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1. Divine geometry. Whenever anyone in Tucson draws you a map, it's a cross. Four major mountain ranges mark off a strangely precise geometry 40 miles long and 40 miles wide. The small spiky range of the Tucson Mountains crenellates the west, the distant Rincon Mountains are to the east. At the north, the Catalinas house the spas and the resort hotels, and at the south the Santa Ritas screen off Mexico, and before them is the most beautiful mission church in the United States.
The cross, with healing on the north and Catholicism on the south, a dude ranch to the west and the Airplane Graveyard to the east, defines this town. Raytheon may make Tomahawk cruise missiles here, there may be 37,000 students at the U. of A., housing developments may nibble inexorably at the desert in quarter-acre lots, silting their way up the foothills, but the place is a strange combination of time warp, other planet, and second chance.
The American desert gives rise to the peculiarly American concept of the second chance. The immense skies create awe, promise hope, and suggest ambition for cleaner, loftier things. This includes a notion of rebirth without baptism or the baby Jesus, for the Southwest is where people start a new life after the career is over, or try a new life midstream, or simply go to vanish, like B. Traven, who wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. To a therapist friend, Dan Stone, it's "beautiful and scary. There are things that stick you, prick you, sting you, bite you. It's look, don't touch. But it's also a place that feels safe, that feels strong. You've got these mountains that are so big, but also so far. Instead of feeling hemmed in, you feel like you have a barrier against all the crap out there."
Arizona is the place to escape the scuffle of real life, restore the body, and hand the soul over to awe. Its true inhabitants, the Pascua Yaqui and Tohono O'odham tribes, know the desert. It was here, somewhere, that the Yaqui Indian Don Juan instructed Carlos Castañeda in the uses of peyote and the dangers of "inorganic beings." The Sonoran Desert is an unforgiving place, described by the Native American novelist Leslie Marmon Silko in one of her angry books as "stark, chalk plains that seem to glitter with the ashes of planets and worlds yet to come." We Anglos idealize it, and this particular part of Arizona is the healing nexus, where the basic remedy for malaise is a hike in the desert. Different kinds of spas offer a host of semi-mystical journeys devised by contemporary medicine men, doctors, therapists and healers, where we can be led to find our deeper self, or selves, effect mindful change, paint our spirit, coax out the inner child, surmount drug problems, clean up our act. In the fizzy first novel by Plum Sykes, Bergdorf Blondes, the heroine points out that "going to Arizona" is the euphemism for going to rehab.
The first time I went to Tucson it was to stay at Canyon Ranch, where I resentfully jumped around in aerobics class and disagreed with the yoga teacher about how to sit when I meditated. This time, I was allowed to roam the city, and came away reborn.
2. Shape-shifting green zombies. The Sonoran Desert leaches up through Tucson's metropolitan scatter. Roadrunners scramble alongside lone cars on Silverbell Road, the smelly wild pigs called javelinas gallop in stumpy, noisy herds through people's backyards. After the rain, the smell of desert creosote bushes pervades the city. Saguaros, the entertainingly humanoid cacti that are the universal symbol for the West, stand like greeting giants in front of the best hotels. Random legions of gray-green saguaros spike straight up along the foothills. They summon a complex response, tender and a little fearful. Edward Abbey described them as "planted people." Dan Stone is almost professionally entranced by their multiple personalities. "Sometimes they're flipping you the bird, sometimes they're imploring you for understanding, sometimes they're tall and proud, sometimes diseased. And sometimes you see their skeletons."
The saguaros live longer than we do: their old age begins at 200, and they can go on even beyond that. The arms that make them look like us don't appear until they are 100 years old, when the first one emerges seven feet up, on the south side. They bring forth flowers and fruit at their tips, which the desert people harvest, dry, and make into jam, and when they are dead their fibrous skeletons are used to make baskets. The original shape-shifters, they have different names according to their age and shape: fortune cookie, tuft, pincushion, blimp, torpedo, wine bottle, and crazy candelabrum. A census a few years ago counted about a million saguaros in the Tucson basin. Built to expand with the rain and contract in drought, they weigh up to 10 tons, most of it water. In a book about saguaros, a sentence stands out: "Miraculously they can hold enough water to bloom and set fruit after a year with absolutely no rain, or even after the main trunk is uprooted, making them literally the living dead."
At the Lazy K Bar, a dude ranch that belongs to two lawyers, Jim and Amy Shiner, the saguaros rise up in the hills like aliens. A short hike along dry slipping rocks, and Amy points out the young saguaros, each one growing under the protection of a paloverde tree, which is called its nurse. The smallest ones are round and hard to find, like truffles, and at 15 they are still only two feet high. At 35 they're still armless, but by then they have grown up through the nurse paloverde tree and smashed it apart. Amy has recently given up law to train as a therapist. When saguaros are about 60 years old they reach 12 feet, and then they keep growing because they have at least another 120 years in them. You understand why older people love Arizona.
Amy Shiner and the executive director of Tucson's Museum of Contemporary Art, Anne-Marie Russell, who had never met, each insisted that I have a session with Eddie. Eddie is a healer schooled in a Basque tradition called sudad that goes back in his family forever. He works privately and has been known to help his patients with plants when conventional medicine could not. He is 26 years old, tall and beautiful like an idealized Geronimo, with long hair and a little knot of things tied at his neck. He came to my hotel room and administered, in a sort of trance, a massage that was as painful as rolfing. In a soft voice, he explained how he normally worked: "You walk the last mile to the house of the person you're seeing, and the plants along the way tell you about them." We looked at the plants around me. Eddie said, "You're in a hotel, it's not your home, so it doesn't count." Thank God. Outside my door a tree was raining poisonous white oleander flowers onto the lawn.
3. Time travel. I was staying at the Arizona Inn. Here, just north of the university, 14 sublimely private and controlled acres deploy a succession of gardens crazed with flowers and trees, separated by little gates and laid out with the whimsy of an English estate. It is a feat to find your room, but on your way you bump into teams of gardeners busily planting pansies and stock, trimming hedges, cutting lawn. The outer walls of the Arizona Inn are a deep pink that conveys a WASP exuberance about pastels and promises an intimate nursery world where nothing can go wrong. The reception area is casually set up, as if guests were suddenly coming to the mansion and something had to be done to greet them.
The Arizona Inn was built in 1930, in what was then the desert, by the rich and compassionate Mrs. Isabella Greenway. Moved by the number of disabled World War I veterans in Arizona, she had started a company called the Arizona Hut to give them employment making furniture. With the Wall Street crash she ran out of orders, found herself with enough furniture to fill a hotel, and built the first part of the Arizona Inn in three months, neglecting, however, to install a public men's room. It was described as "a simple home-like cottage hotel," where the very rich would move in for months at a time, along with their servants, their lapdogs, and their little habits. The Arizona Inn has been the home of old-fashioned virtues ever since, and is today a kind of nature conservancy for consideration, respect, trust, and manners. Today, 50 years after Mrs. Greenway's death, staying there is like being the guest of a vastly wealthy great-aunt with centuries of Yankee tradition behind her, who is very happy that you are there but doesn't really want to see too much of you.


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Persecution foretold. (1-6) The promise of the Holy Spirit, and his office. (7-15) Christ's departure and return. (16-22) Encouragement to prayer. (23-27) Christ's discoveries of himself. (28-33)
Verses 1-6 Our Lord Jesus, by giving his disciples notice of trouble, designed that the terror might not be a surprise to them. It is possible for those who are real enemies to God's service, to pretend zeal for it. This does not lessen the sin of the persecutors; villanies will never be changed by putting the name of God to them. As Jesus in his sufferings, so his followers in theirs, should look to the fulfilling of Scripture. He did not tell them sooner, because he was with them to teach, guide, and comfort them; they needed not then this promise of the Holy Spirit's presence. It will silence us to ask, Whence troubles come? It will satisfy us to ask, Whither go they? for we know they work for good. It is the common fault and folly of melancholy Christians to look only on the dark side of the cloud, and to turn a deaf ear to the voice of joy and gladness. That which filled the disciples' hearts with sorrow, was too great affection for this present life. Nothing more hinders our joy in God, than the love of the world, and the sorrow of the world which comes from it.
Verses 7-15 Christ's departure was necessary to the Comforter's coming. Sending the Spirit was to be the fruit of Christ's death, which was his going away. His bodily presence could be only in one place at one time, but his Spirit is every where, in all places, at all times, wherever two or three are gathered together in his name. See here the office of the Spirit, first to reprove, or to convince. Convincing work is the Spirit's work; he can do it effectually, and none but he. It is the method the Holy Spirit takes, first to convince, and then to comfort. The Spirit shall convince the world, of sin; not merely tell them of it. The Spirit convinces of the fact of sin; of the fault of sin; of the folly of sin; of the filth of sin, that by it we are become hateful to God; of the fountain of sin, the corrupt nature; and lastly, of the fruit of sin, that the end thereof is death. The Holy Spirit proves that all the world is guilty before God. He convinces the world of righteousness; that Jesus of Nazareth was Christ the righteous. Also, of Christ's righteousness, imparted to us for justification and salvation. He will show them where it is to be had, and how they may be accepted as righteous in God's sight. Christ's ascension proves the ransom was accepted, and the righteousness finished, through which believers were to be justified. Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. All will be well, when his power is broken, who made all the mischief. As Satan is subdued by Christ, this gives us confidence, for no other power can stand before him. And of the day of judgment. The coming of the Spirit would be of unspeakable advantage to the disciples. The Holy Spirit is our Guide, not only to show us the way, but to go with us by continued aids and influences. To be led into a truth is more than barely to know it; it is not only to have the notion of it in our heads, but the relish, and savour, and power of it in our hearts. He shall teach all truth, and keep back nothing profitable, for he will show things to come. All the gifts and graces of the Spirit, all the preaching, and all the writing of the apostles, under the influence of the Spirit, all the tongues, and miracles, were to glorify Christ. It behoves every one to ask, whether the Holy Spirit has begun a good work in his heart? Without clear discovery of our guilt and danger, we never shall understand the value of Christ's salvation; but when brought to know ourselves aright, we begin to see the value of the Redeemer. We should have fuller views of the Redeemer, and more lively affections to him, if we more prayed for, and depended on the Holy Spirit.
Verses 16-22 It is good to consider how near our seasons of grace are to an end, that we may be quickened to improve them. But the sorrows of the disciples would soon be turned into joy; as those of a mother, at the sight of her infant. The Holy Spirit would be their Comforter, and neither men nor devils, neither sufferings in life nor in death, would ever deprive them of their joy. Believers have joy or sorrow, according to their sight of Christ, and the tokens of his presence. Sorrow is coming on the ungodly, which nothing can lessen; the believer is an heir to joy which no one can take away. Where now is the joy of the murderers of our Lord, and the sorrow of his friends?
Verses 23-27 Asking of the Father shows a sense of spiritual wants, and a desire of spiritual blessings, with conviction that they are to be had from God only. Asking in Christ's name, is acknowledging our unworthiness to receive any favours from God, and shows full dependence upon Christ as the Lord our Righteousness. Our Lord had hitherto spoken in short and weighty sentences, or in parables, the import of which the disciples did not fully understand, but after his resurrection he intended plainly to teach them such things as related to the Father and the way to him, through his intercession. And the frequency with which our Lord enforces offering up petitions in his name, shows that the great end of the mediation of Christ is to impress us with a deep sense of our sinfulness, and of the merit and power of his death, whereby we have access to God. And let us ever remember, that to address the Father in the name of Christ, or to address the Son as God dwelling in human nature, and reconciling the world to himself, are the same, as the Father and Son are one.
Verses 28-33 Here is a plain declaration of Christ's coming from the Father, and his return to him. The Redeemer, in his entrance, was God manifest in the flesh, and in his departure was received up into glory. By this saying the disciples improved in knowledge. Also in faith; "Now are we sure." Alas! they knew not their own weakness. The Divine nature did not desert the human nature, but supported it, and put comfort and value into Christ's sufferings. And while we have God's favourable presence, we are happy, and ought to be easy, though all the world forsake us. Peace in Christ is the only true peace, in him alone believers have it. Through him we have peace with God, and so in him we have peace in our own minds. We ought to be encouraged, because Christ has overcome the world before us. But while we think we stand, let us take heed lest we fall. We know not how we should act if brought into temptation; let us watch and pray without ceasing, that we may not be left to ourselves.
John 16:1-33 . DISCOURSE AT THE SUPPER TABLE CONCLUDED.
1-5. These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended--both the warnings and the encouragements just given.
2. They shall put you out of the synagogue--( John 9:22 , 12:42 ).
the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service--The words mean religious service--"that he is offering a service to God." (So Saul of Tarsus, Galatians 1:13 Galatians 1:14 , Philippians 3:6 ).
4. these things I said not . . . at--from.
the beginning--He had said it pretty early ( Luke 6:22 ), but not quite as in John 16:2 .
because I was with you.
5. But now I go my way to him that sent me--While He was with them, the world's hatred was directed chiefly against Himself; but His departure would bring it down upon them as His representatives.
and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?--They had done so in a sort ( John 13:36 , 14:5 ); but He wished more intelligent and eager inquiry on the subject.
6, 7. But because I have said these things . . . sorrow hath filled your heart--Sorrow had too much paralyzed them, and He would rouse their energies.
7. It is expedient for you that I go away--
My Saviour, can it ever be That I should gain by losing thee? KEBLE. |
for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you, but if I depart, I will send him unto
8. And when he is come, he will, &c.--This is one of the passages most pregnant with thought in the profound discourses of Christ; with a few great strokes depicting all and every part of the ministry of the Holy Ghost in the world--His operation with reference to individuals as well as the mass, on believers and unbelievers alike [OLSHAUSEN].
he will reprove--This is too weak a word to express what is meant. Reproof is indeed implied in the term employed, and doubtless the word begins with it. But convict or convince is the thing intended; and as the one expresses the work of the Spirit on the unbelieving portion of mankind, and the other on the believing, it is better not to restrict it to either.
9. Of sin, because they believe not on me--As all sin has its root in unbelief, so the most aggravated form of unbelief is the rejection of Christ. The Spirit, however, in fastening this truth upon the conscience, does not extinguish, but, on the contrary, does consummate and intensify, the sense of all other sins.
10. Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more--Beyond doubt, it is Christ's personal righteousness which the Spirit was to bring home to the sinner's heart. The evidence of this was to lie in the great historical fact, that He had "gone to His Father and was no more visible to men":--for if His claim to be the Son of God, the Saviour of the world, had been a lie, how should the Father, who is "a jealous God," have raised such a blasphemer from the dead and exalted him to His right hand? But if He was the "Faithful and True Witness," the Father's "Righteous Servant," "His Elect, in whom His soul delighted," then was His departure to the Father, and consequent disappearance from the view of men, but the fitting consummation, the august reward, of all that He did here below, the seal of His mission, the glorification of the testimony which He bore on earth, by the reception of its Bearer to the Father's bosom. This triumphant vindication of Christ's rectitude is to us divine evidence, bright as heaven, that He is indeed the Saviour of the world, God's Righteous Servant to justify many, because He bare their iniquities ( Isaiah 53:11 ). Thus the Spirit, in this clause, is seen convincing men that there is in Christ perfect relief under the sense of sin of which He had before convinced them; and so far from mourning over His absence from us, as an irreparable loss, we learn to glory in it, as the evidence of His perfect acceptance on our behalf, exclaiming with one who understood this point, "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth: Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died; yea, rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God," &c. ( Romans 8:33 Romans 8:34 ).
11. Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged--By supposing that the final judgment is here meant, the point of this clause is, even by good interpreters, quite missed. The statement, "The prince of this world is judged," means, beyond all reasonable doubt, the same as that in John 12:31 , "Now shall the prince of this world be cast out"; and both mean that his dominion over men, or his power to enslave and so to ruin them, is destroyed. The death of Christ "judged" or judicially overthrew him, and he was thereupon "cast out" or expelled from his usurped dominion ( Hebrews 2:14 , 1 John 3:8 , Colossians 2:15 ). Thus, then, the Spirit shall bring home to men's conscience: (1) the sense of sin, consummated in the rejection of Him who came to "take away the sin of the world"; (2) the sense of perfect relief in the righteousness of the Father's Servant, now fetched from the earth that spurned Him to that bosom where from everlasting He had dwelt; and (3) the sense of emancipation from the fetters of Satan, whose judgment brings to men liberty to be holy, and transformation out of servants of the devil into sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. To one class of men, however, all this will carry conviction only; they "will not come to Christ"--revealed though He be to them as the life-giving One--that they may have life. Such, abiding voluntarily under the dominion of the prince of this world, are judged in his judgment, the visible consummation of which will be at the great day. To another class, however, this blessed teaching will have another issue--translating them out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God's dear Son.
12-15. when he, the Spirit of truth, is come . . . he shall not speak of himself--that is, from Himself, but, like Christ Himself, "what He hears," what is given Him to communicate.
he will show you things to come--referring specially to those revelations which, in the Epistles partially, but most fully in the Apocalypse, open up a vista into the Future of the Kingdom of God, whose horizon is the everlasting hills.
14. He shall glorify me; for he shall receive of mine and show it unto you--Thus the whole design of the Spirit's office is to glorify Christ--not in His own Person, for this was done by the Father when He exalted Him to His own right hand--but in the view and estimation of men. For this purpose He was to "receive of Christ"--all the truth relating to Christ--"and show it unto them," or make them to discern it in its own light. The subjective nature of the Spirit's teaching--the discovery to the souls of men of what is Christ outwardly--is here very clearly expressed; and, at the same time, the vanity of looking for revelations of the Spirit which shall do anything beyond throwing light in the soul upon what Christ Himself is, and taught, and did upon earth.
15. All things that the Father hath are mine--a plainer expression than this of absolute community with the Father in all things cannot be conceived, though the "all things" here have reference to the things of the Kingdom of Grace, which the Spirit was to receive that He might show it to us. We have here a wonderful glimpse into the inner relations of the Godhead.
16-22. A little while, and ye shall not see me; and again a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father--The joy of the world at their not seeing Him seems to show that His removal from them by death was what He meant; and in that case, their joy at again seeing Him points to their transport at His reappearance amongst them on His Resurrection, when they could no longer doubt His identity. At the same time the sorrow of the widowed Church in the absence of her Lord in the heavens, and her transport at His personal return, are certainly here expressed.
23-28. In that day--of the dispensation of the Spirit (as in John 14:20 ).
ye shall ask--inquire of
me nothing--by reason of the fulness of the Spirit's teaching ( John 14:26 , 16:13 ; and compare 1 John 2:27 ).
24. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name--for "prayer in the name of Christ, and prayer to Christ, presuppose His glorification" [OLSHAUSEN].
ask--when I am gone, "in My name."
25. in proverbs--in obscure language, opposed to "showing plainly"--that is, by the Spirit's teaching.
26. I say not . . . I will pray the Father for you--as if He were not of Himself disposed to aid you: Christ does pray the Father for His people, but not for the purpose of inclining an unwilling ear.
27. For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me--This love of theirs is that which is called forth by God's eternal love in the gift of His Son mirrored in the hearts of those who believe, and resting on His dear Son.
28. I came forth from the Father, &c.--that is, "And ye are right, for I have indeed so come forth,and shall soon return whence I came." This echo of the truth, alluded to in John 16:27 , seems like thinking aloud, as if it were grateful to His own spirit on such a subject and at such an hour.
29, 30. His disciples said, . . . now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb--hardly more so than before; the time for perfect plainness was yet to come; but having caught a glimpse of His meaning (it was nothing more), they eagerly express their satisfaction, as if glad to make anything of His words. How touchingly does this show both the simplicity of their hearts and the infantile character of their faith!
31-33. Jesus answered . . . Do ye now believe?--that is, "It is well ye do, for it is soon to be tested, and in a way ye little expect."
the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone; and yet I am not alone--A deep and awful sense of wrong experienced is certainly expressed here, but how lovingly! That He was not to be utterly deserted, that there was One who would not forsake Him, was to Him matter of ineffable support and consolation; but that He should be without all human countenance and cheer, who as Man was exquisitely sensitive to the law of sympathy, would fill themselves with as much shame, when they afterwards recurred to it, as the Redeemer's heart in His hour of need with pungent sorrow. "I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none" ( Psalms 69:20 ).
because the Father is with me--how near, and with what sustaining power, who can express?
33. These things I have spoken unto you--not the immediately preceding words, but this whole discourse, of which these were the very last words, and which He thus winds up.
that in me ye might have peace--in the sublime sense before explained.
In the world ye shall have tribulation--specially arising from its deadly opposition to those who "are not of the world, but chosen out of the world." So that the "peace" promised was far from an unruffled one.
I have overcome the world--not only before you, but for you, that ye may be able to do the same ( 1 John 5:4 1 John 5:5 ).


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About me and my passion for cars
Cars and auto work have been a huge part of my family since I was itty bitty. My parents fixed cars instead of selling them and buying new ones. So instead of purchasing a $20,000 new car, they just bought $20,000 worth of tools and fixed what we had.
My dad bought a '70 Mach I Mustang and as soon as he started tearing the engine down to rebuild it, my mom started tinkering with it too. Fast forward several years and mechanical certifications later, my mom also helped rebuild the engine and tranny in her '77 Malibu Classic station wagon.
I guess to sum it up, it's a bit awkward to come home after school to an oven full of exhaust manifolds for a 351 Cleveland V8, rather than, say, cookies. But that's just how it went in our house.
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Car I wish I still had
The aforementioned '78 Bonneville.
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This playground and the adjacent school honor abolitionist, writer, and medical practitioner, David Ruggles (1810-1849). Ruggles devoted his life to ending slavery and obtaining equality for African-Americans. He spent the majority of his life in New York City where he helped hundreds of slaves escape to Canada through the Underground Railroad.
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Thanks for posting the cheat sheet. Close to the way mine works, except for:
1. PRE-CH does not work
2. CH LIST or Return brings up Guide
3. D brings up Mini Guide
Again, the remote is a bit frustrating when i try to control the HR34 when connected via HDMI, because there are no buttons for List or Guide. I can get to List by going through Menu and D will bring up the Mini Guide.
Guess I'm still confused a bit, what remote are you trying to use to control the HR34 when connected to the TV via HDMI, it should be the DIRECTV remote?


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President, politicians react to Greek election results
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very common in Bolivia and donA't necessarily mean that it will weaken the
govt. It is important to filter these protests and see which ones are
actually weakening Morales, if not we run the risk of saying everyday that
the govt will fall. This border dispute between Oruro-Potosi dispute is
going on for awhile and miners go on strike very often. Not saying that
this time is not important just saying get used to everyday protests in
Mobilizations weaken Evo
A road was blocked by independent miners in Bolivia on October 25. The
reason for this was because the miners went on a strike and took the road
located in the department of Potosi, arguing they disagree on a taxation
project in the Senate for mining industry. Also, as stated in the article,
a group of "inhabitants of the province of Oruro on Monday began a two-day
strike, also cutting routes, a border dispute with Potosi. This block
keeps isolated La Paz with the eastern and south". Although Deputy
Minister of Coordination with Social Movements, Cesar Navarro, attributed
the conflict to the opposition and stakeholders, it's a clear image that
problems keep growing for President Morales. Yesterday, I was talking
about how Evo resolved the Tinpins problem, and I said that he was
pointing out a more flexible and understanding position. I didn't realized
it until now, but it can also be seen as weakness too. Now the miners are
protesting and probablly some groups can take his decision not as a good
dialogue but as a demand they can do to obtain their needs no matter what.
This can bring more conflict to Evo if he doesn't take a firm decision.
Argentine Orders Oil, Gas, Mine Companies to Repatriate All Export Revenue
On Oct. 26, Cristina Fernandez's government ordered oil, gas and mining
exporters to repatriate all their export revenue. "Export sales from oil,
gas, petrochemicals, gold and copper in Argentina totaled $10.7 billion in
2010, or 16 percent of total exports, according to the national statistics
agency", relates the article. This measure is trying to avoid capital
flight from the country. The presidential decision was conducted focusing
in the protection of central bank reserves. The Argentinian administration
will probably face a difficult panorama in it's economy in the next year.
As a matter of fact, inflation will turn to be a problem for Argentinians
and can be the introduction for an economic crisis and devaluation. We
will probably start looking several similar decisions from the Argentinian
Government trying to avoid the crisis.
CFK-Obama upcoming meeting
Today, a request from President Barack Obama's team was made for a formal
meeting during the next G20 summit with recently reelected President
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. The summit is scheduled to take place on
Nov. 3 and 4 in Cannes, France. This meeting will be heading out to
strengthen ties, discuss cooperative issues and partnership between both
countries. It will be an interesting topic because the bilateral relation
is not at the best point at this moment, regarding to U.S companies
compensations from Argentina and the U.S blocking loans to Argentina in
the World Bank and the Inter American Development bank. Despite of this,
Argentina is a good ally in the region to counterbalance power relations.
Surely, this is important to keep an eye on.
Mexico should look south: Lula da Silva
Lula visited Mexico on Oct. 25, participating in a conference at the
Business Summit held in Queretaro. He talked about cooperation between
both countries, a possible association between both oil companies Pemex
and Petrobras, and reunions among Brazilian and Mexicans entrepreneurs
twice a year, for investment proposals. He stated that Mexico's economy is
big enough to look for new market spots in Latam, and he suggested a more
active relation with the southern countries. This comes in a moment where
Pemex deal with Repsol is at stake. Lula's intervention was interesting
because it opens again the question on why Mexico doesn't take the risk to
look toward a more dynamic relation with Brazil and other countries in the
southern region, to diversify economics and exporting issues. I believe
this isn't a bad idea (though Lula is just funny saying this after his
govmnt), the thing is that both countries will continue to seize the
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Selling my 26 inch Trek 8500 Frame. Medium size. $ 600.
Specialized seat in good shape, Fox Float front shock also good shape.
Thompson seat post and stem.
Two UNO hubs (yes with the wheels) one set is tubeless converted and the other has a tube in it. One is has a 20 tooth cassette and the other 18 tooth. Also have a 16 tooth. Front has a 185 mm disc brake and is tubeless.
Avid BB7's, Ouray grips and already has cloth tape on the Aluminium brakes for winter - cuts down on the freeze OK I can remove if required but it really does work.
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Good question. I'm don't see an obvious way to do that to solve your problem on all websites. However, there just so happens to be a few xkcd viewer apps. I use this one which has a menu > hover text option. EDIT: This seems like a reasonable thing to try for link hover text, but it does not work for me on the default HTC Incredible browswer: I saw this suggested here. |
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Thank you, sir I got it from a website called ArtSociety. They take people's artwork and sell it in the form of t-shirts, hoodies, iPhone cases, anything, and other stuff! I've been lurking on JUB, but not very active lately.
Me and my girls.
Taken at my sisters engagement party...
Regrets are for people who stop on the ground.
I'm heading for the stars.
All those adorable guys and amazing men in this thread!
In some way I'm feeling a bit like a misfit here. But I've made myself to post one of my latest pics here.
Although I'm having a red plastic top, I'm not a fetishist. Sometimes I just like to wear those stuff.
(Wandering thoughts - Do it or delete - OK, just push the 'submit'-button)
That face,that facial hair, that outfit..YES, YES, YES! And you have really pretty female friends.
1. Gorgeous smile
2. Cute dog
3. Lana fan
I guess Ill post myself on here, deciding on if my hair is atrocious enough that I need to cut it beforehand lol
Since body hair is almost never atrocious as long as it is clean, I assume you mean the stuff
growing atop your skull.. I suggest you do a double shot, pre haircut/post haircut then ask
our taste and style conscious fashionistas which they prefer.
Or, just do a few totally naked and they won't even notice your hair.
Glad to see you posting.
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Showing my bad habits
You truly are!!!!
Now, lose that funky undershirt and lose three more buttons on the over shirt. And find a comb,
even a decent rat wouldn't nest in that mess.
plz note, dog is supposed to be me roflmao but the spoilsport
that started this thread said no animation.
If you give someone long enough--they will remind you that they're not perfect. lol
Few snaps from Spain, last month.. just general fooling around, and being an idiot!
..There's Things I Haven't Told You.. I Go Out Late At Night..
And If I Was To Tell You.. You'd See My Different Side..
Hey Millsy!
Looking fine as always!
Looks like you had a great time in Spain!
Thanks for giving JUB a shout by wearing your t-shirt!
The Three Musketeers... Bashful, Chrisglass, and Ronboy!
Hey ronboy, thanks for the comments!
Spain is always fun in September.. I often try to wear one of the white or navy JUB tees on my travels. JUB is never forgotten..
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..There's Things I Haven't Told You.. I Go Out Late At Night..
And If I Was To Tell You.. You'd See My Different Side..
The world never changes if you're forever "minding my own business".
The mindset that no one knows you're gay because you haven't told them,
is like the dog that thinks you don't see him stealing the steak because he avoids your glance.
Staying in the closet is like continuing to sit in the back of the bus.
It's accepting that it's wrong to be who you are.
That's hot, Ciinro.
Here's me. I just got my hair coloured.
It's an intense blood-red on the top and a dark auburn around the sides. I love it. My stylist is incredible.
I know I'm acting like a total camera whore right now, but I just don't care.
I'm so glad that black is slimming. I did not realize how fat i was getting till I saw a few pics that I took the other day. Time to start walking again, even though it's Winter coming up. While I think of it, not putting butter on french fries would probably help also...
Lookin' good, John B!
@Ashy, the red color brings out your eye color, which I think is lovely.
But I'm prejudiced.
one thing about the closet/you don't have to hurry/it will be bad tomorrow/so brother, don't you worry
your eyes say something different but i can imagine seeing lust in the eyes of many people looking at you
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Following another thread about real-world use versus PTC trainers' knowledge, how about we start a list of small things, which ought to be relatively easy for PTC to change, that nonetheless annoy you on a day-to-day basis (and always seem to be passed over in favour of introducing dashboards and ribbons)?
Since various PTC people contribute here, if we keep it tidy and concise perhaps some of our issues could be considered for addressing in imminent versions of Pro/E / Creo (/wishful thinking...)
So, here are some starters:
I've only been using it for a couple days, I'll be back with more.
- Another nice feature would be to choose to keep the original sketch when deleting features. Currently, when deleting the feature, the sketch gets deleted as well. If you want to re-use, you must re-create from scratch.
I agree that would be better, it would prevent headaches, but I just want to point out for those that may not know that the sketch could be created as it own entity so that it would not be lost when deleting a feature that references it.
Good point Kevin!
I mentioned it as a timesaver, for when I create or work with large models I prefer not to do separate sketches for it increases the length of the tree and harder to work on the part model.
Thanks for the reminder.
I'm sure I'll think of more.
Dump the ribbon in drawing mode in it's entirety, dump the stupid "lead vs. follow" workflow garbage, and bring back the pre WF interface with intelligent updates. Get rid of the "click anywhere in the field of the drawing to exit a command" and use the escape key. Having to zoom out far enough to clear views, snap lines, etc. totally ***.
Please can we leave major interface changes for another discussion? I'm sure there are already several out there...
I was hoping to direct some attention to small, detail-level changes that otherwise get overlooked in the drive to change things completely - but that would actually help users day-to-day, for relatively little programming effort, and that the development team probably haven't even considered because they're not using the software the way we do.
Frank Schiavone wrote:
Having to zoom out far enough to clear views, snap lines, etc. totally ***.
Make a mapkey that goes Edit>Select>Deselect all. You'll no longer have to zoom out to find empty space to click in.
Why not PTC just abandons the "click" thing and go to the "Esc" key? The mapkey's will be useless next version anyways, like most of mine are now.....
Since text editing and layout is difficult to manage in a multi-line note, be able to remove external lines of a table. Then item number and text can be easily tabulated and modified. Also, be able to attach an arrow to that multi-line note.


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Of highs and lows, of gold and dross,
Of frugal lives and love's excess.
Dream, dream and never give up,
Hope, hope of a world to be,
Work, work for justice and dreams,
Put others first and set people free.
How can the time of peace come to Earth?
When will all bombs be banned?
How can true justice blossom in mirth?
When will the violence end?
All those who choose the Way
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Must seek to grow each day
In joyful giving,
There are times when truth is this and partly that,
When love can bind extremes to be as one,
But at other times our heart says "you must choose the way
Of life or death, for you and Earth today."
Thank you God for this beautiful Earth.
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Thank you God for the blessing of love.
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And everything is one,
The cells within our flesh,
The Moon, the stars, the Sun.
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And give it strength to grow.
Jesus Christ is alive and lives in me
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Visitation will be from 1-2 p.m. Monday, April 1, 2013, at Williams and Lord Funeral Home in Ruleville.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Monday, April 1, 2013, at Williams and Lord Funeral Home with Reverend Tommy Mahan officiating. Burial will be in Lehrton Cemetery in Ruleville.
She was born in Ruleville on May 7, 1941, to the late Jessie Raymond and Marie Wright Willingham. She was a graduate of Ruleville High School. She retired from Williams and Lord Funeral Home as an insurance agent and also was a homemaker. She was a former resident of Ruleville and Drew and had lived in Gore Springs for the past 15 years. She was a member of the Church of Christ in Red Hill.
She was preceded in death by three brothers and one sister.
She is survived by her husband of 50 years, Jimmy Kimbrell of Gore Springs; two sons, Dale Kimbrell Jr of Coffeeville and Jessie Kimbrell of Gore Springs; a brother, Robert Willingham of Ruleville; a sister, Dorothy Slater of Gassville, Ark.; and a number of nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be Pete Johnson, Bubba Cummins, Joseph Cummins, Freddie Lewis, Sonny Slater and Ray Slater.
An online guestbook may be signed at www.williamsandlord.com.


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^wow where is this from??
^wow where is this from??
sooooo many hot pics, acedman!
I can't even comment on the hotness of them all--so I'll just leave it at that.
Very hot pictures, Acedman. Kudos
In that pic with William, the two of them look so alike! Too bad the tee is covering the potential bulge
Just loved seeing him using his tongue whilst kissing!
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Posted this before but can't find it anymore... Just awesome!
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I don't like the photos of him when he was very overweight. Mostly because he said he was borderline diabetic at that time, and I don't want him having to shoot insulin. I like him healthy and fit.
Alec looks like the type to have some really hot, sweaty, nasty sex with.
I have to say I preferred Alec in the 90s when he was slimmer. That sweaty ass scene in Malice, the sex scenes in The Getaway, he was at his peak there, IMO.
So sexy!
I remember that show! I had a crush on James Caan, and many other men, at the time and would watch those shows. Mostly I'd watch them in hopes that they'd get shirtless or have a sex scene. Of course, at the time I had a more prominent crush William Petersen, and I neglected to watch Las Vegas.
I think the bottom pics are from the movie The Getaway.
^I would love to sit by his feet and just stare up
Personally not a fun of Russell.......I just don't find him attractive. I remember he did some real kissing of other dude on SNL. I remember this because my brother said gross and changed the channel
I can't remember when it was from. If anyone can find it that would be awesome.
Haha, rewound that scene just to enjoy it again.
It looks like Alec sure knows how to give good head too
Not really, that is a sloppy way of sucking dick and not in the good sloppy manner. You can tell some women he has blowing him can't suck for the life of them lol.
Anyone know which movies or tv shows these are from (with specific episode/season numbers?)
oh bottom one is from Will & Grace, the file name says
I just watched My Best Friends Girl. It was pretty hot to hear Alec talking dirty. GRRRRRR So happy that I got to see him in person, too bad my brother was with me otherwise I wouldn't be afraid of coming out and jumping on him lol.
From the movie Malice
Thanks Druid
Have you seen this from Alec in SNL?


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Together with AmeriCorps Vista at Delta State University, these community-based organizations will form an inter-generational partnership and celebrate National Education Association's Read Across America.
MBPSAA President Dr. Elaine Baker is excited to reconnect with AmeriCorps VISTA.
"Together we will return to the beloved Dr. Seuss tale of mischief," said Baker. "A wise saying is 'you're never too old, too wacky, too wild to pick up a book and read with a child.'"
Baker said the alumni membership-based MBPSAA has reached out to the community for readers for the past three years.
This year, the MBPSAA's partnership with AARP creates excitement for reading that extends to Quitman County where AARP members have signed on as readers.
The MBPSAA also seeks to increase the number of males reading to the students.
Among past participants are Attorney Jim Collins and Judge Harold Ward, both Mound Bayou Public School District alumni.
MBPSD partners have included the Junior Beta Club at I.T. Montgomery and the Future Business Leaders of America.
Some of the FBLA students are now enrolled at Mississippi State University and Tougaloo College.
Community partners have included the Chi Mu Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Theta Phi Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Bolivar County Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta, Inc., Mount Olive M. B. Church and Save the Children.
"The MBPSAA door is always open for individuals and partners in the business, civic and fraternal, education and faith-based communities," Baker added. "A special invitation is extended to retired school personnel."
The MBPSAA, AARP and AmeriCorps Vista join the NEA in building a nation of readers through the their signature program, NEA's Read Across America — now in its 16th year.
This year-round program focuses on motivating children and teens to read through events, partnerships and reading resources.
To register for the 2013 Read Across America program at I.T. Montgomery, contact Baker at 662-741-2683 or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Or, contact Ms. Tarmeisha Hampton, AmeriCorps Vista volunteer at 662-741-2433.


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G3 - TURKEY/US/MIL - Turkey agrees to host early warning radar
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(AP) a** 12 minutes ago
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) a** Turkey says it has reached agreement on the
deployment of a radar on its territory as part of NATO's missile defense
Turkey's Foreign Ministry said in a statement issued late Thursday that
discussions "have reach their final stages."
NATO members agreed to an anti-missile system over Europe to protect
against Iranian ballistic missiles at a summit in Lisbon last year. A
compromise was reached with Turkey, which has cultivated close ties with
its neighbor Iran and had threatened to block the deal if Iran is
explicitly named as a threat.
The ministry statement said the system would strengthen both NATO and
Turkey's own defense capacities. It did not say when or where the radar
would be stationed.
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On 15/07/2011 11:20 PM, Benjamin Preisler wrote:
Paper says Turkey likely to join US missile shield project
Text of report by Turkish newspaper Milliyet website on 14 July
[Commentary by Asli Aydintasbas: "Turkey Will Say Yes to Missile
Ankara is getting ready to give a green light to the Defence Shield
Project which is considered one of NATO's most important defence
projects since the Cold War.
The defence project, to which the Obama administration attaches great
importance, will be one of the items that will appear on the agenda of
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who has arrived in Istanbul for
the summit that will be held on Libya tomorrow [15 July].
For a while Ankara, which had approached the missile system cautiously
thus far and which had put its reservations on the agenda during the
high-level meetings in NATO, has been looking favourably at the
stationing of NATO missiles and radar systems that will control them for
defence purposes on its soil.
The issue has been frequently raised by the United States in the
conversations held between US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan and during the contacts held by Hillary Clinton and
Ahmet Davutoglu.
Despite the fact that it had approached the project in question
cautiously in the past, the AKP [Justice and Development Party] which
takes the future of its institutional ties with the West and its defence
needs into consideration, is looking favourably at the project.
Despite the fact that the project has been on Washington's agenda for a
long time, NATO countries have not been able to take concrete actions in
this regard. If Turkey says "yes" to Hillary Clinton this week, the
project will be activated in stages as of the end of 2011.
The anti-ballistic missiles that will be placed on ships in Eastern
Mediterranean in the first stage will turn into permanent
infrastructures on Turkish soil and in countries such as Romania as of
2015. It is also planned to integrate the anti-ballistic missile ships
with the early warning (AN/TPY-2 type radar) and infrastructure systems
that will be stationed on the ground in Turkey.
If the project is realized, the Patriot missiles that Turkey has been
planning to purchase within the framework of its defence plans since
2011 will be jointly financed by NATO and will be included in this
Iran and the Cat Polemic
The defence shield which had been described as "star wars" in the past
and which has been speeded up with the presidency of Barack Obama plans
to protect, with a broad umbrella, Turkey primarily and NATO countries
against the attacks that will be launched from the Middle East, Iran,
and from outside the region.
However until lately Ankara, which had not wanted the defence shield to
cause problems in its ties with Iran, had cautiously approached the
"land" factor of the project that involves stationing Patriot missiles
on Turkish soil and it had demanded that Iran's name would not be
emphasized. You will recall that during the NATO summit in Lisbon last
year President Abdullah Gul had requested the removal of the references
to Iran from the common documents and French President Nicholas Sarkozy
had taken Turkey's sensitivity lightly by saying: "We call a cat a cat."
The truth is that even though Ankara insists on stressing that the
defence shield project does not target Iran, Iran's nuclear programme
and long-range ballistic missiles are one of the main targets of the
NATO countries. This concern is also shared by Turkey, but Ankara is in
favour of using a more diplomatic language and of being in dialogue with
Who Is in Command?
The fact that the missile systems that would be stationed on Turkish
soil would be under the command of NATO, rather than Turkey, was yet
another reason for the chilly stand that had been adopted by the AKP
government with regard to the defence shield thus far. The prime
minister had expressed his concern in this regard prior to last year's
NATO summit by saying: "Who will be in command? Who will be in charge of
the button? If Turkey is not in command, it is impossible." Later
however, efforts had been launched for a join t NATO command structure
that would also include Turkish military officers. If the defence shield
project is realized, the NATO base in Izmir will once again assume an
important role in terms of central command. NATO had intended to close
down this base, but at the last minute it had decided to keep it open.
Source: Milliyet website, Istanbul, in Turkish 14 Jul 11
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At the West Bolivar School Board Meeting Thursday evening, former WBHS high school football standout and assistant coach Joac Williams was officially hired as head football coach of the Eagles. Williams took the position after previous coach Henry Johnson resigned to take the head football coaching position at Clarksdale High School.
Williams, 28, served as an assistant coach under Johnson from 2009-12, playing an instrumental role in the Eagles winning the 2A State Title in 2011. He was also the West Bolivar Middle School head football coach in 2012 as he guided the team to a 6-1 record with a Delta Valley Conference North Division Championship.
As a player, Williams played wide receiver, running back and defensive back at WBHS and was one of the Eagles' key players as a senior in 2002 when they went 10-2 and advanced to the second round of the 3A State Playoffs. After high school, he played at Delta State from 2003-06 as a cornerback. After DSU, he was an assistant football coach at John F. Kennedy for one season before going back to West Bolivar to be an assistant coach.
Williams said the opportunity to be the coach at West Bolivar is a privilege.
"It's kind of a surreal moment, kind of a dream come true for me," Williams said. "To be back at home and be the head coach of a program that I once was a player of, I always dreamed of maybe one day having the opportunity and now it's a reality. I'm very excited about the opportunity to coach back at home."
Williams will have some big shoes to fill as Johnson, who also played high school football at WBHS, posted a an impressive 142-32 record with 10 region championships and two state titles in 13 seasons with the Eagles. In its history, West Bolivar has won five state championships and has made the Mississippi High School Activities Association State Football Playoffs 28 times.
Williams, a native of Beulah, has grown up knowing the overall tradition of the program and the passion of the people that support it.
"The community is great," Williams said. "I'm just looking forward to continuing to keeping up and carrying on that tradition that coach Johnson and all the coaches before me started and established."
One thing that West Bolivar football knows is defense. Over the last 10 years, the Eagles have played 138 games and have given up just 11.6 points per game during that stretch. From 2009-2011, West Bolivar yielded just 8.8 points per contest in 46 total games.
"I really want to stress having a great defense at Rosedale," Williams said. "Defense wins you ball games. Over at Rosedale under coach Johnson, we won a lot of games. I want to carry on that tradition of playing tough defense."
West Bolivar Athletic Director Willie Thomas said the overall athletics program has prospered from having former players come back to coach.
"We've always had success with that," Thomas said. "We try to keep it the way we've been doing it and there's no sense in messing it up. We're just doing what we've been doing."
Thomas said Williams' overall personality and work ethic fit what the program needs to lead the way.
"The main thing is he's a quality young man," Thomas said. "We want to win, but we want to win and do things the right way. We're going to build off of him. He played in the system. He was the defensive coordinator last year. He was the middle school coach for us and that's a huge advantage, because he can bring those guys up."


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UPDATE: Homicide detectives are now at the Mondrian Hotel investigating the death.
Pimp C, real name Chad Butler -- and one half of the rap duo UGK, was found dead in a hotel room this morning. He was 33.
L.A. County Fire responded to a 911 call at the Mondrian Hotel, located on trendy Sunset Strip in Hollywood. They arrived to his sixth floor hotel room to find him dead in bed.
UGK is best known for appearing on the Jay-Z track "Big Pimpin'" in 2000, and more recently with Outkast on the song "International Player's Anthem (I Choose You)." Pimp C had just performed with fellow rapper Too Short at the "House of Blues" in L.A. on Saturday night.
UPDATE: Jive Records has issued the following statement regarding Pimp C's death:
Born in Port Arthur, Texas, Butler's father was a trumpet player who played professionally with Solomon Burke. Outside of his father, the 33-year old rapper's influences varied, ranging from Bobby Bland, Jimmy McGriff, the 1960's Motown artists to Run DMC. Butler met his inseparable partner Bernard "Bun B" Freeman in high school where they formed UGK. In 1992, the duo signed to Jive Records and went on release a total of eight albums for the label. They earned their highest achievement earlier this year when their most recent album, UGK (Underground Kingz), debuted in the number one position on the album pop chart. According to the New York Times, UGK "helped inspire a generation of Southern hip-hop stars, from OutKast to Lil Wayne."
Bun B is not available for comment at this time."


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