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The City of Santa Rosa in California has installed a 65ft obelisk sculpted from recycled bicycles. The artwork, appropriately named 'Cyclisk', is the talk of the town because it was funded by car company Nissan and has gone up in the heart of the automotive district.
"There are some really wide-ranging thoughts on it but I think that's what art is about," said Christine Culver, executive director of the Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition.
"There are folks that think it's strange that it was a car company that funded bike art but it was the car company's choice. I think bike art is so cool and it's beautiful. You can see it from so far away."
The obelisk was created by Petaluma-based artists Mark Grieve and Ilana Spector, who were commissioned by the city to create a dynamic new piece of artwork for the Santa Rosa corridor. It weighs 10,000lb and is made from roughly 340 recycled bicycles collected from local nonprofit community bike projects. It took nearly four months of welding to manufacture.
It might seem odd that the Cyclisk was installed across the street from an auto body shop and towers over a section of town highly populated with car dealerships, but it was no coincidence.
The project cost $37,000 and was funded by the one percent tax on a new $3.7 million Nissan dealership building. The "1% for Art" is required by the city for commercial projects that cost more than $500,000 to build.
Some community members feel the Cyclisk makes a political statement about alternative transportation while others simply view it as a unique addition to the eclectic array of downtown street art.
"I don't think it's a political statement and I don't think the artist intended it to be either," Culver said. "Cycling is quite big here in Santa Rosa and I think it's just a great tribute to cycling."


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text: CALL FOR PAPERS RAID 2009 12th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection 2009 September 23-25, 2009 Saint Malo, Brittany, France http://www.rennes.supelec.fr/RAID2009/ ================================================================ Topics: ------- This symposium, the 12th in an annual series, brings together leading researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to discuss issues and technologies related to intrusion detection and defense. The Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID) International Symposium series furthers advances in intrusion defense by promoting the exchange of ideas in a broad range of topics. As in previous years, all topics related to intrusion detection, prevention and defense systems and technologies are within scope, including but not limited to the following: * Network and host intrusion detection and prevention * Anomaly and specification-based approaches * IDS cooperation and event correlation * Malware prevention, detection, analysis and containment * Web application security * Insider attack detection * Intrusion response, tolerance, and self protection * Operational experience and limitations of current approaches * Intrusion detection assessment and benchmarking * Attacks against IDS including DoS, evasion, and IDS discovery * Formal models, analysis, and standards * Deception systems and honeypots * Vulnerability analysis, risk assessment, and forensics * Adversarial machine learning for security * Visualization techniques * Special environments, including mobile and sensor networks * High-performance intrusion detection * Legal, social, and privacy issues * Network exfiltration detection * Botnet analysis, detection, and mitigation Important Dates: ---------------- Paper submission deadline: April 5, 2009 Paper acceptance or rejection: June 8, 2009 Final paper camera ready copy: June 18, 2009 Poster abstract submission deadline: June 20, 2009 Poster acceptance or rejection: June 28, 2009 Submissions: ------------ RAID 2009 invites two types of submissions: 1. Full papers presenting mature research results or summarizing operational experience protecting or monitoring large real-world networks. Papers can be 10-20 pages long and, if accepted, they will be presented and included in the RAID 2009 proceedings published by Springer Verlag in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html) series. Papers must be formatted according to the instructions provided by Springer Verlag (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html), and include an abstract and a list of keywords. 2. Posters describing innovative ideas not mature enough for a full paper and works in progress. A two-page poster abstract formatted as a full paper with an abstract must be submitted. If accepted, it will be published in the proceedings and the poster will be presented. All submissions (papers and poster abstracts) must be submitted electronically; details will be provided on the conference web site. 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No results on money ordinances
The inability to take action topped the action of Monday's Wapakoneta City Council meeting.
Council faced two money ordinances tagged as emergencies – a temporary appropriations ordinance to start fiscal year 2014, totaling more than $10 million through more than three dozen funds; and a supplemental appropriations ordinance totaling $177,000 to adjust seven different funds.
Councilman Jim Neumeier voted no on each motion to suspend the rules, effectively halting the legislation. Each ordinance required a suspension of the rules to allow it be read as emergencies, a needed step to allowing the ordinances to be adopted Monday night without the required three readings.
With the absence of Councilor Dan Graf, the resulting 5-1 vote was not a majority enough to allow the rules be suspended and the ordinances read as emergencies. Six votes were needed.
Neumeier's displeasure was nothing new. The councilman has often voiced his desire to receive emergency legislation the Friday prior to Monday's meeting. He said he found these ordinances in his stack of information when arriving for the meeting and refused to take action before having a chance to review the pending legislation.
"The emergency we've got is we can't get what we want in a timely manner," Neumeier said. "What council asks for we never get."
Neumeier pointed out the temporary appropriations ordinance listed the names of former councilors; the only information updated was the year in the title.
"This is the same ordinance from six years ago," he said. "It's the same one we pass every year. It wasn't just prepared today."
Safety-Service Director Bill Rains said he asks the city auditor, Gail Walters, to prepare the legislation in the timeline requested by council.
"If she does it, she does it," he said. Council President Steve Henderson offered to reach out to Walters to ask her to work within council's requests for timely information.
The non-action on the two ordinances requires council to meet in special section before the end of the year. Mayor Rod Metz scheduled that meeting for Dec. 26, at 6:30 p.m., prior to the finance committee meeting.


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In the photo: Magee and Geraghty family members on holiday at Rush, North County Dublin.
My father Michael is the little boy in the front row, far right. His eldest brother Patrick is in the front row, far left.
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Although we don't normally cover Mazda stories, we couldn't resist this one, especially since our old friend and ex-VW Chief Designer in the USA, Derek Jenkins is involved at his new position.
Derek traveled to Milan for its annual Design Week, along with Mazda's Head of design, Ikuo Maeda, and colleague Peter Birtwhistle. They were in Italy to reveal the Kodo Chair, which was designed by Maeda and his team in Hiroshima, Japan.
Kodo is the Soul of Motion and the Kodo chair emulates beauty and motion while being used for a stationary purpose. The chair also represents the precision in Mazda vehicles, which is captured in its form.
Unveiled at the Mazda Con-Temporary Space, the Kodo Chair was displayed alongside the latest Mazda 6, which also demonstrates such precision and motion.
Other exhibits in the Space included Italian artist Giuliana Cuneaz, who reflected Mazda's design approach. The Forma Fluens exhibit by Cuneaz features the use of 3D and HD video to express motion through various mediums.


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NEW YORK — CBS buried its rivals in the ratings last week, logging 17 of the 25 most-watched shows.
Runner-up NBC, as usual, could claim the week's top-rated show: Sunday night football. Its broadcast of the NFL playoff game between Detroit and New Orleans drew nearly 32 million viewers, according to Nielsen Co. figures released Tuesday. NBC's pre-game show ranked second for the week, with more than 25 million viewers.
But CBS dominated in the rankings after that, scoring big with such hits as "NCIS," ''60 Minutes" and "Two and a Half Men." Overall for the week, CBS averaged 12.67 million viewers (7.7 rating, 12 share), far ahead of NBC, with 8.26 million viewers (5.0 rating, 8 share), Nielsen said.
In third place, ABC had 7.27 million viewers (4.6 rating, 7 share), while Fox had 4.23 million (2.6 rating, 4 share), Ion Television had 1.01 million (0.7 rating, 1 share), and the CW had 1.38 million (0.9 rating, 1 share).
Among the Spanish-language networks, Univision led with 3.60 million viewers (1.7 rating, 3 share), Telemundo had 1.31 million (0.7 rating, 1 share), TeleFutura had 550,000 (0.3 rating, 0 share), Estrella had 220,000 viewers (0.1 rating, 0 share) and Azteca had 200,000 (also 0.1 rating, 0 share).
NBC's "Nightly News" was on top among the evening newscasts with an average of 8.9 million viewers (5.9 rating, 11 share). ABC's "World News" was second with 8.0 million viewers (5.2 rating, 9 share), and the "CBS Evening News" had 6.7 million viewers (4.5 rating, 8 share).
A ratings point represents 1,147,000 households, or 1 percent of the nation's estimated 114.7 million TV homes; the share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show.
For the week of Jan. 2-8, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: NFL Football: Detroit at New Orleans, NBC, 31.78 million; "Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick," NBC, 25.48 million; "NCIS," CBS, 19.81 million; "60 Minutes," CBS, 18.97 million; "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 17.08 million; "Modern Family," ABC, 14.03 million; "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 13.94 million; "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 12.12 million; "2 Broke Girls," CBS, 12.10 million; "Mike & Molly," CBS, 11.90 million.
ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co. CBS is owned by CBS Corp. CW is a joint venture of Warner Bros. Entertainment and CBS Corp. Fox is a unit of News Corp. NBC and Telemundo are owned by Comcast Corp. ION Television is owned by ION Media Networks. TeleFutura is a division of Univision. Azteca America is a wholly owned subsidiary of TV Azteca S.A. de C.V.
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A Ravens game in a Mexican restaurant? As odd as it sounds, Blue Agave in South Baltimore revs up for Ravens games. Blue Agave's new owners, who took over in May, wheel out four 55-inch TVs in the dining area, so everybody can watch Terrell Suggs and the rest of the gang do their thing. There are...
Ravens bar of the week: DellaRose's Tavern
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Ravens bar of the week: Hudson Street Stackhouse
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Jobs, or more precisely, the lack of jobs is now a Global Issue
The crisis around jobs is particularly acute this time not just because 205 million people worldwide are officially unemployed, nor because the quality of available jobs are frequently perceived to be declining, especially the routine middle-grade white-collar jobs workers in the developed countries, nor is it just because skilled and talented people who are in short supply earn multiples of the average salary. The problem in today's post-crisis world is that policymakers and practitioners around the world are no longer sure how to create jobs, and just as and perhaps even more important, how to create good jobs.
It used to be the case that reviving economic growth would do the trick. Historically, unemployment returns to pre-downturn rates with a lag after output growth bounce back to its trend. This time round while key macroeconomic indicators such as real global GDP, private consumption, gross fixed investment, and world trade had all recovered to and even surpassed pre-crisis levels by 2010, unemployment rates have not followed suit. According to the ILO, the global unemployment rate was 6.2 percent in 2010, compared with 6.3 percent in 2009, but still well above the 5.6 percent rate in 2007.
Renowned economists such as Edmund Phelps and Michael Spence have indicated [1] that what we are observing in the U.S. and other rich countries is structural unemployment rather than transitory cyclical unemployment. Globalization and technological innovation, together with consequent outsourcing and offshoring, are bringing about long-term changes in the global economy that are altering the structures of domestic labor markets. Skills that were in demand in the past have been either replaced by technology or moved to developing countries.
And as if things were not bad enough - the job crisis in developed countries has been further exacerbated by the sovereign debt crisis. With interest rates at historic lows, and most of them having reached their "credit limit", few governments in the West have much capacity for further stimulus either through monetary or fiscal policy. Ironically, developed countries have now to figure out to how create jobs while living within their means, something many developing countries had successfully done for decades.
In the case of developing countries, the situation is different but at the same time similar. For example, a number of countries in the Middle East had experienced high rates of economic growth during the past decade but unemployment rates still average around 10 percent give or take, again indicating a structural phenomenon. Youth unemployment, while disproportionately high in most regions of the world, is especially rampant in the Middle East and North Africa, with rates approaching 25 percent, more than quadruple that of adults. Producing tertiary graduates with industrially relevant skills is also an important issue in MENA.
With it being such a current and critical development issue, job creation became one of the key discussion topics at this year's World Bank-IMF Annual Meetings. There were several events focusing on jobs, including a Global Development Debate on Job and Opportunities for All [2]. This high-level event brought together emerging countries policymakers and experts who shared their perspectives on this tremendously important question from their respective positions.
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Leesburg, VA—Loudoun's entrepreneurs and business owners will find the answers to their financing questions and more at the first Finance Fair developed to support local business. The Fair is scheduled on Thursday, April 29, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at The George Washington University Virginia Science and Technology Campus in Ashburn.
The Finance Fair is the project of the Loudoun County Economic Development Commission's Marketing and Business Retention Committee chaired by Commissioner Kurt Krause, General Manager of the National Conference Center. "Loudoun's business growth potential is phenomenal," said Krause, "but many startups don't know about or understand the variety of funding options available to them. Our panel has experts on Angel Funding, Venture Capital, Federal SBIR and Gap Funds, as well as traditional bank funding," Krause continued. "Business owners participating will have a clear advantage, this is an event you don't want to miss."
Michael Matteson, Chair, Loudoun SBDC added, "Partnering with the SBDC to offer this Finance Fair provides our business community with a solid information resource throughout the year and an expanded annual education and networking event." The Finance Fair is incorporated into the Loudoun Small Business Development Center's annual "Building Business Together" celebration, now in its third year.
The Fair opens with keynote speaker Matt Erskine, Executive Director of the Greater Washington Initiative and former Deputy Secretary of Commerce and Trade under Virginia Governor Mark Warner. John Wood, CEO of Telos, is moderating the panel "Financing Business Growth," which includes Ara Bagdasarian, CEO, Omnilert, LLC, and Chairman, Leesburg Economic Development Commission; Edward Barrientos, Managing Partner, Zeitgeist Holdings, LLC; Tom Weithman, VP for Entrepreneurship and Investment Services for CIT and Managing Director of CIT Gap Funds; Bobby Ocampo, Associate with Grotech Ventures; Robert Brooke, Director, CIT Federal Funding Programs; and Cheryl Beebe, Senior Vice President at Cardinal Bank.
Each panelist will lead breakout sessions following the panel discussion and during the luncheon session, Judy Costello, Executive Director of The Business Alliance for Innovation and Entreneurship, will offer a seminar on "Pitching for Investment $$$." The Finance Fair concludes with remarks from SDBC Chair Matteson.
Other tracks at "Building Business Together: How to Win in 2010!" include seminars on Social Networking, Federal Contracting, Website Analytics, Sales and Customer Service, and Basic Accounting for Start-ups. But, it's not all business! A Tech Gadget Gallery courtesy of Best Buy will display new electronics for the office, a Silent Auction and Exhibit Hall will offer great opportunities from local businesses, and an Evening Mixer tops off the event with one of the best networking sessions of the year.
The Loudoun Times-Mirror is the Media Sponsor for the combined event, The GW Virginia Science and Technology Campus is the event host and breakfast sponsor, and Middleburg Bank, Loudoun County Department of Economic Development, and the National Conference Center are luncheon sponsors for the Finance Fair.
Registration is $50 for the day, including all workshops, continental breakfast, and lunch. To register or for more information, visit www.loudounsbdc.org, email [email protected], or call 703-430-7222. Pre-event networking and sign-in for the Finance Fair begins at 7 a.m. at The George Washington University Virginia Science and Technology Campus, Exploration Hall, 20101 Academic Way, Ashburn, VA 20147.
The Loudoun SBDC is a member of the Virginia SBDC Network, a statewide service network funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the US Small Business Administration. The Loudoun County Economic Development Commission is a public/private partnership responsible for promoting the county's economic development. The EDC advises the Board of Supervisors on issues and provides support to the Department of Economic Development whose mission is to promote economic growth and opportunity by attracting targeted new businesses, supporting existing businesses, and cultivating our rural economy.


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The Cadillac CTS-V is the higher-performance version of the CTS class. The line offers sedan, wagon, and coupe models, all similarly engineered but with varying body styles. All models are assembled in Lansing, Michigan. Other vehicles in the CTS-V class include the Jaguar XFR, Audi RS6, BMW M5, and Mercedes E63 AMG.
There have been two generations of the Cadillac CTS-V: 2004 to 2007 and 2009 to 2012. First-generation models were available as in a sedan style, while newer models include choices of a sedan, coupe, or sport wagon configuration.
The model was first introduced in 2004 with a V-8 engine and sport-tuned suspension. Though this specific line is only eight years old, there have been several versions of it. A couple of CTS-V versions performed well in competition at the SCCA World Challenge racing; in 2004 to 2007 the vehicle shone as a sedan and in 2011 as a coupe.
Since the first 2004 model, the CTS-V line of Cadillacs has been known for speed and power combined with comfort and luxury. Each subsequent year's model improved further on these traits, pushing the envelope and raising the bar for other luxury brands. The CTS-V generally appears near the top of lists of powerful, quick, and luxurious cars.
All CTS-V models past and present were developed with an eye for speed, performance, and aesthetics while incorporating the many technological and luxurious details for which Cadillac is famous. The 2012 Cadillac CTS-V is available as a sedan, coupe, or wagon. It's one of the most powerful consumer vehicles of the year, with a 556-horsepower engine that goes from zero to 60 in approximately 3.9 seconds. With the new CTS-V, Magnetic Ride Control suspension technology provides a smooth ride even at high speeds. The suspension increases response time and precision by using magneto-rheological technology in place of mechanical valves. This model has six-piston front and four-piston rear Brembo brakes. Also available are Recaro performance seats and pneumatic bolster controls. The interior indicators include an LED-lit function in the tachometer that flashes near the engines redline and a display that indicates lateral acceleration. While built for speed and power, the 2012 CTS-V sedan also has all of the luxuries of a Cadillac, integrating top-of-the-line technology in every part of its interior and exterior.
The car's starting price of $64,515 is on the high end, even for its class, but drivers in search of speed and luxury might find it worth the investment. Few vehicles on the market today can match the new Cadillac CTS-V when it comes to power, comfort, and technological advancements.
First-generation CTS-Vs were produced from 2004 until 2007. All models featured a V-8 and six-speed manual transmission. The engine was closely related to the Corvette in many ways, though the two vehicles' exterior styles had little in common. An equal in speed and power to the Corvette, the CTS-V was generally considered more reliable and certainly more luxurious. These models were an answer to CTS fans who wanted a top-of-the-line version of the vehicle.
After 2009, the second-generation CTS-V was introduced. Though the body style did resemble older versions, many of the vehicle's angles had been smoothed out, offering a more stylish, faster look. It didn't just look faster; the model also possessed a significant boost in power. Newer models offer 556 horsepower, more than some heavy-duty trucks on the market. These vehicles are built for speed, with the 2012 model able to go from zero to 60 in 3.9 seconds.
2017 Cadillac CTS-V
Luxury, Sedan
2016 Cadillac CTS-V
2015 Cadillac CTS-V
Coupe, Luxury
2014 Cadillac CTS-V
Coupe, Luxury, Sedan, Wagon
2013 Cadillac CTS-V
Cadillac, most well-known as the luxury brand of General Motors, aims to please with the release of the 2013 Cadillac CTS-V.
2012 Cadillac CTS-V
The CTS-V is relatively unchanged from its first incarnation. Rainsense automatic windshield wipers are new to the V family for 2012.
2011 Cadillac CTS-V
The 2011 Cadillac CTS-V is a high-performance, rear-drive, luxury sedan that behaves like a sports car.
2010 Cadillac CTS-V
2009 Cadillac CTS-V
Introduced in 2009, the Cadillac CTS-V is a performance sport sedan that is in direct competition with BMW's M5 and the Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG.
2007 Cadillac CTS-V
The 2007 Cadillac CTS-V will change a lot of people's minds about what the Cadillac name means.
2006 Cadillac CTS-V
2005 Cadillac CTS-V
Introduced as a new model, the 2005 CTS-V helps Cadillac regain its reputation for powerful cars.
2004 Cadillac CTS-V


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