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(L-R) International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Christine Lagarde, Kingdom of Bahrain Minister of Finance and Development Committee Chairman Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, Director of Corporate Communications at The World Bank Richard Mills, and World Bank President Robert Zoellick at the Development Committee Press Conference held during the 2011 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings at IMF Headquarters September 24, 2011, in Washington, D.C.
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Tim Stall presents ALM: Empowering Teams with Automation and Build Servers
ALM tooling: Empowering teams with build servers and metrics
Everyone knows that automated builds are a good thing, but many teams don't leverage them fully because it's hard to get started. Tim will go over practical techniques and concepts for automating builds with TFS and MSbuild. Once you have an automated build, there are dozens of steps you can hook into it, such as metrics. Tim will walk through several core metrics, including line count, code churn, duplication, complexity, and test code coverage, as well as the concepts and pitfalls for adopting these within a team.
About Tim Stall:
Tim Stall is a Software Architect. He blogs at www.timstall.com. Tim specializes in .Net and has a passion for empowering teams with process, automation, builds, tools, continual education, and enjoys writing blogs and developing side projects. Tim has an MCAD.Net certification. He lives in Chicago with his wife and three children.
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1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Alloy Gullwing
$5,010,000 USD | Sold
From Sotheby's:
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
Alan Kay (born 1940), Computer Scientist
In 1954, decades of incremental technological development, design, and success on the racetrack by Mercedes-Benz—inventor of the automobile and the dominant brand in automotive innovation—culminated with the launch of the most iconic car of all time, the 300 SL “Gullwing.” Instantly changing the game, it shifted the paradigm in automotive design and performance forever.
After names such as Stirling Moss and Juan Manuel Fangio, racing heroes indelibly etched into the automotive history books, had achieved unprecedented success in competition with the 300 SLR (W196S), Rudolf Uhlenhaut’s engineering brilliance saw these pure racecars take production form in the 300 SL “Gullwing” Coupe of 1954. The 300 SL was a fully road-legal production car, yes, but it was also so much more than that: Beneath its shapely skin was an Uhlenhaut-designed, racing-style tubular chassis, and its styling fundamentals would be closely mirrored in the gullwinged 300 SLR “Uhlenhaut Coupe,” which recently became the most valuable car in history after a $150 million RM Sotheby’s sale.
As the fastest production car in the world upon its debut, the 300 SL clearly had Silver Arrow dominance in its DNA. In sum, the Gullwing was an exquisite reflection of Mercedes-Benz’s position at the pinnacle of the automotive space in the mid-1950s, exceeding all that Ferrari, Jaguar, Alfa Romeo, and Aston Martin could throw at them.
More than 60 years later, it is for good reason that “Gullwing”’ is a name that resonates with everyone, not simply car collectors. It transcends generations, connects old with new, and is both classic and sporty. It can be found in lyrics of hip-hop songs, Hollywood cinema, and even Andy Warhol pop-culture contemporary art. DeLorean’s futuristic car pulled the Gullwing doors in the 1980s—as did Tesla in the 2020s with their Model X. All serves as recognition of the incredible, outsized impact of the Gullwing, a car that was only ever owned by the fortunate few.
BRED FOR COMPETITION
In the 1950s, as in the modern era, Mercedes-Benz understood that its clients valued exclusivity, so they limited Gullwing production to 1,371 standard cars. For dedicated racers, as well as those sophisticated enthusiasts who wanted the almost unattainable, the factory minted an additional 29 competition-bred special-order cars with a lightweight alloy body, a more powerful engine, and other bespoke options. These were the 300 SL Alloy Gullwings: The 300 SL variants most directly linked to the world-beating 300 SLRs, and cars that—even in comparison to their already desirable steel-bodied counterparts—have long been the ultimate prizes for the world’s top collectors.
Distinctive in many ways from their standard steel-bodied brethren, these incredibly rare and historically significant Alloy coupes thrived at fulfilling the purpose for which they were built. All the most important race victories achieved by the 300 SL were, in fact, secured by one of these lightweight competition versions of the model (in addition to “secret” works entries and prototypes). Works-supported drivers secured no fewer than 50 important victories in sports car races across Europe and North America between 1954 and 1957. Notable triumphs include the Nürburgring 1000 KM, Tour d’Europe, Mille Miglia, Coppa d’Oro, Acropolis Rally, and Liège–Rome–Liège (as well as multiple SCCA and European Rally championships).
CHASSIS NUMBER 5500786
This rare 300 SL Alloy example was ordered new by Rene Wasserman, an industrialist and sports car enthusiast living in Basel, Switzerland. Research confirms that it is the 21st of those 24 alloy-bodied cars scheduled for production during the 1955 calendar year (although it was actually completed before car number 20). The car’s factory build sheet, a copy of which is on file, notes that Wasserman ordered his new alloy Gullwing with a plethora of special options, including special high-gloss white paint (DB 50), a red leather interior (1079), two-pieces of matching luggage, sports suspension, sealed-beam headlights with separate parking lights, 3.64 ratio rear axle, Rudge wheels and instruments in English, and the Sonderteile (“special parts”) engine with an impressive 215-horsepower output—surely making it one of the most well-specified Gullwings built.
The car was completed on 5 October 1955, and rather than having it delivered to Switzerland, Wasserman picked up the car himself in late November and drove his new 300 SL back home. While it is not known when Wasserman sold the car, by the early 1960s it had been exported to the United States, where its second owner was Jerome Seavey of Chicago, Illinois, followed by John K. Scattergood III, a principal at Blenheim Motors, located in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania.
THE SENATOR’S GULLWING
This 300 SL remained in Pennsylvania with its next owner, Keystone State politician and enthusiast Senator Theodore Newell Wood. Along with representing the 20th District of Luzerne, Susquehanna, Pike, Wayne, and Wyoming counties in the Pennsylvania State Senate, Senator Wood enjoyed sports car racing in his spare time and served as the president of the Hill Climb Association. He also founded the Brynfan Tyddyn Road Races, which were held from 1952 to 1956, with the last year featuring Carroll Shelby as a driver. The SCCA even gave Senator Wood a free lifetime membership for his efforts in sponsorship and participation in racing in the Northeast.
After passing through the hands of Bill Kontes and Joe Marchetti, the 300 SL was acquired by Leslie Barth in 1983. Barth kept the car until 1989. In its next ownership, with Swedish businessman and collector Hans Thulin, it was consigned to Kienle Automobiltechnik in Stuttgart, Germany. One of the world’s foremost facilities, Kienle is known for their restorations of Mercedes-Benzes, and 300 SLs in particular. The car was sold to a German collector, who in turn commissioned Kienle to perform a full restoration. Notably, damage to alloy-bodied 300 SLs is remarkably common, as the aluminum is notoriously thin and can quite literally bend under the pressure of an ill-placed hand. Furthermore, the bodies are known to deteriorate at the mounting points, where aluminum meets steel. As a result, almost all lightweight examples have been reskinned or repaired at some point, and on this particular car, any parts of the body that were irreparable were replaced.
Upon completion, the car was repainted in traditional Mercedes-Benz Silver-Grey Metallic (DB 180) and retrimmed in its original interior color of red leather (1079). As is to be expected, the quality of the workmanship is absolutely superb, with the tremendous attention to mechanical detail and factory-correctness befitting a Kienle restoration.
After passing through a collector in Switzerland, the car was acquired by its current custodian. The Gullwing has been preserved in immaculate condition ever since, with its odometer displaying 2,607 kilometers (~1,620 miles) at time of cataloguing, presumably accrued since Kienle’s restoration. As a result of its limited road use, a recent inspection indicates that to bring the car back to its peak performance level, a light mechanical servicing would be in order. The inspection further revealed the car retains its numbers-matching chassis, engine, gearbox, rear axle, steering box, and front axles.
Undeniably exclusive, this spectacular 300 SL features all of the highly desirable options and accessories one would want on an Alloy Gullwing, including the more powerful Sonderteile engine, sports suspension, Rudge knock-off wheels, special-order upholstery, and a two-piece luggage set executed in matching red leather.
The 300 SLRs have long been regarded by the collector community as being the world’s most valuable cars. This was proved to be true in May 2022 when RM Sotheby’s sold the 300 SLR “Uhlenhaut Coupe” for nearly $150 million. As a special production counterpart, the 300 SL Alloy Gullwing represents the “holy grail” of all Gullwings—and as one of only 29 cars built, this example will instantly become the centerpiece of any truly great collection.
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Kristina and I headed over to RM Sotheby's at the Monterey Conference Center to view some glorious cars at their auction preview.
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Had a blast with our auto-enthusiast friend and neighbor, Fred, at Monterey Car Week 2022.
With Prince Talal Bin Abdul Aziz visiting one of Jordan Rivers Foundation’s development projects in the Kingdom.
Amman, Jordan/ February 12, 2001
مع الأمير طلال بن عبدالعزيز خلال زيارة الى احدى المشاريع التنموية التابعة لمؤسسة نهر الأردن
عمان، الأردن/ 12 شباط 2001
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Some of the machined uranium shapes at the Feed Materials Production Center, operated by the National Lead Company of Ohio. c. 1967
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Ready for the next step. Not in the shot the one tree a large cedar, still there. Unknown whether it will remain
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Students outside their classroom at Khinger Khurd school near Rawalpindi, supported by Developments in Literacy (DIL) , Punjab Province, Pakistan on September 28, 2012. DIL educates and empowers underprivileged students, especially girls, by operating student-centered model schools in remote areas of Pakistan. DIL’s holistic program includes curriculum enhancement initiatives, computer labs, libraries, reading programs and extracurricular activities which enrich the students’ school experience. The agency strengthens the system by providing professional development and support services to teachers and principals. The DIL School works as a center for community engagement and families over time take ownership over education and show demonstrable increases in adult literacy and socio-economic empowerment.
During a visit to the Business Development Center (BDC) which creates job opportunities for fresh graduates and enhances competitiveness for small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
Amman, Jordan / May 14, 2007
خلال زيارة إلى مركز تطوير الأعمال الذي يتيح الفرص أمام اكبر عدد من الشباب خريجي الجامعات للاستفادة من خدماته بالتدريب والتأهيل
عمان، الاردن / 14 أيار 2007
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Work has started at Bournville Gardens retirement village! ExtraCare's Chief Executive, Nick Abbey, local residents Brian and Patricia Ford and Bournville Village Trust Chief Executive Peter Roach.
Interior Concept package proposal
Contract with Donna Toppings/DONNA
KERSH - submittal - DRAWING package
The long diverse journey exploring the themes around OKSparks! Research & Development touched on everything from circuit board assembly and testing, software development, board game making, drawing, graphic design, Amateur Radio License Exams, Research interviews, planning meetings, workshop trial runs, laser cutting, lab visiting, micros residencies, site visits endless car journey conversations on the relationship between art, science and tiffin tins and community building events. Investment in this kind of practice needs time and space; Ok Sparks allowed all this to happen!
Allan Brown presents dependency injection (DI) at the Microsoft Store in Oakbrook
October 2011 Software Development Community (SDC) Meeting
Overview of what dependency injection is and the motivations for applying it to existing and new projects.
Increased decoupling to enable maintainability and test-ability.
DI Containers
Different forms of dependency injection and their uses
Constructor injection
Property injection
Method injection
Object composition
Object lifetime
DI pitfalls
I will try to include examples, probably using Unity and at least one of the Unity extensions.
About Allan Brown:
Over 20 years’ experience with software development and system architecture in real time communications and public safety applications at Motorola Solutions, worked on embedded systems.
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2 May 2019. Leaders from government and international organizations share their perspectives on the impact of ADB’s work on communities and economies in Asia and the Pacific. ADB’s 2018 Development Effectiveness Review, highlighting key achievements and challenges in ADB’s operations, was presented during the seminar.
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The Compass Point development around Saunders Ness Road and taking in Mariners Mews and Sextant Avenue was built in the mid-80s forming a quiet, neat upmarket estate on the Isle of Dogs.
As part of the development, two tall blocks of flats are abutted by full height cylindrical towers, framing and echoing the view of silos across the Thames and acting as a small reminder of the estate's industrial past.
Architect Sir Jeremy Dixon's Georgian-inspired designs were built on Dudgeon's Wharf, reclaimed after the closure of the docks.
At the end of Sextant Avenue, a memorial remembers the old Wharf - not for its years of hard labour in the service of heavy industry - but for a reason more poignant and tragic.
Forty years ago the world was looking skywards for news of Nasa's audicious mission to take Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Mike Collins to the moon.
On July 17, a day after Apollo 11 shot into the skies atop a cone of fire, another explosion took the lives of five fireman, the biggest loss of life suffered by the London Fire Brigade in peace time.
Dudgeon's was a ship building firm in the 1800s and was one of a cluster that prospered on the island - including names such as Ash, Stewart's and Samuda's. At its height, in the early 1860s, it is estimated that the firms on the Isle of Dogs employed up to 15,000 men and boys in the shipyards and engineering firms.
The most iconic of the ships built at these docks was Isambard Kingdom Brunel's SS Great Eastern, the largest ship ever built at the time of her launch in 1858.
But the Great Eastern was a last hurrah for ship building on the Thames. The rivers of the North were more efficient and labour and materials were cheaper and in double-quick time large firms of the Thames went bankrupt and tens of thousands were out of a job.
People starved, shipyards became wastelands and revival would take many long painful years.
Some shipbuilding survived by specialising - Yarrow built steam-powered gunboats while other firms turned to ship repair. Shipbuilding skills evolved. Workers produced a diverse range of goods including parts for major civil engineering projects - bridges and gas holders - as well as boilers, engine parts, tanks, propellers and wire rope. Other skills were cannabilised into new industries - sacks and tarpaulins, woodworking and paint, varnishes and chemicals.
Industry survived one way and another for another 100 years of so until the docks and their associated works began disappearing in the 1960s.
The arrival of containers - which London couldn't handle - in the late 60s finally rendered the docklands obsolete.
By the time of the 1969 tragedy, the wharf was a redundant "tank farm" with an array of a hundred or so containers for storing oils and spirit, some up to 200,000 gallons in size. However, these tanks were destined to go as part of the regeneration of the land and demolition contractors had received advice on how to take apart these structures safely.
The demolition was rife with danger and difficulties and firefighters had frequently attended the site after sparks from cutting gear ignited small fires.
Less than two weeks before the fatal explosion, 40 men with eight pumps had tackled a fire on waste oil in a derelict tank and now another call arrived at Millwall Fire Station at 11.21am alerting the emergency services to another fire.
Two appliances were sent from Millwall in F Division and another from Brunswick Road. A foam tender from East Ham was sent later along with a fireboat from Greenwich.
Station Officer Innard, believing the fire to be out when he arrived, decided to put a curtain of water into the open top manhole of Tank 97.
Four other officers joined him on top of the tank to feed in the water. Later reports concluded that this pull of water drew air into the tank, mixing with the flammable vapours.
SO Innard then decided to ensure there was no further fire by opening the bottom manhole. Unable to find a spanner to undo the nuts, it was suggested they should be burned off.
As soon as a workman applied the cutting flame of his torch to the first nut, the vapours inside the tank ignited immediately, blowing the roof off the tank, together with the five firefighters and a work man.
The explosion happened at 11.52. Three appliances were sent from Bethnal Green and Bow. Their role was to collect the bodies.
Remembering the tragedy on a brigade forum, one ex-firefighter wrote: "I had been in the job for seven years when this happened and it really shook us. As you say 'Never forgotten' especially from us guys who could have been involved. Rest easy, mates."
THE VICTIMS
- Temporary Sub Officer Michael Gamble of F23 Millwall, 28, married, 10 years in the brigade.
- Fireman John Victor Appleby of F22 Brunswick Road, aged 23, married, three children, almost five years' service.
- Fireman Terrance Breen of F22 Brunswick Road, aged 37, married with three children, 12 years' service.
- Fireman Paul Carvosso of C25 Cannon Street, aged 23, married, one child, four years' service.
- Fireman Alfred Charles Smee of F23 Millwall, aged 47, one son, 24 years' service.
The Main Street development in Voorhees NJ viewed from the Evesham Road entrance. The development was not built to its entirety.
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A Clinton Development Initiative Anchor Farm Project manager walks through the Santhe community in the Kasungu District in Malawi. The Anchor Farm Project operates commercial farms that partners with 21,000 smallholder farmers, providing them with access to quality inputs for maize and soy production as well as training and market access.
Photo credit: Max Orenstein / Clinton Foundation
2022-12-06: President of the African Development Bank Group, Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina sharing a frame with (L-R), Georges Heinen, Government Advisor, Ministry of Finance, and AfDB Alternate Governor, luxembourg; Malika Dhif, Deputy to the Director of the Treasury and External Finance Department; Abdelmajid Mellouki, Executive Director for Morocco, Togo and Tunisia, AfDB during the 16th Replenishment Pledging Meeting Day 1.
Bernice Marshall, who is due to move to Bournville Gardens when it opens, visited the show apartments recently.
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Simon Ruda of Behavioural Insights Team on influence of behavioural science on public policies, including development. Kapuscinski Development Lecture in Lisbon on 13 November 2014. More: kapuscinskilectures.eu.
(L-R) Kingdom of Bahrain Minister of Finance and Development Committee Chairman Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa greets Singapore Minister for Finance and International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) Chairman Tharman Shanmugaratnam at the opening of the Development Committee meeting held during the 2011 IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings at World Bank Headquarters April 16, 2011, in Washington, D.C.
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I took this at the Child Development Center at Grossmont College. They have developed into a Reggio Emilia center. I loved it. I really like how they used natural items through out the classrooms and I liked how they displayed the art work. They had really neat 3-D art projects displayed.
Wilhelm Maybach played a vital role in the early development of car technology. As technical director at Daimler he created the Mercedes Simplex, the “first modern car”, at the request of Emile Jellinek. When in 1907 he left to found his own company, his aim was to create and manufacture the most advanced cars possible, and his top-of-the-range model, the D8 with its 12-cylinder engine, can certainly be considered one of the best cars of the period. The engine was a direct result of his work as engine supplier for Zeppelin’s dirigibles.
The car offered, chassis @1435, was the first one equipped with a 7-passenger, fully transformable limousine body, built by Spohn. The first owner, who received it as a gift from Adolf Hitler, was His Highness the Maharajah of Patiala and Raj Pramukhirthe. Hidden during the war, it was first registered in 1951 following the establishment of Indian title and registration laws. It was given a red number plate, indicating that it was a state car. In fact it was arguably the most important car in India.
In 1997 the car was sold by its second owner at an auction in Geneva. In 2001/2002 the car was bought by a German collector who, incredibly, decided to remove the original body and give the car a 2 seater Cabriolet body. Even though the new body used a design by Spohn and was well made by the German firm Reifen-Wagner, this modification reduces the originality and the value of the car. Fortunately, the original body is not lost: it was kept and preserved and now belongs to the Museum for Historical Maybach vehicles in Germany.