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Three-time MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo says he would be prepared to support Ducati teammate Andrea Dovizioso's title bid this season.
"I had prepared the attack on Valentino, but Barbera and Rins blocked me. I am managing to score with almost every shot"
Fifth place is enough to hand Andrea Dovizioso the lead in the MotoGP world championship; believes Dutch showing proves "we can fight" for title..
Cook Neilson rode New Blue–Ducati and NCR's $50,000 tribute to Old Blue–for a pair of "parade" laps with the Great Men of Motorcycling feature at the 2007 AHRMA Daytona event.
U.S. motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson (HOG.N) is lining up a takeover bid for Italian rival Ducati, potentially bringing together two of the most famous names in motorcycling in a deal that could be worth up to 1.5 billion euros ($1.67 billion), sources told Reuters.
It's just a rumor of course, nobody has confirmed it that's with any of the companies involved...
Ducati rider returns to the top in Italy
Marco Melandri (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) secured his first victory since returning to the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship in front of his home fans, dominating race two in the Pirelli Riviera Di Rimini Round.
Marking Italy's 100th victory in the championship, Melandri was able to turn around a tough star t to the weekend for Ducati following a race one crash for both himself and his team-mate Chaz Davies. Starting from 10th position on the grid, Melandri was able to use his wealth of experience to work his way up through the field and fight for the victory.
Once the 34 year old was able to hit the front, he never looked back and dominated the field crossing the line 1.113s ahead of Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team) in second position.
Thrilled to secure such an achievement, Melandri explains: "It's amazing for me, the bike was working very well from Friday morning, we improved in some small sections and today we were feeling so comfortable, so we could ride as we wanted. The race was not easy as we started from P10 and I was in the middle of the group. After 10 laps I saw Torres was doing really well, it took me three laps to catch him, but I expected the Kawasaki boys to get past me so I pushed hard. Today I think my puzzle was complete and I was very smooth. It was good to get the win in Italy in front of everyone from Ducati, and all my friends and family."
On the other side of the garage, Chaz Davies (Aruba.it Racing – Ducati) was declared unfit on Sunday morning as he looks ahead to getting back to full fitness ahead of Laguna Seca in three weeks time.
World Superbike star Chaz Davies sustained a fracture in a frightening collision involving championship rival Jonathan Rea in Saturday's opening race at Misano.
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A surprising machine run by a class-act team shows that it's not all about who has the deepest coffers when it comes to running with the big boys in American Flat Track.
Motorcyclist staffer Zack Courts is always arriving to office after his commute with a bunch of opinions about the bike he's riding. Too much this, no
Craftsmanship and technology combine in the production process of SEAT Sport cars and Ducati Corse motorcycles. Their teams work in Martorell and Bologna to produce vehicles fit for a podium.
This is how a Leon Cup Racer and a Ducati MotoGP are made:
Andrea Dovizioso believes his back-to-back MotoGP wins for Ducati are not reflective of the "reality" of the Italian manufacturer's competitive situation.
Ah, the 70's - the golden age of motorsport, manliness and lung cancer. That trio sat at the forefront of F1 during an incredible decade that made legends and took lives. Years later a loose collection of individuals in Italy dubbed the Milano Cafe Racers have drawn inspiration from that period to craft Ciaparat - a gorgeous 1995 Ducati Monster built to kick ass at the strangest racing series we've ever heard of.
Dreams can't be forced, they evolve and as much as we might hope that the object of our desire appears instantly before us it rarely if ever eventuates. Instead dreams take a series of twists and turns and only time reveals if they will live up to all we had hoped for; too often we awake disappointed. So to ensure total satisfaction Gregg Miner, Co-Founder of Speed Craft Co, decided to control his subconscious trance and lay his hands on mechanical metal. From the bare bones of a 1974 Ducati 860 GT comes this Bologna beautiful cafe racer crafted in Southern California.
Jorge Lorenzo says finding the riding style required to master Ducati's MotoGP bike is "a little bit illogical" after nine years with Yamaha
Blue is the color that inspired the design center of ITALIA INDEPENDENT and Garage Italia. Using a mix of materials including Alutex, blue carbon fiber and Alcantara makes this gorgeous Ducati Diavel a unique edition!
Ducati had a huge day on Sunday but there's one last fix it must make before the Desmosedici can challenge for the title again
http://www.motogeo.com MotoGeo rides the Ducati Scrambler Café Racer on some of the best biking roads in Tuscany, and into the heart of the beautifu
Spain may have triumphed over Italy in Saturday's Champion's League Final, but in both countries' second passion -- MotoGP -- Sunday saw the tables turned.
Davies' job is to win the WorldSBK title, says Ducati sporting boss Paolo Ciabatti
Ducati test rider Michele Pirro will make his first MotoGP start of the 2017 campaign this weekend at Mugello.
Ducati adds some flair to motorcycle law enforcement in Italy
Official Statement from Gabi Toy,
Nicky's final project with Gabi Toy was the Nicky Hayden Limited Edition teddy bear, originally slated to go on sale at the upcoming WSBK round at Laguna Seca on July 7-9, 2017. So now, and with permission from the family, we have decided to release the final batch of teddy bears. As a tribute to the generosity of spirit that Nicky Hayden showed to everyone, all net proceeds from the sales will be donated to the Hayden family.
Words cannot describe the emotions we're all feeling right now. However, I personally will never forget Nicky's charming accent, his infectious smile, his humor, and of course his generosity, from the first time we communicated to the last time we met up. I, and everyone here at Gabi Toy send our prayers and heartfelt condolences to the Hayden family. Godspeed Nicky.
Ken Tam
Gabi Toy
American motorcycle racer Nicky Hayden, 35, dies after being hit by car while training.
MotoGP: Also at Montmelò, Honda-HRC (only for one day), Marc VDS, LCR, Avintia Ducati, Aspar Ducati and Aprilia
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However, the great St Jude storm this week showed just how tough it is for broadcasters, and the rest of the media, to balance the basic need to inform and that rather more intangible requirement to fascinate ("entertain" being an inappropriate word when it comes to hard news coverage).
The rest of the media, of course, are less compelled to be balanced in their coverage than a channel with a public service broadcast licence. So, for the likes of the Daily Express, the prospect of an impending storm with potential hurricane force winds was like Christmas coming early.
The apocalyptic advance warnings are, of course, the inevitable residual consequence of the infamous 1987 moment when the hapless weatherman Michael Fish played down genuine hurricane warnings ahead of that storm, a TV moment he claims was taken out of context.
Today, nobody wants to be caught off-guard; neither the weather forecasters whose advanced technology can only make poor Mr Fish even more wistful, nor the media, who know that natural disasters "sell". Last weekend it proved possible to tell us pretty much exactly when and where the storm would hit and with what ferocity.
Since 1987 there have been three other big storms to learn from, which meant that Network Rail and other transport bodies were able to postpone services with due warning the day before. As some 200-plus trees fell across train lines in the South and South-East, imagine the consequences if they had not.
And there's the rub. Although four people were killed, there was little that could be done to prevent these personal tragedies, particularly in Hounslow. So unless you are one of the few thousand still without power because of storm damage or the unlucky few to have had a tree crush your car, the storm may have been a little underwhelming. So much so that many, like Gary Lineker, took to Twitter to joke about leaves hitting their cars.
It left broadcasters to send soggy journalists in North Face jackets out in the early hours before most viewers were even awake reporting on … well, not very much, live. It was windy! There was some damage but usually not where the reporter was. Photographs of crushed cars sent in by the public spoke loudest.
So, with no disrespect meant to those who suffered at the hands of St Jude, it was one of the duller broadcast storm days. And for that we should all be grateful.
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Some 6.5 million web users have now clicked on last Wednesday's Newsnight spat between Russell Brand and Jeremy Paxman. That's a staggering number, roughly 10 times Newsnight's average audience. I'm not going to rehash the arguments around whether Brand is the new messiah or a louche champagne socialist. However, there are a couple of things going on.
First, Newsnight has started to set the debate again under new editor Ian Katz: Brand v Paxo, "boring-snoring" Rachel Reeves MP, Alastair Campbell v the Mail's Jon Steafel, and even Paxman's beard.
Second, it proves yet again the ever-strengthening links between broadcast and social media. Those millions of hits on YouTube and BBC iPlayer are in part driven by press coverage the next day, but even that coverage was fuelled by Twitter amplifying the interview via Newsnight's 183,000 followers and Brand's 7.2 million. @rustyrockets has 7.2 million followers? That's enough to start a revolution!
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2008-2013 Cadillac CTS Performance Mods Discussion, Upgraded Brakes for 3.6 DI Performance Models in Cadillac CTS Second Generation Forum - 2008-2013; I have already warped rotors with a few spirited drives and some track time. So far as I can see ...
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Upgraded Brakes for 3.6 DI Performance Models
I have already warped rotors with a few spirited drives and some track time.
So far as I can see EBC has some "improved design" rotors and some other compound pads but not much else for non V owners.
What options are available?
I'm actually looking into this as well - I'm planning to give this car some track days also.
I've gotten mixed results in searches for pads and rotors - applications not clear.
A good friend of mine, Todd at TCI performance is looking into Willwood 6 piston calipers like I ran on my last track day car.
Has anyone done a swap of the V Brembos yet?
- 01-29-13 12:11 PM #3CTSCHICK Guest
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I have used EBC Redstuff pads with their Ultimax Rotors on my last car and loved them.
Good stuff they will be going on my CTS as soon as I need to replace the pads or rotors..
A lot better than the Hawk pad's that I had where I had to drive a mile or 2 in cold weather in order to get the brakes up to temperature to where they would be at 100%,
The brake dust would also cling to my wheels. :0(
That was the last and only time I was allowed to pick and order brakes on my own and put me in to one of those I told you so situations with my b.f. lol
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The guys at TCI in Ontario are great. I am headed there to see Sal and Jason Friday about my 1949 project truck. They know their Wilwood inside and out. If I ever did go big brake I would look at a wrecked V for donor parts and start there ... I have few insiders at Race Tech / Brembo but upgrading one of their GT kits to our steering knuckles would require me getting back on Mastercam and building some new tool paths to makes some trick parts. The OE V brakes need little improvement so aftermarket support has been sparse so far as I have been able to see.
- 01-30-13 12:15 PM #6CTSCHICK Guest
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Complete CTS J55 Brake Upgrade
J55 Upgrade. Well as suspected, there just is not much to choose from for our brakes. This thread is referring to Performance models of CTS so I'm referring specificly to the J55 rpo code found on the underside of your spare tire cover. If you have this code (instead of standard brakes code JE5), you have 345mm front and 339 rear rotors.
Rotors. Centric and Powerslot both make slotted rotors for J55 owners, which is great. These run you $118 and $93 front and rear each, respectively. If you have done any trackdays you know how hard they are on brakes. What I leanred is to find the best stock type rotor for your car, and then swap in some powerful calipers and good compound pads. Your rotors go in the trash at the end of the day - yes I mean it (If you are not ok with this you should not do open course road racing in your car). By using a stock size rotor it costs far less to replace them.
Calipers. I have had great experience with Wilwood brake products and they have been stopping racers for years. With the size rotors we run, I would go with the W6A calipers, available in black, red and nickel. They have 6 pistons and more important to the discussion, 6 pad compounds available; 2 high performance street, and 4 track only (remember never to run race pads on the street because you will literally mill down your rotors to nothing!). In the rear, I would try to fit the W4A though I might have to go with a Dynalite Narrow.
Mounts / Pads. Clearly I will have to build the mounts for the calipers, which is no biggie, but the result means lots of stopping power and much more flexibility in the pad choices. Since your ABS uses wheel speed sensors to measure slippage, the system accepts the big brakes and will actually not have to work as hard in ABS, traction control, or stabilitrak functions. The temp ranges of the track pads are ridiculous!
Food for thought huh?
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Re: Complete CTS J55 Brake Upgrade
I used Carbotec XP-10's on my last track day car. It weighed over 4,200 lbs. Was a manual and I was able to get a years worth of driving out of a set of rotors and pads. Unless you use the manual down shift feature all the stopping has to be done with the brakes and that will kill rotors quickly. A six speed manual is the way to go for track days.
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Geez, I can't believe you got a year out of rotors! How many track days? Car has paddles but pretty heavy for much decel effect.
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Re: Upgraded Brakes for 3.6 DI Performance Models
CTS has the performance suspension and brake package so I presume it has the 345mm brakes. Have not measured the rotors. Carbotech lists CT 1331 Front and CT 1337 for the CTS. Simply says heavy duty so I would contact them before purchase. I know they can and will make pads for anything if you send them a set of old pads. Have not tracked CTS yet. The car I referred to was a 1996 Impala SS. 4260 plus driver. I was getting 5-6 track days and about 800+ miles out of the pads and not cracking or warping rotors. I was using DBA C-6 corvette rotors and calipers and the XP-10 pads in front and XP-8 pad in rear. Car has Tremec TKO-600 installed.
Prior to that I used couple of different Hawk pads and rotors would last a week-end if I was lucky. The key is to measure your rotor temps with a infrared temp gun and buy pads that will work in the temp range you see on the track. The Carbotech pads work fine on the street once they are bedded in and will take up to 1,300 degrees F on track. Using solid rotors, no slots or holes this set up would hold up fine and I put up to 200 track miles in a week-end on the car.
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Re: Upgraded Brakes for 3.6 DI Performance Models
Pad selection and the chemistry there-in is much more critical than most people believe. And good technical data is hard to come from from most companies. And you can try some state of the art pads for only $150.
I used to race pro-solo and have both used the Carbotech pads and have done some brake pad performance testing. Proper pad selection is really about proper temperature control. When you over-heat a particular pad it feels greasy, doesn't stop as well, tears up the pad quickly, and maybe rotors too. I measured 650 F rotor temperatures on my SHO Taurus driving in rush-hour traffic after just three 60-0 mph stops! The standard parts store organic pads were already fading badly, with stopping power down 30%. Semi-metallics ran the same temps but felt better and didn't fade. They can handle 800F degrees or so. But they were very dusty. The Carbotech Ceramaic pads can go about 900F, before fade and stop great and are very low dusting. This is their current 1551 or bobcat compound. I have run both those and their Panther or autocross pad and the Panthers can handle a little bit more heat. But a 4200lb CTS at 90 mph on a high speed race track is going to generate a lot more heat than that and would need true race track pads for track days. I would not be surprised to see 1300F plus rotor temps and you will need real track pads to last at that level. Rotors actually glow red at that temp so you even have a visual temp indicator.
Once you get the pad to last at race day temp levels, then a better caliper might should improve the pedal feel by reducing flex, but it may or may not improve stopping itself. Bigger, heavier rotors lower overall rotor temps and make any pad work cooler & better unless they are too cold, and they usually also increase diameter, leverage and stopping power at the same time.


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More than any woman, New York has remained Woody Allen's main muse and co-star throughout his career, with the director always demonstrating an unashamed adoration for his home city. And yet at the end of Anything Else Allen's character, Dobel, does the unthinkable: he leaves New York.
It has become something of a cliché to classify a film as "post-9/11", yet this phrase has great relevance when it comes to Anything Else. Allen's films have always had a feeling of melancholy to them, but this - the first film Allen has written after the fall of the Twin Towers - harbours a sense of unsettlement amid the neurotic romantic comedy.
Allen also for the first time tackles his Jewishness seriously and, significantly, sidelines himself to being only a secondary character, almost as if he feels too out of place to be the lead. Biggs, essentially playing Allen Jr., does his best, but likeability can't hide his limited range and he struggles where Allen excels, such as in the numerous monologues to camera.
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He is such a pretty cat! Looks like a movie star!!!! Very good shot and thanks for sharing!
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Bengal!? I thought he was a Savannah.
I've got a cat that looks just like him but mine has these white ovals above her eyes that makes it look like she has human eyebrows. and shes a wild cat that we've tamed. I love cats like these.
I love this pictures XDD
Loki's markings are coming through so lovely, he looks so different from when he was a kitten, same with Theo (Who's face markings are so eye catching), always shocked me how pretty cats markings become almost over night. My Siamese red point was completely white with a few little dashes of cream until he reached the age of 3, then out of no where his markings came through very richly and we seemed to have an odd red and white mini tiger running around, only realised it was the same little moggy when he maowed lol
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He has such mesmerizing eyes and pretty fur Haha, his front paws are like mini tiger's. But still, the eyes win over
Bengals are my favorite cats! Besides russian blues XD
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He's a Bengal (a breed derived from a cross of the Asian Leopard Cat [Prionailurus bengalensis] with a domestic cat) - he's a later generation one, so several generations removed from a hybrid mating .
Oh gee, I wonder what breed the Lounging BENGAL cat is. He must be a pursian. Oh wait, no, he seems kind of big, maybe he's actually a liger. Nope, it's a mystery, we'll never learn what breed the Lounging BENGAL cat is. Actually you were right the first time. What SPECIES is the right question. Because they aren't domestic cats. They are hybrids between a domestic cat and an african leopard cat. So actually more like a liger after all.
wow i saw a cat that looked just like this at the pound not too long ago
they are so cool looking, what species is it?
i wanted to take it home so bad but i'm allergic ugh.
He's a really handsome kitty ^^
wow what a beauty
Mu kitty looking almost like Your. But he`s only 3-4 month. And have more white elements.
what a beautiful and gorgeous cat you have. what breed is he?
Wow, nice shot !! Your cat is so beautiful !
he's a gorgeous bengal
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Web Application Stress is a tool to simulate large number of users with a relatively small number of client machines. Performance data on an web application can be gathered by stressing the website and measuring the maximum requests per second that the web server can handle. The next step is to determine which re-source prevents the requests per second from going higher, such as CPU, memory, or backend dependencies. This section will give the basics and most easiest way of performing load testing using WAST.
Creating a Test Script
You can create test scripts using Web Application stress for load testing of your web application in the following ways,
- Manually
- By recording with a browser
- From an IIS log
- From the web site content
For ease let us discuss how can Test scripts can be created by recording with a browser.
The first step involved would be to create a database which will hold your scripts i.e., you need to create a web application stress database. This database will con-tain all the scripts that are generated as a result of your recording on various actions that were performed on the web application. It would be advisable to create a separate database for separate projects.
Once a database is created remove the sample script provided by the default. You can create one!! Choose the menu options to create a script by recording. This would prompt the user to choose the following
- Record delay between records
- Record browser cookies
- Record the host header
User can select anything depending upon their needs. Once this is finished the user will be prompted to enter the web address in the address bar of the browser. The user should enter the URL for the web application which is under test. Stop recording after finishing all your actions. Once recording is stopped the user will be able to see the details of the pages that the user has browsed.
Now you can change your settings to configure how the WAST should stress you application. Web Application Stress allows you to specify the Stress level (threads) and Stress multiplier (sockets per thread) for greater control of a test run. Stress level is the total number of Windows NT threads that are created across all of the clients. Each thread can create multiple sockets and each socket is a concurrent request. The following formula explains this relationship:
Total Concurrent Requests = Stress level x Stress multiplier = Total Number Sockets
The test run time can be varied depending upon how much time the script needs to be run. For example giving the test run time as 1 minute would run the script for a minute and would stop the execution of the scripts.
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Shot my first two deer with a 30-30 but never used one since. Gonna have to remedy that but problem is, I want a 35 first. Maybe someday.
Anyway, my first doe was a little thing and my first buck was also just a small 8 point but if you are interested in performance and/or penetration info, the buck was kinda a cool shot. Jumped him and another buck out of a deadfall at about 20 yards. On about the third bound, I shot when he was about 4 feet off the ground quartering away. Shot hit rear part of the ribcage on his left side and exited in front of the shoulder on his right. It was a little high and took out about 12 to 14 inches of spine so I went through a lot of bone! He folded up like a dove and literally bounced when he hit the ground. Amazingly, didn't ruin much meat either. Over the recent years, I've started to really appreciate medium to big bullets at moderate velocities. They seem to put critters down with authority and don't tear them up in the process like the super whiz-bang calibers do.
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Good afternoon, everyone. For all of us so fortunate as to spend our lives in academia, there is always something magical about the fall. Each September, as the sun drifts lower in the sky and the mornings grow darker and more crisp, the students return and the campus is filled with energy and promise. It is as though we are reborn, casting away the detritus of the past and striding into the new year on fresh legs, our spirits alive with the sense of possibility. As we begin this our 145th academic year, I hope that you, too, feel so invigorated.
It has become our custom that I take this occasion to speak with you about the current state of the University, and I am very pleased to report that the year we just completed was in many ways the best in our history. As we look ahead, the state of the economy is certainly such as to warrant due caution and we are constantly scanning the horizon for signs of trouble. Those signs have not yet appeared. It is important for you to know that we are far better prepared to weather an economic storm than in times past. Good long term planning, healthy reserves, and a far broader national and international reach should hold us in good stead. All of that being said, at this moment the new year we have just begun shows every indication of being still better than the last.
First let me speak about enrollments and our students. When all of the dust settled earlier this month, applications for the new class of first year undergraduates that arrived just after Labor Day totaled more than 8400, up an astonishing 30% from the previous year. We admitted just 54% of these applicants (down from 67% for the fall of '07) to assemble a class of 1,150 students, 20 over budget. More to the point, the new students are, once again, the most capable new class we have ever had, with a median high school GPA of 3.66 and a median SAT of 1190. They include 13 Boettcher Scholars, again more than any other Colorado school. Nearly 60% are from out of state, including 61 international students, our highest number in many years. Sixteen percent are students of color, although there is some uncertainty to this figure as more than 20% chose not to report their race or ethnicity, a trend that is on the rise. Overall, we have begun the year with a total of 4,920 traditional undergraduates, well over budget, and we are hopeful that first to second year persistence will at last attain that special 90% figure that characterizes the best programs in America. I'd like to thank Tom Willoughby and the entire admissions and enrollment staff for a really extraordinary performance in a very difficult and complex year. We are anticipating something on the order of 10,000 applications for our first year class next fall.
Enrollments in our graduate programs are solid as well. Virtually all are at or above budgeted figures, with minor exceptions in some of the non-traditional components of various units. I'd like to note in particular the great recovery of enrollments in the traditional graduate programs of the Daniels College of Business, which are well over budget again after a couple of down years. We are very strong once again in the Korbel School of International Studies, in the Morgridge College of Education, in the Graduate School of Social Work, and in our Graduate School of Professional Psychology. University College enrollments are once again strong with over a thousand students, up more than 50% from the low tide of five years ago. Overall, our total enrollments of traditional undergraduates, traditional graduate students, students in our non-traditional programs, and students in our "pre-collegiate" programs (Fisher, Ricks, and the English Language Center) total 11,985, the highest figure in many years and surely very close to the capacity of this campus.
Last year was also another extraordinary year for fundraising. All totaled, we raised more than $73 million, just short of the previous year's all-time record of $76 million. Our 2-year-old campaign has raised nearly $160 million to date, with six years to go until our 150th birthday in 2014. In the last two years we've added $55 million in cash gifts to our endowment, which at the beginning of fiscal '09 stood at just over $300 million, with near term pledges (that is, not counting any bequests or estate gifts) totaling another $22 million. In spite of the weak performance of the market in fiscal '08, our endowment continued to grow because of these new gifts.
We began this year having reached a milestone at which the value of our endowment was very nearly equal to our operating budget, net of financial aid. As many of you know, our goal is an endowment double our operating budget, and so we are half way there. While the volatility of the markets is certainly a concern, our investment strategy focuses on the long term and we have suffered far less from the recent troubles than the major indices might suggest. We will continue to aggressively pursue our fundraising goals. During the past year we also succeeded in fully funding the construction costs for Ruffatto Hall (the new building for our Morgridge College of Education), and for our new soccer stadium and an associated training facility for all our varsity athletes. Construction of both projects will begin late this fall. I'd like to express my thanks to the leadership and staff of University Advancement for these accomplishments and for their very good work this past year.
Last year was without question one of the very best we've ever had in Pioneer Athletics. The numbers tell the story: the national championship in skiing, 7 conference championships, 2 individual NCAA champions and 13 All Americans, 12 NCAA championship tournament appearances, and 8 conference coaches of the year out of our 17 varsity sports. We won the Directors Cup as the most successful athletics program in NCAA division I-AAA (that is, among all division I schools without football), and Sports Illustrated ranked our athletics programs 23rd best in the country, among all universities. All of this with a student athlete GPA of 3.29 and a graduation rate over 80%. The really good thing is that we know we can go much farther. I know that Vice Chancellor Peg Bradley-Doppes, the coaches, staff, and students have set their sights on more championships and a graduation rate greater than 85%. My congratulations to all of the staff and students of DU athletics for a truly remarkable performance, on the field and in the classroom.
Perhaps most of all, I'd like to thank my colleagues among the faculty and staff of the academic units of the University. Those of us in the administration know that our success at fundraising has been because of you, because of your hard work to continuously raise the bar on the absolute quality of the academic enterprise at this University. It is the quality of your work that is the real attraction, the magnet for those thousands and thousands of undergraduate applicants, the reason that the academic capabilities of our students have been growing by leaps and bounds. Your work is the reason for our national and international reach, for our growth in stature. And it is without question the focus of our future.
Let's talk a little now about that future. The path ahead is set by our vision to be a great private university dedicated to the public good, by the mission and goals that flow from that vision, and by the seven campaign themes I spoke about at Convocation last year that define particular directions. Looking back over the recent past we've accomplished a great deal already. Think about it just a bit: the wonderful DU Discoveries orientation program, the First-Year seminars, the new University Writing Program, the Cherrington Global Scholars program, new curricula in Daniels and a host of other units, service learning and internships, Partners in Scholarship, the Dual Degree programs, new programs and facilities in residence and campus life.
All of these and more were developed over just a few years in an intensive effort to build the quality of the undergraduate experience at DU. And, without question, it's worked. I'd argue that those great new first year students are going to have a collegiate experience better than virtually any other in the United States. There is certainly still more to be done, and we will continue to work hard at this. The really central issue that remains, though, is a financial one - the fact that we need more resources to meet our students' financial need, and to better compete for the most capable students in America and the world. That's one of the principal goals of our campaign.
But, one might ask, what about the rest of the University? Today, I'd suggest to you that we need to recognize the fact that the majority of our students are graduate students, more than 6,300 this fall quarter. I'd suggest that it's high time that we devote at least an equal amount of attention and resources to them, and to the faculty scholarship, research, and creative work on which they rely. After all, together these represent more than half of all our annual net revenue, and a still greater proportion of our reputation and stature in the academic world.
We have some wonderful, wonderful graduate programs and great faculty and staff behind them. As a whole, they are a stable, productive, eclectic mix of academic and professional programs that are thriving in many ways. The real question, though, is "how can we become substantially better than we are?" defined in terms of our vision and campaign themes, in terms of the ability of our graduate students and the quality of the programs and experiences we provide for them, and in terms of the capabilities of our faculty members and the productivity of the intellectual environment they create. What kinds of resources are needed if we are to move ahead as vigorously as we did for our undergraduate programs? At the graduate level, those questions must be asked of each unit individually, and we've gotten a good start.
In the Morgridge College of Education, we've raised more than $15 million beyond the cost of the new building, for endowed faculty chairs and new programs related to the central, most important issues in Education today. We've raised an even greater amount for the Korbel School, on our way to a $60 million goal, once again in support of faculty, students, and programs. And in the Sturm College of Law, an effort initially directed toward substantially improving the bar passage rate of our JD graduates has become the seed of a great campaign to make Sturm into one of the very best law schools in America. These efforts are succeeding because of the persistent, focused efforts of a host of faculty and staff members as well as dedicated alumni.
We will continue our work for these schools, and will to begin similar efforts for others. Let me speak more generally, though, about some of the broader, underlying challenges we face as we make this move.
We have an enormous diversity of graduate and professional programs spread over our schools and colleges, and we recognized some years ago that this extreme granularity can present difficulties. At present we have some 132 individual degree and certificate programs for those 6300 students, with a median program enrollment of just 18 students. Large numbers of small programs each staffed by small numbers of faculty and staff serving small numbers of students does not necessarily equate to quality. Many of our smaller programs suffer from the fact that they are simply not big enough to compete with much larger individual programs at other institutions. I think that it is often the case that resources scale with size in a nonlinear manner, and that smaller programs are at a disproportionate disadvantage in the competition for students, faculty, and external funding. We should ask ourselves, how big is big enough for high quality? How big is big enough to compete on a national scale? Should our approach have greater focus?
Our decentralized structure presents yet another set of issues. This is perhaps the greatest difference between our undergraduate and graduate programs. Over the years we've found that decentralization is great for stimulating good management in an environment in which the measure of success is growth and the rewards are associated with new resources that accrue from that growth. It becomes more difficult when success is not about growth, but about quality. Many of the major undergraduate initiatives that I mentioned earlier were centralized, driven by central resources and spanning large portions, if not all of the enterprise. In contrast, our graduate programs are almost totally decentralized. Admissions, financial aid, marketing, fundraising, and other such matters are for the most part managed by the individual units, and in most cases supported by small budgets. While the large majority of our graduate programs are financially stable, the questions we must ask are about their absolute quality and competitiveness. How do we build incentives for higher quality in our decentralized graduate environment, when we are at or near capacity and when that higher quality costs more, rather than less, for the same gross revenue?
Scholarship, research, and creative work are central to the quality of our graduate programs. We are an institution that believes deeply in the teacher-scholar model, and that belief is reflected in many of our structures, even in the 50/50 balance between our graduate and undergraduate programs. The measures of our success are to be found in both the lives of our alumni and in the manner in which our intellectual capital is leveraged against the great issues of the day. We believe that one of the greatest advantages we afford to our undergraduates is unfettered access to a faculty fully capable of training doctoral students, a faculty whose scholarship is competitive on a national scale. We firmly believe that the kind of creativity needed for success in research also drives innovation in the classroom. What then should be the scale of research, scholarship and creative work at DU? How should it be supported?
In thinking about these questions, we have the advantage of a long history of faculty and staff deliberations on such matters. The most recent such effort was the Task Force on Research, Scholarship, and Creative work assembled by Provost Kvistad in 2005. The report from that group is a good one, making a clear case for the need for more institutional support for the scholarly pursuits of faculty, staff, and students. While I concur with nearly all of its recommendations, I would suggest that we have yet to develop an overall strategy for research and scholarship at DU, at an institutional level. Such a strategy must go beyond thinking about the resources needed to optimize our traditional model for scholarship, a model that is so deeply constrained by small programs and limited numbers of faculty.
Before 2005, the last effort to think about research at DU was made in the mid-'90s by a group led by then Director of University Research Marshall Haith. The charge to that committee, of which I was a member, was to chart a path for doubling or tripling the volume of sponsored research at DU. The conclusion that ultimately was drawn was that the principal limitation to such growth was not the ability of our faculty, or the level of their activity, or their national competitiveness. Rather, it was simply their number and distribution. If we wanted to increase our volume, the only way to do it was by increasing the numbers of faculty in the disciplines for which research support was available from government or private sources, that is in the sciences and engineering and in the social sciences and related professional programs. The major difficulty here is that for a very long time our distribution of faculty has been linked to our distribution of instructional programs and the students that populate them. Should we move to decouple these? If so, in what measure? If we don't, what should our expectations be?
The highly granular, small program structure that I mentioned earlier is an impediment to the growth of competitive scholarship and creative work. When I came to the Chemistry department at DU in 1981, we had what I used to think of as the Noah's Ark approach to covering the bases, two faculty members each in all of the sub-disciplines of Chemistry. And that was fine, because that was what was needed to ensure that a small department could teach all of the classes it needed to for both undergraduate and graduate students. The scholarship model was based on individual faculty researchers working alone, as it was at most universities. Collaborative work was viewed as a complication in tenure and promotion decisions. The problem we face today is that that model is no longer competitive. Today, most research universities assemble large groups of faculty who work together to address the most significant issues of the day, issues that are by definition multidisciplinary. These groups compete for large amounts of funding that come from an ever-dwindling number of sources. It is very, very hard to compete as an individual. How, then, might we move to build structures that can supplement our departmental governance model, structures that will enable us to assemble more competitive groups of faculty? How might such structures engage substantially larger proportions of our students in faculty scholarship? How can we institutionalize interdisciplinarity? These are big questions that we need to think through, together.
There is one last point to be made, and it is an important one. Any real move to improve our graduate programs and the environment for research, scholarship and creativity will require substantial resources. We need only look at the magnitude of the investments we've made at the undergraduate level - in the Marsico Initiative, in the Cherrington Global Scholars program, in Athletics--to see what is needed for real change. In an operational sense, these and other large programmatic initiatives have been fueled by growth of the student population and by substantial tuition rate increases, neither of which is indefinitely sustainable. Our campaign is designed to address this particular issue, the issue of long-term fiscal sustainability defined as no dependence on growth and no dependence on tuition increases. We will complete the campaign and it will achieve that end, but the bulk of its results will be felt a few years from now.
How, then, can we continue to move forward now, today? We must work hard to build a financial bridge that connects today's very good fiscal condition, a condition based largely on growth, with a truly sustainable future in which flexibility and change are fueled by endowment and annual giving and faculty are supported by sponsored programs as well as by tuition. Our bridge strategy must recognize the central importance of our academic mission, making certain that the funds we expend today are focused on our main strategic directions. My message today is that one of those major directions is associated with our graduate programs, and with the faculty and student research, scholarship, and creative work that they depend on. You, our faculty and staff, have done a superb job in developing our undergraduate programs, and we will continue to work hard on them. But if we are to become a truly great university, we must also solve the other half of the puzzle.
I hope that you will join with me as we move our energies, creativity, and resources to do so.


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Hence a speech on Wednesday promising to "be president for 100 per cent of Americans" and a similar op-ed in USA Today. Politico.com reports a new "rescue plan" for his campaign, talking more about specific policies.
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I am just starting baking and have read alot and have taken some baking courses. I 'd like to start my own baking business. And would like to know sanitation issues that i should know before i start baking at home. I know obvious aspects like to wear a bakers hat apron, don't touch your apron while baking, cleaning as you go, keeping your dairy products refrigerated. What are the other santitation issues i should know about ?
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You did not mention where you are located so i just will leave you with a few tips.
Here is a link to more info about food sanitation..
A couple of questions...
Does your State (or country) allow you to bake and sell food from home?
For example, Texas has a Cottage Food Law that gives us the right to sell certain low risk products from home as long as the producer follows safe kitchen practices., no Health Department visits unless they get a lot of complaints.
I would highly recommend you set up as a LLC, as if someone gets sick and decides to sue, you could lose your home, car...you get the idea, right?
Speaking of lawsuits, you will need to contact your ins agent and speak to him about your new venture. He can steer you in the right direction and will recommend the amt of coverage you will need.
Check with your local zoning board and ask if your location is ok for high traffic commercial/ business use.
Totally ignore the above if you are all set.
Congrats on your new venture...hope u make a million!
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Hey A.L.,
First welcome to CT!, FFG has a great suggestion research your local cottage laws.
Best piece of advice would be to source a VFW, Eagles, American Legion or church, all that I've seen have commercial kitchens and are usually pretty receptive to small fees or trade offs in lieu of a rental. If none in your area source a catering company or commercial kitchen rentals, most will rent by the day or even the hour. the latter suggestions will cost you more.
Nice thing about the commercial kitchen's are usually, they will have some if not all of the commercial grade equipment including mixers and ovens more production + less time = greater profits AND since all are NFP, they are always trying to raise funds so they may become a customer as well.
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I would definitely sign up for ServSafe, NRFSP, or the equivalent Food Safety Manager's Certification, generally an 8 hour class and exam, probably cost around $150-$200, maybe less, even check with culinary school(s) in your vicinity. You will learn all you need to know about sanitation and safe food handling. Here's a link to the NRFSP site: http://www.nrfsp.com/exam_candidate/
DO NOT TAKE THE FOOD HANDLERS CLASS! That is a simplified class, primarily for food servers.
TTBOMK, every kitchen MUST have a certified Food Safety Manager ON SITE while food is being prepared.
Though there may not be health code problems with non-profit kitchens, check carefully, you may be creating an IRS problem for the non-profit with kitchen rental as that is considered "business income" and can endanger their NP status. This goes for churches, fraternal organizations, and other NPs as well. Been there, done that!
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i'm biased with a servsafe cert myself, but i agree, there is a marked difference between those servsafe certed and those not in my limited experience. it's not hard, it just focuses in on some key aspects that form a great foundation for working intelligently around sanitation in general.
you'll notice most national corporations require and proudly sport their manager's servsafe certificates on their walls for a reason.


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Monster Clutch Install
I'm going to do this off of memory, so if I miss something, I'm sorry....I'm sure I'll add something later so read the entire thread. I take no responsibilty if you hurt yourself or you mess something up. If you do, you're an idiot and you should've paid someone to do it for you. j/k
Tools You'll Need:
Wrenches/ Sockets:
T-47 Torx
Breaker Bar
Multiple Long (Super Long) Extensions
Torque Wrench
LAPD Remote Bleeder (or whatever brand you pick.....just get one!! You'll thank yourself when it comes time to bleed your clutch) If you get the LAPD remote, make sure you ask them for the small adapter fitting for the slave.
Not necessary, but if you want ARP bolts like I had, order the following:
330-2802: Flywheel Bolts
134-2201: Pressure Plate Bolts
Red Loctite for all bolts
My buddy Dan and I did this job on his garage floor. Thanks Dan for all the help and your garage!!
You have to get the jackstands really high so that you can have room to pull the trans out. We had enough room to pull the trans, and barely enough for the trans to clear the frame rails. So, make sure you account for this.
Remove the shifter.
Remove You Exhaust. I have B&B, so you need 11/16" and 5/8" wrenches for those bolts.
Remove the driveshaft. The bolts holding the driveshaft/carrier bearing are 15mm. The heat shield bolts are 10mm.
The bolts on the diff side are 8mm allen wrench, and the bolts on the trans side are 18mm. Make sure you mark where your driveshaft is before you remove it! (unless you were getting vibes already and you need to reindex it
Unplug all the sensors (mark em with tape if you don't remember)
Transmission Fluid Sensor
Backup Lamp Switch
Vehicle Speed Sensor
Reverse Lockout Sensor
Gear select/Skip Shift Solenoid (or CAGS)
Oxygen Sensors (all 4)
You have to pull the retaining locking pin on the connector to release the connection.
Put a jack under the transmission so you can support the weight off of the cross member (aka transmission support) This is where you can either leave the fluid in the trans, or drain it (less weight)....I chose to leave the fluid in since I just changed it about 1k miles ago.
Remove all the bolts from the transmission support. (15mm, and T-47 Torx bit) and remove it.
Now the transmission is supported by the jack and is held in by the (8) bolts you need to remove, so you can pull the trans away from the bell housing.
Now it's time for the super long extensions. Lower the jack a little bit so the trans can lower to access the upper bolts. There's a good pic later on of the bell housing attached with the Monster Clutch so you can see where the bolt (bolt holes) are.
Once you have the bolts removed, you have to manipulate the trans input shaft out of the old clutch disc. This is semi tricky. A pry bar can get you started, but be careful and use common sense.....it's all aluminum down there. Lifting and lowering the jack and wiggling it back and forth will get Elvis to leave the building.....it feels like 100 lbs (around there) not too bad to pick up and move around.
Now you are looking at this...
Time to remove the bell housing.
There are (you guessed it, 8 more bolts) holding that on to the block. The lower ones are no prob, but the upper studs bolts are hard to get to. They are hidden by the black plastic connectors that hold the myriad of wire looms, so keep looking.....you'll find em.
Here's one on upper left.....
On the right.....
On top.... (I actually got to this one from the top...thru the engine bay. Used a Gear Wrench and it worked out great.
Once all the bolts are out, it's a major pain in the ass to get the bell housing out, because our dual mass flywheels are so thick. Just try to keep the wire looms out of the way and pull and turn it to get it out of there. Once out...here's what you are looking at.
Remove the six bolts. Be careful.....pressure plate is heavy.
Once removed, you get the pleasure of seeing the boat anchor dual mass flywheel. Remove the six bolts and be VERY careful. This turd weighs 45 lbs!!
Here's a pic of the back of the block just because.
Ok......gotta do another post.....it won't let me put more than 15 pics at a time on here....booooo
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Wow.......what a turd.
Wow.....what a nice piece of American Badassness
Ok now it's time to install the remote bleeder into the slave.
^See how the remote bleeder doesn't sit flush with the face of the trans??^
I had to notch the bell housing just a little bit so it wouldn't pinch it closed when reinstalling everything. Measure very carefully and you can use a chizel and notch it out easily.
Time to install the Flywheel. Grab your Monster Directions, as they have a little bit different torque specs than factory. The Monster kit comes with bolts, but I already had ARP bolts, so I just used those.
Torque them to spec. (factory bolts go to 58 ft lbs and are torqued in the star of david pattern in even sections)
Make sure you brake clean the shit out of it and get all debris, fingerprints, gunk off of it.
Line up the clutch disc with the provided alignment tool, and make sure it's cleaned off.
Time to install the pressure plate. Make sure the clutch disc is perfectly aligned before you torque the pressure plate down! It has alot of play just sitting there, and it can easily get moved or bumped. Get your head up in there and look at it if you have to. This will save you more trouble when putting the input shaft into the pivot bearing later.
The Monster directions have their torque value and pattern in which to evenly distribute the torque to each of the six bolts.
Time to put the bell housing back in. It goes in WAAAAAY easier than it came out due to the new normal size flywheel and not fighting the dual mass turd anymore. Here's what you'll see after you get the bolts back in. Good reference pic to see where the trans bolts are.....
Here's a pic of the top stud bolt that goes into the bell housing. (looking down on the back of the engine from the engine bay)
Now here's the hardest part of the whole install.......getting the trans input shaft to line up with the clutch disc, and the pivot bearing. Just have patience. You'll have to work the jack up and down (a little) and back and forth, and wiggle it back forth to get it to go in. If you did a good job keeping the clutch disc aligned while tightening the pressure plate down, it'll be easier on you. Make sure you aren't crushing any connections when reinstalling the trans. Watch the vent, remote line, slave line, and all the wire looms. Use common sense, and take your time. This part can use your concentration.
Once you get it in, put the shifter back in, driveshaft, exhaust back in. Connect all the electrical connections, and O2's. Bleed the clutch.....if you were smart you are doing it with your remote line. It took literally 6 minutes to totally bleed my system after the install.
I got a Stage 3. and 18 lb flywheel.
If you want a grabby clutch that'll take anything you throw at it, get a Stage 3 for sure. It chatters less and less the more miles you put on it. You can get it to not chatter at all if you slip it a little. There's a little more noise from 1st thru 3rd, but it gets less and less the more miles I rack up. I'm on 125 now...375 to go before I can beat on it. So I'm guessing it's only going to get quieter/better.
The lightened flywheel makes a HUGE difference. It revs faster, decels MUCH faster, and when I shut the car off.....it shuts right down. It's crazy how much inertia the old dual mass fw had and took a second or two to finally stop rotating. Not anymore with the Monster setup.
Overall.....I'd get this setup again no prob. Talk to Steve @ Monster and tell him how you drive, and he can give you the exact setup that's right for you. Which stage, and which flywheel to get. Monster is great to work with, and they KNOW THEIR SHIT! Thanks for all your help Guys!!
If I forgot anything, I apologize....this is the longest writeup in history and my eyes are crossing and I'm bound to forget something here or there.
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Great writeup as always man! Hope to order a new clutch this week!
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Thank you for this. It will come in quite handy when I can afford a new clutch
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another great write up, thank you. this will be the route i go in the future.
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Awsome write up.
I realy wish I bought a Monster kit.
I just got a kit from another forum sponsor and Im VERY unhappy..
I cant post the bad news yet cause it could be a mistake, but I dout it cause I read about another member having a issue with the flywheel and P.P not lining up....
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Welcome to the darkside. You will love Monster! Drop the clutch and feeling all the power going to the wheels...no slipping of the clutch. I didn't notice I was slipping till I got the Monster clutch and felt what a real clutch was like.
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I guess this has me sold on which clutch to get. Great write up.
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i noticed you have pics of everything that comes in there kit but the slave. any pics/info on that?
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I've got the stage 3 also and so far I love it. The pedal feel is definitely alot more firm than stock, and you have to sort of get used to driving around with that light flywheel after driving the huge stock one. I have to say, its a little tougher for me to drive in traffic with the stg 3 and light flywheel, but I'm sure I can adjust to it after some more practice. The clutch and lighter flywheel just make the car feel alot more like a performance car, and alot less like a 4000lb cadillac. Definitely worth the money imo, and from everyone I've talked to seems much easier to install than the other kits out there.
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nice Lolly. Glad you got it all worked out in the end.
nice write up as always.
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Nice write up and pictures to boot
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Those are some nice looking parts! I love the "Made in USA" on the flywheel.
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I took video of revs before and after the clutch install, but the 2nd video sucks cuz it's dark....sorry I thought it'd come out better than that. I'll try and take a better one today or tomorrow. Notice how quick the rpms go up on the new fw, and how long decels take on the old one compared to the Monster FW!
Old Dual mass fw rev
New 18 lb flywheel rev