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Filing your taxes may be the last thing on your mind before the wedding, but you may need to do some research to avoid penalties. The American and Canadian systems of taxation are quite complex. Basically, U.S. tax laws are based on citizenship, while Canadian tax rules are based on residence. As a result, both Americans and Canadians may end up paying taxes to both countries in certain circumstances.
U.S. Tax Information
The United States requires U.S. citizens and residents to pay federal taxes on worldwide income, irrespective of where they live and work. Therefore, even if you move to Canada with your spouse and make no income in the U.S. anymore, you will still have to pay taxes to the U.S. federal government. Conversely, if your Canadian spouse will move to the U.S. -- even temporarily -- he or she may be considered a U.S. resident for tax purposes.
Canadian Tax Information
Canada requires its citizens and residents to pay taxes on worldwide income based on their residency. If you live in Canada more than 183 days in a year -- even as a non-resident – you will be considered a resident for tax purposes and have to pay taxes to the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA). If your spouse moves to the U.S. and severs all residential ties with Canada, then -- after 24 months -- that spouse may stop paying taxes to the CRA.
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- Howland Tax: Tax Implications When Canadian Residents Marry Non-Residents; Brad Howland
- Transition Financial: Moving to Canada
- The Globe and Mail: Americans Living in Canada Face Looming IRS Tax Deadline; Roma Luciw
- Davis LLP: Canada: So I Married an American… ; Will Todd
- IRS: U.S. Citizens and Resident Aliens Abroad - Nonresident Alien Spouse
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23 July 2008 Vol. 10 / No. 29
People of Faith Beware: The Left Has Decided That
There Is No Right To Have More Than One Child
The right to procreate goes back to the very beginning of time, and is part of our very nature. "Be fruitful and multiply," it should be recalled, was the first commandment given to our first parents. Even Malthus himself, the original population scaremonger, admitted that natural law guaranteed a broad and inviolable right to procreate.
Yet an explicit right to bear children is not to be found in the Bill of Rights. Our Founding Fathers simply never imagined a tyranny so great that it would refuse couples the right to procreate. This would have been akin to refusing the people the "right" to breathe. Nor did the U.S. Congress later pass laws affirming a right to bear children. So fundamental was this right–and so unquestioned–that it was never codified into law.
It is true that in 1968, when the movement to control population began to gather steam, cooler heads sought to check its excesses by passing a U.N. resolution declaring that "couples have a basic human right to determine freely and responsibly the number and timing of their children." But this was merely a resolution, not a binding treaty of the kind that constitutes international law.
Now along comes a proponent of population control, Carter Dillard, to argue that the right to procreate is limited to one child because there are no explicit laws guaranteeing that right. If it is any solace, he does conclude that people do enjoy one absolute right: the right not to procreate at all.
Dillard is not some obscure blogger writing a vanity column. His article, "Rethinking the Procreative Right, was published by the prestigious Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal. His "rethinking" turns out to be an interminable recounting of every anti-people argument ever advanced. This, combined with the absence of specific laws guaranteeing procreative rights, leads him to conclude that that human rights theory, legal precedent and national and international practice do not support "a basic human right to determine freely and responsibly the number and timing of one's children."
Instead Dillard argues that the right to bear children must be balanced against other rights. What other rights? Dillard enumerates several, including rights belonging to other people, to future generations, and even to nature, wilderness and non-human species. I admit to having trouble understanding how "nature," "wilderness", or even "non-human species" can be said to have "rights." While we are to be good stewards of the earth and its creatures who live there, this does not create "rights" for the redwoods or the raptors. Rather, it imposes duties on us.
Yet the Spanish parliament is even now deliberating whether to grant human rights to the Great Apes–gorillas, orangutans, and chimpanzees. Such an act would not elevate the status of the Great Apes–they are what they are–but it would certainly degrade the status of man and threaten his rights. And because the Great Apes can obviously not speak for themselves, their new rights would have to be defended by the same people who are flogging the proposal in the first place: the radical environmentalists.
As far as who should speak for "future generations of humanity," I think that it is obvious that this right should, and naturally does, inhere in those who provide for the future in the most fundamental way, by providing the future generations of humanity. Most of radical population controllers, not to mention the Left in general, hardly try. This is, I think, the fundamental complaint of Dillard and the many secular humanists who share his views. Such types, who contracept and abort most of their children out of existence, are increasingly worried that people of faith will win the battle of the cradle. They see that they are not replacing themselves, and that we are. So they are desperate to try and limit our numbers.
Dillard claims that the birth of a baby negatively impacts the rights of others. How so, one can reasonably ask? Here Dillard goes into a long and unconvincing discussion of how "each act of procreation poses a direct and obvious threat to the guarantee of natural liberty in space …" He is thinking of overcrowding, but there are other ways to protect an individual's "space" than by limiting childbearing. We can, and do, adjudicate these kinds of issues by laws against trespassing, poaching, harassment, noise, and public nuisances.
Instead of an unlimited right to reproduce, Dillard argues that we should only be allowed to replace ourselves. He would, like China, impose a one-child policy on the U.S. by fiat. Like many population controllers, he not only admires how China has resolutely limited its population growth, he believes that its one-child policy is perfectly consistent with international law. The Chinese government has, in his view, fulfilled "its obligations [as a government] to protect children and society as a whole from unjustified and destructive behavior," that is to say, childbearing. Never mind that it has killed some 300 million children before and, in some cases after, birth.
Perhaps realizing that his policy will be, well, somewhat unpopular in certain circles, Dillard argues that "through a society-wide process of agreement, internalization and normalization – a series of "gentle nudges" rather than "hard shoves", similar to that involved in seat belt or anti-smoking legislation – a voluntary population policy should be incorporated into law." Put in plain English, this means that he would first soften us up with anti-people arguments before passing and enforcing stringent laws against procreating.
This, of course, is exactly the purpose of China's anti-child propaganda. The Chinese people are incessantly warned that too many children will despoil the environment, harm the economy, and could derail China's plans to become, in the words of the party slogan, a "rich country with a strong military." Those in China who ignore the propaganda and conceive illegal children are locked up and forced to listen to it. Those who, after listening to it, still refuse abortion and sterilization, are aborted and sterilized anyway. The nudges may be "gentle" at first, but soon enough turn into shoves.
"Given that law guides our behavior, a policy that treats procreation as private is regressive, environmentally damaging and peculiarly anti-social: it teaches us to disregard others and their interests. Until we have policies that reflect the truly public nature of having children, we will encourage irresponsible procreation, and all the harm it causes," Dillard concludes.
Dillard is not the first to propose bringing reproduction under the direct purview of the state. These ideas have been current since at least the publication of Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb. And he is backed by large elements of a population control movement that has never been more powerful in terms funding, personnel and institutions than it is now.
Make no mistake about it. Any law limiting the number of children would target religious conservatives. After all, the Left, firmly convinced of their right not to have children, has already adopted a voluntary one-child policy.
Steven W. Mosher is the President of the Population Research Institute, and the author of Population Control: Real Costs and Illusory Benefits. (Transaction, 2008)


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I have a 2008 Kia Sorento with the 3.3L, about 11k miles. The other day, I took it to my local mechanic for an oil change. Drove it all over town during the course of the following couple days. Then, last night, as I am about 3/4 mile from home, my low oil pressure light goes on. At that point, I roll down my window to listen to the car and can hear a grinding type noise (valves sticking?) on acceleration. I limp the rest of the way home and turn off the engine. This morning, I call the mechanic and they send the service manager right over. No oil on the dipstick whatsoever. He adds oil to the engine and drives it down the street to the shop. They inspect, and tell me it is a bad o-ring on the cone filter that caused all the oil to leak out over the course of 2 days, and that it is possible that they had not tightened it sufficiently when the changed the oil. They said no other damage had been done, replaced the o-ring, changed the oil and filter and sent me on my way.
So my question is this…what is the possibility that other (long term) damage could have been done? Should I have the vehicle checked out by another mechanic, or even the Kia dealership? Should I not even inform the dealership, as they may use it as a way to deny future warranty claims? The vehicle is no longer making the grinding type noise, and seems to be fine. I may drive it lightly the next few days just to be sure.
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Piston Slap's mission is to look out for our contributor's best interests, but Karmic forces may beg to differ this time 'round. Put another way: you should see no evil, hear no evil. And hope for the best.
Here's why: running with low oil pressure is a recipe for top-end engine damage, even more so on top-heavy overhead camshaft designs. And that's if you're lucky, more serious engine component failures is likely. I suspect that at some point oil consumption, noise, or performance will be a concern. I'd start by monitoring the oil level on your dipstick on a monthly basis, and continue until you're ready to sell the car.
Then again, you have a properly serviced machine (according to your paperwork) with a 100k warranty, right? You can stick it to da (Kia) man when the bad news arrives, but feel guilty about it. When an oil light comes on, a Pistonhead gets off the road and stops dead in their tracks.
There's no limping home. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.
Consider yourself lucky you have a warranty and the motor isn't damaged to the point of obvious negligence on your mechanic's part: that shop owes you big time, otherwise you'd be suing them while Kia washes their hands of it. Things coulda been much worse.
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35 Comments on "Piston Slap: Karma, Idiot Lights and the 100k Warranty..."
VerbalNovember 30th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
You "limped home" after the engine started going audible? Dude, if my engine shows a low oil light and it's making strange noises, I'm shutting it down and walking. You dodged a bullet.
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kktNovember 30th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Any engine problems that result from this are from your local mechanic and from limping home instead of stopping right there. Don't make Kia pay for it.
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gslippyNovember 30th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
You may only have dodged a bullet for a while. There is no 'healing' once an engine is damaged due to oil deprivation.
However, oil lights tend to come on due to low pressure (not zero), which detects a variety of ills including failures in seals, bearings, or pumps, or in your case, low volume. The engine wasn't completely starved of oil, but it was low enough to make noise.
Since it was only driven this way for 3/4 mile, you might be OK. Today's engines are remarkable durable (just watch a Cash For Clunkers video), and a little oil is infinitely better than no oil.
The problem is that you can't prove that any damage has occurred. If it has, Kia will indeed wash their hands of it, and your claim will lie solely with the garage and their admission of fault with the service. It might be helpful to see if they'll cover this service incident (in writing) up to the 10/100 limit that Kia offers. For them to purchase such an insurance policy for this case would be cheaper than an engine replacement, and if nothing goes wrong over 100k miles, everyone's ahead. Or, for nearly free, they could just provide a legal document that says they'll cover any failures due to this service incident.
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gslippyNovember 30th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Upon further reflection and seeing others' advice, I'd recommend demanding a new engine from the garage rather than just a piece of paper. Nobody else should have to pay for it, especially Kia or the next owner. The garage should have insurance coverage for this sort of mistake, and their efforts to make it right will go a long way toward keeping you as a customer.
But Kia should be involved, and could even be on your side as a way to protect their interests. That grinding you heard = metal removal, and you could very well be looking at a spun bearing at 50k miles.
If you go this route, just make sure the new engine is really new, has a 10/100 warranty, and that the garage sources it through Kia and not some rebuilder or reseller.
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gslippyNovember 30th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Better yet, have the garage pay Kia to replace the engine. Then the work will be legit and covered by Kia.
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OmoikaneNovember 30th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Same thing happened to me a while ago.
The grinding noise means your engine is gone. You will find metal shavings on the filter.
Take the car to the dealership immediately for a complete assessment and leave it there. Document everything and keep records. Ask the dealership to document everything and take pictures of their findings. Ask the idiot mechanic for the contact information for their insurance company- hopefully they are insured for this kind of incidents. Do not settle for anything less then a new engine. Do not wait! Take immediate action! Do not let the idiot mechanic touch the car again. All work to be done at the dealership. Get in touch with a lawyer if the mechanic does not put you in touch with their insurance company and if they are not admitting the claim.
In my case, it amounted to a $10000 claim (ten thousand) : complete new engine installed at the dealership and rental car for the entire period it took to have the car fixed. Good luck!
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albertNovember 30th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Of course there is damage. The camshaft will show signs of wear, your crankshaft bearings will be blueish and your cilinder walls will show the marks. This is the easy part to see. Take an endoscope and have a look inside (or let an expert do so).
On top of that: send your dealer a letter and have him to sign for it in which you describe this happening and make him responsable for the possible damage in a later stage.
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Gardiner WestboundNovember 30th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
As said previously, the instant the oil light came on the car should have been shut down and not driven another inch. We're past that now.
Plan A: If there is an aftermarket oil filter on the car have your mechanic install an OEM one right now. Don't say another word about the incident to anyone, not even your dog. Have all future servicing done by your Kia dealer. Become a world class schmoozer. Crazy Glue your lips to the service manager's ass. Schlep a dozen donuts in to the staff. Engage your salesman in light discussions about buying a new car at an indefinite future date. If something lets loose before the heap is out of warranty the world class schmoozing may improve your chances getting it fixed under warranty.
Plan B. If an unfortunate upbringing or misplaced sense of morality won't permit Plan A, notwithstanding automakers and dealers are pirates and scoundrels, trade the car in this week.
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Matthew DandaNovember 30th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Drove my '98 Trooper for a day without oil, after Jiffy Lube forgot to re-fill it (yes, it happens!). No detectable damage, so they simply apologized. Ran fine for another year, then the main bearing failed. No more engine.
I would seriously consider the advice offered above: trade in the car immediately and save yourself the (impending) hassle of a warranty claim on a new engine.
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MBellaNovember 30th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Omoikane is right. The only thing to do is have the shop buy you an engine. They screwed up. Karma is a bitch, and making Kia pay for it, or having somebody else end up with it is not right. Also for future reference, and to anyone reading this, if your oil pressure light ever comes on, kll the engine immediatly. The oil run at pressure is the actual "bearing" for your crank and rods. If you have low oil pressure, these are now longer suspended. Imagine a ball bearing setup with all the balls missing and you should get an idea as to what has happened. Also your camshaft might have sever wear.
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ponchoman49November 30th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Rule of thumb, if an engine oil pressure light is on stop the engine right away. If you continue driving with the light on and hear engine noises consider the engines expected life to be short even if the noises go away after refilling with oil. I would go after the garage owner as many on here stated and demand in writing action on replacing your engine if it should fail within the warranty period.
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vvkNovember 30th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
The proper course of action at this point is to immediately have the local mechanic contact their insurance company and have the engine torn down and inspected by a Kia representative (local dealer). Do not wait another minute to do it!
Thoroughly document all interactions you have had with the local mechanic (on paper, dated and signed) and continue doing so in the future.
Do NOT stay quiet hoping that Kia will honor your powertrain warranty. MOST LIKELY running the engine with low oil pressure for such an extended period (i.e., over 30 seconds) has caused very detectable damage to internal components. If/when the engine starts using oil, making noises, running roughly, etc., Kia WILL inspect internal components looking for evidence of running with low oil pressure. They WILL try to wiggle out of paying for repairs if there is a SHRED of evidence of foul play. Good luck to you!
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ponytrekkerNovember 30th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Keep in mind the car's diagnostics may show that the oil pressure light went on. I'd get it checked out first then try to find out if your buddy has insurance. You may wind up paying, then having to sue him. Good luck.
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mikeyNovember 30th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
OK…Whats done is done, in the future,shut the motor off,and don't start it untill you fix the problem.
For the here and now,as others have pointed out, your engine is toast. So do what you gott'a do.
Good luck
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jmoNovember 30th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
"They WILL try to wiggle out of paying for repairs if there is a SHRED of evidence of foul play."
Do you have actual knowlege of this or are you just assuming?
I got a new engine from VW with no questions asked. I can't imagine Kia would be any worse. They just check to see that you did all the recommended maintenance – you show them the receipts and they give you a new engine.
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RussycleNovember 30th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
It's really hard to say. I'm on a Mini Cooper forum, and there's loads of stories about clutches failing at under 20k miles. Sometimes Mini warranties them, other times they fight it tooth and nail. Sure clutches can be abused, but in many of those cases Mini is just citing the fact that it failed as proof of abuse, without even examining the clutch.
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qfrogNovember 30th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Two choices IMO.
1. New engine. If you like the car then get a new engine. There a several ways to go about doing this… some more ethical than others… some easier than others. You'll figure out which course of action is right for you. You can do this now or maybe later on after the current engine develops issues or fails to proceed.
2. New car. Take the loss on the trade, get rid of it now before it spins a bearing and forces you to make a decision on how to get a new engine.
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thebananaNovember 30th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
I'm on my second Kia, and will probably buy a 3rd next year. I ALWAYS take my vehicles to the dealer for regular maintenence. I've had a couple of warranty claims ( a transmission on my Sedona and AC compressor on my Sportage). Not one single second of hesitation to cover these items under warranty, because the dealer knows no one else has ever put a wrench to them.
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john.fritzNovember 30th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Everyone flogged you sufficiently for driving with no oil pressure so I won't repeat the obvious. But depending on how dedicated you are to the long-term health of this engine, you may want to consider submitting SOAP samples at each or every second/third (depending on your pocketbook) oil change to monitor engine wear. If you're not running M1 or a similar quality synthetic, I'd start.
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50mercNovember 30th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
At the state fair some guy was hawking a miracle lubricant additive. When he poured it into an engine, the motor continued to run just fine even though the crankcase had been removed! You have to wonder why that stuff isn't put in all cars at the factory, because I'm pretty sure carnival barkers aren't allowed to make false claims.
Haven't seen the stuff since. I bet the oil companies conspired to take it off the market, just like they did with the 200 mpg carburetor.
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bill h.November 30th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
I can attest to the above advice that when the light comes on, engine goes off, NOW.
When I had my '84 GTi still under warranty, the VW dealership changed the oil the day before I was to drive 6 hours home for Thanksgiving. The mechanic forgot to tighten the drain bolt, and it fell out on I-90 outside of Cleveland. I noticed the oil light flicker on at first out of sheer luck, but VW was wise enough to also have a buzzer go off when the light came on steadily. Shut the engine off right away and coasted to the side of the road. I recall even then there was still a little bit of oil dribbling out of the open drain hole when I looked underneath.
Got it towed and luckily enough there was a shop that was still open that evening before Thanksgiving; they got a bolt that fit, refilled the engine and installed a new filter and we decided to go on, despite some nice offers from other shop customers to stick around for dinner. No problems on the return trip. The dealer's service manager apologized, reimbursed me for the tow and service, took off the valve cover and dropped the pan to check for damage and found none.
I drove the car for many more years and never had an engine issue, even after 150k miles when I finally gave it to a relative.
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November 30th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Is there anything in the OBD that will hint at a later date the low oil pressure warning went off ?
While not quite the same league, once the Acura dealer forgot to replace the oil filler cap on my car. A mile down the road when black smoke started pouring from the hood I turned back and yelled at them. I got them to add in the service log what had happened so if anything went wrong I had a paper trail. Nothing ever did in the remaining 3 years I had the car.
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john.fritzNovember 30th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
I don't think OBD monitors oil pressure. Of course, the operative word here is think...
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john.fritzNovember 30th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Also, if you do decide to use oil analysis, be sure to keep the results. Like anything long term, you need to establish a base line of what's typical for your particular engine to identify an abnormal wear pattern.
I would've added this to my above post but the edit function doesn't work any more for some reason…
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joeaverageNovember 30th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
I'd start checking the oil at every tank of fuel. At least for a while until you can establish it is not being consumed or leaked.
I'd seriously get the offending shop to replace the engine. They know how much damage a short time without oil pressure causes.
If you can't get any satisfaction either start saving for another engine or replace the vehicle.
It's episodes like this that makes me change my own oil. Nobody cares about my car as much as I do. I really like our older cars and don't want to ruin the engines b/c somebody wasn't paying enough attention when they changed my oil.
And yes – the oil light means turn it off right now – unless you'll likely be killed for stopping right there.
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william442November 30th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
I have heard at least 100 solutions for your problem over the years, and I expect none of them worked. When we had such events with the race cars, we'd fill them with 50 weight oil, and hope they would get through the next quarter mile. At least have someone pull the pan to check for metal. Some of the guys were GMI engineers.
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stevelovescarsNovember 30th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Years ago while working for a major car manufacturer, we had a training course on basic auto mechanics for the team answering calls at the customer service number. One neat thing we did was to take an engine completely apart, put it back together, and start it up. Another exercise was to drain all of the oil out of an engine and turn it on. The engine continued to idle smoothly for 5 minutes or so… then the technician blipped the throttle and the engine met a noisy and sudden death.
Those "miracle oil" demonstrations with idling engines are a bunch of hooey. An engine running without oil but not under load may live for quite a while, but one under load will wear quickly.
Most manufacturer warranties are pretty clear in covering manufacturing defects but not damage caused by negligence or lack of care. You may find a dealer willing to make a warranty claim without asking questions, but it's unlikely a major repair like this won't raise some eyebrows with a competent service manager or a factory rep.
I agree wth some others here that you should involve the dealer and get them on your side against the independent shop… their testimony and records of an inspection will mean a lot should you find yourself in small claims court against the mechanic. Trying to play dumb and making a warranty claim will make you look complicit later on and won't earn you any assistance by the dealer or Kia.
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Bruce from DCNovember 30th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Add me to the list of people who suggest that you come clean with the car dealer and have the engine checked for damage and, if damage, is found, you go back to the lunkheads who probably forgot to remove the old gasket when spinning on a new filter and gasket (a common failure, since the old gasket usually doesn't come off with the old filter).
Keeping mum and keeping your fingers crossed about the state of your engine risks the fact that the company (not the dealership; they don't care; they get paid for warranty repairs) does some thorough checking before giving you a new engine for free. They know how long their engines should last, given appropriate maintenance; and they also know that screw-ups in mounting a new oil filter and/or tightening the oil sump drain plug are common. So, they're going to look for evidence of that along with evidence of who did the maintenance on your vehicle.
And yes, if you don't believe in karma or payback or whatever, you can take your vehicle and sell it to CarMax for cash. Of course, the warranty is transferable; and, if the second owner needs to collect on the warranty, Kia will know who the first owner was. So, he/she might come looking for you after Kia denies the claim. Just sayin . . .
BTW, the illumination of the red oil pressure idiot light or the red high temperature idiot light requires an immediate shut down of the engine, unless you want to buy a new one.
But you already knew that, right?
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mikeyNovember 30th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
This story has only one bad guy. Its not the dealer,or the driver. Its the shop that did the oil change. The fact that you a heard grinding sort'a noise ,tells me that the engine has got some internal damage. With just 10k on the engine it may take some time to show up. Pay attention to the comments here,the damage has been done and it WILL show up.
Good advice from stevelovescars. Take it to the dealer and fess up,let thier tech's look at it. Armed with that info go back to the shop and make your case. Once again, Good Luck!
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November 30th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
As much as I hate going to a "stealership" I have gone private with a car under warranty. When the dealer screws up it isn't going to void the warranty but when pass it to Jiffy Lube or Fred's garage then it is on you buddy. Suck it up and take it to the dealer and pray when your engine blows up that they won't notice that you drove it without oil.
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NickRNovember 30th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Hmmm, I agree go to the dealership and fess up and prepare to go to war (if you have to) with the shop.
Based on a similar experience:
Take it out for a drive and have someone follow you. Put the car in L if it is an auto, run the revs up pretty high and then back completely off. If there's a puff of blue in the exhaust or it smells, your rings are gone and the cylinder walls are scored.
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tuckerdawgNovember 30th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
+1 on going to the dealer to come clean, not because I like dealerships or its the right thing to do but that the responsible party in this is the original shop and its pretty easy to prove from what you write. Once/if the dealership confirms engine damage you basically have a witness to the crime and the other shop should know that. There are too many variables that can go wrong for you down the road, you might as well address it now while the original shop is still in business and in a position to provide a remedy. If they are messing up a simple oil change I can't imagine they are getting too many repeat customers.
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WheeljackNovember 30th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
The problem with a lot of modern cars is that the oil pressure "sender" isn't really a sender, it's just a simple switch the reacts to a few PSI of oil pressure and the "gauge" (if there is one) is manipulated by the computer to point the needle in the "safe" range. By the time the light comes on it's already too late. You can blame fake "gauges" on a couple of things:
1. Cost savings from the simpler parts, and:
2. People who overreact to gauge fluctuations and bring it in insisiting something is wrong
The dirty little secret is that most modern gauges are simply mechanical "idiot" lights, including the aforementioned oil pressure gauge, the coolant temp and to a lesser extent the volts/amps gauge which is harder to fake but is often "buffered" a bit to control small or insignificant fluctuations…
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criminalenterpriseNovember 30th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
That's not a "problem" per se. We don't have to have a gauge array to compete with a P-40 because cars are generally much better, much more reliable and built to a higher standard than they were even 20 years ago. The good ol' days when you had gauges for everything were also the days when you needed them. The downside to idiot lights is that there's little time for interpretation. Things like oil pressure lights require immediate action without considering how close you are to your own driveway.
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mtymsiDecember 1st, 2009 at 9:23 am
Although dealership service depts. are constantly maligned on this forum I am a firm believer in having them do oil changes especially while a vehicle is still under warranty. Not only do you have documented routine maintenance records if this same thing happened and the work was done at a dealership you'd have a much easier time gaining recourse. In addition they have technical service bulletins and of course any open recalls for your vehicle.
One thing I think most completely ignore when comparing a dealership service dept. to an independent is the overhead cost of both. Consider the typical independent facility versus a dealership service dept. and also the fact that the techs at a dealership are specifically trained to work on your vehicle. If you have a problem like this with a dealership you're dealing not only with a much more financially viable organization than a typical independent you have the leverage of the manufacturer behind you as well.
As just about everyone has stated you need a new engine. When you get done with this ordeal was it really worth it to take your vehicle to an independent to save maybe $20 on an all change?
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'When Love Blossom'
"After the tattoo, they had shared their first kiss by the mall entrance, she could never shake off how shy she'd been after that"
Students gambolled about the schoolyard like bees chasing and spreading pollen in the heart of the dry season, a season hotter and dustier up north than most parts of Cameroon. The earth parched and cracked like it hadn't seen water for decades. The plants were almost non-existent and water from open taps ran so hot they needed to be collected and cooled under shades or Calabashes. A cool day seemed like a shockwave had hit the ripple of the sun's continuum throwing the heat delicately out of pattern and in that slight space in the sun's continuum, cold air brushed over the town like a kiss from the wind, which only happened once in a month throughout the dry season.
Maimuna knew better not to dirty her uniforms or become too sweaty, from a tender age, looking a hot dusty mess had always been a rebuffing trigger from her mum who did the laundry, as Maimuna grew older she became conscious of what the hot weather meant for her teenage looks. She sometimes remembered her mum's voice echoing her disapproval of her dirty dusty feet and sweaty gown armpits referring to her as 'Mrs ganakoh' a title for the wives of cattle nomads. These days the most her mum did was look at her, sigh with disapproval on anything remotely close to dusty shoes and sweaty armpits. Her mum still managed to behave like she did the laundry when at the age of fifteen the maids did most of her washing except for her undergarments.
May's dad was a top ranking military general who had worked in many parts of the country, but loved the North the most, he never took up the Muslim religion but enjoyed the organised ways in which the men, women and children religiously prayed, he always remarked that crimes were a lot less in this part of the country than anywhere else because the repercussions were religiously linked and dire. Being the only English general in town he could speak some of the Fulani tongues plus French, this was a respectful added bonus which worked in his favour politically and social stature wise, the lifestyle and culture up north had a complimenting ego massaging effect on him you could tell from the almost always satisfactory grin he wore with a tinge of arrogance.
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Lightning Strikes Twice
The wedding and all ensuing rights and festivities passed so quickly. Dina and Tate honeymooned in the coast of Kribi in Cameroons most buoyant and flourishing tourist beach city with its exceedingly elaborate beautiful sea view resorts… It was nice to just be able to live in the moment. A time and place, that encapsulated the purest and best of all their first spousal memories, the beginning of their lives together as a couple, she bearing his name and he wearing a contented smirk on his face from dusk till dawn.
Dinah found herself constantly humming to "This is why I love you", she felt like for the first time in a long while she'd found love again. Her dad was her first love, the most loving man she had known her entire life, so much so that leaving home as a teenager left a debilitating dent in her emotions, she felt like not seeing her dad each day would kill her… So she was grateful for all the times he'd visited, even when her memory mélange with thoughts of him and her best friend tumbling in her sheets or elsewhere resurfaced, she quickly shook it off saying to her brain "not that, not now – never"…. that spec of flaw was not enough to taint her dad's memory.
He was a good man and a great father.
Honeymoon time together was a culmination of love, lust, fear and apprehension for what the future held. Bless! Tate was an expert emotional harness, he made sure that the days were filled with just about the right balance of futuristic plans and living in the moment he was a spontaneous lover and that attracted Dinah to him from the moment they had shared their first kiss. When it came to his feelings for Dinah he could forgo all else and just do what it took to be with her or make her happy.
Their days were filled with seaside disposition, impulsive shenanigans coupled with loads of restful relaxing sun soaking layabouts.
Tate studied her silhouette as she lay on the beach mat, loving every streak of sweat shimmering on her bare body and the sun kissing her skin, he was a little jealous of anything that made such all-encompassing contact with Dinah, he wanted to be that sun that's engulfed every part of her bare body in the open with no limitations, the competition between him and the sun was rife, it was a lost battle as he had restrictions while in public, but in the confines of their solstice, that body was he's too tender and knead to his heart's desire, he reminded her how blessed he was to have her and so too did she in words spoken and unspoken… A conversation wrought of love… Pure true and new…in just an eye contact they comfortably spoke to each other and loved each other harder.
The days went by so quick they winded down their stay making actionable immediate plans to be together soonest in one place and they'd agreed that will be Paris. There was no denying that Tate's career was a lot stable while Dinah was vertically stretching into her role as a wife.
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Tips For Dealing With Car Dealers
When individuals think about a Jeep, pictures of off-road journey and safaris often come to mind. Indeed, a Jeep is the perfect vehicle for travelling on rugged landscape. However, it is also an appropriate vehicle for daily travelling. If you are thinking about purchasing a Jeep, then be sure to examine out your regional car dealers to examine out the different brands. Understanding exactly what you want in advance will help filter your search for once you're at the shop.
Two-Wheel vs. Four-Wheel Drive
For off-road vehicles, you will need to choose whether you want a two-wheel or four-wheel drive engine. Most regular motorists are not acquainted with the distinction or what the words even mean. The common car runs on the two-wheel drive engine. A four-wheel, however, uses extra torque so that the power is moved from the transmission to the transfer case. This allows spreading the power more equally to each wheel. The outcome is more torsion and torque when driving irregular areas and landscape. Definitely consider a four-wheel engine if you strategy on using your jeep for off-road entertainment. It will price you a little bit more, but it is well value the money.
Hardtop vs. Soft-Top Overhead
You will also need to choose whether you want a hardtop or soft-top. Both are detachable, though the former provides a little more strength and will also allow you to store equipment overhead. A soft-top, however, is more cost-effective and can also be quickly removed within a few moments. Since both are detachable, most jeep designs can be fixed with either a hard or soft cover.
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Most car dealers also bring used jeeps in their stock. If you choose to get a pre-owned jeep, then it is essential that you pop open the bonnet and examine the engine. Of course, this is applicable to any used car but is even more essential for a jeep. If the past owner managed your vehicle regularly for off-road use, then there is an excellent possibility that there may be some deterioration.
Most Expensive Auto Repair Problems
Any car owner can admit that maintenance can be extremely costly, especially if you miss frequent servicing. Avoding frequent tune-ups and oil changes, or neglecting the check-engine lights can cause to costly auto repair services:
1. Replacing/fixing the cylinder
Ignoring small problems certainly results in larger, more costly problems. The need to fix or replace a cylinder is usually a indication of continuous negligence. Replacing or fixing a cylinder can price more than $8,000 because of the work engaged. Cylinder failing happens when the proper combination of fuel, air and sparks are missing. The cylinder overheats and stop working but not without a lot of warnings, such as misfires and other problems. Actually, with frequent servicing, this issue is almost nonexistent.
2. Changing the Transmitting Assembly
Without a working transmission, your car wheels cannot turn. Transmitting problems can often be headed off with frequent servicing, especially if you adhere to your company's information for schedule services. Replacing the set up can price at least $3,600 or more.
3. Changing the Hybrid Inverter Assembly
This auto repair is cost you a lot because hybrid parts are not easily obtainable. As the model becomes more common, the price may fall. Since the only warning for this issue is the check-engine light, inverter failing can be hard to identify. The inverter is accountable for transforming DC power to AC power. It doesn't often stop working, but when it does, changing the set up can price anywhere between $4,000 and $7,400 based on the automobile model.
4. Replacing the Spark Plugs and Cylinder Head
Spark plug failing needs to be resolved instantly. Continuous misfires in your engine will cause the cylinder to heat up and don't work. Actually, unless the issue is resolved right away, engine failing is unavoidable – and costs up to $8,000 or more. How do you know that your spark plugs are having problems? For most automobiles, the check-engine light will begin to flicker, showing a misfire. Mechanics suggest that you stop driving the car instantly because you're now doing serious harm to the engine. Auto repair of this kind can price up to $3,500 or more, even if it's taken care of right away.
High Polishing Vs Chrome Plating
Decorative chrome plating (as compared to hard chrome plating used in commercial uses) is the application of electroplating a very slim (millionths of an inch) layer of chromium onto a metal object. Because the layer of chrome is very slim, chrome coated areas are always coated with nickel first, and then the chrome is coated over the nickel. The nickel plating provides the corrosion resistance, smoothness and most of the reflection, while the slim aspect of chrome contributes a bluish hue, defends the actual nickel from tarnish, and reduces damaging. Detailed below are a few of the pro's and con's of chrome plating.
It looks great! Chrome coated areas have a real reflection complete with a minor shade of red in it. To many, this look is quintessentially awesome. As a hard metal, chrome is immune to scrapes and swirl marks, so it should look excellent for decades. Because it is a hard metal, it is also simple to take proper care. You can clean and polish it without concerning about damaging it up. Plus, as the aspect of chrome provides a safety hurdle for the actual nickel, corrosion and deterioration should not be an issue.
Chrome plating is costly as terrible. Plating a 21″ motorbike rim can run as much as $500. If chrome plating does become scraped or broken, it is not possible to identify treat the problem; the whole aspect must be removed of its plating (around $100, usually) and then re-plated. So, if some knucklehead scrapes your motorcycle over and scrapes up your pipe joints or a pebble out of nowhere dings your chromed bumper, you have to either stay with it or part with a tidy sum. Even more intense your chrome plating maintains enough harm to crack through to the nickel, you will have serious issues with deterioration, as the electro chemical responses from the plating procedure can power the actual metal to rust more quickly.
Protecting Your Car From A Heat Wave
Excessive temperature ranges or prolonged high heat are certainly not good for your car. Several things could quickly go wrong and in some cases possible problems that could have happened anyway are generally significantly multiplied and amplified. These could cause serious risk to you as you use your car even as it damages parts in your automobile. It therefore makes a lot of feeling to be careful when temperature ranges are great. Defending your car from a heat wave is simple if you adhere to these primary safety measures.
Park your car in the best areas possible.
Contrary to common perception your car can be impacted even if it is fixed. Make sure that you move it and park in the best locations possible making every attempt to prevent sunlight on your car where possible. Apart from certain parts in the car being damaged, heat can quickly cause too much gas to disappear from your gas tank.
Protect your battery
Heat makes trouble to car battery power and is in fact the single aspect most accountable for reduced battery power in a car. If the shade under which you are automobile parking your car is restricted, do your best to make sure that the front end (where battery power is) is sitting under a shade or the best part of the automobile automobile parking space available.
Use your wipers more frequently
During prolonged high temperature ranges you should go out of your way to use your wipers more regularly. The heat could cause the wipers to adhere to your windows which will harm them when you get round to using them because rather than cleaning they will smear your windows when they take loose from the surface of your windows. Using your washers to apply the windows also helps cool down the wind shield wiper.
Winter Car Maintainence Tips
In the UK, we never seem to have your average winter time. There are no real set months and no predicted weather; it all happens as and when it wants to and how it wants to which indicates that, despite Xmas arriving and going and January also waving farewell, the really cool temperature has only just began to set in! That's right, we sit strongly in the first months of the season, shivering and viewing the stormy weather and snowfall showers down and make us wish summer months was here already but what about our poor cars? Compelled to take us to work every day, to go through traffic and help us run massive quantities of errands; our vehicles are an expansion of our lifestyles but when it comes to winter time they take an excellent battering! To prevent cold mornings with a car that won't start or to save the stress of the much disliked break down in the center of a traffic jam in the cold snowfall, there are a few factors you can do to keep your engine operating. Whether a new Rolls Royce or a used Volkswagen; below are the top tips to consider and action that can keep your automobile operating, keep you secure and reduce the chance of any expensive malfunction.
Flat Battery- The flat battery power is the most typical cause of winter time failures so are you doing as much as possible to prevent this? One of the the reason why battery power are quickly cleared is due to an over extreme use of heating. No issue how tempting it may be, keep the use of your car heating to a lowest and keep in mind that if you battery power has already exceeded the predicted five-year lifespan then change it to prevent an expensive malfunction.
Anti Freeze- No winter time servicing list would be complete without referring to anti freeze. Placing an anti freeze in your water pump every evening will make sure that it does not freeze up and cause a stop to your engine, which could cost a lot to fix. A simple buy that could preserve a lot of stress.


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Of course Aiden found Sam's secret room, because even though she claims not to trust him, she's done nothing to prevent him from turning up uninvited to her craphole apartment. So he sees all her Post-Its and vows (dispassionately, of course) to avenge her. He's so bad at spying that he gets some low-level flunky who owes him a favor to dig up information on "Hourglass". She finds out that it's an MI-6 project (or something) that dates back to 1978. That's all we know so far. This show is feeling more and more like one episode's worth of story spread over eight. Other things that made no sense: Sam opting to steal a bike instead of a car to tail Jack (and not losing him), and the low-life dude who got framed with the murder weapon not checking out the back of his truck after catching Ian messing around with his tailgate.
When the Byzantium team learned that Kismet was the name of a computer program that helped Jack Turner make millions off natural disaster and accidents, I'm certain everyone watching at home quickly deduced that the spikes in Turner's money-making came from incidents that he engineered. But everyone at Byzantium is thick, so they don't figure this out until they rifle thru the office of yet another character we have to keep track of, Louis, Stevie's college roommate and a cohort of Jack's. Honestly, I thought the whole Turner case was supposed to be a MacGuffin and I was quite disappointed that the entire episode focused on his dirty dealings while Sam didn't learn anything new about who tried to kill her nor did we gain any insight into what happened to her when she was abducted as a child.Jack made the least amount of sense this week. It started with the very bad man making sure his grown-man son was tucked in bed before sneaking out of his own house--like he needs to answer to Stevie? Then he looked right at a snooping Sam and didn't see her because she turned sideways and he mistook her for a shadow. Yes, that actually happened. Later, he tried to convince his head goon that Sam, who again he's allowed into his house at the behest of the son he has no respect for, that Sam was the person who saw him smash someone's head in. But he can't prove it, so he doesn't expel her from his midst or put guards on her or install a camera outside her door and window or hell, murder her for fun which would be in character. If he has the slightest inkling that she's a damn spy, why is he acting like he needs enough evidence to make it stand up in court?
Besides Aiden and Sam's nifty rope escape, the only scene I really enjoyed was creepy Keel's interview with Natalie (yes, it looks like he's still bruising hookers). Thanks to her contempt for his "quasi-criminal mercenaries" and his mockery of her naive patriotism, the scene had real bite to it. The scene also highlighted one of the main reasons I can't get into this show: these characters don't seem to stand for anything. They do unethical things for money and don't seem to care where it's coming from. Why would Sam or anyone else expect loyalty from them? Were they all best pals back in the day? We still don't know.
This show is juggling too many characters and threads and not doing a single one of them any justice. I'm going to guess that the mystery woman across from Sam's room saw Jack kill Stevie's wife, or have sex with Stevie's wife, or is Stevie's not-so-dead wife. I also think Deacon's obsession with catching the mole and his status as "the religious guy" means he is the mole (the bad mole or whatever), though that may just be wishful thinking. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje's fake American accent is so bad that I'm hoping it's plot-related somehow. Sam's being attacked by the eye-gouger give me hope that something interesting might happen next week, though it's just as likely she'll be rescued by Jack's goons, pass the assault off as a failed mugging, and continue skulking around Jack's house while he sneers and snarls but doesn't limit her access to his criminal plans. Please prove me wrong, stupid show.
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In honor of New Mount Olive Baptist Church of Fort Lauderdale's 100th anniversary on Nov. 25, this exhibit will pay reverence to the church's tradition of community service, and document its path to becoming one of the most influential and dynamic religious institutions in the Fort Lauderdale community Visitors will be greeted by video messages from the last three pastors of the church ― Rev. George E. Weaver, Dr. Mack King Carter and Dr. Marcus D. Davidson ― who have led the church for over 55 years. They will be accompanied by music which has been essential to the church. Archival photographs, including of three of the eight founding members of the church from 1918, and the histories of New Mount Olive's influential leaders, theologians and valiant agents of change (past and present) who attracted and unified congregants, will also be featured. These individuals worked to revitalize low and moderate-income communities by providing strategic programs that promote economic development, create jobs and focus on strengthening families through public service, affordable housing, and entrepreneurial ventures. The exhibit runs through Sept. 28, 2018. To RSVP to the grand opening, visit https://bit.ly/2Lq55y2.


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Isaiah 53:1-6 (ESV)
Who has believed what he has heard from us?
And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by men;
a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief;
and as one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
and with his stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
Isaiah was written around 700 B.C. and most Bible commentators interpret this passage as a description of the coming Messiah. It's interesting to read the story of Jesus coming into the world (see Luke chapters 1-3) in conjunction with this prophecy concerning his future experience of this broken, sinful place. This should make us appreciate just how incredible it was that God humbled Himself like this and experienced such pain and punishment because of His love for us. Paul said to the church in Ephesus:
"But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility" (Eph. 2:13-14)
Jesus was sent because we chose things that opposed God and brought hostility between Him and us. God hates sin. So Jesus was sent as a peace offering, to offer us a free opportunity to return to a restored relationship with our Father. We can revel in the peace we have now due to God's graciousness in sending His only Son. At the birth of Jesus, the angels proclaimed:
"Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!" (Luke 2:14)
1. Take a moment to think of things you've done that have hindered your relationship with God. Confess these things to Him.
2. Thank God for offering a free gift in Christ to remove the hostility caused by your sin and restoring you to a right relationship with God.
3. Why did God send His only Son to this earth despite knowing what he would endure?
4. Why is Jesus called the Prince of Peace?
5. (see Luke 2:14) If you have trusted Christ as your savior, God is pleased with you. Why should this knowledge bring you peace?
Devotional Author: Jeff Oleson


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I commend to any reader interested in the affairs of our professional association this blog post by Brian Kelly on his UK Web Focus blog, Wikipedia, Librarians and CILIP. Brian has been encouraging library and information professionals to get involved in editing Wikipedia. He pointed out that CILIP's Wikipedia page contained membership information from 2012 and suggested, in keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view principles, that members might like to update it.
To do so, Brian tried CILIP's website, but there he could only find annual reports back to 2010. He used the Internet Archive and the UK Web Archive, but without success, and he is now asking members to check their personal archives so that the Wikipedia article can be expanded with full membership information.
I hope this works, and I am checking my own papers, both dead-tree and electronic. Nevertheless, I can't help wondering why our own website does not contain this information. It is important, because we are accountable both to our members, who should be able to find this basic information on their professional association's website, and to the public, on whose behalf we regulate the profession.
There is a saying that the cobbler's children are always ill-shod. It seems to be the case that our organisation, which should know more than any other about standards of information management, has not applied these to our own website. I hope this can be corrected.


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Thanks to the cooperation with our partners from "Bulgarsko Imane"(Bulgarian treasure), we are organizing a brand new type of adventure which will overhaul the concept of treasure hunt, team entertainment and logical tasks solving.
Appropriate for small, medium and large enterprises the games of "Bulgarsko Imane" target towards ICT companies, which count on the strong logical preparation of their experts. If you want to offer your teams intriguing logical puzzles, beneficial teamwork and many hours of innovative puzzles, "Bulgarsko Imane" is what you need. With the adventures of "Bulgarsko Imane" you get:
- Adapted games according to the needs of every company
- Game duration between 2 and 30 days; the engagement levels are defined by you
- Logical riddles and interaction with the environment
- Each puzzle can be modeled according to your preferences and even your company's values
The treasures could be everywhere around us. The key to finding them can be hidden in the city parks and garden, around National Palace of Culture, other cities in Bulgaria, at your office or even on your corporate website.
Everything you need to do is to charge your smartphone's battery, download the custom-made Android application and try to solve all puzzles, which will bring you to the final goal – the Treasure. Our approach is individual towards every game, company, team and person, so that the adventures could always be different.


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On Thursday, August 8, 2013 at 3:20pm, a black male with dread locks, wearing an orange, flat bill hat, black sunglasses, black t-shirt and black jean shorts,entered E Z Money Loans Services, located in the 4100 block of East Lucas Dr. He lifted his shirt and pulled out a black, semi-automatic 9mm … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2013
Burglary at Civic Center
On Saturday, October 12, 2013 around 2:00 am, two males entered the Beaumont Civic Center at 701 Main St. and stole the ATM that was bolted down in the front lobby. They used a fork lift that was originally parked in the indoor warehouse. The late cleaning staff left work around 1:00 am and there … [Read more...]
BBVA Compass Bank Robbery
On Thursday, October 10, 2013 at 9:30a.m. a man entered BBVA Compass Bank in the 700 block of Calder. He had a knife, and demanded money. The teller complied and the robber fled on foot with the stolen money. Beaumont Police K-9 units ran a track and determined the man ran northeast from the … [Read more...]
Aggravated Sexual Assault at Salt Water Barrier
On Thursday, September 26, 2013 at approximately 9:45 am, a female victim was picked up in the area of Lucas and Magnolia. She was taken to the Salt Water Barrier off Bigner road and sexually assaulted at gunpoint. The vehicle was a 70 to 80`s model, dark, evergreen colored Ford, extended cab pick … [Read more...]
Burglary @ Gulf Coast Auto Auction- 450 S. 11th. St
On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 between 6:00am and 6:20am, a burglar broke into Gulf Coast Auto Auction located in the 400 block of S. 11th St. The burglar gained entry by prying the back door open with a crowbar. He prowled through the business, opening every drawer and cabinet. He … [Read more...]


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Nintendo Switch will be available from March 2017. However, you can pre-order yours at Shopee from 16th February. Do note that it only comes in Grey. If you are fast (from 16th), you can get it at a discount.
Here are the details: –
Shopee is offering a bundle deal for the new Nintendo Switch as part of the exclusive partnership with Qisahn.
Click Here to Nintendo Switch at Shopee
Customers can preorder a Nintendo Switch with the hotly anticipated The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild game in-app, starting Feb 16, noon:
- Available in GREY only
- S$599 for first 100 customers
- S$619 thereafter
Orders are expected to be delivered as early as 3rd March.
Get an additional S$7 off the Nintendo Switch bundle if they use the new user promo code* SWITCH
*Valid until 28/2/2017 23:59 for new buyers. S$7 off with min spend of S$15. Valid for one-time use and not for Miscellaneous, Tickets & Vouchers Category.
If your friend needed this, do share this information with them.


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Listning to Nastja´s story about the new school policy that involves languages in her school in Slovenia, we are impressed by the climate and collaborative culture that they have created. The school is situated on the border between Italy and Slovenia. Once a week every class has team teaching of content teacher and foreign language teacher. The languages are Slovene, English and Italian. There is a collaborative planning of the lessons and the material. The students are more motivated and more self confident today. "It is a more helpful and loving climate today" says Natsja.
Anna, Attilio, Ewdokia and Natsja


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What $900,000 Buys You in Dallas
Five bedrooms in Windsor Park, four bedrooms in Greenway Crest, or luxury living in Far North Dallas.
7222 Stefani Dr. $850,000 Windsor Park
5 bedrooms, 6.2 baths, 7,649 square feet
Situated on .88 acres, this house has many great features. A master suite with exercise room and a game room with wet bar are just the beginning. Bill Zeman for Ebby Halliday. 214-769-7222.
5530 Emerson Ave. $949,000 Greenway Crest
4 bedrooms, 4.1 baths, 3,863 square feet
Built in 1946 and completely redone in 2008, this house boasts a formal living area with two-sided fireplace and a kitchen with stainless appliances and granite countertops. Tom Hughes for Briggs Freeman. 214-520-4050.
18733 Wainsborough Ln. $950,000 Oaktree
5 bedrooms, 5.1 baths, 5,431 square feet
Perfect for the luxury lover, this Mediterranean home is in a gated community, features high ceilings and huge closets, and includes a pool with attached spa. Robyn Carafiol for Keller-Williams, Park Cities. 214-460-8016.
See what $400,000 buys you in Dallas.
See what $3 Million buys you in Dallas.


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This was such a treat for us around the fall time, so good as a dessert or breakfast. Would go SO GOOD with coffee or tea and would be so great for a holiday party around Halloween/fall time.
Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes
4 eggs, slightly beaten
3/4 cup Vegetable Oil
2 cups sugar
1 (14 ounce) can pumpkin puree
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup corn starch
4 teaspoons Pumpkin Pie Spice
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
Store Bought Cream Cheese Frosting (I got lazy to make my own)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Blend the eggs, oil, sugar, and pumpkin until mixed, in a bowl and set aside. Stir together the dry ingredients in a separate bowl. Add dry ingredients to pumpkin mixture and beat until well blended. Move into lined muffin tins. Fill about 2/3 full. Bake for about 20 minutes or until the center of the cupcake comes out clean. Allow the cupcakes to cool fully until spreading with frosting. Decorate to your liking and serve!
Happy Halloween!


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This past year we had the pleasure of interviewing some very distinguished maintenance and reliability professionals working with our local industry. We talked about the mission of maintenance and the goals of manufacturing. We talked about the challenges of staffing, training, budgets, and even plant politics. The feedback we received helped us plan for investment, employee training, and development of new services.
We also had several key takeaways:
- Maintenance is rapidly evolving! It is more complicated, requiring advanced technologies and stronger analytical skills. Even the vocabulary has changed. RCM, CBM, MCA – we use a lot of acronyms in this business.
- People are retiring faster than the next generation can be recruited fully trained. And a lot of know how is going with them.
- The pressure to justify funding for new programs is tougher than ever. To quote one customer "it is a constant battle for budget".
Our New eBook for Condition Based Maintenance
So we combined this feedback together with recommended textbooks and produced some condensed insights on maintenance and reliability. You can check out our webpage here. We also developed a new eBook on Condition Based Maintenance, which you can download. The objective of the eBook is to help start and justify motor reliability programs. But it also covers the objectives and metrics of maintenance, sources of training, and suggested reading. It is a pretty good starting point for someone new to the field.
Be forewarned that we narrowed the scope to primarily condition based maintenance (CBM), which is where many motor reliability programs start. Our intent is to help propose and drive change. Making a successful business case seems to be a common hurdle, and so we put more emphasis there. A worksheet is also available for download to assist with analysis. It is provided for instructional purposes only, and we left it in Excel format so it can be easily modified.
We will be covering a lot more on this topic in a series to begin in April. For more information in the meantime, give us a call at 800.993.3326 or email our motor team at email@example.com.


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Adulthood seems to be a reoccuring theme on my blog, as it is also a reoccuring fear that casually lingers between my everyday thoughts. Fortunately, Buzzfeed tells us that it is possible to be the real life incarnation of Peter Pan! (Sort of…)
In all seriousness, I genuinely did enjoy watching this short but powerful video. I remember being incredibly worried myself about not being able to wear pastel colours when I would grow up because "that is not what adults wear". It is a strange thing to worry about, but it troubled my mind regardless.
What saddened me though were the few comments calling the video "useless" or another one of Buzzfeed's "we ran out of idea's"-moments. To be fair, Buzzfeed does have their quirky moments (to put it lightly), but video's such as these can, besides being very amusing, also be quite helpful and comforting. It reminds me that there are others like me who would love to rock pastel hair and bold coloured clothing at the age of 30, and that it forgiveable to not be a perfect, society crafted adult, but to be yourself instead.
What I mean by that is that some of us grow up to be different than the stereotypical pile of responsibilities and wisdom that is an average adult. Honestly, it's okay to be either; so long as you are being yourself and feel comfortable with the person you are. Often times we find that we channel a spirit that we are not, purely for the sake of fitting in or being able to reach society's standard and sometimes, sadly, your friends or families standards. Remember that this right here is your life and it is up to you to decide how it is shaped. Don't let standards decide who you are, how you dress, or the life you live in general. You are the artist of your own lively masterpiece and the conductor of your own spiritual orchestra.
"To me, getting older isn't changing who you are
because of what people expect you to be,
but really owning who you are"
– Mynxii White
*Headpiece: PH – Mad Hattery – Jester RARE @ Fantasy Gacha Carnival
*Bodysuit: :::Sn@tch Allegra Swimsuit (Violet-P):::
*Head: CATWA HEAD Dyana V4.9
*Head applier: Lumae :: Eirtae – Elanil // Bare @ MBA Fair 2016
*Eyeshadow: .::frosting::. Shimmer Shadows – Fiesta, Green/Purple (Omega) @ The Makeover Room
Body: Maitreya Mesh Body – Lara V3.5
*Left eye: AG. Elysian Eyes – Amethyst
*Right eye: AG. Elysian Eyes – Aqua
Location: The Place
Event dates:
Fantasy Gacha Carnival | August 7 – September 7
MBA Fair 2016 | August 1 – 21
The Makeover Room | August 1 – 25


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LOBICO (Logic Optimization
for Binary Input to Continuous Output) is a computational approach that infers small
and easily interpretable logic models of binary input features that explain a binarized
continuous output variable. Read more!
Click below to view the LOBICO publication.
Browse all data sets & their models in LOBICO web-app.
Upload data files from the LOBICO package to visualize the results.
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In the village where I grew up, there was a valley. Beyond the valley was the Mountain of a Thousand Faces. It stood there for many generations, watching over us here in the village.
The mountain saw Dian, who then became one of it's guardians, leaving her family behind, yet never abandoning them, watching as her niece fell in love with a murderer, and her other niece struggled with her heart break. It still stood in the time of war, where a young family was torn apart, their shadows reunited by a young man without him realizing.
These are the brief flashes of these people's lives. Each of them singing their little songs, creating a little symphony. Revealing pieces of their hearts, witnessed by the serene faces of the mountain.