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Patent and Copyright Clause
The Congress shall have Power To...promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries....Article I, Section 8, Clause 8
There is little direct evidence about the Patent and Copyright Clause's original meaning. The clause neither represented a legal tradition of great historical and practical significance to the Framers, unlike the availability of habeas corpus (see Article I, Section 9, Clause 2), nor was it one of the great structural innovations of the Constitution that attracted so much attention because of its gravity and novelty. Rather, the clause appears to have been largely an afterthought.
What little direct evidence we have about the circumstances of the clause's adoption has been of little help in resolving the disputes that have arisen, many of them quite recently, over its meaning. The clause was the subject of little debate during the Constitutional Convention, nor was it a major topic of discussion during the ratification debates. James Madison, in his wrap-up of "miscellaneous powers" in The Federalist No. 43, devoted only a single paragraph to the clause, justifying it both on the need to provide a national, uniform standard of intellectual property regulation as well as on the merits of the protection itself. "The copy right of authors," Madison wrote, "has been solemnly adjudged in Great Britain to be a right at Common Law. The right to useful inventions seems with equal reason to belong to the inventors." On this point Madison was mistaken; the House of Lords had decided in 1774 that copyright was not a common-law right, and invention patents had always been granted as a matter of crown or parliamentary discretion. In the very same breath as he extolled a natural-rights view of intellectual property, however, Madison also struck upon an incentives-based approach, justifying intellectual property regulation by its contribution to the public, as well as private, benefit. Madison concluded, "The public good coincides in both cases with the claims of individuals." He did not address the question of what to do in cases in which the public's good is not served by extending intellectual property rights.
In the end, no one appears to have objected seriously to the clause. George Mason and Thomas Jefferson (privately to Madison), along with a few other Anti-Federalists, raised concerns over the granting of state-sanctioned monopolies, which the Framers certainly disfavored as a general matter. But no one took the clause to authorize federal trade monopolies, and such objections were rebuffed by Federalists (in Jefferson's case by Madison himself) by reference to the value of granting copyright and patents and the need for national uniformity, which no one appears to have questioned.
The clause's text has been of limited help in resolving modern disputes over its meaning. Although some commentators have developed complex textual arguments about the clause, courts have been wary of applying the many limits potentially to be mined from its wording. In fact, with one early exception, the Court has deferred to Congress's view of its own powers under the clause. For example, in Eldred v. Ashcroft (2003), the Court upheld not only Congress's extension of the duration of copyrights to almost five times what it was in the 1790 copyright act, it also ruled that the requirement that copyrights be for "limited Times" did not prevent Congress from extending the copyright term for a work already under protection. The Court's rationale was largely based on historical practice. The exception was the In re Trade-Mark Cases (1879), in which the Supreme Court held that the clause did not provide authority for federal trademark legislation. Even that limit was eventually circumvented by Congress's use of the commerce power as authority for trademark legislation.
The Court has, nevertheless, shed light on some of the clause's terms. In Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony (1884), the Court held that protection for photographs was within the clause even though the clause limits copyright to "Writings" and "Authors," partly because the first Congress granted copyright protection to other graphical works (such as maps and charts) and partly because the Court decided that "author" was more accurately defined as "originator" rather than "writer." The Court later extended this logic to allow protection for sculptures as well.
Other statements of the Court have suggested intrinsic limits to the clause. Thus, in Graham v. John Deere Co. (1966), the Court declared that Congress may not grant patents "without regard to the innovation, advancement or social benefit gained thereby" or "whose effects are to remove information from the public domain or to restrict free access to materials already available." More generally, it concluded that the patent system as adopted must "promote the Progress of...useful Arts." In Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co. (1991), the Court stated that because the clause permits copyright protection only for creative works, facts cannot be copyrighted. But neither Graham nor Feist involved challenges to Congress's power; neither case required the Court to apply the limits it had found in the clause. The Court has frequently repeated its statement in Graham that "[t]he clause is both a grant of a power and a limitation," but at the same time it has explained that "it is generally for Congress, not the courts, to decide how best to pursue the Copyright Clause's objectives." Eldred v. Ashcroft.
It would seem that the courts would not approve of a facially perpetual grant, although many would argue that the current copyright term is already functionally equivalent to perpetual. More problematical are situations in which Congress either has granted or may grant exclusive rights to items that have up until now been considered to be outside the clause's traditional reach, such as database protection, protection for inventions not reaching the standard for patentability, or renewed protection for some works that have fallen into the public domain.
It is possible that, given the strongly deferential approach in Eldred, the Court will permit some of these new grants under the clause when it finally has to confront them, particularly if Congress supports them with thoughtful inquiry and findings. Nevertheless, proponents of such measures might rely on constitutional powers unencumbered by the Patent and Copyright Clause's many limitations. Two have sprung to the forefront: the power to regulate interstate commerce and, because some of these new grants are intended to bring the United States into compliance with international intellectual property conventions, the treaty power. Courts have so far approached the problem with caution, finding authority in other parts of the Constitution for Congress to grant exclusive rights but in part because they found that, while the Patent and Copyright Clause did not authorize the grants, they were nonetheless consistent with it. The issue is still being litigated and is far from settled.
Just as proponents of broader exclusive rights have looked to other parts of the Constitution, so too have their opponents. In Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. v. Nation Enterprises (1985), the Court acknowledged the possibility that copyright legislation might result in so heavy a burden on speech as to run afoul of the First Amendment. So far, however, the Court has held that copyright in its current form presents, on its face, no First Amendment problem. With the ever-increasing importance of information to the economy, it is safe to say that constitutional challenges to intellectual property laws will become more frequent.
- Thomas B. Nachbar
- Professor of Law
- Senior Fellow, Center for National Security Law
- University of Virginia School of Law


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I must say I am a big fan of views. They give flexibility of changing the logic of the data retrieval without affecting DAL layers in your application. I posted series of articles about updateable views and triggers on views, their application in SSIS for example.
Recently we finished development of system that loads data from several external sources, makes some calculations on the data and sends data over FTP to downstream systems. I designed the whole data interface to use views and stored procedures. This way, even though we used ORM to perform some of the activities, it was not accessing bare tables. This is good, because you can implement simpler and more flexible security model. The other advantage is that you if you use some simple techniques, you can load data to table and then expose the new data through a view without exposing the logic to the upper layers of your application.
It is quite common requirement to be able to maintain multiple versions of data within table. The requirement is also that data import should not affect other processes which read current version of data. With views it is really simple to achieve. There are many ways of doing this, but let's have a look at partitioned views technique.
Partitioned view is a view that selects data from more than one table. These tables have to follow specific requirements. Amongst the other, there has to be so called partitioning column defined, which has trusted CHECK constraint defined on it. The tables have to be joined by UNION ALL operator. If you want the view to be updateable, the partitioning column has to be part of the primary key of all tables belonging to the view. And you have to select all columns from the table.
OK, but what is the purpose of creating partitioned views? The short answer is performance. Tables tend to grow bigger and bigger. It becomes more and more expensive to run index updates, backups, and queries against them. If you are able to partition your data and you do it in a right way, you can alleviate some of the issues related to big tables. Classic example would be partitioning by date – you can keep month worth of data in each table and span the view over 12 tables to cover the whole year. Nice thing about partitioned views is that you can index underlying tables in a different way, so for example history tables have more indexes allowing for faster data retrieval, while current month table can be optimized for faster inserts and updates.
Let's have a look at this scenario. I will use as an example table Sales.CurrencyRate from AdventureWorks database. This table contains 13532 rows in my database, but let's imagine we have 135 million rows.
When I run this query, I get 37 rows spanning years 2001 - 2004:
1: select count(*) NumberOfRates, Year([CurrencyRateDate]) RateYear, Month([CurrencyRateDate]) RateMonth
2: from Sales.CurrencyRate
3: group by Year([CurrencyRateDate]), Month([CurrencyRateDate])
4: order by RateYear, RateMonth
We will create four tables, each for each year that is represented by CurrencyRateDate column.
A slightly abbreviated DDL for the Sales.CurrencyRate table is as follows:
1: CREATE TABLE [Sales].[CurrencyRate](
2: [CurrencyRateID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
3: [CurrencyRateDate] [datetime] NOT NULL,
4: [FromCurrencyCode] [nchar](3) COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS NOT NULL,
5: [ToCurrencyCode] [nchar](3) COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS NOT NULL,
6: [AverageRate] [money] NOT NULL,
7: [EndOfDayRate] [money] NOT NULL,
8: [ModifiedDate] [datetime] NOT NULL CONSTRAINT [DF_CurrencyRate_ModifiedDate] DEFAULT (getdate()),
9: CONSTRAINT [PK_CurrencyRate_CurrencyRateID] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
10: (
11: [CurrencyRateID] ASC
If we want to have updateable partitioned view, we need to modify the constraint to include date part, which will allow the execution engine to identify partition that has to be modified during DML operation. The easiest is to add the CurrencyRateDate column to the primary key.
Let's create four tables then, one for each year of the data. I will not place here whole DDL for all tables, you can find it in the attached file. This is however the first partition table:
1: CREATE TABLE [Sales].[CurrencyRate_2001](
8: [ModifiedDate] [datetime] NOT NULL CONSTRAINT [DF_CurrencyRate_2001_ModifiedDate] DEFAULT (getdate()),
9: constraint CHK_CurrencyRateDate_2001 CHECK (CurrencyRateDate>= '20010101' and CurrencyRateDate < '20020101'),
10: CONSTRAINT [PK_CurrencyRate_2001_CurrencyRate_2001ID] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
11: (
12: [CurrencyRateID] ASC,
13: [CurrencyRateDate] ASC
14: )
As you see above, the CurrencyRateDate column has been included into the primary key of the table and I added constraint CHK_CurrencyRateDate_2001 that will take care of the range of dates that can exist in the table. You can use inequality constraint if you'd like to store rows for dates from 2001 or older. Tables for 2002, 2003 and 2004 contain constraints disallowing inserting data outside of the ranges, similar to the the constraint shown above.
I removed identity column from partition tables to make the view updateable – this is one of requirements.
The view is defined as follows:
1: create view Sales.vCurrencyRate
2: as
3: select * from Sales.CurrencyRate_2001
4: union all
5: select * from Sales.CurrencyRate_2002
6: union all
7: select * from Sales.CurrencyRate_2003
8: union all
9: select * from Sales.CurrencyRate_2004
Let's insert some data to the view – that is, the underlying partition tables:
1: insert Sales.vCurrencyRate
2: (
3: [CurrencyRateID],
4: [CurrencyRateDate],
5: [FromCurrencyCode],
6: [ToCurrencyCode],
7: [AverageRate],
8: [EndOfDayRate],
9: [ModifiedDate]
10: )
11: select [CurrencyRateID],
12: [CurrencyRateDate],
13: [FromCurrencyCode],
14: [ToCurrencyCode],
15: [AverageRate],
16: [EndOfDayRate],
17: [ModifiedDate] from Sales.CurrencyRate
This is the execution plan created for the insert:
As you see, database engine split data amongst all partition tables according to the partitioning column constraints. This way, you can easily move data from one table to several smaller partitions. Of course, you wouldn't want to run simple insert statement as above for 135 million rows, but you get the idea.
Partitioned views can be very useful, but apart from the conditions that I listed earlier in this article, there are some catches that might bite you and you have to carefully ponder on your design if you want to make them updateable.
These are some of these gotchas:
Tables referenced in updateable partitioned views cannot have identity column. If they have, you will get following error message:
Msg 4433, Level 16, State 4, Line 3
Cannot INSERT into partitioned view 'AdventureWorks.Sales.vCurrencyRate' because table '[AdventureWorks].[Sales].[CurrencyRate_2001]' has an IDENTITY constraint.
Tables cannot have computed columns if you want to have updateable partitioned view. If you try to insert rows into view on tables that have such columns, the error message is following:
Msg 4406, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Update or insert of view or function 'Sales.vSalesOrderHeader' failed because it contains a derived or constant field.
The partitioning column has to be defined using equality or inequality operators. For example, you cannot use datepart(year, …) to defined date range for the column, you have to use either BETWEEN.. AND.. or >=.. < operator. Otherwise the error message will be as follows:
Msg 4436, Level 16, State 12, Line 3
UNION ALL view 'AdventureWorks.Sales.vCurrencyRate' is not updatable because a partitioning column was not found.
The partitioned views do not have to be updateable. You can design tables with computed columns, IDENTITY columns and still use partitioned views to offload certain queries. One of the scenarios is for example daily upload of data. You can create a staging table which will accept the data and after ETL is finished, you alter view definition to include new table and possibly exclude one with older data.
I attach the script for your convenience. You can run it on AdventureWorks database or use it as a template for your code.
thanks! awesome demonstration of partitioned view.

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If you had Caribbean dreams in your travel plans for this week, they're fading rapidly into reality with the arrival of Hurricane Irene, a powerful storm that has targeted Puerto RIco, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas and potentially the entire Eastern seaboard of the U.S.
As of this morning, the National Hurricane Center has issued hurricane warnings and watches for several of the Caribbean islands, with the chance for a direct hit over the next 48 to 72 hours on popular tourist areas of the Bahamas like Freeport and Nassau.
And we won't even talk about weekend scenarios that could bring Irene close to the Outer Banks and right up the coast, causing havoc for last-minute beachgoers and snarling flight plans from North Carolina to New York. But it's way too early to go there.
For now, if you had plans for flights to the Caribbean this week, most airlines are offering travel waivers that allow passengers to rebook flights free of charge for a specific period. It varies depending upon the airline, the city and your travel dates. Although, honestly, if the Bahamas gets hammered, do you still want to spend the weekend there even if the airport is open?
As for cruise travelers, passengers who sailed from Baltimore Sunday aboard the Carnival Pride on a 7-day cruise to the Bahamas are facing itinerary changes.
Today, the ship is in Port Canaveral a day earlier than scheduled. And tomorrow, it plans to try to make Freeport, although a spokesman for Carnival Cruise Lines said the itinerary was "a work in progress," dependent on the path of the storm. The ship had planned a stop in Nassau on Thursday, but that's looking less likely.
Cruise travelers on Royal Caribbean's Enchantment of the Seas are returning from a trip to Bermuda later this week, with the next cruise scheduled to depart Thursday for the eastern Caribbean. A spokesperson for Royal Caribbean said it has not made any changes to that cruise's 9-night itinerary, which calls for stops in Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, Dominican Republic and Haiti.


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Facebook privacy campaign group europe-v-facebook plans to go to court in Ireland a bid to make the world's biggest social network do more to protect the privacy of its hundreds of millions of members, it said on Tuesday.
The Austrian student group has been campaigning for better data protection by Facebook for more than a year and has won some concessions on users' control of their own data and transparency on the part of Facebook over the data it collects and stores.
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"We are hoping for a legally compliant solution from the Irish data protection authority," the group said. "Unfortunately, that is highly doubtful at the moment. Therefore we are also preparing ourselves for a lawsuit in Ireland."
(Reporting by Georgina Prodhan. Editing by Jane Merriman)
(This story was corrected to fic the headline and lead to say that the campaign group plans to sue Irish regulator, not Facebook, in the first instance)


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I really love the name of this cake, which is why it caught my eye. The reason why it's called "uncomplicated"? Well you won't come across an easier cake to make up on days when time is not on your side or you just want effortlessness. This is a very moist cake which can be topped with every type of fruit, the choice is yours! This cake would be gorgeous topped with apricots when they come into season in the summer. I have gone for the apple topping, and for me apples are the perfect fruit in winter. This cake can easily be doubled up as a dessert and served with lashings of hot custard, just the thing on a cold winter's day!
This recipe is from, The Weekend Baker by Abigail Johnson Dodge. A must have in every cookbook addicts collection!
Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Uncomplicated Fruit-Topped Yellow Cake
♥Posted by the goddess Maria♥ at 13:46
Labels: Cakes, Fruit, The Weekend Baker
3 comments:
- Rosie said...
Hi Maria, great to view your bake from your new baking book! This cake looks awesome and the texture looks so light - one perfect cake!!
I bet this cake has taken a good hammering from your boys and not much left ;)
Rosie x
- 29 January 2008 at 21:39
- Maria said...
Hi Rosie
This is one beautiful cake, very light, fluffy and full of flavour. I can't wait to try this with apricots. And how did ya guess about my boys?..lol..lets just say the cake is going down well ;o)
- 29 January 2008 at 21:55
- Rosie said...
Hi maria just wanted to let you know I've tagged you for a meme. Please call by blog to found out about it - thanks :D
Rosie x
- 30 January 2008 at 18:09
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I consider buying Ozone Catalyst 10m and 14m. On the official website; 55cm bar is recommended for 14m and 50cm is recommended for 10m. My concern is if I really have to buy two different sizes control bar for two kites. Will I be ok if I buy only 55cm bar for two kites? One bar is a quite bit money which I can buy a board with that amount. I am begineer freeride style kiteboarder.Thanks for the help in advance..


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during installation i have the following problem.
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Because this is exactly what I have on the to do list this week, here's my post on waking up your grill ready after winter hibernation.
Need some motivation?
Thanks to our Holland Grill and Big Green Egg expert, Stu "King of the BBQ" Glock, for sharing this recipe for grilled chicken that's anything but ordinary. It looks like a lot of ingredients, but if it's coming from Stu, I know it's amazing (i.e. 3 takes on steak).
I'm going to try it soon…let me know if you do!
Grilled Caribbean Chicken
Courtesy of Derrick Agate
- 1 Tbs allspice
- 1 Tbs thyme
- 1- 1/2 tsp each – cayenne pepper, black pepper and ground sage
- ¾ tsp each ground nutmeg and cinnamon
- 2 Tbs each salt and garlic powder
- 1 Tbs sugar
- ¼ cup olive oil
- ¼ cup soy sauce
- ½ cup orange juice
- ¾ cup white vinegar
- juice of 1 lime
- 1 jalapeno or haberneros, finely chopped
- 1 cup white onion chopped
- 3 green onions, finely chopped
- 3 lbs chicken
In a large bowl combine all dry ingredients. Whisk in olive oil, soy sauce, orange juice, vinegar and lime juice, then the peppers and onions.
Add the chicken, cover, and refrigerate overnight or up to 48 hours. Cook on the Holland Grill or the Big Green Egg at 350 degrees until the internal meat temperature reaches 165 degrees. Remove the chicken from the grill and let it rest 5 minutes before serving.


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Kino's Blu-ray of Zeta One, released under its "Jezebel" label, offers a pretty good 1080p transfer of this 1.66:1 Tigon British Film production. A trailer is included.
British secret agent James Word (charisma-free Robin Hawdon, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth) returns home to his swingin' bachelor pad, resembling a college freshman's dorm room, only to find Ann Olsen (Yutte Stensgaard, Lust for a Vampire), personal secretary to James's boss, "W," waiting for him. There follows an interminable strip-poker game so deadly dull even a naked Stensgaard is unable to liven things up, which is saying a lot.
Naturally, they end up in bed where Ann grills James about his just-completed mission. From this point the bulk of the film is told in flashback, though Hawdon's spy is barely in the flashbacks at all and most of what's shown he couldn't possibly have seen or known about. Not that it matters. The story returns to James and Ann for the "surprise" ending.
He tells Ann of a race of superwomen from the planet Angvia, led by Queen Zeta (Dawn Addams, A King in New York), who abduct earth women and take them back into outer space ("or perhaps not," James adds, unhelpfully) in a "time (or space) machine...a large van." A large van is then shown driving down a road and then disappearing into nothingness.
In more flashbacks, several brunette Angvians, one played by Valerie Leon (The Spy Who Loved Me), follow stripper Edwina Strain (Wendy Lingham) back to her club, "Tease for Two," kidnap and take her back to Angvia.
Elsewhere, criminal mastermind Major Bourdon (James Robertson Justice) dispatches his devoted, owlish assistant, Swyne (Charles Hawtrey), to follow the Angvians. Their interest in the Angvians isn't any clearer than why the Angvians want to kidnap earth women, considering their ultimate aim is to kidnap an earth man to help them repopulate their planet. Regardless, Bourdon and Swyne eventually kidnap an Angvian of their own, Zara (Carol Hawkins), strip and torture her. Emphatically gay Hawtrey feigns interest while Justice reads his lines off cue cards.
This extremely peculiar film plays almost as if it were three unrelated, partly completed films grafted into a single work. The Angvian planet scenes, notably psychedelic, '60s-a-Go-Go in design, apparently adapt a comic strip that appeared in Zeta, a short-lived fantasy magazine. All the footage of James and Ann flirting with one another feels tacked on, designed to bring the film up to an acceptable running time. (The opening titles are also interminably long.)
The footage with James Robertson Justice and Charles Hawtrey likewise plays completely disconnected from everything else; possibly the actors agreed only to a one or two-day shoot for their scenes. Hawtrey's alcoholism was contributing to his frequent clashes with Carry On producer Peter Rogers, so it's easy to imagine Hawtrey winding up in something like this, but Justice had been alternating between more respectable British comedies (notably the "Doctor" films) and big Hollywood productions like The Guns of Navarone and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the latter made only the year before.
The women in the film, including various Hammer and/or Bond girls, are attractive, particularly Stensgaard and Hungarian Anna Gaël (as Angvian Clotho), but the film is so badly directed and photographed that no one comes out of it alive.
Video & Audio
In 1.66:1 widescreen and 1080p high-definition, Zeta One looks surprisingly good. The 35mm elements sourced vary from reel-to-reel, and even scene-to-scene at times, and all of the opticals (fades, dissolves) are on the muddy side, but overall it's a good presentation. The DTS-HD Master Audio, English mono only with no subtitle options, is also good, considering. The disc is Region A encoded.
Extra Features
Extras are limited to two trailers, both it mediocre condition: one for this and the other for The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968).
Parting Thoughts
Of interest solely to seekers of saucy cinema, Zeta One is quite bad, though some might want to take a peek less for its sex scenes than for the inexplicable appearance of several major character actors and starlets better known for other films. Rent It.
Stuart Galbraith IV is a Kyoto-based film historian whose work includes film history books, DVD and Blu-ray audio commentaries and special features. Visit Stuart's Cine Blogarama here.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – After working out, training and competing since December the Lipscomb track and field teams will lay it all on the line this weekend at the 2012 Atlantic Sun Outdoor Track and Field Championships. The two-day event will be hosted by North Florida at Hodges Stadium.
At last season's outdoor championships 11 school records fell, including eight set by the women's team. The women finished fifth (81 points) and were led by conference champions O'Neisha Smith (high jump) and Catherine Beals (3000m steeplechase). Both will be back to defend their titles this year.
"We go into this weekend with confidence," said Lipscomb head coach Bill Taylor. "We feel like we've communicated with our athletes and they know what they need to do for success. Everyone's performance counts at conference and I think we do a good job of helping our athletes see that and they do a good job of rising to the occasion."
Sophomore Tucker Peabody will be a threat all over the track for Lipscomb this year. The favorite in the 200m dash, Peabody is a contender in the 100m dash and will run a leg in both the 4x100m and 4x400m dashes.
"Tucker is a talented guy," said Lipscomb sprint coach Marcus Evans. "He's going to be a busy guy at conference, but that's part of the plan at the Division I level. Having him in three or four events is going to be what's best for the team."
Freshman Colin Dempster (third) and junior Bobby Bassett (fifth) will represent the Bisons in the 400m dash.
Freshman Kendra Lobley, who led the A-Sun for much of the season and for a brief time the NCAA's East Regional in the 5000m run, will be one of many Lady Bison distance runners looking for big days in Jacksonville. Lobley ranks second in the A-Sun behind USC Upstate's Jemeli Sang, and is also a top-five competitor in the 3000m steeplechase, in which she ranks third in the A-Sun.
"Kendra is an excellent competitor," Taylor said. "She has great race instincts. I expect her to keep getting better and I expect a lot of her teammates to get to her level."
The steeple looks to be a big event for Lipscomb this season. In addition to Lobley and Beals, the women's team will receive a boost from freshman Minna Fields and junior Emily Longden. Juniors Ashton Fisher (second) and Isaiah Greer (third) will compete for the steeple title on the men's side.
"I love the steeple," Taylor said. "As a coach, my biggest success areas have been the 5K and the steeple. It's an exciting event and you have to have good technique. The way we train sets our athletes up well for the steeple.
"Minna ran the steeple for the first time recently, and she did great in that and in the 5K. Catherine has had some injuries that set her back, but she's the wily veteran who is a two-time champion. I'm excited for her to get out in her last opportunity."
Lobley will be pushed in the 5K by a host of excellent Lady Bison runners: Fields, sophomores Tessa Hoefle and Alex Newby and senior Ashley Lehman will each run the event. Hoefle will join senior Louisa Van Batavia in the 10,000m run as well.
A pair of high-ranking sophomores lead the pack in the middle distances. Katie Bunker and Dani Walker are both set to compete in the 800 and 1500m run – Walker is second in the 1500 and sixth in the 800, with Bunker a spot below her in each.
"Dani has looked her best in the last few weeks," Taylor said. "Mentally and physically, she's rounding into the right situation at the right time. Katie Bunker has really come on in the last few weeks."
Both the men and women's 4x400m relay teams broke the school record two weeks ago at Auburn and enter the conference meet with confidence to spare.
"It's hard at the college level to get everyone at practice for the relays at the same time," Evans said. "Different class schedules and practice schedules make it difficult for a group to gel. The athletes that compete in relays have to know and trust one another to be very successful. I think all those components have come together and we've gotten much faster because of it."
A pair of freshmen throwers have come a long way since December and have set the stage for a coming-out party in Jacksonville. Houston Ward enters the weekend fourth in the discus, fifth in the shot put and sixth in the hammer throw, while April Terry is sixth in the hammer and seventh in the shot.
Both young athletes received acclaim from the Atlantic Sun this week, claiming the conference's Field Athlete of the Week honors.
"It's been nice to see their progression," said Lipscomb assistant coach Luke Syverson. "They work really hard and hold themselves accountable.
"The exciting thing is looking into the future and seeing what they're going to be able to do. They're both excited for this weekend and I think they're going to be able to do good things."
Freshman Matthew Deery will be busy as well, competing in the hurdles, javelin and pole vault. He ranks fourth in the 110m hurdles, sixth in the 400m hurdles, second in the pole vault and eighth in the javelin.
"Matthew Deery is a kid that just loves to compete," Evans said. "Anyway he can chase someone down or beat somebody, he does it. It's easy to work with someone who's that passionate."
Syverson, his coach in the pole vault, concurs.
"He's one of those athletes that does anything for the team," Syverson said. "If we told him to go run the 10K he would figure out how to do it. He likes to compete and wants to do whatever he can for the team.
"The important thing is to let him develop. Some schools would take a kid as diverse and talented as Matt, stick him in 20 events and burn him out. The goal is to score as many points as possible but that's not necessarily in Matt's best interests as a freshman."
Also competing in the javelin will be senior Austin Ray. While many other javelin competitors will be entered in the decathlon Ray, ranked second in the javelin, will focus solely on his spear-chucking abilities this weekend.
Senior Brittany Duerk, junior Taylor Mason and freshman Kaitlyn Collier are each within striking distance of a point-scoring position this weekend. Duerk ranks second and Mason fourth.
Smith and junior Adam Austin will represent Lipscomb in the high jump. Austin is closing in on the school-record mark of 6' 10".
Senior Dillon Seigenthaler looks to take gold in the decathlon after earning a runner-up finish at the A-Sun Outdoor Championships in 2011.
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Gerald McRaney hosts this look at the most important firearm of the 20th century.
The M-16 is the most powerful assault rifle ever used in combat. But its significance goes beyond its unrivalled force. And its overwhelming efficiency as a killing machine has put it firmly in the spotlight of the ongoing debate over gun control.
Gerald McRaney hosts this fascinating look at the weapon that has become the backbone of countless infantry forces worldwide. Learn of its unique origins as the only military rifle in the 200-year history of the Armory System designed by an outsider. In a rare, archival interview, the inventor, Eugene Stoner, talks about the hurdles he had to overcome to get the Army to try out his gun and the engineering difficulties he solved with its revolutionary design. Then, trace its bizarre evolution a complex and controversial saga of out-dated battle strategies, political infighting and well-meaning but disastrous improvements.
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A student who completes a schedule change will receive a reduction in charges for tuition and/or course fee(s) if the student (1) drops below full-time, (2) is part-time and drops a class, or (3) is full-time and drops a class with a refundable course fee. Both types of refunds will be in accordance with the refund table listed in the current Schedule of Fees
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How much fun are those two cute cousins? I love the addition of princesses and pink in your life right now.ReplyDelete
Even more than that, I loved seeing the happiness in your eyes yesterday when I asked how long she gets to stay with you, and with a grin, you answered with a slightly mischevious, "I don't know...." I LOVED it!
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Opera. What do you do when one day your mum turns into a dragon? Thomas Lindahl and Irena Kraus have created this opera specifically for children.
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One day Åke's mum is suddenly transformed from her usual stressed self to a dragon. The day when little Åke has to take care of his confused mum, rather than the other way around, develops into a grand adventure full of drama: at the zoo, the doctor's, grandma's, and finally in their own home. The next day mum is back to her usual self, but decides to take the day off work to spend time with Åke.
Pija Lindenbaum has quickly become one of our most beloved authors of children's books. She's already been read by generations of children. Her books have been nominated for the August Award several times. She received it in 2000 for Gittan och gråvargarna (Bridget and the Grey Wolves). As part of our focus on children and young people (read more in the article on page 26), we are proud to be able to offer a completely new music theatre production for primary school students from the entire region, based on one of her most appreciated books: När Åkes mamma glömde bort (When Åke's mum forgot).
Thomas Lindahl, an experienced composer who has created Lindgatan 5 and many other works, has written the music for five singers and four musicians. Irena Kraus wrote the libretto and scenographer Torsten Dahn, whose most recent production at the Göteborg Opera was Chaplin – en lek med allvar (Chaplin - Playing with Gravity), has created the décor and the lighting. We are also very happy that Pija Lindenbaum, who illustrates her own books, wants to add her special touch to the costumes. Musical artist Mia Ringblom Hjertner, responsible for the Young Initiative, will be making her début as a director. In the spectacular role as Åke's mum, we will hear mezzo soprano Ulrika Tenstam. Åke is sung by young tenor Jacob Wistrand. The other three singers, coming from both opera and musical theatre backgrounds, sing a number of different characters in this fantastic story.


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This paper examines commercial banks' reporting of mortgage servicing assets (MSAs) during the period surrounding the issuance of SFAS 122, "Accounting for Mortgage Servicing Rights." Although the statement mandated reporting of originated mortgage servicing assets, which are created when mortgages are originated and later sold, we find that most affected bank servicers did not begin to do so. Banks may have avoided booking mortgage servicing assets because they are particularly volatile and are expensive to periodically value and test for impairment (another SFAS 122 requirement) Not reporting these assets is likely an acceptable practice on the grounds of their immateriality: they make up only a small part of most banks' asset base and earnings. Using call report data which identifies the size of the servicing portfolio whether mortgage servicing assets are booked or not, we analyze the factors that influenced bank servicers' decisions to begin reporting mortgage servicing assets on the balance sheet. We find that the size of the servicing portfolio and its growth rate were positively related to the reporting decision, while the size of the bank and its demonstrated ability to hold related securities (interest rate derivatives) were not. Results are mixed on the impact of the materiality (size) of the portfolio relative to total assets and earnings, as well as on a proxy for the banks' willingness to engage in other fee-based activities.
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Long before Mid-County native Sgt. Joshua Wayne Yarbrough rose through the ranks of the United States Marine Corps, those close to him knew he was bound for greatness serving a purpose other than his own.
"He's always been a good kid," mother Ruth Trahan remembered fondly of the young man she raised. "He's always been the kind of person to do the right thing, and I couldn't be more proud of that boy."
Now, with three tours of oversea duty, two four-year enlistments, multiple military honors and a Purple Heart to show for his career as a Marine, Mama Trahan says those words just ring more and more true as the years pass by.
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Josh Yarbrough was welcomed into the world right after Valentine's Day in 1986 as his mother's only son. He was raised in a loving yet unconventional home with two sisters, his mom, and grandparents Beverly and Odis Beckham Jr. Uncle Wayne Colicher rounded out the youth's support system, taking young Josh on fishing trips and various "boy stuff" outings.
"They taught me a lot," Yarbrough said of the adults who shaped his childhood. "They were always there for me."
Aside from Uncle Wayne's fishing excursions, Yarbrough said he also looks back reminiscently on his mother teaching him how to cook a to-die-for pork chop, his grandmother spending quality time with him while his mother worked to earn a living, and his grandfather regaling him with stories of the time the senior man spent serving in the Marine Corps.
"He never had any horror stories," Yarbrough said of his grandfather, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1954 to 1956. "He made it seem like it was a good time," Yarbrough added with a chuckle.
Yarbrough said he knew from a very young age he was destined to follow in his grandfather's military footsteps.
"I always wanted to be in the Marine Corps," Yarbrough said. For him, there was never any other possibility. He would be a Marine, and he would be successful at it.His mother said she, too, always knew her son was bound for the Corps.
"He and his grandfather talked about it all the time, and he had the personality to fit it," Trahan said.
She said little things throughout his youth showcased the man he would one day become.
"One day at school, he was defending this little boy from a bully, when the bigger kid threw him down and broke his arm," Trahan recalled as an example of the youth's compassion and courage. "He never even hesitated to step in for that other boy, but that's just Josh for you."
Yarbrough was also devoted to his church, First Assembly of God, Trahan said, where he participated in the Royal Rangers, learning how to have good character in life's daily battlefield. And, while attending classes at Thomas Jefferson/Memorial High School, Yarbrough signed up with the local Marine recruiting office to get training on how to cope in a completely different battlefield.
"I was too young to enlist," Yarbrough said of his high school days. "But I would go up there and work out and get training because I knew that's what I was going to do as soon as I graduated high school"
Less than one week after graduation, in June 2004, Yarbrough was bound for California where he would embark on his new life as a Marine.
Semper Fidelis
"It was hard," Yarbrough said, briefly describing the boot camp new recruits endure to gain entrance into the military's most elite branch. The teen was subjected to extensive physical training, classroom instruction, sleepless days and nights, long treks in the wilderness and countless mission scenarios – all of which he passed, exceeding expectations on many tasks.
"I was proud, scared …" Trahan said, reeling off a litany of emotions she felt watching her teenager participate in the grandness of boot camp graduation, no longer a boy but a warrior.
"The whole thing was so breathtaking. They go from a boy to a man in such a short amount of time. He was in boot camp for 13 weeks, but I could tell from the letters he would write during that time that he was transforming long before he graduated."
Although the catalyst driving Yarbrough into the service, grandfather Odis Beckham Jr. passed away in June 2001.
"Wherever he is, he's gotta be proud of that boy," Trahan said. "(Josh) did exactly what he said he would do – be a Marine. His grandfather would have loved to have seen that."
Shortly after graduating boot camp and settling into life as a Marine, Yarbrough embarked on another life-long journey in marrying high school sweetheart Rachael Gaona over the Thanksgiving holiday. A few months later, the newlywed was deployed to Ramadi, Iraq.
Yarbrough spent seven months in Iraq, honing his skills and showcasing leadership qualities that earned him promotions in the field.
"(Boot camp) gives you a guideline, but it doesn't prepare you for going overseas," Yarbrough said of his first deployment. "But at the same time, when you're in the field, you don't get to call home or just go to the bathroom whenever you like. So looking back, everything we did in boot camp had a purpose. It just doesn't really prepare you for what it's like when you're really out there, exactly."
"I was worried about him," Trahan said of hearing her only son was going to war in Iraq. "But I didn't cry," she quickly added. "I wanted to, but I didn't."
Tears did well in Trahan's eyes, however, when in October 2006, grandson Sean was welcomed into the family. His father, on deployment in Okinawa, Japan, was only able to enjoy his firstborn via phone calls and Yahoo Messenger. Sean was 3 months old before Yarbrough ever got the opportunity to meet him in person.
Throughout the remainder of his enlistment, Yarbrough was given accolades for his weapons expertise and proficiency, and for exceptional service to his country. By the time he completed his four-year commitment, Yarbrough had attained the rank of corporal and was leading squads of his own. But he had no intentions of quitting there. In June 2008, Yarbrough extended his contract and re-enlisted for an additional four years.
"It's stressful," Yarbrough said, "but I enjoyed doing it."
'I just lost it'
On June 16, 2011, Yarbrough's wife and mother were on a family vacation when the call came that their loved one had been injured while under heavy fire on a mission in Afghanistan. The 25-year-old was a member of a small squad on foot patrol in the battle-worn country when the attack occurred. According to reports from military officials, Yarbrough suffered severe injuries when he came in contact with an IED (Improved Explosive Device), as did other Marines in the tactical group. Yarbrough was praised for his bravery in the assault, pulling a fellow Marine from danger before succumbing to injuries himself.
"I just lost it," Trahan said of getting the call she feared since learning of the dangerous career path her son had been called to. Her next move was to call Uncle Wayne, who had been a father figure throughout Yarbrough's life.
"He gave me the best advice," she said. "He told me to stay calm, and I did. It was hard, but it was the right thing to do."
Yarbrough's wife, Rachael, said she, too, was on the verge of hysterics.
"They didn't think he would make it," Rachael said. "He was pretty bad off."
Yarbrough's injuries were massive – he lost both legs above the knee, the use of one hand, and blood clots coursing through his vital organs were threatening his life. The day after the attack, Yarbrough was transferred to Germany. His condition was touch-and-go for what felt like an eternity, according to Trahan, but was actually closer to a week.
When the Marine was finally stable enough for travel, he was transferred to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., where his mother, wife and uncle flew to be by his bedside for his nearly two-month stay at the hospital. Patrick McGrath likewise made the trip to check on his friend and offer support.
"He was hooked up to a ventilator, feeding tube, (and) suction machine tubes in legs and arms," Rachael said of her husband's condition the first time she was able to see him in Maryland. Son Sean remained in Texas because, according to Rachael, "It was something a 4-year-old shouldn't have to see."
Once a Marine, always a Marine
Now, less than four months after the battle that briefly incapacitated him, Yarbrough is at a veteran's facility in San Antonio learning to walk again with the use of fitted prosthetic legs, and undergoing therapy to enhance the range of motion in his hand.
"It's a blessing," Rachael said. "When we got that call, we didn't know what was going to happen." She and Sean are excited their Marine is home and are looking forward to the future of the Yarbrough family, she said.
Yarbrough said he hopes to complete his therapy within the next two years and get started on a new passion – coming back to Southeast Texas to work on a degree in psychology.
"Therapy is going to take longer than I would like, but working out is helping me. I also hope to have full range of motion in my hand by then," he said. "At least by then, I should be able to know what my new 'norm' is."
What will always remain the "norm" is Yarbrough's commitment to serving his fellow man. He plans to use his degree in psychology to council other veterans returning from war with emotional and/or physical scars of their own to overcome.
"I want to come back and work with others who have been injured in battle. Who better to talk to than somebody who's experienced it," Yarbrough asserts.His mother wasn't surprised by the revelation.
"I think it sounds like Josh," Trahan said with a laugh, "always wanting to help somebody. He's always happiest when he's helping others."
Through good and bad times, Yarbrough said he never lost the belief that he did the right thing in following his dream to be a Marine.
"The Marine Corps made me a better man," he said. "I think it's good for anybody to have more discipline – it gives you pride and self confidence in yourself. I'd like to still be able to do it, but with the physical aspect, I just can't anymore.
"I'm sure everyone's experience is different, but I always knew I was going to be a Marine." And, he added, "I'll always be a Marine."


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WASHINGTON — Chuck Hagel, who was twice wounded as an enlisted soldier in Vietnam, came under withering attack Thursday as he battled former Republican colleagues in the Senate who sharply questioned whether he should be secretary of Defense.
In a daylong confirmation hearing notable for its raw emotion, Hagel was challenged to explain — and often to retract — earlier comments critical of Israel, his onetime skepticism of the nuclear threat from Iran, and perhaps most memorably, whether he could name a single "dumb" action the Senate had taken under pressure from the pro-Israel lobby.
Hagel, who appeared beleaguered at times, said he could not.
The spectacle often seemed more about Republicans publicly settling scores with the 66-year-old Nebraskan, who spent two terms in the Senate and retired in 2009. He grew increasingly estranged from his GOP colleagues after he began to criticize the war in Iraq, expressed doubts about use of force against Iran and lent support to Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election.
Hagel sometimes stumbled answering the rapid-fire questions, at one point misstating — later correcting himself — the White House policy on preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.


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Q Regarding issues related to casual carpooling over the Bay Bridge:
Anyone participating in a casual carpool, especially women, take a smartphone picture of others in the vehicle and text it to a friend, along with the vehicle license number. I do not think others in the vehicle will take offense if the person says, "I very much appreciate your willingness to drive/join me, and I do not distrust you. I am doing this because it was recommended by Mr. Roadshow as something everyone should do when casual carpooling as a security measure."
This is a common and wise practice of many real estate agents (women in particular) when meeting a new potential buyer at an unoccupied property.
Stephen Reynolds
Santa Cruz
A Casual carpooling — i.e., catching a ride with or picking up a stranger in order to get into the carpool lane and pay a reduced toll — may be the best way to travel if there is another BART strike on Monday. Go to the 511.org site, which has a special BART strike alert page at alert.511.org, with all kinds of information, plus a map of expanded casual carpool pickup spots in San Francisco. You can also go to www.ridenow.org/carpool for a list of casual carpool pickup locations, plus etiquette issues.
San Francisco officials say a good spot is the sparsely used Spear Street casual carpool zones that are set up to serve most East Bay BART stations. Most people use the Beale Street site, and it is often jammed.
And in the event of a strike, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission will have some incentives for casual carpool drivers and for employers who respond creatively. For carpools, a team of folks will distribute $5 Peet's coffee cards to drivers who pick up passengers at the three San Francisco locations in the afternoon. And the five companies that implement the most robust strategies to cope with a strike will get a visit from a cupcake truck or an on-site chair massage company.
Q What is considered appropriate for a passenger to offer, or a driver to ask for, in terms of compensation in a casual carpool? While the driver may pay a reduced toll or have it paid by the passengers, that savings is small compared to what a passenger saves by not incurring the full single occupant toll of $5 to $6, paying for gas for the trip or the recently jacked-up cost of parking in San Francisco.
Stephen Reynolds
A I say pay $1 per passenger to help defray the $2.50 carpool fee. It's simple and requires no digging for change.
This can be a touchy subject, with some passengers saying they resent paying any amount.
Q Do you have any data on how many people have created regular ongoing carpools as a result of participating in casual carpooling? Perhaps that is the one silver lining in this huge black cloud created by the BART strike.
Stephen Reynolds
A No. Carpool officials have not tracked this.
Q Have the powers that be given any consideration to temporarily eliminating tolls for carpools on all bridges crossing the bay during a BART strike? I have to believe such a move would help congestion a little, and, in the current situation, every little bit helps.
Stephen Reynolds
A There are no plans to eliminate tolls. But only carpools of three or more people and transit vehicles will be able to use the West Grand Avenue on-ramp at Maritime Street in Oakland to reach the Bay Bridge toll plaza from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. Buses and carpools will also be permitted to drive on the shoulder here.
And in the event of a strike, Caltrans will again expand the carpool hours on Interstate 80 weekdays from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Q What happens if BART is on strike when the authorities decide it's finally time to open the new Bay Bridge? Will they wait until trains are running again? Cross their fingers, hope for the best and go ahead with the switch? Something else?
If they do go ahead, will it lead to Carmageddon?
Tom Digby
A It's almost a sure bet that the new bridge will not open until late this year. If there is a BART strike at that time, God have mercy on us all.
You can find Gary Richards' columns at www.mercurynews.com/mr-roadshow, under the main navigation bar at Opinion > Columns, or at www.mercurynews.com/traffic. Follow Mr. Roadshow at Twitter.com/mrroadshow, look for him at Facebook.com/mr.roadshow or contact him at email@example.com or 408-920-5335.


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1) After receiving the designs, I wanted to add that I would like the words Second Wives Club to be on a horizontal line.
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We need a logo for our website. We do not have any firm ideas on how the logo should look. I am looking for your creativity to show me some great options. The only requirements are that the words "Second Wives Club" are predominately displayed and easy to read. And there is some pictorial element involved on the LEFT of the words, or on top of it.
For the pictorial element, I am looking for something that is warm and visually appealing. The element should convey a sense of sisterhood, and be more or less 'feminine' looking. Our current logo has 3 flowers, standing together. Although I think this is OK, I am very open to other symbols or even taking the flower logo to the next level. I also like butterflies or other softer and warm images.
I am not set on the color scheme, but I do like warm and friendly colors such as red, orange, yellow, and possibly pink. Again, I am open to your ideas. Although you will see a bunch of legs wearing colorful socks on our current site, we want to get away from those (hence the re-design).
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EDITS TO THE POST: I want to add that it does not have to be flowers or butterflies. Also, I would like Second Wives Club to be all displayed prominently, including the word Club, since I want the emphasis to be on the community aspect.
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If cars were judge solely on the sounds coming from the tailpipe, the Camaro ZL1 convertible would be among finest automobiles Chevy has made in years.
This is the grand pooh-bah of today's retro Camaro lineup, and it resurrects the most sought-after Camaro ever made: the 1969 ZL1, of which GM produced just 69 copies.
The original featured an all-aluminum V-8, then considered an exotic material. Though it was officially rated at 425 horsepower, dyno testing often revealed the ZL1s to be putting out much more.
Among the fastest street-legal cars of the muscle-car era, the '69 Camaro ZL1 can today fetch several hundreds of thousands of dollars. At Barrett-Jackson's 2012 Scottsdale auction, a restored ZL1 sold for $451,000.
The new version doesn't exactly come cheap. The ZL1 starts at $63,045, including destination and a $2,600 gas guzzler tax. Our tester added to that the automatic transmission, suede trim on the interior, 20-inch aluminum wheels, and clear-coated paint on the carbon-fiber hood insert for a total of $65,800. That's nearly triple the price of a base Camaro and well into Corvette territory.
Like its namesake, the 2013 ZL1 also has an all-aluminum V-8, a 6.2-liter supercharged version making 580 horsepower and 556 pound-feet of torque. Fans of this small-block V-8 will know it also sees duty in the Cadillac CTS-V sedan, coupe and wagon, though the ZL1 motor has a bit more power. This helps the Camaro blast from zero to 60 mph in 4.4 seconds, according to Car and Driver.
A six-speed manual transmission comes standard; our tester had the $1,185 six-speed automatic gearbox with steering wheel mounted paddle shifters.
We'd advise going with the manual. The automatic bogged down in slow shifts, regardless of whether you let the car choose the shift points or initiated them through the paddles.
Standard on all ZL1s are GM's excellent Magnetic Ride Control dampers. This system lets drivers choose between Tour and Sport modes of firmness, and can adjust immediately to changing road conditions. It sounds far-fetched until you travel a familiar road and feel many of its imperfections ironed out.
Other standard features include Brembo brakes, a limited slip differential, backup camera, Chevy's excellent MyLink infotainment system, heated leather seats, a rear spoiler and a heads-up display.
Exterior modifications are subtle for a high-end hotrod. The aluminum hood with a carbon fiber insert is a nice touch, and the front bumper gets mildly more aggressive.
On the road, and the first thing you notice is its mass - all 4,380 pounds of it. Consider that the Corvette 427 convertible we tested recently weighed about a thousand pounds less. Despite the imposing girth, it takes turns with precision and remains composed in daily driving.
The steering feels heavy but inspires confidence. Despite having 580 horsepower, the ZL1's power is easily modulated and delivered in smooth, linear fashion on its way to the 6,200 RPM redline. The magnetic ride control, limited slip differential, and the independent rear suspension help the car feel planted and stable.
Then there's all that gorgeous noise. The ZL1 fires up with a throaty roar that any fan of internal combustion can appreciate. The engine emits a slight whine from the supercharger. At speed, the exhaust opens up at about 3,000 RPMs to let out a delicious growl. Letting your foot off the gas produces a wonderfully unrefined series of crackles and pops.
The convertible top does a good job of keeping wind noise at bay, though you'll want to pack a lunch for the time it takes the roof to go up or down.
Given how good this car sounds, you might as well just leave the roof down.
Times' take: A true muscle car with surprisingly refined ride and handling
Highs: Exquisite exhaust note and performance to match
Lows: heavy; vague transmission; Corvette price
Vital statistics:
Vehicle type: two-door convertible
Base price: $63,045
Price as tested: $65,800
Powertrain: 6.2-liter supercharged V-8
Transmissions: Six-speed manual; six-speed automatic
Horsepower: 580
Torque (pound-feet): 556
0-60 mph/quarter mile: 4.4 seconds/12.7 seconds, according to Car and Driver
Fuel economy (mpg): 12 city, 18 highway


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Doesn't look like much just now; just a hole in the ground where the old parking garage used to be. It'll be a while before it's open, but wow is it going to be cool.
21 October 2008
Our New Hospital
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Isn't it fun to watch those big machines? I'd love to get to ride in one or work one dirt movers.ReplyDelete
Any idea when they'll be done? It's kind of a pain getting into your ambulance entrance right now.ReplyDelete
If you work where I think I'll be down to help put up the tower crane in a couple of weeks.ReplyDelete
Looks like my view from my office.ReplyDelete
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