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Commitment and work-related expectations in flexible employment forms: An empirical study of German IT freelancers
Summary For some years now a tendency towards a more flexible shaping of employment can be observed. Little research, however, has been dedicated to the question of how relevant this is for the commitment of freelance employees. Therefore, the paper reverts to the question whether - and if so, under what preconditions - freelancers are likely to feel commitment towards the company that employs them. On the basis of an empirical study among IT freelancers, the paper identifies freelance clusters following their work-related expectations. Consequences for their felt commitment hence ensue. All in all it is mainly an affective commitment towards their company that they perceive.
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Mayrhofen is still one of Austria's best-loved resorts, in spite of a reputation as a budget base for beginners. In recent years, a number of new lifts have been built to link the outlying ski areas, and the whole area is now marketed as Ski Zillertal 3000.
Ski area:
Altitude: 630m-2,250m.
45 lifts in Mayrhofen, 148 in Ski Zillertal 3000.
143km pistes in Mayrhofen, 462km in Ski Zillertal 3000.
The extras:
6-day lift pass: £106.
Equipment hire: £26-£97.
Ski school: (24 hours) £77.
Kindergarten (5 days): £90.
Spaghetti bolognaise: £4.
Small beer: £1.50.
Dinner for two with wine: £38.
Where to book:
Equity Ski (01273 298298, equityski.co.uk). From £516 at Chalet Wegscheider, including insurance, lift pass and equipment hire.
Söll is the hub of one of Austria's largest ski networks, the SkiWelt, which is a circuit of nine resorts and 250km of mainly intermediate pistes. There have been major improvements to both the lift system and hotels.
Ski area:
Altitude: 622m-1,829m.
12 lifts in Söll, 93 in SkiWelt.
43km of piste in Söll, 250km in SkiWelt.
The extras:
6-day lift pass: £83-£98.
Equipment hire: £57-£92.
Ski school (20 hours): £76.
Kindergarten: (5 days): £158.
Spaghetti bolognaise: £4.
Small beer: £1.30.
Dinner for two with wine: £40.
Where to book:
Crystal (0870 1606040, crystalski.co.uk). From £339 B&B at Hotel Schönblick.
Les Arcs
This purpose-built resort in the French Tarentaise has consistently embraced innovations. Now, it is soaring to even greater heights thanks to a new village, La Daille d'Arc 2000, built by Canadian developer Intrawest. Next winter (2003/4) sees the opening of a £10m cable-car link to La Plagne, which will create one of the biggest ski circuits in Europe.
Ski area:
Altitude: 850m-3,226m.
62 lifts.
200km of piste.
The extras:
6-day lift pass: £112.
Equipment hire: £50-£80.
Ski school (18 hours): £73.
Kindergarten (6 days): £110.
Small beer: £1.65.
Spaghetti bolognaise: £5.50.
Dinner for two with wine: £38.
Where to book:
Erna Low (020-7584 2841, ernalow.co.uk). From £668 for a two-room cabin apartment at MGM Les Alpages de Chantel, including ferry crossings.
Courchevel is made up of four separate villages at different altitudes, with glittering Courchevel 1850 the loftiest in both altitude and price. If designer ski suits and fur coats are not for you, then stay in Courchevel 1650, where you can sample the same skiing for less.
Ski area:
Altitude: 1,300m-3,300m.
200 lifts in Trois Vallées.
600km of piste in Trois Vallées.
The extras
6-day lift pass: £127.
Equipment hire: £62-£92.
Ski school (10 hours): £95.
Kindergarten (6 days): £150.
Spaghetti bolognaise: £9.20.
Small beer: £3.30.
Dinner for two with wine: £33-£40.
Where to book:
Le Ski (0870 7544444, leski.com). From £509 at Chalet Les Carlines.
Courmayeur is a delightful old village on the Italian side of the Mont Blanc tunnel. The cobblestone alleyways are full of restaurants, bars and boutiques which are equally important as the skiing. The main ski area is best suited to intermediates, but a cable-car from the hamlet of Entrèves accesses the Vallée Blanche and other challenging off-piste.
Ski area:
Altitude: 1,700m-2,624m.
20 lifts.
100km of piste.
The extras:
6-day lift pass: £100-£111.
Equipment hire: £49-£77.
Ski school (15 hours): £90.
Kindergarten (5 days): £118.
Spaghetti bolognaise: £5.30.
Small beer: £2.
Dinner for two with wine: £34.
Where to book:
Momentum Ski (020-7371 9111, momentum.uk.com). From £375 room-only at Pensione Busa including flights and car hire.
Flims is the main resort of the Alpenarena, one of the largest ski circuits in Switzerland, and still largely unknown to British skiers. The village is connected by lifts and free ski bus to the neighbouring resorts of Laax and Falera. Flims is a good choice for families, with three theme-park nursery areas and some gentle slopes higher up the mountain.
Ski area:
Altitude: 1,100m-3,018m.
19 lifts in Alpenarena.
220km of piste in Alpenarena.
The extras:
6-day lift pass: £134.
Equipment hire: £103.
Ski school (18 hours): £147.
Kindergarten (5 days): £158.
Spaghetti bolognaise: £6.
Small beer: £2.
Dinner for two with wine: £29.
Where to book: Powder Byrne (020-8246 5300, powderbyrne.com). From £853 at Hotel Waldeck.
Over the past seven years, Verbier has rebuilt its lift system, dispensed with its notorious queues and reasserted its position as one of the top half-dozen resorts in the world for both skiers and snowboarders. It is part of the giant Four Valleys ski area.
Ski area:
Altitude: 1,500m-3,330m.
95 lifts in Four Valleys.
410km of piste in Four Valleys.
The extras:
6-day lift pass: £133.
Equipment hire: £100.
Ski school (15 hours): £76-£87.
Kindergarten (6 days): £149.
Spaghetti Bolognaise: £10.
Small beer: £1.60.
Dinner for two with wine: £65.
Where to book:
Total Ski (08701 633633, skitotal.com). From £549 at Chalet Savolèyres.
Banff/Lake Louise
Banff/Lake Louise is still the most popular destination in Canada for British skiers, largely based on price. In the Banff National Park, it comprises three separate ski areas. Lake Louise and Sunshine Village have the most challenging slopes, while Ski Banff@Norquay is Banff's local hill.
Ski area:
Altitude: 1,662m-2,637m.
29 lifts in area.
7,558 acres of trails in area.
The extras
6-day lift pass: £156.
Equipment hire: £48-£59.
Ski school (24 hours): £126.
Kindergarten (6 days): £126.
Burger: £3.75.
Small beer: £1.36.
Dinner for two with wine: £32.
Where to book:
Ski Safari (01273 223680, skisafari.com). From £710 room only at Buffalo Mountain Lodge in Banff, including flights and transfers.
Over the past 15 years, Whistler has established a reputation as the world capital of skiing and snowboarding. Its twin mountains provide arguably the longest vertical drop on the continent, as well as a variety of pistes, powder bowls and couloirs.
Ski area:
Altitude: 675m-2,284m.
32 lifts.
7,071 acres of trails.
The extras
6-day lift pass: £109-£156.
Equipment hire: £54-£110.
Ski school (12 hours): £148.
Kindergarten (6 days): £239.
Burger: £3.50.
Small beer: £1.26.
Dinner for two with wine: £35.
Where to book:
Ski The American Dream (020-8552 1201, skidream.com). From £825 in a superior loft suite at Whistler Village Inn & Suites, not including meals.
Jackson Hole
Jackson Hole in Wyoming is a cult resort for powderhounds, and also one of the world's most expensive. The skiing takes place on steep and exciting slopes above Teton Village, a 20-minute drive from the airport and the attractive town of Jackson.
Ski area:
Altitude: 1,924m-3,186m.
11 lifts.
2,500 acres of trails.
The extras
6-day lift pass: £160-£220.
Equipment hire: £80.
Ski school (18 hours): £130.
Kindergarten (6 days): £320.
Burger: £5.70.
Small beer: £1.40.
Dinner for two with wine: £53.
Where to book:
Ski Independence (0870 5550555, ski-independence.co.uk). From £650 B&B at the Parkway Inn.
Levi, Finland
Levi, in Finnish Lapland, is in the Arctic Circle, and, therefore, in one of the most snowsure positions. The ski area is mainly intermediate, and it also has excellent nursery slopes. Non-skiing activities include reindeer- and dog-sledding.
Ski area:
Altitude: 203m-720m.
19 lifts.
40km of piste.
The extras:
6-day lift pass: £79.
Equipment hire: £43-£78.
Ski school (7 hours): £90.
Kindergarten (6 days): £197.
Spaghetti bolognaise: £6.50.
Small beer: £2.
Dinner for two with wine: £66.
Where to book:
Inghams (020-8780 4433, inghams.co.uk). From £285 self-catering in a three-roomed log cabin. £14.10 daily half-board supplement.
Soldeu is linked by lift with the duty-free border town of Pas de la Casa. Of all the resorts in the principality, these two share the best skiing, but you need separate lift passes for each resort.
Ski area:
Altitude: 1,800m-2,560m.
29 lifts.
86km of piste.
The extras:
6-day lift pass: £83.
Equipment hire: £46.
Ski school (15 hours): £58.
Kindergarten (6 days not including lunch): £53.
Spaghetti bolognaise: £5.
Small beer: £2.
Dinner for two with wine: £33.
Where to book:
Panorama (0870 7505060, panoramaholidays.co.uk). From £279 self-catering at the Sandy IV apartments in a studio for four.
· The holiday package prices given here are per person for January low season, and include flights, transfers, and half-board accommodation unless stated otherwise. Kindergarten prices include lunch unless stated otherwise.
· Felice Hardy is joint editor of The Good Skiing & Snowboarding Guide 2003 (Which? Books), priced £15.99.


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Hail Mary
Craig James—former star football player, onetime ESPN commentator, eternal antagonist of Texas Tech fans everywhere—is polling at about 4 percent in this year's Senate race. Does he really want your vote? Or just your sympathy?
What Do You Think of the Rangers Now?
The Rangers? Don't look now, but after four decades of haplessness, the boys from Arlington are poised to make a run at something more than just another pennant. They might just be . . . America's (new) Team.
Arms Race
We used to be known for running backs, but all of a sudden, we're famous for producing some of the country's best passers, from Drew Brees to Colt McCoy. What turned our high school football programs into quarterback factories?
The Old Bowl Game
I wish I were in the land of Cotton (Bowl).
You Can Take the BBQ Out of Texas . . .
MANHATTAN Hill Country Barbecue Market Last year, word of a new barbecue restaurant spread through New York's Texas-expat community. Usually, this kind of thing doesn't cause much of a stir. We see a lot of "Texas barbecue" joints up here where they take a brisket that tastes like pastrami and drench it in sauce that …
Friday Night Tykes
I. The Hawks Preteen football players are usually described by other preteen football players with one of three words: "nice," "funny," or, the highest possible compliment, "awesome." Celdon Manning, a running back with the Allen Hawks, is the rare athlete who makes his teammates reach for the Scholastic Children's Thesaurus. "Celdon is very . . …
The Negotiation
Every year, hundreds of Texas high schoolers are aggressively recruited by the nation's top college football programs. It's a dream come true, but some kids must go through the bewildering process alone. And according to the rules of the NCAA, there aren't many places they can turn to for help.
The Texas Quarterback Boom Continues
Robert Griffin III, who led Baylor to its best season in decades and won the Heisman Trophy, is the latest stick of dynamite in the Texas quarterback boom.
Freddie's Song
Is the Freddie Steinmark saga the greatest story ever oversold?
False Start
Vince Young, off his game.


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Gareth Rogers has been appointed as Southampton's chief executive, the club have this morning confirmed.
Rogers had been appointed interim CEO after the departure of former chairman Nicola Cortese in January.
Saints chairman Ralph Krueger said: "It gives me great pleasure to announce, on behalf of the Board, that Gareth has been appointed as our new Chief Executive Officer.
"Gareth has done an excellent job leading our operation through a challenging and transitional period over the past two months.
"In that time he has proved himself to be decisive, open to innovation and able to inspire others to share his great values.
"His appointment is another important step forward for our leadership team as we continue to grow this great club."
Rogers said, in a statement on Saints' official website:
"It is a real privilege and an honour to be confirmed as Chief Executive Officer of Southampton Football Club.
"It is clear from every facet of the club that a real sense of potential exists and we intend to continue to strive in order to reach this.
"Whilst there is significant work ahead of us, I cannot speak highly enough of our fantastic staff who I know, having worked with them for the past three years, are pulling in the same direction to ensure that the Club can continue to better itself."


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Twenty-three new jobs are being created at the Golden Cow factory in a £2.5 million expansion.
The expansion will see the Artabrackagh Road-based plant manufacture two products, LowLow Snack Packs and Matteson's Chicken Dippers, for major retailers in the UK and Republic of Ireland.
Invest Northern Ireland's Jobs Fund has contributed £100,000 towards the development.
Golden Cow employ 52 people and will create the extra jobs over the next two years.
A new plant has already been built to manufacture the new snack foods.
Camillus Fitzpatrick, Golden Cow's finance manager, said, "The decision by Kerry Group to manufacture the new LowLow Snacks in particular in Portadown is recognition of our longstanding expertise and success in providing cheddar cheese products very cost effectively to leading UK and Irish retailers over many years.
"Invest NI's Jobs Fund support for the investment and especially to recruit additional staff has been immensely important.
"We've installed a new production facility to manufacture the new snack foods."
He added, "Both products have been developed to appeal to two fast-moving consumer markets in Britain and the Republic of Ireland that the group has identified.
"The LowLow product is targeted at consumers, especially women, seeking low fat foods that do not compromise on taste and quality. The Mattesson's chicken Double Dipper is another convenience snack designed to appeal to a wide consumer audience."
Golden Cow Dairies was formed in 1916 by the Clarke family, Portadown. It remained under family ownership for 73 years and was bought by the Kerry Group in 2001. The company's two key brands are Golden Cow butter and Coleraine cheese.


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RiteCare Benefit Concert
Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite, Valley of Atlanta
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The Big Chicken Chorus is an entertaining male a cappella chorus that sings novelty songs, and parodies that bring smiles and laughter!
Established in 1986, the Big Chicken Chorus has been entertaining audiences with great singing and good, clean humor for 25 years! The chorus represents the Marietta Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society.
RiteCare Centers are supported by Scottish Rite Masons. Assessments and intervention are available for those with delays or disorders in hearing, language, fluency, voice, articulation, and phonology, including those with severe speech impairments requiring augementative and alternative communication. Communication impairments may result from developmental delays, congenital disabilities such as mental retardation, hearing impairment, autism, cerebral palsy, and/or acquired disabilities such as traumatic brain injury, stroke, or Lou Gehrig's disease.
Proceeds benefit both the RiteCare Center for Speach and Language Disorders and the Big Chicken Chorus.
A project of
Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite
Valley of Atlanta
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Scottish Rite Foundation of Georgia
Atlanta Masonic Center
1690 Peachtree Street Northeast
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MCS have been working in the sailing industry for 20 years and providing media solutions and support to the high performance sailing sector for over 14 years. We have considerable experience in delivering turnkey solutions to individual teams and fleet solutions for race organisations. For a list of our previous projects, click here.
MCS have lead the way in developing and introducing cutting edge technology to this extreme environment in order to provide sponsors, race organisation's and media partners with the required media content. Marine Camera Solutions led the way in developing and delivering the first HD IP on board media system used in a round the world yacht race.
Over the past 8 years we have worked with numerous race management teams to design, develop and install fleet wide media communication solutions as well as provide continued race support. These events include Barcelona World Race, Velux 5 Oceans, Multi One Design and Clipper Ocean Race.
Throughout our history, MCS have worked closely with both teams and race organisations to deliver current and engaging content from the race course. Whether 1000 meters or 1000 miles from shore, MCS can help deliver content to your audience using live satellite TV links, web streams and recorded HD video.
Please contact us if you have a project that we can help you with.
Our systems are based upon high-end technology specifically adapted to operate within a custom built platform. Whether providing a complex media system to be operated by a single handed sailor in the middle of the ocean or a communication and media suit to be installed on 12 identical yachts, our products are specially designed for specific roles.
As the media requirements change and technology has evolved it has been essential to incorporate these developments within our design philosophy. As a result, MCS continue to deliver cutting edge media and camera systems suitable for the most hostile environments.
Every project we have completed has added to our unrivalled knowledge and experience of operating in this challenging environment.


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Residents of Rusizi district say that their lives have improved in terms of social and economic welfare due to access to banking services and use of modern technology in the banking sector.
The residents say this was not dreamt of in the last 18 years ago, since there were few banks in the country and even the existing banks were associated with the rich and upper class citizens, unlike today.
Residents say that the only banks that were existent, included BK, BCR and BACAR- which were also located on Butare (Now Huye district)- which is over six hours drive from Rusizi. However, residents acknowledge that most financial institutions have come closer to their community, which has enabled them to open up accounts and have shares in the banks. Besides the access to banking services residents also say that they have embraced the use of technology in banking-such use of ATM's, Mobile banking and transactions, and internet banking among other services
"This has made life very easy for the community, because there is no need to travel anymore or wait in long queues" This is good for business and enables money to flows amongst the traders and consumers just by a click of a number on the phone" says one trader, Halidi Nsabimana.
Local leaders say that the role of the private sector in improving business the Rusizi area today, has resulted to many commercial and microfinance institutions flooding the area- which has improved the way of doing business in the Rusizi area -which is borders Rwanda and the DR Congo in the western part of Rwanda.
This is considered a major breakthrough in bridging the gap in the finance banking sector in Rwanda, which so far has 28% of the population (1.3million Rwandans) without any notion of the banking systems, but ultimately will be a response to the government target of having a 90% access to finance and banking for all Rwandans by year 2020.


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JERUSALEM (Jan. 27)
Dr. Yechiel Jacob Weinberg, a leading rabbinical authority and former rector of the Orthodox Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin, was buried in Jerusalem today. President Shazar attended the funeral.
Dr. Weinberg, who had written many books on theological, philosophical and Talmudic themes, died in Lausanne Monday night at the age of 82. His body was flown to Jerusalem where he had hundreds of pupils for the funeral.


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by Emma WatsonFebruary 03, 2016
Emma Watson is a web developer by profession and a writer by hobby. Currently, she is working for Wordsuccor Ltd.- a Custom Wordpress Development Company. She loves sharing information regarding latest Technology. If you are looking to hire a dedicated WordPress Programmer to connect with her at Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin.
Who doesn't enjoy apps on their smartphones? After all, a smartphone isn't a smartphone without apps. Today where smartphones, tablets and lapbooks have replaced desktop computers, the popularity of apps is growing at a rapid pace. According to a recent study, an average smartphone user spends 80% of his/her time on apps and this number is only growing with the passage of every year.
The two most popular operating systems having the major market share of smartphone industry are certainly Android and iOS. And since android is an open source platform, there is a wide variety of amazing and outstanding apps for android to be downloaded. And the best part is most of the amazing stuff is absolutely free. However, with a wide range of apps available in the market, choosing the best one among all is definitely a daunting task.
Therefore, we have compiled a list of best yet free Android apps that you should download this year.
1. Google Keep
Google Keep, as the name suggests, is a note-taking app which allows you to take notes along with checklists, and images. Besides images and checklists, it also transcribes audio notes. You can add location and time-based reminders to your notes and make the most of your notes. The best part is that everything is saved on the internet and recorded in reverse-chronological order for faster access.
2. Seesmic
Are you a big fan of social media? If yes, Seesmic is certainly an app for you. Seesmic is a Twitter app for Android that allows you to keep track of your tweets and latest updates through a clean and simple interface. Seesmic also comes with a "getting started tutorial" to help you find your way around the app. This application is well-designed and pretty fast in comparison to other social media applications available out there. Seesmic is loaded with URL, video and photo shortening services.
3. Pocket
Pocket is yet another amazing Android App designed especially for readers. Save your favorite article or post to read it later with Pocket app. Pocket will be your best place to discover and recommend the best article on the internet. It allows you to save the article or post from any place you want such as favorite apps including Feedly, Flipboard, Twitter, and Facebook. It also offers unlimited storage space to save all of your data.
4. Facebook for Android
Facebook has become the most loved platform to share and communicate today. In fact, a recent survey has conveyed that Facebook received more traffic than Google in the past one year. This shows the popularity it has received over the years. Wouldn't it be great if your smartphone let you update your status, add an image, change profile picture, add check-in and much more with only a few finger touches? Facebook for Android does this for you. It's a great app that offers you the same experience as the desktop version of Facebook.
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Nissan Maxima Maintenance and Repair
We have an 05 Maxima and our biggest complaint is the terrible vibration when reaching speeds near and over 70mph. The steering wheel literally jumps up and down. It is not the tires and wheels, they have been changed and checked and rechecked.
p100 Posts: 1,116I am almost certain that it IS your tires. Nissan has had major problems with some of their 18 inch tires installed on new Maximas. Suggest you go to an idependent performance shop and have the tires checked. Most likely the tires are out of round, and they produce up and down bounce even when balanced properly (which is difficult to do with an out-of -round tire). There is a simple test you can do: Jack up the car on level smooth surface so both front wheels are about 1/8 inch off the ground. Then spin the wheels by hand and check if the tires are hitting the floor in one spot. Do the same for the rear wheels. The best way to check for out of round tires is to find a tire shop with a road force measurement capable wheel balancer, such as Hunter GSP 9700.
roar1 Posts: 193It is the tires or wheels, period. You could have a possible bent wheel but what is MUCH more likely is that your tires are not balanced properly. I don't care how many times you've had them done, they have not been done properly.
You need to find a shop that has the Hunter GPS 9700 Balancer. This machine measures road force.
Very few shops have this machine because it is expensive.
I had the same problem with my '00 Max. I spent months trying to get the tires balanced. I'd go to a shop, get the tires balanced, drive it 1 mile ,come back to the same shop and tell them to re-balance . They would look at me like I was crazy. They would re balance the tires and it was still wrong. UNTIL I found a shop with a competent tire tech. AND the HUNTER machine.
Now smooth sailing @ 70+ mph.
kirkster57 Posts: 7I picked up my '05 SL last Friday and so far i love the car. It was snowing pretty hard when I picked the car up and noticed that it didn't have traction control. My '02 GLE did and it was standard. now i come to find that the traction control comes standard on the '05 max's built after 11/04, as an '05 model. I go running out to my car and check the date of manufacture place and low and behold, the car was built in 10/04 as an '05 model. I feel like a total bone head for not catching that. I should have checked this site before I bought the car. I am suspecting that traction control is a factory option only?
So far two sets of wheels and tires put on car, and each calibrated with Hunter GPS 9700 Balancer. Technician put vibration detector on car after each of these actions, same problem. Literally feels as if engine is going to shake out of car. Can feel the vibration starting and steering wheel jumps up and down. Don't dare drive over 70 and sometimes the vibration starts at 65. Had an 04 with same problem, put custom wheels and tires and balanced with 9700. Didn't help. Thought surely Nissan would have found problem and corrected for the 05. No such luck.
About a month ago someone wrote in about the same thing. Go back and do a topic search on this and see if you can find it? I believe someone answered with a how to fix it solver?
Sorry to hear of all the problems you have had with your Maxi. I bought mine soon after they first came out. I have the SE model. I have had it two years now and the only problem's I have had was vibration in steering, but mine was fixed with balancing, the skyroof recall, a technical advisory on my navigation screen having a "clouding" affect and my husband fixed the rattling from the back covering where the speakers are. I have only 10,510 mile on it. We drive our F-250 crew cab on long trips. I have not had any tranny changing gear problems. And my car hauls the mayo when I want it to. I am going to install either a chip or underdrive pulley's for even more power. Our other car is a 87 Mustang GT that isn't stock. But, I really love my Maxima. When the new 05 Mustang GT's came out I was dying for one. But, I can't give up my Maxima!!! I love it!
rstephan Posts: 2On March 19, 2005, rstephan wrote:
> I'm using a radiator out of a junkyard Maxima
> for another project. As I understand it, the
> fans on these things vary their speed from
> the ECM depending on vehicle speed.
> Can someone give me the quick run down on the
> fan schematic? Each of the two fans has four
> wires. There is a green and black pair as
> well as a yellow and blue pair.
A visit to the local AutoZone and a peruse through the Haynes shop manual for the wiring schematic in addition to lots of web surfing yielded the following information:
There are two armature windings in each of the two fans servicing the radiator -- one pair for low speed, power to both pairs for high speed. Although the fans themselves are wired with a green/black pair and a yellow/blue pair the vehicle's wiring schematic only displays the colors of the wires running from the relays to the radiator connectors.
I've tested the below configuration for correctness on the donor radiator.
Fan Motor #1.
Low speed chassis power side wire colors
White/green -- +12 volts
Solid black -- ground
Low speed fan side wire colors
Solid green -- +12 volts
Solid black -- ground
High speed chassis power side wire colors
White/yellow -- +12 volts
White/black -- ground
High speed fan side wire colors
Solid blue -- +12 volts
Solid yellow -- ground
Fan Motor #2.
Low speed chassis power side wire colors
White/green -- +12 volts
Solid black -- ground
Low speed fan side wire colors
Solid green -- +12 volts
Solid black -- ground
High speed chassis power side wire colors
White/blue -- +12 volts
White/red -- ground
High speed fan side wire colors
Solid blue -- +12 volts
Solid yellow -- ground
I bought my 00 in 03 with in the first mouth the dealer had to replace both cats! My rotors was trash had to replace out of pocket!! In 04 I had to replace my MAF again out of pocket! OH this is all with less than 60,000 miles. Now its 05 with only 62,ooo miles my coils went can you guess? Out of pocket expense!Here I am driving happy as a pig in SH**T no check engine light on Then BAM!! ITs on again. Luckly me and my cousin invested in a code reader no more 80 dollar fees or waiting around auto zone!! My new friend is code #P0175 System to rich(Bank#2) Does anyone out there have a clue what this might mean? Sorry for the long message but Ifeel like sending the old girl out to pastor ! othe wise shes a grat ride! She always gives me her all in performance somedays she surprises the hell out of me !! I hope someone can Help!!!!!!!!
I have a 98 Maxima(122,000 mi). I love it but it has been stalling every time i try to start it (when its cold)for about the last 30,000 miles. I took the cheap way out and just applied a 10th of a pedal of the accelerator to solve this. Now I have a new problem, It starts and stays running but once I put it into drive(or reverse) the RPM go to the floor. With a little pedal trickery I can get it going but i can have the accelerator floored and can't get the RPM to go up hardly at all. This problem does subside after say 2-3 miles. Within that 2-3 miles once I hit a stop sign I must resort to more pedal trickery. Any Ideas?
jilla Posts: 1I bought my Maxima new in July 2004, have an on-going problem with the dashboard readout screen. When the outside temp is 80 degrees or above the screen goes blank, the air kicks on, and when the inside temp goes down (maybe 15 minutes) later it will light back up, the clock loses the amount of time the screen was blank. Anyone else with this problem?
I have a 2000 maxima se that i bought in 03 with 17 thou miles on it, I havent really had any problems and now these past couples months, same prob coming back...My check engine light comes on and the car feels like its vibrating or bouncing when I turn it on, and when I'm driving too, it kinda feels like it stutters....sorry im a girl and dont know much about cars, so i know that's a bad description...PLEASE HELP if you can...already had a spark plug and coil replaced... (mechanic says diagnostic only shows random misfire)
Hello all,
I have a 2000 Maxima XLE with only 40K on it.
The Service Engine Soon (SES) light keeps coming back every 2-4 weeks since November 2004.
A trusted and highly-rated local independent mechanic (who also owns a Maxima but 2002 model) solved the problem every time by re-setting since he could not root cause the problem.
In early March, the SES came back again. This time, he recommended to install a new oxygen sensor which cost me almost $250 :<. Now after only 2 weeks, the SES is resurrected :< :< again!
Your advice is greatly appreciated. I think my mechanic can be wrong. I also observed that the SES comes on whenever I have a hard rev on the engine, e.g. when passing.
Thanks again and in advance for any tips.
My car is also vibrating with the SES light on.
took it to Advanced auto for a free diagnostic.
trouble code:
Any help?
im figuring EGR valve or Mass airflow sensor?
1111111 Posts: 1Klin-
What type of gas are you using? From what I understand maximas run rich and require the use of a premium grade gasoline. If you are using regular or another lesser octane rating gasoline-this could be the cause of your troubles.
I have always used premium in mine... any suggestions...
master123 Posts: 2Same problem as you it seems. I have Nissan Maxima 2000 with 98k on it.
Check engine light comes on and the car starts randomly vibrating for first 5 to 10 min. Then works ok.
Checked the code and got P1320 Ignition problem.
Found the following Nissan service bulletin about it:
According to the bulletin if the iginition coil replacement doesnt help , there might be a break in the ECCS harness wires...
Does anyone know if one or 2 coils are bad , is it ok to drive still? Or with a break in some wire? Since it works ok after first 5 to 10min, don't know if it worth fixing...
i had the same problem and it turned out to be my ignition coils!!!!
sounds like your maf
when my coils went i had a gas smell and was advised not to drive veh.Owner manual says not to drive over 45mph when check engine light on !! Better off not driving at all
Hi 1111111,
I always use premium gas.
BTW, the diagnostic code that prompted the O2 sensor replacement was 420 (Catalytic deficiency).
Now SES is on again even with 02 sensor replacement.
Anyone can help and provide some tips?
Thanks a lot
graloscrs64 Posts: 2I am deciding for my first car between a 92 corolla and a 89 maxima. Please help.
suydam Posts: 2,953Generally with cars of that vintage, I'd say go for the newer car every time, especially if it has less miles on it. But you've left out a lot -- price? miles? previous owners? I assume you want primarily reliable transportation, in which either will fit the bill. Does size matter? Gas mileage?'14 Buick Encore Convenience
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ccermak Posts: 260I disagree, I say go for the Maxima if they're in comparable condition. It's bigger, probably safer, and way more fun to drive. This is all things being equal between the two cars, like price, miles, condition, etc etc.
dirkwork Posts: 210I had a good laugh at your message. I have a '00 SE manual trans. I also have not been terribly impressed at the power of my Maxima V6. I have killed the motor from a stop more than any other manual shift car I've ever owned, its got such pathetic torque. Yes, if you "drive it like you stole it" and rev the crap out of it, it runs like a bat out of heck, but for 99% of driving it seems flat off-idle and if you're not "on the pipe" (a old motorcycle term for when a 2 stroke would get to the power band (influenced by the exhaust pipe)where it would suddenly get all the power at once)it can seem fairly SLOW. I also came from a domestic.
The GM 3.8, especially the supercharged version is a torque monster, the complete opposite of the max motor. The 3.8 doesn't really like to be wound up beyond 4-5 grand, but is a stump puller in terms of torque.
I am honestly thinking that for my driving, the Intrigue with the 3.5 shortstart would have been superior, despite being 7 hp short of the 222 listed for my car and having an automatic, it had excellent torque for a multi-valve motor.
The Nissan will have a lot better resale, if that makes you feel better.
stumped4 Posts: 1I recently replaced the spark plugs in my 99 maxima with Bosch plugs. The car was running terrible. After some searching I went back and replaced the plugs with NGK's. This cleared up 99% of the problem. But now when at idling at a light, the engine feels like it is going to kill then goes back to normal. This happens very quickly (maybe a second) giving the car a bumping feel. It can happen 4 or 5 times while sitting there. Anyone have any suggestions?
mastj Posts: 14Dirkwork
Glad I could entertain you.... you know exactly what I'm talking about.... everybody here at work gets so excited about the 265hp in the Maxima.... but have puzzled looks on their faces when I tell them about the schear torque of the 3800 supercharged and how it REALLY pulls you back in the seat. The Maxima just doesn't have it.
I could live with the low torque - if the Max would just start when I wanted it too.... I guess I need to keep the old Regal w/ 125,000 miles just to have something reliable to drive.
roseysal Posts: 3I have a 2002 Nissan Maxima and the Bose Stereo system with a 6 cd changer. TWICE the speakers on the left side stopped working when a cd was playing. It was the cd changer so it was replaced twice. Well, this third unit is doing it AGAIN! I have 40K miles and it's more than 1 year since the last cd player replacement so Nissan is REFUSING TO REPLACE THE UNIT. It also scratches my cds! I have an extended warranty but it does not cover the cd changer. Did you know they used re-manufactored cd players as replacement parts! Don't even get me started on the paint chip problems. This car has the worst paint job since the '79 Monte Carlos.
I'm never buying another Nissan.
tmax Posts: 1Shouldn't emmission controls fall under a longer warranty (ie 60k mile)?


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Yan Q, Ni J, Zhang GL, Yao X, Yuan WB, Zhou L, Zheng SS. Chin Med J (Engl). 2013 Mar;126(5):855-9.
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BACKGROUND: Recurrence of hepatitis B-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after curative resection is the leading factor influencing the prognosis of the disease. Therefore, further improvement of long-term survival may depend on the prevention and treatment of the recurrent tumor. The aim of this research was to investigate the role of antiviral therapy and postoperative transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) in the prevention and treatment of hepatitis B-related HCC recurrence.
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A former security liaison and club manager at Kansas City's downtown entertainment district has filed a lawsuit alleging that Cordish Companies and others deliberately created disturbances to eject black patrons from the district.
Cordish, the Baltimore-based developer of the Power & Light District, vigorously denies the allegations.
The lawsuit was filed recently in Jackson County Circuit Court by Glen Cusimano, who was hired as a security guard for Angels Rock Bar in 2009 and later was promoted to a security liaison for the entire entertainment district as well as general manager for the Mosaic Lounge and Hotel Nightclub.
In addition to Cordish, the lawsuit names as defendants Lounge KC LLC and Entertainment Concepts Investors LLC, two Cordish-tied enterprises, and First Response Inc., a security company.
Cusimano says he saw numerous instances of racially discriminatory practices in which African-Americans were turned away from clubs more frequently or forced to wait longer in lines. He says that in the summer of 2012, he was ordered to employ a "rabbit," a Caucasian male to start arguments with African-Americans to get them kicked out of Power & Light. That practice, he says, was used 20 to 30 times in the summer of 2013.
Cusimano, an African-American, says he was fired for no valid reason in September 2013 after Mosaic was changed from a hip-hop music venue that was popular with African-Americans.
"We believe Cordish set up their own 'rabbit' incident against Glen to trump up a reason to fire him," said Linda S. Dickens, an attorney for Cusimano in Overland Park. "Since then, we believe his name was slandered and defamed."
Cordish officials said Cusimano's firing was justified and they have evidence that he assaulted a handcuffed person during the alleged "rabbit" incident. Cusimano was arrested and charged with assault by Kansas City police in connection with that incident.
In a statement, Cordish attorney Bob Fowler said the lawsuit accusations "are complete fabrications and 100 percent false."
Fowler said, "Mosaic Nightclub had no choice but to terminate Mr. Cusimano's employment. Mosaic will vigorously defend Mr. Cusimano's outrageous allegations and intends to file its own counterclaims against Mr. Cusimano."
Fowler also said Cusimano had a felony fraud conviction that he failed to disclose to Mosaic. Federal records show Cusimano pleaded guilty to wire fraud in U.S. District Court in Kansas City in June 2005 and served nine months in prison.
Dickens said Cusimano's dispute with the Cordish properties was heightened when Cusimano refused to sign a confidentiality agreement to not divulge civil rights violations he had observed or complied with while employed.
The lawsuits seeks $10 million in actual and punitive damages.
The Power & Light District was the subject of numerous complaints about bias in its dress code enforcement in 2008 and 2009.
The Kansas City Human Relations Department filed a discrimination complaint in 2009 concerning the dress code. Cordish denied the allegation, but the dress code was modified somewhat and the complaint was settled in 2010. Human Relations Director Phillip Yelder said Thursday his department has not had any discrimination complaints about the entertainment district in several years.


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Humans, Nature, and Birds: Science Art from Cave Walls to Computer Screens
Darryl Wheye and Donald Kennedy
Yale University Press, 2008
In the beginning there was art. The beginning of art was nature -- depictions of animals and birds on the walls of caves. Making art seems to be as fundamental to being human as myth-making and naming. As birders we live at the intersection of nature, art, science, and culture and have a greater awareness than other mortals of the role that art plays in understanding our dwelling place. We depend on art (and narrative) for honing our identification skills, for the development of a compound and more encompassing vision of our world, and for pleasure. As the development of bird-related art over the past two hundred years has mirrored the development of ornithology and bird watching, the vast majority of us would not be birders were it not for depictions of birds in art. Audubon set out to depict birds in poses and in settings that inspired us with their beauty and told us something about the habitats and lives of his subjects. Fuertes did the same but was intent on creating images which also provided an aid to field identification. Peterson's illustrations spawned generations of passionate amateur watchers who substituted field observation for shotgun ornithology.
What is true for the relationship between ornithology and art is true for all the sciences. Imagine trying to learn about botany, engineering, anatomy, genetics, or cosmology without illustrations. Indeed, it seems at times as if human civilization isn't feasible without art.
Although we birders delight in the ground we inhabit, we are occasionally blessed with experiences which shed new light on this most innately human activity – events which make us think differently about life, birds, and our place in the world. Several years ago I heard about a curator (Kevin Avery) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art who was also a birder. It was February, and I was looking for an activity which would get people out and thinking about birds on a cold winter day and wondered if a bird walk through the Museum's collections would appeal to our members. It didn't take too much convincing to get Kevin to agree to be our guide. We were surprised not only by the sell-out crowd but by the distance and time we covered as we spanned centuries and cultures looking at paintings, pottery, and sculpture which contained birds and bird-related themes. Our hike included the Asian collection, the American wing, classical European painting, and the Impressionist collection. Our guide stopped in front of perhaps 25 paintings for lengthy discussions about the birds therein. We identified them and talked about why they were there, the social implications, what they represented in the cultural context in which they were painted, what the artist was trying to communicate, and what an audience contemporary to the artist would have derived from the depiction. Our walk heightened my awareness of the place that birds have occupied in day-to-day life ever since we climbed out on the developmental limb which distinguished us from our primate relatives.
We are now fortunate to have a virtual gallery of images which further illuminates the intersection of these themes with the publication of Humans, Nature, and Birds by Darryl Whey and Donald Kennedy. The book is, to me, like a continuation of the Metropolitan Museum walk. The authors organize 69 plates which use art from across space and time to illuminate the relationship between humans, nature, and birds. The plates are organized into lower and upper galleries as if the book were a museum. Each plate is accompanied by an extensive caption which discusses the details of the art and its cultural, historic, and scientific relevance.
As with our museum walk, Humans, Nature, and Birds includes art and text which lovingly explores the places which birds have occupied in culture, mythology, conservation, symbolism, decoration, science, and commerce over the entire span of the artistic record.
The first stop in the gallery tour is at the Paleolithic owl inscribed on the wall of Chauvet Cave, in Vallon-Pont d'Arc in France. The tour skips through eras and cultures to emphasize the universality of the relationship. The presentation and the images are all meaningful, but there are a few with which I was particularly taken:
• An Egyptian statue of Chefren (2,500 BCE) who built the second pyramid at Giza and the Sphynx, shows the ruler with a falcon perched behind his head. The falcon represents Horus, the protector. The falcon is hidden to those who approached the statue from the front, indicating perhaps that Chefren was all-powerful, but its presence is obviously important.
• Andrew Wyeth's Winter Fields (1942) depicts a dead crow in the foreground of an open field. I can feel the power that this image must have had when it was first displayed while the world was at war.
• Paul Klee's Twittering Machine (1922) depicts a mechanistic view of birds and nature reminiscent of Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times
• Carl Wilhelm de Hamilton's Parliament of Birds (1680) fancifully illustrates Chaucer's poem of the same name which depicts 36 birds which meet each Valentines Day to select mates.
• Robert Bateman's Mossy Branches—Spotted Owl (1980) which shows the bird at the center of the fight to save the ancient forests of the Northwest.
Fittingly, the authors have impressive credentials in art and science. Darryl Wheye is an artist and writer who specialize in birds and science art. Donald Kennedy is the Bing Professor of Environmental Science emeritus at Stanford University.
The images and captions in Humans, Nature, and Birds are all well-chosen, and the captions have the feel of an entertaining and informative gallery talk. Together they form a compelling exploration of one of the areas of life which is a source of great satisfaction for me and for so many fellow birders. This is one of my favorite books of 2008.
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Hiring God for £90 a week
It was the offer he definitely could refuse. So, Robbie Fowler, Liverpool legend and the fourth-highest scorer in the history of the Barclays Premier League, how did a basic salary of £90 a week sound? Could a figure some £150 below the United Kingdom's minimum wage secure the services of a man still known to half of Merseyside simply as 'God'? Was it enough to make him a Blackpool player?
"They offered me a contract and I said no," the 36-year-old said. Factually accurate as that is, his initial reaction was rather more dramatic. "If Ashley Cole nearly crashed his car when he was offered £50,000 a week, I nearly self-combusted," Fowler added. Footballers are often accused of having an inflated sense of their own worth, especially since England's premier left-back deemed £2.6 million a year an insulting sum, but not on this occasion. "I just felt I was better than that," Fowler said.
That would be an understatement from an undistinguished player, let alone one of the great goalscorers of his generation. By impressing on trial with the Championship club, he had stumbled into contact with one of football's stranger financial models. While owner Owen Oyston, via one of his companies, was paid £11 million during the Seasiders' season in the Premier League, Blackpool's stinginess cost Fowler a swansong on the Fylde Coast.
"What Owen Oyston or [chairman] Karl Oyston took out of the club does not concern me," he insisted. One figure at Bloomfield Road who has emerged in credit is Ian Holloway, who had earmarked Fowler as mentor and impact substitute. Yet the manager's plan for catalytic cameos would have rendered proposed bonuses for 90-minute appearances redundant.
"The manager said I was going to be great around the place for my experience and my passion," Fowler explained. "I knew I wasn't going to be playing as much but the contract was going to be performance-based."
Instead, without alternative employment, he is free to watch Tuesday's Merseyside derby even though, as nostalgia is a growing industry and the Anfield public invariably revere past greats, some would happily see him in their forward line.
With 183 Liverpool goals to his name, few are better equipped to pass judgement on the current, misfiring strike force. "Luis Suarez has been fantastic in his all-round play but the one thing that is lacking is goals," Fowler said. A successor in the No. 9 shirt is a greater concern. "Andy Carroll would be the first to tell you he has had a bit of an indifferent time. It was a big price tag and maybe the pressure is getting to him a little bit but hopefully he will come good."
Anfield's expectations were rarely a problem in his heyday. More than Michael Owen and Fernando Torres, let alone Carroll and Suarez, Fowler was Liverpool's most natural finisher since Ian Rush was at his prolific peak. Lacking a £35 million fee, the local lad reached the 30-goal landmark in each of his first three full seasons in the first team. The best part of two decades later, another milestone was secured in more unlikely surroundings. Fowler's time at Thailand's Muangthong United included a 250th career goal.
The quest for fulfilment of the ageing player has taken him to far-flung locations. Indelibly associated with Anfield, he has strayed further from his native Merseyside. He spent two "fantastic" seasons in Australia with North Queensland Fury and Perth Glory and then tried Thailand. He agreed to play in the PLS, intended to be football's version of cricket's Indian Premier League, signing for the Kolkata franchise before the tournament was postponed.
"I always said when I was young that I would pack in young but football is the only thing I know and the only thing I have ever wanted to do," he said. "I wish I could play forever."
Along the way, his horizons have been broadened, the would-be Peter Pan feeling like the Pied Piper. His globe-trotting has enabled him to experience the size and devotion of the worldwide support for the Premier League. "I went to Thailand years and years ago during my first spell at Liverpool," he recalled. "I went into a shopping mall with my wife and got recognised. When I left, I was like the Pied Piper - everyone followed me back to my hotel."
Trips to Thailand have proved a learning process for Fowler. A six-month stay with Muangthong included a first taste of management, Fowler taking over on a temporary basis before departing in January. "I just felt the players had not given me their full support," he explained. "I felt I was treading water and they were not really listening. I wanted them to be more professional on and off the pitch."
They are words that might strike some as strange, yet a reputation for being a scally and moments of controversy meant a keen footballing brain was obscured. Fowler has dabbled in coaching, working with MK Dons, Bury and Liverpool, all on an ad hoc basis. He was a target for Ian Holloway for his character and insight as much as his famous goalscoring instincts. He has skills to show, lessons to impart and, he hopes, still more goals to score. Just not for £90 a week.
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In what has become a monthly occurrence this year, vandals illegally entered Castaic Union School District classrooms recently, damaged property and, in the most recent case, rifled through the desks of at least two teachers, according to a report on file at the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station on Sunday.
Since December, vandals have used ketchup, Cheerios, blue paint, fire extinguishing chemicals and 'Elmer's Glue' to damage carpets in Castaic classrooms and dumped glitter on the carpets in the most recent investigated incident of vandalism.
Sometime between 3:30 p.m. March 28 and 10:10 a.m. March 30, vandals entered Castaic Elementary School on Park Vista Drive through an open window, a deputy with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station wrote in his report.
A custodian who reported the vandalism told the deputy: "She noticed a window to classroom No. 28 partially open. When she went to inspect the security of the classroom door, she discovered it was unlocked.
"The informant believed the window was inadvertently left open by staff, which allowed the suspect(s) to enter the classroom and unlock the door from the inside when they left, leaving it unlocked," the deputy reported.
Once inside, the vandals ransacked the desks of teachers in two classrooms, he wrote.
"I saw the teacher's desk along the west facing wall had its drawers in the open position," he wrote in his report."The contents of the drawers appeared to have been rummaged through. I also noticed glitter had been spread all over the carpet of the classroom.
"Upon entering classroom number 27, I saw the (second) teacher's desk along the west facing wall also had its drawers in the open position. The contents of the drawers appeared to have been rummaged through," he wrote.
"The vandals tried to get into two other classrooms — Numbers 30 and 34 — having removed window screens, however, those windows themselves were locked," he said.
The most recent incident of burglary and vandalism marks the fourth time in a three-month period in which vandals broke into a Castaic Union School District classroom and trashed it, according to sheriff's deputies and school district officials.
In each case this year, the incidents of vandalism in Castaic classrooms have occurred on thelast weekend of each month.
On the weekend of Jan. 25, vandals trashed the special education preschool classroom on the campus of Castaic Middle School, school spokeswoman Lisa Bloom said at the time. Vandals then hit district classrooms again some time between 11 p.m. Feb. 21 and 6 a.m. Feb. 24.
On the weekend of Dec. 21, 2013, vandals trashed Castaic Elementary School, also using a fire extinguisher, district spokeswoman Lisa Bloom said.
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Do color and pattern and design and texture elicit strong emotions for you when you enter a fabric store? Or wander through an art gallery? Or browse through the produce section at the market?
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Decorating By bizcocho Updated 11 May 2010 , 8:04pm by BarbieAnnPlaysWithHerFOOD
I have to bake a 3 tier cake for saturday at 4:00 p.m. They want the cake with raspberry filling. Can I frost, filled and fondant/decorate the cake by Friday night to have it ready? I'm concerned about the raspberry filling but at the same time I need time to decorate the cake ahead of time.
is it just raspberry preserves? Then definitely you should be fine. Only if the filling is perishable you will need to refridgerate.
Only you know how long it takes you to do this type of cake. If this is the only one you are doing it seems tight but do-able. Why are you worried about the filling? Are you worried about having time to make that from scratch and setting up?
I always plan to have my cakes done the evening before they're due. If your filling is raspberry preserves, it's fine. If it's fresh pureed raspberry, keep it refrigerated, it'll be fine. Yes, even with the fondant. Just don't touch the fondant when it's sitting out.
if it's a premade sleeve raspberry filling it will be fine!
I'm with Rose, I typically finish my cakes the night before they're due. You're raspberry filling (preserves, puree, etc.) should be fine. Just think about it...raspberry preserves are purchased at room temperature. Raspberry puree (made from fresh or frozen raspberries) will be fine as well since you typically buy fresh raspberries unrefrigerated.
And as far as execution goes, I'd do all my baking tonight and all my decorating tomorrow. HTH.
Just overnight I wouldn't worry about it. Fresh raspberries grow outdoors on a vine - they aren't going to spoil overnight if not refrigerated.
Thank you all for all your quick responses. You ladies are awesome! Well I was concerned because like some of you mentioned I like to give myself ample time to have a cake completely decorated a day before event in case of any unforeseen circurstances the day of the event, and if I decorate this cake and have it fully decorated by Friday with the filling I was worried the raspberry filling could ferment or something, I don't know. Of course they cake will be indoor at home with A/C. I have never done a rasberry filling and I have a recipe to follow.
I HAVE had raspberry filling ferment in a cake left out overnight. The key was that I did not cook the raspberries for a long enough amount of time, and I was basically just putting pureed raspberries with some sugar.
Gotta make sure you let it simmer long enough to become thick.
Customer was really nice about it, but I can't imagine what chocolate cake with fermented raspberries tasted like.
Since then, never had a problem.
Yikes - that's good to know jentreu - I'm also making a cake with raspberry filling on Friday for Saturday so I'll make sure to cook it long enough. Luckily mine isn't fondant though - so maybe I'll throw it in the fridge just to be safe ><
Just overnight I wouldn't worry about it. Fresh raspberries grow outdoors on a vine - they aren't going to spoil overnight if not refrigerated.
Yes, but I doubt they're picking the raspberries from bushes in their yards. Fresh raspberries spoil rapidly. Absolutley refrigerate!
I just did my first wedding cake and the bottom teir was raspberries- i torted/filled/ iced/ and decorated the night before... (and finished at 4 am )... I torted with a very stiff butercream then spread a thin layer of buttercream down first , as a barrier, then a layer of a raspberry cream cheese buttercream ( which had sort of a mousse flavor but stiffer) and then a layer of fresh raspberries ,, i spaced the raspberries about 1 inch apart evenly, but i froze them in a deep freezer and kept them frozen until they went into the cake- i just layed out a pc. of parchment on a few sheet pans and placed them in the deep freezer so they wouldnt stick to the pan or to each other---- the teir had 3 layers and the second layer was just a glaze ... it turned out delicious! and it didnt spoil.. and i did not refridgerate it .. the cake was frozen when i torted , filled, and iced though... and frozen JUST in the middle when i covered in fondant.. which bought me more time. I also turned the house temperature down to 62 degrees... so everyone had to walk around with a sweater for the night but oh well...


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Turner D. D., A. M. Vogelmann, R. T. Austin, J. C. Barnard, K. Cady-Pereira, J. C. Chiu, S. A. Clough, C. Flynn, M. M. Khaiyer, J. Liljegren, K. Johnson, B. Lin, C. Long, A. Marshak, S. Y. Matrosov, S. A. McFarlane, M. Miller, Q. Min, P. Minnis, W. O'Hirok, Z. Wang and W. Wiscombe (February 2007): Thin Liquid Water Clouds: Their Importance and Our Challenge. Bull. Am. Met. Soc., 88 (2), 177-190. doi:10.1175/BAMS-88-2-177Full text not available from this repository.
Many of the clouds important to the Earth's energy balance, from the Tropics to the Arctic, contain small amounts of liquid water. Longwave and shortwave radiative fluxes are very sensitive to small perturbations of the cloud liquid water path (LWP), when the LWP is small (i.e., < 100 g m−2; clouds with LWP less than this threshold will be referred to as "thin"). Thus, the radiative properties of these thin liquid water clouds must be well understood to capture them correctly in climate models. We review the importance of these thin clouds to the Earth's energy balance, and explain the difficulties in observing them. In particular, because these clouds are thin, potentially mixed phase, and often broken (i.e., have large 3D variability), it is challenging to retrieve their microphysical properties accurately. We describe a retrieval algorithm intercomparison that was conducted to evaluate the issues involved. The intercomparison used data collected at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Southern Great Plains (SGP) site and included 18 different algorithms to evaluate their retrieved LWP, optical depth, and effective radii. Surprisingly, evaluation of the simplest case, a single-layer overcast stratocumulus, revealed that huge discrepancies exist among the various techniques, even among different algorithms that are in the same general classification. This suggests that, despite considerable advances that have occurred in the field, much more work must be done, and we discuss potential avenues for future research.)
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