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This is a discussion on Are we cannibalizing ourselves? within the General Firearm Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; The other day, I found a pistol at a good price that I've been wanting for a few years now. I had cash in hand, ...
The other day, I found a pistol at a good price that I've been wanting for a few years now. I had cash in hand, and was ready to buy it.
Then I thought, "Why am I doing this?" I'll probably hardly shoot it, if ever, due to time and costs. I walked away from the gun and went home.
It was the first time I've ever done that. Ammo prices have shot through the roof, largely in part to our own hysteria and poor planning. I know several guys who had little to no interest in guns before, and now are buying everything in sight. While superficially this might be great for the gun industry, what is the backside of this equation?
Will future potential purchases be left on the counter because of the cost of ammo? I doubt I am the only one who has done this recently.
When nations are at war, whats the first thing they try to knock out? Supply. Each side tries to interrupt the others supply. Fuel, ammo, food etc. Without it, wars cannot be fought, and the enemy turns tail and runs, or dies off. Is this what the anti's are doing to us, and we are willing participants? Are we already starting to cannibalize the industry?
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We are most certainly doing it to ourselves, but with a little prompting from the anti's. We are falling for it; hook, line and sinker.
"Just blame Sixto"
I reserve the right to make fun, point and laugh etc.
They'd be more effective and have more success at improving everyone's lot if they'd simply be for something. Heck, practically anything.
For life, liberty, an educated and upstanding citizenry, going after criminals without attacking the upstanding, putting into place guards and protections that support people who dare protect themselves, for a law enforcement and legal system that goes after criminals and protects citizens, and so on. And yet, the movement in general attacks those things. It's one of the great affronts to those of us still living and breathing, and a dire threat to the liberties of our children and their children. They have declared war, subtly. They'll lose, but it won't be pretty.
Your best weapon is your brain. Don't leave home without it.
Thoughts: Justifiable self defense (A.O.J.).
Explain: How does disarming victims reduce the number of victims?
Reason over Force: Why the Gun is Civilization (Marko Kloos).
The price of raw materials for the ammunition has skyrocketed. I know why, but the price of ammo has not directly reflected that as I would have expected. It just makes me wonder.
"Just blame Sixto"
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I'm not sure I agree with you. I don't think it is hysteria. I call it "common sense". Prior to the election, a lot of people were on the fence in regard to gun ownership. Now that the marxists are in control, a lot of Americans decided to take the plunge and invest in guns and ammo. Several people I know went out and bought an assault weapon b/c the dems may try to implement a ban. Again, that's not hysteria.....just common sense.
It will eventually level off.
The question is: How much is too much? Can a person own too many guns (or ammo)?
IMO, a person should have a wide variety in their arsenal. And you need plenty of ammo for each weapon you own.
Maybe I'm judging by my own experience, but when Barry got elected, I didn't rush out and buy cases and cases of ammo. I add a little to my supply when I can afford it.
I'm more angry about the poor planning and the jumping on the bandwagon people. Again, I fully support those who just now have woken up and are trying to make up for lost time, but they are killing the true shooter in the process.
I agree that it will level off, but when? Will it be to late? I've been buying ammo and parts for years now. I'm set. But, when I want to do a little shooting, I don't want o sell off an kidney because of others poor planning and no foresight.
"Just blame Sixto"
I reserve the right to make fun, point and laugh etc.
Well, you have to hand it to Barry. He's definitely creating more jobs in the gun/ammo manufacturing business.
I'm not so sure it's regular people doing some of this stuff,I think we got speculators buying up quantitys of Sporting rifles and ammo then waiting til a ban and ammo legislation takes place and then selling their stash off for 3-5 times what they paid for it
"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country,"
--Mayor Marion Barry, Washington , DC .
"Just blame Sixto"
I reserve the right to make fun, point and laugh etc.
For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the son of man be. Mathew 24:27
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It may not level off. Every time an anti-gun bill is proposed and given consideration, it will cause a certain amount of panic buying.I agree that it will level off, but when? Will it be to late?
Fact of the matter is, most people that are buying guns are doing so because they have no confidence in the members of Congress, or the President, to do the right thing.
So,the "panic buying" wanes off, gun show supply's get better, ammo supplies pick up and even bullets, primers and all types of reloading supplies become available once again. It looks like everything is getting back to normal.
All of a sudden some whack-job from say, NY or Ill. proposes a bill that requires a gun owners I.D card to purchases ammo and BANG, the whole process starts over again.
What used to be seen as legislation that was so absurd that it didn't stand a snowballs chance in some hot place of passing previously, now is seen as something that has an excellent chance of passing and may become a reality.
The thing is, the anti's which are many(and they start from the top and go all the way down) could propose these things and time them right so that the buying,stockpiling hysteria NEVER goes away or subsides.
Even if such openly anti-American bills didn't pass, it would /could have the same affect on the supply and demand. Thats really what it comes down to, supply and demand.
If the demand is greater than the supply, the price will be whatever people are willing to pay. If the traitors/legislators are coordinated enough to time their bogus and criminal legislation accordingly, they could literally manipulate the supply.
Of course, all of the above is just speculation and assumes a worse case scenario. Now we have to consider, is it a worst case scenario?
We have a socialist President that cant even prove his citizenship, that seems openly hostile to the ideals that this country was founded on. Our VP is a rabid anti-gun fanatic and has the track record to prove it. The Pres, was the standard for being at the far end of the left wing scale and has promised to pass ANY anti-gun legislation that crosses his desk. He has stated many times that the Constitution of the U.S. needs some changes. The Sec. of State worships the U.N. and loves the Brady Bunch.The Attorney General has stated publicly that the 2nd Amendment does not apply to the citizens.
You just have to ask yourself, are things going to get better for gun owners or are they going to get worse ?
Only you can be the judge.
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Date of Stay: June, 2009
The owner/managers are excellent. The grounds are beautifully maintained with lots of flowers. The 50 amp service worked perfectly and the Wi-Fi access was great. The fairgrounds next door are usually empty and the owners will tell you if there is an activity at the fairgrounds when you make your reservation. Most of the big rig sites are shaded.
Date of Stay: August, 2006
The maintenance of the grounds and sites was outstanding. Lots of native pine trees plus the owners have planted many trees which are watered on an extensive drip system. Many sites have new 50 amp. service to them. There is a free WiFi hot spot which I could not get to work on my laptop. One disadvantage is that there is only one set of restrooms for the entire park - the restrooms are not large. Also, they charge for a shower (it should be included in the price). Excellent paved roads and rock base at the sites. The park was not dusty. Also, there is only one garbage location which is kept extremely clean. The trees, setting and location are excellent. They even clean the new picnic tables before each check-in and they guide you to your site and direct you park easily on your site.
Date of Stay: June, 2006
A very good spot for an overnight stay. Very reasonably priced with no extra for tax. The sites are narrow and not long. The sprinklers go off in the middle of the night with water spots on the coach. No Wi-Fi access. You have to remember that this is a casino RV park and they want you to gamble. This park fills up very early during peak summer season. Be sure to call for reservations. The office staff was very helpful. You do get some noise from the truck parking in the next lot and from the freeway. There is a picnic table and a bit of grass for most sites. Only a very few 50 amp. sites - be sure to call and reserve one. No extra charge for 50 amps. The museum in Winnemucca is the best small town museum we have ever seen.
Date of Stay: June, 2006
Extremely well-laid out park with very large pull-thru sites. The bit of lawn next to each site is watered with an underground drip system - no sprinkler spots on our coach. There is free Wi-Fi for only three days. Wi-Fi should be free all the time. Outstanding restrooms. Each restroom is private with a locking door and extremely clean. A very inviting pool and spa area. Far enough from the freeway to be away from the noise. The front desk personnel were very helpful and friendly. This will be a 10 when the trees grow and they plant summer flowers. A nice club house area open to everyone. Highly recommended.
Date of Stay: June, 2006
Excellent location near the lake on the Spokane River. The sawmill across the river from the park does not present a noise problem. I really appreciated the expensive looking propane fired mosquito machines which are placed along the river inside the park. There were no mosquitoes in a location that looks like mosquito country. Excellent free Wi-Fi service in the park. It is $10 per day more for a premium site. We found the grass and view worth the extra money. The contruction on the second set of restrooms/showers appears to be going very slowly. The gravel site to park the coach or RV is very narrow. Hence we got hit with sprinklers on watering day. The staff was very friendly and accommodating. I enjoyed the seaplane flight for only $50 from Brooks and the 90 minute boat tour of the lake was excellent.
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Well-designed park with lots of room in a beautiful setting. Friendly staff. Good central location in the town of West Yellowstone. They charge for WiFi (it should be free in all parks). There were no paper towels in the restrooms (only hot air dryers - shades of McDonalds). The parking area on the sites is narrow and we got sprinkler water on the coach. The sites themselves are fairly wide.
Date of Stay: June, 2006
Excellent maintenance of this older park. New 50 amp. electric with excellent cable TV. Free WiFi internet (this should be standard in all RV parks). The Bar J western dinner and show which is located about 1/2 block from the park was excellent (especially the show). The park has lots of trees and grass. The grass is well-maintained. We visited the other RV parks in Jackson and this is far and away the best. The only negative is that ingress and egress for a large coach is tight. Like all KOA parks, they have tent campers and cabins.
Date of Stay: May, 2006
The setting of the park is outstanding. You camp under a canopy of sycamore trees. There are two creeks in the park and the Yuba river is a short walk. The park has 100 acres and is a true oasis. There is a picnic table and fire pit at each site. The sites are huge. Also, there is a brand-new clubhouse for groups. The tent campers are in a different section of the park and can't be seen or heard at the RV section of the park. The park flooded on New Years day of 2006 and is recovering. The manager (Bob) is outstanding and strives to make your stay enjoyable. The new owners are promising renovation of the restrooms, painting of buildings and new signs. Cell phone reception on Verizon was excellent. No 50 amp., WiFi, or sewer at the campsite (there is a dump station and a honey wagon). A great get-away which is close to the Sacramento metro area.
Date of Stay: May, 2006
Outstanding rate of $17 (no tax added). Park is very attractive. Only 30 amp. service. Lots of trees and virtually no highway noise. The only negative is that sites are fairly narrow and we got lawn sprinkler water on the coach. An outstanding value.
Date of Stay: April, 2006
This is an older park which was a KOA. The sites tend to be small with only a very few 50 amp. sites. There are very few RV parks near Sacramento. The road into the park is quite rough. The roads inside the park are ok - but narrow. Good shopping and restaurants close by. I found an excellent independent coffee house (Court House Coffee) in old town Auburn with free Wi-Fi. There is no Wi-Fi or internet access in the park. I was at the park during a period of heavy rain and could not do a full review of the park.
Date of Stay: February, 2006
This is a huge park (1,200 spaces)with several sections. We stayed in the newest section. The nightly rate of $25 was certainly extremely reasonable. The WiFi service was free and could be accessed from only some of the sites - however, you can go the club room at the office where the reception is excellent. The paved streets are good and the sites are wide and allow for parking of your towed vehicle or tow vehicle. We found there to be a limited number of restrooms. The restrooms are only cleaned once daily and sometimes toilets got stopped up and they seem to only be cleared during the once a day cleaning. We were at the park during high season and would have gladly paid an extra $1 or $2 per day to have the restrooms cleaned more than once a day. The restrooms were surface cleaned rather than deep cleaned.


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Two persons remain in custody following the gruesome murder of Deoroop Sieuchand, 72, while a post-mortem examination revealed that he died from multiple incised wounds compounded by blunt trauma to head.
A relative told Stabroek News yesterday that the man's body bore "28 stab wounds to be exact." The condition of his wife, Ambika, 70, who sustained severe blows to her head, is improving.
She is still a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).
This newspaper was told that charges are likely to be laid against the two men, including a close relative, upon completion of investigations.
The main suspect was taken into custody after police learnt that the incident may have stemmed from a dispute between families over land. The house was ransacked but it is unclear if anything is missing.
Reports are that the couple was watching television sometime between 6 pm and 9 pm on Saturday in their Zealand, Mahaicony home when they heard a sound in the upper flat. Sieuchand went up to investigate and was confronted by three men.
They had gained entry to the building through an open window using a ladder that Sieuchand, a farmer, used when picking coconuts.
A struggle ensued between him and the men and it appeared as though he tried to seek cover in a bedroom. But the assailants cornered and bound him and inflicted the wounds which he bled profusely from. There was a pool of blood on the kitchen floor right below the bedroom where the murder took place.
His wife who heard the commotion was heading upstairs to check, but when she realized what was happening she retreated to the lower flat. She also shouted for a ten-year-old child, who was also in the house, to run and hide. The men reportedly grabbed him and dealt him a few slaps but he managed to escape and concealed himself.
The men followed Ambika and hit her on the head causing her to collapse to the ground in an unconscious state. They then returned to the upper flat and apparently continued their attack on the man.
This newspaper was told that the men went back downstairs and hit Ambika to her head again. She had still not regained consciousness.
Before escaping, they also poured what seemed to be a beverage on her face and after she failed to respond they apparently felt she was dead, relatives said. There was also blood at the spot where she was attacked and lay helplessly
The child who was hiding in the house during the ordeal remained concealed until 6.30 am on Sunday when he mustered the courage to leave for help.
Ambika was taken to the Mahaicony Hospital at about 7:30 am. She was treated and transferred to the GPH.
Sieuchand's body was removed around 10.30 am.
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EconSouth (First Quarter 2000)
hat would Erskine Caldwell think? The author of such early 1930s novels as Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre, Caldwell perfected literature's southern misery genre. His characters were the archetypal dirt farmers and hardscrabble laborers, toiling away at barren land and in broiling sweatshops, expecting little and earning even less.
Even accounting for artistic liberties, Caldwell's stories resonated with a ring of truth. The South, generally, was poorer than the rest of the country, and the rural South was destitute. The economy was, in a word, old — mostly natural resource-based and highly dependent on unskilled labor. The region's economy was the envy of no one.
At the turn of the 21st century, the South has come a long way. The region led the nation in job growth throughout the 1990s as investors from the United States and abroad, including auto manufacturers, high-tech firms and service-related industries, poured hundreds of billions of dollars into the Southeast. All those new jobs translated into a better standard of living for Southerners both in absolute terms and in improvements relative to other Americans. Between 1970 and 1998, the national per capita personal income ranking of every Southern state improved except for Mississippi and Florida, which remained 51 and 20, respectively. During these years, Alabama's ranking improved from 49 to 41, Georgia's from 38 to 24, and Tennessee's from 42 to 34.
To be sure, the South generally remains poorer than the rest of the United States. And just as certainly, Caldwell himself would recognize the pockets of desperation that remain in some areas of the Southeast.
Still, compared to Caldwell's day — and to even just 30 years ago — the South is new. In that sense, the South's new economy is analogous to, say, Asia's, with its millions of workers progressing from the most rudimentary forms of natural resource processing to basic manufacturing and on into sophisticated manufacturing and knowledge-based services. This transition occurred mostly because both regions are relatively cheaper places to conduct business and have had a relatively abundant supply of workers.
But what else is new about the South's economy? Four old Southern industries — peanuts, short-line railroads, textiles and apparel — offer insights into how some companies are changing to remain competitive in today's business world.
Getting your arms around the new economy
There are varying opinions about and definitions of the new economy. Business Week Editor in Chief Stephen B. Shepherd was among the earliest and most enthusiastic proponents of the new economy. In a 1997 editorial (see the sidebar), Shepherd defined the new economy as two relatively new and broad trends.
The first, Shepherd noted, is the globalization of business; the second is the revolution in information technology. These simple but far-reaching trends provide a standard, although not universally accepted, definition of the new economy.
Something old, something new
If there is a staple — or, perhaps, an official snack — of the Old South's old economy, it surely is peanuts. For more than 50 years, peanut farming has been among the nation's most protected industries — prices and domestic tonnage have been dictated by the descendants of New Deal-era agricultural programs, and imports of peanuts and peanut-containing products have been essentially prohibited.
Without a doubt, as U.S. growers adopted higher-yielding seed varieties and implemented other production improvements, peanut growers' productivity improved. In fact, American peanut growers have been the most productive in the world, although the United States ranks far behind India and China in total production.
Nevertheless, because imports were prohibited and manufacturers paid the same price for raw peanuts, there was almost no competition where it mattered most — on the supermarket shelves — except from peanut substitutes. On the peanut aisle, at least, the declining unit costs brought by improving productivity showed up only partially.
All of this began to change with the more recent introduction of foreign competition. Under provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs, imports of peanuts and peanut paste (roasted, ground peanuts) were authorized for the very first time. Granted, imports comprise a small fraction of all peanuts consumed in the United States — well below 10 percent. Still, even this small amount was enough to bring some measure of competition to the peanut industry, and in 1996 the statutory price for American-grown peanuts was reduced for the first time in the history of the peanut support program.
But if competition was just beginning to heat up in the U.S. peanut market, it was reaching full boil overseas. According to the American Peanut Council, an industry trade group, U.S. peanut exports declined from nearly 300,000 metric tons in 1995 to less than 200,000 metric tons in 1998. By 1997 India had actually surpassed the United States in peanut exports, replacing China, which increasingly consumes its own crop, as the leader, with Argentina close behind.
The United States' competitive situation at home and abroad was compounded by public concerns about the high fat content of peanuts. The concerns contributed to an approximately 200 million pound decline — more than 10 percent — in total U.S. peanut consumption between 1992 and 1996.
The industry's response to all of these developments was equal parts marketing and technology. The industry addressed health concerns with various research initiatives designed to show the nutritional benefits of peanuts. Individually, manufacturers introduced a variety of reduced-fat peanut products, which now account for as much as 10 percent of all peanut product sales.
Certainly, the domestic peanut market in no way resembles the information technology industry described by Shepherd earlier. As long as imports are limited and the price of peanuts is set by the government, it seems unlikely that PC-style price wars will ever break out in the supermarket peanut aisle.
Nevertheless, for the threat facing the peanut market in the United States, technology was an appropriate response. Productivity may not have necessarily improved, but value most certainly was added through the introduction of reduced-fat products and through a comprehensive marketing campaign by the industry. U.S. consumption, meanwhile, rebounded by nearly 100 million pounds between 1996 and 1999.
In export markets, U.S. peanut producers pursued a similar technology-enhanced, value-added strategy. The United States is not the low-cost producer of peanuts; it has instead positioned itself as the leading quality supplier to world markets by emphasizing those aspects of the American product that should appeal to candy and snack nut manufacturers: production research, seed development, and mechanization in shelling, manufacturing, warehousing and storage. In addition, the industry's lot identification system and its aflatoxin detection and control initiatives have given it a certain advantage in markets with stringent quality regulations. It appears that all of these technological efforts contributed to a significant increase in U.S. peanut exports after years of decline, from less than 200,000 metric tons in 1998 to nearly 350,000 in 1999.
In 1997, Business Week Editor in Chief Stephen B. Shepherd wrote about the new economy in an editorial titled "The New Economy: What it Really Means." Shepherd defined the new economy as follows:
No longer passing the time away
The arrival of the new economy is even more apparent in the short-line railroad industry. As the name suggests, short-line railroads make the final haul between the national Class I carrier, like CSX or Norfolk Southern, and the cargo customer. Considering that a short line may be singularly dependent on a big carrier and that the industry is more susceptible to truck competition, the viability of short-line railroads might be questionable. But instead, short lines are thriving. Their success is due in no small measure to the opportunities presented by technology and globalization.
Atlanta-based Railcar Management Inc. (RMI) was among the first companies to provide computer software to the short-line industry. Like most software, RMI's packages are intended to improve short-line productivity by giving management better information. According to Paul Pascutti, vice president of strategic product development at RMI, "Our software is oriented toward backoffice functions, but it also provides management with the information it needs for day-to-day operational decisions," including yard inventory, track movement history and car repair billing.
More recently, RMI has also begun to offer some of the same services online. So not only are short lines able to do more, they're able to it with fewer people. As a result, these information technologies are having a direct impact on the profitability and competitiveness of short-line railroads.
But so is globalization. At first this seems surprising. Short-line railroads, after all, are defined by the local markets they serve. How can they compete globally? In fact, the answer has less to do with competition than with management.
The 1990s saw the rise of a number of highly diversified short-line railroad holding companies. San Antonio-based RailTex operates short lines in New England, the Southeast, the Great Lakes and Canada. Greenwich-based Genesee and Wyoming owns services in several U.S. states, as well as Canada, Mexico and Australia. Boca Raton-based RailAmerica operates short lines in the United States, Canada, Australia and Chile.
By accumulating short-line holdings, holding companies are able to reduce costs by consolidating back-office functions and diversifying their commodity mix. Diversification helps make railroads "recession-proof," as RMI's Pascutti put it. "A company that is heavily dependent on steel can protect itself from a downturn in the steel industry by acquiring a line with a heavy agricultural commodity mix." In this way, globalization improves costs and revenues.
Not always a cut above the rest
In one of oldest Southern industries, the new economy is doing to the South what the South did to New England decades ago. Employment in the apparel manufacturing industry has been falling across the South for years. In Georgia, apparel employment plummeted from nearly 58,000 in 1990 to fewer than 28,000 in 1999. Similarly, in Alabama apparel employment dropped from 52,000 in 1990 to 28,000 in 1999.
The decline in apparel employment is, of course, almost entirely a function of international wage competition. Apparel production is highly labor intensive, and as cut-and-sew operations have proliferated in low-cost labor markets, manufacturers in this extremely competitive market have not failed to exercise this comparative advantage. Today, most firms that remain are companies that rely on more automated processes or are niche product producers.
But it would be wrong to assume that the closely associated textile industry has mirrored the job exodus of the apparel industry because of globalization. While apparel employment may have plummeted since 1990, textile manufacturing in general seems to have stabilized. And, over the same period, carpet manufacturing employment has actually increased. The difference is most certainly technology. Unlike apparel, carpets and other textiles are manufactured in long production runs that lend themselves to mechanization and automation. And indeed, to visit the average Southern textile plant is to witness the very latest technology from Switzerland, Germany or Japan, managed by textile engineering graduates from Clemson, North Carolina State or Georgia Tech. Unquestionably, textile employment is not what it was a few decades ago — not even close. Nevertheless, the hemorrhaging caused by wage competition and globalization appears to have subsided, and the industry remains intact.
Long-run prospects for old Southern industries
In the 1990s, the new economy had a significant impact on many traditional Southern companies. While the long-term viability of every traditional Southern industry remains to be determined, it is clear in the short term that globalization and technology present as many opportunities as barriers.


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2007 Ford Freestyle Limited AWD
Editor's Rating:
The Good: Three rows of seats; plenty of cargo room; good fuel economy
The Bad: Small engine; no manual transmission; fully-loaded, it might be too expensive
The Bottom Line: A versatile crossover designed for families tired of SUVs
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Up Front Ford is in the wringer. Everyone knows that. Sales stink. Pension and labor costs are sandbagging them. Customers and dealers are fed up. Even Bill Ford finally had the sense to hand over the reins to someone else before things got even worse.
But here's what I don't get. Yes, Ford (F) has some problems, and, yes, Ford may not make the most sophisticated or most beautiful cars in the world. But when I drove the Ford Freestyle crossover the other week, I found myself thinking, "This isn't so bad. What's everyone complaining about?"
Introduced in 2005, the Freestyle, has a roomy interior with three rows of seats, pretty good gas mileage, decent looks, and an affordable price. It also shares design cues with Ford's pickup fleet, so it looks more rugged than some other crossovers. What's more, it's being built at Ford's huge, completely modernized Chicago plant. It stacks up well against the competition in almost every category, so why are sales down more than 13% from last year?
If I could hazard a guess, it's because the Freestyle is a good but not a great car. And I don't mean BMW or Ferrari great. I mean great in the sense that a car is the best vehicle in its class and price point. The Toyota Camry is by no means a "great" car like a BMW—but it's the world's best-selling car because it combines exceptional quality and reliability at an attractive price.
Ford knows how to do this. Its F-150 is a great truck and, for that reason, has been America's best-selling pickup, and Ford's premier moneymaker, for the past 30 years. So why can't Ford do it with its other cars and trucks?
I don't mean to be overly harsh on the Freestyle because, really, there's much to recommend it. The criticism is aimed more at Ford's management for not doing enough to make it better—because it comes so close.
To begin with, the Freestyle is actually one of the few good new ideas from Ford in a long time. For the most part, Ford has been content to rest—precariously, as it turned out—on its laurels, relying on workhorse brands such as the aforementioned F-150, the Explorer SUV, the Mustang, and the Taurus to do all the heavy lifting.
But while these nameplates all performed well in the past and some—like the Mustang—continue to enjoy healthy sales (the F-Series is down almost 13% for the year), there has been a dearth of new models and designs coming out of Dearborn, Mich. Moreover, not only did Ford continue to go back to the well more than it should have done, it also ignored fuel economy at its peril. So when the price of fuel rocketed earlier this year, the company had very few models in the pipeline to offer customers who were getting tired of being burned at the pump.
That's why the idea of the Freestyle makes so much sense. It's a bona fide original vehicle that offers the capacity, but not the bulk, of an SUV and, unlike some other new Ford vehicles, doesn't feel like a cheap rehash of something else.
Better yet, it's the right car at the right time. Crossovers have become increasingly popular with fuel-sensitive drivers who nevertheless aren't quite willing to give up on SUVs. (There are even rumors that Ford may cease minivan production. I think this is a bad idea except for the fact that Ford's minivan, the Freestar, is a real dog. Other companies, such as Honda (HMC) and Toyota (TM), have put serious effort into building minivans and have been rewarded at the dealerships as a result.)
Behind the Wheel One of the drawbacks to crossovers in general, and not just the Freestyle, is that, despite their resemblance to SUVs, they actually have very little off-roading or towing chops. They aren't physically smaller, but they are lower to the ground.
Because crossovers are built on car platforms, they have better handling but not ground clearance. (The Freestyle is built on Ford's steel D3 platform, which it shares with the Ford Five Hundred sedan.) This is fine for drivers who are just looking for a practical people-mover. But if you live in a part of the country with lots of snowfall, you may want to look elsewhere, even if the Freestyle does come with an optional all-wheel drive package.
The other drawback to the Freestyle is that it comes with only one engine choice, a relatively tame 3-liter V6 that kicks out only 203 horsepower and 200 ft.-lbs. of torque. While acceleration is decent, it feels sluggish on the road.
The Freestyle is available only in automatic, but it does come in either front-wheel- or all-wheel-drive. Both use Volvo's continuously variable transmission (CVT)—Volvo is owned by Ford—which is not limited to four- or six-speeds but instead uses computers to automatically shift gears. This can take some getting used to, because there is no noticeable upshift or downshift while driving.
What's best about the car is the fact that it has clearly been designed with families in mind. The interior is intelligently laid out to provide plenty of storage room—granted, when the third-row seats are in use, the cargo capacity shrinks dramatically—and head- and legroom.
The third row, however, is actually fairly roomy and is available as a full bench or a 50-50 split standard on the Limited version and as an option on the SEL.
One of the things Ford does best is putting together a dashboard that's simple and easy to use. Buttons are big and easily reachable. All the controls are clearly and intelligently marked. There are no hieroglyphs or mystery initials that leave drivers scratching their heads. The radio controls work beautifully, the optional satellite navigation—which adds a little under $2,000 to the sticker—is clear and straightforward. Even the rear-seat DVD entertainment system—an additional $1,000—which, on some cars, practically requires a degree from Cal Tech to figure out, is so simple even a child can use it (as my children did).
Buy It or Bag It? Because the Freestyle is still so new, it hasn't yet been rated in terms of reliability by any of the major groups, such as Consumer Reports or J.D. Power & Associates—which, like BusinessWeek.com is a division of McGraw-Hill (MHP). However, since it was introduced, there have been no recalls issued for the 2005 or 2006 models, which is a good sign.
Even better, it has been rated by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and scored well on both front- and rear-impact tests. While no tests have been done on side impact, one bit of good news is that for the 2007 model, Ford has upgraded the side-impact bags and curtains from optional to standard features.
The main selling point of the Freestyle, in our book at any rate, is its versatility. Thanks to its three rows of seats, it can accommodate up to seven passengers in relative comfort, or you can fold the seats down and jam it full with cargo. That's a good thing, and parents across the country will appreciate this intelligent use of space.
In terms of fuel economy, as mentioned above, the Freestyle also scores pretty well. As is always the case, front-wheel drive outperforms the more expensive all-wheel drive (just as manual transmission invariably offers better gas mileage than automatic transmission), with 20 mpg city and 27 highway and 19 city and 24 highway, respectively. That places it behind small SUVs like the Subaru Outback, Toyota RAV4, and even the Ford Escape, but none of these offer the same seating capacity.
The base front-wheel-drive SEL model starts at $26,270, making it very competitive with models such as the Toyota Highlander, Chrysler Pacifica, Mitsubishi Endeavor, and Honda Pilot. The SEL AWD starts at $28,120, and the top-of-the-line Limited AWD weighs in at $31,405—fully loaded with DVD system, satellite nav, and other goodies, the total is more than $37,000.
That's pretty expensive for a family car—especially a Ford. Sure, the Infiniti FX, Cadillac SRX, and Lexus RX 350 all cost a lot more, but these are, after all, luxury brands, with the fit, finish, and performance to match. Ford is an everyman's brand, and it's possible that one of the reasons why sales have been so sluggish is because the price seems so high. People might be willing to shell out that kind of cash for a Lexus, but not a Ford.
The question is, what do you need a car for? This is an increasingly competitive segment of the auto market, made even more so by the rising cost of gas and the disfavor in which big SUVs now find themselves. If you're more concerned about style and performance, you might want to look somewhere else. Because, like we said at the beginning of this review, it comes so close. But if you need a practical, versatile family car that can haul both kids and stuff in safety and comfort, then check out a Freestyle.
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Saving Souls was initiated due to the alarming amount of homeless dogs in the valley. Knowing that hundreds are put down every month due to overcrowding made us want to do more. Chihuahua and Pittie mixes are two of the most frequent breeds PTS in the Phoenix area because of over population and media driven misconceptions. Saving Souls aim is to educate future adopters about the importance of altering pets and shatter misplaced misconceptions.
Exposure, instruction, and education are key components to ensure dogs stay in permanent homes and no longer continue to circulate the system. We are committed to rehabilitate our dogs by introducing structure, calm-assertive energy, and companionship. Our dogs are re-introduced into the home environment where they are given the time they need to grow and heal. With our program and your support we can end the vicious cycle.
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Every Friday, Rentping Media publishes a round-up of great articles from around the internet relating to apartment marketing. This week we have something for everyone with a huge variety of articles. Enjoy!
- "A History of Social Media [Infographic]." From Copyblogger, a fascinating timeline that traces the timeline of social media, all the way from the first email and Usenet to Google+ and Pinterest.
- "Google: A Single Tweak Won't Boost Your Search Rankings." The biggest mistakes people make on SEO come down to efforts to find the silver bullet to launch their website into search engine orbit. Single changes don't work--real SEO progress comes only by a long process that takes a lot of knowledge, experience, and work.
- "Rumor Says Facebook May Create Classified Ads--Again." Facebook has tried in the past to provide classified ad services to its users, and now it sounds like they are starting up the process again. This could be good news for apartment marketers, although it sounds as though Facebook might charge for posting ads.
- "How To Outrank the Competition in YouTube Search & Summary of Important YouTube Changes." From ReelSEO, a breakdown of changes coming through YouTube's search algorithm. The gist is that YouTube is now factoring in engagement of videos (how long people actually watch the videos) in how they rank the videos in searches.
- "A Crash Course in Conversion." How do you get the traffic to your website actually to convert into qualified leads and leases? Unbounce has a great guide here.
Google AdWords for Apartments:
- "Dynamic Search Ads (DSA) in Google AdWords - How Your Technical SEO Problems Just Impacted Your SEM Campaigns." From GSQi, a fascinating (but advanced) look at Google's Dynamic Search Ads and how your websites SEO can affect your performance.


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A Melbourne-born priest is revolutionising the public face of the Catholic Church in Britain and giving new meaning to the term Big Brother.
Father Christopher Jamison, 53, abbot of a small Benedictine monastery in West Sussex, lives with two dozen men in the sanctuary of the church.
But he has become a British TV star in the past fortnight after allowing BBC cameras to film for 40 days and 40 nights, and follow five men undergoing the preliminary stages of induction.
The resultant series, The Monastery, now reaches 2.5 million viewers a night, in an unprecedented exposure of monastic life.
Speaking to The Sunday Age at a cafe near Westminster Abbey, Father Christopher is repeatedly approached by fans.
"I'm one of Her Majesty the Queen's royal vergers," says one young man. "And I just wanted to say, great show."
It is like being in Mick Jagger's company, although - as the abbot modestly says - "our fan bases are a bit different".
Worth Abbey, where Father Christopher has lived for 30 years, is one of Britain's more contemporary monasteries. But there were members of the community who were startled when he proposed the move into TV.
"They were worried that it was going to turn into what I call Carry on up the Cloister," he says.
"In some ways, a monastery is like a wildlife sanctuary: you need to protect the wildlife, but allow visitors at the same time. Television is a very good way of doing that, because you can share this spiritual ecosystem with 2.5 million people, when there are only two (camera) people there."
The Monastery is merely the latest and most visible of Father Christopher's attempts to open monastic life to the lay community, and to offer a spiritual sanctuary to the troubled or curious.
Apart from residential retreats at the abbey, Father Christopher has co-founded an organisation called Soul Gym, which runs ethics workshops for business leaders.
Born in Melbourne in 1951 to Australian parents, he moved to London as a child. He was educated at Oxford University, reading French and Spanish, travelled widely in South America and became increasingly interested in the spiritual way of life.
Father Christopher spent part of 1973 as a jackaroo on a Queensland cattle station, a line of work that involved several unpriestly pursuits, including the castration of calves.
"They didn't actually get me to lop their balls off, but I did have to tackle the things. And they kick like you wouldn't believe," he says.
Bucking expectations that he would follow his father and three brothers into a career in business, Father Christopher returned to Britain in late 1973, moved into Worth Abbey, entered the novitiate and has lived there since.
"Some people get to 21 and develop itchy feet," he says. "I was brought up travelling, but when I got to 21, I wanted to stand still."
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No need to look to the stars for Astrologian help in Bravely Second, just this guide!
Astrologian is a very good support Job in Bravely Second. This mostly comes from the Job's specialty, which makes support abilities activate at the start of their turn. They also cover a wide array of support magic, go beyond the stat limit, and even makes them last longer!
If you want a support magic Job, Astrologian should be at the top of your list, no matter what you plan to do.
You unlock Astrologian after defeating Norzen in Al-Khampis in chapter 1.
Prescience makes Astrologian the ideal magic support Job, even if you aren't selecting it as your main Job. You will want to use whichever support spells you want as soon as you can, since they activate at the start of the turn.
They have a decent INT and MND and can use Rods or Staves well, so it is a good idea to pick this as your main Job if you plan to use it all. The reason being that you won't have to use up 2 slots for their support ability.
You will want to save at least 1 extra BP whenever you can so you can add the Blast spellcraft effect to your spells. Adding your effects to all party members really helps, and lets you use certain spells on multiple people that you wouldn't be able to usually.
That does it for my Bravely Second Astrologian Job guide. Let me know if you have any questions and visit by Beginner Tips and Tricks for more help with this game!


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'Madras Cafe' Tweet Review: First day, first show
The movie, which is set against the backdrop of Sri Lankan civil war, revolves around the subject of terrorism.
New Delhi: Filmmaker Shoojit Sircar and actor-turned-producer John Abraham wowed their detractors and fans for a light-hearted take on the issue of sperm donation in the National award- winning film 'Vicky Donor'.
The director-producer duo is back with another film, 'Madras Cafe', which has been making headlines for its so-called controversial content.
The movie, which is set against the backdrop of Sri Lankan civil war, revolves around the serious subject of terrorism and shows how the protagonist is caught in the political turmoil.
John Abraham plays an investigation officer, who is appointed by the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) to carry out hidden operations against the backdrop of the Sri Lankan Civil War. And Nargis Fakhri, who made her Bollywood debut with 'Rockstar' will be seen as a war correspondent.
Unlike the formulaic Bollywood projects, Shoojit offers a film which is new in its genre and subject even to the viewers. While Shoojit is popular for experimenting with the issues in his films, it is yet to seen if the viewers will accept 'Madras Cafe', considering it belongs to a different genre.
Will the 'espionage thriller' as Shoojit calls 'Madras Cafe', find several takers? Will John's film, which has been mired in controversies for its striking resemblance to real political events associated with civil war and the ideas of a rebel group, repeat the success of 'Vicky Donor'?
Divya Pal of IBNlive.com is inside the theatre to find out more.
10:04 AM: Shoojit Sircar's much talked about film #MadrasCafe releases today. Stay tuned for the tweet review of the film.
10:08 AM: After the success of 'Vicky Donor', John Abraham teams up with Shoojit Sircar for #MadrasCafe.
10:09 AM: John Abraham's look in the first shot is both shocking and impressive. #madrascafe
10:12 AM: Hum apne Prime Minister ko bacha sakte they, says John in #MadrasCafe
10:17 AM: Siddharth Basu makes his acting debut in #MadrasCafe. He is sedate, cerebral and stylish.
10:20 AM: In his film 'Yahaan', #MadrasCafe's Shoojit Sircar had addressed the issue of insurgency.
10:22 AM: John essays the role of an investigation officer in #MadrasCafe. It is different, striking and challenging
10:23 AM: Nargis Fakhri has worked hard to do justice to her role as a journalist in #MadrasCafe
10:32 AM: #MadrasCafe is gritty, fast-paced and gripping. In one sequence, Nargis Fakhri smokes, sans any warning being flashed on the screen!
10:48 AM: Whether it is Nargis Fakhri's dialogues or accent, every bit is almost flawless in #MadrasCafe
10:59 AM: Will #MadrasCafe re-launch Nargis Fakhri? We think, it will.
11:25 AM: The background score in #MadrasCafe has been paid great attention to.
11:29 AM: Through #Madras Cafe, Shoojit Sircar has created the time and genre of Sri Lankan civil war, which is certainly not an easy job.
11:45 AM: John Abraham combats all challenges and emerges as a winner in #MadrasCafe.
11:49 AM: The unconventional soundtrack supports the theme of #MadrasCafe.
11:51 AM:The team of #Madras Cafe may have earned the wrath of Tamil activists groups, but the viewers find the film convincing.
12:02 PM: Celebrate Diwali exile Rama coming home - the terror message has been decoded in #MadrasCafe.
12:12 PM: All those who thought Nargis Fakhri's efforts were wasted in 'Rockstar', would be surprised to discover the real actor in her through #MadrasCafe
12:13 PM: We agree with John who, while urging the people of Chennai to support his film, had said #Madras Cafe is a credible film.
12:15 PM: The usage of real bullets in sync sound leaves an indelible impact, it does bring authenticity to the film #MadrasCafe.
12:20 PM: Sun le re in #MadrasCafe is a soulful track. In a nutshell, this political thriller is a must watch.
12:22 PM: Thanks for being with us throughout the tweet review of #MadrasCafe. Stay tuned for more movie updates.
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Welcome to the Quilting Board!
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That is one terrific quilt. She will LOVe it.
Very Cheery indeed. :)
One of my favorite color combinations...you did good! Your great-niece will love it for years to come.
Very pretty. I really like the bright colours. Great job.
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Lovely I-spy. You did a fabulous job and the colors are awesome!
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tree roots raising block wall/loosening mortar
tree roots raising block wall and loosening mortar
I thought I would start over and get all the information included.I am in sunny southern california. Orange County near Disneyland.I am talking about block walls that seperate outdoor backyards.My neighbor has some plants/trees he is going to take out now that I showed him what his roots are doing.These are skinny trees with maybe 1" roots all over the place. My walls have 8" wide pilasters with 4" wide blocks crossing a 15' span between pilasters. The roots have raised the wall 1". The roots have worked their way between the 7th course and 8th course if you are counting from the top to the bottom.The 7th and 8th course are actually filled with dirt for the plantars when everything is buttoned up.As you can imagine we have original loose mortar still is place but the gaps have widened.I am starting to see into his backyard through the gaps between some of the blocks in different rows. And the 7th course is moving it's way into my yard slowly from the force of so many roots growing and pushing in my direction. Meaning the 7th row is no longer sitting exactly on top of the 8th row.I am thinking there is no quick fix here. If someone says I have to take the wall apart and reset the blocks with wet mortar then will someone tell me an easy way to remove the blocks without breaking them.I imagine I just have to keep the blocks in order,clean off the old mortar and then reset them. The wall was built in 1965 and I dont know if I can even get the same color block anymore.Any ideas? Thanks
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Pawl, posting a picture or two would really help so we can see what you see.
I will post some pictures. Just waiting for the sun to come out. Thanks for the suggestion. I will hopefully have them on here by 8am PST or sooner. Thanks
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No problem, make sure one of them is standing back showing the entire area.:thumbsup:
posting pictures
I post pictures on lots of other things on other sites but for some reason it won't allow me to post here. It keeps saying upload failed. I don't think my pics are too big. I will keep trying
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Hi Pawl, looks like your in my neck of the woods, Orange County born & bred.
Here is a (bad) PDF (jpg now) from the city of Orange on block walls, I believe that 4" wide block is no longer accepted as a block wall in California anymore.
This should be acceptable in Anaheim also but that should be checked out.
They may let you fix the wall but 4" block is very difficult to come by around here anymore and you are likely to ruin some block no matter how careful you are in removing them.
Might get luck though, try a using rubber mallet or a two pound dead-blow hammer striking against a 3/4" piece of ply. That will take a while so don't over swing the mallet.
Actually, here is a link to the city of Anaheim Building department and a PDF of the block wall and pilaster they accept.
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tinypic.com works great until I go to paste then I get an error message in the reply box
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What file type and size are you trying to post?
This wall is the one between my next door neighbor and me. The front of our houses face the west. The portion of wall in question is the north wall. So the right side of the wall in question is the pilaster that 4 neighbors share.Meaning if you were looking down from above it would look like a plus sign in addition and subtraction.So you would have 4" block mortared into this pilaster to take care of the 4 backyards.
So in my yard 15' to the left of that pilaster is the other pilaster. Between those pilasters are 9 blocks in each row. 90% of the mortar is still intact on all the joints. But as we all know any movement is going to affect the stability.It is no where close to leaning. But the roots on my neighbors side need to be cut to stop growth and movement immediately. I have seen walls that are much much worse then what I am dealing with.If I was able to dismantle this wall and re mortar it we would be fine. It is taking it apart that will be the problem especially being told here I can't get the 4' block anymore. So we are talking about taking 72 blocks off and putting them back. I have done brick planters before and I am retired so time is not a problem
I am not sure how to determine file size. But I took my pictures with my Canon digital camera. This is the 1st time I have not been able to post these pictures. I use this camera all the time and post to my friends and such. It just says it failed to upload my photo. And yes
I did read how to post on here.
You cant copy & paste onto this forum, much less any v-bulletin run forum I've run into.
You need to re-read the post Ron provided and choose the resized picture from your files as an attachment.
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If you are talking about the 10 steps that walk me thru posting pics then I got to step 6 and clicked on upload and this is what happens.>>>
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I dont get to step 7 and after that I am stuck.
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Charlotte, NC (March 13, 2007) – Continental Tire North America, Inc. (CTNA) introduces the all-new Altimax™ Powerline series, the new flagship tire General Tire. Altimax is evidence of General Tire's evolution and CTNA's revitalization efforts for the brand, as well as the company's ongoing commitment to General Tire's legacy of meeting the needs of a broad range of consumers.
Two new models, the Altimax HP and Altimax RT, will bow in the second quarter of 2007. The Altimax HP balances technology and design to produce an all-season tire for today's high performance sport coupes and sedans. The Altimax RT is a stylish touring tire that supplies a smooth, comfortable ride without compromising treadwear.
"The new General Tire Altimax Powerline is targeted to a wide range of today's consumers; consumers who demand a brand they can trust, and also one that remains proactive in technology to ensure the highest level of product performance and quality," said Travis Roffler, Director of Marketing, CTNA.
"This re-commitment to the General Tire brand uses an all new Quad-Tech technology, which provides a combination of reliability, comfort, traction and long tread life," Roffler added.
The innovative Quad-Tech features include:
Also, available exclusively on the Altimax HP tire, is Replacement Tire Monitor Technology (RTM). RTM, a stamp imprinted on the center rib of the tire, reads "Replacement Tire Monitor" when new. As the tread of the tire wears away, the stamp changes to read "Replace Tire," a graphic alert to consumers that a tire change is needed based on tread wear. Both tires are currently available in a wide range of popular 13- through 18-inch sizes. By the end of 2007, the Altimax HP/RT line will include nearly 60 sizes encompassing T, H, and V speed ratings, and aspect ratios from 70 to 40 series.
For more information visit www.generaltire.ca. General Tire, part of Continental Tire North America, Inc., (www.continentaltire.com), based in Charlotte, North Carolina, is a group company of Germany-based Continental Corporation, a leading supplier of brake systems, chassis components, vehicle electronics, tires and technical elastomers. In 2005 the corporation realized sales of EUR 13.8 billion (USD 17.2 billion). At present it has a worldwide workforce of about 85,000.
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Opening The Old Testament
Transformative Transfiguration: Reflections on Exodus 24:12-18
Lectionary Reflections: Year A
March 6, 2011
Exodus 24:12-18
It is no surprise that this mysterious passage has been chosen by the framers of the common lectionary to accompany the equally mysterious passage from the New Testament, Matthew 17:1-9. Both experiences occur on mountains, both involve the prophet and lawgiver of Israel, Moses, both have something to do with divine revelation and its importance for God's people. I leave to others a fuller explanation of the delightfully strange happenings on Matthew's mountain, where Peter's construction interests are met with clouds, divine voices, and fear. On Exodus' sacred mountain of Sinai, picnics are interrupted by the living presence of Israel's own YHWH.
Exodus 24 is usually identified as a portion of material among the oldest in the Bible, the so-called "Holiness Code." Within chapters 21-24 is found ancient case law, preceded in chapter 20 by one version of the most famous series of laws of all, the Ten Commandments. It has long been believed that the book of Exodus is a large collection of traditions that may span as much as 1,000 years or more. These chapters are among the oldest of them.
One question the chapters attempt to answer is: who has the right to worship God in God's most sacred place? The clear answer to that question is the great Moses. However, he is not found alone in his confrontations with YHWH on the mountain, even though 24:2 states clearly that "Moses alone shall come near YHWH; the others shall not come near, and the people shall not come up with him." But despite that warning, spoken by YHWH, 24:9 announces that "Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders went up,..." Just who are these who go up the mountain with Moses to meet with YHWH? Aaron is seen in one tradition to be Moses' brother, but that is by no means his only designation. Later in Exodus 32, Aaron will appear as a very bad man indeed, building his famous molten calf of gold, and when confronted by Moses about the deed, lies directly in the lawgiver's face (32:24)! Nadab and Abihu have distinct priestly connections, and seem here to be confidants of Moses. Yet, in Leviticus 10:1, they are said to "offer unholy (sometimes translated 'strange') fire to YHWH." As a result of this cultic faux pas, a fire falls from the sky and consumes both of them. These astonishing priestly deaths move Moses to turn to Aaron and offer him an interpretation of some poetic words YHWH once spoke: "Through those who are near me I will show myself holy, and before all people I will be glorified" (Lev.10:3). Among other thoughts that fly into my mind at this scene, I think I might perhaps take more seriously my own cultic actions as minister. I might even cast a quick glance upward as I consecrate the elements at my next communion celebration hoping my own actions are not somehow strange.
Indeed, mystery surrounds and interpenetrates this whole scene, because 24:10 says something very rarely said in the Hebrew Bible, if at all: "and they saw the God of Israel." Amazing! So often in the tradition, to see God is to die; God is in one Psalm said to "hide Godself" from us (Ps. 89:46). But here, quite boldly, Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and the 70 elders "saw YHWH." And there is even a brief description of what they see. "Under God's feet there was something like a pavement of sapphire stones, like the very heaven for clearness" (so NRSV), but perhaps more literally, "as clear as the sky." And just in case the reader cannot quite believe that these ancient worthies are actually looking at the Almighty, vs.11 states "God did not lay a hand on the chief men of the people of Israel; yet they beheld ("envisioned, saw mysteriously") God, and they ate and drank." This is perhaps the first divine picnic portrayed in the tradition.
John C. Holbert is the Lois Craddock Perkins Professor Emeritus of Homiletics at Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, TX.
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A Guide to the Hidden Wisdom of Kabbala HTML version
Chapter 9: The Language of
Kabbalists: Branches
Part I
When we think or feel something and wish to convey it to someone else so
that he may feel it too, we use words. There is a general consensus in the
use of words and their meanings; when we call something "sweet," the other
person immediately understands what we mean since he imagines the same
taste. Yet how closely does his conception of sweet match ours? How can we
best communicate our feelings while still using words?
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 9
The feelings of Kabbalists are above our level. Nevertheless, they wish to
convey to us their wonder at things that have no meaning for us. They do
this through means taken from our world: often words, sometimes music
notes, and on occasion, by other means.
Kabbalists write about their experiences and feelings in the upper worlds.
They write about the higher forces and what they discover there. They write
for other Kabbalists, since the interaction of studies between them is so
essential and so fruitful. Their writings are then extended to those who
haven't yet sensed spirituality, for those whose spirituality is still hidden.
Part II
Since there are no words in the spiritual world to describe their spiritual
feelings, Kabbalists call these experiences branches, a word taken from our
world. Therefore the language used in books on Kabbalah is called the
language of branches. It is a language that borrows words from our world
and uses them to identify spiritual experiences. Since everything in the
spiritual world has an equivalent in the physical world, each root of the
spiritual world has a name and the name of its branch. And because we
cannot describe our feelings precisely and do not know how to measure or
compare them, we use all kinds of auxiliary words to help.
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I am new to posting but have been reading for a long time.
I am redoing a 16x24 pole barn in nothern Michigan (heavy snow loads). Here is my problem: I want to put in a ridge beam, 2x10, to span 24ft with no center poles so my rafters would be 2x6 16 o.c. and span half the building width approx 8' and my collar ties (if that is the proper name????) would be 2x4 @ 1/3 height of the 6/12 pitch measured down from the peak. Will this work? Is it over or under engineered?????
The 2003 I-code requires the ridge to be supported like a beam if the rafters are not tied at the plateline (ceiling joists) at 48" o.c. to resist the walls thrusting outward under roof load. Not sure if that changed in 2006 however.
A 2x10 will not span 24', or even close to that under the loads you're dealing with. You're under-engineered I'm afraid.
If I tie the rafters together at the top plate every 48", Ithould be fine for the outward load on the walls? As far as the ridge beam what about a 2x12??
By tying the rafters together tail-to-tail across the building, you really minimize the load on the ridge. A structure that is tied at the plateline could (technically) be framed without a ridge at all, because the ties resist the ability of the ridge to move downward and thrust the walls outward.
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Dems plans bad for pharma
Currently, the overwhelming focus of the candidates' plans is centered on insurance reform that will bring the uninsured into the covered category. Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama went to great lengths to create comprehensive plans that touched on issues beyond insurance, notably into pharmaceutical market reforms in key domains that proponents hope will drive down costs.
Considering cost, there is a perception that higher costs in healthcare are directly attributable, at least in part, to the cost of Rx drugs. To address that problem, a number of proposals, in a democratic future, would have a real chance at becoming policy. First, and most direct, is the infringement on pharmaceutical marketing. This could come in the form of a ban, such as that proposed by Edwards, on DTC advertising for the first few years. Because marketing costs are perceived as such a huge portion of overhead for pharmaceutical companies, the inhibition of DTC, it is thought, would logically lead to a reduction in cost. He positioned safety as a consideration for curbing DTC.
Marketing curtailments also appear at the state level, with proposals to restrict the sale of prescription data to pharmaceutical companies. It is not inconceivable that a national statute could be proposed and gain support.
The other two domains that impact pharmaceutical marketing will be importation and Medicare Part D reform. You may see proposals allowing the federal government to negotiate pricing for the Part D formulary, the object of which is to drive costs down. While Part D reform tends to cut across party lines—with Democrats favoring reform and Republicans, especially Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee, trending toward allowing the market to establish standards—importation is an issue that candidates on both sides of the aisle have favored. For example, John McCain backs importation to drive down costs, while Giuliani cites it as a safety risk. It is notable that Giuliani Partners, his consulting firm, represents large pharmaceutical interests, making stands against company positions unlikely.
Republican-backed proposals are much more goal-oriented than the process-oriented Democrats. But there is little doubt that a Democratic win in November would result not only in significant insurance reform but in a great push to bring generics to market more quickly, create a negotiation process for Part D, establish a regulatory pathway for follow-on-biologics that may not be very protective of intellectual property and an overall curtailment of DTC and other marketing practices, as well as a real drive to create mechanisms for the importation of drugs, thereby creating new competition to push prices down.
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We are expanding to a new location, and this is my first time interviewing, as an executive chef, and I dont know where to begin in asking the first question? need Inputs> thanks Fellows!!
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I have a walk around the centre, grab an ice smoothie from Wendys in the air conditioned mall (joy). Then its off tp the Global Gossip internet cafe for a major catch up. Although the guys had agreed to meet there at midday (I rolled in at 2pm) it later transpired they had not bothered, choosing the internet at the hostel instead.
After a pleasant coffee at The Bluegrass restaurant I wander back to the hostel ready for Macka to pick me up again
We stay here for food and final goodbyes for most of us. Hartmut is missing but I will see him on my flight tomorrow. After a bargain meal (Camel Pasta, $5) and a few beers, this time punctuated with the odd coke, its all over. The slower tempo music ushers us outside at 11.30pm.
I walk Gail back to her resort - crossing the river at night is a bit dodgy for a single guy let alone girl. En route my phone chimes, and it's Teddy, finally texting me. Typical - she has only just seen my email. After dropping Gail off I text her back suggesting a quick coffee now as I won't have time in the morning before I leave. So I'm then waiting on Todd Street outside a closed Bojangles, and dodging the zombie like Abos, off their heads, and swaggering about me. I keep moving and try to pull as hard a stare as I can muster.
Teddy and her boyfriend Scott arrive 5 minutes later and its back to theirs in the car for quick beer and catch up
They drive me back at 2am and we promise to meet up if in Bulgaria at the same time, Teddy tries to get home twice a year if possible - a staggering 50 hour door to door journey via London. At the hostel its an earlier arrival than last night but I'm confronted by a double locked chain, that wasn't there before. There is a caged guard dog going mental. Oh crap looks like I'm locked out. But with Scott's help I'm over the fence, through the shrubs, past any associated deadly spiders lurking there, and back in my room. So now I'm learning the craft of how to break and enter property.


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New Zealand has emerged as a force in the world of snowboarding.
Auckland's Christy Prior, 24, has led the way for the women in slopestyle, climbing to No4 in the world. And she now has company.
Two other Kiwis, Wanaka's Stefi Luxton, 21, and Ohakune's Shelly Gotlieb, 33, are ranked sixth and 13th respectively in the discipline. Add in Te Puke's Rebecca "Possum" Torr, 23, who is No41 on the world rankings and the Kiwi pro riders have depth in the razzle-dazzle winter sport. They can't wait to put on a show on home turf in the annual Winter Games in Wanaka to show "how amazing we are at our sport". We caught up with Gotlieb, Luxton and Torr to talk about their day job which is all about having fun.
Q: How did you first get into snowboarding?
SG: I grew up in a ski town and was fortunate enough to have parents who got me into the snow sports. I skied for a long time and then got into snowboarding in my teens and never looked back.
SL: I grew up in Wanaka so having mountains in my backyard was definitely the biggest influence on my snowboarding. I skied until I was around 14 then switched to snowboarding and have been doing it ever since.
RT: As a family we used to go down to Ruapehu once or twice a year to go skiing, my brothers and sisters switched to snowboarding one year and I since I'm the youngest, I wanted to do everything they did so I naturally made the transition.
Q: What is the art of slopestyle?
SG: Slopestyle is a creative discipline. Each course or park changes and you get to put your style and skills into each run you do. To be good at slopestyle you need to adapt to the environment while having the most fun and doing the hardest tricks you can ... with style.
SL: Make sure you're having the most fun.
RT: To learn to enjoy and manage the fear.
Q: What are your favourite tricks to perform?
SG: I love to jump so anything in the air is my favourite. I love to back flip, it's great to be upside down ... and if you're lucky twice around.
SL: Back 7 [Backside 720 - trick where the rider spins 720 degrees, or two full rotations].
RT: My favourite trick at the moment is a switch front-side 720. The best thing about what we do is the freedom to change your favourite tricks and learn new ones.
Q: NZ has three snowboarders in the top 13 in the world, why are we so good at slopestyle?
SG: We have great facilities. Cardrona has a great slopestyle course so I can learn and develop my tricks every day I ride. I grew up riding Mt Ruapehu so I have an element of extreme in me. I love the terrain and jumping off things so it's natural I turned into a slopestyle rider.
SL: We base ourselves in Wanaka in the winter and Breckenridge [Colorado] in the summer so snowboarding year round definitely helps. Also, the support we get from the team is awesome.
RT: We are lucky in NZ to have amazing facilities so accessible. We all started doing what we do because we are passionate about it and this is why we continue to do it.
Q: Do you guys train and compete together to push each other? Are you really competitive?
SG: We are lucky to have an amazing group of girls who are the snowboard slopestyle riders. We are great friends, ride, train, party, compete and have fun together. I'd say we are competitive but not against each other, more against ourselves. I always want to do the best I can and am hard on myself if I don't reach my goals, regardless of where I or others place, I just want to walk away happy.
SL: We ride together pretty much every day helping one another out. The competitive side of it doesn't get to our friendship. We just support each other on and off snow ... it's cool.
RT: I think we work together so well because we are all great friends and love to ride together, we are all genuinely stoked for each other when we each succeed and we are all motivated by each other when we are pushing it and doing well. There is friendly competition between us but at the end of the day it's an individual sport and it's up to the individual alone to perform.
Q: How often do you train and what do you do?
SG: I usually only have a few months off the snow a year so I pretty much live in endless winter. I ride/train daily and have as much fun while progressing as we can.
SL: I snowboard so often just because I love it. I usually ride five-six days a week not because I have to but because I want to.
RT: I ride every day the weather is co-operating. I'm just stoked to go out there and do what I love every day. I also train a lot in the gym to keep fit and strong to avoid injuries as much as possible.
Q: What is it like competing in a Winter Games on home snow?
SG: Winter Games is always a fun event. Cardrona always put on an awesome competition and it's great to have the New Zealand media attention so "non-snow" people get a chance to see what we do and how amazing we are at our sport.
SL: It's really exciting having support from the home town. Hopefully I can do everyone proud.
RT: I'm super excited to compete here at home. I'm stoked to have the home crowd behind us supporting the Kiwis. It's also super fun to have all our competitors from all over the world here to ride with us on our home turf. The course is world-class and definitely one of the best courses we have come across on the World Cup circuit.
Q: What are your long-term goals in the sport?
SG: I always want to be progressing - bettering myself while having the most fun. I will always have my eyes on the podium at every event I attend but the Olympics are where I'm definitely looking to be standing in 2014.
SL: I like competing at this stage so I'll probably do that for a while. X Games, Olympics, Dew tour, US Open etc.
RT: I want to see what I can do to push myself every day. I want to take every opportunity that comes along. And I definitely want one of those medals [laughs]. But most of all I want to inspire people to go after it and chase their dreams.
Q: What advice do you offer to young women looking to get into snowboarding?
SG: Give it a go! Ride with people that are better than you, you will learn so much and it's great for your riding to have to keep up with the group. Don't feel bad if you're slow, soon you will be ripping around with the rest of them.
SL: Snowboarding can take you to so many amazing places so get out there and do it. You never know what can happen.
RT: Have fun! Try something new every day and if you put your mind to it you can do it.
When: Tomorrow-Monday
Where: Cardrona Alpine Resort, Wanaka, Queenstown Lakes, Otago
For more information visit: www.wintergamesnz.com
Women's world rankings
1. Sarka Pancochova (CZE)
2. Jamie Anderson (USA)
3. Silje Norendal (NOR)
4. Christy Prior (NZL)
5. Spencer O'Brien (CAN)
6. Stefi Luxton (NZL)
7. Enni Rukajarvi (FIN)
8. Silvia Mittermuller (GER)
9. Kjersti Ostgaard Buaas (NOR)
10. Ty Walker (USA)
11. Aimee Fuller (GBR)
12. Karly Shorr (USA)
13. Shelly Gotlieb (NZL)
41. Rebecca Torr (NZL)
Winter Games
When: August 15-25
Where: The international resorts of Coronet Peak, Cardrona Alpine Resort and Snow Farm, along with the Maniototo Curling International Rink.


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BeschreibungA balanced introduction to tomorrow's energy sources Over the course of the next fifty years, there will be a shift in the quest for sustainble energy, including a major change in transportation from internal combustion engines burning petroleum-derived fuels to newer technology engines using new transportation fuels. Alternative Energy Reources examines our options for energy sources with a focus on hydrogen as a large-scale, secondary energy vector parallel to electricity. As the price of petroleum products increases, the world is scrambling to find a suitable replacement energy source. In this comprehensive primer, Professor Paul Kruger examines energy use throughout history and the exponential expansion of our energy use beginning with the Industrial Revolution through the present day. The book then analyzes the various alternative energy sources available, including renewable energy (hydroelectric, solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal), nuclear, and hydrogen. He addresses each energy source's pros and cons based on our needs, availability, and environmental impact aspects. Finally, Dr. Kruger proposes the use of hydrogen as a fuel to sustain our energy supply produced by appropriate technology mixtures of renewable and nuclear energy.
1. Human Ecology on Spaceship Earth.
1.0 Introduction.
1.1 Development of Human Ecology.
1.2 Summary.
2. The Unending Quest for Abundant Energy.
2.0 Historic Perspective.
2.1 Characteristics of an Industrial Nation.
2.2 Exponential Growth Dynamics.
2.3 Current Growth in Energy Consumption.
2.4 Summary.
3. The Fossil Fuel Era.
3.0 Historic Perspective.
3.1 Fossil Fuels.
3.2 Forecast of U.S. Energy Consumption thru 2025.
3.3 How Long Will Fossil Fuels Last?.
3.4 Growth of Fossil Fuel Demand for Generation of Electricity.
3.5 Summary.
4. Sustainability of Energy Resources.
4.0 Sustainable Economic Development.
4.1 Sustainability of Electric Energy Demand.
4.2 Natural Gas in Sustainable Energy Supply.
4.3 Natural Gas Commitment for Electric Power Generation.
4.4 Sustainability of Natural Gas as an Energy Resource.
4.5 Non-Fossil Energy Resources.
4.6 Summary.
5. Environmental Impact of Energy Consumption.
5.0 Historic Perspective.
5.1 Basics of Environmental Impact.
5.2 The Saga of the Greenhouse Effect.
5.3 Local Air Pollution from Automobile Exhaust.
5.4 Value of Air Quality Improvement in Transportation.
5.5 Some Data for the Los Angeles Air Basin.
5.6 Summary.
6. The Nuclear Energy Era.
6.0 Historic Perspective.
6.1 Basic Elements of Nuclear Science.
6.2 Basic Elements of Nuclear Power.
6.3 The OKLO Natural Nuclear Reactors.
6.4 Thermonuclear Fusion.
6.5 Summary.
7. Renewable Energy Resources.
7.0 Renewable Energy.
7.1 Hydroelectric Power.
7.2 Solar Energy.
7.3 Wind Energy.
7.4 Biomass Energy.
7.5 Other Renewable Resources.
7.6 Summary.
8. Hydrogen as an Energy Carrier.
8.0 Historic Perspective.
8.1 Hydrogen and Electricity as Parallel Energy Carriers.
8.2 The Hydrogen Energy Fuel Cycle.
8.3 Summary.
9. Hydrogen as a Transportation Fuel.
9.0 Historic Perspective.
9.1 Hydrogen Fuel Cells in Vehicle Transportation.
9.2 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles.
9.3 What More is Needed?.
9.4 Summary.
10. The Hydrogen Fuel Era.
10.0 Perspective of an Era.
10.1 Potential for Air Quality Improvement.
10.2 Modeling Health Benefit from Hydrogen Fuel Transportation.
10.3 Electric Energy Requirement for Hydrogen Fuel.
10.4 Prospects for the Future of Sustainable Energy Supply.
10.5 Wrap-Up.
10.6 Summary.
PortraitPAUL KRUGER is Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. He has worked in both industry and academia in the areas of energy and the environment.
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Cycle Skating: Roller Blading From The 1920's [Video]
Mark Twain the great writer and philosopher said, "Creativity is just undetected plagiarism". What he means is, there are no new ideas. There are only ideas that others have had that we just retooled and reworked into something maybe a little better.
When I was a kid roller skates had four wheels and you needed a skate key to tighten them around your shoe. Then came roller blades, the inline skates that so many people enjoy. But what was before the roller blade and the skate key? Perhaps it was cycle skating as seen in this 1920's era newsreel footage.
The idea is simple enough, maybe even better than today's in line skates. The wheel is large enough to allow for some off road riding which I guess was all you had to choose from in the 1920's. It looks pretty interesting, I just hope they won't be bringing it back and turning it in to an X-Games competition.
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CG's light as air for the base and Black polish for the design, taken without any topcoat.
I wanted to try some nail designs and thought of those brushstrokes, chinese fossils/painting sort of thing and came out with it. What do you think about this? Nice? Abstract-y? Ugly? Personally, i liked it alot though, so i'm a happy camper polisher :) If anyone wants tutorial for this, let me know.
Here's the tutorial for the brushstroke it look : http://teaplayground.onsugar.com/Tutorial-Brushstrokes-ombre-manicure-8946468