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Head coach Lovie Smith thinks the 2008 Bears were close to being a playoff team, but there seem to be several areas that need improvement – even in Smith's opinion.
There are general deficiencies on both sides of the ball that must be addressed to make this a playoff team, and the Bears also need to get better play from certain individuals.
Offensively, the Bears showed signs of a balanced attack early in the season, but they finished No. 26 in total yards, No. 21 in passing yards and No. 24 in rushing yards. They were 29th in average gain per pass play and tied for 26th in average gain per running play.
"Did we do enough offensively throughout the course of the year?" Smith said. "No, just like the rest of our football team. But I think the arrow is pointed in the right direction. I like the core that we can build on."
Defensively, the Bears were usually strong against the run, but they were picked apart too often by passing attacks – even average ones. They were No. 5 in rushing yards allowed, giving up just 93.5 yards per game. But against the pass the Bears were 30th, allowing 241.2 yards per game. Part of the reason was a weak and inconsistent pass rush that tied for 22nd in sacks with just 28.
"I didn't like the way we played the pass," Smith said. "I liked the way we played the run, so it was kind of up and down, and that's how we played the last game. Of course, we let them pass the football too much on us."
The Bears held the Texans to 127 rushing yards, just 3.5 yards per attempt, but they were gouged for 328 passing yards, and they failed to sack Matt Schaub even once.
There was a definite correlation for the Bears between getting to the quarterback and winning. In games that the Bears had one sack or none, they were 2-5. In games in which they had three sacks or more, the Bears were 4-1.
But there was no individual player who brought consistent pass-rush pressure in 2008. Defensive end Alex Brown led the team with six sacks. Defensive tackle Tommie Harris, who had eight sacks in 2007, had just five in '08 when his play was nowhere close to the level of the previous three seasons when he went to the Pro Bowl each year. Harris battled a problematic knee that seemed to affect his play at times and then to not bother him at other times.
"At times, Tommie played very good football," Smith said. "The consistency wasn't probably there as much as we would like, just like our entire football team. We weren't consistent throughout. Tommie was a part of that."
Smith said Harris' balky knee and his overall health are a concern, as they should be after he got a four-year contract extension before the season that was worth a maximum of $40 million.
"When you look at the last couple years, Tommie has dealt with injuries," Smith said. "You have to be concerned a little bit about his health. Him getting back to 100 percent, of course, would help the situation. There is no reason to think that Tommie cannot get back to that same dominant player that we've seen, and at times this year he was that."
Rarely did Harris flash Pro-Bowl form in 2008, and the same can be said of middle linebacker Brian Urlacher, who got $18 million in new money added to his existing $56.65 million deal. According to team statistics, Urlacher's 107 tackles were the second-lowest total of his nine-year career and just two more than he had in 2004, when he played just nine games.
In his first eight seasons, '04 was the only season in which Urlacher didn't lead the Bears in tackles, but this year he was third. After getting five interceptions and five sacks last season, he had two picks and no sacks this year.
"Brian at times played well this past year," Smith said, "and other times he needed to pick it up a little bit."
Urlacher will be 31 before the next training camp starts, and it remains to be seen if he can ever play at the level he achieved while making six of seven Pro Bowls from 2000-06. The same might be said of the entire defense, which has regressed in the past two seasons.
"It's hard to say exactly why," Smith said. "Look at our entire football team. We could put Brian in that class. I'm putting all of us in there. For some reason, we didn't get it done the way we like this past year. But 9-7 is still close, and we were close at times. We've seen what Brian can do, and there's no reason to think that, with him dedicating himself and us doing a better job coaching, he can't get back."
But Brown seemed closer to reality after the loss to the Texans, when he said: "I'm very, very tired of people talking about two years ago. We don't have the same team as two years ago. We don't have the same attitude. There's a lot of things different from this team and that team, so please do me a favor and let's not talk about '06 anymore."
"We'll evaluate everything," Smith said. "Players, coaches and all. Every year there's change. I don't know if we'll have change right now. I can't comment on any of that right now. We've just started our evaluation process."
Rod Marinelli's Monday firing as the Lions' head coach makes him a logical person of interest for Smith, who was the linebackers coach in Tampa for five years under Tony Dungy while Marinelli was the defensive line coach. Marinelli was considered a candidate to become the Bears' defensive coordinator when Smith was hired as head coach in 2004 and then again in 2006 before he got the Lions' top job.
The Bears' once-stout defense has faltered under coordinator Bob Babich, who was promoted from linebackers coach after defensive coordinator Ron Rivera was not rehired following Super Bowl XLI. The defensive line has also come under criticism the past two seasons under the guidance of Brick Haley, who had no NFL coaching experience when he was hired by Smith in 2007.
"Rod Marinelli is an excellent football coach," Smith said. "I've known him for a long time. I've worked with him. But again, that doesn't have anything to do with what we're doing right now. I was just sad to see an excellent football coach not be the coach of Detroit." …
First-round pick Chris Williams suffered a back injury on the second day of training camp that eventually required surgery, and he missed the first seven games and played tiny roles in the final nine. But the offensive tackle is a big part of the Bears' future according to Smith.
"We drafted Chris Williams to be our left tackle," Smith said. "There is no reason to think that Chris can't develop into that. The next time we come together as a team, he'll be ready to go. From what I saw of him going against our starting defensive ends, he's got a bright future ahead of him." …
With the season completed, quarterback Kyle Orton admitted that his sprained ankle bothered him more and for a longer period of time than he let on when he returned Nov. 16 after missing just one game.
"It was a battle every game, a battle throughout the week to get it feeling halfway decent, and then something would always happen during the game to re-tweak it," Orton said. "But I don't think it affected my game a whole lot. Everybody has to battle through injuries, and I'm no different."
Orton said the ankle wasn't a problem Sunday.
"It actually felt pretty good," he said. "Probably felt the best it has all year since it happened."
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State Farm MVC Tournament medalist Stacey Miller of Illinois State and MVC Golfer of the Year Olivia Lansing of Drake highlight the 2009 MVC Women's Scholar-Athlete First Team, announced by the league office today. A total of seven student-athletes earned first-team scholar-athlete honors, and two others earned honorable-mention status. Of those nine student-athletes, five also earned all-conference honors.
Four student-athletes are repeat selections to the league's scholar-athlete unit. Bari Erais of Bradley, Lansing and Miller were first-team scholar-athlete picks in 2008, while Krista Hrdlicka of Wichita State was an honorable-mention picks last year. This year's first team consists of Erais, Lansing, Miller, Hrdlicka, Laura Harris of Illinois State, Kayley Bodine and Breanne Smith of Indiana State. Honorable-mention selections include Vandi Gooch of Evansville and Megan Bartlett of Wichita State.
The criteria for the MVC scholar-athlete team parallels the CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America) standards for academic ESPN the Magazine All-America voting. Nominees must have at least a 3.00 cumulative grade point average (4.0 scale), while the student-athletes must have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at their institutions and must have participated in at least 50 percent of her team's rounds or played at the State Farm MVC Championship.
In addition to the seven first-team selections, an additional two student-athletes received honorable mention selection, by virtue of receiving a minimum number of votes. A total of 29 student-athletes were nominated for women's golf scholar-athlete honors. Golf sports information directors in the conference voted for the award.
Illinois State won the Missouri Valley Conference championship, April 17-19, at Panora, Iowa.2009 Missouri Valley Conference Women's Golf Scholar-Athlete Team
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A group of guys stumble upon an alien invasion during a faux neighbourhood watch meeting where they usually do some male bonding to get away from their dull suburban lives in this sci-fi comedy starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, and Will Forte. Akiva Schaffer directs from a script by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Jonah Hill and Rosemarie DeWitt co-star.
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Same issue here, but problem is only present when external interface and soft AP are both present on open networks.
Commands used:
Once wlan0 is associated and has external acces...Code:iwconfig wlan0 channel 8 mode managed ap auto essid SuperSecretNetwork dhclient3 wlan0
Comes up without issue, so...Code:airmon-ng start wlan1
Everything good so far, so...Code:airbase-ng -P -C 30 -e "Free Public WiFi"
At this point everything should be good... but it isn't. Packets coming into at0 are 36 bytes short, and misidentifying as FC packets instead of Ethernet. If the entire process is done using wlan0 on an encrypted connection, however, the whole setup works perfectly.Code:ifconfig at0 IP.ADD.SS.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig at0 up echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o wlan1 -s IP.ADD.SS.0/24 -j MASQUERADE service dhcp3-server start
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In my prior job at IBM, I was, on more than one occasion, reminded of the pains of dealing with software development tools. It seemed to be a constant battle to keep up with licenses, install critical fixes, and update to the latest version of whatever tool I happened to be using. Since I often worked on projects across multiple machines, I had to ensure that versions of the tool on different machines were reasonably close and that any code formatting settings were consistent across the different tool instances. On top of this, the tools were sometimes so CPU intensive that multitasking on the same machine running the tool was impossible.
All of the above pains were a direct function of the tools being installed on my local machine, so you can imagine my interest in a recent announcement by IBM signaling the launch of a pilot program offering Tools as a Service. The program, initially offered to students and faculty of selected universities, delivers hosted software development tools to developers. Users of the development tools do not install, maintain, or run the products on their local machine, instead they access them through a cloud maintained by IBM. The tools can be accessed from any machine with an internet connection, and a developer's sandbox is persisted across multiple sessions. The developer simply logs in, does work, and at some point saves his/her changes and logs out. The saved changes can be accessed at some point in the future from the same machine or an entirely different one.
This is exactly what I needed! Like many developers, I wanted to focus on writing code not maintaining a suite of tools. I for one hope this eventually extends beyond a pilot program and becomes a mainstream practice. You can read more about IBM's Tools as a Service initiative here.
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Much of the focus on cloud computing to date revolves around the ways in which cloud computing delivers significant administrative and operational benefits. After all, the more dynamic, autonomic capabilities promised by cloud could go a long way in relieving some of the burden in managing large, complex IT infrastructure operations. Sometimes lost in the cloud computing benefits discussion is how cloud computing enhances development and test groups in an enterprise. I can think of five different ways in which cloud computing strengthens development and test groups:
1) Self-service capability: A defining characteristic of cloud computing solutions is a self-service capability that allows users to commission and decommission computing resources as appropriate. In development and test shops, this means users can directly procure the resources they need to complete their tasks without going through lengthy, manually-driven procurement chains. This results in a significantly shortened procurement period, and it means developers and testers can quickly get to the task at hand.
2) Resource availability: Resource sprawl within IT shops, a very common occurrence, leads to resource deficiencies that are sometimes a problem for enterprise developers and testers. Tasks like testing massive configurations and performing intensive load tests become increasingly difficult as it is hard to harness enough resources to get the job done. Cloud computing, through intelligent virtualization, usage tracking, and more, enables this scattered resource pool to be viewed and utilized as a single logical entity. Resources can be doled out as needed, and intense tasks become achievable without extensive setup or procurement periods.
3) Environmental fidelity: From the time a software application or service leaves a developer's hands to the time it reaches production, quite a few things about its environment may be changed, often times unbeknownst to the developer. The test and operation teams may have different conventions and configurations than development teams, and this can lead to unintended application behavior and delays in service delivery. Cloud computing offers a potential solution to this problem in the form of the increasingly popular templatized solution stack. These solution stacks are pre-built, ready to deploy configurations, which include the application and entire environment down to the operating system. This stack can be captured as some sort of image (i.e. OVF image, Amazon Machine Image, etc.), and passed off between each team along the delivery cycle. Teams downstream from development see the exact environment in which the application was designed and unit tested, and they can balance needed changes to that environment against a known, working solution.
4) Hosted tools: Though possibly not yet standard operating procedure, one can look at the wave of SaaS offerings and make a reasonable assumption that more and more development and test tools will be moving in that direction as well. Why not? Putting aside the technical challenges of hosting something like a code editor on a network, the benefits of centrally hosting these types of tools are clear. Developers and testers no longer have to worry with installing, configuring, running, or maintaining these enabling tools on their own machines. Instead, they can log into the tools from any machine with a network connection and get work done.
5) Increased focus: This benefit is a culmination of all of the above benefits. By easing the process to acquire resources, making more resources available, ensuring configuration integrity, and removing the burden of maintaining tools, developers and testers are left to focus on their core jobs. The operational and administrative portions of their job are significantly reduced through cloud computing solutions. As a result, organizations are in a position to benefit from more developer innovation, increased test quality and coverage, and more.
The above five ideas illustrate that cloud computing can indeed enhance development and test efforts just as they boost administrative and operational tasks. Development and test teams that understand the benefits they can derive from cloud computing are likely to be proactive in advocating its use. For the cloud computing industry, increasing adoption by development and test groups could lead to widespread grassroots movements that further spread the use of cloud computing throughout enterprises.
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Twitter Subpoenaed Over Threats to Mike Tyson Show
The NYPD has used a subpoena to force Twitter to disclose information about the source of a tweet saying "people are gonna die" at the Broadway theater staging a one-man show by former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson, the department said Tuesday.
The NYPD sought the subpoena after Twitter refused to cooperate in a probe of ominous posts that referenced the shooting deaths last month of 12 people last month at a showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" at an Aurora, Colo., movie theater, said NYPD spokesman Paul Browne.
Police received new information from Twitter on Tuesday "that we're using as part of our ongoing investigation," the spokesman said. He offered no further details.
A Twitter spokeswoman declined to comment Tuesday.
While the department did not confirm the details regarding the nature of the threat, it did say it was taking it seriously.
The New York Post reported that a Twitter user, whose identity hasn't been disclosed, posted threats about carrying out a shooting rampage, mentioned the Longacre Theatre as a target, and referenced the deadly shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, that left 12 people dead.
Browne said the police are taking the threats seriously, "especially in light of recent attacks in Wisconsin and Colorado." The department learned of the threats late Friday and contacted Twitter.
Twitter declined to comment, referring WNYC to its guidelines, which states the social media company evaluates requests to identify users on a case-by-case basis.
"If we receive information that gives us a good faith belief that there is an emergency involving the death or serious physical injury to a person, we may provide information necessary to prevent that harm, if we have it," the website read.
A spokesman for the Shubert Organization, which runs the Longacre Theatre, was not immediately available for comment. The theatre is currently finishing up a run of Mike Tyson's one-man show, which ends this Sunday.
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Low-Maintenance Plants for Hanging Planters
Snagged some beautiful metal hanging planters from a thrift store. They are the type that will require a straw liner. I would like to hang these on my front porch and would like some easy, low-maintenance plants or flowers that will come back every year. Any suggestions?
Use to be head designer for a nursery specializing in hanging basket, container, and intimate gardens.
I would plan on replanting your baskets every year. Perennials will just get pot bound and lanky looking if you can get them to survive over the winter. You might get lucky pulling them out and root pruning but you will be happier planting on a seasonal basis. Your soil will also break down and turn on you over time unless you turn it, fold in ammendments and nutrients, etc. It is easier just to replace it every year.
That said, we used to do some nice evergreen baskets but with minimal blooming plants.
Since baskets dry out so easily, think about adding water retention gel to your planting mix. If you can, hide drip irrigation to water the baskets.
I can give you a plant list if you tell me whether these are going in shade or sunlight. A good book or two on hanging basket and container gardening will also have great ideas.
They will probably be in full to moderate sun. I like the idea of greenery. Thanks for the advice in advance!
I'm in the park business myself and would love to find a low maintenance, perennial option.....alas, there isn't. That does allow, through, for a lot of experimenting and fun. It usually doesn't cost too much to buy a flat of annuals and put them together in various manners. Have fun with it.
The baskets won't need a lot of maintenance once they're planted. Just make sure to watch water. The newer moisture release potting mixes are a must to keep the maintenance issues to a minimum. Have fun!
Well then. Some of the needle point ivy varieties are especially nice in baskets. Most groundcovers actually do pretty well in them and tend to cascade since they have no ground to cover. Vinca comes to mind. Things like star jasmine or honeysuckle (non-invasive varieties that are not banned please!) would add some fragrance. Ornamental strawberries will provide nice leaf texture, flowers and edible berries if you have the patience to pick the little suckers. Full size strawberries snuck into plantings of annuals can be nice.
Best to think about what you want the look to be. As mentioned, annuals or even perennials treated as annuals, in flats are not going to be a major expense each season. I guess in Nashville you might get some hardy perennials to winter over but you are going to be fighting root problems in short order aiming for any sort of permanent plantings. No reason you couldn't use the baskets for growing perennials to go elsewhere in the garden though.
Again, water is your biggest challenge and I encourage you again to think about hiding a drip system and running micro tubes to the baskets. It will make at a snap to fertilize too with a cheap fertilizer injector. Remember, save for the insulation of the moss or whatever liner and a bit of potting soil, you expose all sides of the basket to drying winds. I did a hanging basket system for friends up on the volcano ridge above Albuquerque decades ago that they still love and enjoy today and their baskets always look glorious. The system is on a simple timer so they can go on vacation too!
Also as stressed, get potting soil with water retaining gel or the actual gel and add to your mix. Your garden center will have things like WiltPruf you can mix and spray on newly planted baskets or in weather extremes to reduce moisture aspiration through the leaves due to heat, wind, or frost.
Can you post pictures of the planters you found? I would love to see them.
Remember you can plant baskets other than just from the top down. Just cut clean holes for the plants and patch with spanghum moss to hold in place.
You seem to love thinking about container gardens and hanging baskets. Perhaps their is a new career hiding in all this for you. The place I worked for made an absolute killing (the ivy chandeliers we sold for a sinful amount cost us next to nothing). The consulting practice I ran out of the place got top dollar and fueled plant sales. Unfortunately, the owners were stealing consigned antiques part of the operation so it folded.
You are correct--I love the look of container gardening. In abundance, I think it adds instant character and, if done correctly, can look rather stately. Who knows! I could always use that career as a backup plan, given the current economic state! I ended up running by Home Depot to gather supplies for another project yesterday and spotted a clearance rack with plants (I can't resist a sale). I ended up buying two pots of a purple perennial (unlabeled) and some Wormwood Silk Mound ground cover to fill in. I planted them in moisture-retaining soil. I would love to install a drip system, but just do not think I have it in me--I just know nothing about them, plus there is no power conveniently located in relation to these pots without running unsightly wires. I provided a picture to give you an idea. Very simple setup, but adds something to our front porch. Thanks for the continual advice and suggestions! I'm sure it will not be long until I embark on my next project.
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Disclaimer-I know now that it was a bad idea to get these monsters as litter mates, I got them out of grief and wasn't thinking clearly.
They get along quite well, some spats here and there. Now we have had a couple of serious fights. They compete with each other quite a bit. When I started reading up on it, they are doing all the typical things to dominate each other.
When they start, what is the best way to handle it? What is allowed and what isn't?
Thanks in advance
Just out of curiosity, are they still intact? I had a couple of female litter mates that never fought. They got along for their entire lives. I had them spayed at 5 months old (I did not know better at the time, was advised to do that by my vet).
Unfortunately, when litter mates fight it tends to only go downhill.
There are dozens of threads on this. Most breeders will not sell littermates together, especially females, for this reason... google "littermate syndrome".
Spay them if they're not already, and keep them separate. Frequently the advice given is to re-home one... neither will flourish while both are there, competing with each other, and unless constant management is practiced it could get very, very ugly.
How were they raised? Was time away from each other emphasized?
What do you mean by what is allowed?
1) spay them if not already
2) crate/rotate so they never cross each other's paths.
3) rehome one if you can't do that
They are spayed.
One was for our 21 year old daughter, but the dog is s handful, they are both reactive. So Ellie was too much and came to live with us. They are able to spend time apart but not much.
What kind of interaction is healthy? That is what I meant, I assume I just crate one when it is getting tense.
They do love each other and play well together, but I do see things becoming more serious.
Does it ever work out?
They can not be walked together under any circumstances. They are nuts
I have three bitches. All three of them are quite drivey, powerful and all three are dominant dogs. They weren't littermates but they compete with each other all the time.
In the house, no issues at all. However, I got them used to a nylon muzzle and that nylon muzzle is a god sent. It became a necessity with a Mal because she doesn't know how strong she is and because she doesn't regulate her playbites and loves to go for the other girls ears which too can lead to a fight. She only does it when she is overly excited and fired up. That's when she re-directs all her energy to the others and why she wears a muzzle whenever I let them out together.
I never, never, never ever have any toys involved. Toys lead to a definite fight between Nala and Indra.
Thanks for the tips.
What is wrong with the ear bites and play?
Ellie has patchy ears, I wasn't sure if it is from play or food allergies. BTW Ellie is not the dominant one.
Honestly, I would re-home your daughter's dog. Give them both a chance to thrive and live a normal, happy life... and give YOU a chance to live a normal, happy life. Management can be a full-time thing with crate-and-rotate... and it sucks for both the dogs and the humans.
You said you took her in because she was too much dog... do the pups go to classes, do obedience training, etc?
We have made great progress with this.
Training basic things is easy for them, it is the focus thing that we work on constantly.
Our lives are extremely stressful with the both of them. When it is only one in the house (the other goes to our daughter for a break) it is like a normal household.
Do you really think that they would thrive better apart?
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I have recently purchased a 02 wrx wagon with 155,000 miles and wanting to upgrade some. I typically dont drive like Im on a race track, especially with my kids in the car but occasionally I like to play when Im driving by myself which is seldom. I have read many posts on various forums about the pros and cons of installing a catless down pipe, but I picked an Invidia catless bell mouth downpipe at a good price. I have not replaced the up-pipe yet but have one and wanted to install it at the same time. I also picked up a Cobb AP and would probably run the Stage 2 map of theirs. Im thinking of just keeping my stock catback for now just to keep sound levels in check and maintain the stock appearance. I do know that the Cobb map was written for a catted dp setup but have read threads where people stated that they have ran it with a catless set up without problems. People also discuss boost creep, but from my understanding it is mostly an issue with the 2.5s. My car is not paid off and I would rather not be in the situation where I have to replace or rebuild the engine, but just like anything in life some risk is involved where any great benefits would result. Any honest feedback is appreciated. Thanks
It sounds like you are looking for a bit more power out of your daily driver, If you are interested in keeping the noise to a minimum I would do a stage 1 and skip the catless DP, removing restriction from the exhaust system will increase the noise. as far as boost creep you may just be in a good position with the stock exhaust. because it is slightly more restrictive than many aftermarket setups it may provide enough resistance that it stops the turbo from spinning too fast. I dont have any experience with catless DPs and stock exhausts running together but back pressure is back pressure as long as you log and you monitor your boost.
My recommendations would be to start with a stage 1 tune, it comes on the AP for free so there's nothing to lose. you should see some power gains and it will make driving more fun with minimal risk, It also wont increase the noise very much beyond the extra wooshing noise that comes with a bit more boost. If you dont mind a little more noise install that catless DP, tune for stage 2 and watch your boost levels carefully, if you pass the target boost levels then you can try the LWG maps or take it by a professional tuner.
And as always welcome to the community, see you on the road : )
Thanks for the quick response Jason. I should have mentioned that I have ran the 91 and 93 octane Stage 1 Maps and have noticed an improved power band, just wanting a little more. I have been able to hit 14 psi, which seems typical from what I have read. I don't think the added noise level would be more than acceptable. My 1 year old daughter actually loves to ride in my 12 valve Cummins that is considerable louder than my Subie. Keep the feedback coming please. Thanks,
an exhaust shop can put a cat in the invidia dowpipe easy enough if that's what you want.
have you datalogged the stage one map yet? if not it would be a good idea to do so before you go stage two. make sure everything is in good shape.
I have not data logged yet. What information should I pay close attention to when I do that? I didnt think about having a cat added to the dp and would that be worth the money?
yah definately do a log before you upgrade again. there a should be a set list of parameters under the monitor menu. do a third gear pull and post the results (or just read them yourself) here or send them to cobb. heres a good vid.
@thekamikaze kid , Couldnt agree more, log first then send your logs to cobb just to be safe, after that go ahead and drop that down pipe in, worst case you log a few pulls and if its not good for the system you can pull it out.
hope that helps : )
Cool and useful link. I will try to get a data log tonight. Thanks for all the help!
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Here is my data log. Let me know what you guys think.
Your dam is low. You may have problem. Did you send your log to Cobb?
Not yet, what could the problem be?
not sure what it could be. you seem to be hitting your boost targets just fine. im no expert. but the same thing happened to me turned out to be a dirty maf sensor. so it might just be something simple. maybe someone on here can help you better. if i were you id send the log to cobb and seee what they say.
I have a update! I flashed my car with a stage 1 91 octane map and still continued to fuel my car with 93 octane. I then ran a new data log and was able to see the correct number for my DAM. I also sent the log to Cobb and they responded with the approval to upgrade to a Stage 2!
Congrats and good luck on the stage 2 tune! did the 91 oct map fix the dam or was it just that you didnt give it enough time to learn the tune?
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Diablo 2 was a big part of my life growing up. I don't mean that it changed my life or anything like that, but that it ate up so many hours I'd like to not think about! What Blizzard had created was truly remarkable and even to this day stands out as one of the greatest gaming achievements in gaming history. Fast forward to May 15th, 2012 and Diablo 3 is released. It was such a crazy feeling opening up the box for Diablo 3 and installing it and knowing that soon I would be back in the world I had spent so much time in when I was younger. It had been a very long time since I played any Diablo game but once I was back into it, it felt like I was only gone for a short while. It amazes me how, even though this is a brand new game, it just feels SO much like Diablo 2, and I love it.
Sequels to games are great and always try to add new and innovative features to keep their games ahead of the pack. In a sense it is needed, with the times and technology changing as rapidly as they are, you must innovate or be left in the dark. However, a lot of times these developers try so hard and they lose sight of what made their game such a success. Take Assassin's Creed Revelation's for example. I'm sure you all know what I am about to reference...The Den Defense. I understand their thought process, tower defense games are a huge success, it seems to fit in with the whole purchasing and protecting your territories, but it just did not work out as they planned. The biggest problem is that it did not feel like part of that world. It seemed so different from everything else that game was about that it took you out of the experience. Sometimes you win at taking risks, but in this case, I feel it took away from an otherwise amazing game.
This, at lease so far, is not the case for Diablo. From the moment I started playing I knew this was Diablo. From the familiar faces, to the same sounds that occur when loot is dropped, it was nostalgia at it's best. Little things like that just rush me back to when I was younger and brings back those happy memories that have lied dormant for a long time. It felt so good and right to be playing this game again and before I knew it I was completely hooked. That is how a sequel should be. Adding great new features, but keeping it's identity in tact. That is the most important part.
I also took a bold step in my gaming habits with this game. In mostly all games I am the tank or fighter, for there is nothing more satisfying than wielding a long sought-after sword, wearing some amazing armor and running right into the thick of things and destroying everything in your path. However, with Diablo 3 I decided to take a different route, The Wizard. It just looked like so much fun and so far I am really enjoying it. I still have a barbarian on the bench waiting, but so far, so good!
Another reason Diablo is such a great game, for me anyway, is the online community and how strong the fan base is, especially when it comes to my friends. When we were growing up we all played games together and all that, but as we got older and went to college, times for gaming together became a rarer and rarer occurrence. I still play games on a regular basis, but not so much my friends, and with some games I just miss going through them with those guys. When Diablo 3 came around it was like a blast from the past. We all started talking about what characters we were going to be and how excited we were to be playing again and it was just such a cool feeling. It's great when there is a game like that that can bring back old friends to the fray after most games have lost interest for them. It makes killing demons that much greater when my friends are with me side by side.
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The Trojans reject Utah's game-tying field goal attempt and win the inaugural Pac-12 contest.
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- Matt Kalil has a new nickname. "The Hammer" blocked two field goals in as many games, which turned out to be vital considering both three-pointers could have cost the Trojans a victory. "That's why we practice special teams for an extra 30 minutes each day to make plays like that," Matt Barkley said. How many teams utilize a star left tackle on field goal block? "As an offensive lineman, you don't get too many chances to get glory like that," said Kalil who had the entire team chanting his new nickname in the post-game locker room. (Bottom photo by Pierson Clair)
- Marc Tyler continued his redemption story with a grinding 113-yard rushing performance on 24 carries. "I kinda thought it'd be that type of game," said Lane Kiffin who was not surprised Tyler became an offensive focal point. The senior was written off by many after a series of off-the-field indiscretions in the offseason, but the head coach stood by him. "I just love those stories," Kiffin said. "There's so much negativity in college football. It's just a cool story when kids make it like that." Scroll down to watch our interview with Marc Tyler.
- The defense has officially put 2010 in the past. The 2011 unit was under pressure time and time again tonight and never folded. "Our defense, they won the game for us," Barkley admitted. While Kiffin would have loved to close the game with an offensive drive, he realized that the team needed this defensive performance to build confidence for the rest of the season. "I'm excited that it finished this way," he said. "I think it's important for this team."
- Monte Kiffin has found a new favorite chess piece in Nickell Robey. The sophomore cornerback lined up all over the field tonight, including coming after the quarterback in several blitz packages. "I went out there and I just unleashed myself," said Robey who joked that he wants to get more sacks than Nick Perry. "That's the goal, but it's going to be real hard to do it."
- After several week one drops, the redshirt freshmen tight ends Xavier Grimble and Randall Telfer responded with seven catches (no drops) for 94 yards and a TD. Grimble led the way with a three catch drive culminating in his first USC touchdown. "I can't even explain it. I didn't know what to do, but it was a great feeling," said Grimble who watched his high school highlights to get his "swagger back." Of course, he did have a crucial fumble as well. "I got hit right on the ball, but I should have had it high and tight."
- For the second straight week, the Trojans dominated statistically, but found a way to make it interesting. USC outgained the Utes by nearly 100 yards (416 to 319), but three turnovers and several key penalties cost them chances to run away with it. "We just don't put people away," Kiffin said. The head coach attributed many of the inconsistencies to youth. "Freshmen mistakes showed up."
- After the game, the Pac-12 counted Torin Harris' touchdown return on the blocked field goal, which makes the official final score 23-14. They ruled it a dead ball foul on the bench, so the penalty would have been enforced after the play. "The referee announced the penalty was against the bench," tweeted Mike Pereira who consults the Pac-12 on officiating. "That means it couldn't be enforced because the game was over."


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NEW YORK — The suit was the real star of the show on Thursday night at Barclays Center — a black-and-white floral-patterned tuxedo top, with a gold medallion clipped on the left lapel that matched the gold and wine colors of the Cleveland Cavaliers hat he placed upon his head. That Andrew Wiggins was the kid in the audacious outfit was fitting. The first No. 1 overall pick to shake hands with new Commissioner Adam Silver needed to have a legendary look.
"Just wanted to do something really different to stand out and try to win on both points, stylish points and become No. 1," a smiling Wiggins said after weeks of suspense, a full college basketball season of debate and an entire NBA season of teams intentionally being bad to possibly get him finally came to an end.
The eclectic garb required a certain amount of confidence and flare, something that the electric Wiggins was dripping in, right along with an undeniable talent that made him impossible for the Cavaliers to pass on.
"It's a dream come true," Wiggins said. "I've been dreaming of this moment since I was a little kid. My dream was to just make the NBA. Now going to high school and college, the opportunity and possibility of going No. 1 came into talk and now I accomplished that. So it's just a crazy feeling right now. I don't really know to feel. It doesn't feel real right now."
Wiggins became the second straight player from Canada to go first overall in the NBA draft, joining his friend Anthony Bennett. The Cavaliers made a surprising selection with Bennett last season, but Wiggins has been projected to go first — and no worse than second — in this draft for nearly two years.
Bennett predicted that it would happen on the night that he was selected last season. And in his lone season at Kansas, the 19-year-old Wiggins had NBA scouts and executives swooning with his ridiculous bounce off the floor and a stride that would make a gazelle envious. Those qualities helped the 6-foot-8 Wiggins move ahead of Duke's Jabari Parker, who got his wish by going second overall to the Milwaukee Bucks.
Parker sobbed uncontrollably after he landed in a city that is a short drive from his hometown of Chicago, where he starred at Simeon, the same high school that produced a No. 1 pick in 2008, Derrick Rose. Eyes still watery as he met with reporters, Parker expressed his gratitude to the Bucks and a desire to never leave.
"It's just been real humbling to get anybody who just wants you. I'm so glad and so grateful," said Parker, a 6-9 forward. "I'm trying to be a throwback player and only stick with one team. This might bite me in the butt years from now, but right now, I want to stick with whoever's rolling with me."
Wiggins and Parker became the first sons of NBA players to be drafted first and second in the NBA. Wiggins's father, Mitchell, was the 23rd pick of the 1983 NBA draft and played parts of six seasons for Chicago, Houston and Philadelphia, while Parker's father, Sonny, played six seasons with the Golden State Warriors.
Parker crossed paths with Wiggins after both were drafted, and they embraced. Afterward, the two players who graced the cover of Sports Illustrated before they ever stepped foot in college denied there was or will ever be any rivalry between them.
"Great players will always be compared to each other," Wiggins said. "On the court, doesn't matter who I'm going against, I'm going to go hard. I'm going to go to win and kill. Off the court, it's a different story."
Wiggins's college teammate Joel Embiid, a 7-foot center from Cameroon, was considered the top prospect in the draft but suffered a stress fracture in his right foot a week before the draft. Since Embiid will miss at least four months recovering from his foot surgery and was unable to finish his lone season at Kansas because of a stress fracture in his lower back, some league executives expected that he would make a considerable slide in the draft.
The Cavaliers considered taking him before the injury, but Embiid didn't drop very far as the Philadelphia 76ers selected him third overall.
Philadelphia was one team that could have taken a chance on Embiid. The 76ers are in the early stages of a rebuilding effort, and they took an injured Nerlens Noel sixth overall last year and held him out for an entire year as he recovered from a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. Wiggins and Embiid became the 14th duo from one school to go in the top five, and just the third to be among the top three.
Orlando took Arizona forward Aaron Gordon fourth and with the fifth pick, Utah selected Dante Exum, a 6-6 point guard from Australia. Oklahoma State guard Marcus Smart went sixth to Boston, Kentucky forward Julius Randle went seventh to the Los Angeles Lakers, Michigan guard Nick Stauskas went eighth to Sacramento and Charlotte took Indiana forward Noah Vonleh ninth.
Wiggins was chosen first by Cleveland 11 years to the day that LeBron James wore an all-white suit when he went No. 1 to the Cavaliers. James became a free agent this week when he opted out of his contract with the Miami Heat, and Wiggins was asked to make a recruiting pitch to possibly bring him back. Wiggins smiled and said, "I want to win. If he wants to win, we'll be good together."
In the most moving moment of the night, Silver made special recognition of Baylor center Isaiah Austin, who found out on Sunday that he could no longer play competitive basketball after he was discovered to have Marfan syndrome, a genetic condition that weakens the body's connective tissue. Silver stated, "The NBA selects Isaiah Austin." Austin put on a red, white and blue NBA cap, hugged family members and walked across the stage to great Silver.
"It was one of the greatest moments in my life, something I'll never forget," Austin said afterward of Silver's gesture. "God has truly blessed me because He could have continued to let me play basketball but instead He saved my life."
The draft didn't include any blockbuster deals involving established veterans, but there were a few deals nonetheless. The Denver Nuggets sent Anthony Randolph and the draft rights to Creighton forward Doug McDermott (11th pick) to Chicago in exchange for Croatian center Jusuf Nurkic (16) and Michigan State guard Gary Harris (19), and Orlando sent Dario Saric (12), a future first-round pick and a future second-round pick to Philadelphia for Elfrid Payton (10). Charlotte also sent the draft rights for Connecticut point guard Shabazz Napier (24) to Miami for P.J. Hairston (26), the 55th pick and a future second-round pick.


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its in englishtown NJ at the track should be a fun day OCTOBER 10, 2010 (sunday)
Sunday, October 10th, 2010 8:00 AM - 7:30 PM 13th Annual Sport Compact Fallnationals. Team Puerto Rico. Sport Compact Drag Racing. Old School Pro Import Shootout. Team Puerto Rico. Import & Low Rider Car, Truck and Bike Show. Car Stereo Sound Challenge. Bikini & Hydraulics Contest. Open 8AM. Eliminations 2PM. 1/8 Closed.
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Will Oscar audiences "Hear the People Sing"?
According to Britain's Daily Mail, many of the stars of "Les Miserables" may be performing during 85th annual Academy Awards next month.
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The Daily Mail spoke to Samantha Barks, who plays Eponine in the Tom Hooper-directed movie, about taking a break from her touring production of "Oliver" to perform during the February 24 show.
Samantha will reportedly join Best Actor nominee Hugh Jackman, Best Supporting Actress nominee Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne, Amanda Seyfried and more, at the event, where they will sing one of the show's standout songs - possibly "One Day More" or "Do You Hear the People Sing."
VIEW THE PHOTOS: The Lovely Anne Hathaway!
There is also reported talk about a possible medley of songs from the beloved musical. The paper suggested that "I Dreamed A Dream," which Anne performed in the movie, Samantha's show-stopping " On My Own" or Hugh's take on "Who Am I?" could be good contenders.
Oscar producers have reportedly not finalized the details of the night's performances.
Catch all the Oscar action on February 24, with host Seth MacFarlane, live on ABC at 7 PM ET/4 PM PT.
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NEW YORK (Scott's Investments) -- Each month I update a fundamental/technical screen at Scott's Investments and track the results real-time. The performance of August's list of five stocks as a whole is a perfect example of the pitfalls in blindly investing in a screen or investing with no risk management strategy.
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Giant Interactive (GA) was on last month's list and declared a special dividend of $2.99 that went ex-dividend Sept. 12. Despite this dividend, the stock was down over 36% (including the dividend) during the last month's screen until today. One method for avoiding a significant drawdown is to use a stop loss, typically set 5% to 20% below your purchase price. The size of the stop loss depends on your risk appetite, the volatility of the underlying stock, and timeframe. A stop loss does not guarantee your losses will be limited at your stop price level, as stocks can gap down (typically on the open) and open below your stop price level. Nevertheless, it is one of the most common methods for risk mitigation.
The screen looks for the following:
• earnings growers still reasonably priced as judged by the PEG ratio
• low debt
• a history of high return on equity and investment, and
• price momentum as gauged by the percentage the stock is trading to its 250-day high
The stocks are then ranked based on fundamental factors as compiled by stockscreen123.
Seven stocks qualify for this month's list. Apple (AAPL) remains No. 1 on this month's list because of its technical momentum, absence of debt, a PEG ratio of .70, a five-year average ROE of 31.92% and five-year average ROI of 28.48%. The Jobs resignation could take time to affect the material operations of Apple. It is too early to say if it will have any significant material impact, so until the numbers and momentum say otherwise, Apple remains on the top of this month's list.
Wet Seal (WTSLA), an apparel store for women, is a repeat stock on this list and one I highlighted in depth last month. It is a stock worth watching as it continues to make higher lows and has a long-term channel that is beginning to hit resistance around $5.25. I expect to find resolution soon, and the two levels to watch here are $5.25 and the bottom of the channel, as we can see in the weekly chart below:
Below is the entire list for this month. It is worth noting that all of the names for this month have made prior appearances on the list:
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Good news! Scientists who want to destroy the earth with microscopic black holes will soon find it just a little more difficult to do so. Bad news: The funding that supports such advanced particle physics research is drying up, threatening America's leadership role in international science.
A series of budget scenarios laid out by the Department of Energy finds that if funding for high-energy particle experiments were frozen for the next three years, before it's then allowed to rise 3 percent a year thereafter, DoE would have to scale back some of its most important projects. These are studies that can potentially teach us about the most basic workings of the universe. The picture gets even grimmer under an alternative scenario that has DoE's budget for high-energy physics frozen for three years and rising for 2 percent every year after that.
The difference, when you account for the various budgetary starting points for each scenario, amounts to about half a billion dollars over the next decade. Spread out like that, $500 million doesn't sound like much. But the constraints would be "precarious" for future energy research, warns the agency's Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5), which wrote the report. It would mean layoffs. It would mean scientists wouldn't be able to launch a next-generation study of dark matter, the stuff that's thought to be causing the universe to expand. The United States might even have to give up on the experiments that make it a leading contributor to science:
It approaches the point beyond which hosting a large ($1B scale) project in the U.S. would not be possible while maintaining the other elements necessary for mission success, particularly a minimal research program, the strong leadership position in a small number of core, near-term projects, which produce a steady stream of important new physics results, and advances in accelerator technology. Without the capability to host a large project, the U.S. would lose its position as a global leader in this field, and the international relationships that have been so productive would be fundamentally altered.
The situation may be even worse than P5 says. President Obama's proposed 2015 budget for high-energy physics doesn't keep funding flat but actually slashes it by 6.8 percent, according to the journal Nature.
Budget fights are eternal, and everyone stands to lose something important when their funding gets cut. But high-energy physics is the kind of final-frontier stuff that inspires people to go into science in the first place.


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Commissioner Roger Goodell announced most of the picks at the podium during the first round of the NFL draft Thursday.
Notably, he didn't announce the Steelers' pick.
Fans in Radio City Music Hall started chanting "she said no" when it came time to announce the Steelers' pick at No. 18. It was in response to the six-game suspension Goodell handed down to Pittsburgh QB Ben Roethlisberger on Wednesday for violating the league's personal-conduct policy.
A 20-year-old woman in Georgia accused Roethlisberger of sexual assault last month. But a local DA declined to prosecute.
The fans likely would have continued their chant if Goodell had approached the podium alone to read the Steelers' pick.
Instead, he brought out 16-year-old Zachary Hatfield, a Steelers fan the Make-A-Wish foundation had brought to the draft.
Goodell introduced Hatfield, and the chanting stopped. Hatfield got the pleasure of announcing Maurkice Pouncey as the Steelers' pick.
Shrewd move by the NFL to thwart the fans' expressions. But a bad omen for Roethlisberger for whenever he returns to an NFL field. -- Sean Leahy
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Simpiwe Hemming Somdyala
Simpiwe currently holds the Chief Executive Officer position at the Masisizane Fund, an initiative of the Old Mutual Group tasked with the mandate to provide enterprise development finance and support to Small Medium and Micro Enterprises. From 2008 to 2012 he was the Chief Executive Officer at ASGISA Eastern Cape (Pty) Ltd, an organisation which facilitates the implementation of High Impact Priority Programmes by the Office of the Premier. Amongst other positions, he also acted as Capacity Development Manager for Africa at the African Management Services Company as well as Managing Member and Founder of Kenako Development and Business Solutions based in Johannesburg.
Simpiwe holds an MBA and Honours BCom. Apart from English, Simpiwe is fluent in IsiZulu and IsiXhosa.
Mutle Constantine Mogase
Mutle is currently the executive chairman of Vantage Capital where he oversees all aspects of the group's business with a particular focus on group's proprietary investments with a directorship at Kwikspace.
Mutle commenced his working career as a financial accountant at LTA Construction Ltd. Thereafter, he moved to Nedbank where he was a relationship manager in the corporate banking division. At his next position with ABSA Bank, he was responsible for the implementation of ABSA's micro lending strategy with the creation of Nubank. He started Nubank from scratch and was CEO for 3 years. During this time, Mutle was also involved as one of the five founding members, in the establishment of Real Africa Investments Limited (RAIL), one of the pre-eminent listed black empowerment companies in South Africa. In 1999, Mutle sold his interest in RAIL and started MMR Equity Capital together with Colin Rezek, which after a merger in 2001, was the genesis of the Vantage Capital group. As a pioneer of black-owned private equity fund management, Mutle Mogase was closely involved in the formulation of the Financial Sector Charter ("FSC") on Black Economic Empowerment. Mutle was also chairman of the Micro Finance Regulatory Council (MFRC) and it was during his tenure that the new credit act was developed.
Outside of Vantage, Mutle is the chairman of African Bank. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from University of Cape Town, has completed an Executive Development Programme at the University of New York and a Graduate Diploma in Corporate Governance at the Institute of Management Technology in Johannesburg.
John de Wit
Managing Director
John is the co-founder and Managing Director of The Small Enterprise Foundation. After spending four years running the microcredit operations of the Get Ahead Foundation, from 1987 to 1990, John decided to launch his own organization in one of the poorest provinces of South Africa. He was convinced that the solution for the poverty in his country would be found in one of two methods of increasing income – mainstream employment or through small enterprise development. John decided to tackle the latter as he believed that if he helped people to start businesses, they will in turn be able to create jobs for others. As he developed his model, John drew lessons from the Grameen Bank and tailor-made it for the South African context.
John holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cape Town and has served as a member of the Policy Advisory Group of CGAP, the Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, as a trustee of ChoiCe, a South African health sector NGO which focuses on home-based care for people living with HIV/AIDS and TB and as a board member of the Association of Pro-Poor Microfinance Institutions of South Africa.
John is an Ashoka Fellow. In 2012 he received The International Alliance for Women World of Difference 100 Award in the category Champion of Women's Economic Empowerment. He has presented lectures at the University of California, San Diego and Point Loma Nazarene University, and has chaired discussions at numerous conferences around the world. John is fluent in English and Afrikaans.
Matome Patrick Malatji
Matome co-founded the Small Enterprise Foundation in 1991. He is the founder and director of the Itireleng Development and Educational Project, an NGO focusing on capacity building and community institution building, since 1989.
Matome holds a Masters of Public Administration and a B.Admin. in Management Science from the University of the North, as well as a diploma in Human Resource Management from Johannesburg University. Furthermore, he has a certificate in Management of Not-for-Profit Organisations from the New School for Social Research in New York City and a Community-based Development Programme certificate from the University of the Witwatersrand. Apart from his native Northern Sotho, he fluently speaks Tswana, English and Afrikaans.
Dr. Marié Kirsten
Marié is an economist with over 20 years of experience in development. She is currently the editor of Development Southern Africa (DSA), the region's largest internationally accredited academic journal. Marié previously worked at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) as head of the publications unit, and completed her PhD in Economics in 2011, with a dissertation entitled: "Improving the well-being of the poor through microfinance: Evidence from the Small Enterprise Foundation in South Africa".
Rose-Anne Moloto
Rose-Anne is the Chief Legal Counsel for Schneider Electric South Africa which she joined in 2008. Prior to this position she served as Contracts Manager for Honeywell Automation & Control Solutions as well as a Junior Lecturer at the University of Pretoria in 2004. From 2005 to 2007 she was the Human Resource Manager at The Small Enterprise Foundation, SEF, after briefly acting as Legal Counsel for SEF in 2005.
Rose-Anne holds an LLM Corporate Law, an LLB and a BCom Law from the University of Pretoria. Her certifications include a Microenterprise Development Certificate from the Southern New Hampshire University, and a certificate in HIV/AIDS Mitigation Strategies from the HIVOS International Humanist Institute. Apart from her native Tswana, Rose-Anne speaks English and Afrikaans fluently.


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Re: Mathematica not simplifying Laplace transforms
Roger wrote:
> 2) This might be related, how do I define the domain of a variable?
> Like making the variable "t" a positive real number.
Hi Roger,
You can try the clause *Assumptions* (although that does not change
anything in this case):
LaplaceTransform[Exp[t]*f[t], t, s, Assumptions -> t > 0]
LaplaceTransform[E^t*f[t], t, s, Assumptions -> t > 0]


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ACC tops out Diamond project to crown Al Reemby John Bambridge on Sep 27, 2012
China to top US skyscraper volume in five years
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Arabian Construction Company (ACC) has topped out the completed structure for the 'Reem Diamond', a Hong Kong-backed ten-storey luxury apartment tower on Abu Dhabi's Al Reem Island.
The ACC project was commissioned by Hong Kong's Chun Wo Development Holdings in the construction conglomerate's first investment in the UAE.
The topping out ceremony was attended by the both the Chinese ambassador to the UAE and dignitaries from the Hong Kong Trade Development Council.
The building will have a total usable floorspace of 5,730m2 and house 48 sea-view apartment units, with plans tailored to the need of purchasing individuals. At the very top of the residential building will be an infinity sky pool.
For Architect Anthony Poon, director of property development at Chun Wo, the project - first discussed in 2007 - is just the beginning of ambitions for the UAE:
"Our passion for excellence and quality eventually led us to the property development sector, where for the past 15 years we have excelled in Hong Kong, the People's Republic of China and Vietnam. In 2007 we added another page to our rich history in Abu Dhabi."
"The Reem Diamond is our crowning glory in our quest to bring our unique brand of construction and property development to Abu Dhabi," said Poon.
Like several other developments currently underway on Al Reem Island the currently land bound project will eventually find the earth around it excavated and inundated by the surrounding sea.
The timing of the topping-out as a construction milestone also confirms that the project is on track for its intended mid-2013 completion.
"We are proud to be among the top five construction firms in Hong Kong. We have done quite a few large-scale core infrastructure works and construction projects for the Hong Kong Government, and we have a footprint in 11 major cities across five countries," added Poon.
The Reem Diamond will be officialy owned by Chun Wo subsidiary Smartwill Asia, and is part of the Shams Abu Dhabi Master Development.
In the Reem Diamond as a strategic development Chun Wo is hoping to gain a firmer foothold in the Middle East, now a market of considerable interest to the organisation.
Chun Wo Development Holdings Limited has been undertaking large-scale and diverse construction projects for 44 years.
Among its key property development and construction markets are Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Vietnam, and the People's Republic of China.
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- Abu Dhabi government enters Hyperloop agreement
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N63 Burger Tune
Installed it today myself in under 30min,
I know its only rated at 25Hp but wow. The things I hear Terry can do with our cars I cant wait for more upgrades, This is how the car should have come stock, It now wants to jump out of its shoes and the power is very noticable no more hesitation and very smooth. Anybody who has a 550 should grab this, Best HP for money I have ever seen.
That on top of the coding I had done today and I am a very happy guy!
You bastard! lol jk...now I have to add this to my list of things to do! So addicting.
I notice the Burger Tune is labelled as 'beta'. So can you download future updates that he makes and update the hardware you purchased? Are the updates free?
Oh and I thought the HP and torque improvements were about 50 each, no?
Its 25HP and 40TQ on the 750 Terry has yet to run a dyno on the 550, He is going to do one soon. I can tell you what I think its higher then that, Its smooths out the whole band, Everything is so much quicker with no hesitation and the car is ready to jump, If demand is high future updates will be here, I am sure at a fee, but well worth it if you ask me. Drastically changes the car. Best part is it comes out very simple if you wanted to take it out and you cant even tell its installed. From what I have read Terry has been tuning these cars for 30 years and I have not seen many complaints, I put the 3000 saved over Dinan in my pocket and buy some nice wheels. When its all said and done increases will be better then Dinan.
My conern--what about warranty coverage? This thing goes boom and it's going to be like a carp that spotted a loaf of bread.
I'm considering a Dinan flash but hisitate if it would cause me problems. I have a pretty "perfect" car that works and doesn' squeak.
I would not run this beta tune without data logging a bunch of runs in different conditions and satisfying myself that the boost, timing, afr, throttle, etc are all operating as expected - it is beta because you are the testers...
Ive been data logging and even upped the boost an extra 1.00 psi
the car still pull very strong
way better than dinan imho
Now this stuff is way beyond my level of car knowledge but isn't the 535 a N55 engine and the 550 a N63? I guess I would assume for the 535 you'd buy the n55 tuner and for the 550 you'd buy the n63 tuner. Even on the Burger Tuning web site for the N63 it says "BMW N63 Eight Cylinder Turbo Motors"
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I have a 550i xdrive. Not doing any logs but I was told the beta stage is very conservative. I don't have a single complaint to this point. Can't wait for further stages. Your are always going to have good and bad about any product. But your not out their that many years selling this stuff if you don't have your a game. Not saying dinan is good or bad but I would rather keep my 3k in my pocket. This tune is a must add for the dollars
Are there any N63 BMS tune users that had a dyno done?
What does everyone think of the affect on the transmission that these N63 tunes might have?
I have had 3 turbo diesel pickups - 06 Dodge Cummins, 08 GMC Duramax and now 2012 Ford 6.7 L Scorpion. The previous two were tuned - the Dodge Cummins tranny was definitely hurting when I traded it in. The Allison tranny in the GMC Duramax was holding better than the Dodge but the tranny did not behave as well when the tuner was on any setting other than stock - this bugged me to no end so I simply left it in stock mode. So, there are tunes available for the Ford Scorpion but Iam leaving them alone because of the poor tranny experience I had with the Dodge and the GMC.
BTW - I love my X5 5.0 - one of my favorite BMWs
Just picked up the tune =D lets see how it does , car will be delivered end of this week.
How have you guys faired in the long haul with the bms tune? Any issues or concerns pros vs cons pls
what's the latest on the Stage II?
is there a way to check for harness type A or B from RealOEM? it's freezing outside:)
I wonder if Stage I and II will work for a 2013 550i purchased in Japan.
Did the price of N63 Tune go up ?
Did the price of N63 Tune go up ? I have a 2013 550i
I recall the price being lower ?
It is listed for $449.00
Paid $349 for my 2013 last year. :beerchug:
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Bangles & Bags to open in 'Tosa
Handbag, jewelry and accessory boutique Bangles & Bags will open a shop in Wauwatosa in March.
The store, 1504 Underwood Ave., will be the fifth for the expanding, locally-owned business. Owned by Jeanette Dvorak and Susan King Steiner, the six-year-old firm opened its fourth location in Cedarburg last May. Other shops are in Delafield, downtown Waukesha and the Third Ward.
Customers can get an early look at the Wauwatosa store at a "Diva Night" from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Feb. 16.
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Retailers look to high tech to engage visitors to their store
The store, that basic building block of commerce, is emerging as a high-tech laboratory.
All sorts of things are bubbling up — from exotica such as holograms and virtual reality to more-prosaic but potentially more-useful technology — as legacy retailers seek to merge their physical outposts with the online world.
The transformation has chains making major investments, and Menomonee Falls-based Kohl's Corp., one of the Milwaukee area's largest employers, is no exception.