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Chevy Suburban Oil Usage
I have a 2007 Suburban with about 60K miles and is under extended warranty. It is using about 2.5 quarts of oil every 3000 miles. My local dealer is telling me that this amount of useage is acceptable. I find that hard to believe. Anyone have experience or knowledge of what would be "acceptable"?
Typically a acceptable range is 1 quart every 3000 miles; however, this can very depending on how the vehicle is drove. Can you please email me your complete contact information including a good number to reach you, VIN, current mileage, and involved dealer? I look forward to your response.
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ksalisbury Posts: 1I have an 07 LTZ also. First new car I have ever bought. I expected to own it forever. Our family thought it was great. Then stupid things starting happening. I can't wait to sell it now.
Ongoing low-oil messages. About to put a second oil-level sensor in it hoping to solve this long enough to sell it.
In 09 the tranny broke some gears from city driving. Three weeks ago, we were broken down. Dealer tells us 'gears 3 and 4 were gone'. Luckily for us we dont drive much and are only at 49,500 miles so Chevy 'generously put in a 'new'- certa trans ( Certified transmission).
These problems sound very common all over the internet.
My entire family have been die-hard Chevy fans. This is beyond frustrating. Chevy must being giving up on its reputation. Money must mean more than a legacy of great vehicles.
Why are dealers not told to fix these problems and bill Chevy. Middle class America can't afford $100 diagnosis bills just to find out these problems are common but not covered or not known how to fix them.0
Do you currently have a case set up with GM Customer Assistance and are you still experiencing problems with the vehicle?
Thank you,
Caron, GM Customer Service0
raleighwolf Posts: 40I have this exact oil issue. Have from early on. Unfortunately the dealer says the same to me. Makes no sense. The 2007 suburbans are just not made well at all. A buddy just got a 2011. That seems to be much better....so far.0
jenn1974 Posts: 2From what I have found this is a freq. occurance with the 2007 Suburbans. It is not normal and GM/Chevy has a bulletin out on this. I took mine in they did an oil consumption test and then fixed what needed to be fixed.0
dexter_baker Posts: 1Jenn1974: Have you found the bullion and how did or what was the fix on your suburban. This information will help me with my continuing 2007 burb problems.
My first Suburban was a 2000, 2nd was a 2004 Z71, and the 3rd is a 2007 LTZ. My 2004 has 86,000 miles, and I have not had any problems. We still have it. The 2007 was bought in May 2006, and I'm afraid it's the worst ever. It has used oil, a lot more than the 2000 and 2004. Oil light comes on, I change the oil! 88,000 miles and now out of warranty! The five years got me. I am affiliated with a very large automobile repair facility in Reno, Nevada, and I've had the car serviced regularly. That's what you do when you work in a garage.
The last few mornings I noticed a puff of smoke out the tail pipe which is not good, I am told. So I asked my mechanic what is the worst case. He tell me "rings" or valve guides, about 6-8 hours shop time plus parts. But if it's rings, he tells me to shop for a short block crate motor from GM. The engine rebuild will be expensive. My mechanic has not mentioned (as I read in certain forum responses) that there is an oil consumption test. Does anyone have any information on the notices or bulletins that may be circulating?
So I ask Chevrolet Suburban owners the question, "Is 88,000 miles all we can get from the 2007 and newer Suburbans?"0
I have an oil consumption problem on my 2008 Chevy Suburban with 108,000 miles. According to GM Service Bulletin #10-06-01-008D (Document ID 2752513), this may be caused by two conditions. "Oil pulled through the PVC system or oil spay that is discharged from the AFM pressure relief valve within the crankcase"
I first noticed the problem at 82,750 miles and since then, the dealership has performed several oil consumption tests and installed two different valve covers with no success. The last two oil consumption tests documented that my suburban used 2 or more quarts of oil in 3,100 miles. According to GM one quart of oil every 2,000 miles is "acceptable". The oil consumption test completed today showed that my Suburban used 2 quarts of oil in 3,123 miles; this exceeds their "acceptable" oil consumption. This test was performed after the 2nd valve cover was installed. The dealership said they have been in contact with GM about my problem and that a case number has been assigned to my Suburban. The dealership said they are going to report the latest findings to GM and wait for instructions on what to do next.
Anyone know if GM is going to honor their 100,000 engine warranty and fix my problem or are they going to deny my warranty and claim that I have over 100,000 miles on my vehicle? I've expressed my concern to the dealership, several times, that I felt like I have been strung along since the problem 1st started and now that I've exceeded 100,000 miles, they are going to kick me to the curb. The dealership said no this won't happen.
I've read several posts about Suburban and Tahoe oil consumption but didn't see how any of the problems were handled by GM. Any information on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated.0
We'd be happy to look into this with you, if you like. Please send us an email at [email protected] with the following information: your name/Edmunds username, phone and address, the last 8 digits of your VIN and current mileage (which I realize is listed here, but it's helpful to have everything in one place), and the name of your dealership.
With that information, we will set up a Service Request for you and can then explore any options available. However, I cannot make any guarantees up front on what the final result will be.
All the best,
GM Customer Service0
I wish you luck. I noticed that the oil consumption in my 2007 Suburban was more than my previous one(2001), but it didn't really concern me(it should of). At 110,000 I heard a couple tinny noises coming from the engine, then it ran fine for another 20 minutes or so, then one more noise, then the dashboard lit up like a christmas tree. Had it checked and was told by the first dealer it was a misfire in cylinder 6, after a initial diagnosis, they said it was a probably a bad cam lobe. There was zero compression in cylinder 6. They said since I wasn't the original owner(I'm the second), I didn't qualify as a loyal customer(I've owned 10 gm vehicles over the last 22 years, 4 new), so they weren't going to provide any assistance since it was 10K over the powertrain warranty. After much BS with GM customer care assistance(total joke, plus I believe the call center is not in this country), they also said the same thing. I'm currently installing a re-manufactured engine in my last gm product I will ever own. I would advise anyone that is considering a Suburban, especially a 2007 with the 5.3L, to re-consider. These engines have problems, and GM will not back you on them once it is out of warranty. Sad that a $50K vehicle has to have a new engine at 5 years and 110,000 miles. I am having the old engine pulled apart to determine what failed and will post the problem when I get it.0
Following up on my oil consumption problem. As you can see from this post, GM Service contacted me for more information. After supplying the information, they apparently contacted the dealership and it was decided that all pistons, rings and valve stem seals would be replaced. I picked up my Suburban yesterday afternoon and all seems good. Will follow-up after my next oil change to let everyone know if the oil consumption problem is solved.
In response to bnahikian's post, sorry to hear about your misfortune. I too owned multiple GM vehicles. Seven in all, with last 3 being Suburbans. I fully expected I would be posting a similar story but GM came through for me. I just hope the problem is fixed.0
mikesee Posts: 1My 2007 Suburban was identified as consuming oil beyond GM specifications first noted at 33,000 miles. Service tech told me that overconsumption was identified. When I returned the truck to be repaired he had 'lost the documentation and said that because it was his first overconsumption test he did not know what to do'. Started second oil consumption test at 57k. Documented that Truck uses 1 quart per 1444k miles. After determining this Service manager told me that was within GM specifications, that's when I had to pull the out the Chevy Specifications document and read it to him. He told me to bring it in but was unable to tell me what was to be done or how long it would take.
If this is occurring to you, here is some advice: At the start of the consumption test agree whith the tech/service manager where the oil mark is on the dip stick. With my truck, after the GM oil change, the oil line was above the add line at the start of the test. When you bring the truck back observe how much oil is being added. The service tech said it was full at the top of the hash mark on the dip stick, but that is not where the oil test started! Maybe it is only my dealer but you need to watch everything like a hawk.0
nhchevyowner Posts: 1I'm in a similar boat. I purchased an 07 Suburban last August with 45000 miles on it, still under GM drive train warrenty for another 7 months and 55,000 miles. After owning a 1990 GMC Suburban, a 1999 GMC Suburban (which we still have), and a previous 1986 GMC Jimmy which all worked out very well, we decided to get a newer used one. One month after driving it around the low oil light came on, down a quart so I filled it up and thought that was odd since the oil life had read 99% when I purchased it. Another month later down a quart. I filled it up and took to the dealer then did some research on oil consumption and found it's a known issue. The dealer (not the original I purchased from because they are much farther away but happened to have the specific Suburban with options I wanted when I purchased it) started me on a monitoring schedule. Basically between 980 and 1200 miles i was down a quart which is below GM specs (they believe 2000 miles for 1 quart of oil is OK.) They did both remediations, the pcv/valve cover remediation and then later the oil pan remediation of which neither solved the problem. Now the dealership is giving me the run around. They won't contact GM on it and are trying to reach my extended warranty company, but getting put on hold for long periods of time where they have to drop. They told me GM won't do anything more beyond the two remediations. I'm outside warranty now (over 5 years old) but I reported this within warranty, so fighting it via that angle for the momment. I've told them I want in writing from GM that they won't fix this, but so far not getting far, still dancing with them.0
Have you contacted Customer Assistance already? Just wondering! If we can be of assistance, please let us know by getting in touch via email at [email protected]
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I have the re-manufactured engine installed and it is running fine, although between the dealer charges and new engine my wallet is $5,000 lighter. The guy that replaced the engine tore down my engine and wasn't exactly sure where the problem came from. The dealer's preliminary diagnosis was a cam lobe problem. All that could be noticed is that the valve in #6 wasn't seating properly, looked like some contamination, maybe coolant on the top of the valve, so there may of been a slight crack in the head. After he pulled the head, the oil ring on the piston was broken, and one of the compression rings was frozen in the compressed position. I will post the pictures when I download them. So I don't really know what caused the failure, and glad I didn't spend the $1,100 the dealer wanted to pull the engine apart and diagnosis it. Either way, the problem is definitely a mfg. defect. As I said before, GM customer care was a joke.0
Good luck with Customer Assistance, my experience was awful, and after saying they would help, and fortunately I didn't spend the $1,100 they said I had to for a exact diagnosis, they said they changed their mind and will not do anything. Over a week I went through 3 levels, all with foreign accents and names of Merica, Christian and Oscar, and conflicting stories from each. I'm guessing my calls were channeled to India, or somewhere like that. I hope you have better results than I had. If anyone is considering buying a GM vehicle with this year and engine, I would say STAY AWAY, there is problems, and they won't back up their poor manufacturing standards.0
suburbanowner Posts: 1I too am having problems with my 07 Suburban. I am on my 5th Chevy product, two Corvettes, one Tahoe, one Blazer and now a 07 Suburban. I have always been a fan of GM, but this truck will be my last. I have the oil problem. I am adding up to two quarts every 3,000 miles and now I have lost 3rd gear in the transmission. It happened while my family was on vacation in Louisville, 500 miles from home. I called a local Chevy dealer to get help, but because it was a Saturday morning they could not help me and told me that I would have to wait till Monday. I could not stay till Monday so I had to ship the truck home. I have 77,000 miles on the truck, but it was first put into service in Sept of 2006 so I am not under warranty. This fix will bankrupt my finances. GM's lack of commitment to quality and poor customer service has ended my customer loyalty.0
I'm sorry to see that your family vacation to Louisville was disrupted by a transmission issue. If we can look further into this situation with you, please send the following information to [email protected]: your name/Edmunds username, phone and address, the last 8 of your VIN and current mileage, and the name of your involved dealership.
Kind regards,
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myburb Posts: 2I have a 2007 Suburban and it too had an oil consumption problem. Last fall the dealership replaced the pistons and I've havent had any additional problems with the oil. Two of my friends have suburbans, one has a 2008 the other has a 2009, both of them have had the same issue as mine.
Incidently, this 2007 was a replacement vehical from GM when my 2005 had an isolated incident in which a solution could not be found. After being in and out of service the summer of '06 (at least 10 times)..GM stepped up and replaced it...with no grief!! Doesnt sound like everyone else has had positive experiences with GM.0
Following up on my April 12, 2012 post, I had my oil changed, after GM replaced the pistons, rings and valve stem seals, and all seems good with no oil consumption! I'm about 2000 miles into my next 3000 mile oil change and the oil is still at the top of the dipstick. Thanks GM Service for you help in resolving this problem.0
norcalburb Posts: 1I have a 2009 suburban and am having the same problem as everyone here. This is my very first Chevy let alone a Suburban. Found out I had this issue when I came into a chevy dealership for a oil change. Service adivsor told that my suburban was two quarts low and was going to install a oil deflector. Started the oil consumption test as well. I'm now at 56,000 miles and this was almost 10,000 miles ago. After the first oil consumption test was performed the chevy dealer told everything seemed normal. Consumption depends on how you drive etc. Not trusting the chevy dealer here after about 1,000 miles of getting the ok sign. I happen to check my dipstick to see my level. Their wasnt even any oil showing on the dipstick. I call back the dealer and brought it to them immediately. Once their, the service advisor tells me that my suburban was three quarts low. They now are recommending ANOTHER OIL CONSUMPTION TEST. I asked why another test and not change my piston or piston rings where I've heard is one of the culprits of this problem. They tell me they must go through protocol and completely document everything for GM. I'm suppose to go back soon since my next oil change is at 57,000 miles. I have the major guard as well when I purchased the vehicle and doesnt expire until 97,000 miles. Is their any where I can complain to GM since the local chevy dealer here in Fremont Ca seems to keep on giving me the run around.0
jddbmw6913 Posts: 1I just had the exact same problem. They made me do 4 oil consumption tests before they would actually do anything about the oil burn and then once they did fix it they claimed I was out of warranty by time but they were going to cover it anyway, like it was some big favor. The problems started when I was still under warranty but the 4 oil consumption tests took so long that I was out of warranty by time. Now 2 weeks after getting my truck back the transmission goes out. 3rd gear is almost completely gone and if I put it in D the engine just revs and does not engage the gear at all. In order to move forward I have to manually shift from 1st, 2nd, 3rd, to D. This is a lot for a truck with only 84k miles.0
slalom1 Posts: 2I am a bit frustrated. Purchased our first Suburban last Fall, with just over 100,000 miles. I am sure it was traded in due to warranty expiration. One month after purchase Low Oil level light appears and no oil on dipstick. This pattern repeats, going through 3-4 quarts at least every 2-3k miles. This AFM pressure release valve problem is a design defect and not something that is dicrepent between vehicles. I have been using synthetic oil hoping to tame the problem with no luck. Called Local dealer who said they should be able to get it fixed with some Chevrolet support, no luck they want $1000 to decarbon cylinders, and place diverter. This does not repair a broken part but rather attempts to correct an inherent design flaw. I think Chebrolet should provide this service with little cost to owner as it is there flaw. They should also permit consumers, especially those outside of warrnaty to disable AFM to prevent costly trouble down the road. Help....has anybody had any success in fixing this symptom of poor design? Thanks!!0
mtkjr Posts: 1I also have had the oil consumption issue in my 2007 Suburban. After numerous trips and replacing small stuff the dealer finally replaced the pistons and rings at 111,000 miles. 13 months and less than 25, 000 miles later I need a new engine. The knocking is so loud the neighbors hear it from inside their houses. The dealer said I can trade it in, I would be ignorant to buy another Chevy or they can replace it for $8000.00. Chevy customer service is as worthless as the dealer. A jasper engine will cost $4500 to have installed.0
:mad: 2008 Suburban LTZ Oil Consumption!!So I'm having same issue as other consumers. My 2008 Chevy Suburban LTZ is using way too much oil. So I took it in right after my husband changed the oil they checked and they said everything was fine accoding to GM standards. So they told me to take it in every 500 miles to check the oil so by the 500 miles it need some oil they said to come back again at another 500 I took it in 2 days ago at 1,080 miles and it need a 1qrt really!!! that's not normal. My husband has a chevy pickup with same motor and size and it doesn't burn as much we also have a 99 suburban GMC and just took on a long trip put 3,000 on it and burned almost nothing. Please help by giving advice by what has been done by others in same situation. My car has 68,000 miles and I don't want something to happen once warranty expires. GM needs to step up and fix the problem.0
Hi deniz01, I can understand your frustration. Are you going to continue to follow up with your GM dealer? Would you like me to stay connected with you throughout the process?
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sonata01 Posts: 21Since I am beyond the 100,000 mark, can anyone tell me if GM can help with any reimbursement, since they are aware of engine problems?? Thanks For a vehicle that has been WELL taken care of, this situation should not have occurred!!!!!!!0
Crystal you can help me by providing me in writing what the GM Standard is for Oil Consuption on this vehicle. My local dealership says I have to get it from GM. Thanks0
Good Luck, GM Customer Care was a joke. I'm pretty sure I was talking with someone in India or some foreign land. They know they have a problem, but won't stand behind it. As I mentioned in a previous post, I had to have the engine replaced myself. Every time I see the Chevy commercials about quality and commitment I feel like puking. Anyways, I hope you have better luck than I had. Btw, I dumped my 2007 Suburban and now have Ford Expedition EL. I will never by a GM product again.1
help08suburban Posts: 4I have had numerous issues with my 2008 suburban. I have over 150,000 miles on it I have had it in service department numerous times to have spark plugs/wires changed. I always run low on oil with a warning light hear a ticking noise in between oil changes. I just recently took it in because the noise now is a knocking loud noise come to find out it is the 1spark plug misfiring because it is fouled out by oil. I was told I now need to buy a new engine or rebuild one because it is the ring and piston. All along the service department just was masking a small problem that now is a big expensive problem. I have been a GM owner since the age of 16. I have never wanted to drive anything else. I have no warranty now and will be upside down when I go to trade it in. I have had my heart set on to buy the 2014 Suburban but with all the money I have had to dump in to this suburban and the last one I had. I am thinking maybe it is time to change things up. I did put in a call to customer service and they are waiting to get with the service department and said she could not promise me that anything could be done. So here I am with a 50,000.00 vehicle with a payment and I cannot drive it. I have seen a lot on the internet about others with the same problem. I would like to think that they will stand behind there product and deliver.0
mlaren Posts: 1I have been researching 07'-09' Suburban's to replace our mommy van (my budget can't stretch to a new one). I have had many older friends relate their Chevy stories of reliability and ruggedness, some still have their 80's and 90's Burbs for hunting or towing. Well, since I read the posts here and see how Chevy has changed in terms of reliability and especially when it comes to their failure to step up for their customers - even knowing they have a fault from manufacturing, I certainly will not buy a Suburban now.
I appreciate your posts, though am sorry you have had to deal with such fustrations. Thank you for putting the warning out for the rest of us.0


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Bundesliga Wrap: Augsburg end Bayern's run, Dortmund win
Bayern boss Pep Guardiola fielded a much-changed line-up on Saturday, seemingly with one eye on the second leg of his side's UEFA Champions League quarter-final against Manchester United in midweek.
The result was a disjointed display from the visitors, with Manuel Neuer already established as the busiest goalkeeper by the time Sascha Molders slotted home his first Bundesliga goal since October to decide the contest in the 31st minute.
Augsburg remain eighth in the table, five points shy of a UEFA Europa League qualification place, and closed the gap on Mainz directly above them.
Thomas Tuchel's side were beaten 2-0 by rivals Eintracht Frankfurt at the Commerzbank-Arena, with Joselu and Alexander Meier on target in the second half.
The scoreline was the same in the relegation six-pointer at Stuttgart, where the hosts responded to Hamburg's 2-1 win over Bayer Leverkusen on Friday by overcoming Freiburg.
Alexandru Maxim and Martin Harnik were on target to lift Stuttgart out of the relegation zone and up to fourth-bottom - one place and two points shy of their opponents.
That meant that the big losers in the scrap to remain in the Bundesliga were Nuremberg, who slipped to a 2-0 home defeat against fourth-placed Borussia Monchengladbach and now lie 17th.
Capitalising on Leverkusen's slip-up, a reverse that cost their coach Sami Hyypia his job, Juan Arango ensured Monchengladbach were rewarded for an enterprising start when he found the net with a deflected free-kick.
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Two people familiar with the situation say Michael Vick and the Eagles haven't ruled out the quarterback returning to Philadelphia.
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Both people spoke to The Associated Press on Thursday on condition of anonymity because they're not discussing contract negotiations publicly.
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In a world of ongoing disruption, the stakes are high for insurers' risk management functions. Interest rates are low, revenue streams are under threat and new competitors are entering from all sides. At the same time, insurers are encountering new obstacles—from regulatory uncertainty to reduced demand among millennials.
We spoke to Eric Jeanne, Accenture's managing director, Global Finance & Risk Insurance Industry, to find out more about the Accenture 2017 Global Risk Management Study: Insurance Report.
Q: The research indicates the opportunities and threats of digital disruption are weighing heavily on risk leaders at insurance companies. How are insurers responding to the trends?
Starting in 2009, Accenture has conducted research on risk management. Through the years, we have seen the growing influence and importance of risk management—both the practice and the function. Our 2017 report highlights three priorities for insurers' risk functions: harnessing digital innovation, balancing old and new skills, and integrating across the business.
This year, the headline finding is that the risk of doing nothing could be greater than the risk of taking action—even when the best course is not certain. This is because many of today's risks are also opportunities. Companies should take steps to make sure they are not left behind as the market grows for specialty services.
Rather than watch disruption happen, insurers should be driving it. They should be investing in new technologies to offer new products and services, build efficiencies, and adapt more dynamically to individual customer behaviors and preferences.
Q: When we think about digital technology and innovation in insurance, they are most often directed towards customer-facing functions like distribution and claims. How are we seeing digital innovation being applied in the back-office?
Innovation is everywhere in insurance, and we often look at robo-advisors, peer-to-peer insurance models and the Internet of Things as examples of how digital technology is changing the business. Yet insurance leaders are also using digital tools to completely transform their risk functions.
For example, 77 percent of our respondents indicated their risk function uses the cloud to address cost pressures. And 66 percent of respondents reported that the use of risk analytics is fully integrated into the risk function's everyday operations, while 63 percent agreed it is integrated with strategic planning and decision-making.
Use of those technologies has matured greatly in recent years, and now, risk teams are looking to the potential of artificial intelligence (AI), robotic process automation (RPA) and machine learning. Few risk teams have fully exploited these technologies, but many have now begun to explore them.
For instance, just 15 percent of insurance respondents to the 2017 study claim to have highly proficient capabilities in RPA, while another 24 percent are using it in the risk function but are not extracting its full potential. AI has similar figures: 13 percent and 32 percent respectively.
Q: That indicates technology change is becoming the norm for insurers' risk management teams. Do they have the right skill sets to cater for new digital tools and processes?
Three out of four insurers we spoke to in our 2017 study (75 percent) say their risk management workforce capabilities are effective or very effective at understanding emerging technology risks.
Sixty-eight percent agree they have a cyber risk management function that can effectively support the IT function and accurately report the real status of cyber-risk to the board. Skills will continue to be a challenge, but it is encouraging to report strong progress in key areas such as data analytics and cyber since we started this research.
With risk management having to become more integrated, and technologies automating many labor-intensive tasks, the function will continue to redefine the balance of skills that is needed across risk teams. This balance is crucial, because there are so few professionals who possess every skill the risk function needs.
From general quantitative competencies to technology acumen, industry knowledge, niche risk specialties, communication skills, creativity and management experience, candidates with the whole package are extremely rare. CROs need to build teams that comprise every skill, and lead their members to work as one.
Q: Integrating across the business is the third major theme to emerge from this year's insurance report. How well are risk functions integrated with other parts of the business?
Overall, we are seeing a trend towards greater centralization of risk management at the group level. One-quarter of 2017 respondents have centralized coordination of risk management activities across all risk types, whereas only 15 percent have done so for all business lines.
More than half (53 percent) say there is duplication of effort in risk management across lines of business. This seems to be changing. In two years' time, respondents expect to be further centralized, with around a third expecting coordination to be centralized both for all risk types (36 percent) and all business lines (33 percent).
Integration is also important between core business functions. Around 58 percent of insurance respondents said a lack of integration with other business functions was a challenge that impeded the effectiveness of the risk function. It comes down to leadership. Risk leaders with the right focus and discipline are expected to have enough strategic influence to integrate risk across the business, coordinate activities and invest wisely in the overall development of the function.


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MapSource City Navigator, are you limited to the number of time you can use the map "unlock"
MapSource City Navigator, are you limited to the number of time you can use the map "unlock"
No, I don't think so. I've got a number of maps on a couple computers that I've reinstalled a number of times. I wrote down my unlock codes and it has accepted them every time. I had to get new unlock codes generated when Garmin replaced my 60CSx with another unit. Long story but it had to go in for repair and couldn't be fixed so they sent back a different 60CSx with a new unit ID.
Quoting Garmin:
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Your MapSource coupon or registration code is valid for use with your own Garmin GPS unit. This agreement provides a one-user license, and it is illegal to share this data with others.
If you would like to obtain additional regions or utilize more than one Garmin GPS unit you own, you will need to purchase another code for each unit. (The exception to this is with MapSource BlueChart CD data. The region[s] you have unlocked to one compatible Garmin unit you own from a specific BlueChart CD you may unlock to ONE other compatible Garmin unit you own for no additional fee.) "
This used to be a problem with Mapsource maps bought on eBay: one unlock had already been used, so you only had one left when you got the CD. Mapsource micro-SD cards can be used in any compatible GPSr's however, so you can sell one when you are through with it, like I recently did with my Spain/Portugal card.
Why not live life like it is your last day....instead of pretending to be a member of the Peter Pan Club and believing you will be around forever.
Why not live life like it is your last day....instead of pretending to be a member of the Peter Pan Club and believing you will be around forever.
I tried a couple of months ago and it's only once. Sad...
Yeah, as WhereRWe? said, with the exception of a few BlueChart maps, the unlock codes will only work with the Unit ID of the GPS they were created for. However, you can use that unlock code with that Unit ID as often as you want, reinstalling MapSource and maps on the same computer or even multiple computers with no issues. If you get a new or replacement GPS, Garmin can send you new unlock codes (which I guess would render the old unlock codes useless).
I got a 2GB MicroSD card with an SD adapter and I typically use that to download my maps. It is MUCH faster than the USB cable. I'm afraid the flimsy latch in the GPS will break with too much use though, so I only take the card out when sending new maps. For everything else like GPS logs and waypoints I just use the USB cable since they zip right along in a few seconds. Fortunately, with a 2GB card, there is more than enough room for topo, city select, BlueCharts, and even a few custom maps for the entire state of Maine, and perhaps most of New England so the card rarely gets removed.


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President Bush Signs into Law S. 1685, the Basic Pilot Program Extension and Expansion Act of 2003
On December 3, 2003, President Bush signed into law S. 1685, the Basic Pilot Program Extension and Expansion Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-156).
P.L. 108-156 extends and expands the pilot programs for employment eligibility verification instituted by Public Law 104-208, which included the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. The new law (P.L. 108-156):
- Extends the operation of the pilot programs for an additional 5 years (to a total of 11 years), and
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The probability P of digit d can be expresses as follows:
..where d is any integer value 1 to 9 inclusive. So for each leading digit in the data, the distribution works out to be about:
But how does this hold up with some "real world" data? Can it really be true? Well, for my first experiment, I analysed the leading digit of all the source files in the current Linux source tree and compared that to Benford's Law:
So, this is convincing enough. How about something more exotic? For my second experiment I counted up the number of comments in each file that start with /* in just the C source files in the Linux source tree and again looked at the distribution of the leading digits. I was hazarding a guess that there are a reasonable amount of comments in each file (knowing the way some code is commented this may be pushing my luck). Anyhow, the data generated also produces a distribution that obeys Benford's Law too:
Well, that certainly shows that Kernel developers are sprinkling enough comments in the Kernel source to be statistically meaningful. If the comments themselves are meaningful is another matter...
How about one more test? This time I gathered the length of every executable in /usr/bin and plotted the distribution of the leading digits from this data:
..this data set has far less files to analyse, so the distribution deviates a little, but the trend is still rather good.
As mentioned earlier, one has to have a large set of data for this too work well. Interesting this may be, but what kind of practical use is it? It can be applied to accountancy - if one has a large enough set of data in the accounts and the leading digits of the data do not fit Benford's Law then maybe one should suspect that somebody has been fiddling the books. Humans are rather poor at making up lots of "random" values that don't skew Benford's Law.
One more interesting fact is that it applies even if one rescales the data. For example, if you are looking at accounts in terms of £ sterling and covert it into US dollars or Albanian Lek the rescaled data still obeys Benford's Law. Thus if re-ran my tests and didn't analyse the size of files in bytes but instead used size in 512 byte blocks it still would produce a leading digit distribution that obeyed Benford's Law. Nice.
How can we apply this in computing? Perhaps we could use it to detect tampering with the sizes of a large set of files. Who knows? I am sure somebody can think of a useful way to use it. I just find it all rather fascinating.


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Tabor College football player Brandon Brown, 26, died late Saturday of injuries sustained in an altercation last weekend.
McPherson police found him unconscious, lying in a street, when they responded to a noise complaint Sept. 16 in the 400 block of North Carrie Street in McPherson. He had been on life support since then at Via Christi-St. Francis Hospital in Wichita.
Shortly before Brown's death Saturday, McPherson police announced that they had arrested a 19-year-old suspect, Alton Franklin of Dallas, on a charge of aggravated battery. The charge was amended Monday to aiding and abetting murder in the second degree, and his bond was increased to $500,000.
McPherson police continue to seek information about the beating death and have asked anyone with information about the incident to contact them at (620) 245-1200.
Brown, a 6-foot-3, 280-pound defensive lineman from Sacramento, Calif., was a junior at Tabor, having transferred this year from Santa Ana Community College in California.
Franklin was listed on McPherson College's 2011 football roster as a 5-foot-7, 178-pound linebacker.
"We gather as one on campus to grieve together, support each other with prayer and love, and seek the comfort of the living Christ," Tabor President Jules Glanzer said in a news release.
A fund to assist the family with expenses is set up with Emprise Bank in Hillsboro. Counseling services are being made available to students through the Tabor Student Life office.
A memorial service for Brown is scheduled for 11 a.m. Tuesday at First Mennonite Brethren Church, 300 Prairie Pointe, Hillsboro. The service will be open to the public.


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Infinity Theatre delivers a ship-shape song-and-dance spectacle
Dames at Sea offers top-notch singing and tap-dancing in a lighthearted musical theater romp.
This small-cast, low-key homage to the great days of 1930s' musicals has all the requisite and appropriately named characters. From Utah the ingénue Ruby arrives backstage at a Broadway theater without a dime to her name and joins the cast of the musical on her first day in New York. She makes friends with Joan, a smart-talking dancer. A sailor, Dick, who also happens to be an aspiring songwriter, arrives to instant infatuation with Ruby. Another sailor, Lucky, turns out to be Joan's boyfriend. Add the show's producer, Hennesey, and the over-the-top arrogant star, Mona, and you have the cast.
To say the story is slight is to give it too much due. The Broadway theater goes under the wrecking ball, the two sailors convince their captain to stage the show on their battleship, Joan and Dick have misunderstandings but resolve them and, as in all good theater stories, the show goes on.
Directed and choreographed by multiple Tony nominee Randy Skinner [see Leigh Glenn's story on page 2], Dames at Sea is all about dancers and singers.
Erick Buckley — as both Hennesey and the ship's captain — has a resonant, powerful voice and good comedic timing.
Darien Crago's Joan has the wisecracking sidekick role down pat. Cody Davis' Lucky, her boyfriend, matches her perfectly. Their "Choo-Choo Honeymoon" is a standout.
Eric Huffman's Dick has a dazzling smile and his dance works very well.
Kristie Kerwin plays meanie Mona for the ham and demanding star stereotype that she is. "The Beguine," a duet between her and the captain, is over-played to the perfect level to make it funny but not campy.
Megan Kelley as the newcomer Ruby has the only real emotional arc to cover, from exuberance to deflated hopes to nervous energy to success on stage. She has the acting, singing and dancing skills to make the whole show work.
The glory days of big musicals are dormant. More practical, smaller-scale homages like Dames at Sea keep alive the joy and delight of watching pros at work singing and dancing their hearts out and making magic.
Book and lyrics by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller. Music by Jim Wise. Director and choreographer: Randy Skinner. Music director: Mike Pettry with retired USNA bandleaders Raymond Ascione on reeds and Don Keller Jr. on trumpet. Stage manager: Carol Sullivan. Technical director: Alex Gorman.
Playing Th at 2pm and 7pm; FSa at 8pm; Su at 2pm thru Aug. 5. Children's Theatre of Annapolis, Bay Head Park, 1661 Bay Head Rd., Annapolis. $19-$38: 877-501-8499; www.infinitytheatrecompany.com.


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The DC Dana Village aims to be an organization of volunteers that practice the Buddhist value of dana ( generosity ) through serving others. We conduct various activities, including social activities that are beneficial.
Some recent events include preparing food for the terminally ill, presenting a classic documentary film about insight meditation, gardening, and weekend trips to Buddhist monasteries and meditation centers.
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Bill McBride was promoted to chief operating officer of Club One Inc. He was most recently the vice president of commercial clubs at the company. McBride will oversee the company's operational standards and build brand equity with a specific focus on member relations. McBride will also try to bring greater alignment to the company's three channels of service — commercial clubs, community centers, and worksite health and fitness.
The U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission is suing Bally Total Fitness for religious discrimination for allegedly asking a job candidate at a Fresno, CA, Bally club about his religion. The lawsuit seeks damages up to $300,000 and a change in Bally's hiring practices.
Life Fitness unveiled its $3.7-million renovated research and development lab at its Franklin Park, IL, facility. The 38,000-square-foot lab includes space and equipment dedicated to biomechanical, electromagnetic, environmental and mechanical research and development. The lab was designed and engineered by A. Epstein and Sons International Inc. and Interior Space International, Epstein's in-house interior design subsidiary.
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The Independent Pool and Spa Service Association Inc. (IPSSA) and the National Swimming Pool Foundation® agreed to partner to expand IPSSA's educational offerings to its membership.
Retention Management's 2005 sales increased 316 percent from 2004. The company attributed the growth to referrals from existing clients.
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Kevin Durant donates $1 million to Oklahoma tornado relief
Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant has given $1 million to the Red Cross in an effort to help with relief efforts as Moore, Oklahoma recovers from a devastating tornado on Monday.
@kdtrey5 steps forward and gives $1mil matching gift to the ARC for disaster relief, text "REDCROSS" to 90999 for a $10 donation.- Red Cross Oklahoma (@redcrossokc) May 21, 2013
Durant figures to be one of many lending a financial hand in the wake of Monday's tragedy. Los Angeles Dodgers star Matt Kemp has pledged $1,000 for every home run until the All-Star break for the victims.
In fact, Durant's pledge of $1 million was matched by both the NBA and the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday.
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Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta recently overturned the 1994 Pentagon rule that restricted women from actively engaging in full-fledged combat positions in the military. The Pentagon rule banned women from artillery, armor infantry, and various other combat roles. Now that Secretary Panetta has lifted the rule, women can now fully serve in combat situations. I fully agree with Panetta�s decision to revoke the rule, and allow women to serve in combat.
Many disagree with this decision, but it is inevitable that women will obtain their equality and will be treated as absolute equals to men in this 21st century America. Women want equality. They want to be treated as equal to their male counterparts. Hundreds of thousands of women have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, many of them in combat. As of last year, more than 800 women had been wounded in the two wars. More than 130 women have died in combat in the two wars since last year.
There are currently more than 200,000 women serving in our military. Women make up over 15 percent of active duty military forces. Also, there are currently more than 2 million women veterans in America. The brutalities of war are no longer exclusive to men. In fact women have served in combat in this country far before Mr. Panetta�s overturning of the 1994 Pentagon rule.
Women have served in the military since 1775. No, they weren�t permitted to serve in combat at that time, but they held positions nursing the ill and wounded, laundering and mending clothing for male troops and also cooking and serving male troops food. They didn�t serve in combat alongside their male counterparts, but I bet my bottom dollar if they had been allowed to serve, they would have at that time. Women, since the Revolutionary War, have served America valiantly.
In the American Civil War, in some cases, there were women that crossed-dressed as men in order to serve in combat. Men feel compelled to protect women from the vileness of war, but the reality is that there are many military women who want to serve their country and make the same sacrifices that military men do.
In World War II, many of America�s women served their country by working in factories and producing munitions and war supplies. These women replaced positions of the male workers who went to serve America in the war, and they did a great job doing so. Although their service was minimal, they still made sacrifices for America. The women who contributed in the war effort assisted in the creation of the symbol known as Rosie the Riveter. Rosie is still an American cultural symbol; a reminder of the service of the many women of World War II.
Also in World War II, Senior Sgt. Roza Shanina, a female Soviet sniper, was credited with 54 confirmed kills. Although she was a Soviet, she was a woman who fought bravely in the war and just as well as most men snipers of that time. She was ultimately killed in action after suffering wounds while protecting a fellow comrade. She was only 20 years old at the time of her death, but her actions and fearlessness are proof that women have the grit and the guts to serve in full-fledged combat situations.
The glass ceiling is gradually disintegrating, and women are becoming more empowered by the day. We now have congresswomen. women CEOs. women Supreme Court judges. Women doctors. Women lawyers. You name it, women can do it just as well and proficiently as men. There are many American women, inside and outside of the military, who are stronger, more intelligent and more courageous than most men of this country. It�s only right that they be allowed to fully serve in combat situations.
I must say, it is almost a truism that the military was not structured with women in mind. Active military women, and women veterans are facing extraordinary challenges. Many studies have concluded that military life can be very unfavorable to women and that many women have been subjected to sexual harassment, discrimination and even outright rape.
Also, the VA healthcare system was not precisely structured with women in mind, and it is a certainty that it can be complicated for military women to find healthcare services suited to their needs after their service is done, but perhaps the military structure will change over time to accommodate women more adequately.
Although military life can be very hard on some women they, like men, have free will. They have freedom of choice. The women that are in the military today were not drafted. They volunteered to serve in the military and serve their country, and I�m positive that the majority of them want to serve in combat with their male counterparts.
Military women see the brutalities of war, but they do not want to elude it. They want to be a part of it and contribute as best they can. If women can go through the pain of childbirth I�m confident they can sustain the pains of war. Death, torture and suffering are the only things to come out of war, but the women of today�s military made the choice to enlist, therefore its only right that they are allowed to serve in combat on the frontlines with men and experience the same trials as they do.
I�m happy that Secretary Panetta lifted the 1994 Pentagon rule, and women can now serve in combat situations. As we all know, nothing is more powerful than the wrath of a woman. The Daughters of Liberty will now fight alongside the Sons of Liberty; like it or not, that is a beautiful thing.
Todd is a resident of Gastonia.


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This article first appeared in Aviation Week & Space Technology.
Middle Eastern governments have been busy recapitalizing their armed forces in recent years with the latest technology.
New fighters, main battle tanks and intelligence-gathering capabilities have been snapped up from defense companies eager to sell, given the historic lows in their traditional U.S. and European markets. Key to this strengthening is concern about Iran -- which continues to make noises about its nuclear program and wield major political influence in the region despite heavy sanctions -- and perhaps about U.S. involvement in the region.
In 2011, when President Barack Obama announced a "strategic pivot" in U.S. foreign policy toward the Asia-Pacific region, he was also signaling a turning point for U.S. energy policy. Improved techniques for extracting shale oil mean the U.S. could potentially become the world's largest oil producer and thus be almost self-sufficient in terms of energy production.
"The governments in the Middle East have known this was coming for a long time, but were slow to recognize its significance," says Jonathan Eyal, a Middle East expert with the U.K.-based Royal United Services Institute defense think tank. "Of course, the U.S. has some strategic allies in the region, but these countries are realizing that they increasingly have to do more for themselves."
While the U.S. mulls how it will re-distribute its forces after the pull-out from Afghanistan, it is likely that the huge number of U.S. troops, aircraft and ships deployed in the region is likely to shrink significantly, leaving those Middle Eastern countries to deal with problems on their periphery.This may require greater cross-border cooperation or even joint military operations.
"Military cooperation lies at the very core of the [Persian Gulf Cooperation Council] agreements, and the countries do work together, albeit on a relatively small scale," says Eyal.
He suggests the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations may need to take a greater role in operations in which the U.S. and European navies have invested in the past decade, such as anti-piracy or surveillance of the Straits of Hormuz, through which one-fifth of the world's oil supply is transported.
While Iran has repeatedly threatened to restrict or shut off the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have worked to circumvent the straits by opening pipelines and terminals in the Fujairah emirate, just north of the border with Oman. But Iran's navy -- the biggest in the region and with a flotilla of small, fast-moving vessels -- is still able to pose a threat to shipping in the Persian Gulf and may force those states to spend even more heavily to protect it and their littoral waters.
Defense investments made by several Persian Gulf states are beginning to bear fruit. The UAE purchased several heavily modified Bombardier DHC-8s to provide a maritime patrol capability, the first of which was delivered in mid-2012. And the UAE navy recently received its first Abu Dhabi-class corvette, built in Italy by Fincantieri. Its first Falaj-2 class patrol boat is being built in Abu Dhabi by Etihad Ship Building, a joint venture between Fincantieri and Al Fattan Ship Industries.
Saudi Arabia's navy is upgrading its Eurocopter Cougars and purchased at least six new AS565MB Panthers for its patrol ships. The country is also interested in acquiring medium-sized warships and a fleet of shipboard helicopters such as the Sikorsky MH-60R, which is also being examined by Qatar. Reports suggest that the Saudis have set aside as much as $23 billion for a navy modernization program. Oman is building up its navy, too, with the purchase of patrol boats from BAE Systems.
Greater cooperation may lie with countries other than the U.S. France now permanently stations fighters in the UAE, and the U.K. is considering similar options. Exercises such as the Advanced Tactical Leadership Course -- essentially, a Middle Eastern Red Flag held in the UAE -- have allowed the air arms of forces in the region to work more closely with their Western counterparts.
Qatar and the UAE, in particular, have global ambitions, and their involvement in Operation Unified Protector over Libya heightened their status on the world stage. Qatar's deployment of six jet fighters and helicopters may have been small compared to that of other coalition partners, but it represented a large proportion of Qatar's fleet. According to Eyal though, GCC nations would probably struggle without the support of a Western coalition partner if they needed to sustain a major operation, at least at the moment.
"The participation of Qatar and the UAE in the Libya operation was very important, but their involvement was on a very small scale, as many of these countries do not have the logistical backbone as yet for sustained operations on their own," Eyal says. The countries are rectifying that by procuring Boeing C-17s (Qatar bought four and the UAE six) and Airbus Military A330 Medium Multi-Role Tanker Transports (MRTT). Qatar has also purchased Lockheed Martin C-130Js. But the two countries are still highly dependent on coalition partners; during Operation Unified Protector, the Qatari Mirage 2000 force was embedded with the French air force operation out of Souda Bay in Crete, while the UAE F-16s flew alongside those from other coalition nations at Sigonella, Italy.
But neither the UAE nor Qatar is a stranger to operations overseas. The UAE supported the U.N. mission in Kosovo in 1999-2001 with a detachment of helicopters and, while it usually goes unreported, UAE special forces have been operating in Afghanistan for more than five years. Qatar's quiet diplomacy may also be counteracting Iran's attempts to destabilize relations across the region, and it has been taking on humanitarian missions, flying aid to earthquake-stricken Haiti and Chile in 2010. With this background, it seems likely that both countries will be keen to extend their reach further and work to strengthen their logistical chains to be ready to continue such activities
Saudi Arabian forces, meanwhile, will have to maintain watch on two fronts. Much of its oil refining is on the Persian Gulf coast, just over the water from Iran, and there have been cross-border troubles with Yemen. The Saudis are investing in new equipment such as its multibillion-dollar purchases of F-15 Eagles and Eurofighter Typhoons and the training infrastructure to support them.
Like the UAE and Qatar, Saudi Arabia has acquired A330 MRTTs, C-130J transports and KC-130J tankers. The country is investing in a large new fleet of helicopters and the creation of a national guard to provide homeland security and protect the country's infrastructure. While it continues to rely on old allies such as the U.S. for equipment, the Saudi Arabian government is diversifying its supplier base, procuring hundreds of Leopard 2 main battle tanks, Dingo infantry fighting vehicles and Boxer armored cars from Germany. The Saudis will likely make further investments in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, too.
The UAE is also diversifying and creating offset policies that will help it build an indigenous defense industry. For example, Raytheon and Emirates Advanced Investments codeveloped the Talon laser-guided rocket, and the Fincantieri-Al Fattan Ship Industries joint venture has allowed the UAE to build its first warships. Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky are partnered with the Mubadala to provide aviation maintenance through the Advanced Military Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul Center. Companies such as the Streit and Paramount groups are setting up facilities in the country to build armored vehicles.
In addition, Saab recently announced it will team with Abu Dhabi-based Tawazun to create a new UAE-based radar company called Abu Dhabi Advanced Radar Systems (Adars). Saab says Adars will be "a local radar capability center for development of next-generation radar systems and for production, maintenance and support services in the radar-system area."
The UAE has been one of the biggest spenders on defense in recent years, although its expenditures are starting to taper off. According to Eyal and other observers, this is because officials in the country have a better understanding of their requirements and specifications, recognizing that equipment that has proved effective in the U.S. or Western Europe may not work so well in the blazing heat of the desert.
"Countries such as the UAE and Qatar depend on high-technology systems -- they need to because they don't have the manpower in the armed forces [that] their neighbors do," Eyal notes.
"I am sure they wouldn't like the comparison, but the UAE and Qatar are rather like Israel, highly dependent on technology. They feel the need to invest in anti-ballistic missile systems and drones to restore the balance," he says. The need for such technology may also explain why several major purchases are taking longer than expected, according to Eyal.
"Customers in this region are extremely savvy about what they are purchasing, and the bidding processes are a lot more considered now than they used to be," says an industry official with close knowledge of the Typhoon purchase in Saudi Arabia.
For several years, contractors have been chasing the UAE's long-standing requirement for an airborne early warning capability. In 2009, the UAE air force acquired two Erieye-equipped Saab 340s that are now in service to provide an interim capability until officials decide on a longer-term program.
The air force is also looking for a new fighter to replace its Mirage 2000-9s; Eurofighter and Dassault are pushing the Typhoon and Rafale, respectively, with strong backing from senior government officials. The UAE's Mirage 2000-9s performed well in Operation Unified Protector, and six recently deployed to Nellis AFB, Nev., for a Green Flag exercise.
Qatar wants to replace its small fleet of Mirage 2000s as well, and is in process of a wide-scale modernization, choosing a new trainer, acquiring AW139 helicopters and looking at more tactical utility helicopters such as the UH- and MH-60S. NH Industries is offering the NH90 helicopter, which is used by Oman.
Persian Gulf states such as the UAE and Qatar are also keen to procure anti-ballistic missile systems such as Lockheed Martin's Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, despite its high cost, to act as a deterrent to a conventional missile attack. Even with so much modernization already underway, there appear to be plenty more opportunities in the Middle East.


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I'm currently doing my Art and Design Foundation course and thought I'd share some of my recent work. I wanted to share this particular project as I feel it is something more of us need to educate ourselves on. The project was titled Equality and Diversity and I decided to look at sexual assault and the way in which we view the victims, this idea of victim blaming and look at the vulnerability and naivety of some people's views on sexual assault.
I was inspired to look at sexual assault after the recent BBC 3 documentary, Is This Rape? Sex on Trail. After watching this documentary I was horrified by the lack of knowledge of what is deemed sexual assault and some of the teens understanding and views towards sexual assault. One girl believed if you kissed someone at a party you were agreeing to have sex with them. This lack of understanding is not only scary but something teens and young adults should be fully aware of. Consent is absolutely necessary, whether you've had sex with this person before, whether you are drunk, it doesn't matter if there is no consent it is sexual assault. It is not acceptable for people to blame the victim if they were drunk or under the influence, it doesn't matter what the victim was wearing, it doesn't matter if the victim didn't verbally say no, if it wasn't consenting, if they didn't want to, it was sexual assault. I feel as a society these issues and more knowledge on sexual assault needs to be a part of the education system. If we as a society aren't educated on the matter how we know what is wrong and what is right?
I wanted to portray this in my project and created these close up images of the body. I wanted to express the vulnerability of the body and how victims of sexual assault having a metaphoric imprint on their skin from the offender. I didn't want to create graphic images of a sexual nature, but for the images to not necessarily obviously represent the meaning behind them. This links to the representation of the images for how sexual assault victims carry this burden unseen day to day. I wanted these images to be powerful but to allow everyone to interpret them individually.


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Google has released updated versions of its mobile Gmail and Google Calendar, bringing with them some excellent enhancements. The updates, which are available on Android handsets as well as iPhones and iPod touches, are now live for all users and can be reached by going to gmail.com or google.com/calendar.
From the Calendar team, the big ticket item is the ability to add and edit events from your phone. It is now easy to create new events, add people to the event, or edit an existing one with a few touches. While viewing is nice, having read/write ability will be a welcome addition for just about any Google Calendar user. Additionally, the team has added a feature that allows you to bring up the last viewed event, even if there is no data connection.
On the Gmail side of the fence, there are speed improvements, a revised UI, and the inclusion of batch actions. The team has sped up e-mail archiving by using local database storage, and the app uses the same offline technique for composing messages (the changes will update online once you get a data connection again). With batch actions and the ability to actually flag messages, it makes me want to stop using the iPhone's built-in Mail application for Gmail altogether.
First with Google Reader and now with revised versions of Gmail and Calendar, Google reminds us of just how much can be done with a Web app. Native applications can sometimes not only be overkill, but unnecessary.


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This example shows how to design a fault detection, isolation, and recovery (FDIR) application for a pair of aircraft elevators with redundant actuators. The fault detection control logic used in this model is the same that is used in the Avionics subsystem of the Aerospace Blockset™ example entitled "NASA HL-20 with Optional FlightGear Interface."
Figure 1: Top level of aircraft elevator control system model
A typical aircraft has two elevators attached on the horizontal tails (one on each side of the fuselage). There are a number of redundant parts in the system to enhance safety of the aircraft.
Figure 2: Schematic showing how the components of the elevator system are connected to one another
For example, as shown in Figure 2, there are:
Two independent hydraulic actuators per elevator (four total)
Three separate hydraulic circuits to drive the actuators
Two primary flight control units (PFCU)
Two control modules per actuator: full range control law and limited / reduced range control law
Figure 3: Actuator mode logic for fault detection
Each outer actuator has a dedicated hydraulic circuit, whereas the inner actuators share one hydraulic circuit. Each actuator can be in either one of five modes: Passive, Standby, Active, Off, and Isolated. By default, the outer actuators are in the Active mode, and the inner actuators are in the Standby mode. If a failure is detected in the outer actuators or in the hydraulic circuits that are connected to them, the fault detection system responds accordingly to maintain stability by turning the outer actuators off and activating the inner actuators.
If the aircraft is flying perfectly level, then the actuator position should maintain a constant value. If the position of an actuator increases or decreases by 10 cm from this zero point, then the fault detection system registers a failure in that actuator. The fault detection system also registers a failure if the change in actuator position is very rapid (i.e., the position changes at least 20 cm in 0.01 seconds).
Similarly, the fault detection system registers a fault in one of the hydraulic circuits if the pressure is out-of-bounds or if the pressure changes very rapidly. In this example, the fault detection system checks that the pressure in the hydraulic circuit is between 500 kPa and 2 MPa, and that the pressure changes no more than 100 kPa in 0.01 seconds.
Figure 4: UI used to inject failures into the system
A separate UI (shown in Figure 4) that was created in GUIDE is used to inject failures into the fault detection systems for both the hydraulic circuits and the actuators. By checking or unchecking boxes and pressing the Update button on the UI, custom MATLAB® code runs as an intermediary between the UI and the Simulink® model. For example, when checking the H1 box and pressing the Update button to inject a failure into hydraulic circuit 1, the following custom MATLAB code is evaluated:
% Define H1_fail Constant block location and get current value
blockname=[mname '/Signal conditioning '...
'and failures /Hydraulic Pressures/Measured ',char(10),...
'Hydraulic system 1 ',...
'pressures/Hydraulic pressure/H1_fail'];
% Change value of H1_fail Constant block from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0.
if val
This effectively turns on a switch within the Signal conditioning subsystem so that the fault detection system registers a a fault in hydraulic circuit 1.
Figure 5: Switch that injects a failure into hydraulic circuit #1 if value of Constant block H1_fail does not equal 0
Stateflow® responds to failures in the hydraulic circuits and actuators using truth table functions, event broadcasting, and control logic. As an example, if the fault detection system registers a failure in hydraulic circuit 1 and no other failures occur, the L_switch truth table function evaluates Decision D1 as true and performs Action 2, which is to turn off the left outer actuator. This event is broadcast to the LO state, where the left outer actuator turns off. After this occurs, an event is broadcast from the LO state to the LI state so that the left inner actuator is activated. The right inner actuator is then activated since the left inner actuator is also active. When this happens, an event is sent from the RI state to the RO state to place the right outer actuator on standby. Thus, after the fault detection systems registers a failure in hydraulic circuit 1, the left outer actuator is turned off, the right outer actuator is placed on standby, and the inner actuators are activated.
When the fault detection system registers a failure occurs in one of the actuators, that actuator can no longer be activated. This is represented in the state chart by adding an Isolated state that contains no outgoing transitions. Therefore, once an actuator enters the Isolated state, it remains in the Isolated state.
A recovery mechanism has also been placed in the fault detection, isolation and recovery control logic in case a failed system comes back online. For example, if the fault detection system no longer detects failures in hydraulic circuit 1, the condition !u.low_press[0] is true, and the LO state can transition from the Off state to the Standby state. That way, if the fault detection system registers a failure occurs in another system, such as the left inner actuator, then the left outer actuator can be activated.
Pieter J. Mosterman and Jason Ghidella, "Model Reuse for the Training of Fault Scenarios in Aerospace," in Proceedings of the AIAA® Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, CD-ROM, paper 2004-4931, August 16 - 19, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI, 2004.
Jason R. Ghidella and Pieter J. Mosterman, "Applying Model-Based Design to a Fault Detection, Isolation, and Recovery System," in Military Embedded Systems, Summer, 2006.