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April 25, 2000 - Stopping a Scroller
April 25, 2000
Stopping a Scroller
Tips: April 2000
Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
firstPage and
secondPage, placed inside a container,
canvas. To pause the scroll while a user mouses over the scrolling box, we added two event handlers to the scrolling pages,
onmouseover and
onmouseout (all lower case!). These events are defined for both
firstPage and
secondPage, as either one of them may be exposed at the
canvas container. The definitions for the first page are:
firstPage.onmouseover = stopScrolling;
firstPage.onmouseout = scrollPages;
and similarly for the second page:
secondPage.onmouseover = stopScrolling;
secondPage.onmouseout = scrollPages;
onmouseover event occurs when the mouse is placed over the scroll box. The
onmouseout event occurs when the mouse is removed from the scroll box area. The event handler for the
onmouseover event is the
scrollPages() function. It starts the pages going, just as the invocation of the program does in the first place:
function scrollPages() {
Gtimer = setInterval("moveUp()", Ginterval)
Gtimer variable stores a pointer to the
setInterval() command, which invokes the
moveUp() function every
Ginterval milliseconds. The event handler of the
onmouseout event is the
stopScrolling() function which clears the
Gtimer pointer and thus cancels the call to the
moveUp() function, causing the pages to halt:
function stopScrolling() {
Learn more about our scroller in Column 32, Scrolling HTML Basics, Part III: The Cross-Browser Version.


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Coca-Cola didn't become one of the world's leading beverages in the United States by accident.
With one hundred and twenty-three years of history marketing brands, slogans, commercials and a worldwide distribution network Coke has made itself the most recognized brand on the planet.
Click ahead to see 123 years of evolution!


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Farazin company was established in 1992 with the field of interior design and after many years of experience, started to study and design the office partition system in 2005, and continues to develop with its innovative and exclusive design until today.
Iranian traditional architecture has taught us how to create spaces safe, flexible, and responsive to the needs of residents. And modern architecture has taught us to eliminate unnecessary elements of architecture and not that of lifestyle. It also lets us add something to the form wherever it is necessary for the residents' lifestyle.
The boundary of the adjacent buildings is such that in its western side, according to the city laws and regulations, the building has a 45-degree fillet, and the front of the building on the east, is 10 meters behind, due to the expansion of its land with a twice in length. It is only south facade of the project that allows in, natural light and provides urban views.
To start a project, creativity and innovation are taken into account both in the designing of the plans and in the application of the materials and the technology related to –albeit with considering economic and executive constraints. The influential factors involved in the design of this project, including the dominant sunshine and disturbing rain and street noise pollution, have shaped the form of this statue, along with the beautiful landscape of Nahar-khoran forests and municipal regulations and requests of the employer.
Shahrasb Villa & Farm
Kar – Khaneh office building
Vardaneh food complex
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Iranmall East Foodcourt
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Villa No.12, Nur
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Aramesh Office Building
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Jewelry Retail Office 04
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House No.20 in Maku
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Daarbast Cafe
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Nabshi Gallery
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Venus Glass Co. started its production of architectural and automotive glasses in 2004. Taking advantage of the state-of-the-art technology and the most knowledgeable team of experts in Iran, Venus Glass is among the leading glass processing companies in the Middle East.
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n many cases there are not few information about the buildings details such as name of Architect and any other technical information. so this is an approach to find out Iranian modern Architecture around of Iran by volunteering free photography.
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Official Portal for North Dakota State Government
In 1926 Minnie J. Nielson, North Dakota Superintendent of Public Instruction, asked Poet James Foley of Bismarck to write the lyrics for a song about North Dakota. Foley created a poem that could be sung to the tune, The Austrian Hymn. Dr. C. S. Putnam, conductor of the North Dakota Agricultural College Band in Fargo, arranged music for Foley's work. The First public presentation of the North Dakota Hymn was in the Bismarck City Auditorium in 1927.


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By OLAYINKA AJAYI
A 'silver alert' has been issued for Bolaji James Odubayo, a 20-year-old man, who was said to have left home on Monday January 14, 2013 in Aguda, Surulere and has since not returned. What can possibly explain the disappearance of the Bolaji, a 400- level student of Igbinedion University, Okada, remains a mystery as he was said to have left his residence at No 107, Oshogbo Street, Aguda, Surulere, Lagos around 10am for his campus at Okada, Edo state.
According to the mother, Mrs Mercy Itohan Odubayo who narrated how Bolaji left home that fateful morning, "he left with a travelling bag and a shuttle bag wearing a white and green shirt atop a violet pair of trousers bidding farewell to his younger sister who was at home at the time he left.
He told me before I left home earlier that he was going to board a bus at Edegbe Line for Benin and I told him to call me immediately he gets to campus but he never did. "Although he was not having a cell phone with him, he had lost his phone before he arrived from school late in December for holidays. We never talked about a new phone before he left," she stated.
The middle aged widow and mother of four could not hold back tears while narrating how she had gone to several places in search of her only son. "I have gone everywhere I know and contacted those of his friends I know. I have gone to Edegbe Line to ask whether he boarded any of their buses to Benin but they said no.
I requested for their manifest for that day which they provided the following day but with no trace of his name on it. I have also reported at Sholoki, Aguda Police station near our house. He was supposed to be writing his final exams now and all his friends at school also said they have not seen him. I also called one of his lecturers who also said the same thing. After making an entry of the case, the police only told me to go and pray over it."
According to Madam Odubayo, she lost her husband four years ago and she has been struggling to pay the school fees of their children two of whom are at the same university with the assistance of her husband's relatives.
Madam Odubayo urged anyone with information about where her only son could be found to contact her on 08065264917 or Nina on 07054013462 or Nosa Ojo on 07030618904 or the nearest police station.


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Preliminary Exercise H (pt.2)
26. Into his alliance.
In societātem suam/eius.
27. Under the general himself.
Sub imperātōre ipsō.
28. At my house.
Domī meī. // In domō/domū meō. // Apud meum.
29. To go under the earth.
Sub terram īre.
30. About terms of peace.
Dē conditiōnibus pācis.
31. Before a year.
Ante annum.
32. Round about the city.
Circum orbem.
33. On this side of the mountain.
In hōc latere montis.
34. Besides the messenger.
Praeter/Extra nuntium.
35. Except the poet.
Praeter/Extra poētam.
(I couldn't be sure whether there was a difference between 'besides' and 'except' or not.)
36. Against Antiochus.
Adversum/contrā Antiochum.
37. About a thousand men.
Circā mille virī.
38. Around the mountain.
Circum montem.
39. Within the camp.
Intrā castra.
40. Outside the gates.
Extrā portās.
41. Bellow the city walls.
Sub mūrīs urbis.
42. In the power of the enemy.
Penes hostēs.
43. Behind the horsemen.
Post equēs.
44. According to the laws.
Dē lēgibus.
45. Contrary to the laws.
Contrā lēgēs.
46. Adjoining the camp.
Prope/Iūxtā castrōs.
47. As far as his head.
Capite suō/eius tenus.
48. Near the garden.
Prope/Iūxtā hortum.
49. The army was sent under the yoke.
Exercitus sub jugum missus est.
50. It lies under your eyes.
Sub oculōs tuōs jacet.


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All Hype Videos belong to Michigan!
I will not take credit for this, but enjoyed watching it! Seriously, can we have too many hype videos?
I will not take credit for this, but enjoyed watching it! Seriously, can we have too many hype videos?
Great video. Someone needs to make one with the song Sail by AWOLNATION, it would be amazing
I'm not getting any work done today. MOAR HYPE!
jay z listener,but that track is fiiire. Oh yeah,DEFLY done; I'm going to need more of that good, phunky stuff from you...
Truely,a great day to be blue...
Still not over either game, really. Florida had absolutely no answer for after we punched them in the mouth to start the game.
This was the hype video prior to last season. That makes it light on Trey Burke, and more on Darius. But for my money it's the highest quality hype video I've seen for Michigan. I wish he would make something of this quality again this year.
Though it's a bit long, it captures the highs and lows. It seemlessly blends the Fab Five Era with the DMo/Burke era. The music fits and the action crescendo's at the appropriate times. I still get goosebumps every time I watch it, especially when the music picks up.
A weekend like this with basketball success sometimes is followed by a Hello post for the football team...any expectation of that this week?
I'm new here so I can't create a new topic, but I made a Final Four hype video to the song 'Ecstasy of Gold' if anyone wants to check it out:


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Is Twitter vs Jaiku a Replay of Friendster vs MySpace
Jeff Atwood tells me he's thinking of leaving Twitter for Jaiku. Scoble wrote about how Leo Laporte already left.
Strangely enough, I'm having a sense of deja vu.
Twitter would do well to study the lessons learned in the history of Friendster vs MySpace. Building a Twitter clone is not rocket science. There is no huge barrier to entry. The only thing that keeps twitter on top of other services is their large user base.
As danah boyd points out in this essay which compares Friendster vs MySpace, People use the social technologies that all their friends are using. I personally am hesitant to switch, because everyone I know is on Twitter, not on some other platform.
However, too many days of showing users this damn cat (yes, I'm a dog person) instead of their friends and it won't be long before they leave in droves.
Atwood is convinced that Twitter needs to switch to a platform other than Rails. As danah points out in the essay, it is not about technological perfection. Sticking to Rails because of the beauty of the code doesn't matter to the masses. Especially when the service is always down.
I am more ambivalent on the question of whether they should leave Rails since I don't fully understand if Rails is the bottleneck.
My experience with is that most scaling problems are the result of poorly written code, not the platform. More specifically, data access code is where I would look first. Simple mistakes like making a database call per item when loading a collection of hundreds or thousands of items can kill the scaling of a site. We recently fixed a bug like that in Subtext when displaying hundreds of comments. It can happen to anyone.
Twitter's CEO blogged about yesterday's outages in a post entitled, The Devil's in the Details. Indeed. In any case, I'll stick with Twitter a little while longer. But if they don't do something soon, I'll see you on Jaiku.


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Ryan Adams Deserves a Gawker Comments Invite
Late last week, Stereogum linked to a Ryan Adams fansite posting that appeared to be the work of the East Village's tattered troubador. Now that he's "sober" and doesn't have Parker Posey to distract him from cultivating his own rambling insanity, Adams has found the time and focus to cruise the internet, dropping greasy bundles of good news for his fans (he has three albums in the works) and, if you're lucky, responding to blogs that dare to write of his scruffiness. It's always fantastically entertaining when a celebrity of any mild level takes to the blogosphere, especially when the medium is as unforgiving as a comments section — but Adams' rambling, defensive prose reads like a cracky k nstlerroman:
i find it very interesting that people, who are in their rights, to critique records, actually spend time/ have the balls to go so far as to judge the process of how records or made, or how often. As if the process and the selection of songs or the concepts were open to the listener, like a record by an artist was a collective expierence even before a record was done.
But wait — there's more. More than you ever wanted, even. His "transcendental converssations" [sic] continue after the jump.
As somebody who makes records, loves making records in fact, and loves writing songs, I can say honestly that no matter how bad a record may seem to suck or how little it means to a listener, they do not appear as if my magic without a thoughtful process. It isnt as though a person is standing in front of a recording machine thinking, how can i most effectively waste my own time. The MEAN SOMETHING to the person who makes them. And to be inspired to want to create something that doesnt hurt other people and is come kind of expression of their expierence on earth is by far a better way to spend ones time than to be judgemental and threatened by it.
Music is a conversation. Its open. Its not as if by releasing a record someone is banging on your door demanding you listen. its just a record. so as an adult, make decisions and decided if you want to or dont want to listen to someone when they make music. but you know, people can try and be alittle bit bigger than to demonise someone for playing music. funny how it matters so much to people at what rate music is made as if that affected its meaning. my records mean something to me, and some songs mean things to some people and others mean nothing. thats the point. a shared expierence. i wake up to play music and i enjoy every minute and it can be alot to work on that much music at once. i like to think i work as hard on writing than anything else i do. and to have people invalidate what it means to share my expierences in a song because there are "too many" and to hear people say things like- one record would have been awesome, but three was stuipd is really boring and just sounds bitter. its as if you were overcharged. my records dont cost more because there are more songs. in fact cold roses was regular priced and i made sure of it by losing money to make it available to people as one piece of music. its just information. vital to the story i am telling. so its pretty weird to hear people talk about there being too much information and they would be more informed about my mjsic if there were less. alot of music doesnt make it onto records its doesnt fit the theme or is our of context or simply it is crap. i dont put that music out. but i work my ass off and snake my way through so much red tape and fight so hard to put the records i want to reflect who i am into a public forum where people can choose to listen or not. and i am not asking to be rewarded for it, but if its not your scene then cool. but dont go doggin on somebody cause they want to fucking pick up a pen and tell a story. if these people are so eductaed about the recording process and how records should be, then may i ask, "Where is your record". i imagine there isnt one and if there were to be, they would have to work on it until its perfect. till its 11 songs and they are all essential. so thats my 2 cents. back to the studio. i hope people find their own way and learn to stop hating on everything. hate is the new smart it seems, and the new "smart" is pretty stupid.
have a nice weekend.
ryan jefferson starship double album adams
Posted by: ryan adams at July 14, 2006 09:01 PM
and yes, its me. i dont fucking care. its not like i have a reputation worth protecting. really.
Posted by: ryan adams at July 14, 2006 09:03 PM
Then some other commenters bicker about aesthetics and art and yadda, only for Ryan to jump back in:
let me make it so it is easier to understand. i released three records when i did because, 1. I had enough material written sans music while i was recovering from 6 months of wrist surgery and muscle rehabilitation that i was as prepared to tell a story vital to what led up to my having to go through all of it in the first place. and i lost people i cared about. i felt like sharing that. 29 took months to write, out of endless pages of writing. every song on that record means something to the other and without sounding like it is some landmark record, to call it "crap" or a sound record, well obviously the lyrics are being overlooked. its not crap. its fucking sad. its about myself, an actual living breathing person on earth like yourself who made some music, about dying, about living. i cant believe how little some people think thiws shit means to put out there. and the other two records, which i made with a band that i am in, a band that i love to be in alot, were written WITH the band. where the content goes through 5 filters not just one and means somethingf to everyone in the band. that, in itself, was new and i became as much a messenger as the message. there are alot of really complex and really beautiful moments on cold roses and JCN and sure, some people go "Summer of 69", thats their answer to 7 months in the rehearsal and studio to prepare for doing something like what we did with those three records. all i can say is i broke myself trying to make it all work and it was about ego or dick swaggering to release a fucking record. there were things to say and jams.
what a great world. why would aanybody want to think of this as the dark aages of music because some people want to get up and do their fucking job they were meant to do?
die in a plane crash, summer of 69, crap, etc.
i wonder sometimes why i give a fuck really. its impossible to keep the faith in times like this when armchair critics and people who have nothing but bad vibes for artists are out there with hunting rifles waiting for the ducks to take off and blast em out of the sky every time they want to express themselves. music is wonderful and a beautiful process and i wake up every day and i got to work. its what i do and what i love to do and id like to get better at it but as far as i am concerned anyone with enough guts, anyone brave enough, to put anything out into this world, be it a rush cover band, or what ever band the summer of 69 guys have in their moms basement to a rachmaninov compliation, gets the badge of courage. i see alot of bored people doing their small part in poooling their negativity on people who make art and its disgusting. it really is.
i personally like it better knowing i am on the side of guitar that tells the story. not the side that wishes the guy was dead or wouldnt share so much. and weeding through songs must be such a chore. somehow it has been the light of my life to listen to records and to find those songs that mean so much to me coming out of the same shitty speakers over and over sounding like testimony and truth. i guess i just consider myself a believer, you know, i am still looking for that magic moment and the more i listen and the more i write and the more i play the more i feel that same thing i did when i listened to s.y. sister for the first time or elo on thee radio for thee first time. or mr. saturday night special for the first time. some of those people did die in a plane crash. they were on their way to make some music for some people. they were on their way. busy in their life, telling their story.
the free flow and exchange of ideas and people connecting on these strange plateaus and having these transcendental converssations, i guess i just live for that. its beautiful and honorable no matter what part of it you are on. it really is. and there are always gonna be bitter haters. people who are ready to knock it because there is always somebody better or "cooler" or whatever that means. i didnt learn how to be cool from my records. i learned about who other people were and i learned something about myself from listening.
i guess if i spent more time being negative and dismisssive i might be cool enought one day to unsatisfied enough to limit my view to only myself and what i did not like. then i could come in here and tell people that their life work, their dreams and what they did with them were meaningless and crap and worthy of only a slap on the wrist.
in the meanwhile, i think id like to continue what i have been doing.
so like Ian said when he was saying what WIRE said, "stand up and be counted"
so stand up. do something then. make a noise. bring some fucking new ideas.
stop fucking tearing people down. get busy.
thats really all i can say. you know, before someone says summer of 69 or whatever again.
thats all.
i get really disappointed with all this sometimes. its very strange.
take care/ take it easy.
Posted by: ryan adams at July 15, 2006 06:01 PM
Don't go thinking, however, that Ryan is done philosophizing:
nobody is "better" than anybody else. records arent baseball cards where one is in better condition so its better. they are not fucking speed trial. people aare not erunning laps up and down a tennis court. its not football. its not sports. nobody wins and loses. bright eyes is conor. i am me. starship is starship. its ridiculous to think you could compare and contrast a painter with another or writer or musician. its just pointless. they are locked into their world view and your feelings for art aside, it will never be a collective expierence.
there is no collective consciousness. there is only your view. take it in. and for the record, (ahem...) i dont like the if "he doesnt OD" bullshit. i do not drink or take drugs thank you and am happy to be who i am doing what i do because i love it. i have never released a record because i was fucked up or because of some drug induced idea. they take months to prepare after they are even mastered so its insulting beyong belief, and to be so blase' about something and heartless is just terribly cruel. how dare you.
everyone should have a chance to better themselves and be who they are and i didnrt see that before it just makes me sick to my stomach personally.
so whatever.
i enyoy sterogum quite alot. i will remember to disregard anything with my name attached to it in the future.
later sktr
Posted by: ryan adams at July 15, 2006 06:20 PM
Goodness, he's disconcertingly good at the crazy-ass commenter thing. Someone's got a future online...


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It was to be announced Wednesday that the summer of 2023 will be big on the Los Angeles sports scene. And that's in addition to the expected announcement that July that we will be getting an NFL team in 2030.
Our fair city, home to the best weather and some pretty nifty golf courses, will play host to the 2023 U.S. Open. That has long been rumored. Now it is official.
But where, you say? Our loveliest layouts have long hid their perfect greens and picturesque fairways behind gates and walls of heavy shrubbery.
The site will be the Los Angeles Country Club, right there across the street from the Beverly Hilton Hotel. On Wilshire Boulevard, no less. Certainly one of the...


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West Davidson's boys have lost seven games this season.
West Davidson's boys have lost seven games this season.
But Tuesday night hurt.
The Dragons didn't have Ledford on the ropes. They had the Panthers on the mat and the referee's count was at nine. Ledford was as vulnerable as it's gonna get, with three members of its opening-day starting lineup not in uniform.
And West is getting better every time it takes the floor. The Dragons are learning first-year coach Derrick Stokes' system. The West defense has become outstanding. It looks like a zone, it looks like man-to-man, it looks like they're everywhere.
That defense carried the Dragons to a 16-2 lead after one quarter Tuesday night at West, playing on Crim Court with the place's namesake, former West coach and Davidson County Hall of Fame member Kent Crim, sitting at courtside. That early energy started to fade a little bit in the second quarter, but West still held a comfortable 28-12 lead at the half.
The West student section, which still comes out in strong numbers, could taste a victory coming. They haven't seen many of those in recent years, as the Dragons have hit a dry spell that most small schools have to endure. At a school West's size, it's not unusual for talent to cycle through for two or three years, then the talent to dry up for a few years. But the Dragons have suffered through an extended dry spell in the win column, and they turned to one of their own to dig them out.
Stokes has a great basketball mind, and he will win at West. He's a high-energy guy, and the Dragons pride themselves on working hard. That will be the recipe for success; the problem is, there is no way to get all of the ingredients needed for that recipe overnight.
But the West students still turn out, they pay their money to get in, and they cheer loudly and energetically for their squad. The Dragons gave them something to cheer about Tuesday night; sophomore Tyler Grooms found some openings on the baseline en route to 10 easy points, and West was sitting pretty.
Then, as Ledford principal Jonathan Brown and West assistant principal Scott Dalton (who was the head boys' coach at Ledford before moving into administration) pointed out after the game, the worst thing imaginable happened — the horn sounded for halftime. West had to stop, and all of that momentum stayed in the locker room when they came out for the second half.
Still, despite scoring one point in the third quarter, West still clung to a 29-26 lead heading to the fourth. All they had to do was rekindle that magic they had in the first half.
Things started out nicely enough, with David Monk cutting backdoor for a layup and a five-point lead. Ledford's Dillon Pierce went on a one-man 7-0 run, and his 3-pointer from the wing with 3:10 to play gave the Panthers their first lead of the night.
That was gut-punch number one for the Dragons, who got that "here we go again" look on their faces. But, West didn't stay down. Monk converted a bucket in the lane, then Zach Queen nailed a 3 from the corner to put West back in front at 36-35. That got the student section rocking again, and put some fire under the Dragons.
Pierce killed that momentum with a driving bucket in the lane, but Queen kicked a pass to Andrew Kahn in the corner and Kahn knocked it down for the Dragons — once again sending the student section into a frenzy with 1:02 left.
Monk deflected a Ledford pass near midcourt at the other end, then fouled Pierce diving for the loose ball. Pierce hit one free throw to get the Panthers within 39-38, then West missed the front end of back-to-back one-and-ones to create one last opportunity for Ledford. Kevin Pressley made it hurt, driving to the hole for a layup at the buzzer; the Dragons had to decide whether to foul Pressley or just play defense. They played defense, and got beat.
Better days are ahead at West. The P.A. announcer had sound advice for point guard Taylor Beck as he headed to the locker room after the tough, tough loss. "Short memory, get ready to play tomorrow," he encouraged. It will take a few wins for the Dragons' memories of losing for several years to begin to fade. Stokes loves basketball, and he loves the school he graduated from. Like all coaches, he loves to win, too. The wins will come, if the players stick with him. When that happens, I can't wait to see that student section.
Jason Queen can be reached at 249-3981, ext. 220, or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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BlueEFFICIENCY from Mercedes-Benz stands for pioneering efficiency technology as well as innovative packages of measures based on optimising fuel consumption and emission levels.
Equipment availability depends on the engine and configuration selected. You will find details in the equipment information for each model.
BlueEFFICIENCY measures are comprehensive vehicle optimisations that help save fuel and ease the burden on the environment. In the new GLE Coupé, too, the most efficient engines are combined with the best features available, to keep fuel consumption to a minimum. These include:


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- Michigan
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- 10" thick poured concrete foundation walls with insulation
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- Engineered floor joists
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With all the hardship in the world, it can sometimes be easy to look around and wonder if there's any goodness.
That's why Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his daughter, Rev. Mpho Tutu, say they wrote their new book called "Made For Goodness." They say that joy and goodness can be found anywhere, if we would only look for it.
"Each kindness enhances the quality of life," they write. "Each cruelty diminishes it."
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Chapter 1
"Impimpi!" ("Informer!")
In the bad old days of apartheid the accusation was deadly. Any black person suspected of collaborating with the hated South African security police risked a grisly death. Here the suspected informer was down on the ground, beaten and bloodied. Tempers in the crowd were already frayed. It was yet another in a long procession of the struggle funerals: Duduza Township, east of Johannesburg, in July 1985. It was thought that police had killed the four young men we had come to bury. And now the crowd had their hands on a man they accused of being a police spy. They were preparing the petrol-filled tire that was to be his fiery "necklace."
Without pausing to think, I waded into the middle of the angry mob. "Do you accept us as your leaders?" I asked. They seemed rather reluctant, mumbling. "If you accept us as your leaders, you have to listen to us and stop what you are doing." As I desperately tried to reason with the crowd a car arrived, and my colleague Bishop Simeon Nkoane was able to spirit the injured man away. It was only afterward, when I saw it on television, that I considered my own peril. I tell this not as a story of my heroism but as an illustration of the violence we can inflict upon one another.
I am no dispassionate observer of the litany of crime and cruelty that assaults us at every turn. For three long years I served as the chairman of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, our attempt to cleanse our nation's soul from the evil of apartheid. For days on end I listened to horrific stories of abuse. I cannot tell you how many times my heart broke as I listened to the confessions of perpetrators and the testimony of victims. Indeed, at times I became sick to my stomach at the horror of what I heard.
It is not only what I have heard of human depravity that has made my stomach churn, but also what I have seen. As the president of the All Africa Conference of Churches, I made a pastoral visit to Rwanda in 1995, a year after the genocide. I went to Ntarama, where hundreds of Tutsis had fled to the church for safety. The year 1994 was not the first time that interethnic violence had gripped Rwanda. With each previous eruption of fighting any church became A refuge, a sanctuary from the insanity beyond its walls. In 1994 the Hutu Power movement respected no sanctuary. Tutsi people were slaughtered in churches throughout Rwanda. The Ntarama church was no different. It provided no safety for the people, mostly women and children, who had cowered there. The floor was strewn with a record of the horror that had occurred in that place. Clothing and suitcases were scattered among the bones. The small skulls of children lay shattered on the floor. The new government had not removed the corpses, so the church was like a mortuary, with the bodies lying as they had fallen the year before. The stench was overpowering. Outside the church building was a collection of skulls, some still stuck with machetes and daggers. I tried to pray. I could only weep. All over the world people have inflicted unspeakable violence on other people. On missions to the Sudan, to Gaza, and to Northern Ireland I have borne witness to some of the viciousness that human beings can unleash on each other.
Brutality can be as intimate as it is global. Our cruelties are played out in the intimacy of our own homes and neighborhoods as much as they are experienced on the world stage. I have shared my daughter Mpho's anguish as she has described some of her experiences in ministry to me. She has worked with rape survivors in South Africa: a fifteen-year-old girl who spent countless nights sleeping in the school bathroom to escape her father's molestation and her mother's rage and impotence. Mpho cared for an eight-year-old girl twice violated by a neighbor. Because the neighbor had threatened to kill her family, the frightened child named someone else as the perpetrator the first time she was molested. It was only after the second assault that she dared to tell the truth. My daughter sat with an eighty-year old woman brutalized by a stranger. She listened as the doctor who attended the victim struggled to contain her own distress: "The genital lacerations were so ragged and awful, I hardly knew where to begin to sew her up." In Massachusetts, Mpho worked with women of many races and every economic stratum who had fled from domestic violence to homelessness. She has been with wealthy women too ashamed to turn to their friends for support or shelter, and poor women who had nowhere to go. She has provided pastoral counseling to families struggling with the effects of substance abuse: loss of livelihood, loss of self-respect, frayed family ties, and, often, violence.
As married persons, as priests, and as parents we have both encountered the disappointments, failures, and despair that can infect human relationships. Hearing my mother's screams and my father's drunken beatings, I have known that noxious brew of fear and rage that courses through a small boy. Even as adults in our own marriages, we have both known moments when the joy of marriage shrivels in the heat of a bitter argument.
We know all too well the cruelties, hurts, and hatreds that poison life on our planet. But my daughter and I have come together to write this book because we know that the catalogue of injuries that we can and do inflict on one another is not the whole story of humanity, not by a long measure -- as I hope you will see and as you no doubt know in your heart. We are indeed made for something more. We are made for goodness.
We are fundamentally good. When you come to think of it, that's who we are at our core. Why else do we get so outraged by wrong? When we hear of any egregious act, we are appalled. Isn't that an incredible assertion about us? Evil and wrong are aberrations. If wrong was the norm, it wouldn't be news. Our newscasts wouldn't lead with the latest acts of murder or mayhem, because they would be ordinary. But murder and mayhem are not the norm. The norm is goodness.
You can see from the people we truly admire that we are attracted to goodness. We do not revere people who are successful. We might envy them and wish that their money were transferred to our bank account. But the people we revere are not necessarily successful; they are something else. They are good.
Many of us would say we revere Mother Teresa. She wasn't macho. She wasn't even successful. In spite of her many years of lauded and dedicated ministry, people still die in poverty in Calcutta. But even after her death, Mother Teresa is admired, respected, and revered. Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Are similarly revered not for their success, although they had important successes, but because of the shining example of their goodness. In our own time Nelson Mandela commands the same kind of admiration. He walks into any place, and people are transfixed -- not because he is mighty and macho, but because he is gracious and good.
You and I, too, are fundamentally good. We are tuned to the key of goodness. This is not to deny evil; it is to face evil squarely. And we can face evil squarely because we know that evil will not have the last word.
Evil cannot have the last word because we are programmed -- no, hard-wired -- for goodness. Yes, goodness can be enlightened self-interest. Kindness builds goodwill. Generosity invites reciprocation. But even if there were absolutely no material benefit to being kind, you can't counterfeit the warm glow that you have inside when you have been kind. You just can't! That glow is something you relish because that's how we've been created. To be hateful and mean is operating against the deepest yearnings that God placed in our hearts. Goodness is not just our impulse. It is our essence.
Recognizing the truth about our goodness matters more now than ever. Our world is shrinking. Modern technology has brought people from the ends of the earth into our living rooms. Our communities have become less homogeneous. People of many cultures, races, religions, and ethnic backgrounds share our neighborhoods and meet on our streets. We can be halfway across the world in less time than it takes to drive halfway across many countries. In the past, conflicts could be contained in one country, one region, one continent. But the push of a button by an anonymous hand can launch a missile that will engulf the world in war.
In the past our survival depended on recognizing and being suspicious of difference. If people were in and of our group, we could assume good intent. If people were not in and of our group, we would be safest to assume evil intentions. Vestiges of that belief are retained in our behavior. Palestinians face Israelis across hopeless barriers of mistrust. Christians shout down Muslims without letting their voices be heard. And we argue endlessly about the efficacy of racial profiling in keeping our communities safe.
What the catalogue of fault lines illustrates is that the atomized homogeneous groups that existed in the past are no longer the truth of our world. Our planet will not survive if we cling to the verities of the past. We must recognize that we are part of one group, one family -- the human family. Our survival as a planet depends on it. We are part of one family, and we are fundamentally good.
What difference does goodness make? Goodness changes everything. If we are at core selfish, cruel, heartless creatures, we need to fight these inclinations at every turn and often need strong systems of control to prevent us from revealing our true (and quite ugly) selves. But if we are fundamentally good, we simply need to rediscover this true nature and act accordingly. This insight into our essential goodness has shifted how I interact with other people; it has even shaken how I read the Bible.
Goodness changes the way we see the world, the way we see others, and, most importantly, the way we see ourselves. The way we see ourselves matters. It affects how we treat people. It affects the quality of life for each and all of us. What is the quality of life on our planet? It is nothing more than the sum total of our daily interactions.
Each kindness enhances the quality of life. Each cruelty diminishes it.
If we believe that we are fundamentally cruel and selfish, we act accordingly. The targets of our nastiness feel the effects of our malice. And the consequences of our cruelty are evident in our health. Meanness shows on our faces. Churlishness shows up in our bodies as stress and illness. It is also true that when we recognize our fundamental goodness, we act differently. And we feel different. We are happier, healthier. God is pretty smart. It feels good to be good. And we know it! When we attend to our deepest yearnings, our very nature, our life changes forever, and, person by person, so does our world. We are made for goodness by God, who is goodness itself. We are made for and like God, who is the very essence of goodness. The creation stories in the Hebrew Bible underline these truths about us. These stories do not set out to tell us scientific facts. They set out to tell us governing truths, truths that affect how we live our lives. Whether, like Mpho and me, you read the Bible as sacred text or, if as one who does not share in the Abrahamic faiths, you read it merely as good literature, it offers insight and wisdom distilled from centuries of human experience. And the fundamental point of the creation stories is that we are made by God, for God, like God. But what does this mean? In the first book of the Bible, the Book of Genesis, there are two creation stories. Each tells a particular truth about us. In the first Genesis story God speaks creation into being. Turn with me to these beautiful words. Let us read them for the profound truth they tell rather than for scientific accuracy.
In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. (Gen. 1:1–5)
For five days creation is born from the mouth of God with the words, "Let there be. . . ." Light and darkness; the oceans and the heavens; the sky, the seas, and the dry land; vegetation of every kind: trees and seeds, fruit and flowers; the sun, moon, and stars; the sea creatures and the birds of the air; living creatures of every kind: cattle, wild animals, and creeping things -- all come into being at God's "Let there be. . . ." Then, on the sixth day, there is a change. The storyteller has to give a signal that something momentous is about to occur: instead of the formula for every other act of creation -- "Let there be. . . ." -- for this one, God says, "Let us. . . ." It's as though God has to consult. The entire divine court has to be involved in the emergence of this extraordinary creature that is in the image of God, the likeness of God, who is going to be God's representative, the steward of God's creation.
Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth." So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. (Gen. 1:26–27)
And when God has completed this act of creation, God sees not that "it was good," as God said at the end of all the other acts of creation. God sees something more. At the end of this sixth day, "God saw everything that he had made, and indeed it was very good" (Gen. 1:31). All of it was very good, including us; no part of it is inherently evil. We are very good. How can we believe this when we see the horror and grief we inflict on each other? We can believe it because we know that we are made in the very image and likeness of God. We say this not only as a faith statement or creed. We say this because we have found that it is the best way to express who and what we are. Perhaps you, like most of us, really do not understand the incredible creatures we are. Perhaps you have not taken in what it means to be made in the image of God. We forget. Or we don't really believe it. But we are made in the image of God. It is as though we want to be dwarfs when God wants us to be giants.
We are endowed, like the creator, with this gift of creativity. Anyone who has seen a dancer in motion or an artist at work, anyone who has enjoyed the skill of a good cook or watched a child build a sandcastle or make a mud pie knows that human creativity is inherent.
We may apply our creativity to good ends or ill. Human artistry can be used to decorate a home or forge a banknote. Human resourcefulness can combine the chemicals to purify a well or poison a watercourse. The beautiful gardens at the Palace of Versailles in France and at Mount Vernon in Virginia were the fruit of human inventiveness. The minefields that still kill and maim in Angola and Cambodia were also planned and planted by human beings.
In our creativity we are like God. We are also like God in our freedom. God is self-constrained in relationship to us. God leaves us free to choose how we apply our gifts and talents. Like a good parent, God renders God's-self powerfully powerless in the face of our choices. When we see the pride shining in a mother's eyes as her little darling squeals out his first clarinet recital, we can imagine the face of God as God surveys our successes. When we watch the pained calm of a parent listening to a report of his child's misdeeds, we can imagine the anguished eyes of God as God sees us stumble, fall, and fail. In all the diverse expressions of humanity we are made like God.
We are made not only like God but also for God. Planted in the center of our being is a longing for the holy. "Don't you know," the Christian letter writer Saint Paul asks, "that you are a temple of the Holy Spirit?" People of faith treat a temple with the utmost respect and reverence. Even for those of no faith there are places that are accorded the status of temples; for some it might be their house or garden, into which they pour all of their effort and love. My wife, Leah, hates housework but will joyfully spend endless hours tending her garden. Each of our homes has been lovely and well maintained, but our gardens have always been true spiritual oases, places for the soul to be refreshed. For some people it might be an office or workshop that is accorded the status of temple: it is maintained with a kind of reverence.
We are temples of the Holy Spirit. Not just our bodies but our very selves, the essence of our being, is the place in which the Spirit resides. The Spirit within us calls out to God to find its place and its home. Saint Augustine says, "You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in you." Being made for God means, for us, that anything less than God will not suffice. We are hungry for God, but we don't always know that it is God that we crave. Often we are like the woman who stands at the open refrigerator door at three o'clock in the morning knowing that she is hungry for something but not knowing what it is that she needs, so she shuts the mouth of her hunger with something that merely stupefies but does not satisfy. We stand around feeling a vague dissatisfaction and having no idea of what it is that we actually want. So we shut the mouth of our desire for God with busyness, or with things -- gadgets, gizmos, trinkets, and treasures -- and emerge at the other end recognizing that what we have is not what we need.
We yearn for God, yet we feel lost on the way to our own hearts. We want to live lives of goodness. We long for a teacher and adviser close enough to speak the words of wisdom to guide us. Who is this teacher, this adviser? Many can help us along the way, but in the end it is only God whose advice we really need to hear. But how can we reach God? How can we hear what God has to say to us? God may seem distant and inaccessible. Sometimes we stop hearing the voice of God in our lives. And sometimes, though we hear God's voice, God seems not to speak our language.
In this book we will share how we have learned to talk with God. More importantly, we will tell you how we have heard God speak to us. We will offer some ways you can tune yourself to God's frequency, some ways to understand God's language, ways to listen and hear God's words of guidance for your own life. Ultimately, what stirs us most deeply is what is life giving. What is soul stirring, what is life giving, is of God. We are made for God, who is the giver of life. We are made by God, who holds us in life.
We are animated and held in life by the very breath of God. It is God's breath that sustains us. Let us turn again to the book of Genesis, this time to the second creation story. As the mother of a young child for whom puddles and mud are current wonders, Mpho is always captivated by the image in the second creation story. In that narrative we can almost see God playing in the dirt and creating from the dust the earth being, Adam. And we watch God blowing the breath of life, God's own breath, into this first human.
In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up -- for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no one to till the ground; but a stream would rise from the earth, and water the whole face of the ground -- then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being. (Gen. 2:4–7)
We who are human are being kept in being by the very breath of God from moment to moment. Each moment is a choice of God. If God stopped, even for the fraction of a second, from upholding us, from breathing God's breath into us, we would disintegrate. Which is an incredible statement about God; because God does that even for the ones that we call bad people, evil people. God is as intimate with them as God is intimate with the most saintly. There is not a single person that God gives up on, because God knows that we are made to be like God, who is goodness itself. This is not only a faith claim. It is a scientific fact. Science testifies that goodness is a survival strategy. God created us to depend on each other for our very lives.
As primatologist Frans de Waal explains, "We belong to the category of animals known among zoologists as 'obligatorily gregarious,' meaning that we have no option but to stick together. This is why fear of ostracism lurks in the corners of every human mind: being expelled is the worst thing that can befall us. It was so in biblical times, and it remains so today. Evolution has instilled a need to belong and to feel accepted. We are social to our core." Early studies of human survival have noted the "fight or flight" stress response. Newer research has observed that not everyone responds to stress in the same way: instead of fight or flight, some adopt a "tend and befriend" response. By caring for the young and banding together for protection and support, we have ensured the survival of the species. This pattern of relationship building not only ensures physical survival but also contributes to psychic well-being. Those who have been involved in the more nurturing aspects of child rearing can testify to the psychic satisfaction of rocking a baby to sleep. Mpho and I both know the simple joy of being able to heal a hurt with a kiss and banish midnight monsters with a cuddle. Caring for the weak and vulnerable has health benefits for the caregiver as well as for the recipient of the attention. Elder-care settings have demonstrated the physical and psychological benefits to seniors of caring for small animals. Having a pet to tend can soothe anxious children.
Ubuntu is the Xhosa word used to describe the "tend and befriend" survival behavior. Ubuntu recognizes that human beings need each other for survival and well-being. A person is a person only through other persons, we say. We must care for one another in order to thrive.
The impulse to care, the instinct for goodness, is a shining thread woven into the fabric of our being. As human beings we may tarnish the sheen or rend the fabric of our own goodness. We can act in cruel and heartless ways. But because we are human, we cannot completely rip out and destroy every vestige of the godliness by which and for which we were made. We cannot alter our essence. We are made by God, who is goodness itself. We are made like God. We are made for goodness.
The scripture that we read, the places we have been, the people we have seen, the evidence of science and our own life experience have convinced us that goodness is our essential quality. In the next chapter we will see that "being good" is the wrong goal. Attached to that notion of "being good" are all the "oughts" and "shoulds" that we think will win us the prize we truly crave: God's love and divine favor. We are wearing ourselves out in a quest to buy what is already ours: God's unmerited love. I will begin by sharing a very personal story about unmerited love. But first turn with us into the stillness and listen to God speak with the voice of the heart:
My child, I made you for myself.
I made you like myself.
I delight in you.
My heart aches with pity
When you smother joy under the onslaught of busyness.
Then there is barely a minute
To pause and listen for me.
You run everywhere looking for life,
Searching for the life of life.
All the while I am here.
I am as close as a prayer.
I am breathing in your breath.
You look for me in the pleasures of life.
Things pile upon things,
Experiences crowd out experiences,
Places run together in a hazy blur,
And still you don't find that one thing that will satisfy you.
But I am here.
I am as close as a prayer.
I am breathing in your breath.
I made you for myself,
I wanted you.
I made you like myself,
I made you good and I made you free.
Listen! For I have carved in you the heart to hear.
Listen and know that I am near.
I am as close as a prayer.
I am breathing in your breath.
Before you speak the word of worry or worship I hear you.
Before you sing your delight or moan your anguish I speak.
I am here.
I am as close as a prayer.
I am breathing in your breath.
With each breath I choose life for you.
I paint the pattern of joy in your heart and leave it there for you to
I build the frame of your flourishing in the center of your being and
Call you to search it out.
I kindled the spark of goodness in you.
With each breath I fan the flame.
I am here.
I am as close as a prayer.
I am breathing in your breath.
With each breath you choose, my child, for you are free.
Will you breathe with me the breath of life?
Will you claim the joy I have prepared for you?
Will you seek me out and fi nd me here?
Will you whisper the prayer?
Will you breathe in my breath?
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Chris Carter and Jon Singleton hit their first career grand slams to power Houston to a 14-5 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Sunday.
Carter's slam in the seventh inning sailed over the limestone overhang in right field and gave Houston a 9-3 lead. Singleton lined a fastball off Glen Perkins over the right-field wall that made it 14-5 in the ninth.
Dexter Fowler and George Springer also homered for the Astros. Houston has now hit 69 homers this season, well on pace to surpass last season's total of 148, third-worst in the American League.
''It puts more strain on the opposing pitchers,'' Astros manager Bo Porter said. ''They feel like, `I can't make a mistake here, I can't make a mistake here.' That can drain on a staff.''
The only other time two Astros players hit grand slams in the same game was July 30, 1969, at New York when Denis Menke and Jimmy Wynn both hit slams in an 11-run ninth inning against the Mets.
Houston players are also sensing a different vibe now that the lineup is filled with more power.
''It's been fun. We like playing off of each other,'' Singleton said. ''That's definitely a bonus. When one person does well, it carries over and it's contagious.''
Darin Downs (1-0) got the last eight outs as the third reliever to follow starter Colin McHugh, who fanned six and allowed one run over 4 1/3 innings. He walked five and was removed after throwing 101 pitches.
Trevor Plouffe and Josh Willingham hit RBI singles as Minnesota made it 5-3 in the fifth, but couldn't get any closer before Carter and Singleton powered the game away.
Houston batted around in the fourth inning, scoring three runs after Samuel Deduno (2-4) loaded the bases with nobody out by walking two batters and hitting another.
The Astros have won seven of eight on the road and 11 of their last 15 overall as they try to snap a three-year streak of losing 100 games.
It was the third time in club history Minnesota allowed two grand slams in the same game. The last time it happened was April 22, 1988, in Cleveland.
''They got us today,'' Perkins said. ''I think they swing hard in case they hit it, and they hit them today. Theyre not as bad as people think they are. Gotta give credit to them the way they swing the bat and pitch the ball pretty well.''
The Twins also officially signed free-agent designated hitter/first-baseman Kendrys Morales on Sunday to bolster their inconsistent offense.
But if Minnesota - now three games under .500 - wants to remain in the playoff race, it's going to need better starting pitching.
Deduno walked four and hit two while allowing five runs in three innings on Sunday, raising his ERA to 4.45.
As a group, Minnesota's starters are 19-25 with a 4.97 ERA.
''Not a good day pitching today. Used a lot of innings out there,'' Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. ''We still have three games to go (before the next off day), so we'll get through it. Thats the way it is. They killed it at the end.''
McHugh struck out four batters in a row during one stretch and extended his scoreless innings streak to a career-high 16 2/3 before Eduardo Nunez homered in the fourth.
Springer, named American League rookie of the month after hitting 10 home runs in May, led off the eighth by hitting his second homer in three games.
''It's nice to have other guys in the lineup who do the same thing and have more protection where guys can't just pitch around me or pitch around another guy,'' said Carter, who led Houston with 29 homers last season. ''There's another guy behind him always. It's good for all of us.''
NOTES: To make room on the roster for Morales, Minnesota released Jason Kubel, who appeared in 798 games over parts of eight seasons with the Twins, but was hitting .224 this year and just .158 since April. ... The Astros recalled LHP Rudy Owens to pitch out of the bullpen and sent Paul Clemens back to Triple-A Oklahoma City for the sixth time this season. ... The Twins unveiled a new bronze statue on the Target Plaza before the game: team mascot T.C. Bear. ... Jonathan Villar singled three times for Houston. ... Ricky Nolasco (4-5, 5.65 ERA) starts for the Twins against Toronto's R.A. Dickey (6-4, 4.25 ERA) on Monday. ... Houston's Jarred Cosart (4-5, 4.16 ERA) faces Josh Collmenter (4-2, 3.63 ERA) to kick off a two-game series in Arizona on Monday.


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2013 GMC Yukon, Yukon Hybrid and Yukon XL: New Car Review
Pros: Credibly balances workaday capability and weekend playability; fits neatly between Chevrolet Tahoe/Suburban and Cadillac Escalade
Cons: Like its core demographic, the Yukon and Yukon XL are showing their age.
What's New: Revised powertrain grade braking
Regardless of the current price of a gallon of gas, the full-size SUV remains a popular choice for many drivers. Like many large sport utilities, the 2013 GMC Yukon offers spaciousness and versatility that's unmatched by smaller SUVs and crossovers. Whether it's the shorter wheelbase (116 inch) Yukon or longer (130 in) Yukon XL, this GMC's high hip point, expansive glass area and truck-based platform make it a great perch from which to navigate school zones, the morning commute or the Friday afternoon drive to a weekend getaway.
The Yukon/Yukon XL shares a chassis, a drivetrain and most sheet metal with the Chevrolet Tahoe/Suburban. Both remain enduring examples of a plentiful American past in which gasoline was cheap, roads were wide and families -- or families and their friends -- were large. With the Yukon, GMC has attempted to keep up with the demand for more efficiency while still offering this capable full-size SUV. There is even a more economical Yukon Hybrid that's rated at 21 mpg in combined driving. But the Yukon still demands a sizable investment. In return, drivers get abundant space for people and cargo, plus the simplicity, reliability and inexpensive maintenance that come with the Yukon's dated, truck-based architecture.
With the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enforcing ever-stricter fuel economy requirements, body-on-frame trucks and SUVs like the Yukon may not be around much longer. Although the traditional truck setup makes for a strong and capable SUV, it creates inefficiencies in a world that's growing less tolerant of them. GMC hasn't confirmed the design path for the next-generation Yukon, but a unibody design is likely. That will mean lighter weight and better fuel efficiency, but also reduced capabilities.
The 2013 Yukon arrives mostly unchanged, except for a new exterior paint color and a powertrain grade braking function that now operates both in the normal transmission mode, and with the tow setting activated.
Comfort & Utility
Because of its high ride height, entering the Yukon requires stepping up. Once seated behind the relatively narrow steering wheel, the driver quickly realizes the payoff resulting from the climb. The view is almost unrestricted, allowing the driver to see over and beyond the vehicles in adjacent lanes, provided that the other vehicles aren't also large SUVs. Even with the lower, 2WD chassis, the Yukon's tall perch and bright greenhouse provide excellent visibility.
If the Yukon's separate body-on-frame architecture is a tad long in the tooth, so is its interior. To GMC's credit, the instrument gauges are easily readable, but the Yukon's center stack is decidedly last century. The automaker has added those technological bits and pieces necessary in the luxury truck category, but they appear to be an afterthought, not an integrated part of the design. And although seating is comfortable, it provides just the smallest suggestion of real lateral support.
For those who regularly carry a bunch of people, or a few people in combination with a bunch of things, the Yukon and Yukon XL are better equipped for the task than most vehicles. Both front and middle rows are genuinely spacious. The Yukon's third row is one an adult can actually enjoy, not the for-kids-only penalty box common to smaller vehicles. For those that carry a lot of stuff on a regular basis, we'd go for the extra space of the XL. It gives you three rows and prodigious cargo space. And if you're towing, the Yukon XL 2500 is a three quarter ton platform with more than 9,000 pounds of towing capability.
Navigation radio with touchscreen is standard on the Yukon Denali and optional on the Yukon SLT. The entertainment side includes SiriusXM satellite radio with CD/DVD player, color touchscreen display, USB port, radio data system and pause/play radio. This package is optional on SLE and SLT and standard on Denali, Hybrid and Denali Hybrid models. Bluetooth technology is standard on all models. An available rear seat DVD entertainment system comes in handy, keeping passengers occupied on long trips.
GM's OnStar is provided on all trim levels. Whether you're using it for turn-by-turn navigation, concierge service or an on-road emergency, it can prove invaluable with only a modest subscription fee.
Performance and Fuel Economy
GM's Active Fuel Management technology is employed for all available V8 engines, including the one in the Yukon Hybrid. With this program, computers monitor the engine's load; if all eight cylinders aren't necessary for forward movement, then four of those cylinders are deactivated.
Within the GMC Yukon family (Yukon, Yukon XL, Yukon Denali, Yukon XL Denali and Yukon Hybrid/Denali Hybrid), there are four available drivetrains. Standard on the Yukon/Yukon XL 1500 is the 5.3-liter V8 with Active Fuel Management, which makes 320 horsepower and 335 lb-ft of torque. Opt for the Yukon Hybrid (only with the standard, short wheelbase Yukon platform), and you'll enjoy a 2-mode hybrid system featuring an electrically variable transmission and 300-volt nickel-metal hydride energy storage system, working with a 332-hp V8 displacing 6.0 liters. Both drivetrains are seamless in their operation, with prodigious torque, instant off-the-line response and sleep-inducing over-the-road relaxation.
All Yukon Denali models are equipped with a larger displacement, 6.2-liter V8 delivering 403 hp and 417 lb-ft of torque. And if you opt for the three quarter ton Yukon XL you'll find a 6.0-liter V8 under the hood providing 352 hp and 382 lb-ft of torque. Despite three tons of mass and barn-like aerodynamics, the Yukon family delivers reasonable but not stellar fuel economy. The thirstiest is the 4-wheel drive Yukon XL, delivering 10 mpg city/15 mpg hwy. The most efficient is, of course, the Yukon Hybrid drivetrain. It gets an estimated 20 mpg city/23 mpg hwy. The 5.3-liter in the 1500 and 6.2-liter in the Denali split the difference, with city ratings in the mid-teens and highway ratings in the high teens/low 20s.
When confronted with a collision scenario, size does matter; the Yukon will be bigger than most things it collides with. But to improve your survivability if a collision does happen, the Yukon includes standard side curtain air bags with rollover protection for all seating rows, standard seat mounted side impact air bags for driver and right front passenger and seat belt pretensioners, which minimize passenger movement during a collision.
Helping to avoid collisions or unintended off-road excursions are StabiliTrak with rollover mitigation technology, standard 4-wheel disc brakes with ABS and the safety of responsive (albeit relatively thirsty) V8 powertrains.
Driving Impressions
Within the context of a 20th century design, GM's engineering team has done a remarkable job of keeping the Yukon driver connected to the pavement. However, with 6,000 pounds of mass and a fairly conventional front suspension and live rear axle, there's only so much a design team can do without scrapping all of the hardware. In the next-gen Yukon, though, we're fairly confident they'll be ditching the antiquated suspension for some more modern components.
We found the Yukon to deliver what you'd expect from a big, 2-box design intended for people hauling and trailer towing. The ride is comfortable, the handling fairly remote and the power delivery seamless. In these times, and at these price points, it would be difficult to ask for more.
Other Trucks to Consider
If shopping for a GMC Yukon, we'd also consider the Lincoln Navigator, Toyota Land Cruiser, Lexus LX570, Mercedes-Benz GL and Infiniti QX56. The Lincoln reflects the same (old) school of thought, while the LX570 is a luxurious reinterpretation of today's Land Cruiser. The GL Mercedes is certainly more contemporary, and with the available Bluetec diesel it is significantly more efficient. But with either a gas or diesel powertrain, the Mercedes is more expensive. Infiniti's QX56 is an upscale derivative of Nissan's well-respected, not-for-U.S. Patrol. Despite somewhat swollen proportions, it benefits from a unit body, a King Kong powertrain and a more responsive suspension.
When considering the larger Yukon XL (especially the three quarter ton 2500) competitors are fewer. The Yukon XL 2500 stands in a league nearly all its own.
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We'd spec a 2013 GMC Yukon XL 2500 with 4-wheel drive, the SLE appearance package and all-weather floor mats. With a topped up tank of gas, we could drive happily ever after with a transaction price of just over $50,000. So equipped, the Yukon would deliver almost 10,000 pounds of towing capability, all-season safety and room for seven of our closest friends.


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Cancelled projects, manufacturing overruns, and warehouse liquidations can generate a truckload of surplus inventory. While a majority of this electrical equipment is sold through local surplus dealers, e-commerce has opened up a new way of doing business.
David Rosenfield, president of ROMAC, City of Commerce, Calif., estimates that the surplus electrical industry tops $1 billion. In the past five years, an increasing number of dealers have started listing their inventories on their Web sites, selling equipment online, or trading their goods in Internet auctions.
"The Internet is an awesome way to sell a product because you can really get close to what you're buying," Rosenfield says. "I've been doing this for 35 years, and in the past you had to fly to where the material was, assuming it was out of your immediate territory, or you had to take your chances by way of verbal descriptions and a few Polaroids."
Two years ago, electrical contractors could buy and sell slow-moving, obsolete, and obscure equipment on about two-dozen electrical e-commerce sites. While many of those online ventures have all but vanished, it's still possible to unload surplus equipment through Internet auctions, Web bulletin boards, and online directories. One of those directories, Surplus Record, has been published for eight decades. In 1995, when many companies were first becoming aware of the Internet, the publication had already launched a comprehensive Web site at www.SurplusRecord.com. Today, 170,000 subscribers, from electrical contractors to manufacturers, can search for surplus electrical and power equipment online. Surplus Record also offers a free service to electrical contractors to sell their surplus equipment. If contractors overestimate the amount of material needed for a job or wind up with extra inventory after a project has been cancelled, they can post the items for sale on the directory's bulletin board.
"The Internet has made the world a smaller place," says Tom Scanlan, publisher of Surplus Record. "Traditionally, electrical contractors would call their local surplus dealer if they wanted to buy or sell equipment. Now they can post an item on our Web site and get proposals from dealers all over North America."
About 1,000 surplus dealers list more than 60,000 pieces of equipment on the Surplus Record Web site, which allows them to update their records daily, communicate instantaneously with their buyers through e-mail, and sell more equipment, Scanlan says.
"Electrical dealers are selling more surplus equipment online than they ever have before," he says. "Back in 1995, few dealers, if any, had exposure to the Internet until we brought them into it. They were not very open to embracing the Web, but we convinced them that this was the future."
While about 80% of the directory's advertisers have an online presence, only about 5% sell equipment directly from their Web site. Instead of serving as an e-commerce tool, Surplus Record operates as an independent marketplace to connect buyers with sellers. Another surplus directory, Electrical Advertiser (www.ea-online.com), also lists electrical equipment from more than 450 manufacturers, dealers, and suppliers.
While the online directories provide information on where to buy surplus electrical equipment, a handful of auction sites offer e-commerce capabilities. Large lots of transformers and heavy industrial equipment are sold on FreeMarkets Asset Auctions (www.AssetAuctions.FreeMarkets.com), where contractors, dealers, and manufacturers bid on surplus equipment offered by Fortune 1000 firms.
Smaller electrical contractors who are looking for a limited quantity of electrical supplies, however, can search for everything from vintage wiring books to transformers on eBay, an online marketplace with 49.7 million registered users (eBay Basics on page C10). While the site is geared more to do-it-yourselfers and consumers than professional contractors, an increasing number of surplus dealers, such as Denver-based Rocky Mountain Surplus, are selling electrical surplus through eBay. President Rockne Rhodes says his company launched an eBay electrical store a year-and-a-half ago, hired a full-time employee to set up and track eBay auctions, and bought four digital cameras to take photos of the surplus equipment. Today, his business attracts customers from around the world.
"It keeps growing and expanding," Rhodes says. "We have noticed a lot more international sales with eBay. I'm sure it will be routine five years from now where we'll be selling surplus electrical equipment to customers all over the world. It's a slowly evolving marketplace, but it's very efficient."
Rhodes opened an eBay store not to sell truckloads of surplus inventory, but rather to track customers and pull in new business. While an electrician or distributor may not find the exact item they're looking for in Rhodes' online store, they often call his company to ask if they have an alternate item in stock. eBay, which launched in 1995, has added new categories such as circuit breakers and transformers due to the increased demand for electrical equipment in the last few years. Rhodes says surplus dealers need to consistently list items on eBay before a market can get off the ground.
"We put transformers up on eBay and we weren't getting any sales for a couple of months, but we kept listing them," Rhodes says. "All of a sudden, it just took off, and we were selling a ton of them. It's a catch-22. Someone has to be out there doing it. Once they start putting the stuff up there consistently, it eventually attracts a crowd."
Some surplus dealers, however, haven't yet jumped on the Internet bandwagon. Rhodes says many of his counterparts may be afraid of new technology or reluctant to make the upfront investment of time and money.
"They like their way of doing business because they are used to it," Rhodes says. "They don't realize that the way they are doing business now is going to change in the future because of the Internet. You can't stop it. Those people who choose not to evolve will not be in business 10 years from now."
What to Ask Before Buying Online
David Rosenfield advises contractors to e-mail the seller to find out as much information as possible before bidding on electrical equipment online. Here are a few questions to steer you in the right direction.
- Is this an original factory product?
- Is the product new and in the box?
- Does it have any cracks, marks, or fractures in its case?
- Does it exhibit any indication or symptoms of having been burned in any way?
- What kinds of tests do you use to ensure the safety and reliability of the product?
- When was the last time this product was in service?
- Has it ever failed?
- Is there any warranty in the event that the product arrives and is dead on arrival?
- Can I return the product if I'm not satisfied with it?
Get What You Pay for on the Net
Electrical contractors should always remember the common phrase, "caveat emptor" or "let the buyer beware" when purchasing electrical equipment online, says David Rosenfield, one of the founders of the Professional Electrical Apparatus Recyclers League (PEARL), a trade association for surplus dealers.
"The caution that I would offer to anybody about buying on the Internet is that if you don't go out of your way to verify the product, you could get a bag of junk," Rosenfield says. "The worst thing about trading online is that people demand cash in advance more often than in any other venue. One of the shortfalls of buying on the Internet is that you have a tendency to forget that you're still dealing with humans and not just a computer screen."
If possible, contractors should ask the seller a lot of questions before placing their bids on an auction site. Sometimes, however, they won't find out they got a lemon until after they've already won an auction, paid the seller, and opened up the package. For example, Rosenfield learned a valuable lesson when he unknowingly bought a counterfeit circuit breaker on eBay. Someone had re-marked a trip unit to look like an original factory device, and the seller couldn't tell the difference. Because of how easy it is to silkscreen a new product label and how difficult it is to spot a fake, some counterfeit products can slip through the cracks on Internet auctions.
"In the used equipment business, counterfeiting has been a problem for a long time — long before there was eBay or any other Internet marketing tools," he says. "When we caught the problem with the circuit breaker, we sent it back and the seller was good enough to make it right for us."
Rosenfield says one time, however, he bought a diesel gen set on eBay, but wound up with unusable merchandise and no way to return it.
"I was promised that the unit was pristine and recently removed from a hospital installation," Rosenfield says. "When I received it, it had a cracked engine block. It was junk. It's rusting in my backyard now. The seller wouldn't help a bit."
eBay has since implemented a fraud protection program. If a buyer contacts a seller and the dispute isn't resolved within two weeks, then the buyers can contact their credit card company, which may offer 100% online protection. They can also use an online mediator, such as Square Trade, which is offered free of charge to eBay buyers. Next, buyers can file a fraud alert and if necessary, a protection claim. If the problem is still not addressed, buyers can contact law enforcement agencies such as the National Fraud Information Center or the Internet Fraud Complaint Center.
The Surplus Record, an online directory, also keeps a watchful eye on any suspicious activity. When a buyer alerts the directory about a surplus dealer who is trying to sell counterfeit or misrepresented electrical equipment, the Surplus Record will confront the dealer, ask to see some paperwork, and pull the company's advertising if the buyer's assertion is found to be true.
"We had an advertiser who spent more than $4,000 a month with us who was caught changing nameplates on transformers," says Tom Scanlan of the Surplus Record. "He was selling 500kVA transformers at 750kVA and 2,000KVA transformers at 2,500KVA. We asked him to take his advertising elsewhere, and he never got back in."
Whether you're purchasing electrical equipment on eBay or through a surplus dealer's Web site, remember to always ask a lot of questions before bidding on an item and inspect the merchandise carefully upon arrival. Taking a few extra minutes to research a company and its products can save you hours of frustration, mounds of paperwork, and the expense of litigation in the long run.
eBay Basics
How to register
Visit eBay.com and click on the button, "Register Now."
Enter your contact information and create a user name and password.
Accept the user agreement.
Check your e-mail. eBay will send you a link that you can use to complete your registration. You can then return to the eBay home page and start bidding.
Bidding on an item
To place a bid on an auction, follow these steps:
Search for an item by typing keywords into eBay's search engine.
Select one item from the listing and preview the description.
Enter your maximum bid in the bid box at the bottom of the page.
Enter your user name and password and click the "place bid" button. eBay will then automatically bid incrementally on your behalf until it reaches your maximum bid. If you are outbid, eBay will notify you by e-mail so you have the opportunity to increase your bid before the end of the auction. If you're the winning bidder, you'll receive an e-mail alert informing you to contact the seller with your shipping address. For faster shipping, you can sign up for PayPal, an online payment service.
eBay's safe trading tips
Contractors can learn about a seller's reputation before placing a bid. Each eBay seller has an online feedback profile, which includes comments from previous buyers and a numerical rating. Sellers receive:
+1 point for each positive comment
0 points for each neutral comment
-1 point for each negative comment
If the seller has a high number after their user ID, it means they've earned lots of positive feedback. If that number is extremely low, they either don't have much experience selling on eBay, or they've received negative feedback. In that case, be careful and ask a lot of questions before placing a bid.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – In its final regular season match, the No. 23 MIT women's tennis team powered its way past Simmons College by a 9-0 score. It was also senior day for the Engineers, who honored seniors Bianca Dumitrascu (Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania), Caitlin Pomeroy (Cape Elizabeth, Maine) and Candace Wu (Yorba Linda, Calif.) prior to the match.
MIT (16-4) picked up its first point by way of a shutout as the No. 3 doubles team of freshman Sunnie Lampl (Bluemont, Va.) and sophomore Michelle Dutt (Gurnee, Ill.) won their match, 8-0. At No. 1 it was junior Lauren Quisenberry (Corpus Christi, Texas) and junior Julia Hsu (Knoxville, Tenn.) taking the second point of the day with an 8-1 win, with the No. 2 team of Dumitrascu and freshman Victoria Tam (Rolling Hills Estates, Calif.) coming out on top in the closest of the doubles contests with an 8-4 victory over Sabrina Salmela and Caroline Khoury.
MIT was just too much for Simmons (15-5) on this day as the Engineers swept through singles play without dropping a set. Playing at No. 2, sophomore Vynnie Kong (Cupertino, Calif.) brought home the first point, taking a 6-0, 6-2 win over Salmela. Wu then picked up the match clinching point, defeating Meghan Cokely, at No. 3, 6-0, 6-1. At the top of the singles ladder Quisenberry then delivered a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Margaret Teague to make it 6-0.
Freshman Alana Peters (Kenilworth, Ill.), playing at No. 6, then picked up the next win for MIT by taking a 6-1, 6-0 decision over Rachel Sweeney. At No.4 it was freshman Meghana Vasireddy (Golden Valley, Minn.) getting the 6-3, 6-0 win over Rachael Downey before freshman Iris Zhuang (Allen, Texas) completed the sweep with her 6-1, 6-2 victory over Khoury at No. 5.
Both teams will see action again in the upcoming NCAA Tournament, with MIT getting an automatic bid after capturing the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference championship and Simmons punching its ticket by taking the Great Northeast Athletic Conference title. The parings for the tournament, which starts on May 10, will be announced on May 7.


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The Catholic Church is incapable of accepting gay sex because it barely tolerates straight sex. The Church regards all sex as sinful other than sex within marriage — and even then, only for procreation.
Unless the church embraces sexuality in general as one of the greatest attributes of being human, it can never accept homosexuality.
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