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A funeral service for Denny G. Sonnenfelt, 66, will be held at 2:00 P.M. Monday, July 2, 2012 at the Douglas High School Auditorium in Douglas, Wyoming with Pastor Wes Walton officiating. Interment will be in the Douglas Park Cemetery. Denny Sonnenfelt a resident of Douglas died Thursday, June 28, 2012 at the emergency room of the Memorial Hospital of Converse County in Douglas from injuries received in horse accident. He was born June 2, 1946 in Valentine, Nebraska the son of Cecil Frank and Letha Lorraine (Robertson) Sonnenfelt. He was raised and educated in Nebraska graduating from the Kilgore High School in 1964. He attended Chadron State College in Chadron, Nebraska. He worked for Rogers' Ford in Douglas for 26 years in the parts department and North Antelope Coal Mine for 18 years in the warehouse and his final job was being an expediter. He retired from the mine on May 30, 2012. He was married to Neva Osterman for 18 years and to this union four children were born. He was married to Debra (Uhlich) Coombs for 24 years. Denny was a very talented and a man of many interests which included hunting, music, playing in a band for 30 years, he could play several different instrument, leather work, making knives, gunsmith work, Cowboy Mounted Shooting, and writing poetry and songs. He kept himself fit by running and lifting weights. He was a very proud grandfather. He was a member of the First Baptist Church and Sportsmen for Wildlife. He is survived by his wife, Debra Sonnenfelt, of Douglas; parents, Cecil and Letha Sonnenfelt of Grand Island, Nebraska; children, Debra (George) Harty of Lusk, Wyoming, Tracy (Tom) Mohon of Douglas, Justin (Meredith) Sonnenfelt of Omaha, Nebraska, and Jason (Elizabeth) Sonnenfelt of Tucson, Arizona; step-sons, Bryan (Dawn) Coombs and Joshua (Kristina) Coombs both of Morgantown, West Virginia; sisters, Sandra (Bill) Lawrey and Diane (Don) Saver both of Grand Island; grandchildren, Austin and Kyle Sonnenfelt, Haley and Teagan Coombs, Brittany and Amber Lee, and Lee and Lindsay Mohon; father-in-law, Art Uhlich, of Douglas; and numerous nieces and nephews. Denny was preceded in death by his mother-in-law, Pauline Uhlich, on November 2, 2004. Serving as pallbearers will be George Harty, Tom Mohon, Wes Hineman,, Wes Hineman II, Ward Hineman, and Aaron Donner. Serving as honorary pallbearers will be Wes Walton, Kevin Perry, Bob Harty, Lee Mohon, Gene Uhlich, Les Shearer, and Bret Frye. Family and friends may call at the funeral home on Sunday from 4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. and on Monday from 9:00 A.M. to 12 Noon. A memorial to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Attention: Donor Services, P.O. Box 650309, Dallas, Texas 75265 would be appreciated by the family. The Gorman Funeral Homes – Converse Chapel of Douglas is in charge of the arrangements. Condolences may be sent to the family at gormanfh.com
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Moving on it's not nearly as fascinating as a fiscal cliff.
But what's your side doing to get this deal done -- look as though -- moving anyway.
Well I think you know Democrats are -- mean that we're looking at what happened the election which was solid victory for President Obama and Democrats in the senate.
Which basing this campaign was fought over.
A battle of ideas which was a -- -- advocated for raising taxes on the wealthy those making more than 200000 dollars in protecting.
Socialist security Medicare.
And they ran against the -- Ryan.
Plan which was to cut taxes for the wealthy and privatize Medicare and voters present only gave.
In support of -- vision of Democrats on that front and I think that.
You know what Obama and Democrats are doing is saying look we just had what's the you know -- real time poll here which is election.
And voters said hey I support the democrats' vision raising taxes on the wealthy.
And protecting Social Security Medicare and I think it really is going to be -- two Republicans -- to come to terms with their defeat in November.
And compromise.
But let me bring in -- -- -- -- now with his former political director with the Alabama Republican Party -- senior vice president with the Winston great good to see you -- I enjoy your also equally delighted revenues from England that the royals are expecting.
I'm I'm I'm ecstatic and surprised we didn't get bumped.
Oh hole you could still be don't tempt fate.
But -- Ben's point it is that we would mean through the election.
The votes as.
In his view gave.
The Democrats and President Obama a mandate.
The -- view of the way these fiscal cliff negotiations.
Should be settled.
Would you agree -- that you know that the Republicans have got to come around into the democrats' view of thinking at least to some extent.
Well I think that the Democrats and President Obama need to be very careful with how they interpret their mandate harking back to.
What President Bush did in 2004 -- Social Security if you look at the exit polling from the election and we had just a couple of weeks ago.
63% of the electorate of voters who voted said that in terms of whether taxes should be raised to deal with the deficit 63% said no.
-- so I think the Democrats seem to be really careful with how they interpret.
This election as -- mandate for raising taxes.
Aren't that -- what and where do you think.
That the President Obama.
Should and will depend somewhat on the spending cuts because you're not gonna -- this just by raising taxes everybody knows that.
They've got to be cuts in net what do you think he should cut what do you think he will agree to -- ultimately.
Why think first Republicans need to agree to raise taxes on the top 2% those making more than turned 50000 dollars -- -- The reality is polling showed consistently.
That voters strongly support raising taxes on the wealthy a specifically on those making more than -- 50000 dollars and above.
And I think what I think was important for these negotiations -- -- can come to agreement on that include and representative Tom coale from Oklahoma very conservative.
Member of congress basically is agreed to that several other -- Republican members of congress are agreeing to that.
And I think speaker Boehner needs to get his caucus together.
And put the votes up and teaming up with Democrats in the congress.
And I think they can support raising taxes on the wealthy first and that gives us time to negotiate the tougher.
Reform because that that's going to be much much much more difficult to address Social Security interest Medicare trust -- right.
That have to be hot so that's what they gonna come from Ben in the -- -- you would agree that we got to look at those.
At least some reforms I mean it's hard to do the whole thing I -- I -- -- was an agreement that we can't you just do this on revenues alone.
But I think in terms of the near term negotiations.
It's overwhelming to me the polling is overwhelming that voters strongly support raising tax on the wealthy several members of republic Republican members of congress to come out.
In favor of that so it least let's tackle it.
You know that part of -- that by just more time to negotiate it and for -- the -- details and moving forward.
-- -- -- dad so did cups where do you where what do you want to see from your side President Obama to agree to full cuts and do you think.
Republicans will have to agree to -- to -- Taxes well on the issue of -- I -- -- the what the Democrats have proposed so far it's really nothing in most of what they -- and that's those are things that haven't.
We're agreed to back in 2011 along with the increase spending about to go back to the point and then just made up.
When he's talking about raising taxes on the wealthy there's an overlook -- -- anything I stations which is.
That is going to hit -- 194000.
Small businesses that's a very serious consequence to consider as we need Ford that's a very serious concern for the speaker and -- house Republicans.
But all right so we do we do we look at cuts.
Taxes taxes taxes a -- and the Democrats are saying.
Two Republicans Myra I you go to all agree that they got to go all the with the wealthy have to pay a little bit more.
I think the question needs to be what solution is going to get this economy going against me it's not about -- -- -- cut here -- we -- there it really is about how do we get economic growth going in this country again.
-- increasing government spending clearly has not worked so.
We need to start with the outcome that we're trying to get -- which is getting the country on a path to economic growth again.
-- -- your your point would be you improve.
The economy you get jobs growing -- you get more people paying into the taxes and you increase revenue that way.
You get economic growth going again -- back to my original point when you try to raise taxes on 894000.
Small businesses that is not the way to do it.
Ben what about that.
Well I just look at the last two decades right under Clinton Clinton raise taxes on the wealthiest.
And we had it a decade of strong economic growth.
George Bush cut taxes and everybody including the wealthiest and we had a decade of poor economic growth so I think the facts speak for themselves here that if you raise taxes slightly on the wealthy just to where they were under Clinton.
That's one way because what happens is.
By maintain that -- the key I think -- democrats' perspective is.
We need to actually maintain the tax cuts on middle class families and I think that's the risk that Republicans are running right now -- out there and that Democrats are strongly saying.
When you raise taxes on the wealthiest -- done very well the last over years.
And protect those tax cuts for the middle class so we don't raise tax on middle class the way the Republicans are behaving.
They're gonna Travis over the fiscal -- that's gonna raise tax on middle class and run this coming back in the recession look all the polling is clear.
That voters are gonna blame the Republicans for that so I think opponents -- to be very very careful here now -- -- they are.
On the wrong side of public opinion there are on the wrong side of the election.
And I just think that they have to come to terms -- have.
The rehab the new reality which is there and then they they they lost election voters supported.
Obama Democrats and -- that vision of raising tax on the wealthy and I think that that that the biggest point right now Republicans need to come to terms with that.
And some of -- you -- and some -- come around to it and I just think it's up to speaker Boehner to show some leadership.
And get his caucus to agree with what most.
Voters in this country want.
-- would -- would you agree that other Republicans are under more pressure -- that President Obama does hold the whip and well that's.
I think I think both sides feel the pressure him and recognize the severity of the situation are facing but let's go back to Ben's point about.
Going back to when looking at what Clinton did attacks -- -- nice you really have to take -- more holistic look at what Clinton did with taxes in the -- He he cut capital gains 1996.
He implemented welfare reform with Republicans in congress -- -- with the speaker Newt Gingrich he also exercised significant spending restraint.
After those things happen in the mid ninety's that's when he really saw the economic growth that was not from raising taxes I think you have to look.
At the larger picture of what Bill Clinton did in the 1990s.
All right out of course but talk writing in -- -- one -- view is Ben.
Us says that -- to -- point that -- President Obama had something of a mandate.
I'll has something of a -- -- he says since when did election give one side or the other.
Full raid of their agenda -- the losing side should just Baghdad person I think the division impala.
Is more important today than ever but both sides need to get over the we want to do -- we say.
Did you work to do what is best for America and the security of our -- -- yeah I mean it's.
It's hard to say it was a ringing -- endorsement -- or real mandate for the president given that they.
The house balance of how did change.
Well -- my -- this that it's not that.
You know that that there's not to be any negotiation or flexibility here is that Obama spent his first term.
Consistently coming out first with the initial proposal every -- Republicans get moving the goalposts and said thank you.
We -- that -- that we need more and he's learned from.
His past.
Lessons on that might believe it seems like he has and he he wants the Republicans to make the first pass because every time he did in the past.
They get it was like Lucy and Charlie brown and then with a football -- get moving the football on him so.
Every time -- tried to kick it so I think at this time it you know what he's trying to say is look.
2011 that the Dead -- lifting the debt ceiling negotiations.
Broke down but Obama is -- a much stronger position politically than it was in 2011 I think.
It -- to his credit in in what he should do is he should stick to his guns as long as possible because he has.
A lot more backing are now from the public in his position now ultimately if he's gonna give you always you know he's always been -- and is willing to compromise.
But in terms the art of negotiation.
You know he's not gonna make -- a mistake he has -- -- I hope not for from a democratic perspective.
You know offering the for making the first -- Republicans for them to just want demand more and more and more and I think speaker Boehner has stepped.
Come to reality some terms of new reality that.
In the -- remember me in the correctional races.
More Democrat Democrats got more votes than Republicans -- -- the Republicans -- the house but frankly is the gerrymandering that they did and redistricting so.
You know I again I think it comes down Republicans haven't come to terms morality some already have.
But more so and -- truly have to speaker bear to come to that reality that we can we can negotiate I'm not talking you know massive concessions here for the problems -- the thing to have that.
I give enough so that.
Did he says the move forward and -- addressing entitlement reform.
But -- do you think we walk.
On the -- to some sort of compromise you think we will get that even if it's on the smaller issues not the bigger ones.
I'm very hopeful as a speaker was saying very emphatically yesterday he certainly does not want to go off the fiscal cliff but at the same time.
We have to confront this nation's debt problem now we cannot kick the can down the road I think the president -- have to agree we have to confront the fiscal crisis right now and deal with it.
I did and you thing that will happen though -- that would because the Republicans.
All going to have to compromise to some extent if that's going to happen -- This does speaker at a Republicans in the house are actually not inches sitting down off the fiscal craft cliff that would be bad for the country that would be bad for everyone they are not interested in going -- fiscal.
A -- what do what about the the argument that's being made by some that actually -- and then some on the democratic side perhaps the feeling that.
Heading -- and at least to the very edge or even going over the so called fiscal -- might not be the -- thing that could happen to the country.
-- anyone I've talked to you or nor I wanna see that happen I mean did -- it's one of those what is that you don't really wanna see you hope that it wouldn't be that bad for the country but I don't think anyone wants actually.
See us go over that cliff -- again that's why go back to -- if we had all come to agreement.
Raising taxes on that -- the wealthiest of Americans.
We can avoid going over the cliff and it buys this time.
And again -- several problems are agreed to that we're very close on that front.
And I think that's the easiest way to avoid going over the fiscal cliff buys us time and then we can negotiate the tough for details down the road.
So you'll -- solution then is get -- get -- small deal done on tax increases for the wealthy.
And deal with the -- in entitlement spending some time in the future.
I think so because look at even if you -- and negotiate -- gonna get.
Real entitlement reform and that means addressing Social Security Medicare.
That the stakes couldn't be higher for both sides -- -- we saw what happened this past election with the Paul Ryan plan to privatize Medicare.
Republicans took a beating on that issue Democrats you know have always stood out to be the protectors of Social Security Medicare so if they're gonna.
You know address -- those programs and ended in and and reform them in any way.
That's gonna take I think that's a lot to digest and for a lot of political pressure for both parties to be -- handle and I don't think it's something that either party can handle.
Very easily over the next three weeks.
-- very quickly -- and could you see Republicans and agreeing to a deal when taxes are raised an entitlement spending.
Reform -- kicked down the road -- Well I'm not gonna speak for house Republicans here -- -- -- comes down to what's gonna happen to those small businesses that are going to be hit -- what the president's proposing.
Are the Democrats going to be serious with spending cuts and so you know at the end of the day what's going to be the solution that is going to provide a path to economic growth for this country.
All right -- Miller a former political director of the Alabama Republican body.
And -- -- vice president with the Winston group.
I've been told him president and found out culture in researcher -- -- December -- thank you both very much good discussion to deceive us today thanks so much.
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Smithsonian Events Week of June 15-19: Stamps, The Wright Flyer, Weddings and Rocknoceros
Monday, June 15: OK, so the Smithsonian is off to a slow start once again. No special, one-time-only events are scheduled for today, but have a look at a complete listing of daily events and tours here.
Tuesday, June 16: Preservation in Action: First Day Covers
So, in elementary school I used to keep a stamp album. It was good cheap fun and the artwork that was squeezed onto an itty bitty stamp was pretty incredible. But my sense of preserving these mini oeuvres d'art was pretty much limited to the little lick-n-paste hinges that held them in my album. If you're interested in the ins-and-outs of caring for your stamp collection, take in this lecture by conservator Helen Young and preservation technician Manda Kowalczyk. They will show you how to preserve your first day covers and will be available to answer your questions. Free. National Postal Museum, 11:00 AM-1:00 PM
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So, you've seen the Night at the Museum: Battle for the Smithsonian and now you want to check out the artifacts that inspired the film? Come on out to the Air and Space Museum and get the lowdown on the 1903 Wright Flyer. Free. National Air and Space Museum, 12:00 PM
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Always a bridesmaid but never a bride? You may ho and hum about not finding Mr. Right, but wouldn't you be much more satisfied if your clothes ended up in the Smithsonian? Such is the case of a 1928 wedding dress worn by former curator Anna May Wood, whose bridal threads are in the museum's Costume Collection and will be discussed in an afternoon lecture. Free. American History Museum, 12:00 PM
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Today, the toddlers in your home have an opportunity to rock out at the Discovery Theater with Rocknoceros—an alternative rock/pop group whose catchy tunes and clever lyrics are sure to please your littlest audiophile. (And if you're a Generation X-er parent who shudders at the thought of sitting through music in the vein of Raffi or Lois and Brahm's Elephant Show, Rocknoceros has the distinction of playing DC's 9:30 Club on July 19, which is some indication that they're hipper than the average kiddie band. Tickets are required. Rates are: $6 for adults; $5 for children (ages 2-16); $4 for Resident Members. Call 202-633-8700 to reserve your tickets today. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 10:15 AM. This event repeats today at 11:30 AM.
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Roy and Elisia's Little Kitchen Adventure tours does trips all around the area, including manatee tours, full day sailing trips, sunset cruises and more. Call or email for prices!
Does three-day sailing/camping trips to Placencia, camping out on cayes along the way. Outlay BZ$700 to cover everything from food to fishing/snorkeling gear to camping equipment.
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Offers reliably excellent service and knowledgeable guides to ATM and Tikal. Pacz rents good-quality mountain and road bikes for BZ$70 a day, with long-term discounts available.
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At a very high level, an IMDG is a distributed object store similar in interface to a typical concurrent hash map. You store objects with keys. Unlike traditional systems where keys and values are often limited to byte arrays or strings, with IMDGs you can use any domain object as either value or key. This gives tremendous flexibility by allowing you to keep exactly the same object your business logic is dealing with in the Data Grid without the extra step of marshaling and de-marshaling that alternative technologies would require. It also simplifies the usage of your data grid as you can, in most cases, interface with the distributed data store as you do with a simple hash map. Being able to work with domain objects directly is one of the main differences between IMDGs and In-Memory Databases (IMDB). In the case of the latter, users still need to perform Object-To-Relational Mapping which typically adds significant performance overhead.
There are also some other features in IMDGs that distinguish them from other products, such as NoSql databases, IMDBs, or NewSql databases. One of the main differences is truly scalable Data Partitioning across the cluster. Essentially IMDGs in their purest form can be viewed as distributed hash maps with every key cached on a particular cluster node - the bigger the cluster, the more data you can cache. The trick to this architecture is to make sure that you collocate your processing with the cluster nodes where data is cached to make sure that all cache operations become local and that there is no (or minimal) data movement within the cluster. In fact, when using well designed IMDGs, there should be absolutely no data movement on stable topologies. The only time when some of the data is moved is when new nodes join in or some existing nodes leave the cluster, thus causing some data repartitioning within the cluster.
The picture below shows a classic IMDG with a key set of {k1, k2, k3} where each key belongs to a different node. The external database component is optional. If present, then IMDGs will usually automatically read data from the database or write data to it.
Another distinguishing characteristic of IMDGs is Transactional ACID support. Generally a 2-phase-commit (2PC) protocol is used to ensure data consistency within cluster. Different IMDGs will have different underlying locking mechanisms, but usually more advanced implementations will provide concurrent locking mechanisms (GridGain, for instance, uses MVCC - multi-version concurrency control) and reduce network chattiness to a minimum, hence guaranteeing transactional ACID consistency with very high performance.
Data consistency is one of the main differences between IMDGs and NoSQL databases. NoSQL databases are usually designed using an Eventual Consistency (EC) approach where data is allowed to be inconsistent for a period of time as long as it will become consistent *eventually*. Generally, the writes on EC-based systems are somewhat fast, but reads are slow (or to be more precise, as fast as writes are). Latest IMDGs with an *optimized* 2PC should at least match if not outperform EC-based systems on writes, and be significantly faster on reads. It is interesting to note that the industry has made a full circle moving from a then-slow 2PC approach to the EC approach, and now from EC to a much faster *optimized* 2PC.
Different products provide different 2PC optimizations, but generally the purpose of all optimizations is to increase concurrency, minimize network overhead, and reduce the number of locks a transaction requires to complete. As an example, Google's distributed global database, Spanner, is based on a transactional 2PC approach simply because 2PC provided a faster and more straightforward way to guarantee data consistency and high throughput compared to MapReduce or EC.
Even though IMDGs usually share some common basic functionality, there are many features and implementation details that are different between vendors. When evaluating an IMDG product pay attention to eviction policies, (pre)loading techniques, concurrent repartitioning, memory overhead, etc... Also pay attention to the ability to query data at runtime. Some IMDGs, such as GridGain for example, allow users to query in-memory data using standard SQL, including support for distributed joins, which is pretty rare.
Storing data in an IMDG is only half of the functionality required for an in-memory architecture. This data must also be processed in a high-performance and parallelized manner. The typical in-memory architecture partitions data across the cluster using an IMDG, and then computations are sent to the nodes where the data is for collocated (local) execution. Since computations are usually part of Compute Grids and have to be properly deployed, load-balanced, failed-over, or scheduled, the integration between Compute Grids and IMDGs is very important. It is especially beneficial if both In-Memory Compute and Data Grids are part of the same product and utilize the same APIs which removes the burden of integration from the developer and usually renders the highest performance and reliable in-memory systems.
IMDGs (together with Compute Grids) are used throughout a wide spectrum of industries in applications as diverse as Risk Analytics, Trading Systems, real time Fraud Detection, Biometrics, eCommerce, or Online Gaming. Essentially every project that struggles with scalability and performance can benefit from In-Memory Processing and IMDG architecture.


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THE MAROON VOL. 79, NO. 13 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2000 | MAROON.LOYNO.EDU History at hand in today's election By Luke Kummer Staff writer After the polls close and the votes are tallied today, each presidential candidate will uncork either the champagne or the whiskey and evaluate his campaign. The voters' work will be done for a while. It will then be up to analysts to start explaining what happened and why; it will be up to the historians to record what they discern for posterity. What will they write? What will election 2000 mean 50 years from now? Why is this election significant? During this election season a number of important issues and themes have arisen. Some see this election year as a challenge of the two-party paradigm dominating U.S. politics. 'There's a trend toward a third party and they are getting some political traction," said Emily Sneed, public relations director for Louisiana Victory 2000, an extension of the Democratic Party. A Political Force The Rev. Leo Nicoll, S.J., associate history professor, is enthusiastic about such a change. Though Nicoll advises the Loyola College Republicans, he calls himself an independent. "We need a third party — maybe like what | Ralph | Nader is doing," he said. Some people are speculating on the impact of Nader's campaign. "Nader may have opened the door for Americans to question the monopoly of the twoparty system," said Anthony Ladd, sociology chairman. Some people think key factors in this election can solidify the Green Party as a political force. 'The most important thing about us running a national campaign this year is that it establishes us for future elections," said Michael Kaplan, media coordinator for the Louisiana Green Party. "The government gives $ 12.5 million to all of the candidates who receive 5 percent of the popular vote in the previous election. We have a chance to access that money for down the road." he said. However, Kaplan points to more important achievements. "All that money will get us is some TV ads and a full-time paid staff. ... What we're doing this year that matters most is introducing people to the Green Party and common sense democracy." he said. Kaplan said the foundations are being laid. "We realize that the only way for us to have a real national impact is to start from the bottom and work our way up," he said. Ladd said among the reasons Americans look for a third party today is they sense their political options narrowing in the traditional system. 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For my case, I don't make a lot of money so most of my cars are the used one. I often tried to fix myself if the job doesn't make my hands so dirty, like changing oil or relating to safety issues, like changing the brake pads.
10 years ago, I had 1992 Mazda Protege. This car was broken because of water leaking into the ECM box. A shop mechanic inspected the car and showed me the water leak with his yellow colored flash light. He told me I had to call an auto wrecker to pick up the car. It's not worth it to repair or keep the car. But I was still curious about the computer box so I called Mazda dealer and looked up on internet for a refurbished one. Finally, I decided to search for a used one from several auto wreckers. I bought a used ECM box of 60 dollars at an auto wrecker and replaced the broken one. The car worked well after replacing the computer box. I let my high school son drove the car to school until he graduated and sold the car (still running) afterwards.
Later on, my son 2000 Acura Integra had a broken power window. It took me a few months searching for information on internet and watching YouTube to decide replacing it. I paid 20 dollars for a used power window regulator. To make sure, the man working at that auto wrecker also tested the operation of that part in front of me. It took me half of a day during Saturday to install the window regulator but that was a very enjoyable success.
I also have a 2002 Kia Spectra. It got a check engine error light on. I searched from Google and found out the error code. From there I also successful located the area of failure. I just went to auto wrecker and bought that used part. I paid 20 dollars for that part. I also opened the failed module and found out that the coil was burnt out. The coil was similar to the one I often saw at Radio Shack. Replacing that module took me only 15 minutes. After replacing the failed part, I used a 50 dollars INNOVA 3030 Diagnostic Code Reader to reset. The check engine error light doesn't turn on after that. If I let a mechanic do it, I would spend at least 500 dollars for the service.
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This "capacitor story " happened on equipment old enough to escape the great "Mid-2000 electrolytic capacitor scandal. It seems that some incomplete industrial espionage data was sold to a far eastern wannabe electrolytic capacitor manufacturer. The new electrolyte had higher water content and required buffering or passivation/protection of the aluminum electrodes. The "new" capacitor line was sold cheaper due to the lower cost electrolyte and was purchased and installed in a large number of electronic devices, especially LCD Monitor Power Supplies andLCD Televisions. Visio was one of the brands that was hit. My Visio 32" LCD TV died without warning and a quick google revealed the common nature of this failure. Sources of the offending Power Supply were identified as well. Except nobody had the Power Supplies in stock.
Further googling revealed on-line refurbishers, who had no Power Supplies in stock and did the repairsdirectly to your power supply.
Still further googling revealed a company selling kits of new capacitors AND instructions for a half dozen of the most popular power supplies. The on-line photos of failed power supplies looked just like mine with the handful of bulging caps in my power supply. This kit even included a length of solder wick. At $15 for the kit I figured that this old BSEE ought to be able to handle it. I had built Heathkits and the skills were the same. Two days later, with solder wick and soldering iron in hand, I set out to remove the bad and install the good. I put the bulged caps on a Capacitor Tester and all read less than 1% of the nominal capacitance. So with two hours of work, the LCD TV that has cost $1,100 in 2007 was back in service. Often, we engineers have all the knowledge and skills needed to fix many things all by ourselves. I have to admit the satisfaction of the screen coming to life again after the repairs sent goosebumps up my back.
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Hi OC, FIRST, let me say...THANK YOU for replying to my post. That was a first, and it is very nice to know that my comment was read! I always wondered if these comments were mostly written between a small group of folks. I've read many of your posts and agree with the vast majority of them.
Anyway, the article was originally written about a 1991 Mazda B2600i pick-up truck. Your first post was a reply to Nancy that the "MAZDA pick-em-up truck is really a FORD RANGER" with the same platform as the FORD BRONCO II/EXPLORER" and then went on to discuss your 1989 BRONCO II whose ECU failed. And then you tied your ECU to the MAZDA ECU by stating that it would not be surprising that your ECU's failure was also due to a substandard capacitor.
Then in your reply to dsm, you spoke about the B2000 pick-up truck. In reality, the B2000 MAZDA pick-up was the carbureted version of the Mazda line (2.0 liter), the B2000 was enlarged to B2200 in 1987. The B2600i pick-up was the fuel injected version of the same truck (2.6 liter). When the MAZDA pick-ups were just re-badged FORD RANGERS in 1994, they became the B2300 (2.3 liter 4 cyl) and the B3000 (3.0 liter 6 cylinder). In the response to dsm, you noted that "during this production lifetime" the B2000 was introduced, and the MAZDA TRIBUTE was a rebranded BRONCO II. Note, earlier on, the MAZDA pick-up was a FORD COURIER, but the FORD/MAZDA partnership was dissolved in the 1983 model year, when the FORD RANGER debuted as a small truck, fully built in the US.
So, bottom line, I did read your posts. Yes, FORD and MAZDA have merged and separated their small pick-up truck lines several times in the past several decades, but in the time frame being spoken about here , the FORD RANGER of the 1980's and early 1990's were separate vehicles from the MAZDA B-Series.
And the conclusion I reached from Dave's original post is that the root cause of the ECU failure was probably a design issue (wrong temperature range capacitor specified), which was not supported properly by MAZDA, hence the short supply of replacement ECU's.
As always, I appreciate your comments.
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Al Klu: SORRY to you! I AM NOT wrong. In fact, I saw the MAZDA B2300 pick-em-up truck yesterday on the lane next to me on the highway. It was red, with a simple camper-type top over the bed, and it had a FLA tag. The vehicle looked IDENTICAL to the FORD RANGER pick-em-p truck that was recently dropped from the FoMoCo line-up!!!! NOTICE above I referenced the MAZDA model as the B300, NOT the B2600i, as you referenced!!!!!
In my ORIGINAL post, I was NOT referring to the original Japanese import MAZDA trucks. In fact, in the early 1970s, I had a DATSUN 510 station wagon, and a good buddy of mine bought a MAZDA station wagon w/ the WANKEL engine. Unfortunately for him, he SHOULD have bought a Ferrari or FORMULA 1 vehicle, since he proceeded to burn up the rotary engine in less than 50K miles. He delighted in see the tachometer needle almost constantly @ the 8K position on the dial!!!!!
Furthermore, I did NOT reference any specific year of the FORD/MAZDA dual marketing campaign. Therefore, I would suggest that in the future you carefully read the text, so that your facts are aligned w/ other's facts!
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Working on a control module in a car shouldn't be daunting. It should be unnecessary. Pick a better brand if your plan to drive a vehicle until the wheels fall off. Mazda, Kia, Nissan, Hyundai and similar priced cars are not built for longevity. GMC, Ford, Cadillac, VW and most tough truck brands are built to be repaired. There are always exceptions. I've kept a Porsche alive but it wasn't cost effective. I've owned a GMC and a BMW and with proper preventive maintenance, they would live to be 30 easily. I owned a Toyota truck in the 80's that was fine but not exactly robust. It was repairable like a Subaru. Finding a bloated electrolytic is a clear indicator that there are parts in there that will betray you. More and more, I've found power supplies that typically operate at 60 degrees over ambient and their caps are simply under-specified and under-built. Some systems like A/C and exhaust and brakes I leave to the professionals as they require special diagnostics and tools. Late models of cars and trucks should either be rated as built to last or disposable. Honda, Lexus and VW are on the fence in this regard as are Ford products these days with all the creature comforts and amenities that have short shelf life. I understand the logic of holding a repaired item hostage to justify the repair charges. I don't like it but I understand it. People who have experience should be duly compensated for their skill. $5 for the hammer. $500 for knowing the right place and force to apply.
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I must submit a comment about the automotive ECUs. My hobby is to restore a particular car, the Toyota MR2. I actually have seven of these cars in the family. most with over 200K miles on the ECU. I have never had a CPU go bad. I think the major fact the ECU keeps going is the location of the ECU. As you probably already know the MR2 is a mid-engine car. Toyota puts the ECU in the rear trunk where the temperture is much lower than the engine compartment. I have dissassembled a couple of these ECUs to check the types of componets used. Of course the CPU is not that advanced, 8-bit. My oldest MR2 is a 1987 and the newest is a '93. One has over 320K miles. Again CPU location is a very important item that determines reliability. Of course component choice is also an important factor since a trunk with a dark color is also very hot.
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Sorry OC, you are wrong on two points here.
First the easy one. The 1991 Mazda Pickup (up to 1992, which I owned) was an import from Japan. I absolutely loved my B2600i, but my boys got too big to sit in the back of the cab. The Ford Ranger merger did not happen until 1994 (there were no 1993 versions of the Mazda pickup sold in the US). Big Brother put huge tariffs on imported pickup trucks, so it was no longer advantagious to sell them here.
Fact #1 actually brings up the next point. Since Mazda stopped importing the truck in 1992, they probably stopped supporting the spare parts shortly thereafter. There is no data in this post one way or the other whether this was a manufacturer's known problem, but it is ludicrous to think that we would have to pay outragious markups on what was determined to be a design failure. There should have been a service bulletin on the failed ECU, but as a minimum, the spare ECU is probably still had the poorer quality capacitors, which is why there was a shortage of spare parts (manufacturers only produce a specific number of each type of spare parts).
In this case, the manufacturer was (probably) still selling the crap cap, but at the elevated price. So, shame on them.
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dsm: Are you sure about that? In the Fall of 1982, Chevrolet introduced the "little" BLAZER SUV. The following year, FORD introduced the BRONCO II SUV. I know since I picked mine up from the dealer on 10 Oct 1983. It was a 1984 model vehicle. The FORD BRONCO II & RANGER pick-em-up trucks shared the same platform & drive train, an arrangement that existed until the BRONCO II was discontinued for the 1990 model year to become the EXPLORER vehicle. It wasn't until sometime during this production lifetime that MAZDA also introduced their B2000 pick-em-up truck AND the TRIBUTE, which was a rebranded BRONCO II, since FoMoCo held a large financial stake in MAZDA. Now, that stake has been dissolved, and MAZDA has closed most of their manufacturing operations within the U.S. mainland.
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@Charles Murray, I agree the percentage of even engineers tackling this would be small, but for some people it's just the sheer challenge of trying to what everybody says can't be done. I have met many engineers who would have made great farmers with this sort of approach. Or maybe it was the farmers that I met that would have made great engineers. . . :-)
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You are forgetting the economy of scale you get with volume. Sure a high quality blank cost a couple of bucks, but when you make your own in volume, they cost a few pennies. I was surprized to learn that with some game machines, the production costs were actually down to a grand total of 75 cents. Auto ecu's are in huge volume, and yet do not require anything expensive, such as speed, storage, graphics, etc.
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This is pretty good. My husband says he liked. I liked pretty good but don't care for the ranch dressing so will omit the next time. Thank you for the recipe.
It was good, but a little simple for my tastes. The crumb crust needed a little more flavor.
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I would have given this recipe 4 stars, but the reviewer below me seems to have reviewed the wrong recipe (what crumb coating?) and since there are only 2 reviews so far, it doesn't seem fair to the recipe that it should only be 3 1/2 stars. Anyway. I made the fish but didn't put it in sandwiches. We just had it over rice. The butter and lemon juice left in the pan actually made a really good sauce for the rice and the meal was quite tasty (not to mention easy). I think it would be good on a sandwich with the ranch and barbecue sauce, too!
This was pretty simple for a quick sandwich. I also didn't like it with ranch dressing. I added parmesan cheese over the fish and toasted the buns.
Used light mayo instead of steak sauce. Light swiss cheese instead of ranch. Delicious meal with noodles and cauliflower.
i have never tried this but it looks very good i think i just might make it
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I am currently using the Matlab, but I realize that I need to activate LEDs using Light Commander Control Software (LLCCS) before I play around with the Matlab.
For example, if I disable the green LED in the LLCCS, I cannot turn it in on the Matlab via DLP_LED_SetLEDEnable.
Is there a way to activate LEDs using the Matlab?
My another concern is the speed of 'DLP_Img_DownloadBitplanePatternToExtMem'. It takes about 1 s to transfer 8 bit information to Light Commander.
Is there a faster method to do that? I am thinking save all images which I will use as dbi files or something in Light Commander's memory, and then load them one by one. Is this possible?
Hi Kangbaek,
Welcome to DLP & MEMS forum.
Both disable and enable functions with DLP_LED_SetEnable API work perfectly fine.
First, you will need to build the "solution" using LCCS and run that solution from the LCCS to configure the GUI. Then only you can exercise the LED Enable. Alternatively instead of running the solution configuration from the GUI it can be done from matlab environment, for this you will need to first call RunBatchFile(filename) API. This file is generated when the solution is compiled. RunBatchFile will take care of configuring the hardware for display of images/patterns.
'DLP_Img_DownloadBitplanePatternToExtMem' - The API is meant for offline download before actual image display starts. Unfortunately the design limits the speed. We suggest you to try downloading ALL the images into LC memory (memory allows upto 120 8bit images and 960 binary/1bit images). Once the downloading of ALL the images is complete you can run-time select any subset of images using DLP_RegIO_WriteImageOrderLut API.
Thanks for the reply.
How can I download images into LC memory? I want to avoid the use of LCCS for convert bmp or tif files to dbi files.
Is there a way to generate dbi files by myself and download into LC memory via API commands?
Hi Kanbaek,
dbi format is like a RAW file format.
There was discussion sonetime back on how to convert the bmp images and download it on LC memory without using LCCS. See this link http://e2e.ti.com/support/dlp__mems_micro-electro-mechanical_systems/f/387/p/113085/647380.aspx#647380
Thanks for helping me. My lightcommander is totally under my control.
In the mean while, I think plotting 8 bit image is not fast enough.
What is the typical loading speed when I use DLP_RegIO_WriteImageOrderLut?
Hi Kim,
Good to know about your progress.
Yes the download speed not fast, as I said the expected way of working is first download the bitplanes into the frame memory then play with DLP_RegIO_WriteImageOrderLut API to select the subset of patterns to be refreshed.
The loading speed is same always; it is not dependent on DLP_RegIO_WriteImageOrderLut. For 8bpp pattern the time is b/w 2.0-3.0Seconds. This is the reason we suggest to utilize the frame memory space to store upto 120patterns once and then use DLP_RegIO_WriteImageOrderLut to select the subset. Let us say you have downloaded 100 eight bit patterns (one time download) and you want to select random combination of 50 patterns all you need to do is to use just use DLP_RegIO_ WriteImageOrderLut whenever you want to switch. The switching time is just the time taken to execute DLP_RegIO_WriteImageOrderLut command which is less than < 5mSec time.
Hi Sanjeev,
Thanks for letting me know.
What is the reset mode of light commander out of single, dual, quad, and global mode?
I haven't understood your query completely? Can describe it further? Reset of what like DLP5500 or DLPC200 etc..
I asked you for DLP5500 based on the document:
The DLP5500 uses Global Reset.
The DLPA008 is generic document on the DMD control; actually such low level control of DMD is possible only with Discovery chipsets. The LightCommander/DLP5500 doesn't allow such low level control to the user. Internally it uses 'Global Reset'.
Always thanks to your clear answers
I have a question about the minimum mirror state time. What is the minimum time to express 0 or 1 for mirror?
The Light Commander has maximum frame rate of 716 Hz for 8 bit image which indicates the minimum time of 5.5 microsecond.
Am I right?
Mathematically you are correct but there is other thing you should understand.
Here how it is computed -
For 716Hz, the frame rate is 1/716Hz = 1396uSec.
DMD is a PWM display system, for a 8 bit image, bit 0 to bit 7 the display time double from LSB bit to MSB bit. Therefore minimum time (bit 0 display time) mathematically become 5.5uSec.
Minimum display time of 8 bit image will be 1396/(2power8) = 5.5uSec.
As you know the DMD displays bit plane by bit plane. So there is a overhead load time for each bit plane so at this frame rate the bit plane load time become significantly high. Also during the bit plane loading there is no light out put from the DMD.
The above thing is expressed by term called as PWM Sequence efficiency % (you can see this in the DLP LightCommander GUI workflow chart) which indicates effectively how much of time for a given frame rate is utilized for light output, for 716Hz it is ~37%.
This means effectively only 37% of the frame duration is utilized to output light from the DMD. Similarly, you compile solution at different frame rates and see how the PWM Sequence efficiency varying. The higher the frame rate the lesser the PWM sequence efficiency.
So, 37% of 1396uSec = ~516uSec.
Smallest DMD display time = 516/(2 power 8) = ~2uSec.
2uSec is too fast, don't you think so? I think 500 kHz exceeds the performance of DMD chip.
Can you provide me a link that describes 500 kHz operation?
Let me clear a bit.
DMD cannot do the 500KHz operation.
The 2uSec display time mentioned was for 8 bit mode where the LSB bit (bit #0) is displayed time is 2uSec. This is when 8 bit per pattern running at 716Hz frame rate. Such short display times are created by pulsing (turning ON/OFF) the illumination source, in this case Red, Green, Blue or IR LEDs. DMD load time remians fixed. Duration of light source falling on the DMD is varied to create such short display times. Suppose if you are interested in just showing bit #0 @ 716Hz then bit #0 displayed for ~2uSec but the repeatation rate is 716Hz not 500KHz. I hope this explains the situation.
If you observe from the LightCommander GUI, for 1 bit per pixel pattern mode, bit plane refreshed at maximum 5000Hz or 200uSec exposure timing.
In short,
Maximum display rate for 1 bit per pattern = 5000Hz
Maximum display rate for 8 bit per pattern = 716Hz
The LSB bit display time in 8 bit per pattern mode @ 716Hz = ~2uSec.
Dear Kangbaek Kim,
would it be possible for you to provide Matlab code to communicate with the LC?
All the best!


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