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How Dogs Are Like Children to Their Humans
Obviously, you know what your own dog means to you, so remember that feeling when you photograph other people’s dogs. Always respect the humans’ directions (as long as the dog isn’t in danger) and defer to them. You wouldn’t tell others how to parent their human children, nor should you do so with canine kids.
The heart of the matter really is a matter of the heart. People love their dogs, just like you love yours. And that’s probably why they’re letting you take photos of them in the first place. Most times, you fall just as in love with them as their humans have, but sometimes, a dog may try your every last nerve.
Just remember: That dog is someone’s child. No matter how Max tests you, don’t get angry and don’t give up. Take a break if you must, but always strive to see Max through loving eyes, just as if he were your own dog (or child). And create images that truly bring out the parent-child bond that many humans share with their dogs.

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Honda Civic LX or EX?
1. Better sound system - I'll be bringing a cd of mine to test for the difference, but if i get the LX, i'll probably put some of the money i save into a nice system, assuming that I can find fitted parts for the installation. I checked Crutchfield, and there is no listing for the 2007 Civic on the website when you go to find what fits your car.
2. 4 wheel disc brakes - I'm not much of a speed racer, so i think the LX brakes should be fine for me.
3. Alloy Wheels - I do like the way the EX rims look over the LX ones, but is it worth the extra money...? that's a tough one...
4. Moonroof - It's nice, but i had a moonroof on my old car and never really used it, half the time i forgot it was there.
5. Steering wheel mounted audio controls - Once i get my Civic, i'm pretty sure i'll be replacing the radio w/ an Alpine, which comes w/ a remote control, so for me, this doesn't count for much.
6. Remote trunk release - This is pretty handy, but it's just a small thing...
So, overall, it's a tough call for me, do i just take the easy way out and get teh EX? or do i get the LX and use the money i save to get a nice sound system, and/or depending on how much i spend on the sound system, maybe even get new rims and tires? I'd love to hear from anyone who has bought a 2007 Civic, how you made your decision, or even from people like me, who are about to buy, and have thought about this choice....Thanks for any replies!

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This week, the natural gas headlines featured a mix of good and bad news: the construction of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline, a high profile bankruptcy, a future for Israeli natural gas, and financial challenges facing Gazprom. Check out the highlights below.
Trans Adriatic Gas Pipeline in Construction. In groundbreaking progress for the massive Southern Gas Corridor project, construction began this week on the Trans Adriatic Pipeline, according to several news sources. The pipeline is a key component of a $45 billion Southern Corridor project to route natural gas from the Caspian Sea to Europe in an attempt to diversify energy imports, according to the Financial Times.
The FT said the pipeline will connect the Trans Anatolian Pipeline from Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz II field to Greece and then cross Albania and the Adriatic Sea finally arriving in Southern Italy. The Wall Street Journal detailed that the construction of the pipeline is expected to cost €5 billion and transport 10 billion cubic meters per year of Azeri gas into Europe.
It appears the construction of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline will bring the EU one step closer to its goal of reducing reliance on Russian gas. The WSJ quoted the European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic, “Timely completion is crucial so that gas from the new suppliers can flow to Europe by 2020.”
Is this timeline realistic? Give us your thoughts below.
Natural Gas Exploration Company SandRidge Energy Declares Bankruptcy. US-based SandRidge Energy filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday with $4.1 billion in debt, according to the New York Times. The NYT also said that the company hoped in its bankruptcy plan to be able to turn $3.7 billion of its long-term debt into equity and asked to be able to continue its daily operations in the meantime.
The International Business Times explained that SandRidge is the latest in a chain of American companies to suffer a hit from the drop in oil prices; it is among 77 companies since 2015 to have filed for bankruptcy protection according to the IBT. The move, however, should allow SandRidge to restructure and resurge relatively quickly. In a statement cited by the NYT SandRidge President and CEO James Bennett indicated that the company would prioritize oil and gas exploration in its Oklahoma and Colorado projects under the new structure.
What will it take for this wave of bankruptcies to subside? Let us know your take on the story.
Israel Moves Forward with Natural Gas Development, Egypt Compromise. Israel made a series of moves that reflect both compromise and progress for the future of Israeli natural gas this week. The country reached a new agreement on Wednesday with Delek Group and Noble Energy to continue developing the Leviathan gas field, according to Reuters. Also, Bloomberg sources revealed on Wednesday that Israel was nearing a settlement with Egypt wherein the former would accept half of the $1.73 billion December 2015 fine Egypt owes for violating contract terms, allowing gas deals with Egypt to resume. Finally, the Financial Times reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in talks with his rival party that could add six more seats to his majority in the government, solidifying his influence on natural gas issues.
Reuters says the new deal for the development of the Leviathan gas field will allow the state more flexibility in implementing regulatory changes, following the Israeli High Court’s decision to block development under the previous contract provisions earlier this year. With negotiations set to come back online with Egypt, and a potentially strong majority for PM Netanyahu, it seems the future of Israeli natural gas may be looking brighter.
Are you as optimistic? Share with us your insight.
Gazprom Maintains Low Dividend, Faces Price Disputes. After coming under significant pressure by the Russian government to increase its dividend payouts to nearly 16.6 roubles per share, Gazprom announced on Thursday that it will keep its dividends at 7.89 roubles per share, according to the Financial Times.
Last month, the Russian government issued a decree whereby state companies had to pay 50% of their 2015 net profits in dividends; Reuters reports that Gazprom was able to obtain a waiver allowing it to set its dividend recommendation lower than the 50% threshold. The move will allow Gazprom to maintain its investment programs.
Separately, on Monday Gazprom announced in its 1st quarter report that Dutch GasTerra had filed a price arbitration case against Gazprom regarding long-term oil-linked contracts, says Bloomberg. Gas prices have fallen in the past year, and GasTerra is looking to cut costs following lower production rates.
Are these signs that Gazprom may face a year of financial challenges? Leave us a comment.
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Continuing the discussion from JERSEY CITY | The Waterfront Redevelopment:
by Al Sullivan | May 25, 2014
At the same meeting, the council also voted to approve a 20-year abatement for what may be the first new development of for-sale units (rather than rentals) since the economic downturn in 2008.
The proposed condo property located at 160 First St. (Harbor Lights) is in the Powerhouse Arts district. The developers would construct a 14-story building with 159 residential condominium units, of which about 152 would be market rate, and seven moderate and/or workforce affordable housing. The project would also have slightly more than 3,800 feet on the ground floor for retail. The site would also provide about 64 parking spaces.
The site currently generates slightly more than $26,000 in annual tax revenue. The abatement would generate about $781,000 to the city annually, and just under $40,000 to Hudson County. The developer would also pay a one-time fee of $254,852 to the city’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund.
Councilman Michael Yun said he opposed giving the project a 20-year abatement, claiming other taxpayers would be forced to pay for school tax and the balance of county taxes. Jeremy Farrel, council attorney, said this isn’t completely accurate, noting that the city gets more as a result of the abatement so that other taxpayers get some relief in municipal taxes.
Under the abatement, the developer will be able to offer larger units for less money than they would offer without it.
Marc Simon, a resident of the neighborhood, spoke in favor of the abatement.
“This is being done by a local developer,” Simon said, noting that it will bring a positive change the area and residents who may become long-term, rather than renters who tend to drift off after a year or two.


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The epidemic of obesity has grown dramatically in recent years, most notably in children, one-third of whom have been swept up by weight problems and are at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and certain forms of cancer, among other problems. Unfortunately, the battle against obesity is getting a lot harder. First of all, people trying to lose weight have been lied to.
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Columnist Tom Moran of the Newark Star-Ledger got a copy of the New Jersey Education Association’s 2015-16 tax-exempt filings from the IRS. He discovered that NJEA officers and staff make some pretty good scratch.
Moran then wrote a column headlined, “Classroom teachers: Your union leaders are gouging you.” He noted that the top five officials made an average of $764,000 in compensation. “The big winner was the executive director, Ed Richardson, who pulled in $1.2 million, roughly twice what the national union pays its executive director,” he wrote. The rest of the column discussed NJEA’s unusual campaign against New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney (D-Gloucester). The story has received 626 shares and 447 comments.
The last time this happened, it involved the previous NJEA executive director, Vincent Giordano, and his roughly $450,000 in compensation.
Richardson’s salary was about $340,000. Most of the rest of the $1.2 million is “retirement and deferred compensation.” We can’t tell from the IRS filings exactly what that is, but it includes “the annual increase or decrease in actuarial value, if any, of a defined benefit plan.”
So that money most probably consists of: a) NJEA’s contribution toward Richardson’s pension for 2015-16; b) the increase in value of his pension over that year based on market performance; and c) income Richardson received on which he deferred paying taxes to a future year.
There are plenty of things to be more outraged about than the $1.2 million:
* The idea that NJEA’s executive salaries are justified because they were “approved by the members” and “voted on democratically.” Nonsense. The union’s representative bodies vote on an overall budget. Most members and even reps have no clue what the big-wigs are paid.
* The idea that Richardson is worth the money because he oversees an organization of 200,000 members. Richardson has nothing to do with 200,000 members. His job is to oversee a staff of about 550 people. Make comparisons on that basis.
* Richardson’s pension and post-retirement health benefits, and those of the rest of NJEA’s employees, total almost $220 million in liabilities. That’s almost $83 million more than the union has in assets.
* Why do people defer income? Because they want to avoid paying the higher marginal tax rates during their peak earning years. The union believes this is a sin when CEOs do it, but perfectly all right when their officers do it. Giordano retired as executive director in December 2013, but NJEA paid him $241,000 in deferred salary in 2014-15, and $159,000 in 2015-16. The previous NJEA president received $127,000 in severance pay, even though union elected officers are term-limited.
* NJEA sent $5,000 to Jeffco United for Action, a political action committee formed to elect school board candidates in Jefferson County, Colorado. Yes, Colorado. The PAC was later fined for multiple violations of the state’s fair campaign practices act.
* NJEA’s officers receive money for companion travel, a “discretionary spending account” and a $1,000 clothing allowance.
So enjoy this photo of Wendell Steinhauer’s suit from 2015, NJEA members. You paid for it.


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Dorset offers more funding for storm-hit fishermen
Dorset fishermen affected by the winter storms, are now able to apply for up to £5,000 to replace damaged equipment.
The Fishmongers Company Fund is being administered by the Dorset Community Foundation.
It follows criticism of an EU fund application process for fishermen which Dorset South MP Richard Drax called "a bureaucratic mess".
Commenting on news of the latest fund, he said that "any money the fishermen get is good news".
The Foundation said it would accept applications from Dorset fishermen "whose trade has been severely affected by storm damage" during the period 1 December to 31 March 2014.

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I'm around 50,000 words into the next book in the White Road Chronicles series. The title (right now) looks like it's going to be Radiate.
Riyah decided this. And who can argue with Ri? Right?
Anyway, I hope, hope, hope, to have it out for you all by Christmas. That's my goal.
So, big news for this week:
I've set Illuminated: Book One of the White Road Chronicles at .99 cents for the remainder of this week.
Have you already read it? Then tell your friends so they can get it at this great price. After October 20th, I'll be returning it to its normal price.
My White Road Tales series will be undergoing a couple of changes. Captured will be getting a new cover! I loved the cover it has now, but it doesn't really show what the story is about. So, my cover designer and I decided to give it a more fantasy look.
Next week, keep your eyes open for the new cover revealing. I'll be posting both Captured, and the second in the series Stolen, which continues the tale of Alyra and Tarek's life in Racah as their relationship begins to take off. I'm excited over how the story turned out and think those of you who like romances will enjoy it, too.
There is also a guest appearance of someone from the Chronicle series, but I'm not going to tell you who.
So, I'm trying to set up a newsletter in Mail-chimp. Trying being the key word. I'd only send out a letter once every three months. But I intend to include fun stuff and offers I don't include on my blog or social networks.
Once I figure it out, I'll start posting about it and offering some goodies for signing up. It'll be fun. I think.
I simply want to thank those of you who have read my books and written me, left reviews, or befriended me on facebook and twitter. You've made this endeavor such fun. And I'm blessed each day by being able to do what I love most. I hope my stories continue to bless you.
I promise, there's much more to come.


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We reported earlier that Linda ikeji’s blog might be shut down due to issues with one Mr. Aye Dee and Google over copyright material, in the report we highlighted some possibilities of the Linda losing her blog. A day after our first report, it seems hings took an interesting twist when the gossip blogger released personal information about the man who she believed was witch hunting her and explained why google really wanted to take down her blog. She wrote a post dedicated to that, shunning him as someone who was against her progress.
A moment ago, i made an attempt to visit her blog and surprisingly an error report showed on my screen, alerting me of the shutdown. It says “Sorry, the blog at
lindaikeji.blogspot.com has been removed. This address is not available for new blogs.
“This must be a big blow to the multimillionaire blogger who is Africa’s number one. She is expected to release a statement on this. While we wait for her official statement see the screen shot below. Well, according to google rules, a blog is not totally deleted until after 14days. She might write an appeal and her blog might be restored. meanwhile she tweeted a moment ago that her blog will be back. We are waiting.


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This Friday Night at La Caja de Musica we have Jazz music with a Taiwanese band called " MajaM" the guitar player of this band Liu Yun Ping is well known in our stage he also use to play with our dear Flamenco band La Gitanita! But in this occasion he wants to show us his Jazz side and bring his friends with him....
This quartet formed with Yun Ping playing guitar, Alex Yang on bass also have keyboard with I-Wen Chou and Ming Tseng on drums.
They play classic Jazz standards but also plays Fusion, Funk and Blues, MajaM mixes different music
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Waiting for Friday Night take a look in their blog they have many videos!!
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The ticket fee is 250NT with Beer or Soda included, the concert starts around 20h30.

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Elastic Consistency: A Practical Consistency Model for Distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent
Keywords:Distributed Machine Learning & Federated Learning
AbstractOne key element behind the recent progress of machine learning has been the ability to train machine learning models in large-scale distributed shared-memory and message-passing environments. Most of these models are trained employing variants of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) based optimization, but most methods involve some type of consistency relaxation relative to sequential SGD, to mitigate its large communication or synchronization costs at scale. In this paper, we introduce a general consistency condition covering communication-reduced and asynchronous distributed SGD implementations. Our framework, called elastic consistency, decouples the system-specific aspects of the implementation from the SGD convergence requirements, giving a general way to obtain convergence bounds for a wide variety of distributed SGD methods used in practice. Elastic consistency can be used to re-derive or improve several previous convergence bounds in message-passing and shared-memory settings, but also to analyze new models and distribution schemes. As a direct application, we propose and analyze a new synchronization-avoiding scheduling scheme for distributed SGD, and show that it can be used to efficiently train deep convolutional models for image classification.
How to Cite
Nadiradze, G., Markov, I., Chatterjee, B., Kungurtsev, V., & Alistarh, D. (2021). Elastic Consistency: A Practical Consistency Model for Distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 35(10), 9037-9045. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v35i10.17092
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Two Faber ebooks are currently on top of the Waterstone's ebook sales chart.
Henry Volans, head of digital publishing at Faber, said he was delighted with the sales success: "Given that we’re selling to a restricted group, The Private Patient and The Book of General Ignorance are achieving a remarkable success rate. We’re confident that our e-book sales will only grow in the run up to Christmas as more and more people buy or are given the Reader. We're now busy expanding our ebook list."
Faber plans to release its frontlist in e-book format alongside print from "early next year for those books where we have an ebook royalty in place”, Volans added. RRP would be set to match the lowest-priced available print edition, he said.
In other news, one of the Waterstone's shops sold 50 Readers
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Hello - me again!
About 18 months ago I put some tree peony seeds in a pot & have kept it in a cold frame over the winter period. I've also kept it watered throughout the summer months, but nothing has emerged so far. Am I being impatient, or should I expect to see some signs of life from the seeds by now? Answers appreciated.

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Brooklyn’s newest invasive species carries with it a unique threat: unlike bedbugs Pentatomoidae don’t bite and don’t carry a health risk, but they do stink! Commonly referred to as stink bugs, they smell a bit like rotting or sweaty feet, if you will. In your tub-in-the-kitchen studio, maybe that’s worse.
Like bedbugs, stink bugs know how to couch-surf from one apartment to the next. "They're good hitchhikers," entomologist George Hamilton told the Post. "They get into clothes and suitcases and spread." Hailing originally from China, Japan and Korea each little guy is just the size of a dime, but has the capacity to lay up to 30 eggs per go-round and create a stench way out of whack with its diminutive physique. The stink bugs—which are a type of beetle—first landed in Pennsylvania in 1998, and have since spread like the plague.
On Brooklynian one sufferer wrote “We are midway through our seasonal stinkbug parade that's been going on every winter for the past few years. We name them Stinky #1,2 etc. I think we're up to Stinky #12 or so. The kids use a bug vacuum to suck them up and deposit them outside, where they can fend for themselves. All you can do is just get ride of them before they can create more Stinkys.” She’s right, as much as you may just want to crush their little heads, one exterminator warned against it. Robert Macri, a pest-control specialist, advises, "If you smash them, the odor comes out. The best is to pick them up and flush them. The problem is they're hard to catch because they fly."


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Egyptian coup authorities detained on Monday the veteran judicial activist and former parliamentarian Mahmoud Al-Khudairi.
The first deputy of the Egyptian Interior Ministry, Brigadier Ameen Ezzidin, issued the detention order against the lawyer Al-Khudairi. He was reported by Egyptian mass media as saying that the detention order was issued based on a decision by the current public prosecutor.
Al-Khudairi is a former deputy head of the Egyptian Court of Cassation and a prominent leader of the movement for an independent judiciary, which was launched during the judicial crisis in Egypt in 2005 and 2006.
He was also the head of the legislative and constitutional committee in the former Egyptian parliament, which was freely elected in wake of the 25 January Revolution.
Nearly all Egyptian national and political parties and NGOs have condemned Al-Khodairi’s detention.
Al-Khudairi was born in 1940 in Tahta, located in the centre of the Sohaj governorate. He earned his law license in 1963 from the Faculty of Law at the University of Ain Shams.
He started working as a public prosecutor that same year. He was promoted several times until he became deputy attorney general. Additionally, he was elected as head of the Judges Club on 7 May 2004.
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Dear Mr. Goss,
To begin with I am a big fan!!! I just finished watching one of your videos titled Leaded fuel for older engines? I inherited a1949 Chevy Styleline and a 1966 Chevy Impala that I have been fretting about for some time regarding adding lead to the gas. Your advice in the video actually make me think that is what my Dad would have advised me to do since he maintained both vehicles since he bought them brand new. Those were his babies.
Many years ago, maybe around 1987 I brought a 1977 Chevy Caprice to your shop. I had just purchased it from my In-laws and I wanted to put it back to new. It was the two door model with that fancy rear window. I had it repainted and it was a beautiful chevy!!! Anyway, your crew gave it the once over and came up with a fairly long list of things that needed attention. I said OK do everything on the list. The mechanic seemed a bit surprised but of course agreed and I left the car at your shop for 3 or 4 days. To make a long story longer, I ended up bringing the car back 13 times. When it was all over I received a package in the mail with a card signed by everyone at your shop thanking me for my patience and a box of some fancy pretzels. Having previously seen you on TV I felt confident that eventually you would find that last leak which turned out to be a leaking valve on top of the transmission. I drove that car until 2005 without any problems and sold it for what I paid for it. So thank you for that too. :o)
Three times this week I’ve heard the same silly statement from three separate drivers about noises their cars were making. Each driver said that a noise was annoying, so they turned up their radios and went into ignore mode. There was a time when I would have thought this was just the punch line to a sick joke but over the years, I’ve learned some people actually do it! Please don’t it could be dangerous or lead to a giant expense. Ignoring noises can lead to serious damage to the car or in some cases accidents and even death.
The proper thing to do is not turn the radio up or ignore the noise but instead turn the radio down and pay close attention to the noise. Then, head immediately to your favorite shop. If the noise gets noticeably worse on the way, stop and have the car towed. Towing is usually much cheaper than what might happen if a part fails and takes out other parts with it or causes an accident!
Unless you absolutely know what’s going on and what the consequences are don’t be human and rationalize, it’s just one more block or it’s just one more mile to the shop because you could be in for an ugly surprise. Many times when you push a noisy part till it totally fails it damages other parts. A good example of that is the engine’s water pump. The water pump circulates coolant between the engine and the radiator to keep the engine from getting too hot. Often when water pumps fail it’s due to a bad bearing which makes a rumbling noise under the hood. As the bearing gets worse so does the noise which can be loud. Such was the case this week with one of the drivers that cranked up his radio. This sad and awfully expensive story began with a failing water pump bearing that was begging for help by making an annoying grinding noise. As luck would have it the young man who owned the car had a bit of a dilemma, a serious cash flow problem. He didn’t have any money and without the car he couldn’t get to work to earn the money needed to fix his car. So, he did what every red-blooded young person would do, he turned up the volume on his radio, actually he was streaming to his Bluetooth adapter feeding his head unit playing through his amp but, same thing, music covers engine noise every time. As the noise got louder the music got louder until one day, he knew he had to get it fixed but less than a mile from my shop his car lurched, made a horrifying noise and stopped dead in its tracks.
The water pump had seized as in, metal parts getting so hot they melted and welded themselves together, two pieces of metal became one. And because this water pump was driven by his timing belt the pump seizure snapped the timing belt. This set a catastrophic chain of events in motion as valves hit pistons breaking one valve and shattering a piston! Bye, bye little engine.
Don’t ignore noises in your car unless you know they aren’t dangerous to you or your bank account. In this case loud music to cover up a noise and the driver’s “ignore mode” cost an extra thirty-five hundred dollars. And, he still had to buy a water pump for his new engine! Thanks for reading, please subscribe to Goss’ Garage on you tube, follow us on Facebook and for more car tips, tricks and money saving ideas visit goss dash garage dot com. Drive gently, see you next time right here in Goss’ Garage.
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Sam has been a Goss’ Garage customer for many years. For the most part Sam is a smart guy what with being a doctor and all but occasionally, he comes up with a ridiculous idea! Like when he came in to show off his new car. He was so proud that he had found just what he was looking for.
Seems Sam needed a car for his daughter to take to college and he wanted something extremely safe. To make sure he bought a safe car he went to the internet and found a website hosted by one of the guys out there on the lunatic fringe of automotive wisdom and followed that lunatic’s advice to the “T”! The loonie told him to look for a car from the late sixties to mid-seventies because they’re very safe thanks to solid steel frames and heavy gauge steel body panels making older cars a safety dream come true.
Oh-My-God this loonie is so wrong in so many ways. In my opinion, for telling a concerned father that a car like this would be safe for his daughter should land him in jail. But he’s on the internet and the internet is like the wild, wild west in the days of old and there really isn’t anyone to control such people. So, be incredibly careful and make sure you know the integrity of the source of your Internet information, or you might get ripped-off or hurt, literally.
But back to the car and why it isn’t the safest car to buy. It was a nineteen seventy-one Chevrolet Malibu four door in genuinely nice condition, and it ran like new but safe it was not. Many people seem to think that heavy steel frames and tough steel body panels make a car safe but, they do just the opposite. In an accident there are huge amounts of energy that must be dissipated. In modern cars that happens using designed-in crumple zones, easily deformed high-strength steel or aluminum body panels and a host of other safety features.
In an accident, whatever speed of the vehicle at the time of impact is also the speed of the people inside the vehicle. When a car is too stiff and non-deformable it stops very quickly but the people and things inside the vehicle keep moving at the same speed as the car until they hit something to slow them down. Hit something? At just about any speed that’s going to hurt or worse.
In a modern car the ability to deform allows the car to come to a stop more slowly and to dissipate the energy of the crash throughout the car’s body. This fraction of a second slower stop allows a tick more time for your body to slow before hitting something and even then, your body will hit a compliant airbag or multiple airbags rather than hard, rigid steel. Additionally, the steering wheel will be energy absorbing and the body structure will be designed to move the crash energy around you rather than through you. The engine mounting will be designed so if the engine is dislodged in an accident, it moves down and under you rather than moving straight back to crush your legs or lower body. Granted the old car will probably show a lot less damage and you might think that means safer, but safety is not about the beauty of a car following an accident, it’s about saving your life. Usually, the newer the car is, the safer the car is! Thanks for reading, please subscribe to Goss’ garage on you tube, follow us on Facebook and for more car tips — tricks and money saving ideas visit goss dash garage dot com. Drive gently — see you next time right here in Goss’ Garage.
© Copyright 06/24/21 Pat Goss all rights reserved
By Pat Goss
Q. I own a 1963 Corvette Convertible with a 327 – 300bhp motor.
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by Pat Goss
If you have a late model car it probably has some very sophisticated safety features. Things like parking aids, blind spot monitoring, autonomous braking with pedestrian recognition, anti-lock braking, traffic signal recognition, adaptive high beam assist, lane keeping assist and maybe even radar cruise control.
These are all wonderful systems that can help you avoid accidents, but did you know that unless these systems work properly, they can give you false information and cause an accident. Not good but that begs the question, how do you keep them working properly? More to the point, how would they get out of calibration so they would lie to you? There are many ways, and you might be driving a car with a problem right now.
First you must consider how most of these systems work. Usually mounted under the plastic shield that surrounds the attachment of the inside rearview mirror is one or more cameras. These cameras look out at the white lines on the sides of the lanes and send a signal to the car’s computer telling it where you’re positioned within those lines. Or they look straight ahead and report on the things they see within your path. Some will be on one or both outside mirrors and look for vehicles in your blind spot and post a picture on your center video display.
Then come the radar sensors that are mounted in the grill or front bumper and the sonar type sensors mounted in the bumpers and lots more on some cars. All these cameras and sensors must know their position relative to the rest of the car to work properly. So, you get that crack in your windshield and it has to be replaced and guess what, the new windshield does not come with a camera. That means the camera or cameras mounted to the inside of the old windshield must be transferred to the new windshield.
Sounds simple enough but the cameras are mounted in plastic holders that may not be precisely glued to the inside of the new windshield. Because of allowable tolerances in manufacturing every time a windshield is replaced the calibration of the cameras has to be checked. On some cars the system will perform its own calibration but on most you will have to have the calibration done with a special machine. That machine is called an ADAS calibration machine. ADAS stands for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems.
Okay so ADAS must be calibrated after a new windshield has been installed but that’s not all. In most cases the systems will need calibration when the car has been involved in an accident or fender bender, often after bumper cover replacement and in some cases after outside mirror replacement and the list goes on.
The big thing here is that you need to be aware of the systems your car has and what services they may need and when they need those services. If you cut corners or the shop fixing your car cuts corners you could wind up with an unsafe vehicle.
Consider you have your windshield replaced and the ADAS calibration is not performed which could leave you with a lane keeping system that is out of calibration relative to the lane marking lines at the center and edge of the road. You have become accustomed to the system keeping you between the lines and now instead of doing that it steers you off the road. Or how about failure to calibrate your blind spot monitoring system? You’re on the Interstate moving along with traffic (literal interpretation, moving very fast) and need to make a lane change. Over the time you’ve owned your car you have become accustomed to the system warning you when there is a car in your blind spot but this time it doesn’t because it’s calibration is off. Any idea how bad the accident can be at high speed when you try to change lanes and the back quarter of your vehicle hits the front quarter of another vehicle. It’s an easy way for people to get very hurt or worse.
My point here is that all this new safety equipment is wonderful but there is a learning curve that goes with it and included in that learning curve should be an understanding of what systems you have and what questions to ask if your car needs repair.
If you would like to see an example of the equipment needed to calibrate ADAS systems, feel free to stop by our Lanham MD shop and we’ll be happy to show you our brand-new system.
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Dear Goss’ Garage Client:
We here at Goss’ Garage have spent days learning about the coronavirus (COVID-19) and how it’s impacting us all.
For Goss’ Garage, that means trying to understand how it affects our team, clients, and community, and then adjusting our operations to help keep everyone safe.
As conscientious citizens, we have one basic objective: keeping you, our team and our community safe. Safety is at the heart of our readiness planning. We know that many of you
have upcoming appointments with us and we want to ensure that you have a great and safe visit as usual.
At our shops, we have made several adjustments in response to the threat of COVID-19. Some of these may impact the way we interact with you and we ask for your patience and understanding
in this matter.
We are following the Centers for Disease Control’s recommendations to help prevent the spread of the virus.
We have increased our cleaning and disinfecting procedures and will be wiping down / disinfecting your steering wheel, door handle and arm rest after we finish your repair.
If our team seems less friendly than usual, it’s because we have asked our employees to practice social distancing and refrain from socially acceptable touching of any kind, including handshakes, for everyone’s safety.
If you don’t feel well or do not want to visit our shop unless necessary, you can always contact us by phone to discuss your car’s problem and we can determine the best course of action together.
You have the option to drop off your car without stepping foot into the shop. To take advantage of this, please complete our drop off form found in the night drop on the front of the building then call us (301-577-9200) and we’ll come to you in the lot, to accept your vehicle.
If you would feel more comfortable, until things settle down and everyone knows what the next best step is we will be happy to come to you and pick up your car and deliver it back to you after the work is complete. This is a no-charge service. We do have to restrict how far we can travel to come to you but call us at 301-577-9200 to see if you qualify and to schedule your work and free concierge pick up. Yes, special prices will still be in effect.
by Pat Goss
So you want some racy cross-drilled or slotted brake rotors? But do you really? After learning the pros and cons of glamour rotors
most drivers decide not to spend the extra money. The positives of slotted and cross drilled rotors are mostly great looks when the car
is standing still. They may also have some advantages at the track — but even that’s limited because slotted and drilled rotors have
more negatives then positives when used with modern ceramic based brake pads.
Specialty rotors do not make a car stop in a shorter distance because what actually controls how well a car stops is its tires. As long as
the brakes can lock up they’re doing all brakes can do. Drilled and slotted rotors may actually increase stopping distances because
they reduce the contact area between the pads and the rotor surface. More holes less rotor surface for the pads to grab. But do the
holes help dissipate heat? No!
The rotor is a metal heat sink that dissipates braking heat. Drill holes in the rotor and you reduce the amount of metal to absorb and
dissipate heat. More holes less heat transfer. Some say the holes create air cooling — WRONG! Metal transfers a lot more heat than
air. So — if you want the look buy drilled or slotted rotors but don’t buy them thinking your car will automatically stop better.
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Okay, I’ve done it again. I’ve pissed off a bunch of you self righteous, think you know it all car people! But then, I seem to have a knack for doing that lately. Like David who called my story about using the proper oil “pathetic”. He says and I quote “good, better and best. Are you kidding? If an engine block is made of iron you use conventional, if the block is aluminum you use synthetic.” That’s so utterly ridiculous that I thought it was a prank, but he was serious / called me pathetic. There actually are three general quality-levels of engine oil and they have nothing to do with what metal the engine is made of. Conventional which is good, synthetic blend which is better than conventional, and full synthetic which gives the best protection — good — better — best. Although he was totally wrong he was nasty and disrespectful. Oh well, then there were the folks who are in love with the oil that begins with “a-m” who showed all kinds of hate because i didn’t use a bottle of their oil. Hey “a-m” oil people do you really think nasty comments and threats will make me recommend your oil in the future? I guarantee it won’t!
Oh, and let’s not forget those nasty, non-thinking people who trashed my tire rotation video…what a mess. Seems i’m an idiot, moron, fool, fake, and a criminal. A criminal? Really? Come on folks, it’s just tire rotation! There is an old myth about tires that says you can’t switch a radial tire from one side of the car to the other side because the tire will turn in the opposite direction, which will cause it to blow out and possibly kill you. One nut-job even said I ought to be put in jail for endangering people’s lives. Anyway, about that myth, it started back in the seventies when Firestone had an issue with internal corrosion of the steel belts in one of their tire models. The belts corroded and ultimately caused tire failure. But, because rotating the tires did cause the already weakened belts to separate more quickly most people assumed rotation was the cause. Although this myth has been proven wrong time and time again it still lives on in the minds of drivers and technicians alike. But, it’s false and always has been false, it was a tire issue not a rotation issue. So, if you want to get the longest life out of your tires rotate them using the modified “x” pattern every six thousand to seventy-five hundred miles. On front wheel drive cars move the right rear to the left front, the left rear to the right front and the two fronts move to the back but on the same side of the car, the rear wheel drive pattern is reversed. No, this is not my idea it’s from the people who make tires. So, use your brain, think about it, if rotation causes huge numbers of tire failures and kills people do you really think tire manufacturers would recommend it? Yeah, didn’t think so. All this insanity begs two questions. Why is common sense no longer common and when did people become so damn mean and hateful? For more car tips, tricks and money saving ideas check out more of www.goss-garage.com.
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Every week I get oil questions like, the guy who changes my oil says I should be using thicker oil in my car. I trust him, but I don’t know about this advice. What should I do? It seems far too many people who change oil know more than the engineers who design engines. These morons keep telling drivers to use thicker oil for better protection. But, better protection doesn’t come from thicker or thinner oil. It comes from the right oil the engine was designed to use.
Don’t be a moron and do it because two morons don’t make a genius. Changing oil, no matter how many times anyone does it, won’t magically morph them from oil changer to oil engineer or chemist. Nor will changing oil teach anyone the steps used in a refinery to change crude oil or synthetics into something that can protect the parts inside your engine. This means protection during cold starts, blazing hot days in traffic, and every situation in between. Sadly, changing oil will not make a tech into a metallurgist that can study the amount of expansion of engine parts as it heats up. Nope, changing oil or even repairing engines won’t give anyone the knowledge necessary to make recommendations to switch from the oil recommended by the manufacturer to something not recommended by the manufacturer.
The primary job of oil in an engine is to keep moving parts from touching one another. This is done by means of a thin film of oil in gaps between parts that keep them from touching. But, heres the rub, as engines have become more precise due to sophisticated computer controlled machining….the space or gap for this film of oil has become smaller.This means these engines need thinner oil to pass through those smaller gaps and still provide the film of oil necessary to keep parts from touching. Also, nearly all engines these days have variable valve timing which works off oil pressure. Changing to a thicker oil changes the pressure needed to move oil through the engine. That increase in oil pressure can confuse the car’s computer…which controls the variable valve timing leading to lowered performance, lower gas mileage, or in some cases even a check engine light. Bottom line, changing oil or repairing cars does not give anyone (myself included) the knowledge to determine if a change in oil thickness will be good/bad/indifferent for an engine.
In other words, don’t reinvent the wheel. The manufacturer has spent millions in testing and engineering to determine the right oil for your car. Did the person changing your oil spend millions of dollars to develop their suggestion or is it just mental fantasy or outdated wacko bull? Unless the vehicle manufacturer issues a bulletin telling you to do something different, always use the oil recommended in your owner’s manual. Very few people are smarter than the engineers who designed the engine and typically they won’t be changing your oil.
Just when I think i’ve seen it all, something more amazingly stupid comes along. Oh…Hell no…not politics, car stuff. Like the driver who hit a metal grate and gouged a pork-chop size slab of rubber out of a tire. The four inch by nearly half inch thick chunk was hanging by a small thread of rubber, and the tire’s inner steel belts were plainly visible behind the cut. Anyone could see the tire was totally unsafe to drive on.
It’s what we call a will-pop because, drive on it and it will pop. But, the not so smart driver apparently didn’t want to put on his spare, so a quick internet search found a solution. Yep glue, one of those super strong glues that look so good in commercials. But, they rarely work in real life. Why not glue it? In the commercial, two drops of the sticky stuff will lift an elephant. So, a whole tube…or ten should easily hold the tire together…or not! The tire quickly came apart. Fortunately, it blew out before the car reached any significant speed so no one was hurt.
Then there’s the car that came into the shop with a broken timing belt, and damaged engine. There was nylon material wound around the crankshaft pulley in such a way that it broke the car’s timing belt. Seems the owner had read that you can temporarily replace a broken fan belt with twisted and tied pantyhose. REALLY? How dumb can one person be? There are thousands of these lunatic ideas out there, so please folks…show you have more smarts than an inspired earthworm.


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- Wheels for transportation – Easy to move in the house.
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- 2.0 HP motor (peak) Provides a quiet yet powerful speed between 1 and 13 km/h
- 3 LED monitor with 12 pre-set profiles Challenging programs to help you meet your goals
- Body Fat test Helps to control de figure
- Mechanical incline with 2 positions (1 and 4%) Allows significant variation in intensity of the exercise at any speed. Helps to put your leg and back muscles under load for a through workout
- Speed and start/stop handrail buttons Very useful when running
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2021 Chevy Colorado Towing Capacity
The 2021 Chevrolet Colorado is now available at Moran Chevrolet Fort Gratiot, and many Port Huron-area drivers are wondering how much this midsize pickup truck can tow. With a Chevy Colorado towing capacity of 7,700 pounds, drivers will be able to tow a boat, a camper, and a number of other items for adventures around Marysville. This is in addition to a maximum payload rating of 1,550 pounds. Ready to learn more? Consult this guide from Moran Chevrolet Fort Gratiot to find out everything the new Colorado can do.
Chevy Colorado Towing by Configuration
In order to achieve the maximum Chevy Colorado towing capacity, you will need the correct equipment installed. No matter which engine you select, though, you’ll be hitting the Lake Port streets with plenty of towing capability.
- Colorado w/ 2.5L 4-Cylinder: The introductory engine compels the Colorado to a 3,500-pound towing capacity.
- Colorado w/ 3.6L V6: The upgraded Colorado V6 tows up to 3,500 pounds on its own, but Chevy Colorado towing increases to 7,000 pounds with the available Trailering Package.
- Colorado w/ Duramax® 2.8L Turbo-Diesel 4-Cylinder: It’s the diesel engine offering that boosts the Chevy Colorado towing capacity to 7,700 pounds.
Interested in off-roading in the Fort Gratiot area? Then you may want to consider the Chevy Colorado ZR2 trim, which comes with the necessary equipment to safely travel off the beaten path. Plus, this model still delivers a Chevy towing capacity of 5,000 pounds. Think you’ll need even more towing capabilities? You can nearly double your tow rating with the Chevy Silverado 1500’s towing capacity.
Chevy Colorado Engine Specs
Now that you have a sense of how much you can tow with each Chevy Colorado engine, check out each powertrain’s specs below for additional perspective on Colorado performance.
2.5-Liter 4-Cylinder Engine
- 200 hp
- 191 lb-ft of torque
- Up to 26 mpg on the highway
3.6-Liter V6 Engine
- 308 hp
- 275 lb-ft of torque
- Up to 25 mpg on the highway
Duramax 2.8-Liter Turbo-Diesel Engine
- 181 hp
- 369 lb-ft of torque
- Up to 30 mpg on the highway
Find Your New Chevy Colorado with Moran Chevrolet Fort Gratiot!
Discover everything that the 2021 Chevy Colorado towing capacity can do for you! Contact Moran Chevrolet Fort Gratiot today to schedule a test drive on the Clyde-area roads, and make sure to explore your financing options with us, as well. We can’t wait to get you behind the wheel of this capable pickup truck!
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Blog 1669 – 04.17.2020
Yesterday Again, “What We Resist Persists”
The second half of today’s title comes from a quote by famous psychiatrist, Carl Jung referring to what he believed was one of the biggest problems with the way so many of our minds work. I saw it in an email from writer, publisher Rhonda Byrne, author of “The Secret” – in a nutshell that an attitude or gratefulness and gratitude gets us the farthest in, the highest up, and always the very best of – life.
When I was a young lad, like many young lads and lassies, I gave my heart to someone who returned it rejected, bent, and broken. I spent all my high school years and several more mourning, yet not ever really accepting that loss and getting over that rejection. I even wrote the first poem I ever had published in a book, which long I thought my best, about it:
If One Loved
If one was loved
Could he not see
Would he not know
If loved he be?
Should he not cry
The tears he feels
Alone if wished
But if he wills?
And could he say
If she would hear
That ‘twas for her
His every tear?
Is it any wonder for that so many years from the first moment that I heard it, “Yesterday” by the Beatles, was a favorite song. I read somewhere once where some music critic wrote that he too thought that Yesterday was one of the best, if saddest, love songs ever written. But, then many people also think the same of Funny Girl Barbra Streisand’s song “People” that says quite backwardly and wrongly that “people who need people are the luckiest people in the world.” I am quite sure pointing out that error is exactly what Carl Jung had in mind with his above quote.
It is still, I think, a lovely song, no matter who sings it, even me, but more than focusing on a misbegotten belief in yesterday or even a hope for tomorrow the most healthy, whole, and happy, mentally and otherwise, let go of a constant emphasis on either yesterday or tomorrow and focus on the business at hand, today.
Today is indeed the day of salvation for it is the only day we have to make the most of getting it as right as we can. And Doctor Jung, Rhonda Byrne, I, and many others agree, the best way to do that is by letting go of the impossibly heavy to carry baggage of the past and traveling light and carefree through today believing in our hearts that this is the best day of our lives and not mourning for some day passed that we erroneously believed was.
The Muppet’s Band Leader Doctor Tooth has the best prescription, I believe, in his motto that I have made my own: “There’s a party all the time for them that choose.” To which I can only add young Bill and Ted’s favorite salutation, “Party on dude.” But that is enough quoting others, it is what you and I say that matters most. Still, I cannot resist just one more quote, a last drink for the road, a slightly paraphrased one: May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in my sight for I, alone, am its lord and redeemer. We can none of us no matter how hard we try lay that on another day than today nor any other person than ourself.
Though I love so many songs and people from the past, the context for really loving and living is always today. Enjoy the party.
Your friend and fellow traveler,

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At least half of all acquisitions fail. This comes to mind in contemplating Hewlett Packard (HPQ) and its disastrous $10 billion deal to acquire data analysis firm, Autonomy, and now write off half its value.
But some acquisitions are spectacular successes -- EMC (EMC) bought $625 million worth of VMware (VMW) in 2003 that's now valued at $30 billion, according to the New York Times. What distinguishes the acquisition winners from the losers? Four tests.
More specifically, as I have learned from research by HBS Professor Michael Porter and my own consulting, the odds of a merger paying off go up dramatically if it passes four tests that keep the acquirer from making four of the most common merger mistakes.
1. The Industry Attractiveness Test
If the industry in which the acquired company participates has the potential to remain profitable, then the target passes the industry attractiveness test. One reason that mergers fail is that the inherent profit potential of the target company’s industry is low.
That is, the average player in the industry does not earn very high returns and the factors that drive those investment returns are likely to keep them low in the future. Such was certainly the case, for example, with JDS Uniphase, which paid way too much for SDL because a huge drop in demand in the wake of the dot-com crash, was turning its optical components industry into a huge money loser.
2. The “Better Off” Test
If the acquirer and the target boost their market share and growth potential in the industry as a result of their combined capabilities, then the deal passes the better off test. A second reason for merger failures is that when the acquirer and the target combine, they end up being weaker as a combined company than they would have been separately.
As a result, the combined companies end up as hobbled competitors in that new market. Consider here a merger between two tech firms in Silicon Valley, both of whom had IBM (IBM) as a leading customer. When the merger was announced, they both lost IBM’s business. “IBM wanted to know why they were not told of the change.”
3. The Net Present Value (NPV) > 0 Test
If the future cash flows from the deal discounted to the present significantly exceed the price paid, then it passes the NPV > 0 test. One of the most common reasons mergers fail is that the acquirers overpay.
The high tech mergers I cited above all failed this test miserably. In retrospect, that failure was obvious. And although many people at the time complained about the frothy market valuations of high technology companies, many of the acquirers did not take those warnings seriously because their own stock prices were similarly inflated and they convinced themselves that they were too smart to be trapped by the problem.
4. The Integration Test
Finally, if the acquirer and target companies can agree on who will run the combined company and put in place the systems, processes, and culture needed for it to appear seamless to customers on the day the deal closes, then the deal passes the integration test.
Most companies that do mergers go into the closing with a conqueror’s mentality. This means the acquirer’s management team will replace that of the target. Often this leads to the loss of much of the talent that made the target worth acquiring in the first place.
If we apply these tests to HP's deal with Autonomy, it's clear that it failed three of the four. Sure Autonomy's Big Data industry is big and growing -- $64 billion by one account. But, HP failed to consider that Google (GOOG) was much better at search than Autonomy and HP brought nothing to that table.
An October 2012 HP demonstration of the Autonomy product used in an "application to help figure out what to pay for Web ads initially failed to work, then delivered results that appeared similar to those of several other search products," according to the Times. And HP's $5 billion write-down makes it clear that HP overpaid and hence it's NPV will be less than zero.
By contrast, EMC's VMware deal passed all four tests with flying colors. The market for virtualization was big and growing and EMC brought much to the table. When EMC bought its VMware stake, the acquisition of VMware was touted as playing "a key role in EMC's strategy to help customers lower their costs and simplify their operations."


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- What are the dangers of Roblox?
- Is TikTok safe for kids?
- Why is Roblox banned in Jordan?
- Did Roblox die?
- Is Roblox a bad game to play?
- Did the creator of Roblox die?
- Is Minecraft a ripoff of Roblox?
- Is Minecraft a copy of Roblox?
- Is Roblox a virus?
- Is Roblox better than Minecraft?
- Is Roblox banned in China?
- How did SoftBallGirl780 die?
- What age is Roblox appropriate for?
- Is Roblox beating Minecraft?
- Is Roblox a dying game?
What are the dangers of Roblox?
4 Dangers of RobloxBeware of predators using third-party chat apps.
Even with parental controls turned on and chat messaging turned off, predators have found a way to communicate with children while they play Roblox.
Watch out for sexualized avatars.
Be cautious with Roblox YouTube videos.
Look out for bypassed audios..
Is TikTok safe for kids?
How safe is TikTok? Using any social network can be risky, but it’s possible for kids to safely use the app with adult supervision (and a private account). When you sign up for TikTok, your account is public by default, meaning anyone can see your videos, send you direct messages, and use your location information.
Why is Roblox banned in Jordan?
ROBLOX is banned in Jordan, United Arab Emirates, North Korea and most well-known, the UAE. It may be because of bad language, swearing or something else but people in that country are completely BANNED from playing ROBLOX.
Did Roblox die?
I do not own the music it belongs to the right respectful owner. Erik Cassel, co-founder of Roblox died on Sunday 11th February 2013. Please respect this video with good loving care. I made this video because Erik put up with cancer for 3 years and his last moments of his life.
Is Roblox a bad game to play?
While Roblox is a good introduction to online gaming for a younger audience, it obviously carries risk. … But at the same time, taking appropriate precautions and teaching your child how to stay safe, Roblox can be a safe place to play, as well as other games.
Did the creator of Roblox die?
Erik Cassel, co-founder of Roblox died on Sunday 11th February 2013.
Is Minecraft a ripoff of Roblox?
To answer your question, no, roblox is not a ripoff of minecraft. The Roblox Corporation was founded in 2006, while minecraft was released to the public in 2009. Minecraft is a sandbox game, where players use blocks to build, and they can choose two modes: creative or survival.
Is Minecraft a copy of Roblox?
No. Roblox is a copy of minecraft.
Is Roblox a virus?
The Roblox virus is trojan-type malware that claims to be a cheating application for a game called Roblox. Some players believe that this malicious app will significantly ease gameplay (supposedly allowing them to generate in-game currency free of charge), but they simply end up infecting their computers.
Is Roblox better than Minecraft?
Minecraft has a higher initial cost ($26.95 for PC and Mac), while Roblox uses a “freemium/premium” model. Roblox lets you play games and design a small number for free, but you need to subscribe to do the really fun stuff, such as customize your avatar, buy and trade weapons, and create additional games.
Is Roblox banned in China?
No, as China Blocks Google, because there’s a lot of anti-communist rhetoric on Google, and the government doesn’t want them all to see free speech and opinion from the outside world. … This meanings that Roblox cannot be played on computer, as Roblox is part of the search results of Google.
How did SoftBallGirl780 die?
🍂 ᵕ̈🌙 on Twitter: “SoftBallGirl780 drowned abbo233 died in a car crash jessicathecoolestDJ was hit by a train Sesh_x hung himself… ”
What age is Roblox appropriate for?
Is Roblox Content Suitable for All Ages? Available on smartphones, tablets, desktop computers, the Xbox One, and some VR headsets, Roblox has an ESRB rating of E10+ for Everyone 10 and up for Fantasy Violence, which means that typical gameplay should be suitable for most kids.
Is Roblox beating Minecraft?
Block rockin’ beats. Roblox has overtaken Minecraft with an incredible 100 million monthly active users. Back in March, Microsoft said Minecraft had 91 million monthly players. Roblox is one of the biggest video games in the world, although it goes relatively undiscussed in the games media.
Is Roblox a dying game?
No, Roblox is not and will not die out anytime soon. Roblox is a very good multiplayer game with millions of players as well as billions of dollars. Not to mention the most popular game on Roblox once had a concurrent player count of 2 million people, more than games outside of Roblox.

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What started as a rumor now seems to have been confirmed (hopefully) as the upcoming Windows OS, Windows 9 is said to be free for users who have installed and are currently using Windows 8.
It has been confirmed, or said to be confirmed, that Windows 9 (which seems to still pre-install Bing) will be available to Windows 8 users once it gets a public release. According to a statement by MiMicrosoftndonesia President, Andreas Diantoro, on news website Detik.com, Windows 8 users will automatically receive the Windows 9 update on the day of its release which they will then have to download and install on their PCs. But whether if the same thing will apply to Windows 7 or Windows Vista users was not stated.
A release month has been set, rumored to be this coming October 2014 while Microsoft is said to give the world a preview of its newest OS this coming September 30, 2014 in San Francisco. Fans are hoping that this release will still follow the “Odd-Even” trend that Microsoft has been doing with their OS products, and will soon eradicate the not-so-good experiences that people have been reporting in Windows 8.


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Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation
Agency URL: http://truman.gov/
The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation - the federal memorial to our thirty-third President - awards merit-based scholarships to college students who plan to pursue careers in government or elsewhere in public service. Truman Scholars receive up to $30,000 for graduate or professional school, participate in leadership development activities, and have special opportunities for internships and employment with the federal government.
The mission of the Truman Scholarship Foundation is to find and recognize college juniors with exceptional leadership potential who are committed to careers in government, the nonprofit or advocacy sectors, education or elsewhere in the public service; and to provide them with financial support for graduate study, leadership training, and fellowship with other students who are committed to making a difference through public service.
This agency has published 29 documents since 1994.

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Agriculture is one of the most important fields that need to be studied in Australia. Without this, there would be no practical use of a farm and the economy would be plunged into chaos. With agriculture, you are able to make use of your land and harvest crops that would eventually be sold on the market. This will also help in making more profit for the farmers.
In terms of Agricultural Studies in Australia, there are many Universities and Colleges that offer the courses. However, to get good quality education, it is important that you go for a university that has a good reputation. These universities and colleges would have the best repute in the country and they would be the best places for you to study in. However, it would also be good if you choose the right program for you. One can do this by studying one semester only, or a two-semester program. It would be best if you can take a part-time course if you want to. This will give you the time to concentrate on other important matters and would not interfere with your studies.
The Agriculture Study in Australia is not difficult as long as you have the right resources at your disposal. These resources include a library and reference books that you can easily access. You also need to have good speaking skills that would help you in communicating well with your professors. You also need to be well organized and you should always ensure that you get the best grades possible in your studies.

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Leo Melamed, 79 years old and a Holocaust survivor, gave a speech titled “Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow” at Northwestern University on Tuesday, April 3rd.
Today he is the Chairman Emeritus of the CME Group the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, headquartered in Chicago. He is largely recognized as the principle founder of financial futures, getting his idea directly supported in writing from Milton Friedman for a mere $7,500 dollars in a deal made in the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City, thus launching a new line of business that catapulted the value of the CME to new heights. As of April 5th, 2012 shares of the company are trading at close to $300 dollars. The CME is part of a global industry growing by billions every year. Mr. Melamed spoke to commemorate the CME Foundation’s grant to the Harvey-Kapnick Business Institutions Program. The donation is being used towards an exciting new program at Northwestern University–”Risk, Markets, and Society.”
Mr. Melamed believes that business is the driver of societal change, and he believes that free market capitalism has greatly benefitted from the ability to trade financial instruments in a marketplace. Due to the changing rates between currencies, for example, the ability to have a floating exchange rate bought and sold in a regulated marketplace gives businesses with international operations the ability to hedge their input commodity risks more efficiently.
The positive nature of the market industry that Mr. Melamed built in Chicago is now creating thousands of jobs worldwide as other countries attempt to copy what the CME has achieved. Mr. Melamed is now focussed on China and believes that they are Communist only in name. He cites the truly amazing fact that contracts of the CSI 300 index can be traded in large volume today in Chinese markets. In 1991, he founded his own consulting firm, Melamed & Associates, of which he is chairman.


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Based in Ottawa, Petits Macarons is a small family business that offers suburb macarons. Macarons, not to be confused with the coconut dessert macaroons are an almond and meringue-based cookie sandwich filled with buttercream or ganache.
Opening in 2011, Petits Macarons has expanded to offer its wide range of macaron flavors at Farm Boys across Ottawa. You can also place orders online and have them delivered or pick them up at Petits Macarons kitchen in Ottawa. A map of where you find Petits Macarons can be found here.
Chocolate Caramel – caramel-hued macaron filled made with Valrhona milk chocolate caramel ganache and a hint of fleur de sel
Strawberry Rhubarb – pale pink macaron featuring strawberry rhubarb jam and vanilla buttercream
Dark Chocolate – dark chocolate macaron filled with a Valrhona 66% chocolate ganache and a hint of espresso
Almond – almond macaron with an almond filling and topped with roasted almonds
Raspberry – rose-colored macaron filled with raspberry jam and raspberry buttercream
Lemon – tangy lemon macaron filled with lemon curd
Vanilla – Madagascar Bourbon vanilla macaron filled with a buttercream filling
White Chocolate – blue white chocolate macaron with a buttercream filling
Tiramisu – filled with mascarpone cheese and flavored with rich espresso and cocoa
Pistachio – pale green macaron filled with a nutty pistachio buttercream
Frost Chocolate Mint – green mint macaron with chocolate ganache filling
Gingerbread – gingerbread spice macaron
Nanaimo Bar– a tan macaron filled with a Nanaimo bar filling
White Chocolate Cranberry – red macaron filled with cranberry jam filling
Petits Macarons regularly creates new seasonal flavors, including gingerbread, coconut marshmallow, pumpkin pie, Canadian Maple and bacon, cherry and chocolate and peach.
The easiest way to get your hands on Petits Macarons would be to order online, a tray of 12 macarons costs $24.00, the 18 macaron gift box is $35.00 and the larger 35 macaron gift box is $65.00. When ordering online you can either pick up your order at their kitchen (2596 Edinburgh Pl #2) or have your order shipped to your home (or to someone else’s home if you are sending the macarons as a gift).
Macarons are easily one of my favorite desserts, as they are light and airy without being overly too sweet. I’ve eaten more macarons in Paris than I care to admit, but the macarons from Petits Macarons easily match the quality I would expect from Laurdee or Pierre Herme in Paris. While vanilla is normally my go-to favorite, I was surprised by the bold flavors found in some of Petits Macarons flavors, in particular, the Gingerbread, or some of the macarons with jam filling. Every flavor I tried was delicious, and I certainly will be ordering more of Petits Macarons in the future. I loved them!


Vanir has won a CMAA Southern California Chapter Project Achievement Award for the Patton State Hospital Kitchens Project!
Category: Constructed Value of $11M to $50M
Owner: California Department of General Services
Client: Patton State Hospital
Final construction cost: $27,846,793
Vanir provided construction management services for the building of a new central kitchen and partial remodeling of seven satellite kitchens within the Patton State Hospital (PSH).
- Central Kitchen: The new 36,000-square-foot central kitchen consists of docks for food preparation, processing, assembly and distribution, as well as dry and refrigerated storage areas. It also includes a wash area, offices, a conference room, mechanical and electrical rooms and a break room.
- Satellite Kitchens: The seven existing satellite kitchens are located inside secure treatment areas in five different buildings. The facilities were modified to accommodate a new cook-chill bulk delivery system that will reduce the staffing and daily operations for cooking and preparing 4,500 meals per day from seven days a week to four.
Located in San Bernardino County and opened in 1893, PSH provides treatment to forensically and civilly committed patients within a secure treatment area.
Vanir was honored to continue its long-standing relationship with this client, which began in 1986 when we were contracted to oversee a major renovation and new construction program at five state hospitals including Patton.
The award will be presented at the 2020 CMAA Southern California Awards Gala on May 12 in Long Beach, CA.
Congratulations and thank you to everyone who contributed to the success of this project!


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Arts and Crafts
What are ‘arts & crafts’? Normally, the time period ‘arts & crafts’ refers to handmade items that have been created separately Using the intent of creating a bit of artwork or perhaps a decoration. People today engage in arts & crafts as artisans and crafters – that is, those who make their living by developing and advertising handmade objects – in addition to plenty of hobbyists who do it just for their own individual satisfaction. Certainly, there will also be a concealed benefit if you can make your own private items as an alternative to possessing to invest in them. Arts & crafts are deeply rooted in regional and ethnic cultures, so the particulars of what types of objects constitute arts & crafts differs drastically around the world.
How long have arts and crafts existed?
The origin of arts & crafts are available in basic bartering transactions; skilled artisans and crafters would trade their talent for sustenance. The artisans and crafters would then pass their knowledge on to the next era as a result of an apprentice – an aid who grew up Together with the artisan for the only real purpose of Understanding their trade. Artisans who passed their expertise on In this particular method include things like ironworkers, glass blowers, weavers and blacksmiths.
Not surprisingly, this all changed with the economic revolution. Many of the lovingly handcrafted things which were previously created by crafters and artisans could now be cheaply generated in big quantities. Because of this, arts & crafts as a prevalent profession rapidly died out; specific artisans and crafters could just not contend with industrial efficiency. Today, People individuals who focus on the former staples for instance glass blowing or weaving are exceptional, and frequently make higher-priced things, in contrast for their utilitarian forbearers. In the long run arts & crafts is mostly built up by hobbyists and smaller retailers.
How do you come across arts and crafts?
Arts & crafts are commonly not hard to Track down. Artisans usually participate at arts & crafts fairs in an effort to have the chance to sell their wares, and permit prospective buyers the chance to search and shop from various different types of arts & crafts.
Festivals and fairs are superior destinations to look for arts & crafts. Numerous distributors will hire booths at these gatherings as a way to attain a broad viewers. As well as shows and fairs, everlasting arts & crafts malls are also quick to search out for most metropolitan regions. Regularly, these malls involve a group of semi-permanent booths rented out by many artisans and crafters.
Obviously, if the customer appreciates precisely the form of product they is looking for, the world wide web is usually a great resource for locating the ideal arts & crafts item. A lot more artisans and crafters are now putting up their wares on-line with the flexibility view pictures and skim descriptions in their distinctive products. Nonetheless, when on the web retail product sales have taken off in other industries, arts & crafts prospective buyers typically much like the practical experience of getting and looking at the a single-of-a-form merchandise in particular person, which has slowed down its adoption Within this area.
‘Art’ and ‘Craft’
Art generally refers to high-quality arts, like glass creations, paintings and sculptures. The men and women powering the generation of such objects have generally received official instruction at artwork educational institutions or have studied artwork by way of other plans. These artwork objects are usually pricey.
Crafts, on the other hand, are usually thought to be more compact in scale, or colloquially often known as ‘grassroots’ in their development. Those that create crafts are commonly doing this based on passed down understanding without any official instruction. This certainly isn’t going to indicate that they are any fewer talented than artists. ‘Arts & crafts’ then may be the merging of these two Inventive tendencies; grassroots objects created by very proficient artisans and crafters.
The most typical arts & crafts objects
As stated previously mentioned, you’ll find literally plenty of variations and iterations of arts & crafts objects on the earth. Nevertheless, most arts & crafts is often fitted right into a number of primary classes: handmade jewellery, pottery, woodworking, metalworking, and sculpture are some standard types into which most arts & crafts may be assembled. Other popular types of arts & crafts incorporate cross-stitch, weaving, crochet, knitting, embroidery, patchwork, quilting, macramé, and Many others. Even now far more widespread kinds incorporate ceramics, wood, steel, needlepoint & textiles, and glass works. Continue to Some others are based upon paper and paper products, which include scrapbooking, calligraphy, collages, paper mache, and origami.
How do you locate other arts and crafts collectors?
There are a selection of countrywide, regional, and native arts & crafts corporations that can offer both equally artisans and collectors a location where they will community and attain a way of Group. Some samples of well-liked companies include the American Sewing Guild, the Arts & Crafts Culture, the Black Crafters Guild, the Home Sewing Association, the Countrywide Art Resources Trade Affiliation, the Canadian Craft & Interest Affiliation, the American Quilter’s Culture, the Craft & Hobby Affiliation (U.s.).


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Monday, 11 November 2013
Morocco's latest spat with Algeria
Moroccan-Algerian relations appear to be returning to normal following their recent spat over the Western Sahara. A senior government official announced on 4 November that Morocco's ambassador to Algiers, Abdallah Belkaziz, had returned to the Algerian capital and was set to resume work on the same day.
He had been recalled to Rabat the previous week following President Bouteflika's provocative speech over Morocco's abuse of human rights in the Western Sahara occupied territories in suppressing the “peaceful struggle” of the Sahrawi people for freedom of expression and association.
The official stressed that the ambassador had only been recalled for consultations and had not been withdrawn, adding that Morocco "will always take measures against those who try to touch its territorial integrity." Referring to an incident last week, in which a Moroccan protester tore down the flag from Algeria's consulate in Casablanca, he said the authorities had been "firm" and the perpetrator was under arrest. But the official denied that Morocco had made an "apology" over the incident.
Ugly scenes had developed outside Algeria's consulate in Casablanca on Friday 1 October as Moroccans, egged on by their own government, protested against President Bouteflika's provocative comments over the Western Sahara. A number of other protests against Algeria were staged around the country and most notably in Rabat and Oujda. In what can only be explained as retaliatory action, Algeria arrested dozens of Moroccans living within its borders on alleged espionage and drug-trafficking charges.
Who gets the last word in before US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives on the scene (see below) is still up for grabs. So far, it is with King Mohamed VI, who, in his speech on Wednesday 6 November to mark the 38 th anniversary of the occupation of the Western Sahara, accused Algeria of systematic violations of human rights in Tindouf Sahrawi refugee camps.
For more news and expert analysis about Algeria, please see Algeria Focus and Algeria Politics & Security.
© 2013 Menas Associates


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It’s brunch time… Panochef winner announced
The 2nd annual Panochef competition draws to a close and winner announced
The scores are finally in and 2016’s instalment of Panoptics’ annual staff cooking competition, Panochef, has clearly been a roaring success. Our contestants were presented with a Brunch theme; with strict rules including a dish that must contain at least 6 eggs, served with an accompanying drink.
Competition was fierce, with contestants looking to go above and beyond the high standards set in the competitions’ inaugural year for a chance to get their hands on the coveted Panotrophy.
Our budding chefs treated us to an eclectic menu, taking inspiration from around the world and transforming their 6 eggs into culinary delights. Dishes ranged from Jamaican inspired ‘ackee and salt fish’ to a hearty brunch ‘american style’.
The last clatter of cutlery announced the end of the competition, and the judging began with the contestants submitting their scores. A quick vote count, a double check (stringent regulation introduced after allegations of vote rigging last year) and Technical Director, Andy Lang, was announced the winner, for his award winning (according to Andy) scotch egg and meat pie. Closely followed by Craig Mitchell and third place being awarded to 2015 champion James Lewis.
Rumours of Panoptics entering a cohort into next years Masterchef competition are unfounded, however the ever rising quality of Panochef leaves us eagerly awaiting the 2017 competition and a prime time TV deal.


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This week, we made loads of Halloween-themed food, gazed jealously at Vicky's travel pics from Rome, and welcomed a new pooch to the office. See it all in the slideshow!
A symbol of fall, butternut squash is perhaps the most common and versatile of winter squashes. Thanks to its firm flesh and very thick, tough skin, it can keep for a long time at room temperature, but that thick skin and firm flesh also makes it more challenging than most vegetables to peel and slice. Show More Summary
Yotam Ottolenghi's previous three cookbooks (Ottolenghi, Jerusalem, and Plenty) inspired a global epidemic of fevered fandom, and this week sees the release of his anxiously awaited latest, Plenty More: Vibrant Vegetable Cooking from London's Ottolenghi. Commence hot-flashes. A follow-up to Plenty, his new book expands his already bursting universe of plant-based cooking.
Square and blonde and sweet all over, this Ovenly recipe is made with a combination of dark brown sugar, light brown sugar, and a heap of honey. Chunks of raw pecans keep them from being cloyingly sweet, and a teaspoon of salt makes all the flavors pop.
Though their venture was not preceded by a lifelong friendship or even a business partnership, Erin Patinkin and Agatha Kulaka's shared Eastern European heritage had instilled a love of cooking and eating in them both, along with a love of experimenting and perfecting their own recipes. Show More Summary
I have yet to meet a recipe that isn't improved with a little cheese. (Okay, maybe there's one or two out there). Good sharp cheddar provides a soulful warmth and salty, tangy flavor to everything from waffles and biscuits to soups and sandwiches. And, lucky for you, w'e've got 31 recipes that run the full gamut.
With so many delicious seasonal vegetables that are begging to be cooked over a live fire, fall is no time to put the grill away. Here are ten you should try now.
Three grilled vegetables, four mixed beer cocktails, five types of meatloaf, and more. See everything we cooked up this week after the jump!
A beautiful lunch at The Canal House, the grand opening of Tyson Ho's new Brooklyn restaurant, Arrogant Swine, and more! See what happened this week at Serious Eats World Headquarters.
A symbol of comfort and perfect simplicity, roast chicken is one of the foods I crave in the colder months. This recipe from our archives is brilliant in that it uses a few key techniques to guarantee a juicier, tastier bird, without over-complicating what, at its heart, should be an easy yet satisfying dish.
These ground lamb patties from Nigel Slater's newest cookbook, Eat, are boldly seasoned with black mustard seeds, garam masala and green onions, with a good handful of sesame seeds for nutty crunch. Pressed very thin and fried until crisp, they have the savory addictiveness of a salty snack, but enough substance to make a meal.
Rich chicken tortilla soup, made from slow-simmered chicken thighs, joins quintessential toppings—avocado, red onion, sour cream, cilantro, cheese, tortillas, limes and hot sauce—in this simple, sustaining slow-cooker meal. The broth...Show More Summary
What should you do about that friend who always shows up late to dinner?
This is as simple as it gets, and it's perfect for a busy night. For this recipe from his newest cookbook, Eat, Nigel Slater combines marmalade and whole-grain mustard, pours the mixture over chicken legs, and bakes them. Then he...Nope, that's it, and they're terrific.
We use the rapid cooking power of a the microwave to make lighter-than-air sponge cakes that pack in the flavor of rocky road ice cream with three forms of chocolate, marshmallows, and toasted walnuts. The best part? They bake in under a minute!
This slightly spicy meatloaf is flavored with ancho chili, sautéed jalapeños, onions, and garlic. Bloomed gelatin, chicken stock, and eggs, coupled with ground Saltine crackers, keep it moist, while a molten cheddar cheese core oozes out when you slice it open. Homemade chili sauce forms a burnished crust.
Check out the new Bacon-Avocado In-N-Out Burger! is what I would say if this were really a new menu item. Unfortunately, for this experience you're gonna have to do what we did: BOYB and A to an In-N-Out and assemble on-site.
Country captain's origins lie in India, not the South. Tracing the links between the two takes us to a New York City steakhouse, kitchens on Army bases, and letters from society wives.
Alright, I'll tell you upfront that this ain't pretty, in the conventional sense; I doubt I'll be seeing it on anybody's Instagram feed. But Nigel Slater's lentil bolognaise from his newest cookbook, Eat, makes up for it's deficit in the looks department with earthy, sweet, tangy flavor that belies it's homely simplicity.
This shepherd's pie-inspired meatloaf is stuffed with a mixture of carrots and peas. Then it's slathered with Parmesan potatoes, dotted with butter and baked in the oven until browned. Meanwhile, a quick Stilton cheese sauce simmers on the stove, waiting to be served alongside.