirely likely), that's fine with me.
- Your taste being different doesn't invalidate what I say about my own preferences, or, of course, vice versa.
- I nevertheless doubt that I'm the only one who feels this way.
Having got that out of the way, I want to talk about a spectrum in fiction writing that I'm going to call "freshness" versus "familiarity". "Freshness" implies that the author is doing something new, seldom or never seen before, while "familiarity" means that they're using elements (both genre elements and story elements) that have been around for a while.
Every book is somewhere on this spectrum. Finnegan's Wake is probably about as far as you can go towards the freshness end without degenerating into random word-salad (and even that references earlier literature), and up the other end we have, I don't know, fanfiction that's just a rewriting of a scene in canon.
Now, straight away I've dropped an implication that freshness is better, and I don't necessarily think that. I picked Finnegan's Wake up once, and quickly concluded that I didn't want to work that hard and probably wasn't that smart, and put it down again. Certainly, though, freshness is harder.
For me, the Goldilocks Zone on the freshness-familiarity spectrum is a broad one. I can enjoy a book like Charles Stross's Halting State, for example, written in second person, or one of his posthuman novels like Glasshouse. I can also enjoy a book that's very nearly pure vanilla D&D-style fantasy, or off-the-shelf space opera, as long as other aspects of the book (the characters, the writing, the plot) are well done - and have some freshness to them.
There is, though, such a thing as too much, and that applies both to freshness and to familiarity. I abandoned Walter Jon Williams' Aristoi, for example, 25% of the way through, because I didn't have a clue what was going on (and also didn't care about the characters). I didn't get past the sample for Hannu Rajaniemi's The Quantum Thief, for a similar reason, even though I love heist novels. When too much is unfamiliar, I become disoriented and it's easy for the book to lose my attention.
On the other hand, if I come across an epic fantasy in which the blacksmith's boy loses his parents in the first chapter (when cruel, heartless, evil people destroy their village) and joins up with quirky and assorted companions in a quest for an artifact which, as the Chosen One, he is destined to wield against the Dark Lord, I pass it by. I've already read that story, and when I read it before it was probably better written.
There's nothing inherently wrong with tropes, whether genre tropes or story tropes. I'm highly trope-tolerant. Oh, regardless of how much death and destruction is raining down, all of the core characters always survive, shrugging off significant injuries in insignificant amounts of time? OK, it's one of those stories. I can live with that. (Though some tropes are easier to tolerate than others, and the others are usually the ones that allow the writer to take shortcuts in character development and plotting.)
Where I start to have a problem is if the whole thing, or almost the whole thing, is constructed out of tropes, as if someone had built a character, plot and setting generator out of the TV Tropes website and run it, then filled in the resulting outline with poorly-written prose. I think of those as paint-by-numbers books. There's too much familiarity.
Sadly, a great many indie writers look out on the vast ocean of possibilities represented by the indie publishing revolution, in which they no longer have to write what the big publishers are buying in order to have a chance to reach an audience, but can create something genuinely new and fresh... and then they write another vampire romance with a whiny, annoying teenage heroine who's simultaneously the most awesome person ever and too stupid to live.
Freshness is hard, yes. And familiarity is important. But if you want to succeed with me, and readers like me, you're going to need to strike for the Goldilocks Zone.


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Date: November 5, 2018
Location: ISEC 655
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Title: Finding Vulnerabilities in Embedded Software
Embedded devices have become ubiquitous, and they are used in a range of privacy-sensitive and security-critical applications. Most of these devices run proprietary software (firmware), and little documentation is available about the software's inner workings. Firmware, like any piece of software, is susceptible to a wide range of errors. These include memory corruption bugs, command injection vulnerabilities, and application logic flaws. Embedded device vendors typically do not provide source code for their proprietary firmware. Hence, all analysis has to be performed directly on binary code. This is challenging because binary code lacks the high-level, semantically rich information about data structures and control constructs that are present in a program's source code. To address the analysis challenges, we have developed angr. angr is an open-source binary analysis platform that implements many static analysis techniques and supports symbolic execution of binaries.
In this talk, we will discuss some of the inner workings and design choices in angr. A common limitation of many contemporary techniques to detect vulnerabilities in binary code is that they only find shallow bugs and struggle to exercise deeper code paths. To drive the analysis deeper into a program, we introduce novel techniques to improve the scalability of our system. These techniques frequently rely on interesting compositions of different analysis approaches, in a way that leverages the advantages of each individual approach while compensating for their respective limitations. We will also cover a novel detection model that allows us to identify authentication bypass vulnerabilities (or, less formally, backdoors), an important class of logic flaws. Finally, we will shed some light on angr as an integral component in the automated vulnerability finding, exploitation, and patching engine that participates in DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC), the first competition where autonomous programs participate in a capture-the-flag competition.
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wladimir also put povetkin down with a jab :S...... hats off to teh fellow... his cautiosness hold him back so much though... if he wasn't so insanely cautious he would be a potential legend I think... very skilled, strong and athletic fellow but he has been so cautious for so long I think he missed the boat and realising his true potential.. shame... still a very good boxer though..
I would not :S what a waste of a fight,,, chisora lost to an injured vitali quite clearly... he made it interesting.... then he got cleaned out by haye.. he had a nice result v malik scott :S but this fellow is not close to be deserving of another title shot... Haye for example is far closer....
I would like to see wladimir take on stiverne next.. seeing as vitali is busying doing whatever he can to not fight stiverne wladimir might as well give him what he deserves... maybe have another stay busy fight v anyone, solis maybe, whilst haye, fury, wilder and arreola all fight between themselves so a clear deserving challenger can emerge... Chisora would be a totally undserving candidate... give a guy a title fight because his antics are mildly amusing :S ....... he already got crushed by the guy that wladimir shut out fairly recently...
aha pulev is mandatory.. I say take on stiverne then pulev then in my fantasy world the other contedors will have fought each other and wlad takes on the best of those guys.
1. Alexander Povetkin (already beaten)
2. David Haye (already beaten)
3. Kubrat Pulev
4. Tomasz Adamek (scheduled to fight Glazkov in Nov)
5. Bermane Stiverne (WBC mandatory)
6. Tyson Fury (scheduled to fight Haye in Feb)
7. Robert Helenius (injured)
8. Chris Arreola
9. Odlanier Solis
10. Tony Thompson (already beaten twice)
So from the top ten Pulev, Arreola and Solis would be available.
wlads next fight should abide by the rules of boxing
thats my only wish
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id be happy with another provetkin fight sticking to the rules tho this time
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i cant watch the videos im at work but im in total agreement, ward should also be stopped from doing it, it is against the rules and he doesnt deserve the praise he gets because of his tactics
i think he beat kessler with the head
same with devon alexander, i dont believe he'd have beaten maidana if he was made to fight
one difference with klit and the others tho is that the leaning does damage, saps a lot of energy, so not only is it a defence its a weapon
i truely believe wlad would have lost his titles long ago if he had have been made to fight within the rules, or at the very least had some very close calls and spent a bit more time on the canvas
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Violent Demise here. Wlad hits harder. If you watch, Vitali's punches don't seem to have a massive effect for over the course of the fight he wears fighters down. When Wlad lands flush, he visably hurts his opponent, plus he scores alot of knockdowns with one punch shots, where as Vitali doesn't.
Wlad should fight Fury next and steal Haye's opponent. #1 Wlad should fight taller opponents because those are the better fights, and #2 Fury is an idiot and I wish to see him KO'd several times over. Pulev would be an alright fight I guess if Fury decides to fight Haye.
"Drown in a vat of whiskey.....death where is thy sting?" - W.C. Fields.
El Kabong, I wouldn't criticize him for fighting Pulev, but I don't think he has any huge attribute in his favour over Wlad and I'd see it as being a repeat of the Chagaev fight. I agree that to make it interesting Wlad needs to fight tall opponents or the other option is a big puncher. This is why right now I favour an Arreola fight. Because Cris is a wild swinger and has a cracking chin, he could certainly make it interesting for at least the first half of the fight. Deontay Wilder is another good fight because of his size and punch power but I'd say he's at least 2 decent fights away from being ready. Stiverne is likely to fight Vitali but if he wasn't, he'd be a viable option and a Chisora fight would be entertaining too.
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Smart cities with devices chatting to each other may dot the planet in the near future
Cities could soon be looking after their citizens all by themselves thanks to an operating system designed for the metropolis.
The Urban OS works just like a PC operating system but keeps buildings, traffic and services running smoothly.
The software takes in data from sensors dotted around the city to keep an eye on what is happening.


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Matt Cutts announces Panda "refresh" to be unveiled soon at recent SMX conference
Great news if you're a small business website owner. Since 2011, the Panda algorithm has arguably been the harshest of search engine updates from Google HQ. Initially aimed at targeting low quality sites with thin content that had gained prominent rankings in the search results through unscrupulous means, many good folk found themselves victims of the algo and saw drops that they are yet to fully recovery from.
Now a full three years since it's initial release, Google are finally admitting that the algorithm may have been somewhat overzealous and affected those who had not deserved such harsh treatment.
In the words of Matt Cutts, Google are still in the development stages of a refresh of Panda that will be far more "kinder" and "softer". Awwww…. some might say "too little too late", with many sites literally disappearing overnight since it's release however, the news comes at a time when many algorithms since have created carnage on the SERPs. Perhaps Google are rethinking their approach to tackling poor and spammy sites? We'll see.
The big boys are still winning
Contrary to Cutts' sentiments, most algo updates to date have favoured the bigger corporate players so any small business owner can be forgiven for treating this news with a dash of cynicism.
Panda was originally supposed to combat content farms and sites building gateway pages, yet lower authority sites with some excellent content still felt the wrath of the cuddly one and three years for some is too long to realise the damage done.
Just take product based searches as a prime example. Sites like Amazon and numerous large retailers dominated and still dominate the SERPs whilst smaller sites just can't compete, even when offering more competitive pricing and superior customer service.
Real estate is another prime example. With the sector being flooded with high quality, local realty offices across numerous towns and cities still; the likes of the giant national chains and franchises still come top regardless. It's a frustrating and at times, fruitless battle for the small guy.
When will the new Panda update be released?
In typical Google fashion, no official announcement has been made. However on past experience, if they're merely mentioning it, then the likelihood is the change is well into the development phase and thus, we predict it will roll out over the course of the next few months.
So 2014 could be a better year for small businesses online after all. Hoorah!


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Verto Studio now allows OBJ files to be exported directly to on tablet apps but the obj files are always zipped with the *.zip format. You could even try exporting it to save files on your tablet.
It also has lower polycount CSG but I'm not really clear on how to use it.
I'm starting to think the best way for apps to share OBJ file code is for them to simply copy the OBJ text directly to the pasteboard. Then you could just paste it directly in. And yet they zip them. This is fine for computers but for tablets you completely separate appunless we could code it in?
the implementation is not perfect. In the few times I've tried using the new updateto bring one of my Verto Studio OBJ files into Codea? It failed to even show up in the dialogue/selection box. I've also tried the save to files function.
I guess they need to be zipped because the .obj format isn't contained in one file, usually it requires a corresponding .mtl file as well, and, prior to iOS 11, apps cold only share single files, hence the need for everything to be zipped. However, as of iOS 11, partly in response to the new drag-and-drop APIs, apps can now accept multiple files at once (if the developers adopt the new iOS 11 APIs that is). So in future we won't need everything to be zipped.
@yojimbo2000, Right but if they'd just alternatively allow them to be exported as text files or were able to be converted into text files then they might be more likely to be accepted.
It would be a simple alternative just put the file extensions they'd otherwise have in the filename. So instead of thisfile.obj and thisfile.mtl? It would be thisfileobj.txt, and thisfilemtl.txt


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John Tomlinson accepts the TFESC Employer of the Year trophy from Peter Townsend. [20110413_WN_S1015650_0007]
13 April 2011
Tauranga mechanical and engineering company, Haden O'Donnell Griffin was named the Territorial Forces Employer Support Council (TFESC) National Employer of the Year, at a special ceremony at Parliament last night.
The ceremony, which recognises employers who are committed to supporting their Reserve Force employees in their workplace, was attended by Minister of Defence Hon. Dr Wayne Mapp, members of Parliament, employers of Territorial Force personnel and NZ Defence Force personnel.
The three award categories for excellence in the public sector, excellence in the private sector, and the TFESC National Employer of the Year award were presented by the Minister of Defence Hon. Dr Wayne Mapp, Chief of Defence Force Lieutenant General Rhys Jones and TFESC Chairman Peter Townsend.
The TFESC National Employer of the Year Award was presented to John Tomlinson of Haden, O'Donnell Griffin for the support shown to their employee Chief Petty Officer Marine Technican Paul Brennan of the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNZVR).
Haden, O'Donnell, Griffin Tauranga branch manager John Tomlinson said, "This is a significant award for us. Paul is an integral part of our Branch's management team and releasing him for service has required effort at times, so it is great to be able to have that recognised.
"It also recognises Paul's contribution both in civilian employment and as a reservist for the Defence Force, and the benefit our company receives from his Reserve Force training and experiences that Paul brings back in to our company. This was shown in recent events where Paul flew down to assist our branch in Christchurch over a three week period to provide management and supervision for our staff following the earthquakes. He utilised his Reserve Force training into a civilian environment providing leadership and specialist skills. Individuals like Paul bring value to our organisation in many ways that are not always transparent, but are never the less very significant and real. We believe his diverse background and experience in the Reserve Forces complements his role in our organisation very well, and we are please to have this additional "x factor" available to us."
The public sector award was won by WELTEC who were nominated by Able Seaman Barry Dulieu, RNZVR.
The private sector category was won by Auckland law firm, Duff Lawry Richmond Lawyers, who were nominated by Staff Sergeant John van der Zanden of the Territorial Force of the New Zealand Army.
Dr Mapp said, "As a former reservist, I know first hand of the difference that a supporting employer can make to a young soldier wanting to slip away early on a Friday afternoon to attend a weekend's training, or needing two weeks leave to attend an Annual Field Exercise.
"Knowing you can count on an employer to provide that support is reassuring and enables you, as a reservist, to focus on the military task at hand."
The Reserve Forces were vital in assisting with the Christchurch earthquake response. More than 200 Reserve Forces changed their civilian clothes for a uniform during February and March to support the Civil Defence recovery effort.
The Reserve Forces of the New Zealand Defence Force are made up of the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve, the Territorial Force of the NZ Army and the Territorial Air Force. Currently there are over 2,378 territorial reservists serving in the NZ Defence Force.
For further information please contact Ally Clelland, Defence Communications Group021 569 130
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This is the second part of my post. If you haven't read it yet, I suggest you read part 1. This one won't make sense if you don't read that one.
As I was saying in my other post, they're threatening to cut off my access eventually when we move the servers. And guess what? I'm the Program Manager in charge of moving the servers. So basically, I get to be the one to sign my own death warrant when it comes to cutting off my access. Just great.
The other part I am not enjoying as much is the attempt to box me into things that I don't enjoy doing. Part of being a Program Manager is tasking, scheduling, being a go-between, collecting requirements, and so forth. It's not something I'm particularly good at. I have improved marginally at it, but I don't really like it. I do it because it's important and it has to be done. But I get virtually no fulfillment out of it. Unlike data mining and researching important things, this is not what I look forward to in the morning. I have to force myself to do it. I know it's part of the job and so I do it to the best of my ability, but I have always been grateful that I have access to the data to be able to research ideas that tweak my brain.
The thing is that most of the people around me don't want me doing the research and data mining and do want me doing managerial stuff. My Dev Lead, Test Lead, other Program Managers… even my manager probably wouldn't complain too much. So you see, these people don't actually have a problem with my access to data being cut off because it would force me to concentrate more fully on this particular area that I am not good at. The theory is that if I wasn't distracted from doing it (because my mind wanders to "fun stuff"), then I would get good at the other stuff. I think that theory is flawed and that the results they want would never occur.
The problem with this managerial stuff is that ultimately I think it's just a bunch of secretarial work. If all I'm doing is scheduling people's work time, talking to other people to follow up on such-and-such item, collecting requirements (with no additional input from me because this other team didn't ask for it), asking when such-and-such work item will be done, where's the creative input? Why does it even matter if I do it? What value do I add? Why not just hire an executive assistant for the group?
I was talking about this with another Program Manager the other day and said that this whole Program Manager thing is turning into a secretarial position for everyone else. He said "Do you think Jake is a secretary? Or Bob? He's really technical but he doesn't do it, he does PM stuff…" (note: not their real names) At the time I didn't have an answer but as I thought about, what do they do? They follow up when a certain project will be done, schedule meetings, do timelines, etc… exactly what I was saying.
My manager had myself and my Dev Lead and other program manager in a meeting the other day (same guy as above) and he was saying that PMs drive teams with influence, this shouldn't turn into a documentation position, ie, PMs just do documentation. At the time, it sounded good. But now that I think about it, I think it's all bravado. People can talk a good talk about how something should be this or should be that, but the reality is that it's not. Reality trumps a should, every single time.
So basically, I feel like I'm being boxed in. On the one hand, my access is being cut off by people who think I shouldn't have it, and on the other hand I feel it's useless to complain to anyone because they'd be happy that I don't have it and now have to do the stuff I am not good at doing. I could do that stuff as long as I had my access. Without it, there's nothing to look forward to.
That is where I feel the position is going. And I don't like it. And I feel powerless to stop it. And I wonder whether or not it's worthwhile sticking around watching what I perceive is a train wreck in slow motion.
The one thing that really keeps me going is that I am perceived as a maverick. Even typing it right now makes me smile. It means I think for myself. It comes from being a stock trader. When trading, you absolutely must think for yourself. Others can have opinions but you have to develop a style and feel that fits your own personality. But more than that, you have to be willing to accept the consequences of your own actions and in trading, the pain comes quicker than later. I learned to listen to others but to ultimately make my own decisions. I live and die by them. And, I wanted to be a stock trader before I wanted to be in Internet security.
Work is starting to get shrouded in more layers of bureaucracy. I follow procedures in some things, actually a lot of things. But there are times when I think the process would get in the way so I short circuit them. For example, I'll write my own scripts to collect data I need, or send data away. But I get results. I always get results. For a company that claims to be focused on results, they sure seem to value the process more highly than the results. But I have never caused any serious damage to any production system. None of my stuff even touches production these days, the last time was back in September 2008 and I cleared it with a lot of people (and it didn't break anything, in fact, it reduced our network load by 10%). But the point is that I live by making my own decisions; if I feel that process is blocking, I am not averse to short circuiting it. I can't stand this ambiguous process that can take days or, more often, weeks to get done. It doesn't make sense to me. In trading, time is crucial and it seems like the company doesn't value that so much.
So that's my dilemma. I don't like where I think my position is headed. Not sure where to head from here.


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Without Her by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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'Without Her' – Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Formed in 1848, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood consisted of a group of young artists who wished to throw off the conventions of the art establishment and found a new movement that took its inspiration from the more 'primitive' art of the medieval and early Renaissance period. Dante Gabriel Rossetti was one of the founding members of the group and acted as an energising force to the other artists. Rossetti himself, though, was never exclusively devoted to painting. Dividing his time between painting and poetry, he was in part responsible for the group's use of literary subjects and symbols in their work as well as for the printing of the group's short-lived literary journal, The Germ. A significant number of his poems were written to supplement painted subjects and his philosophical ideas about painting were also argued in his poems. Following the death of his wife, Elizabeth Siddal, many of his poems were preoccupied with love and death. It is believed that his marital infidelities, together with his experience of falling in love with the wife of his friend, William Morris, led to feelings of guilt and remorse and influenced the pessimistic tone of his later poems (Wilmer, 1991, 7-21).
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Walter Pater (1889, 230) comments upon the 'definiteness of sensible imagery' and the 'minute and definite' attention to visual detail in Rossetti's work and it is certainly the case that the symbolism of 'Without Her' is grounded in particular physical objects which are described with a painterly eye and with the typical Pre-Raphaelite attention to the detail of nature. Yet Rossetti is also concerned with the sound and rhythms of poetry. He translated Italian verse into English and his sonnet sequence, The House of Life, shows that influence, particularly in his use of Petrarch's model of the sonnet cycle. The sonnet 'Without Her' is written in the Petrarchan form, its fourteen lines of iambic pentameter arranged as an octet followed by a sestet. The rhyme scheme, abbaabba cddccd also follows this convention. However, within this framework, Rossetti frequently subverts the form, especially in irregular patterns of rhythm and stress, in order to convey the pressure of emotion.
This irregularity of rhythm is present in the opening line, which breaks in the middle and then runs on to the second line. Rossetti rejects the normal iambic rhythm, beginning the line with the stressed word 'What' and ending with two stressed words 'blank grey'. The second line has a similar pattern, varied in the middle, but again beginning with a stressed word, 'There' and ending with the double stress of 'moon's face'. To add greater emphasis, he makes use of alliteration in the hard g of 'glass' and 'grey' in the fist line and the assonance of 'pool' and 'moon', 'there' and 'where' in the second. Straddling these two lines, the alliteration of 'blank' and 'blind' also echoes the consonant 'l' from 'glass' and 'pool'. The diction of these lines is deceptively simple, made up as it is of single-syllable words. However, these images work in a symbolic way, repeating images such as the mirror, the pool and the moon that have occurred elsewhere in The House of Life (for example, in XLI, 'Through Death to Love' and in the 'Willowwood' sequence, XLIX-LII). His lost lover is linked with the moon – a conventional symbol of femininity – and the mirror that had previously reflected her presence is now empty. In the second pair of lines, Rossetti continues this pattern of irregular stresses. Just as the despair of the first lines is emphasised by the double stress of 'blank grey', so the third line contains the phrase 'tossed empty space'. The 's' sound in 'dress' in taken up by 'tossed', 'space', 'whence' and 'passed' and the absence of the moon is reiterated.
In the second quatrain, Rossetti subverts the expectation that he will create pairs of lines that break in the middle of the first and run on to the end of the second; instead, three consecutive lines are broken in the middle and run on to the next. Only the final line of this quatrain is a completed. In this greater metric irregularity, Rossetti shows a greater emotional agitation, especially in the exclamation 'Tears, ah me!', followed by the triple stress of 'love's good grace', with its alliterative 'g' sounds adding weight to the feeling. Again, he uses alliteration for emphasis, especially when referring to the bed from which she is absent as 'her pillowed place', which picks up the 'p' sound from 'paths' and 'appointed' in the previous line.
Whilst the octet uses four concrete instances from the outward physical world to represent the absence of the beloved, the sestet turns inward to the heart of the poet. With the question 'What of the heart without her?', the poem becomes self-reflexive in its tone and these six lines also begin to have a more regular metrical rhythm. The overriding image is of the 'wayfarer' who is 'weary' and 'labouring'. The emptiness of his existence is thus emphasised by a more settled rhythm, which represents the dull despair of a lonely journey through life. Particularly effective are the final four lines, in which the diction is dominated by words such as 'barren', 'chill', 'steep', 'weary', 'darkness' and 'labouring'. The repetition of the pair of words 'the long' in the penultimate line shows that the poet regards his life as a series of tedious repetitions without his love. Furthermore, this repetition is taken up in the final line with the alliterative phrase 'doubled darkness', where the cloud and the wood become oppressive to the poet, feeling as he does that his life consists of 'labouring' up a steep hill. Throughout the sonnet, the phrase 'without her' has recurred six times and so the final images of 'doubled darkness' takes up this sense that the poet feels grief as a kind of constant repetition of emptiness and darkness which is reflected in the repetitions that he sees in the natural world around him. In the use of such visual imagery, Rossetti has thus written a sonnet where his painterly eye complements his poet's ear to create a fusion of the two art forms to which he devoted his life.
Primary sources
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1928. The House of Life: A Sonnet-Sequence, Paul Franklin Baum, ed., Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 'Without Her' (with textual notes) accessed at http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/26-1871.raw.html
Secondary Sources
Pater, Walter, 1889. 'Dante Gabriel Rossetti', in Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, accessed at http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/pr99.p32.rad.html
Wilmer, Clive, 1991 'Introduction', in Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, Selected Poems and Translations, Manchester: Carcanet.
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Critical lineage commitment events during animal development must be exquisitely timed and orchestrated by dynamic molecular transactions of multiple transcription factors in the nucleus. In the past several years, by working closely with the Transcription Imaging Consortium (TIC, consisting of the labs of Carl Wu, Robert Singer, and Robert Tjian) and the labs of Eric Betzig and Luke Lavis, we first developed a imaging method capable of discriminating specific DNA-binding events at endogenous diploid allele sites from non-specific macromolecular interactions in single-living embryonic stem cells. Our single-molecule measurements also describe several key kinetic features (e.g., 3D diffusion periods, number of trials, search times, residence times) associated with in vivo TF dynamics. Recently, we developed a lattice light-sheet microscopy based single-molecule imaging strategy to map and functionally probe TF binding site spatial organization in single, living stem cells. In the next step, we plan to team up with multiple external TIC labs in a highly collaborative fashion to optimize new molecular imaging systems to study mechanisms linking TF dynamics, genome organization, and transcription kinetics. Furthermore, with the help from labs specialized in imaging instrumentation at Janelia, we would like to devise fast multicolor imaging strategies to study the 4D Nucleome (architecture and dynamics) in single live cells.
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A hallmark of nervous system development across bilateral animals is the internalization of neural precursor cells to form ventral or dorsal nerve cord along the anterior-posterior (AP) axis. Specifically, in mammals, the initial formation of neural tube requires extensive interplay between neuro-ectoderm and a transient structure of the axial mesoderm – the notochord. Currently, the transcription circuitry that drives the coordinated cellular dynamics and lineage diversification during neural tube and notochord development is still largely unknown. As a long-term project aimed at quantitatively elucidating gene regulation mechanisms underlying mammalian nerve system/notochord development, we have systematically characterized the developmental pathway mediated by a key developmental regulator – Brachyury during early mouse embryogenesis. Brachyury is a classic enhancer-binding TF critical for mesoderm lineage specification and notochord formation. In the next step, we would like to work with labs of Philipp Keller and Tzumin Lee and use a novel combination of cutting-edge developmental imaging and single-cell genomics to characterize the dynamic interplays between neural tube induction and notochord development. Eventually, by correlating the imaging dataset to systematic genome-wide datasets, we hope to learn new mechanistic insights into the molecular signatures associated with certain types of cellular behaviors identified in the whole-embryo imaging experiments.
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Number of feeds in 24hrs: I was going to wait until today, his 11 month birthday, to drop his two feeds to one, but the other night I was lazy and went to bed without doing his dream feed. He hasn't had it since. His one remaining feed is a bit hit and miss now.
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Foot length: Haven't done it this month yet!
Milestones: He spent a day shaking his head constantly and has now stopped that again! Oh, and, of course, he has two teeth!
My swimming ability: The pool is constantly closed on the weekend, so I've started jogging and am currently on 20 minutes twice a week.
What I'm reading: I've made it onto the re-read of Storm and Swords.
New Foods: I tried white chocolate today. He did not like it, so more for me!
Teeth: Two! But they're tiny!
Words: Other than the "ah" noise that me makes when he smooshes things with his face, none.
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Zagazig University administration took the decision to suspend Maher al-Maghraby, a professor of neuropsychiatry at its Faculty of Medicine, for three months, banned him from campus and referred him to a disciplinary committee for comments considered insulting to Islam, allegedly posted on his personal Facebook page.
The Sunday decision, announced by the University President Dr. Khaled Abdel Bary, included withholding a quarter of Maghraby's salary, a move being reviewed by the disciplinary committee.
According to a statement issued by Dr. Atef Bahrawy, dean of medicine at Zagazig University, the college administration condemned the posts published by Maghraby, which he describes as "offensive to Islam," and then decided to take legal action "in view of the seriousness of these posts, which provoked condemnation from all members of the faculty."
In statements to Mada Masr, Maghraby denied writing the posts attributed to him, claiming that his personal page had been hacked, and that he was unable to take action against it because of his limited knowledge of social networking sites. "I created an account on Facebook in 2014, but I rarely use it because of my limited familiarity with it. When I heard about the posts, I sought help from someone who knew more about the internet, and asked him to deactivate the account and delete them."
Maghraby expressed his disapproval of the haste with which the university administration decided to refer him to a disciplinary committee without asking him to clarify his position, adding that he will begin communicating with the administration to clear up the matter: "I am now at the college, where the department council will hold an emergency meeting to look into the matter, and I will explain my situation," he said.
Neither Abdel Bary nor Bahrawy were available to respond to Mada Masr's questions, although Bahrawy told the privately owned Youm7 newspaper on Tuesday that he "had referred the professor for interrogation immediately regarding the posts that defame God and the Islamic religion, to make sure whether those posts belong to him."
Facebook users circulated screenshots of a post attributed to Maghraby, which states: "Someone asked me, while crying because of the assault on Al-Aqsa Mosque, why God hadn't sent the birds of Ababil [divine intervention] to destroy Israel. So I rebuked him." The post ended with "An atheist questioning the ability of God."
Mohab Saeed, a lawyer at the Association of Freedom of Thought and Expression, told Mada Masr that the law organizing university affairs does not include penalties for opinions expressed by faculty or students. "The law includes penalties for disrespecting university traditions, for students harming the reputation of university professors, all of which are very vague. But there are no penalties for expressing opinions either online or even in classrooms; a right guaranteed by international treaties," he said.
Saeed added that interrogating people accused of insulting religion can only be done by the prosecution, not by university bodies.
Earlier in August the management of the bakery chain La Poire is reported to have suspended two of its workers, taking administrative action against them and reporting the incident to state security.
Screenshots of their conversation were posted by a person identified as Wael Mansour, who allegedly hacked into one of their accounts. Their personal conversations were said to contain "proof" that they were both atheists.
Mohamed Nagy, a researcher at the academic freedom program at the Association of Freedom of Thought and Expression, told Mada Masr that he believes Egyptian universities have started acting like "inquisition tribunals," used to persecute faculty members and students for personal opinions.
He recalled an incident which occurred in April earlier this year, when Dr. Mona Prince, a professor of English literature at Suez Canal University, was referred to a disciplinary committee for posting a video on Facebook of her dancing on the roof of her house. Nagy added: "The investigation looked at posts on Prince's personal Facebook page, which the university's investigative committee claimed were insulting to Islam and glorifyied Satan."
According to Nagy, "Facebook is gradually turning into a tool which universities use to monitor their faculty members and students, increasingly being used in investigations of those who express their political views or criticize their university's administration."
The researcher believes that the referral of Maghraby to a disciplinary investigation constitutes a violation of the right to the freedom of expression and belief, which is granted by the constitution and encompasses "not only the right to adhere to any religious belief, but also the right to publicly express one's opinion without persecution or punishment."
In a similar incident last November, Al-Azhar University suspended Dr. Yusri Gaafar, a professor of religion and philosophy, for three months on the back of an internal investigation, accusing him of promoting atheism and secularism.
In earlier statements to Mada Masr, Gaafar said that the investigation was based on a complaint filed against him by a student who accused him of promoting atheism and secularism, asserting that his ideas were "a malignant growth that needs to be removed," which Gaafar considered to be a clear and personal threat against him. He added: "I had hoped that the university would support me against such accusations. However, for the first time, action was taken against me. The university suspended me in contravention of the law, and without pay."
Gaafar said: "I am a professor of Islamic philosophy, and as such, I teach and discuss ideas while putting forth and debating divergent opinions. This involves critiquing and refuting ideas. So how is it that a professor from Al-Azhar is accused of atheism?"
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With the completely redeveloped SL, Mercedes-Benz continues a tradition that began 60 years ago. The letters "SL" have ever since been synonymous with a symbiosis of sportiness, style and comfort – and with groundbreaking innovations. The new SL has been produced for the first time almost entirely from aluminium and weighs up to 140 kilograms less than its predecessor. Its highly rigid all-aluminium bodyshell provides the basis for agile, sporty handling that has been taken to an entirely new level, coupled with exemplary roll characteristics and ride comfort. Even better driving dynamics come courtesy of the new BlueDIRECT engines; they are more powerful yet at the same time more economical when compared to the outgoing generation.
Other new features include the unique FrontBass® system, which turns the luxury sports car into a concert hall regardless of whether the top is open or closed, and the highly efficient adaptive windscreen wipe/wash system MAGIC VISION CONTROL; it supplies water from the wiper blade to the windscreen – as required and depending on the direction of wipe.
Dr Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars: "There are around 900 million cars in the world and thousands of models. But there are only a handful of automotive icons. Our SL is one of them: it has class, it has style, it oozes comfort and luxury. But it blends all of this with unbelievable sportiness and dynamism. Virtually no other car can meet Gottlieb Daimler's standard as perfectly as our SL: the best or nothing."
The new-generation Mercedes-Benz SL takes the meaning of the famous letters "SL" – super-light – literally. Consistent weight reduction is one of the most outstanding design characteristics in the new SL – as was the case in its namesake, the original SL of 1952 with its lightweight tubular frame. For the first time Mercedes-Benz has implemented an all-aluminium bodyshell in a series-production model. Only very few components consist of other materials. The designers use the even lighter magnesium for the cover behind the tank. High-strength steel tubing is integrated in the A-pillars for safety reasons.
The new aluminium bodyshell weighs around 110 kilograms less than it would using the steel technology from the predecessor. "The effect is rather as if a heavyweight-class passenger had got out of the car" says Dr Thomas Rudlaff, responsible for the aluminium bodyshell at Mercedes-Benz. "The result is perceptible and measurable. Less weight means more dynamism and less consumption. In other words: the motoring enjoyment increases, the environmental burden decreases."
The aluminium structure is not only lighter but also proves superior to the predecessor's steel construction in terms of rigidity, safety and comfort. This is achieved thanks, among other things, to its intelligent lightweight construction with components optimised for their specific task. Thus, diverse processes are used to make different kinds of aluminium depending on the use the component is to be given: the parts are made by chill casting or vacuum die-casting, worked into extruded aluminium sections or into aluminium panels of different thicknesses. The result: high rigidity, high safety levels and better vibration characteristics.
Although the new SL is even more comfortable and has more safety devices on board than its predecessor and therefore does actually sacrifice some of the weight saved through the aluminium bodyshell, the scales show some astonishing figures: the new SL 500 (1785 kg) weighs around 125 kilograms less than its predecessor bearing the same name. On balance, the SL 350 (1685 kg) is even 140 kilograms lighter – all thanks to a host of other intelligent enhanced details to reduce weight, which Mercedes-Benz has also implemented in the new SL in addition to the aluminium bodyshell.
Driving pleasure: frugal, powerful engines and agile suspension
Powerful while accelerating, effortlessly superior across all speeds, nimble on winding roads – the new SL provides no end of driving pleasure. Apart from the powerful engines, the sportily tuned yet comfortable suspension, which also boasts an intelligent lightweight construction, proves outstanding. For instance, the steering knuckles and spring links on the front axle are also made out of aluminium to reduce the unsprung masses. The same also applies to virtually all the wheel location components on the rear axle.
The new SL is available with two different suspension systems: the SL features semi-active adjustable damping as standard. The optional active suspension system ABC (Active Body Control) is available as an alternative.
Both suspension variants are combined with a new electromechanical Direct-Steer system featuring speed-sensitive power steering and a ratio that can be varied across the steering wheel angle. This ensures excellent straight-line stability and, therefore, a high degree of assuredness when travelling at motorway speeds and makes the SL very agile. It also reduces the amount of steering required when parking and manoeuvring.
The new V8 in the SL 500 develops 320 kW from its displacement of 4663 cc and thus around 12 percent more than its predecessor despite some 0.8 litres less displacement. The fuel consumption has been reduced by up to 22 percent. At the same time, the torque has increased from 530 Nm to 700 Nm – a gain of 32 percent. Although the displacement remains the same at 3499 cc, the new V6 engine in the new SL 350 develops 225 kW and delivers 370 Nm of torque.
Both engine variants come with a standard-fit ECO start/stop function. The 7G-TRONIC PLUS automatic transmission, which has been optimised in relation to fuel consumption and comfort, also contributes to the exemplary, low fuel consumption. The fuel economy of the BlueDIRECT engines takes nothing away from the roadster's raciness. Quite the contrary: the SL 350 accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 5.9 seconds, making it three tenths of a second faster than its predecessor. The SL 500 takes just 4.6 seconds – eight tenths less than the previous SL 500.
Interior: aesthetic, stylish, sporty
The new SL combines its aesthetically honed profile, which follows the Mercedes-Benz tradition, with a luxurious feel. Fine materials, perfectly finished with great attention to detail, distinguish the style and character of the interior.
Compared with its predecessor, the new generation of the SL is much longer (+50 mm to 4612 mm) and wider (+57 mm to 1877 mm), providing more room for more comfort in the interior, too. Shoulder room (+37 mm) and elbow room (+28 mm) have been increased, exceeding the dimensions normally found in this vehicle class. Clear lines create a formally coherent internal space within this comfortable interior. Generously used wood trim extends from the centre console across the dashboard into the doors, creating a pleasant wrap-around effect. Three types of wood along with two different aluminium trim finishes are available. Perfectly in tune with the roadster's character, it combines the unpretentious atmosphere of a high-performance sports car with the comfortable, stylish ambience one comes to expect in a luxurious touring car.
Design: classic SL proportions
The designers have brought the latest generation of the SL unmistakably to life on the basis of tradition but added new perspectives and visions. The result is a stylishly sporty and elegant luxury sports car with the classic hallmark SL balanced proportions: the long bonnet gives way to a compact passenger compartment that is set well back. A wide, muscular tail end giving the impression of raciness provides the finishing touch. A handful of elaborately styled lines define the powerfully sculpted and yet calm surfaces of the flanks. Finely worked details, a striking tail end as well as ventilation grilles with chromed fins from the dynamic traditional Mercedes-Benz design heritage visually emphasise the SL legend.
An upright classic sports car radiator grille clearly marks out the new SL visually as a prestigious member of the current Mercedes-Benz sports car family. The centrally positioned star is a contemporary reinterpretation of the famous trademark, which now extends into the centre section with its organically flowing contours.
Dynamically slanting headlamps set well to the outside flank the striking front end and give the new roadster its own unmistakable face. The headlamps come as standard with the Intelligent Light System (ILS). With five different lighting functions that are tailored to typical driving and weather conditions, and are activated depending on the driving situation, they offer the driver a much better illuminated field of vision. The striking curved sidelights and the horizontal strip of the daytime running lamps in the far ends of the bumper feature LED technology.
Aerodynamics: new standards
The design of the new SL not only meets high aesthetic demands – it also boasts exemplary aerodynamic qualities.
As such, the roadster merits best marks in its segment in four important disciplines:
- With the lowest drag coefficient (cd = 0.27 in the SL 350);
- With the lowest wind noise that is virtually on a par with a closed saloon;
- With the best comfort for open-top motoring so that you can still have the roof down even at high speed;
- With virtually no accumulation of dirt on the side windows.
Two world premieres: FrontBass® and MAGIC VISION CONTROL
With two innovations, the new SL remains true to its tradition as a technological trendsetter:
- MAGIC VISION CONTROL is a new, intelligent and highly efficient wipe/wash system. The innovative wiper blade concept always applies the washer fluid just in front of the wiper blade lip via the channels integrated into the blade – in both directions of wipe. As a result, no water is splashed onto the windscreen during spraying to disrupt the driver's visibility, while at the same time cleaning the windscreen perfectly. The water also remains on the windscreen, thus ensuring it is cleaned without troubling the occupants, even with the roof down. For the first time an optional fully heated wiper blade which prevents snow or ice from forming on the blade in winter is available. This heating function also allows warm water to be applied directly onto the windscreen for the first time, even in cold temperatures.
- Also unique, the FrontBass® system intelligently uses the free spaces in the aluminium structures in front of the footwell as resonance spaces for the bass loudspeakers. As a result the new SL features clear, crisp bass sounds that facilitate a concert hall ambience even with the top down, and frees up space in the doors.
Both innovations are part of the extensive standard equipment of the new SL.
The safest roadster
Thanks to the crash-optimised aluminium structure, standard-fit PRE-SAFE® and assistance systems on the same high level as the S-Class, the SL is the world's safest roadster. The rigid aluminium bodyshell forms a sturdy passenger compartment along with precisely defined deformation zones in the front and tail ends. In the event of the vehicle overturning, A-pillars made out of a mix of steel and aluminium and two roll-over bars protect the passenger compartment. The restraint systems including the two-stage driver and passenger airbags have been further developed. A headbag integrally covers the side head-impact area. An additional thorax airbag in the seat backrest can protect the upper body in the event of a side impact. Another new feature is the crash-responsive NECK-PRO head restraints developed by Mercedes-Benz which are fitted as standard in the SL.
An active bonnet and a front end with a large, yielding impact area help ensure pedestrian protection.
A safety highlight comes in the form of the standard-specification anticipatory occupant protection system PRE-SAFE®, developed by Mercedes-Benz and the only one of its kind in the world. If it recognises that there is an acute risk of an accident, it reacts reflexively by activating preventive measures to protect the occupants, so that the belts and airbags can exercise their protective effect optimally in the event of a subsequent impact which might ensue. Additional post-crash measures supplement the integral safety concept and facilitate rapid assistance: regardless of the severity of the impact, the doors can be automatically unlocked after an accident, the interior lighting activated and the side windows lowered by 50 millimetres to ventilate the interior more effectively. The steering wheel can also be moved upwards.
Standard-specification: ATTENTION ASSIST and ADAPTIVE BRAKE
In the new SL, too, a unique combination of driver assistance systems helps prevent accidents. These include the standard-fit drowsiness detection system ATTENTION ASSIST and the ADAPTIVE BRAKE. The latter features ABS, acceleration skid control (ASR) and active yaw control, and offers comfort and convenience functions in addition to safety functions.
The ADAPTIVE BRAKE works in conjunction with the equally adaptive brake lights. In emergency braking situations, it uses flashing brake lights to warn vehicles behind.
PRE-SAFE® Brake: autonomous partial and emergency braking in response to a serious risk of a rear-end collision
As an option DISTRONIC PLUS proximity control and PRE-SAFE® Brake, which is already well proven in other Mercedes-Benz models, are available. Both work on the basis of the same radar sensors. Once a serious risk of a rear-end collision is detected, the PRE-SAFE® Brake warns the driver initially and can initiate autonomous braking if the driver fails to react, and so either prevent the accident or at least mitigate its severity. PRE-SAFE® can also activate occupant protection measures.
HANDS-FREE ACCESS – 'kick' to open
One of the new products and features from Mercedes-Benz is a system known as HANDS-FREE ACCESS. Standard on the new SL for the first time anywhere in the world, and it allows drivers to operate the boot lid without using their hands. This work is taken care of by a hydraulic drive system, for which the control signals are given by the SL owner without touching anything, but by making as though to kick the area of the rear bumper with their foot; doing so activates this fully automatic comfort-increasing equipment. Mercedes-Benz is the only manufacturer to offer a system which not only opens but also closes the boot lid automatically.
With the innovative convenience function HANDS-FREE ACCESS there is no longer any need for drivers to have to get annoyed by having to put their purchases and other objects down on the – often dirty – ground when out shopping and when they literally have their hands full, in order to reach for the handle. Should an unintentional 'kick' result in the boot lid opening or closing without the driver wanting this to happen, a second kick will correct it. When this occurs, the automatic system interrupts the procedure and reverses the effect of the signal given in error by actuating the boot lid against the original direction of movement – in the case of unintended opening, the second kick closes the boot lid again.
An appropriate safety program facilitates unhindered use of the HANDS-FREE ACCESS system. An acoustic signal provides the information that an opening or closing procedure has been initiated, and an automatic reversing function stops the boot lid as soon as the system recognises that there is an obstacle blocking the boot lid.


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Quarterly Report
Another three months of community and economic development work has been completed and is covered in the release of the Valley County Economic Development and Ord Area Chamber quarterly report. Each quarter, we document the efforts we have been working on and we're pleased to announce the completion of several initiatives. In this report, you will read about:
– Sales Tax Loan Activity and Fund Balance
– Sales Tax Fund Receipts
– Completed Business Development projects
– ShopOrd.com status
– Completed Chamber of Commerce efforts
– Community housing efforts
– Tourism Promotion and Development
– Marketing efforts
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It seems that most car guys have a defining moment when they "caught the bug," so to speak, or at least maintain a memory of the first time they fell in love with the car world and often a specific model or brand of car.
This love for cars can manifest itself in a number of ways. Some love the newest, most technologically advanced performance, some like the classics, or even cars from the early 1900s. For some it's performance in a form of on or off-road racing, for others it's the desire to have it not only occupy their free time, but also have it help them earn a living through their love for the automobile.
Let us take a look at one such family who proudly continues to operate their own Corvette-centric performance shop based out of sunny San Diego, California, Top Flight Corvette.
A Family of Gear Heads
We drove down for a visit in December of 2014, and were met with several kind smiles. The front of the shop houses a customer waiting area which is absolutely filled with racing and Corvette memorabilia collected over the years by owner and president Lawton Ferreira. Ranging from drag racing trophies and pictures of his own Corvettes as a young man to a case of Hot Wheels and speed or oil-related collectibles, it's quite a sight. The room is also brought together by the custom flooring tiles sporting the "TFC" rider above Corvette and Chevrolet emblems.
Getting back to how a love for automobiles starts, we asked Ferreira about his oldest memory. He was happy to share, "Well my love for the cars started as a kid, around 13 or 14 years old. I was exposed to Corvettes through my family. I was intrigued by the Corvette since it was the only true American Sports car in existence, beginning back in the '50s."
"Starting at a young age, my family was all somehow involved with speed in one form or another; my immediate family with motorcycles, one brother drag raced, and my other brother built custom street cars, so growing up among a group of gear heads led me to where I am today."
It sometimes only takes a small initial moment or two for somebody to really adopt a lifelong passion. However Ferreira wasn't able to start off in the Corvette, as it wasn't in his budget as a young man in Hawaii.
Ferreira said, "Ironically, when I started drag racing, I actually had a 1965 Mustang for my first race car. I did very well with it, but I never lost the desire to have a Corvette race car, since that's where my passion truly lied. Eventually I was able to get my first Corvette, and have been with them ever since."
Some folks do begin and conclude their lifelong automotive passion within the same genre or loyalty to a particular car manufacturer. Though the majority of us will venture off into uncharted territory, whether that simply means trying a MOPAR for a year, or moving into off-road when previously involved in drag racing. No matter the start, we have to be thankful that something at some point truly harnessed our attention and was able to connect so many people with a genuine passion for the automobile.
Island Roots Take Flight
In speaking with Ferreira, we could detect a very slight accent, and so we asked him where he was from and how he ultimately ended up in San Diego. Ferreira said, "I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii."
This is where the love for Corvette began and manifested itself, as he began drag racing and eventually working on other people's cars. He made it known he has been very fortunate in meeting the right people along the way, making great connections, and even finding a few who helped to develop and shape him into the person he is today. He then drew a smile as you could see him reflecting on his past and was happy to share another short story with us.
Ferreira excitedly explained, "Believe it or not, back in Honolulu I worked for one of the ten richest men in the world at the time. I fulfilled all of my duties in the office upstairs, but my boss was so cool that he allowed me to basically run my own Corvette business out of the shop downstairs while still working for him."
He continued, "I was drag racing back then and he would often fly in from Seattle on a Thursday only to find me working on my race car, in preparation for the weekend. He understood that I had a real passion for it, and told me that 'so long as you do a great job and keep the books looking the way they have, I won't interfere in your other business.' He eventually was pleased enough with my performance that he made me the vice president of the company. I did that for twelve years until I moved to San Diego."
Ferreira made the decision to move to the mainland for a couple of reasons. For one, he really wanted his future to involve a Corvette shop, but being on an island, there are a limited number of Corvettes. Despite the tiny supply, Honolulu already had three separate Corvette shops in operation during this time. Secondly, Ferreira had since married and had a son, so in an effort to be closer to the his wife's family they packed up and relocated to San Diego in December 1991.
Once they were settled in San Diego, a new career was in order, but initially Ferreira did not go back into the business of building Corvettes due to concerns about where the economy was at the time. He explained, "I went to work at Home Depot for about three years, but I was still working on Vettes out of my home garage. Eventually I saw an ad at a local Corvette shop, so I went and applied for the job. After working for him for eight months, I bought the business from the owner, and the rest is history. This is how Top Flight Corvette came to exist in San Diego."
One of the first things we noticed when driving up to Top Flight, was that the front didn't exactly look like your traditional auto shop, nor the surrounding buildings in regards to vegetation. Well, we quickly understood the reasoning after learning of Ferreira's roots, and we have to say, it made us all long for that warm Hawaiian sun!
Business is Business
CO: What keeps you motivated to continue Top Flight?
LF: "The automotive business is certainly a tough business to run, and stay consistent, but my passion for what we do still continues to excite me. Being in the specialty business like mine it is never the same thing, there are so many different aspects between building high horsepower engines, installing power adders, fabrication, and custom modifications."
CO: You appear to mostly be a speed shop, what else does Top Flight do?
LF: "We also restore Corvettes, as you may have noticed the frame sitting just outside the shop door, that is the frame for a 1966 Corvette, which we are going to be restoring from the frame up to completion. We also work on other muscle cars, like Camaros, Chevelles, and trucks… along with the occasional Mustang."
Coincidentally enough, as Corvette Online was packing up, a gentlemen was unloading a (and yes it pains us to admit it) stunningly gorgeous 60's Mustang awaiting some attention from Ferreira. As much as Ferreira is surrounded by and loves the Corvette, he does seem to have a genuine appreciation for all things automotive, but mostly for GM!
CO: Aside from your own hard work, what do you attribute your success to?
LF: "Good sponsors, good vendors, and great customers for over 15-years, some of which have owned three or four different Corvettes, and allowed me to build every one of them. Along with a good steady customer base that has allowed us to develop a great reputation."
At one point we noticed a particularly nice C3 body sitting high up on a lift rack. There was a significant amount of dust on it, but you could tell it had painted in a beautiful midnight blue and placed high up for protection. Upon Ferreira catching us eyeing it, he mentioned that it belongs to him, and mentioned, "the owner rarely, if ever has time to work on his own car!"
It's a Family Affair
We were shown around the shop a bit more, talking about old cars and future builds as any group of car guys would. We discussed a little politics, where we thought the general future of cars and hot rods was headed, and he shared a great story about his son's participation in drag racing.
"My son owns and drives a blown-alcohol altered car, which we will shortly be installing a LSX motor into along with a vintage-type blower in order to race in the nostalgic drag racing series. We are hoping to stir things up, and are really excited about it!"
Ferreira's son, who was working in the shop throughout the tour, is also named Lawton but goes by "Lawt" for short. Once Ferreira began talking about his son, you could see the pride written on his face watching Lawt work away, fabricating a section of fuel line for a customer's custom C6.
Ferreira then said with a smile, "My son could drive when he was only 18-months old, when I bought him one of those Sears mini dune buggies. My mom and my wife both thought I was crazy, but he was able to do it, kids are more capable then people think. From then on, my son has always been around cars and now he does all of our engine builds, custom exhaust systems, and all of the fabrication."
While speaking to Ferreira, we noticed Lawt take the hard-line over to the polishing table and work it to a mirror-like finish before cleaning it and installing it between the fuel rails. All the while, he portrayed the type of quality and attention to detail that one can expect from Top Flight Corvette.
The shop definitely was not built for show, and nothing was pulled or added knowing Corvette Online would be taking photos of the shop. It was not sterile, nor extremely well lit, this was the kind of garage that builds customer impressions when they pick their car up, not drop it off. While the shops that resemble hospital operating rooms have their place, usually housing well-funded racing teams, the family garage atmosphere was just as inviting to us, and we were happy to relish within it.
Before moving on, Ferreira kindly shared with us one last thought regarding his son, Lawt. "To be perfectly honest, I would like to leave the business in about three to four years, and I am hopeful that he will take the business over for me." While this may not seem like a huge idea to some folks, we got an understanding of how important this is to Ferreira and how proud he must feel knowing he has helped to groom his son to one day manage the business.
Whether or not Lawt takes over in years to come, we wish Top Flight Corvette the best of luck!


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Kalmykia is getting closer
September 21 in ZKGU them. M. Utemisov attended by representatives of Kalmyk State University. V.V.Gorodovikova (Elista, Russia) Vice-Rector for Research and External Cooperation, Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor V.O.Imeev and Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural, doctor of agricultural sciences, professor A.K.Natyrov.
The guests visited the Pedagogical and natural geography of the University faculties. At a round table was held with the participation of the Faculty of Education of guests, at which representatives of Kalmyk State University spoke about the purpose of his visit.
To strengthen the development of science and international relations were invited to continue the exchange of students, the implementation of joint research projects, science festivals, conferences, student academic forums, etc..
The team also visited the natural-geographical faculty. They had a tour in the museum of the Faculty.
At the meeting of the Academic Council PhD, Associate Professor V.O.Imeevu, dean of the Faculty of Agricultural, DS-Agricultural Sciences, Professor A.K.Natyrovu been awarded the title of Honorary Professor ZKGU them. M. Utemisov.
Scientists V.O.Imeev A.K.Natyrov and thanked the university administration for its high rank and expressed hope for the continuation and deepening of ties between the two universities.
Rector ZKGU them. M. Utemisov, Ph.D., Professor A.S.Imangalievu was awarded the Diploma of the Government of Kalmykia, on behalf of the Prime Minister Igor Zotov.


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In a highly unusual and particularly scathing letter to Sun Microsystems' Board and CEO Scott McNealy, influential Merrill Lynch computer hardware analysts Scott Milunovich today warned Sun it may be setting soon, and may face a takeover, unless they undergo drastic change.
The anaysts exhorts Sun to cut 5,000 to 7,000 jobs and discontinue its Sparc, Mad Hatter, and Java product lines.
Sun has been having a really bad week already, losing 14 percent of its stock price on Tuesday after it warned it wouldn't meet estimates and would restate some $1 billion in previous results. Following the letter, Sun is off another 2 percent in late-afternoon trading.
The question: Is this new method of publically berating a company's leadership the kick in the pants many large, unwieldy corporations need today, or is this a case of an influential analyst overstepping his bounds, and nearly blackmailing a company by affecting its stock price, to do what he thinks is right?


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