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A Beginner's Guide To Towing
Photography by Jerry Heasley
There comes a time in the evolution of every high performance car when driving it on the street isn't the best idea or even feasible. When you run all out at the track things can break. Then how do you get home?
The start of a restoration or project car seldom involves road worthy vehicles. The very definition of a restoration/project car is something far less than perfect. When these situations arise, it is trailer time. A car trailer isn't something you use on a daily basis, but they're sure great to have when needed.
If you've never bought a car trailer or towed before, this article is designed to get you headed down that road as effortlessly and safely as possible.
Your Truck Or Time To Shop?
If you already own a pickup truck, it may be sufficient for towing a basic flatbed open car trailer. Consult your owner's manual for your truck's tow ratings. Half-ton pickups are fine for basic towing, but compact pickups aren't generally recommended. Three-quarter ton and 1-ton trucks are best.
Trucks with factory tow packages are ideal. You can add aftermarket parts, but the factory tow packages are optimized for specific trucks. A frame-mounted receiver style trailer hitch is a must. People use bumper style hitches, but the receiver hitches are superior.
If you're purposely seeking a truck to tow a car trailer, bigger is better. While you shouldn't buy a trailer before you buy the truck it's good to know what size trailer you're most likely to get. It helps to trailer shop and take notes. Then you'll be able to match the truck's capabilities to the trailer.
Buying a new Ford truck for towing is as easy as it gets. Shop at a dealership known for high volume truck sales. They'll have staff that's well versed in helping you order a perfect truck.
Used Ford pickups are excellent values. Since the F-Series trucks are the most popular trucks in the world, the supply of used ones is immense. When buying a used truck, you can save big on accessories and options. The price differential (dollars and percentage of the total cost) between a used base model F-series and a totally loaded XLT Lariat is less than the percentage difference of those two trucks when they were new. You can get a lot more truck for your money used compared to buying that truck new.
2WD or 4WD, 4 Wheels or 6?
Two-wheel drive trucks are fine for towing. The biggest advantage (towing wise) for four-wheel drive trucks is if you tow other types of trailers, such as boat and snowmobile. When launching a boat on a wet, slippery ramp or trudging through snowdrifts to get to a snowmobile park, the extra driving axle is a most welcome addition.
On the multiple rear wheels question we're strongly in favor of dual rear wheels. For the same reason that car trailers have tandem axles (and four tires) having four tires on the truck's driving axle is a great safety feature.
Everything about a 1-ton dually pickup is bigger and stronger than a 1/2-ton pickup. Towing (especially long distances at highway speeds) puts added stress on a truck. The bigger and stronger the truck is, the easier it can handle the demands of towing.
A blown tire on either the tow vehicle or trailer is potentially very dangerous. Having the extra set of tires will give valuable piece of mind even if you never have a blowout. Don't skimp on tires. Also, make sure that both truck and trailer brakes are in top shape.
Some great news about used F-350 dually pickups is that they're often priced at or below comparable (year, mileage, options) ¾-ton and 1/2-ton pickups. These big rigs are thirsty at the gas pump; so many people don't want them for daily transportation.
The best deals are gas-powered 460-cid big-block trucks. One-ton duallys with small-block engines aren't a good choice. They work too hard under load and they're tough to resell.
Engines And Transmissions
Serious truck owners favor diesel engines. If you do lots of long distance hauling (especially in mountainous areas), a Power Stroke diesel is a tireless workhorse. The greater torque of a diesel and superior fuel economy are prime reasons for choosing one. The downside is the significantly higher initial cost. If you only tow occasionally, a 460-cid-gas engine is fine.
We've towed trailers with everything from a 289 small-block-powered '60s Ranchero (never again) to big-blocks and diesels. You simply can't beat the peace of mind that comes from towing with a big-block or a diesel in a 1-ton dually.
As for transmissions, there are advocates for both manuals and automatics. For beginners, automatics are far superior. The smoothness of an automatic outweighs any power maximization afforded by a manual transmission. The automatic should be equipped with an auxiliary cooler. A transmission temp gauge is a wise addition, because excessive heat is the mortal enemy of automatic transmissions. Any accessories that help keep engine and transmission temps in their standard operating range are money well spent. Excessive heat is a tow rig killer.
Open Or Enclosed Trailers
Open bed trailers are great for beginners and experienced haulers. They get the job done nicely, they're very affordable, and there is a strong market for used ones.
Buying a car trailer is a lot like buying your first collector or hobby car. You're bound to learn a lot during the process that will better prepare you for the second purchase. An attractively priced basic car trailer will handle all your occasional and local trailering needs. If this is all the trailering you do, you might not need anything fancier. If you get serious about racing, or travel long distances you'll eventually want to upgrade.
Two key elements of a car trailer are the quality of construction and how well it tracks. Inspect several trailers from different manufacturers. The lowest priced trailers have to save money somewhere and that can be in materials and construction methods. Go to races and car shows and ask people about their trailers.
A well-designed car trailer is one that tracks effortlessly. A good trailer is almost unnoticeable, but a trailer that wants to control the truck (instead of the other way around) and fights you will quickly exhaust you physically and mentally.
The least expensive open trailers have wood decks. A steel deck is better and an aluminum deck is even better, although aluminum trailers are much more costly. Trailers with just two tire tracks and an open center are fine for cars, but not versatile for non-automotive use.
A tilt-bed trailer is a plus for loading low cars and not having to deal with ramps. A trailer with a rollback bed is even nicer, but much costlier. Better quality trailers have the last couple feet of bed on a slant. This design is known as a beavertail or dovetail bed. The slant makes loading and unloading easier. An enclosed trailer is the easiest loading of all since the fold-down rear doors double as ramps. Those doors are very heavy so power doors are a big bonus.
Ramps for open trailers vary in design and length. Longer ramps are better for low cars. Solid ramps are easier to roll a non-running car up. Battery-powered 12-volt winches are inexpensive and great loading aids. A winch with a remote control is best.
A good trailer has four-wheel brakes. Some cheap trailers only have brakes on one axle. Trailer-specific wheels and tires are better than car wheels and tires.
Getting in and out of the car while loading can be a problem, especially with low cars. A hinged or removable left fender will give added clearance. On enclosed trailers a left side door is a welcome feature.
Enclosed car trailers can be found used for about two-to-three times the cost of a basic flatbed. Prices rise as size and features increase, but there are excellent deals on basic enclosed trailers.
An enclosed trailer can weigh substantially more than an open trailer so keep that in mind relative to your truck. Protection from the elements and their added security make enclosed trailers a good choice for only a couple thousand dollars extra cost.
Any trailer should have a substantial means of securing the car. Recessed D-rings are a good feature. Tie-down straps or chains are hooked to the rings and four corners of the car. If chains are used, chain binders tighten the chains. Cars need to be pulled very tight so they don't bounce at all. Tools, jacks, slicks, gas cans, and anything else you're carrying need a secure home. You don't want to lose things or damage your car.
Trailer hitches are classified by tongue weight ratings. The higher the number the more tongue weight it can handle. The tongue weight should be about 10 to 15 percent of the gross trailer weight (GTW). A class III or IV hitch is sufficient for most hobby type car trailers. If you don't have a hitch, consult a hitch specialist to get one suited for your trailer. Hitches aren't expensive, but they're the vital link between truck and trailer. Always use heavy-duty safety chains because hitch balls have been known to come loose.
There are also fifth wheel and gooseneck hitches that mount inside the pickup bed. Those hitches are for large enclosed car trailers and travel trailers. It's important that the trailer tongue be parallel to the road. There are adjustable hitches that are especially useful when towing with a 4x4 truck.
Safe, worry-free towing is a matter of carefully matching all the components to the load you want to tow.
The quicker your car gets, the more you're going to need a strong truck and sturdy trailer to transport it to and from the track. Fortunately, there are many outstanding F-Series trucks to making towing safe and worry-free.
A late-model F-350 crew cab dually with a Power Stroke diesel engine is an ideal tow truck. There is ample interior room for you and your friends, a full-size bed, and tons of torque to easily pull even large enclosed car trailers.
Prices for '80s and '90s 1-ton F-350 dually pickups are incredibly reasonable. Prices are best for 460-cid gas engine trucks. SuperCabs cost less than crew cabs, but they still have ample in-cab storage.
Excursions have a reputation as being rather thirsty, so prices for used ones can be surprisingly low. They make fine tow vehicles. With the third seat removed there is lots of room for cargo.
Car trailers come in all sizes. A massive semi trailer with cool Ford Racing graphics is nice if you have a professional racing team, but a solid deck tandem axle flatbed with a beavertail (also known as a dovetail) is a great starter trailer.
An enclosed trailer provides extra storage space and added security for your car and tools. An enclosed trailer also doubles as an extra garage stall at home.
It doesn't take a huge trailer to accommodate a Mustang. This trailer has ample space between the fenders so there's no risk of scratching the car. A solid deck is preferred due to its added versatility for carrying non-automotive cargo.
If you don't want to buy a trailer, you can resort to well-worn rental trailers. You never know how badly the last customer beat the trailer. We'd be reluctant to trust a valuable Mustang to one.
Here is a typical rental trailer problem.
This homemade trailer makes rental units look like concours winners. Homemade trailers can be very inexpensive, but they're rarely a good deal. Since this Mustang is being backed on to the trailer it suggests a problem with the tongue weight. Cars are almost always loaded nose first.
An advantage of an enclosed trailer is that the fold-down door serves as a full-width loading ramp. Note the extension flap that aids low cars.
Lowered cars or ones with low-hanging headers can be a challenge to load. A set of stair-stepped wood blocks was used along with the trailer ramps and the slanted beavertail to load this Mustang.
The shorter the ramps, the more difficult it is to load a car. Ladder style ramps are more difficult to roll across than solid ramps. Note that this trailer has a strong lip across the back of the trailer so the ramps can be positioned to fit any width vehicle.
Pullout ramps are an excellent feature. They're always handy and you don't have to worry about losing them or having them stolen.
A removable left side fender is an excellent trailer feature. It provides extra room for opening the car door.
A large lockable tool/equipment box and a wind/bug shield are very worthwhile additions to any open bed trailer. This trailer also has diamond plate steps that run the length of the bed.
Securing your car to the trailer is vitally important. Do not skimp here. Strong, ratcheting tie-down straps are hooked to fold-up D-rings in the trailer floor. Note that straps are installed diagonally for added pulling power.
This classic Mustang has permanently attached steel tie-down brackets. Some racers weld loops to the axle housing. There are also special axle straps.
Top quality, excellent condition tires are a major towing safety feature. Frequently check tires pressures (cold), especially the often hard-to-reach inside dually tires. There are valve extensions to make this task easier.
Be sure the load rating of the trailer tires meets or preferably exceeds the combined weight of the trailer, car, and any extras you may be hauling.
This photo shows an adjustable height extension for the receiver hitch. This allows the trailer tongue to be parallel to the pavement even though the truck's frame is higher. Also note the all-important safety chains and the hand-crank tongue jack.
Some trailer owners like to add weight distribution hitches (also known as sway bars or torsion bars). These adjustable torsion bars help distribute the trailer's weight to the rear and front axles of the tow vehicle. The bars also combat sway and relieve extra stress on the receiver and tongue.
An adjustable, electronic trailer brake controller is an excellent safety aid. It helps synchronize the vehicle and trailer braking thus preventing fishtailing and jackknifing.
Big mirrors are a must for safe towing. Many of the larger Ford trucks are equipped with these oversized, extendable mirrors. Power mirrors are an added bonus, because you can fine-tune them as you drive.
The electrical connection between the truck and trailer is handled by a multi-pin male/female hookup. Trucks with factory tow packages come with the female receiver. There are several plug designs, which can be a problem with a borrowed trailer.
Published Dec 7th, 2015


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The Confession of the Green Pickle Martian
It was sometime in the very early eighties, in that time when, if you lived in the suburbs, the seventies still hadn't ended. I was in grade school - grade four, specifically - and I was about as awkward as they come at that age: tall and skinny and shy and cursed with a coarse mass of wavy dirty-blonde hair that my mother tried to keep tamed in pigtails that looked more like rough shipping rope than the shining plaits that I hoped for. I was always made to stand in the back row with the boys for class pictures. I was always ignored. I was always picked second-last for sports teams, even though I was a really good athlete, skinny legs and all.
Getting picked last was an honor reserved for one unfortunate Greg Appleby, nicknamed Greg-The-Egg for his large and indisputably egg-shaped head. I didn't properly appreciate the social buffer that he provided for me at the time - I was new to the neighbourhood, and the school, and all I knew was that a) some of the kids were really mean, and b) they were meaner to Greg-The-Egg than they were to me. I was grateful, of course, for his existence, which meant that I was only ever a secondary bullying target, but I didn't appreciate that the buffer he provided was a tenuous one, and I certainly didn't appreciate the possibility that he might have been a useful ally in efforts to survive the social jungle of Miss Myhill's grade four class. So I always hung back when the mean kids were teasing him, pretending to not hear the taunts, and I was always very careful to never, ever be seen anywhere in his proximity, lest the bullies turn their attention to me.
Which, of course, they inevitably did.
It was the day that I decided to come to school in my favourite outfit. This particular outfit was a real prize - a two-piece pantsuit of bright, Kermit-green satin with a shimmery orange roller skate decal across the back that I ordinarily reserved for the spontaneous roller-dancing performances that I sometimes staged for my parents and sister in our carport (favoured soundtrack: Blondie's Heart Of Glass) - and for some reason that I cannot for the life of me recall, I decided to indulge in a little sartorial daring and wear it to school one sunny Monday morning.
The schoolyard response was immediate.
Look at the fuzzy-headed pickle! Whatcha wearin', Fuzzy Head? What are you, Fuzzy, a martian? A green pickle martian?
Their words were not, by today's standards, obscenely cruel, but to say that those words rang and burned in my ears would not only be a lazy turn of descriptive phrase, it would be understating the aural and psychological experience so dramatically as to render it meaningless. Their words, and the fear and shame that they inspired, scorched my heart and burned into my psyche: I can still hear the precise intonation of their taunts, the nyah-nyah-nyah-NYAH-nyah rhythm - a sing-song rhythm that you could skip to, if you were in the mood for skipping, which I emphatically was not - as clearly as if those kids were still standing two feet away from me. I can remember wishing - and can still feel the visceral, gut-pulling force of that wish - that it would just stop just stop just stop now, that the taunts would suddenly cease and that the children would just fall away, as though drawn back like a curtain, so that I could just go inside and disappear inside my head until lunchtime, at which point I would go home and make up some story for my mother about why I had to change out of my beloved outfit and into something a little less Xanadu.
And I can remember wondering where Greg-The-Egg was. I can remember wondering if he was nearby - I knew, somehow, that he must be nearby, listening, and I knew that he would be feeling the same generalized gratitude for whatever green-satin-disco miracle had caused the bullies to direct their venom toward me that I had long felt toward him - and I can remember wishing, hard, that wherever he was, his glasses would suddenly fall off or that he would pick his nose or that he would do something, anything, to draw everyone's attention away from me, away from me and back to him, back to where, I thought, meanly, terribly, that it belonged. I remember, clearly, feeling my heart turn in on itself, feeling it turn sad and dark and ashamed. And mean. I remember wanting the tables to be turned on everyone there, starting with Greg-The-Egg. I remember feeling small, and mean.
Because here's the thing: despite the romanticized image that we sometimes see in TV or film of the virtuous geek nobly withstanding bullying, picking up his broken glasses and placing them defiantly on his nose, being bullied doesn't make one a better person. It doesn't, in the moments that it occurs, fertilize an inner core of strength and dignity and compassion that will grow into some noble sensitivity that is made manifest in generosity of spirit and consideration toward all others. It hardens the heart, makes it tougher, makes one crawl into herself and build a great stony wall around all of the emotional wiring that is tucked away back there and then hide there and peer out at the cold, scary world suspiciously, cowardly. Sure, I grew up - I think - into a good person with a caring heart and a better-than-average capacity for compassion, but those few intense experiences of being bullied didn't contribute to that character development. Rather, the things that did contribute to the development of my character - the constant and well-demonstrated love of my family, the abundance of humor in the home that I grew up him, my parents' unwavering example, etc, etc - enabled me to overcome the emotional injuries that I sustained through that year and a half or so of being bullied, of being frightened, of feeling, so much of the time, so powerless. It was, I think, the love and support that abounded in my home that prevented the wounds of bullying from scarring over into kind of intractable toughness, or into some permanent burden of shame or fearfulness. (I remained the scapegoat of that schoolyard, alongside Greg-The-Egg, who I never did befriend, for the rest of the year and much of the following summer - sometimes being pushed around on the playground, sometimes being followed on my walk home and taunted with childish threats, always being shunned and teased - until we moved away.)
So when someone says, I'd like for my kids to be bullied and teased; it's good for them; it builds character, I recoil. Sure, it's good for children to experience disappointments, and to learn that things don't always go their way and that the world is not always a warm and welcoming place, but those kinds of lessons can come from sources less extreme than the experience of being bullied - of being targeted for humiliating attack, of being hunted and tormented in any degree. No child should ever, ever experience that - and no parent should ever tolerate it being visited upon their child or visited by their child upon others.
I expect that my child will experience all sorts of hurts and disappointments - I want her to experience some hurts and disappointments - and I expect that it will take some effort on my part to maintain my parental composure as I witness these. But I never want her to feel the hurt and the shame and the insidious, creeping meanness that comes with being bullied. Never. if that makes me over-protective, I don't care.
This Green Pickle Martian has never forgotten that schoolyard.


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The growing sense that the culprits in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack might never be caught deepened this week, when Tunisian officials released the sole suspect in custody. Citing lack of evidence, they freed Ali al-Harzi, a Tunisian citizen, though he is still restricted from traveling outside the four governorates surrounding Tunis. Al-Harzi was arrested in Turkey shortly after the Benghazi attack and deported to his home country, finally agreeing last month to a three-hour interrogation by FBI agents in Tunis, according to his lawyer Anour Ouled Ali. "He denied everything," Ali told TIME on Thursday by phone from Tunis. "He told the FBI he was not involved at all."
(MORE: The Benghazi Attack's Person of Continuing Interest)
Whoever knows differently is for now not talking. And in fact, they might be dead or missing. Last week masked men surrounded the car of Benghazi's chief of criminal investigations, Captain Abdelsalam al-Mahdawi, while he stopped at a traffic light and abducted him; he has not been seen since. His kidnapping came less than two months after Benghazi's police chief, Faraj el-Drissi, was murdered in his Benghazi home and just weeks after armed men attempted to break into a jail in order to free the suspects in custody for el-Drissi's murder.
Beset by criminality and awash with weapons, Benghazi is a dangerous place, and police officers like al-Mahdawi and el-Drissi had full dockets. But both men had the attack on the U.S. compound in common. "Any person who touches this file is disappearing into thin air," says Rami el-Obeidi, a former intelligence chief for the rebels' National Transitional Council during the 2011 revolution, who has attempted to probe the attack on his own time but has faced the frustrations of confusing and missing evidence. "Who's leading the investigation now? No one. What's the progress? Nothing," he said by phone. "Anyone who has had a hand in the investigation has been killed or abducted or threatened."
The stymied investigation seems a far cry from the assurances from Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, immediately after the attack, that the culprits would be caught. A somber Obama told White House reporters the morning after the attack, "Make no mistake, we will work with the Libyan government to bring to justice the killers who attacked our people."
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As the months have gone by, Libyans have come to doubt that will happen, believing that the attack was the work of armed militia too powerful for the weak central government in Tripoli to apprehend. In a phone interview on Wednesday, one Benghazi resident who did not want to be named told TIME that government security forces appeared to have decided not to stop the Sept. 11 attack while it was in progress. The resident said a colonel from the Ministry of Defense, a friend of his, had paid a social call to his home during the hours of the assault that night and had rebuffed pleas for help during the battle. "He began getting calls from people. One said it was war over there," says the resident. "He said he had instructions not to interfere. Every time, he said it wasn't serious."
That reasoning seems unlikely to satisfy enraged Republicans in Washington, who have accused the Obama Administration of allowing fatal lapses in security for diplomats in Benghazi. On Tuesday, Senator Lindsey Graham told Fox News that the Senate should block the confirmation of John Brennan as the new CIA director "until our questions are answered" about "what transpired before, during and after the attack on our consulate."
On the ground, however, Benghazi's residents are slowly moving on and forgetting about the disastrous assault four months ago. The consulate building remains a burned-out ruin. And with al-Harzi out of jail in Tunisia, there is no suspect in custody for the attack. Buisier says the only thing that reminds people of the attack these days is the noise from above, apparently U.S. drones flying over eastern Libya's main city as part of ramped-up security after the attack. Says he, "We wish they would be quieter."


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Chapter 9
Moroni calls upon those who do not believe in Christ to repent—He proclaims a God of miracles, who gives revelations and pours out gifts and signs upon the faithful—Miracles cease because of unbelief—Signs follow those who believe—Men are exhorted to be wise and keep the commandments. About A.D. 401–21.
1 And now, I speak also concerning those who do not believe in Christ.
2 Behold, will ye believe in the day of your visitation—behold, when the Lord shall come, yea, even that agreat day when the bearth shall be rolled together as a scroll, and the elements shall cmelt with fervent heat, yea, in that great day when ye shall be brought to stand before the Lamb of God—then will ye say that there is no God?
3 Then will ye longer deny the Christ, or can ye behold the Lamb of God? Do ye suppose that ye shall dwell with him under a aconsciousness of your guilt? Do ye suppose that ye could be happy to dwell with that holy Being, when your souls are racked with a consciousness of guilt that ye have ever abused his laws?
4 Behold, I say unto you that ye would be more miserable to dwell with a holy and just God, under a consciousness of your afilthiness before him, than ye would to dwell with the bdamned souls in chell.
5 For behold, when ye shall be brought to see your anakedness before God, and also the glory of God, and the bholiness of Jesus Christ, it will kindle a flame of unquenchable fire upon you.
6 O then ye aunbelieving, bturn ye unto the Lord; cry mightily unto the Father in the name of Jesus, that perhaps ye may be found spotless, cpure, fair, and white, having been cleansed by the blood of the dLamb, at that great and last day.
7 And again I speak unto you who adeny the revelations of God, and say that they are done away, that there are no revelations, nor prophecies, nor gifts, nor healing, nor speaking with tongues, and the binterpretation of tongues;
8 Behold I say unto you, he that denieth these things knoweth not the agospel of Christ; yea, he has not read the scriptures; if so, he does not bunderstand them.
9 For do we not read that God is the asame byesterday, today, and forever, and in him there is no cvariableness neither shadow of changing?
10 And now, if ye have imagined up unto yourselves a god who doth vary, and in whom there is shadow of changing, then have ye imagined up unto yourselves a god who is not a God of miracles.
11 But behold, I will show unto you a God of amiracles, even the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and it is that same bGod who created the heavens and the earth, and all things that in them are.
12 Behold, he created Adam, and by aAdam came the bfall of man. And because of the fall of man came Jesus Christ, even the Father and the Son; and because of Jesus Christ came the credemption of man.
13 And because of the redemption of man, which came by Jesus Christ, they are brought back into the apresence of the Lord; yea, this is wherein all men are redeemed, because the death of Christ bringeth to pass the bresurrection, which bringeth to pass a redemption from an endless csleep, from which sleep all men shall be awakened by the power of God when the trump shall sound; and they shall come forth, both small and great, and all shall stand before his bar, being redeemed and loosed from this eternal dband of death, which death is a temporal death.
14 And then cometh the ajudgment of the Holy One upon them; and then cometh the time that he that is bfilthy shall be filthy still; and he that is righteous shall be righteous still; he that is happy shall be happy still; and he that is unhappy shall be unhappy still.
15 And now, O all ye that have imagined up unto yourselves a god who can do ano miracles, I would ask of you, have all these things passed, of which I have spoken? Has the end come yet? Behold I say unto you, Nay; and God has not ceased to be a God of miracles.
16 Behold, are not the things that God hath wrought marvelous in our eyes? Yea, and who can comprehend the marvelous aworks of God?
17 Who shall say that it was not a miracle that by his aword the heaven and the earth should be; and by the power of his word man was bcreated of the cdust of the earth; and by the power of his word have miracles been wrought?
18 And who shall say that Jesus Christ did not do many mighty amiracles? And there were many bmighty miracles wrought by the hands of the apostles.
19 And if there were amiracles wrought then, why has God ceased to be a God of miracles and yet be an unchangeable Being? And behold, I say unto you he bchangeth not; if so he would cease to be God; and he ceaseth not to be God, and is a God of miracles.
20 And the reason why he ceaseth to do amiracles among the children of men is because that they dwindle in unbelief, and depart from the right way, and know not the God in whom they should btrust.
21 Behold, I say unto you that whoso believeth in Christ, doubting nothing, awhatsoever he shall ask the Father in the name of Christ it shall be granted him; and this bpromise is unto all, even unto the ends of the earth.
22 For behold, thus said Jesus Christ, the Son of God, unto his disciples who should tarry, yea, and also to aall his disciples, in the hearing of the multitude: Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature;
23 And he that abelieveth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be bdamned;
24 And athese signs shall follow them that believe—in my name shall they cast out bdevils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them; they shall lay chands on the sick and they shall recover;
25 And whosoever shall believe in my name, doubting nothing, unto him will I aconfirm all my words, even unto the ends of the earth.
26 And now, behold, who can stand aagainst the works of the Lord? bWho can deny his sayings? Who will rise up against the almighty power of the Lord? Who will despise the works of the Lord? Who will despise the children of Christ? Behold, all ye who are cdespisers of the works of the Lord, for ye shall wonder and perish.
27 O then despise not, and wonder not, but hearken unto the words of the Lord, and ask the Father in the name of Jesus for what things soever ye shall stand in need. aDoubt not, but be believing, and begin as in times of old, and bcome unto the Lord with all your cheart, and dwork out your own salvation with fear and trembling before him.
28 Be awise in the days of your bprobation; strip yourselves of all uncleanness; ask not, that ye may consume it on your clusts, but ask with a firmness unshaken, that ye will yield to no temptation, but that ye will serve the true and dliving God.
29 See that ye are not baptized aunworthily; see that ye partake not of the sacrament of Christ bunworthily; but see that ye do all things in cworthiness, and do it in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God; and if ye do this, and endure to the end, ye will in nowise be cast out.
30 Behold, I speak unto you as though I aspake from the dead; for I know that ye shall have my words.
31 Condemn me not because of mine aimperfection, neither my father, because of his imperfection, neither them who have written before him; but rather give thanks unto God that he hath made manifest unto you our imperfections, that ye may learn to be more wise than we have been.
32 And now, behold, we have written this record according to our knowledge, in the characters which are called among us the areformed Egyptian, being handed down and altered by us, according to our manner of speech.
33 And if our plates had been asufficiently large we should have written in Hebrew; but the Hebrew hath been altered by us also; and if we could have written in Hebrew, behold, ye would have had no bimperfection in our record.
34 But the Lord knoweth the things which we have written, and also that none other people knoweth our language; and because that none other people knoweth our language, therefore he hath prepared ameans for the interpretation thereof.
35 And these things are written that we may rid our garments of the blood of our abrethren, who have dwindled in unbelief.
36 And behold, these things which we have adesired concerning our brethren, yea, even their restoration to the knowledge of Christ, are according to the prayers of all the saints who have dwelt in the land.
37 And may the Lord Jesus Christ grant that their prayers may be answered according to their faith; and may God the Father remember the covenant which he hath made with the house of Israel; and may he bless them forever, through faith on the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.


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Applications for building permits, considered a good sign of future activity, also showed strength in July, advancing 8.1 percent to an annual rate of 1.05 million, after declines of 3.1 percent in June and 5.1 percent in May.
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A report Monday indicated homebuilders are feeling more confident about their sales prospects, a hopeful sign that home construction and sales of newly built homes could pick up after stalling in recent months.
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As UX professionals, we chase the dream that we'll land a position in a company where UX is already a passion. A passion that everyone in the company knows, understands, recognizes, and invests in as the principle to guide corporate direction. A passion that all employees evangelize, and a passion that reaps rewards and riches for the company and its customers. But the reality is that in any place we work, chances are we'll find ourselves in the position of dividing time among being a UX practitioner, a salesperson, a teacher, and a soldier in the UX revolution.
Everyone has different experiences building the legitimacy of UX in their workplace. Three years ago at AT&T Interactive (ATTi), I embarked on a UX journey where there was terrific potential: a company dedicated to solid technology and a super-motivated sales force that was always adding customers. Engineering and sales were firmly in place, and UX joined in to help give consumers the best experience possible.
Taking a look back, I can see how far we've come. Today, UX is an integral piece of the company, and a cornerstone in the product lifecycle. From all the challenges we've tackled at ATTi, I've pulled together a few ideas that any UX soldier can apply again and again, whether introducing UX to a new company or building on an existing process.
1. Get the Lay of the Land
When faced with the task of changing a culture that has not yet drunk the UX Kool-Aid, it's imperative that you forge relationships with teams outside of UX. Understanding the responsibilities, roles, and challenges of other teams will allow everyone to find the best ways to help each other be successful. If they don't know you, why would they trust you or utilize you?
Get to know the product managers and show interest in what they're working on. When you gain the trust of product managers, you can help them see that UX isn't a competitive corporate structure. You'll also be able to find the most efficient way to add your expertise to their product development efforts. When you work together with a common goal in mind—creating better experiences for customers—products get stronger.
The same approach is critical in communicating with people in engineering and marketing. Don't know much about engineering? Learn. Reach out, keep talking. It's amazing how much people are willing to offer when your interest is genuine.
When you accomplish this, your allies and advocates will help you spread awareness of the value of UX. Legitimizing UX within a company is a lot easier when you have others vouching for you. And hopefully word will eventually bubble up to the executive level, and that's where the most change can happen for UX. When you have executive buy-in to the importance of UX, it's a lot easier to make it a standard part of product processes and timelines.
UX can't operate as an island. As much as we all believe that other teams in a company need us, we also need all those other teams. Yes, you'll face adversity and frustration once in a while, but at the end of the day you all have a common goal. The sooner you find a way to work towards that goal together, the sooner you'll be able to prove the value that UX brings to an organization. So put on a smile, get interested, and be patient. UX cannot be successful if it's siloed within a company.
2. Show & Tell
One challenge in convincing a company that UX is a "need to have" as opposed to a "nice to have" is that the employees of a lot of companies still don't have any familiarity with UX. I've found that the best way to introduce UX is to provide opportunities for others to see firsthand what our team can do. Even when I started out as a team of one—the sole information architect and usability researcher—I welcomed opportunities to give others a peek into what I was working on. Pretty soon I came to be known as "Usability Girl," and when you get a superhero-like nickname, you know you're doing something right.
When people got interested in learning more about usability testing, I asked them to be participants in sessions testing new products. When I built out the in-house usability lab, I gave group tours to coworkers and asked them to view a session from the observation room. I put together highlight reel presentations of our testing and shared it with other teams.
Even as UX at ATTi has grown from one person into a full business unit, this show & tell practice has continued. When the usability team runs testing each week, we send out an announcement of what will be tested and open up our observation room to everyone. When the information architects create wireframes or Axure prototypes, they share them with not just the stakeholders, but also the rest of the project team and anyone else who may have a vested interest in the project. The same goes for the comps that the design team creates.
It's surprising to see how interested others are in the UX process. And there's no better way to educate people about UX and the amazing benefits it can bring to a project than showing them firsthand with tangible experiences and outputs. Everyone loves to see a project come to life via the UI.
Letting other people see UX practices firsthand stokes their interest and makes them feel like part of the UX process. Giving people an open window into UX has been a great way of building trust in UX as an integral part of the product process, and of creating advocates for UX within ATTi. It's making believers out of people! I stop and smile when I hear "wireframes," "usability testing," and "design comps" being used in conversations by people who aren't on my team. And it happens all the time now.
As you create buzz about UX, people will start telling you about articles they've read about UX concepts such as eye tracking, and they'll ask you why we have a usability lab that does not have one (gasp!), but look at it this way—it's a sign of interest in UX!
3. Prove the Value
Even after forging relationships within the company and introducing others to what UX is, a UX team can't be successful without proving its value. If UX isn't moving the needle in a positive way, whether by positive consumer feedback or by increased engagement numbers, it will stay stuck in the "nice to have" bucket. Once a product is set loose into the world, your work isn't finished—it's actually only beginning.
You can prove the value by showing how user research has informed the direction of product features and functionality, how usability testing has improved the ability of a user to work intuitively through a UI, and how applying human factors principles in information architecture has improved the interaction for the user. You can show how the new look-and-feel has improved a user's complete interactive experience and improved their attitude towards your brand.
ATTi's YELLOWPAGES.COM homepage (now YP.com) was due for a facelift. Analytics were showing that user engagement was not what we hoped for, so it was time for a redesign. We worked with a great product manager who understood and appreciated UX, and he allowed for us to fully utilize our UX toolkit. We started off with contextual user research and formal usability testing on the existing homepage to get a good grasp of who our users were, what they were looking for, and what were they finding problematic on the existing site. The findings from this research helped the product manager decide how we should approach the features and functionality of the page, and also helped the information architects and designers in designing the UI and the look-and-feel.
When all was said and done and the new homepage went out, the project's success was evident. The new page performed well in the next round of usability testing, and internal and external feedback on the page was positive. The product manager invested in the UX team and the time to go through the whole UX process, and his return was definitely evident as the page was, and still is, a success.
You also need to show how you are making things better for other teams in the company. This starts with a clear, efficient, and thought-out process that illustrates how UX fits within the bigger project lifecycle. In my experience at ATTi, it was best to start with finding out what the needs of each the teams within the company were, and what their existing internal processes were. From there, I worked with my own UX team to develop a process that aligned the work of our three principal focus areas (information architecture, design, and usability) with the overall product process. We then rolled that out to teams across the company to ensure that everyone understood and was on board. Walking through how the UX process would work with real project examples that each team was intimately familiar with helped illustrate how the process works, and also helped generate buy-in to its value.
How do you prove the value of these internal process improvements? You're providing value to the project (and, thereby, to the company) if your role as well as your process allow you to work collaboratively with your project team to enhance the quality of the end product. For example, your team's user research, wireframes, site maps, and designs should serve as valuable assets to a product manager who is making sure that all features and functionality has been accounted for in her product. Those same deliverables should be helpful to the developers who will be building the product by allowing them to visualize the end result while also seeing what the components are.
4. Hire Great People
You can't build out a legitimate UX organization in a company on your own. And you can't do it by approaching it as a task of filling open headcount. I went from a team of one to a team of 20 over the course of three years. The team that started as just a usability group grew to encompass information architecture and creative design. But it's about quality over quantity. I took my time. I hired quality, even if it meant that the lack of quantity was making my plate too full.
If you want a UX team that will make a difference within a company, you have to hire the right people for the job, as well as for the team. You should only hire "A players" from whom everyone, including yourself, can learn.
It is also important that the team meshes well. You need a team that gets along and gets better at what they do because of each other. It's amazing how true the saying "one bad apple spoils the bunch" proves to be in a workplace setting. So take your time hiring the right people. Wait for the "A players." Find them, hire them, and grow them within the team. I've always had the best luck asking people I trust for candidate recommendations. Do your due diligence in checking out their portfolios, speak to anyone in your network who is familiar with them, and run thorough interviews including the team they will be working with.
When I was just starting out as "Usability Girl," I went several months working until the early morning hours just to keep up with all the UX projects across the company. I knew I could just settle with the next candidate to apply for a job and thereby regain some work–life balance. But to make a splash with this new team, I was going to have to hire strong people.
So I waited to hire until I came across A players—candidates with a good balance between passion and the skill of compromise, and with portfolios that showed attention to detail while also demonstrating creativity and the ability to think holistically. I look for people with likeable personalities who also show an ability to communicate ideas and their rationales.
5. Persistence Is Key
When building UX within any organization, you'll come across roadblocks. There will be setbacks. You may doubt that you are making a difference. But you have to keep at it. Remember that there's a good reason to keep at it: the end user. You have to continue to build relationships with other teams around the company, because you all want the same thing: more customers.
You have to continue to fine-tune your UX process to provide the best ROI, and allow other teams to have visibility into your work. Even when things are going fantastically from a UX perspective, you still need to put in the work to improve the ways in which UX is ingrained in the company and the culture. Remember that UX is a "need to have," and continually work to prove that to be the case.
It took almost two years to get to a point where my team got a chance to fully utilize our UX toolkit with the YP.com homepage redesign. Up until that point, we just didn't have the time to invest in contextual user research, or the opportunity to really push the limits with a fresh, new design. But we never gave up, and continued to push. As success stories like that one are becoming more common, I can confidently say that UX has made its mark within the organization and is here to stay as an integral component of ATTi. We still have a lot of work to do, but we have definitely transitioned from "nice to have" and found a solid home in the "need to have" bucket.


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BRATTLEBORO — The announcement of large spikes in health-care premiums for school and town employees is generating a lot of concern among taxpayers. Insurance companies are raising our premiums because they can't make money on their investments.
Since Wall Street trashed the financial system, stocks and bonds and money markets pay practically nothing. Take a look at your savings account since 2008, and you'll see the problem.
Insurance companies can do this because we the people don't have the expertise to comparison-shop for doctors, hospitals, medications, or treatments the way we might for a car or computer.
We can't pay out of pocket for major care, so we must rely on insurance, thereby losing the final say in what to buy or how much to pay for it
Markets work only when consumers have the power to say no if the price isn't right. It's pretty hard for anyone to say no in the case of things like end-of-life care or brain surgery, let alone childbirth or infections.
Because the market is not free, insurers can raise our rates whenever they need to. This ability guarantees them generous salaries and profits for their investors. All we can do is pay - for now.
But if we hold our legislators' toes to the fire and make them follow through with a real single-payer health-care system, all that will change.


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I've had many moments in my life. I've had sad moments, joyful moments, hilarious moments and momentous moments.
But this past year I had one of the biggest moments of all. I had the "I really am an amazing person" moment. The one that hits you right in the face, and forces you to look at who you are.
I took steps. I took many drastic steps to insure that I have many more moments in my future- moments that are filled with happiness, pride, joy and love. These are the moments I want to live for.
The steps I took required courage; crazy, crazy courage. I needed courage to build my own life again- the life of a single mother trying to become someone her children and her family could be proud of; but more importantly, I wanted to be the kind of woman who was proud of herself.
During this life changing process, I realized that I had to start taking care of my own body. I was trying to heal emotionally, but also needed to heal physically. A great therapist was helping with the first- but I needed to work on the second.
I wrapped myself in friends who encouraged me every step of the way. I started hiking in the mountains behind my new home, and this not only brought me a sense of peace but frankly I think I am beginning to see signs of my old "assets", if you will. As a former gymnast, I had always been proud of my "muscles."
My other friends have helped keep my busy by planning happy hours and gatherings that bring plenty of laughter and love. They call me each day, send me cards and notes, and they remember that this journey will not be over quickly. They have been essential to my continued quest for wellness.
Along the way, I have found that living with hope, a positive outlook and with my face towards the sun- I am able to be proud of the woman I am, the woman I was, and the woman I am meant to be. I want to look forward, I want to forgive and be forgiven, I want to always find the good and be happy with the day. And yes, I am feeding the good wolf my friends. I am feeding the good wolf.
I am thrilled to have been chosen to visit the fine people at Coca Cola in Atlanta, as they gather bloggers from across the country to share their stories and to discuss how we all can help live a happier and healthy life!
I want to take you all on this journey with me. I'll tuck you in my pocket as we fly away to a great adventure!!!!
Please, let me know if there is anything I should ask, anything I HAVE to see, or anything you recommend on this amazing visit. And yes, I am thanking my guardian angel as we speak.


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Norman gives the ninth and final talk of the Zen's Women Ancestors series on Zhaozhou's Intimate Touch. This series is based on Record of the Hidden Lamp: One Hundred Koans of Awakened Women, edited by Florence Caplow and Susan Moon (forthcoming from Wisdom Publications, 2013
Zhaozhou's Intimate Touch – Talk 9 Zen's Women AncestorsBy Zoketsu Norman Fischer | October 31,
Excerpted by Barbara Byrum
The process of practice is organic and intuitive. It is not the kind of thing that you figure
out how to do and diligently go about doing it.
It sort of flows somehow. It is
hard to figure out, because it does not make sense in the usual way that our
conceptual mind understands things, as if things were consistent and
For instance, we say, and we really feel, that practice is
an urgent matter. We all feel that we
are all approaching the total loss department, so we are all in a desperate
situation. So practice is not a nice
option; it is an absolute necessity.
Like they say in a traditional chant in a monastery, "You should practice
as if your hair were on fire," with that amount of concern and urgency. Anybody who really devotes himself to
practice knows that this is actually so.
You do have to take it seriously and not goof off and not take anything
for granted. You realize that life is
shockingly brief. Suffering is
completely inevitable. There are no
other options but practice.
On the other hand, we also say, and we also feel, that
everything is pretty good. Everything is
fundamentally okay. Our life, just the
way it is, without doing anything else about it, is okay. Even the world, just the way it is, is
good. All of the problems of our lives
and of the world that seem so rough, we realize, are the necessary
problems. These are the problems that
provide the energy and the motivation that everybody needs to go on
living. So everything is as it should
be, and we can have a light-hearted approach to life.
This doesn't quite add up – these two feelings that are the
opposite of each other. What is it? Is it a desperate situation in which we have
to make this grim effort, or is everything fine? How could it be that we have these two
contradictory attitudes at the same time?
It seems like a joke or some puzzling Zen paradox.
But no, it is not a joke or a puzzle or a paradox. In the process of our practice, we see how we
can keep these, and many other attitudes that seem so contradictory, all
together. We have a feeling for why it
is necessary to have these and other contradictory attitudes at the same
time. We see that one requires the other. More than that, we see that one actually is
the other. There isn't any difference
that seems to exist on the surface.
When you appreciate your practice, you really get that. This is what makes it possible for us to go
on with a balanced effort: serious, alert, alive, paying attention. But, also, without pressure, without
stress, without striving.


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Or maybe even "Mardi Gra"
Whichever it is, I'm just psyched to know that both cakes are deep-fried.
Yessir, and that means it's time to PAPTY!!
Next you'll need to clarify that when you say something with Mardi Gras colors on it is ugly...
...you are, indeed, "dissing" the Mardi Gras colors in general. In fact, you're dissing Mardi Gras, and its cultural origins, and every single person who has, does, or ever will celebrate it. Because, frankly - and I only tell you this because I care - you're kind of a bastard.
You'll also need a small plastic baby on the OUTSIDE of the pastry, because NO ONE bakes a small plastic baby INSIDE the cake, and only an IDIOT would say that anyone ever has.
Btw, I'm going to show you a funny cake now...
...but we're going to ignore that and focus instead on the cultural, economic, and quantum mechanical differences between "Cajuns" and "people who live in Louisiana." Because this is a humor blog, gosh dang it, and that is very, VERY relevant.
Just 'cuz.
Let the deep-fried PAPTY begin!


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Building a Porch vs. a Patio
Are you thinking of hiring a deck builder to build a new porch or deck for your house? While it could be a good investment, it might not be the most effective expenditure. If you need to landscape your yard as well as create an outdoor living space for yourself, a patio built into your landscaping might be a more efficient use of resources. Building a patio into your yard also is time efficient. If you are considering building an outdoor living space to improve your house's curb value and you want to start showing your house as soon as possible, then bypass the deck and go right to building a patio.
A good landscaper or landscape designer should be able to guide you through the process of building a patio into your existing landscape. Before you hire the landscaper or landscape designer, be sure to check his or her references. Go to see patios that he or she has built or designed before, to see if the work is durable and up to your standards. If all is a go, then have some fun choosing materials with the landscaper.
Flagstone or slate tiles are a classic material for a backyard patio floor. Also look into cement pavers. Cement pavers come in many different shapes and sizes, and can give you some flexibility with design. Additionally, they will be able to give you the rough cost of making a concrete patio if you give them the details of your plan. Another option is to create a gravel or rock-covered patio ground covering. Solid stone slabs are pricey, but look luxe. Another option for a patio floor material is brick, which is durable and classic.
The way that you edge around the patio will help to create a patio that rivals a deck's independence from the rest of the yard. Shrubs, flower beds, rocks, or pathways are options for edging around a patio. You can also erect trellises, arbors, or fences, or build a pergola over your patio for shade. A raised garden bed or a small wall in the center or near the edge of a patio can help to define the space. To make your patio really stand out, be sure to add dimensionality with built structures and edging.
For patio inspiration, I recommend looking at Minneapolis-area landscaper Switzer's Nursery & Landscaping's photos of patio alternatives to decks on Hometalk.com. It's a great inspirational starting point for building a patio as an alternative to a deck.
Chaya Kurtz writes for Networx.com.
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