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- 29Palms & LimeSim Hamburg HD
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- Aerosoft PC-6 Turbo Porter
- Aerosoft Tahiti X2
- Aerosoft/XHT Labs Prague LKPR
- Wilco Falcon 7X
- Airline2Sim AXE A319/20 Cadet Training
- Akesoft Granada
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- Captain Seven's EDVK Kassel-Calden
- Aerosoft Mega Airport Frankfurt
- JustFlight 787
- Bridge Simulations Guangzhou Baiyun
- White Digital MBS International
- Iris Texan T-6C
- Project79 Dammam X
- Razbam EMB-120
- Chenqiao Nanyang Jiangying Airport
- CLS DC-10 v2
- Contrail Simulations El Paso
- Contrail Simulations Embraer 135
- Contrail Simulations Queen Alia
- Coolsky McPhat Studios Fokker 50
- CRJ200X Project
- David Rosenfield Montgomery County Airpark
- Doriner DO328 Prop
- DreamFlight Studios: MLRB Daniel Oduber Quirós Coasta Rica
- Drzewiecki Design Warsaw EPWA
- Drzewiecki Baku Azerbaijan
- DSDG Las Vagas City
- DuceX Bell 222
- Eaglesoft Citation CII 3.0
- Eaglesoft C-XLS+?
- EarthSimulations Jersey
- FlightBeam Frankfurt Main
- FlightBeam KSFO HD2014
- FlightBeam Minneapolis St. Paul
- FlyBeyond MBGT Jags McCartney
- FlyBeyond MYNN Bahamas
- FlyLogic Lausanne LSGL
- FlyTampa Sydney
- FlyTampa Toronto Pearson
- FlyTampa Undisclosed Project
- FSDG Amsterdam Schiphol
- Godzone Wellington Airport/City
- Godzone Wellington City-Airport (FTX compatible)
- Hangarcerouno Venesim G159
- iBlueYonder Nantucket
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- IDS Sacramento
- ImagineSim Osaka Kansai
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- Jim Robinson: Inverness KINF
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- LatinVFR Palm Beach
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- LimeSim Boston
- Linden Freeware: Kunming Changshui
- Lionheart Aero Shark UL
- Lionheart Pipstrel Panthera
- Majestic Software Q300
- Mammoth Yosemite, Mammoth Lakes
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- Nemeth Designs Bell 429
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- Ozzman Canadair Challenger 605
- PacSim Beijing Capital
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- Parthenosim Rome Linate
- PeralSoft Algeria Algers
- PMDG Prepar3D Products
- Project Airbus A330/A340
- QualityWings 737 Classic
- QualityWings 787 Dreamliner
- Razbam ATR-41
- Razbam Embraer Ejets Series
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- Razbam Saab-340
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- RDS Severka
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- SimWings La Palma
- Skysoft Shenzhen Bao'an
- SunSkyJet Detroit
- Tecnam P2006T Independent Russian Development
- TFDi Boeing 717
- ThaiCreation Bandaranaike Colombo
- VectorSimWorks Rafale
- VectorSimWorks Vigilante
- Vertigo B25 Mitchell
- WingCreation Niigata
- Xtreme Prototypes X-15A-2 SE
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- Aerosoft ASDG Johannesburg
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- Aerosoft EHAM Amsterdam Schiphol Extended
- Aerosoft Jersey X
- Aerosoft JU52 FSX.
- Aerosoft Mega Airport Brussels
- Overland Japan Projects
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- COdE AS350 / EC130 Project on hold.
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- AirSimmer A320
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Atheist group erects 'Good without God' billboards in California
By Sharon Bernstein
SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) - As the Christmas season approaches in the United States, a group of non-believers in the California capital are planning to erect billboards explaining why they are atheists in hopes of bringing broader visibility to their lack of religious faith.
The 55 billboards that will soon dot the Sacramento landscape will feature pictures of local residents and slogans such as "Good without God," and follow similar campaigns in other major U.S. cities in recent years.
"Those of us who are free from religion, who work to keep dogma out of government, science, medicine and education, have a lot to offer society," said Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation, which sponsored the ads.
The billboards set to go up in Sacramento on the day after Thanksgiving are part of the increasingly loud arguments between many deeply religious Christians whose faith has informed U.S. conservative politics for a generation, and a vocal cohort of secular, often younger voters who want to keep religion out of public life.
The foundation also plans to place a large version of the letter "A," for atheism, in Chicago's Daley Plaza, the site of an annual Christmas display.
The aim of the campaign is to show people who are not religious that they don't have to hide their views in a polarized nation where atheists and agnostics often feel isolated, Gaylor said.
The Sacramento billboards show smiling capital-area residents against softly colored backgrounds, listing their names and the communities in which they live.
"Doing good is my religion," says a sign featuring Mashariki Lawson, who identifies herself on the billboard as a "humanist." Continued...

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The Lake Placid Summit Classic kicks off next Monday, and it's the 25th year of the tremendous summertime event in the Adirondacks — the most anticipated destination lacrosse event of the year, with more than 200 teams competing across youth, high school, college and adult divisions.
This year, to commemorate the silver anniversary of the tournament, George and Kevin Leveille have put together "Legends of Lake Placid" men's and women's lacrosse teams featuring some of the greatest to take the field in Lake Placid. Those players will be honored next week during the tournament.
In celebrating the 25th go of the Summit Classic, we asked Gary Patterson of Grunt Lacrosse to come up with a dye for the occasion. Gary, who lives not far away from Baltimore, knocked it out of the park with a simple but awesome green and yellow fade featuring the Lake Placid traditional logo in the center of the scoop and the "Legends of Lake Placid" logo down in the ball stop area on a Brine Cyber and a Warrior Evo 4. Of course, Gary put his own touch on the back of the scoop, the Grunt Lacrosse skull logo.
Check these out in the gallery above. To see more from Grunt Lacrosse, visit Gary's Instagram page (@gruntlacrosse) and email him directly at email@example.com. You can see dyes, stringing and more, including more from Brine and Warrior, in our Stick Tech section.
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Thinking Collaboratively about the Peer-Review Process for Journal- Article Publication
Kumashiro, Kevin, Pinar, William, Graue, Elizabeth, Grant, Carl, Benham, Maenette, Heck, Ronald, Scheurich, James, Luke, Allan, & Luke, Carmen (2005) Thinking Collaboratively about the Peer-Review Process for Journal- Article Publication. Harvard Educational Review, 75(3), pp. 257-285.
In this conversation, Kevin K. Kumashiro shares his reflections on challenges to publishing anti-oppressive research in educational journals. He then invites eight current and former editors of leading educational research journals--William F. Pinar, Elizabeth Graue, Carl A. Grant, Maenette K. P. Benham, Ronald H. Heck, James Joseph Scheurich, Allan Luke, and Carmen Luke--to critique and expand on his analysis. Kumashiro begins the conversation by describing his own experiences submitting manuscripts to educational research journals and receiving comments by anonymous reviewers and journal editors. He suggests three ways to rethink the collaborative potential of the peer-review process: as constructive, as multilensed, and as situated. The eight current and former editors of leading educational research journals then critique and expand Kumashiro's analysis. Kumashiro concludes the conversation with additional reflections on barriers and contradictions involved in advancing anti-oppressive educational research in educational journals. (Contains 3 notes.)
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Of the three Sabyasachis that we spotted on Ms. Chopra recently, is there one look you gravitate more to?
Sabina Chopra
Left: At Delhi Couture Week 2013
Centre, Right: At Lakme Fashion Week 2013
Photo Credit: Viral Bhayani
yup…not a single!
The third look if I really have to choose but her shoes and black bag are just jarring even though she may be going for the boho look. Sabyasachi has done better work. I would not pay for any of these outfits.
Such ugly clothes from sabya plus the wearer makes it look more worse.
sabyasachi's collection looked amazing on the runway but when celebs are wearing them, they look so lackluster!
Not attracted to any of these creations.
terrible clothes, shoes accessories,make up everything
the clothes are amazing but the wearer doesnt do justice to them
All the three….loved it…
I'm sorry – I know we are all supposed to be in awe of Sabyasachi but I think he needs to go back to the drawing board
His designs are often OTT with too many elements. And each collection looks like a slightly different version of the other
When he first became popular – his designs stood out. Now they are just blah
Wish he would get over himself and go back to how he started
Very bland colors. And the shoes in the middle pic are outrageously bad. Is this lady a fashion mag editor? You couldn't tell by these looks.
Very well said….all the clothes are very similar to other…really not excited for his creativity


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- Dell Boosts Buyout Offer on Condition of Voting Process Change
- Icahn Criticizes Latest Move
Proposal seeks an approval process that would require a majority of shares voted, instead of a majority of all outstanding shares not affiliated with Michael Dell.
NEW YORK - Michael Dell and his investor allies modestly boosted their buyout offer Wednesday for the struggling computer giant he founded and asked the board to change the method for shareholder approval.
The move came amid a hotly contested battle over the bid to take Dell (IW 500/24) private, a plan opposed by key shareholders as undervaluing the former No. 1 computer maker.
The new offer from Michael Dell and the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners was increased to $13.75 per share, from $13.65 a share, on condition of a change in the shareholder vote process.
The proposal seeks an approval process that would require a majority of shares voted, instead of a majority of all outstanding shares not affiliated with Michael Dell.
A statement from Michael Dell and Silver Lake said an estimated 27% of unaffiliated shareholders had not yet voted, suggesting that the plan could fail under the previous procedures.
"The presumption that these shares should be treated as if they had voted against the transaction is patently unfair," the statement said.
The new bid adds some $150 million to the $24.4 billion offer, according to a letter to shareholders.
A shareholder meeting set for Wednesday after a postponement last week was rescheduled for Aug. 2, the company said.
"Our Best and Final"
The letter said the new offer was "our best and final proposal" and set a deadline of 2200 GMT Wednesday for the board to endorse the proposal and new voting procedure. The deadline later was extended to August 2.
"We are not willing to discuss any further increase in the merger consideration, nor are we willing to increase the merger consideration to $13.75 per share without the change to the Unaffiliated Stockholder Approval requirement," the letter said.
"We believe that $13.75 per share is a full and fair price... The will of the majority of the unaffiliated shares voting on the transaction should not be thwarted by an unfair standard that counts unaffiliated shares not voting as 'no' votes."
The move came amid stiff opposition to the buyout by some shareholders who argued that Michael Dell's bid undervalued the former No. 1 computer maker.
Opponents have been galvanized by corporate raider Carl Icahn, with some other institutional investors also opposing the effort. The Wall Street Journal last week estimated that holders of at least 30% of Dell shares opposed the plan.
Michael Dell and his affiliates hold some 15.6% of Dell shares but cannot participate in the shareholder vote. Icahn and an investor group that has backed him, Southeastern Asset Management, together hold some 13%.


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By Paul Gardner
I mentioned some weeks back that the American Mark Geiger had been chosen to referee this year's Under-20 World Cup final. This was a particularly notable honor, as one of the referees also in line for the job was England's Mark Clattenburg, a man with seven years' experience refereeing in the English Premier League.
Geiger got the job -- so, let's ask a question: Which guy would you send to which country to help with referee training? The fact that the question is a sensible, reasonable one, tells you that the standards of American refereeing are not to be despised, that they are not to be automatically dismissed as inferior to those of the EPL.
This is a topic that will shortly come to the fore because of an initiative currently being worked on at Major League Soccer -- a scheme to upgrade the refereeing in MLS.
I have some questions about that -- but they are not going to get answered by MLS. At least not right now. MLS spokesman Will Kuhns put it like this: "MLS is constantly looking to improve in all areas. Officiating is one of them, and one that we consider to be intertwined with the actions of players and coaches. The League is in active discussions with the United States and Canadian soccer federations and with various international officiating constituencies. We are determining our next steps in continuing to improve the overall quality of our games including officiating. Once those plans have been finalized, MLS will share them publicly."
Which leaves me to ponder and speculate. Very well, then. For a start -- is there anything drastically wrong with the current standard of MLS refereeing?
No, there is not. It is not the best in the world, nor is it the worst. Very much like all other refereeing, in fact. Is there, has there ever been, a soccer league in any country where the refereeing has not been under constant criticism? I have never run across such a place.
And who is it who levels the criticism? Why, invariably the coaches and players and fans of teams that are looking for a convenient -- actually, the traditional -- excuse for games that have been lost. Not, in other words, the most reliable or objective of critics.
Yes, American referees make mistakes. Yes, there are one or two MLS referees that I would not employ if I were running things. Well, so what? Once again, those circumstances will be paralleled anywhere in the world.
All things considered, I think American referees do a remarkably good job. They do work at a disadvantage, because unlike referees in the main soccer countries -- say, Germany, Italy, England, Argentina, Brazil -- they lack the step-ladder of leagues of increasing toughness in which to learn their profession. The widespread and numerous games of national fourth and third and second division pro leagues are not available to them.
This is not an easy problem to solve -- and it is certainly not one that can be tackled by bringing in foreign referees. And that seems to be where MLS is heading.
We have been through this before. When the National Professional Soccer League began operations in 1967 it employed English referees. Later the North American Soccer League used foreign referees on short "guest" stints. And as Director of Officials, the NASL employed two English ex-referees -- firstly Eddie Pearson, then Keith Walker.
It was not clear what the working referees were supposed to be accomplishing. Were they here because the Americans were adjudged to be simply hopeless, so there was no alternative? Or were they supposed to be making everyone better by their example?
The referees -- and I saw all of them, I think, in action -- never seemed to me to be any better than their American counterparts.
On occasion they were demonstrably worse -- the worst occasion being a notorious 1976 game in which Englishman Gordon Hill allowed Pele to be mercilessly kicked and battered.
You will notice that throughout the NPSL-NASL years (1967-1984) there was always a strong British presence, and therefore influence, at the pro level. That influence has diminished since then -- a happening that I, for one, find agreeable.
Yet here we have MLS working to restore it. MLS has, of course, already been in contact with the English refereeing community. An English ex-referee, Keith Hackett, has already been brought over here for discussions about an MLS position of Director of Officials.
The 67-year-old Hackett has considerable experience for such a job. He officiated for 16 years in the old English First Division, then finished his active career with two years in the EPL when it replaced the First Division. After retirement, he spent five years (2004-09) as the general manager of the body in charge of England's Professional Game Match Officials' Board.
Hackett is also well-known as the referee contributor to artist Paul Trevillion's classic "You Are the Ref" series (currently published weekly in The Guardian) - which poses and answers tricky refereeing questions.
There's more, because in 1982 Hackett spent two months in the USA as a guest referee, officiating at 17 games -- an experience he wrote about in his book "Hackett's Law," published in 1986. Reading his chapter "American Experience" does resolve a question I asked earlier, because Hackett says nothing about helping to improve American referees (in fact he doesn't even mention them) -- but he does state, three times, that he accepted the trip because "I felt sure it would improve my refereeing." (Maybe it did -- but it did nothing for his geography. Hackett displays typical English ignorance in calling Mexico a South American country.)
I think that Hackett's self-centered view was probably that of all of the guest referees -- it is not necessarily a blameworthy one as they do not seem to have been asked to do anything more than simply officiate. Anyway, refereeing 17 games in two months -- what time would there have been for anything else?
Despite his impressive background, Hackett has one absolutely fatal blot on his refereeing escutcheon, one that should immediately rule him out of consideration for any job in American soccer. Simply that he is English.
This means that Hackett comes with some 40 years of experience of the English game. Back in the NASL days we didn't know that much about English referees -- other than to assume that they must be good (though the iniquities of Gordon Hill ought to have warned us that something was amiss).
That naivete has long since been banished. Now, with the saturation TV coverage that we get of the EPL, we see English (or British) referees at work all the time. We know their style -- in particular, we know their approach to physical play. That approach can only be described as tolerant. More tolerant, I suggest, than that of referees anywhere else on the globe.
Certainly more tolerant than should be permitted in MLS. Don't take my word for it -- we had Commissioner Don Garber's appeal to referees, at the beginning of this season, that they should do more to protect skillful players.
MLS, struggling to find a place on the American sports scene, not only for itself, but for the sport of soccer, needs to offer the American public something more than another overtly physical game -- the NFL has that specialty sewn up. English-style refereeing would effectively undermine that necessity.
There is also the Hispanic factor. As the number of Hispanic players coming into American soccer grows, bringing with them a style of play that is neither known to, nor appreciated by, British referees. A more comprehensive approach to refereeing, an American-style refereeing, is needed as the game changes in this country.
To summarize: I am not saying that the refereeing in this country cannot be improved. Obviously it can -- as can refereeing everywhere. But I have total objection to any search for perfection. There is not -- nor can there be -- any such thing in refereeing. What we have at the moment, in MLS, seems to me to be working pretty well. Trying to make it better, praiseworthy as that sounds, presents some intractable problems.
Firstly, bringing in foreign referees accomplishes nothing. We've done it before, on a number of occasions, with little or nothing to show for it. The biggest obstacle to the education of American referees -- one that they have coped with remarkably well -- is the shortage of top-level game experience. The short-term answer to that suggests itself: fully professionalize American referees, and then work out deals with other countries whereby they can spend half their time as guest referees overseas.
A complicated and, no doubt, costly procedure, and one with no guarantee at all that the referees would come back to the USA greatly improved. Again the blight of a refereeing lex Britannica England descends: What would one expect from American referees returning from a six-month spell officiating in the lower levels of the Football League (I'm assuming the English would not consider them up to EPL's standards)?
If there existed a country that consistently produced top referees, that seemed to have discovered the secret of turning out referees who regularly made the right calls, who invariably, immediately, and impartially applied the correct interpretation of the rules, then OK, let's get together with those guys.
But such a scenario is a pipe dream. We know it is because we regularly see, at the World Cup, top referees making total asses of themselves -- the two worst errors, and they were really bad, at last year's World Cup were made by experienced officials from Uruguay and Italy. That same World Cup also served up excellent performances by referees from New Zealand and Uzbekistan, soccer-minnow countries that must have the same referee-education problems as the USA.
By engaging in a campaign to up the level of its refereeing, and by immediately involving foreign referees, MLS is not helping matters. In general -- whatever may be its professed intention -- it is sending a message that it is not satisfied with American referees.
It is also opening the way for -- indeed, seems to be inviting -- the very influence that refereeing in this country assuredly does not need: the British influence. Under no circumstances whatever should a Brit hold any position of authority in the American refereeing structure.
The sooner that MLS lets us know exactly what it is up to, the better things will be for everyone -- for MLS, for the sport in this country and, not least, for the American refereeing community, which does not deserve to have this implied criticism hovering over it.


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I joined the United States Marine Corps in 1988. That one sentence always makes me smile, because if you knew me, you'd be surprised I was a Marine. I'm not real military material – and Marines are the cream of the crop. But I made it through boot camp and spent 3 years in North Carolina and finally a year in Okinawa. I got out with an honorable discharge in 1992.
I did not serve in a typical Marine type of job. I worked in an office for the most part. I spent a year working as a Chaplain's assistant, then working for a Logistics office and finally for an Intelligence office while in Okinawa. I basically did…paperwork. But a Marine is a Marine is a Marine.
For someone whose job was to do paperwork, I was always surprised by the amount of time I spent out in the field on exercises and forced marches and other such non-administrative tasks. The reason for this is primarily tied to what I said already. A Marine is a Marine is a Marine. A Marine is to always be prepared to fight – no matter what their actual day-to-day job is.
I will be the first to admit to you that being a career Marine was not for me. That's why I got out. I had other ambitions and the lifestyle was a little more than what I wanted. But I always understood one thing about being a Marine. It was something to be looked at as a great honor. Not everyone wears that title and it's a title filled with a lot of history and should always be treated with great respect.
The Marine Corps motto is "Semper Fidelis" or "Semper Fi" which translates to "Always Faithful". In essence, the way I always understood this is that you are faithful to your God, your country, your family and the Corps. This is why even 20 years after getting out of the Corps, I still think of myself as a Marine. There is no such thing as an ex-Marine. We are a band of men and women who form a group that not many understand. It's an honorable group filled with dignity and blood and tears of many wars over the course of our history. Even if you never fought in a war, you are a part of that group because you are a Marine.
This is why I find myself in a very unenviable position today. This week a video came out of some Marine soldiers urinating on dead Taliban soldiers. As of this writing, it appears the video is legitimate. And as one may expect, this video has been met with outrage across the world.
However, I have seen a very confusing reaction amongst people in our own country. I – as a conservative Republican – tend to lean towards the attitudes that most conservatives share. So imagine my surprise when the general reaction of most conservatives I read about was basically, "eh…no big deal." No big deal? These Marines urinated on dead people! How is that not a HUGE deal? Being a Marine is supposed to stand for something! I don't care what the person who is dead did, we don't desecrate their bodies. Ever. Period.
I know and understand that these Taliban soldiers have done horrible things. I know that given half a chance, they'd have taken those Marines and done unspeakable things to them that makes urinating on them look like a day in the park. Does. Not. Matter. We, first as Marines, and second as AMERICANS, should always be better than this. We do not stoop to the same low levels of behavior that others do. That's grade-school mentality…"well they did it first!" It's ridiculous.
Let's look at another way. Consider the roles reversed – because they easily could be. Picture your brother, uncle, husband, father off fighting a war against some country. And the soldiers of that country killed your loved one and then stood over them and urinated on them. Then they videotaped it and put it out on the Internet for the world to see. At that point do you still think its ok? If your answer to that question is: "Well the Taliban does/did horrible things to us so they deserved it!" then you are still leading with a grade-school mentality.
And how about this? If urinating on them is ok – after all their dead and they deserve it…how is that any different from chopping off an ear for a souvenir? Cutting their head off and using it for a soccer ball? Or as gross as this sounds – eating a part of them? Why is one thing ok but the others cross a line?
Now before anyone thinks I'm taking to task only the conservative side of our country – let me be clear on one thing – I don't support the liberal side's position either. While there tends to be the moral outrage amongst them on this issue that I do agree with – it seems that their moral outrage is not put in the same place as it usually is when there is a Republican president in office.
A few years ago – some soldiers did some despicable things to prisoners in Abu Ghraib and the first thing many liberals did – was blame George W. Bush. Where is the outrage against Barack Obama in this case of the Marines?
The left tend to take great excitement when a Marine defends the ludicrousness known as Occupy Wall Street but then turn on them in any case involving the military and their actions against other countries. Their moral outrage is in no way consistent and in many cases hypocritical.
Ultimately, regardless of political belief, it is my belief that what these Marines did is not only wrong, it's criminal and it goes against anything honorable about a Marine. They should go to jail for these actions. As Marines, we need to remember who we are, what our history is, what we stand for and always act accordingly. These men did not and as such have lost my respect. While I will be "always faithful" to the Corps, I will not extend that to those four soldiers. They no longer deserve it.


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The North's economy is twice the size of Scotland, and larger than that of Sweden, Denmark and Belgium. But how productive are Northern workers? How efficient are we at actually doing things compared to the rest of the UK? Until recently the answer to this question was simple: not very, and getting worse, while the country as a whole is faltering relative to its competitors.
However, recent figures on 'productivity per hour' and per filled job in different areas of the UK show that (while the gap is still wide) between 2009 and 2011 all three Northern regions gained ground on the national productivity rate, while London slipped.
Earlier this week, yet more statistics revealed that areas whose economies aren't conventionally thought of as being highly productive – Blackburn and Darwen, Durham, Blackpool, Bradford, Sunderland and Tyneside – were also gaining ground.
With the North having restructured its economy away from heavy industry in favour of modern sectors such as biotechnology, advanced manufacturing, business and financial services, are these figures a result of these changing structures, and a glimpse of changing fortunes?
This is, lamentably, unlikely. Despite the efforts and innovations of companies in the North, these figures are more likely to be showing the very opposite of the business confidence needed for the North to drive its way out of recession.
Recessions can have a different impact on different firms' decisions, depending on how they feel about future prospects: if they are confident of resurgence they are likely to hold on to staff and tolerate low productivity; if they are less confident they may lay off staff and so will, in the short term, become relatively more productive.
Does this mean therefore that London firms are more confident of their prospects than Northern firms? Paradoxically, is improving productivity a bad sign? London's over-reliance on the finance sector is likely to play a large part also – a sector which has seen a recent dip in productivity – but these figures do raise questions.
However, the questions raised are not simply about the "UK economy", but about the economy in Sefton, in Sunderland, in Northumberland, in Bristol, Dudley and Dunbartonshire.
In short, the questions that need asking relate to the real economies, as people go about their work and spend their money. These are questions that are rooted in people's lives as they are lived, not as they are theorised down in Whitehall and on Threadneedle Street.
It is increasingly being recognised – not least thanks to the work of Tory grandee Lord Heseltine, which the government (partially) acknowledged – that it is these local economies that are the cornerstones and building blocks of our economy. As the country tries to dig its way out of recession, driving local growth is not only the most efficient way to drive national growth, but is the best way of engendering prosperity for the people who labour to make that growth happen.
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This is from Heinz, I like the flavor that the ketchup, mustard, etc add. I like to back it with cheese on top, although it's not in the original recipe. Great for leftovers or to freeze.
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My dad requested some comfort food, and this came out how we were hoping. I made a few substitutions: V8 as opposed to tomato juice, rice flour as opposed to all-purpose, and yellow mustard as opposed to dijon. Also, I left the skin on my mashed potatoes, and I thought that gave it good texture. Next time, I'll cut back on the dried herbs as I felt those were a little overwhelming. Thank you for posting.
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- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 teaspoon each dried thyme and rosemary
- 1 teaspoon each salt and pepper, divided
- 1 lb lean ground beef
- 4 teaspoons all-purpose flour
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- 1 cup frozen mixed vegetables (such as peas and carrots)
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- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 2⁄3 cup warm milk
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- Crumble meat into pan and cook until brown all over. Sprinkle with flour. Stir in ketchup, tomato juice, Worcestershire sauce and mustard. Simmer for 5 minutes. Stir in mixed vegetables. Transfer to a 9-in (23-cm) baking dish.
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Identification of key competences of DB clients in the construction market of China
Xia, Bo & Chan, Albert (2009) Identification of key competences of DB clients in the construction market of China. In 5th International Structural Engineering and Construction Conference (ISEC-5), 21-27 September 2009, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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The design-build system has been demonstrated as an effective delivery method and gained popularity worldwide. Although there are an increasing number of clients adopting DB method in China, most of them remain inexperienced with method. The objective of this study is therefore to identify the key competences that a client or its consultant should possess to ensure the success of DB projects. Face-to-face interviews and a two-round Delphi questionnaire survey were conducted to find the following six key competences of clients, which include the
(1) ability to clearly articulate project scope and objectives; (2) financial capacity for DB projects; (3) capability in contract management; (4) adequate staff or consulting team; (5) effective coordination with contractors and (6) experience with similar DB projects.
This study will hopefully provide clients with measures to evaluate their DB competence and further promote their understanding of DB system in the PRC.
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did not appropriately forecast expenses in a clinical trial. So the firm ran out of money mid-trial. The problem, says Dombal, was that the company had planned on paying for clinical trials the same way one pays for a construction project, i.e., upon completion of major phases. But that's not usually the case. If a clinical site delivers data on two patients, it wants payment for those two, Dombal says. "So you do not have the ability to accrue costs for the long term," and this particular company's plan did not reflect that, he says. People inside the company overseeing the trial understood how these payments worked, but they apparently were never asked for their input, he says. The company ran out of cash and liquidated all of its assets. It is sad to see, says Dombal, how the inability to ask the right questions inside a company can have such detrimental results—all the money and effort that went into developing this drug candidate is gone.
Another shocking example is that of a company that was finishing a large Phase III clinical trial and was getting ready to submit it for approval to the FDA. The company approached Halloran seeking help with putting together the FDA dossier. That's when Halloran discovered that two of the company's vendors—one in the clinical space and one in the manufacturing space—had severe issues. "One didn't even have a quality system at all, no documentation," Dombal says. The realization came after Halloran visited the vendors—something the company had not done. If the FDA visited the facilities, they would never pass muster, so Halloran had to break the bad news to the company: in its view, the NDA should not be filed. Essentially, the company has to start all over again. It has to manufacture the drug at a different facility and repeat big portions of its clinical program. "We're talking tens of millions of dollars that are now lost," Dombal says. "These are things that you would think could possibly never happen in our industry, and yet they do."
One last example Dombal gave me was of a company with a combination product—a combo of a drug and a device—that failed to request designation from the FDA as to whether its product should be approved primarily as a drug or a device. The process is straightforward, says Dombal, consisting of an 8- to 10-page summary in which the company asks the agency to review its product through either the office that regulates devices or drugs, with supporting input from the remaining office. Because the company skipped that step, the product ended up in a division that wasn't the best fit, Dombal says. Questions from the agency came up, and the product is now on clinical hold. "Does the product warrant clinical hold? Absolutely not," says Dombal. "Did they make a tactical mistake? Yes. They assumed that FDA would understand the technology and did not ensure the right people were involved in the review." The company is now working to set up a meeting with FDA to resolve the issue, and that effort has cost them nearly 3 months and $65,000.
All these anecdotes make me wonder: what would the $1.3 billion figure look like if one eliminated all failures due to human error, or incompetence, and only counted the unfortunate cases of failures from drugs that just weren't efficacious enough, no matter how hard the company tried? Maybe that's the number everyone should strive for.
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Re: Parents weekend in October 2013Nick Seidler Oct 7, 2013 3:12 PM (in response to Shelley Schumann)
Parking should be available on-campus for free that day for parents while available. The full parents and family weekend schedule can be found here:
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Re: Parents weekend in October 2013Shelley Schumann Oct 8, 2013 7:51 AM (in response to Nick Seidler)
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I liked sword art online. But the sibling attraction and the second season not being as good as the first threw me off.
This should do.
A lot of people really underestimate how deep Naruto and Naruto Shippuden's story line actually is and how well they both connect the past and point to the future. They think that it's just a bunch of ninjas with crazy powers fighting for no reason. I think that's why Naruto has so much haters.
This should do.
The only anime I've seen that I genuinely hated was the movie DEAD LEAVES (although I really did not like AKIRA.... close to hate,mainly the art style,but not quite). I've disliked other anime but I hated dead leaves.
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High School of the Dead, off the top of my head. I couldn't tell if the show wanted to focus on zombies or panty shots and unrealisticaly jiggly breasts. I'm very skeptical of shows that use high amounts of fanservice to grow their audience. Couldn't bring myself to watch it.
I don't like shows that focus on that but hey, us women can be pretty guilty at times too.
Like how I started watching Blue Exorcist because I saw the cover of the first manga volume at Barnes and Nobles, and thought the main character looked hot..
Or how I'm going to be watching Free! only because of shirtless guys swimming.
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Hating an anime really depends on your taste: you see, I don't like scifi, so I tend to dislike scifi anime. Just as a scifi fan might love a scifi anime.
What I find most important, though, is the characters, the character development and the plot. So here's some anime where I thought that all was real bad.
Sword Art Online: I will admit, the first arc was a lot of fun to watch, even though it was repetitious. But the characters were very bland and boring and were all perfect with no flaws. Even Kirito, the hikikomori, still scored more girls than the "hot boys" in my grade could. The plot was horribly written and had many holes in it (he even came back to life in the end.. da fuq?) But I can't lie and say I didn't enjoy watching it. Well, the first arc that is.
Elfen Lied: Blood, gore, and a bad ass chick... with an extremely boring personality. The only thing you know about her, Lucy, is that she has a split-personality. Then it starts going into her past.. honestly, it was very boring and hard to watch.
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Hey, i know this is off topic (kinda), But why do people hate spiral? I never seen it but is it really that bad? Someone, please respond.
I hate nearly all long-running shows like: Naruto, Naruto Shipuuden, One Piece, Fairy Tail and Beelzebub. Mainly because they use extremely long time to actually get somewhere, and secondly because mega-super-ultimate-battles lasting four or five episodes are amazingly irritating. Also, their main characters are all arrogant teenagers.
But the winner of my Most Hated Competition is Code:Breaker. The series is a cliched reruse of boring tropes, and even as much as I like shows about people with super-esper powers, the shows premise, characters and incredibly stiff dialogue make for a hopefully soon forgotten viewing experience.
I'm going to get a lot of shit for this, but I really can't stand Free!. I really don't see why this is hyped at all.
Unless you count the fact that the same 14-year-old girls who will bitch about people sexually objectifying women just want to sexually objectifying the main characters.
http://somebitchypikofan.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/free-first-impression/ (if you want the full reason)
Next is Amnesia. My God, it was boring. There was literally nothing there but a bunch of pretty pictures moving.
Now I want to talk about Hetalia. I'll put in in less than ten words: not funny and annoying characters.
Then we have Lucky Star. I watched all the episodes of this piece of shit when I was in sixth grade, and I liked it. Now, it saddens me when I remember that I actually liked it. Basically, it's like watching a documentary of someone else's life. I didn't feel for the characters, I didn't relate, and nothing happens. I mean, I know it's a slice of life, but for fuck's sake, make something happen.
And last but not least, Black Rock Shooter. Good fucking LORD was this a steaming pile of rotten flesh decaying in the hot dessert of Arizona. The story made no sense at all. Look, if you're in the middle of the anime, you're supposed to know what the hell is happening! That's not the case with this. The characters are also nothing that special. And GOD DAMN KAGARI THAT ANNOYING LITTLE SHIT!
White, cis, teenaged girl here.
Yeah Slamdunk was poop
Lil wayne is bad and you should feel bad
SAO was good in the beginning but it kills it later on.
typical gary stu.
and then there's shitty anime like Fairy Tail. (i never read the manga but i heard its better than anime)
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I strongly dislike most any show Mech related.
There isn't a single show that I can say I hate the most, but here are a few shows that do create a burning passion of hatred inside me every time I try to watch them:
K-on: I was hoping for another cool, music based anime (Like BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad). Sadly, there is very little actual music in K-on, and the little bit of it that is there is lackluster. Seriously, you would think from the quality of the show's opening that K-on would have a ton of awesome animated musical acts, but sadly it is not to be.
Elfen Lied: There is not nearly as much gore as people say there is in this show. The only really gory parts are all in the first half of the first episode. I realize this is Studio Arms we are talking about here, so maybe this might be me asking a little too much, but I would appreciate less nudity in my non-hentai anime. I can accept shows like Mezzo Forte and whatnot, because those were originally hentai that get non-hentai versions or spin-offs made because they were actually pretty good, but it is my understanding that Elfen Lied was not supposed to be a hentai. Ever. I am one of those people who doesn't really like fanservice outside of shows that are designed to be full of fanservice already. But Elfen Lied takes fanservice to a whole new level.
Sword Art Online: There really isn't anything good about this show at all other than the animation quality. The characters are bland. The supposedly riveting death scenes that I was told existed in the first few episodes were boring, and had pretty much the same effect as Another's death scenes (in other words, because none of the characters were characterized, their deaths didn't really mean anything to me), only unlike Another, there was no gore. At least Another's deaths could still be disturbing because of their gore factor even if you didn't feel anything from their death scenes. SAO's were just boring. The action was meh, and the story was laughably hilarious. Seriously, I don't think I can name a story with more plot holes.
Devil May Cry: I just have one question for the people who made this anime. How can you takes one of the best videogame franchises (A franchise that has some of the best action scenes I have ever seen, in any medium) and make it so boring? Seriously, the action is either bland, or off screen, and the writing for 3/4 of the series is bad. There are a few episodes that are well done, but that is still unacceptable.
Oreimo: I can accept that some shows that pander to the Otaku fetishes can be good. Hell, I like a lot of Key Visual Novel anime adaptations, and those are full of Otaku fetishes. But there is a point where I have to draw the line, and a show about playing porno games with your sister is where I am drawing it. People keep telling me it is good, and I am dissapointed every time I retry it.
Gurren Lagann: Every time someone states this is their favorite mech show, I die a little bit inside. It is true I have never been a big fan of super-robot shows (Real-robots ftw) but Gurren Lagann takes it to the point where the show actually manages to give me headaches. The worst part, is that the show had a ton of potential. That first episode was cool. I think if they did a City of Ember style, we need to leave the underground city and find the surface kind of story, with the robot as their vehicle, it could have been pretty interesting. Sadly, we got a lot of two-dimensional characters, a dumb story, and a lot of bullshit explanations.
One Piece: OK, I can't say I hate One Piece, but I did watch about 20 episodes, and I was bored to tears by all of them. I really don't see why it is so popular.
Out collecting souls to prolong my lifespan
I dislike Dears (don't watch it! I can't explain why...), Lucky Star (bored the crap out of me), Rosario + Vampire and any of the Dragon Ball anime (I may be the only one who hates it. My reason: there's too much screaming, it breaks the rules of not respecting the dead -if you get what I mean- and other stuff).
Now to express my opinion: I like School Days (the entire thing wasn't caused by Makoto if you noticed but it's just me. Yet again, I have an odd habit of paying TOO close to what's going on) and I like Boku no Pico. (It's a yaoi. My only guess is that those who mainly don't like the anime aren't used to watching yaoi. I also like watching any shounen-ai and yaoi anime that I can get).
Yet again, this entire forum is all opinion-based (I have seen about 100 anime within the past 4 years and there isn't a lot that I hate since I like every genre regardless of what it is).
In a mood to watch as many anime as I can!! :D
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Re: Abbreviating path name in task bar tabs
I have Mathematica 8 myself so I don't know if this works in 7 but you could try setting WindowTitle to
"ShortFileName" in the options inspection menu (in 8 you do this via Format > Option Inspector..., select
Global Preferences from left-most pull-down menu and search for WindowTitle).
On 1 Jul 2011, at 09:49, Zaph wrote:
> I'm working on several Mathematica files at the same time. The file tabs in the task bar display the whole path, which is too long, and I can't see the file names. Is it possible to abbreviate the path in the task bar tabs, and only show file names? See screenshot annotated in Skitch:
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Hi All,
I've just spent about 2-3 hours looking for the prewired 12-pin alarm connector behind the glovebox but was unable to find it.
I even looked at the driver side and a bunch of connectors in the middle console.
Is there a way of checking wether or not the car is prewired at all ?
I found a green/blue connecto taped up to a cable harness, but that clearly isn't the one I'm looking for.
Any suggestions concerning the exact location ?
Can I unplug/plug all connectors behind the glovebox without triggering any warning lights ?
I am trying to install a UAS alarm which should plug into this connector without addiional wiring etc.
Thanks in advance four your help !!
Look in the trunk, the plugs that hold the liner in place above the light, some of them will have printed what's the car is pre-wire for. At least my 2000 does
As you are looking at the mess of wires/boxes/connectors from the pass seat, it shpould be on the upper left side, wrapped with that grey foam tape and taped to a metal support bracket. I had a hard time finding it and ended up feeling it etc...
'97 Z3 2.8 Alarm connector location and installation.
Thanks guys,
I've just spent more time looking for the elusive connector but haven't been able to find it.
Short from taking apart the whole assembly behind the glovebox Idon't think I'll find it there.
Someone seems to have done some rewiring in this car.
Why do I think that ?
Well for starters the seat heating switches aren't located in the front console but between the seats in the back of the center console.
There's another connector there, which was wrapped in the mentioned grey foam.
Looks like an exact copy of the one for the airco and recirculation switch but is wired differently. Hope I didn't blow a fuse when I tried the mentioned switches in there.
Secondly the installed Traffic Pro should have been installed by using the standard BMW connector for the AUDIO, but one wire has been cut and rerouted to somewhere inside the drivers footwell and another one goes up to the instrument cluster....
No idea where or why though.... One of them is the GAL sensor that's for sure but that information should haven been available on the Audio connector right ?
The connectors for the hood switch and the radio switch are there but the one for the siren I haven't located yet. The first two lead me to believe the car is partially wired for an alarm, but the absence of the siren connector might be a contra indication for that ?
Guess I'll have to do the wiring by hand and not use the connector supplied.
All connections apart from the siren are located behind the glovebox and inside the driver well so it's a hassle but doable I guess......
But first I'll have another look around both the driver and passenger well. It might heav been relocated by the previous owner if he did do some serious rewiring.
Have sent UAS an email requesting their help, but they are on holiday till monday....
Thanks for the help sofar..... I'll let you know how things pan out in the end.....
Any other suggestions on installing the alarm (Location of wires and alike) or locating the connector somewhere else are welcome off course.
Greetxn Peter
Over at Z3ers.com, there's a writeup on installing an Ungo Alarm, complete with pictures (around page 6) that should help you.
Maybe somewhere else, anyone ?
Greetxn Peter
It might help me with the splicing since they also mention the cable colours in the BMW harness.
But I would gladly avoid that and be able to use the connector if I'll ever find it.
Only US cars are prewired for the factory alarm. Your car doesn't have the alarm harness.
I'd suggest getting an aftermarket alarm.
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It is a european car that's for sure...
Any idea why the US cars are prewired and the europeans aren't ?
As far as I know they're all produced in the USA.
I'd already given up on finding the connector and am trying to figure the right splice points behind the glovebox.
So far I've been able to track all connections down right behind the glovebox and the driver's footwell, including possible sources of power.
I have an aftermarket alarm from UAS but that is supplied with a BMW style connector, so I am thinking of keeping that and trying to get the right connector from BMW stealer.
If that's too expensive I'll just cutoff the connector from the alarm harness and try and make a nice job of the splicing anyway.
There are a bunch of those orange splicing monsters supplied with the alarm, but I don't like the look of a lot of them somewher behind the existing connectors.
The connectors I'd have to disconnected seem OK by me without getting any engine warning lights etc.
And the prewiring is just that, a bunch off wires and nothing else...
But I'm not looking forward to the job itself to be honest, since it might end up being a mess of wires, however hard I try to avoid that.
Greexn Peter
Last edited by pjecremers; 05-09-2010 at 01:50 PM.
I kind of miss the cruise control on this car, so that knowledge might come in handy whenever I get around to doing that job too. Naahhhhhh.
And the lcation for the seat heater switches seems to be the correct one for this car, ooooppppssss.
Most of the pictures I'd seen sofar had been with the heaterswitches in the front.
Which is more ergonomical in my opinion, I always have to look back down to switch the seatheater on or off.
But one might get used to it in time, if one would drive more in wintertime I guess.
Greetxn Peter
Last edited by johnf; 05-09-2010 at 03:24 PM.
If You end up cutting the BMW connector off, I'd be intrested in it.
Would have made my life easier that's for sure.
They'd rather charge their customers 2-3 hours of installation than really help them enjoying their car.
Greetxn Peter
Here's a picture of the location of the alarm module behind the glove box of a US Z3, from Ron Stygar's website.
Alarm install finished, almost ready to go....
I've just completed the installation after having found a German site with more electrical diagrams, including one for the 1998 model.
They keep calling my purple connector yellow, whereas it certainly isn't, but the wire colors are in line with the colors on my purple connector.
Furthermore the same site had an alarm install DIY with the purple connector.
This one regulates amongst other things the central locking and I was able to confirm that the necessary pins where the ones I needed for the installation.
So there are some differences between the 1997 electrical diagram and my Z3 and I hoped to have some luck with the connection for the flashing of the hazard lights whenever the alarm was being armed etc.
But it seems this 1998 diagram does have the same wire colors as I found in my car, but not all functionality is present in my car it seems.
So I'll probably have to pull a wire from the left hand side of the car to the right hand side to get that working too, helas.........
But hey, the installation went slow but OK, I didn't break anything or blow some fuse or worse : some module.
Better safe than sorry, I say........
The alarm seems to work and most importantly :
I've now got remote control on the locks of my 1997 Z3 with some decent FOB's and not the hideous BMW/Alpine blocks.
(Apologies to all the proud owners of an Alpine alarm,but I don't like the 70's look of those things and probably would have changed the alarm if one had been builtin when I bought the car.)
Greetxn Peter
You might try tapping into the hazard/flasher switch, it's a mechanical on/off.
Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately the output of the alarm is a 12V supply not a connection to ground, which is what the hazard switch does I think.
But I did find out why it isn't working anyway........
First of all the alarm switched the wrong output on/off.
The one going to the connector is only switched when the (additional wire) auxilary output should be triggered and vice versa.
Thankfully I'm a nosy electrical engineer and I checked the wiring harness beforehand or otherwise I would have been looking for that one for some time I guess.
I had soldered everything up underneath the dash and have the resulting neckache to show for it
I didn't want to do that again so I simply switched the two pins on the alarmconnector. EasyPeasy......
Both wirecolors on that connector are the same orange so it's an easy to make/understandable error in production, but I'll still send UAS an e-mail. The last one I sent hasn't been answered yet but hey you never know......
But the flashers still didn't work when arming the alarm. The alarm relais make a lot of noise so I'm certain it's sending the right signal on the right wire now.
After that I checked the driver's footwell for the crash control module.
There are only two relais there i.s.o. three and one of them looks like the module in the pictures but it only has 4 pins i.s.o. 8 or 9 so........
Turns out it's a cheap version that only bridges certain pins.
Maybe that's why the desigantion on it says : Siemens Bridge connector right........
Looking further on the net and realoem.com I gather that not all cars in Europe were fitted with this important safety device but can be retrofitted.
All the cabling needed is there.
Trust me............ I checked to see if my alarm is connected to the right pin.
To make a long story a little bit shorter I'll probably spent some $50-$60 on getting one which should make life a little bit safer and the installation a complete succes.
Should be simply replacing the bridge and hey presto falshing when arming works as well..
With the added benefit of unlocking the doors etc. in the event of a crash which hopefully never happen..
Will keep you all posted on the progress.
But it being a Saturday here and the fact that garages don't work on Saturday's I'll have to postpone buying it till monday.
And they'll probably have to order it for me.
Greetxn Peter
PS. Still wondering where the third relay went. Will try to figure that one out next I guess. Should be either the fuel pump relay or the high beam relay.
Last edited by pjecremers; 05-15-2010 at 05:40 AM.
I added a door lock/unlock - hazard switch from an X5 in place of the mechanical haz switch that comes OEM on our Z's. I placed a true flip flop relay/switch under the console, gutted and rewired the haz side of the X5 switch for a momentary ON function. The flip flop switch on recieving a 12v pulse, flops and stays flopped until it recieves another 12v pulse etc........ works well. I hooked the lock/unlock side up to pin 19 (I think) on the General module (Ron Stygar's mod) so now I have a trick Haz flasher / door unlock switch.
How did you do it Peter ?
Hi Peter,
I was hoping to add a remote keyless entry to my Z3 1.9 (1996) but only found a yellow and light blue connector behind the glove compartment.
So no alarm connector as well for me...
Hopefully you can help me to indentify the right wires to use, as my quest over the internet only lead to a lot of contradictionary results.
Thx in advance.
Jos Beenen
Alarm installation : How did I do it......
First of all, you should have more connectors in there, but I guess you're implying those are the only ones that are not connected.
The blue one is the pre-wiring for the cruise control module and the yellow one I'm not sure about, kind of depends on the number of pins.
But could be ASC+T which is what I've got un my 2.8 as standard and the 1.9 lacks as far as I know.....
And as I stated earlier, the alarm pre-wiring is only available on US models....
The connectors needed are connected mainly to the GM module or ZKE module. So be prepared to take out this module, but it's not that hard.
One more warning : The central locking module for the BMW is kind of specific, so make sure you get a unit that's made for the BMW 3-series or the Z3 specifically.
The BMW electronics are +12V sensitive, whereas most central locking units are GND driven, so they switch to ground i.s.o. +12V.
You probably won't break anything but it will not work without using additional relays, diodes and wiring.
I'm an electrical engineer, but didn't fancy that myself, hence the american import from UAS through Aruba.......
I was going to post the wiring scheme I figured out anyway, so I've attached my excell file converted to PDF.
The wires/pins I used are marked in green, the other ones could be used but these made more sense to me.......
Watch the connector colors and the number of pins it can get confusing, especially with the yellow and balck ones.
The two colored connectors from the ZKE are located at the front of the module and are easy to reach and disconnect.
Push back the locking lip and flip the lock itself back around the connector and it will unseat itself.
The black one with 18 pins is located at the back of the module and that's why you probably have to take it out if you need the +12V acc connection.
Which might not be necessary when all you want is remote locking.
The other connection I made on this connector was for the flashing of the hazards lights when arming/disarming the alarm, but I haven't got that working (yet...)
The crash alarm module I bought and installed didn't solve that for me and even if it had it would flash the headlights, not the hazard lights.....
There are some differences between the 1.9 an 2.8 I've got, but it shouldn't affect the connnections I've used.
One remark though, as of april 97 the wiring loom for the 2.8 (and probably the 1.9 too) is different than the one for the models before, so make sure the colors and the pins match exactly.
Good luck and let me know how you fared with this.
If you PM your details to me I'll be happy to help you further along if you get stuck.....
Greetxn Peter.
PS. If I went overboard with the explenations keep in mind I answered for the benefit of other forum members too.....
And they might just be a novice like me when I started on this unexpected journey after not being able to locate the alarm connector
Last edited by pjecremers; 05-30-2010 at 03:20 AM. Reason: Grammar and spelling errors
hi I have E36 sedan 1998 whit alarm in Zkv modul, the alarm pre-wiring at factory, when i buy this car it has funktion just the central lockin system, and i reprogramed the key whit locking unlocking button, and interior light button, but the hazard lights not flashing, and if i hold the lock button and the front windows not closed, i hold the buton but do anyting.
Please help me
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