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Very sad day in Colorado today. Please let me know if you hear of any updates.

Geez.... You guys are a piece of work.

If Watchtower Legal Dept. tells me to take something down that is their legal copyright I would immediately comply.

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You do all realize that Catholic.org considers all of you apostates as well.

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@The Librarian Thanks for letting me know.

I took it to the mechanic and it was the sensor after all. They call it the oil pressure sending unit. It was bleeding voltage through the sensing circuit.

It only cost me $234.87 of which $81.54 was the actual part. Evidently it was a AC/Delco original specs part so that is good I guess.

The mechanic said it was a bit of a hassle for him to get to it. I don't blame him. It was pretty tough to get anything down in there underneath the power steering pump.

I guess it could have been worse.

I did notice similar units costing only $25-30 on amazon.... ugh.

oh... these sensors also need a special socket evidently:

Sometimes it feels as if they have us coming and going AND over the proverbial barrel simultaneously.

Smiles sheepishly.

So I was about an hour away from home tonight and sitting at a traffic light when the engine and car lurched ever so slightly .... to the point where I wondered if the car behind me had bumped me. He didn't because I could see the distance of his headlights.

Two minutes later as I get onto the highway my heart skips a beat because I notice the oil pressure gauge reading zero. I was afraid the motor would seize up. I ended up getting off at the next exit and driving toward a mechanic shop. I met a mechanic leaving for the day and he said that it must be a sensor since the motor wasn't making any sound.

I decided to head to Jiffy Lube to get it topped off... and sure enough the engine was 2 quarts low which is normal for a Cadillac.

I drove home about 60 minutes... and it is fine.... it must be the sensor.

I need to figure out how to fix the sensor and if it an easy job or not.

A change the FCC made that isn't being discussed enough - ISP disclosures about data caps and fees eliminated by net neutrality repeal

At least three major internet service providers have said they will raise prices beginning in January 2018 — a move that comes after the FCC’s recent vote to roll back net neutrality, Digital Music News reports. Comcast, Cox and Frontier Communications are increasing charges on either internet packages or across all services including cable. DirecTV and Dish are expected to follow suit. No changes have been seen thus far from Charter, Verizon, and AT&T’s U-verse. “The increase in prices comes as more and more subscribers are cutting the cord and opting to plunge into the increasingly diverse streaming marketplace. Options like Sling, Hulu Live TV and YouTube TV are expected to continue to siphon off customers from traditional TV subscribers and those that stay will have to bare the financial burden for the defectors,” The International Business Times notes.

While many agree that worker retraining is necessary to prepare for the future, it's not clear that such programs are always effective. In her book "Janesville: An American Story," The Washington Post’s Amy Goldstein chronicled the closure after a GM plant shut down in Janesville, Wis., in 2008, following the lives of workers who had to start over. She found that retraining programs for those factory workers were inadequate solutions. “People who had retrained overall were less likely to have work,” Goldstein told LinkedIn. “The difference between their [wages] before the recession and a few years afterwards was a bigger slide downwards than compared to people who had not gone back to school.” • Do you think worker retraining is the answer to automation?

 The House voted again to pass the GOP's $1.5 trillion-tax bill along party lines after it cleared the Senate overnight — and the House, on Tuesday. The re-vote was needed to address minor changes approved in the Senate. The bill is now expected to head to President Trump’s desk by the GOP's target deadline of Christmas. "The biggest tax overhaul in a generation," could be signed into law before the end of the week 

The GOP’s $1.5 trillion tax plan cleared the Senate early this morning. The bill passed the House earlier Tuesday, but due to a procedural snafu the chamber will vote again today before noon. The re-vote isn’t expected to change the outcome. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, “the most significant overhaul of the tax code since 1986,” should reach President Trump’s desk by Republicans’ Christmas deadline.

A lobbyist working for Amazon registered for Georgia’s ethics commission, sparking rumors that the e-commerce giant is eyeing Atlanta for its much-hyped “HQ2.” The company responded Tuesday saying Jacob Oster’s presence isn’t related to the search for Amazon’s second headquarters — although Atlanta is an odds-on favorite in the race. 238 cities and regions submitted bids to win the $5 billion HQ2, which promises to bring thousands of high-paying jobs to the chosen location.

The Wall Street Journal reports. While still a relatively small percentage of work fatalities, on-the-job deaths from unintentional drug and alcohol overdoses rose more than 30% in 2016. They’ve nearly tripled since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking in 2011. Opioid abuse in particular continues to significantly impact the US economy, costing an estimated $78.5 billion per year, according to a 2013 CDC study. President Trump declared opioid addiction a national public health emergency in October

It means the company must comply with tough European transportation rules in up to 28 member states — which could make expansion in the region more complicated and costly. The landmark case could set a precedent for other Uber-esque companies operating in Europe; lawmakers across the globe have struggled to respond to changes in the nature of work represented by the “hazily regulated world of the gig economy.” Uber has called itself an “information society service" linking drivers and passengers rather than a transportation business.

Thank you for sharing.

Such profound words and meaning.

I found this on the web too...

Tesla’s new electric truck division just received a pre-order of 125 semi trucks from delivery giant UPS.

The company confirmed the order today.

Juan Perez, chief information and engineering officer, commented:

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“For more than a century, UPS has led the industry in testing and implementing new technologies for more efficient fleet operations. We look forward to expanding further our commitment to fleet excellence with Tesla. These groundbreaking electric tractors are poised to usher in a new era in improved safety, reduced environmental impact, and reduced cost of ownership.”

UPS’ order tops Tesla’s previous record order of 100 electric trucks from Pepsico just over a week ago.

They expect to be among the first fleet operators to take delivery of the new electric truck in 2019. The effort is part of UPS’ goal that one in four new vehicles purchased annually will be an alternative fuel or advanced technology vehicle by 2020.

The logistics giant has several other electric vehicle efforts, like converting ‘up to 1,500 delivery trucks’ to battery-electric in New York and it already bought some of Daimler’s new electric trucks.

While this is Tesla Semi’s biggest order yet, it’s a small fleet update for UPS, which is one of the biggest fleet operators with 108,000 delivery vehicles around the world.

At the unveiling event last month, Tesla unveiled two electric truck options with 300 and 500 miles of range.

After Tesla revealed the pricing of its electric semi trucks last month, we learned that the regular production versions for the 300-mile and 500-mile range versions will be $150,000 and $180,000 respectively, while the company is also listing a ‘Founders Series’ version for $200,000.

This means that UPS’ order alone is worth between $18 million and $25 million.

Tesla first started taking reservations with a $5,000 deposit per truck, but has changed the listed deposit price last month to $20,000 for a “base reservation” of the production version and the full $200,000 for the “Founders Series” truck.

If UPS just now placed the order, they likely had to place a $2.5 million deposit.

Employers have begun taking matters of higher education into their own hands “at a time when Americans’ faith in higher education is declining,” Wired writes. Some companies like Microsoft (LinkedIn’s parent), “impatient with the speed of change,” have created their own courses and brought them to universities and online programs like edX to help churn out workers with the skills needed to thrive in an ever-changing workplace. In particular, those with data and computer science skills are in demand — colleges are only producing roughly 28,000 computer science graduates per year (per 2015 data from Deloitte), but it’s predicted that 1.8 million jobs requiring data and computer science skills will be created between 2014 and 2024, according to CompTIA.

China's largest cities have been transformed by dock-less bike share schemes, while most big US cities still feature systems with docking ports. That may be about to change as dock-less bikes become more prominent in America, Slate reports. New York City is looking into the idea (per Curbed), while Seattle has already allowed thousands of dock-less bikes in its streets. The expansion of the service could change how we get around our biggest cities, but, like in China, could also clutter pedestrian areas — not to mention go bankrupt.