It feels strange walking through an open field in a small village in the English countryside. There is no one else – only four of us: me, my husband, my 12 year old son and my adult niece. The day is spectacular, especially for England. The sun is shining and temperatures are in the 70s.
After breakfast with tea and scones aboard the canal boat we rented for a week, we set out this morning to explore the surrounding Oxford Canal. After filling our backpacks with things we might need (water, a few snacks, a pen, and of course our phones), we put on our baseball caps, lace up our sneakers, and get on our way.
Through the field, a handmade wooden sign points the way to the trail that leads through a secluded farm. We are on vacation and doing what we like to do: Geocaching.
Instead of visiting museums or shopping, we charged our phones and spent the day exploring areas we would never normally find. That's the beauty of geocaching – you'll discover parks, monuments, trails, buildings and towns that the locals know, but not the guidebooks.
Today we enter a century-old church to find a church middle cache, about the size of a small shoe box. We all have iPhones (my husband has a 7, my niece and I each have a 6S and my son has an SE.) The geocaching app we use (Android | iOS) gives us the coordinates where we have to go to describe the Caches (its size, all relevant information) and optional hints that help us find it.
We walk about half a mile; The lonely bell tower stands out against the blue sky. When we get to the church, we go through a gate in the old iron fence in the yard. Centuries-old tombstones surround the small church, which unfortunately is closed today. We would like to have seen the glass windows from the inside.
But no matter. We have a cache to find.
The GPS leads us to a distance of less than 20 meters to the place where it is hidden. Now it is up to us to find out exactly where. It becomes quiet when we stop talking and focus on finding something that looks unusual. My son turns stones while my niece looks up and under the fence. I find a long stick and brush aside leaves that have accumulated in heaps around the grass. My husband walks along the church and runs his hand against the stone wall. Once he hits a stone that is not flush with the rest. He shakes it and pushes it out. "Found it!" he shouts.
When he pulls out the loose stone, a plastic box is revealed. My niece gets a pen so we can sign the protocol. My son walks over to see what's inside. There is a cloverleaf keychain, a mini rubber chicken and a smiley magnet. He exchanges American coins for the chicken, and my husband marks the cache as "found" in the app.
Enthusiasts refer to geocaching as the largest Treasure hunt in the world. At this moment, no matter what state, state, or continent you are in, there are hidden containers, called caches, just waiting to be found. There are 3.1 million active geocaches worldwide. Some are tiny (these are called "micros") and are only a few millimeters in size. Others are tall and tall enough to go through. Regardless of size, they all have one thing in common: a log that you sign when you find it. The microphones contain only a firmly scrolled sheet of paper, which is required for rolling nimble fingers. The larger caches contain notebooks and pencils as well as toys or jewelry called "Geoswag".
All this excitement would not be possible without the technology of GPS. It's hard to remember what life was like in front of the GPS when it's now available with our cars and cell phones. Before the year 2000, the US military kept the GPS close to the vest by deliberately lowering the signal to prevent civilian use. In May 2000, however, the situation changed when the government ended this "selective availability" and made GPS essentially a public commodity. Nobody could have guessed at the time that this availability would lead to a game of global treasure hunt.
However, some forward-thinking people decided to test the new navigation tools by placing objects in the forest and listing the coordinates on the Internet. In September of this year, three friends founded Groundspeak Inc. (as a geocaching headquarters).
The geocacher author Selena Hoy, who has been enthusiastic since 2008, remembers her first geocaching trip in Guam GPS device "At that time you could not do it on your mobile phone," she said. "It was totally different, you had to choose which caches you wanted, plan a route and enter coordinates into your GPS … it was a much more deliberate activity."
Chris Ronan, Community Relations Manager for Geocaching HQ and active cacher himself, who found caches in all 50 states and 14 countries, said GPS devices might be expensive at first, which limited the number of participants.
As the use of GPS and the ownership of smartphones increased, the hobby began. and the cache numbers started to grow exponentially. In the first week after launching the geocaching app, 75 caches were listed. In 2018, there were 71,602,898 "Found It" logs on Geocaching.com worldwide, and enthusiasts participated in over 43,000 geocaching events worldwide.
I did not discover geocaching until 2010, when I came across an article in a parent magazine. When a friend mentioned tasting it with her children, I knew I had to try it out. I downloaded the geocaching app to my phone and was surprised that there were about a dozen caches in my city. Since GPS was integrated into my phone, it was easy to immerse in the hobby.
Geocaching is an affordable, easily accessible hobby, thanks to the creation of apps and the widespread expansion of GPS. Groundspeak's most popular app Geocaching is available for both Android and iOS with free and paid versions. With the paid version ($ 9.99 for three months or $ 29.99 for a year), you can only find premium member caches, use offline maps, create lists, and assign favorite points to the best caches.
A similar app, Cachly, is available for iOS only and costs $ 4.99. With this app, you can save caches in offline lists, translate tips and logs from any language and choose from various card types. Each app tells you which caches are in your area and navigates to them.
As you might expect, the geocaching community is huge and online forums are a great place to get information, share stories and ask questions. Beginners will be wise to read the geocaching website. There you will learn how to navigate to a cache and what to do once you find it. In the Geocaching Forum, topics range from different locations to technology talks. Beginners can find help, and experienced cachers can discuss their findings. Of course, Reddit's Geocaching Forum offers all sorts of discussions and pictures, and there are tons of YouTube videos from cachers around the world. If the weather does not play along, it's easy to become a geocacher and read or observe everything about other people's travels.
Of course there are certain rules for caching. You should always obtain permission from the landlord before setting up a cache. Seekers should therefore never be privately owned, unless specifically stated in the description. Of course, local laws apply, and seekers must follow common sense. If the terrain feels dangerous or uncomfortable, you should switch to another cache. It's especially important that you pay attention to your surroundings while caching while on vacation. The last thing you want is to get lost.
As with any new hobby, there is a learning curve at the beginning. In our first attempts, we had to walk in circles, tramp on muddy paths and try to be inconspicuous in public places.
A cache in a grocery store was frustrating for newbies. After my son had looked up and down for almost half an hour, he became tired and moody. We just wanted to record it as "DNF" when I thought about pressing a metal electrical cover plate. It turned out to be a decoy, and the cache was hidden inside. With over 400 caches under the belts, we now have a better idea of what to look for. It only takes a little practice to train your eye to look for things that seem out of place.
Susie Henderson, her husband (a geography teacher at a high school), and her two sons, now 10 and 8 years old, first tried geocaching while camping in Vancouver Island. The Parks Canada Visitors Center at Wickaninnish Beach rents free GPS devices. "I would not say it was an overwhelming success," she said. "We were trying to find the first geocache that was pretty close to the Visitor Center, to no avail, we were going around in circles and found it nowhere." She was not deterred, however. Since then they have been geocaching on other holidays and their husband has taken his students for geocaching.
If you want to plan a geocaching holiday, you have many options. You can do it in cities, in the countryside, even diving or mountaineering, and on my 40th birthday, we planned a geocaching trip to New York City, where we roamed Manhattan in search of micro-caches If we travel to Maine to visit the family, we will add extra travel time for us to travel to Way to stop to find caches. We found caches in all New England states and as far as Arizona. Of course, we do not keep a candle for others who have traveled around the world looking for treasures.
Matthew Gillard, who is from England but currently lives in Bahrain, is cached in 15 countries. "Geocaching took me to some amazing places on vacation that I would not have visited if there was no cache," he said. Gillard is currently using a Garmin 62 Map and a Galaxy Note 5. "In India, we discovered an amazing historic fortress that we would have missed in. While caching in Australia, we discovered some beautiful places with amazing geology, and in France we really discovered an old chapel in the middle of nowhere, just because a cache was nearby. "
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And there's an added bonus to a cache discover. "The written protocols left by other cachers can look like a mini-guide." For example, a recommendation for a restaurant in a cache in Chiangmai, Thailand, led to the best meal he had ever had on vacation.
My family and I had a similar experience. A geocache log in England, tucked away in an old-fashioned red phone booth, had an entry that recommended a nearby pub. We accepted the proposal and had dinner that night.
Hoy agrees that geocaching is a great activity that can be integrated into the vacation. "Geocaches are often placed by locals who know a lot about the history and importance of local monuments, much more than in a guidebook or travel item. I think it's great that Geocaching shows unexpected little and beautiful places that are interconnected with me Locals, and I love the CITO ethos of geocaching, which means "Cache In, Trash Out," with the goal of leaving a place ever cleaner and better than we found it. "
It's also important checking the terrain from a cache, as Gillard reports. In Thailand, he got up early one morning while everyone was sleeping and searching for a cache. He had to climb an 80-foot cliff, which he thought was easy. "However, coming down turned out to be more difficult as I wore flip-flops and could not see where I was going to put my feet in. I really thought I could fall onto the rocks below," he said. Fortunately, it has come back without incident, but there are always safety concerns. If you are on muddy paths or guardrails along the road, it is important to be aware of your surroundings and to take precautions. It is not a bad idea to bring a small first aid kit along with water, sunscreen, insect repellent and snacks.
Paul Frizzell of Illinois has an amazing 22,731 finds under his belt, all found in the US (he has found caches in all 50 states) and three Canadian provinces. He is often traveling with different GPS options. Currently he prefers a Garmin Oregon 450 GPS and an iPhone 5 S . The self-described "geography and map nut" said that two of his most memorable and adventurous finds were the first caches to be placed in Hawaii and Alaska. "Hawaii was storming through a jungle, walking back to the car in the dark and dealing with wild boars," he said. "Alaska had almost constant rain, bears and a very unexpected encounter with other finders."
Not every cache needs to be so adventurous. Guardrail caches are very popular and sound the way they sound – caches hidden in the guardrail on the roadside. You will find magnetic micros on the back of street signs. They're not the most exciting caches, but at other times you'll find a cache where the container is unusual, like a piano in the middle of the woods, a book hollowed out in a bookshelf, or a birdhouse a tree.
One of the best containers that frequent traveler Megan Mertz had found was a beer mug hidden on a wall in Passau. She and her husband Jonathan Geocache around the world. They initially used a Garmin eTrex, but now rely solely on their Samsung Galaxy S7 and S9. In other cases, containers can be very tricky and look like rocks, bolts, tree trunks, pine cones or even hollowed out golf balls.
Some people do not care about the contents of the cache memory. They are only in there to claim another find. But others, especially children, like the excitement of seeing what's in the box. Geoswag can contain buttons, magnets, key chains and plastic animals. However, a big complaint among cachers is when the boxes are filled with garbage – random plastic toys that nobody wants, and things that get rusty or drenched. But often the content can be exciting. Some cachers have wood-made nickel with their team names and these become collectors items. My son was thrilled to find his first Pokémon card in a cache. Another time, a crisp $ 1 bill made a real treasure.
At a rest stop in New Hampshire, we found a cache with a traceable keychain or coin with a code designed to be moved from cache to cache to allow participants to track their progress around the world can. My son wanted to keep it (in this case, it was a dog tag), but we explained that we had to move it to another cache for someone else to find it. At Geocaching.com, we were able to track progress across the country.
When we started geocaching, my son was five years old. He was mildly impressed when we found a box hidden under a pile of stones in the forest, and he loved choosing a piece of jewelry to add to his collection. Now he is 12 years old and his focus has shifted to the management of technology and the leadership on our adventures. In England he referred us to a geocache hidden in a community garden and another in a college courtyard in Oxford.
We would never have seen these beautiful places if we were not geocaching. Through our experience we have learned that it is easy to go on vacation with a plan and a guide book, but it is even more exciting and spontaneous to build a vacation around geocaching. With a phone, an app, and a sense of adventure, geocaching can get you to places that only locals know. This summer we're exploring Rhode Island and Florida and maybe we'll have the opportunity to find some caches in Canada. In the end, it does not matter where we go or what we find. Caching ensures that we leave the beaten path and have spontaneous adventures with the people we love.


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Home Worship Planning History of Hymns History of Hymns: "The Church's One Foundation"
History of Hymns: "The Church's One Foundation"
Samuel J. Stone
By C. Michael Hawn
"The Church's One Foundation"
By Samuel J. Stone;
The United Methodist Hymnal, 545
Is Jesus Christ her Lord;
She is his new creation
By water and the Word.
From heaven he came and sought her
To be his holy bride;
With his own blood he bought her,
And for her life he died.
Samuel J. Stone (1839-1900) wrote this hymn as one of twelve published in Lyra Fidelium: Twelve Hymns on the Twelve Articles of the Apostles' Creed (1866). At the time of its publication, Stone was a young priest at New Windsor Parish Church, a poor district at Lavington, Oxford, in England. Earlier, during his education at Charterhouse (1853-1858), he won a prize for composition in English verse. He continued his education at Pembroke College, Oxford (1859-1862), leading to his ordination as a deacon in 1862 and as an Anglican priest in 1863.
Controversy over critical biblical methodologies was heating up. Interestingly enough, the theological battle over the nature of the Bible was waged not on the island of Great Britain, but by two bishops serving in South Africa. One of Stone's hymns was composed in support of the conservative stance promoted by the Bishop of Cape Town, Robert Gray (1809-1872). Gray defended the traditional dating and authorship of the Pentateuch.
An adversarial position was advocated by his popular colleague Bishop John William Colenso (1814-1883) of Natal, South Africa. Colenso was the author of several scriptural commentaries including The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua, Critically Acclaimed (1866) that espoused source-criticism, an emerging scholarly method of biblical criticism for dating and establishing the authorship of Scripture. Following closely on Colenso's work was the appearance of the documentary hypothesis (known by the acronym JEPD) in a seminal text by German scholar Julius Wellhausen (1844-1918), who, drawing upon the work of others, published Geschichte Israels. Bd. 1 ("History of Israel, Vol. 1") in 1878. These were heady days that shifted the tectonic plates of biblical understanding.
The animosity between these two South African bishops resulted in an unsuccessful attempt by Bishop Gray to remove Bishop Colenso from his post and have him excommunicated.
"The Church's One Foundation" speaks specifically to article nine of the Apostles' Creed, "(I believe in) the Holy Catholic Church: The Communion of Saints." The hymn itself is based on I Corinthians 3:11: "For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ" (KJV). This hymn, as well as others in the collection, was intended to serve pastoral, devotional, and catechetic purposes, according to hymnologist Albert Bailey, aiding in the "interpret[ation of] the Apostles' Creed for the benefit of certain cottagers in his Windsor suburb who were accustomed to repeat it as one of their private prayers" (Bailey, 1952, 377).
Ultimately, the polemical use of the hymn outweighed its pastoral intent. A skilled poet, Stone wrote a sarcastic "Soliloquy on a Rationalistic Chicken" in three stanzas that refutes any attempt to grapple with the scientific and philosophical views of his day. In the earlier stanzas, the chicken asks several questions: "How did I get in there?" followed by "Where was I of yore?", and concluding with "Why didn't I get out before?" The concluding stanza follows:
I meet the notion with profound disdain;
It's quite incredible; since I declare
(And I'm a chicken that you can't deceive)
What I can't understand I won't believe.
Where did I come from then? Ah! Where indeed?
That is a riddle monstrous hard to read.
I have it! Why, of course,
All things are moulded by some plastic force
Out of some atoms somewhere up in space,
Fortuitously concurrent anyhow! –
There now!
That's plain as is the beak upon my face. (Bailey, 1952, 376)
This, perhaps, prepares the reader for the assault that Stone sees as threatening the church over the dating and authorship of Scripture. Stanza three speaks specifically to the potential schism in the church as a result of different views of Scripture:
Though with a scornful wonder
We see her sore oppressed,
By schisms rent asunder,
By heresies distressed,
Yet saints their watch are keeping;
Their cry goes up, "How long?" [Psalm 13:1]
And soon the night of weeping
Shall be the morn of song. [Psalm 30:5]
An omitted original stanza three carries the tone of the debate to the level of a diatribe complete with name-calling:
The Church shall never perish!
Her dear Lord to defend,
To guide, sustain, and cherish,
Is with her to the end;
Though there be those who hate her,
And false sons in her pale,
Against or foe or traitor [sic]
She ever shall prevail.
The church exists in a constant state of controversy and potential schism. In many ways, this text articulates feelings that are as fresh as ever.
British hymnology scholar H. E. C. Stapleton offers insight into the hymn's popularity: "The strength of the hymn lies in the simplicity and directness of its message, the vividness of its metaphor, and the deliberate and distinct echoes of words and phrases from Scripture. In Lyra Fidelium there are no less than four biblical quotations annotated to each verse; in one, seven. It was hailed in Stone's own time as 'the battle-song of the Church'" (Stapleton, "The Church's One Foundation").
More than twenty years later in 1888, the popularity and influence of the hymn was manifest at the Lambeth Conference, assemblies of the bishops of the Anglican Church held every ten years and convened by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Accounts indicate that it was sung with vigor at all of the major services of the Conference. Australian hymnologist Wesley Milgate records the effect of the hymn on those who sang it in A Companion to Together in Song: "Sung by a large congregation, some people say this hymn was really more than they could bear. It made them feel weak at the knees, their legs trembled, and they really felt as though they were going to collapse" (Milgate, 2006, 335).
For those concerned that a hymn might be written for the purpose of advocating one theological position over another – what some might call "propaganda" – there is significant historical precedent for the use of hymns in this manner. Except perhaps for hymns that cite Scripture exactly, all hymns promote the author's experience and perspective in some way. It is up to the broader church to either validate or ignore that perspective in its choice to place a hymn in a collection and "to sing or not to sing" the hymn in worship.
Bailey, Albert E. The Gospel in Hymns. New York: Charles Scribner, 1952.
Stapleton, H.E.C. "The Church's One Foundation," Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology, 2013, https://hymnology.hymnsam.co.uk/t/the-church's-one-foundation?q=the%20church
Milgate, Wesley and D'Arcy Wood. A Companion to Together in Song. Sydney: Australian Hymnbook Pty Ltd, 2006.
C. Michael Hawn is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University.
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Home Scandal and Gossip Vera Wang and Evan Lysacke rumored to now be living together. Sporting...
Vera Wang and Evan Lysacke rumored to now be living together. Sporting flashy Rolex…
Vera Wang and her rumored new hawt bixch
Vera Wang and her rumored new hawt bixch, Evan Lysacek.
It seems more is beginning to meet the eye pursuant to last week's news that fashion madame Vera Wang was set to divorce her long time husband of 23 years Arthur Becker. At the time it was speculated that the two were parting ways because they just couldn't see eye to eye but now it appears there may be more convincing reasons why the pair are going their separate ways:
nydailynews: Sources close to the famous wedding dress designer, who announced on July 11 via the president of her multimillion-dollar company that she was separating from husband Arthur Becker , say she's been playing house with someone young enough to be her son.
According to an insider, 27-year-old Olympic champion figure skater Evan Lysacek moved into Wang's Beverly Hills mansion last month . The source says the 63-year-old fashionista offered Lysacek the opportunity "to stay there for a while."
Offered the young hunk to stay there? How generous of Vera Wang who waxes a 36 year age gap over her newest house guest. One can only wonder what Vera Wang sees in her new house guest?
The status of their current relationship, however, is unclear even to those closest to them. There is "something going on," says the source, while a second insider says Wang is "just enamoured with him and enjoys his company," and doesn't think a sexual relationship is in the cards. A spokeswoman for Wang had no comment.
Of course tempering the no comment stance is the fact that the young stud in recent weeks has been seen cavorting in a white Bentley with a large flashy Rolex. Certainly the type of house warming gift one 'customarily' bestows on preferred house guests.
According to the nydailynews, representatives for Lysacek have not responded for a comment. Never mind on another aside Vera Wang is said to have recently given herself a new facelift. Can anyone guess why?


Pressure pans can be your best friend and can work wonders in home performance diagnostics. You can get insight into weird air barriers and attic connections without ever having to remove drywall. Want to know if air sealing is cost effective but don't want to shoot arrows in the dark by tearing out massive amounts of drywall to find leaks you aren't even sure where the source is coming from? Turn to pressure pans and room pressure diagnostics.
This can be messy but only because the house connections are "messy," the basics remain the same in every home. The idea is we always depressurize a home to -50 Pa WRT the outside and if we measure one zone to be -40 Pa, the other zone (that is not measured) is the difference between the two (50 - 40 = 10 Pa). If you measure zonal pressures to be -38 Pa, -39 Pa, -41 Pa and -38 Pa all along the same archway that spans the length of the house that tells you the archway likely has one large air barrier on top of it. If you measure another soffit in the kitchen that has a zonal pressure of -25 Pa, that soffit is likely not connected to your hallway archway soffit. However if you measure a wall chase along a corner bedroom to be -40 Pa, that may be the same air barrier as your archway. Now you can draw an air barrier map for your install crew or for a third party contractor so they know exactly where to remove drywall or look in the attic to cap and seal the connections. Zonal pressure become even more useful in balloon framed 3 story houses with cubby closets where there is no accessible attic and you need to rely on pressure mapping to find which walls are inside, which are outside and which ones are connected. By constantly practicing, being curious and taking those extra readings you will start to become a zonal pressure expert and truly help your clients in tight situations. Unfortunately, there is no short cut here; you just need to stay curios and practice, practice, practice.


There are a lot of suspension trainers on the market and the TRX is not your only choice. The TRX is, however, our favorite. It's superlight, no problem to set up, and stores easily in any gym bag.
Stick your right leg out in front of you with your knee fully extended and squat as low as you can on your right leg.
Drive through your heel to come back to the starting position, keeping your core muscles tight throughout the movement.
Hold a TRX at 45 degrees (A).
Place left foot flat on floor with right leg suspended and toes pointed up.
Squat down on left leg, dropping slightly lower than 90 degrees (B).
During squat, keep right leg straight at all times.
Perform 20 reps, then switch legs.
The TRX serves mainly to help you keep your balance during the single-leg squat. Try not to pull too much on the handles to help you back up to the starting position - the movement should be initiated from the foot planted on the ground.
All rowing exercises need to be initiated with your lats, not your arms. Think of a crane: Your arms just work as cables - the motor is located at your shoulder blades.
If these become too easy, progress the move by setting your feet farther forward.
Hold handles at 45 degrees with feet slightly forward (A).
Perform row squeezing shoulder blades together.
Fully extend arms, then row back to the start. Repeat for 20 reps (B).
Perfect posture is a must on TRX rows. When you lean back, your body should form a straight line from your shoulders to your ankles. Keep your core muscles tight, and don't allow your back to round.
These are not the crunches you've come to know and loathe.
Because your abs are working to support your body weight at rest (as well as to flex your spine), a set of suspended crunches packs twice the wallop of floor crunches.
Assume pushup position with core tight and hips slightly elevated.
Place both feet in each stirrup of the TRX approximately 18 inches off ground (A).
and keeping hips elevated (don't sag) (B).
Extend legs and repeat for 25 reps.
Keep your elbows fully extended. This will keep extra stress off of your triceps.
Two moves become one for the perfect marriage of chest and triceps toning.
Hold handles, palms down, at shoulder height.
Place feet at shoulder width 45 degrees behind you (A).
Perform chest press, extending arms (B).
Bend elbows to 90 degrees, moving thumbs toward temples (C).
Perform a tricep extension (D).
Perform 12 reps of the chest and tricep combo.
Pumping iron isn't the only way to give your biceps the look you crave. Using a TRX and your body weight provides all the resistance you need for a shapely set of (mini) guns.
Keep the movement slow from start to finish to maintain the focus on your biceps.
Face the TRX and grab handles with palms turned upward.
Place feet in front, slightly forward, with the TRX at 45 degrees (A).
Keeping elbows high at shoulder level, curl biceps until pinkies reach temples (B).
Extend arms, tighten core and repeat for 15 reps.
A test of pressing strength, core stability, and total-body coordination, the pushup to pike will help you tone your chest, triceps, and shoulders, and provides a unique training stimulus to your abs.
Assume pushup position with both feet in TRX stirrups (A).
Return to plank, then raise hips upward as high as possible, leaving legs straight (B).
Return to plank and repeat for 15 reps.
If you're new to the TRX, don't hesitate to break this exercise into two moves. You can do a set of 15 TRX pushups, rest, then follow that up with a set of 15 pikes.
Once you've mastered both moves, combine them as shown here.
Nothing hammers your glutes and hamstrings like deep lunges. Placing your trail leg into the stirrups of a TRX ensures that you'll place all the stress on the front leg.
Start standing facing away from the TRX approximately three feet (A).
Place right leg in both stirrups, as shown.
Bend left leg to 90 degrees (B).
Return to standing position and repeat for 20 reps.


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Men's Track & Field > News
Track and field grabs three wins in split weekend
By Logan Butts
Husker Invite Results
DeNoon Invite Results
NASHVILLE – The Lipscomb track and field squad split for a pair of meets this weekend, earning a trio of wins at the Husker Invitational and the Don DeNoon Invitation.
At the Husker Invite in Lincoln, Nebraska, the Bisons earned two individual wins and six top-10 finishes.
For the second week in a row, sophomore Jonathan Schwind came away with a win, this time in the 800m. He finished with a time of 1:51.51.
Junior Courtney Brenner also grabbed a win in Lincoln, placing first in the 1000m with a time of 9:40.10.
Sophomores Kayla Rudie (10:09.90) and Grace Lahey (10:13.19) finished 10th and 12th in the same event.
Junior Zach Israel (8:23.49) finished fourth in the 3000m, while sophomore Jonathan Imes (48.25 seconds) earned fourth in the 400m.
Senior Ryan Speer (1:12.09) took sixth in the 600m.
Freshman Alex Tirado grabbed Lipscomb's only win at the Don DeNoon Invite at Southern Illinois, placing first in the 200m in 22.51 seconds.
Senior Nathan Morgan (1:58.80) grabbed second in the 800m.
Freshman Demontae Wilson finished third in the 400m in 50.85 seconds, and junior Randolph Wilkerson placed third in the 60m in 7.06 seconds.
In the 60m hurdles, Wilkerson came in seventh (8.57 seconds), while sophomore Jacob Snyder finished sixth (8.56 seconds).
Sophomore Tia Calvin (26.63 seconds) finished sixth in the women's 200m, while freshman Donovan Ross (23.45 seconds) finished sixth in the men's.
Senior Clare Losito (2:26.01) tallied a seventh-place finish in the 800m.
Losito (5:16.79) also placed eighth in the women's mile run, while freshman Jared Touart (4:24.76) placed eighth in the men's.
The track and field squad will be back next weekend with another split between the Samford Invite in Birmingham, Alabama and the Music City Invite at Vanderbilt.


Yap. Yap. Yap. For much of this afternoon, that was the biggest game being played at Lambeau Field between the Packers and the Buccaneers. But the Packers' 21-7 victory in the National Football Conference divisional playoff game gave them the final word.
All in all it was a chippy day. Packers defensive tackle Santana Dotson and Bucs guard Frank Middleton went after each other, after Tampa Bay missed a field goal attempt, because Dotson believed that Middleton was trying to chop block him. Dotson was called for a personal foul for taking Middleton's legs out from under him.
Packers Coach Mike Holmgren was not too pleased with all the yakking.
None of the conversations were more animated than the ones between Packers quarterback Brett Favre and Bucs defensive tackle Warren Sapp. After one sack in the first quarter, Favre had to be restrained by his teammates when he got up and went after Sapp.
The conversation was not family oriented. ''You can't say it here, maybe three words,'' Favre said.
At another point, Sapp was heading off the field for a much-needed rest when Favre yelled to him, ''That's right, Sapp, go take a blow.'' Sapp waved off his replacement and stayed in the game to continue to chase Favre around in the backfield.
Sapp, who will be Favre's teammate on the N.F.C. squad in the Pro Bowl, had a sensational day. He had seven tackles and three sacks, forced two fumbles and recovered a fumble. He disrupted Favre's rhythm.
Playing in the same division, Sapp and Favre will see a lot of each other over the next few years. And with Tampa Bay establishing itself as a playoff contender, this could be the beginning of a beautiful relationship.


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Ford To Announce $2.5B Investment In Mexico On 90th Anniversary
By Cameron Aubernon on April 15, 2015
This Friday, Ford will announce a $2.5-billion investment plan for two of its factories in Mexico.
According to Reuters, Ford will spend $1.3 billion to expand its engine production facility in northern Chihuahua for two new diesels, with the remaining $1.2 billion to go a transmission plant in Guanajuato. A government representative said the Chihuahua investment would create 4,000 jobs as a result.
The announcement will be made in Mexico City in celebration of Ford's 90th anniversary in Mexico, with Mexico president Enrique Peña Nieto set to attend. Ford's previous major investment occurred in 2008, when the automaker spent $3 billion to update the Cuautitlan plant for production of the Fiesta.
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DeadWeight
'Merica.
At this rate, one of the Japanese or German automakers will be the most "domestic" US automaker, as Ford, GM & FCA all continue to aggressively outsource their already broad assembly AND component fabrication.
One knows it's pretty ripe when Ford F Series & Chevy Silverado pickups are either hecho en Mexico and/or a huge % of their components are (next up: the 60% Mexico, 30% China, 10% USA Parts Content "American" Pickup Truck, assembled in Chihuahua).
bball40dtw
You must have missed the end of the article that talked about how Toyota is spending $1 Billion to build a new factory in Mexico.
Where's the Kermit the Frog sipping tea meme when you need it…
I'm going to take a SWAG bet that Honda builds more of the parts that go into their sold-in-U.S. vehicles, and further, assembles more of those same vehicles in the U.S., as a % of overall vehicles sold here, than Ford, GM or FCA.
I would agree with you. Considering that Ford builds it's best selling car in Mexico (and the US) and one of it's best selling CUVs in Canada, there is no way they will have the same American parts % of Honda. They also have a different supply chain strategy. Fusions are being built in Mexico and the US with English and Spanish engines. Soon, those engines will be built in Mexico and Cleveland.
Let's not get into a Mexican assembly debate because EVERYONE is opening factories down there. The Japanese, Germans, and Americans.
I for one appreciate that these Mexican car assembly jerbs will help mitigate the need for illegal immigrants to come North. Better for them and better for us… well, those of us outside the rust belt.
As a frequent driver of a 9 year old Hecho en Mexico Ford Fusion, I got no complaints about it.
highdesertcat
morbo, I know how you feel and I share much of the same sentiment.
As a resident of the Land of the Free, the Home of the Brave, the Land of Enchantment and the abode of the Illegal Immigrants, I think that expanding jobs in Mexico is a very good thing.
It will allow more illegal aliens to stay home instead of coming over here to look for jobs.
Things really haven't changed all that much since the days that the pioneers came to America, all of them looking for a better future.
Job availability in Old Mexico is pretty dire. It is plentiful in the US with millions of jobs remaining vacant.
In America. we have to import much of our labor LEGALLY because we don't have enough smart Americans to fill those jobs. Those immigrants here ILLEGALLY do the work Americans are too proud to do.
As far as the US auto industry is concerned, the UAW won't leave the non-union employers in the South be, with their incessant efforts to unionize the workers, even if the workers do not want to be unionized or represented by the UAW.
So, for those ingrates, moving production out of the US is the best answer for employers, new car buyers, Mexico and Mexican workers.
I hope MORE automakers expand their production in Old Mexico, currently the lower labor cost alternative within the NAFTA zone.
HDC, sometimes I wonder what parallel universe you live in, and how your observations could be so converse to my own.
First, without Mexicans, both "legal" and "undocumented" working within the U.S., the economy here would literally shut down. They do many of the jobs Americans of any ethnicity, color, race or creed either can't or won't do (I have clients running asphalt crews in 100 degree heat who pay really well, yet could not survive if their Mexican employees weren't available, as just one of many examples).
Second, life and living standards in Mexico has gotten proportionately far better for Mexico's middle class as their job opportunities & wages have risen at a far faster pace on a % scale (and in some cases, even in nominal terms) than that of much of America's (remaining) middle & working classes over the last decade.
In fact, median hourly wages for Mexican auto workers has risen to nearly $4.00 USD per hour, which is approximately 1000% higher than where they were a decade ago, while their American counterparts have seen an approximate 50% reduction in median wages over the same period.
DW, maybe my views and observations are shaped by what I see around me every day.
The Great State of New Mexico is the de facto portal for entry of illegal aliens to supply the rest of the US and parts of Canada.
My state helps them along with drivers licenses, bank accounts, the right to buy and insure used cars, in order to move them along in the pipeline to the Eastern Blue States.
There was a time not so long ago that New Mexico, or Arizona was as far as they got in the US.
I myself have employed hundreds of illegals to help me with the maintenance, restoration and repair of the real estate property owned by my wife's family.
I have nothing against H1B immigrants but I firmly believe we need to get illegal aliens headed toward the wealthy Blue States because we can't afford to feed them clothe them or provide free health care for them.
The Feds don't reimburse my state for all the anchor babies born here or the medical treatment illegals get here.
So, it is not surprising to find that there are different points of view on illegal immigration. I think we can all agree on LEGAL immigration.
Crime, kidnappings, hostage-taking, B&Es, etc are a real concern for West Texas, AZ, NM, CA and CO, much of it perpetrated by illegal aliens and MS13. The Drug trade is also alive and well and it is rare for the DEA or Border Patrol to catch a Big Wig — it is always the illegal alien mules who get caught.
Desperate people will do desperate things. My daughter-in-law was a wet-back, coming across at Matamoros when she was 11 or 12.
Since marrying my son she had to become a US citizen so he could get a security clearance as part of his Commission in the US Army.
But the rest of her family, mom, dad, older brothers and sisters born in Mexico, never became US citizens – they still carry that Green Card and spend 90 days in Old Mexico and then 90 days in the US and then 90 days in Old Mexico, and so on.
28-Cars-Later
"sometimes I wonder what parallel universe you live in"
I wonder if Cadillac is successful there.
thelaine
First give out generous health care and welfare benefits to your citizens so they can lay on the couch all day and then correctly claim that lazy citizens will not do the work.
There was a time when citizens were grateful for this sort of work.
Not hard to justify open borders and broken deportation once you have anesthetized your own workers. The Chamber of Commerce loves it, as do politicians on the left. Lots of locked in votes among the dependent, amnesty seekers and business people.
Not to mention the burden on public schools and every public service from the DMV to heath and welfare to the police department HDC.
"Not to mention the burden on public schools and every public service from the DMV to heath and welfare to the police department …"
When Bill Richardson was governor he designated all food to be sold tax-free. That was a good thing!
In order to offset the lost tax revenue, the DMV DOUBLED the annual registration fees for vehicles and drivers licenses. That hurt!
It really hurts if you have more than one vehicle per household which most legal residents in NM do.
And the DMV furnishes the registered owner a list of charges accompanying the annual registration renewal, like tire disposal, waste oil disposal, eco-fees, IOW, a total rash of sh!t to pad the revenue to the state.
Much of the local, county and state police generate a ton of funds writing citations of all sorts on the roads, highways and byways of NM.
Traveling through NM with out-of-state license plates? Count on making your contribution, often more than once, as you pass through jurisdictions.
Not too many illegals remain in NM after they get their drivers license. So, not many illegal alien kids in the local schools. Probably more in Albuquerque and Las Cruces than anywhere else in the state because of job availability.
The illegals usually move out of NM on the day of, or the after they get their NM drivers license unless they were able to find a job in NM.
The illegals that I hired came up from El Paso with Federico, my American-born Mexican foreman.
The illegal alien cowhands (Gauchos) that work for my son and his partner/former father-in-law, went as far North as Colorado before coming back to New Mexico but have no intention to become American citizens, ever.
They send their money home to Argentina to help their parents, live free on my son's property, taking care of the animals.
They're part of a HUGE underground economy. Everybody knows it's there but no one wants to do anything about it because no American wants to do the kind of work that the illegals do.
These are not H1B-visa workers.
DenverMike
It's easy to calculate how much "they cost", but illegals may more than offset that by sales and income tax, plus DMV tags. Anchor Babies may grow up to contribute to society, just like any other kids.
But they're only guilty of filling a "need" put out there by the US, and a DC that looks the other way *AND* so happens, collects lobby billions from huge employers and industry that enjoy their cheap/productive labor.
DM, it all started in 1941 after Pearl Harbor with a Congressional Act creating the Bracero program, a program designed to invite Mexican labor to do the work that needed to be done in Agriculture while our Boys were fighting WWII.
My foreman's grand parents came to the US that way, on a work permit but his parents were born in Mexico. He was born in the US, long after the Bracero program had ended but the Guest laborers had refused "to go home."
dtremit
@DenverMike It baffles me that the people who are so offended by undocumented immigrants draining tax dollars (much of which I think is exaggerated — immigrants are often afraid to seek help) are the loudest voices in opposition to anything that would make those workers taxpayers.
It's because the border is open dtremit. Get control of the border and legalization makes sense. Don't control it and legalization leads to more of the same. It was Reagan who did the last big legal amnesty. He was naïve to think he could do amnesty first and border control later. It amazes ME that people cannot see this point.
@thelaine A secure border is a fantasy out of a fairy tale. The border today is more secure than it's ever been. Even if we somehow managed to fill the Rio Grande with lava, people would still make it here.
Take a look at Australia or Italy to understand what lengths people will go to in order to emigrate to someplace where they can have a better life.
In Boston, most of our undocumented immigrants are from Brazil, not Mexico. Trust me, they didn't arrive via Texas or Arizona.
Guest Laborers could've "refused to go home" all they wanted, but if the jobs had truly "ended", they would've had no choice.
Remember income taxes are still collect on stolen/borrowed SSNs and never refunded. So DC is in on it as much as anyone.
@morbo – You can thank NAFTA for the increase in migration from Mexico and Central America.
With NAFTA, cheap (and often govt.-subsidized) agricultural products flooded Mexico and Central America – basically putting the small farmer out of work (which had been the way of life).
@HDC
There are plenty of highly-trained engineers, etc. – but US corporations (make that US CEOs) plead the lack of them so they can increase the no. of H-1B visas, not to mention outsourcing the more rudimentary type of work overseas (from basic engineering to software progamming to even legal work).
Cheaper labor = higher profit margins which = higher CEO compensation.
Apple, Google, etc. basically had a non-compete pact with regard to hiring which kept a lid on salaries in Silicon Valley.
And woe is the skilled worker who is 45+ yrs in age – the companies don't see them as valued employees who have yrs of experience and wisdom, but instead as being "too expensive" due to the higher salaries (but yet, it isn't a problem for even older and much more grossly paid top execs).
bd2, you are right, it's all about the bottom line, the profitability of the business and the ROI for the owners/shareholders.
But it is a fact of business life. And it is the harsh reality of the real world.
And that's why I am such a proponent of preparing my kids, and now my grand kids for what awaits them in the real world, even if I have to go broke doing it. (And on occasion, I nearly did)
The way I see the work environment of today is for a candidate to over-prepare themself, be willing to take a job if offered, even for a little while so they can look for better opportunities elsewhere while employed, and do it all without starting their working life mired in debt.
From personal experience I can tell you it's tough to keep the debt thing down. But I think we, as a family all pitching in, have been successful.
I have two 8-yo twin grand kids to get ready and then hopefully, I will be done.
APaGttH
Toyota is investing in Mexico and so is Honda. Heck all the car companies are.
In the US an experienced autoworker might make $26 to $30 an hour depending on who they work for (base wages in leafy greeny money).
The average Mexican auto worker makes $4 t0 $6 an hour equivalent USD. It isn't great money even by Mexico standards, but enough to get by and it's steady work.
From a globalization and profitability standpoint, the US just can't compete. Now get rid of ACA, the pesky minimum wage, OSHA and workers comp and I get we could get to $2 to $3 an hour in the states and get those jobs slowly trickling over the border back.
This isn't a only Detroit is going to Mexico issue.
I will not get onto the "moral" issues, but $4/hour USD in Mexico allows for a fairly comfortable life given that cost of living in terms of large ticket expenditures in Mexico (housing – nontourist locations, tuition, medical care) is roughly 1/5th of what it is in the U.S. (hence the boom in medical tourism to Mexico by Americans, given that a hip replacement surgery costs 1/7th what it would in the U.S., while being done at a new, clean Mexican hospital with highly trained physicians & staff).
He!!, there are many Californian retirees in the SEEDIER parts of California moving to parts of Central America, including Mexican cities & places like Panama, since they can live far more comfortably there than in the U.S. on their $1,100 social security plus the other income they may have.
Panama City is catering to these Americans, with entire towns that look like American suburbs springing up, where nice, new 1,200 square foot condominiums in safe/policed locations, near new medical facilities and global grocery & retail outlets can be rented for $500 USD per month.
" there are many Californian retirees in the SEEDIER parts of California moving to parts of Central America, including Mexican cities & places like Panama, since they can live far more comfortably there than in the U.S. on their $1,100 social security plus the other income they may have."
Yup! One difference, these Americans moving there are financially self-sufficient and do not have to depend on the governments of those countries they move to.
FWIW, my wife's mom and dad and one of her sisters moved to Germany in Jan 2015 and found the cost of living there to be lower than in the US (excluding a place to live which is free to them because they bought the property decades ago.)
The hourly wage isn't as big of an issue as it would seem, though. To cite an example: Motor Trend reported in 2008 that Chrysler's Toledo South plant was the most efficient in North America, taking 13.7 man-hours to assemble a vehicle. (That's just assembly time, not counting the hours in anything that comes into the plant.)
So even if the US worker is making $30, and the Mexico worker is making $4, that's about a $400 difference per car. And my understanding is that plants in Mexico tend to be a little less efficient. So it's significant, but not a "game changer" in a lot of ways. Plus a lot (parts, finished cars, executives) has to be moved to and from the plant.
I think the bigger driver is EU-Mexico free trade, meaning a car built in Mexico can be exported to more places tariff-free than one built in the US. Having that manufacturing base in Mexico gives flexibility, which is sometimes more important than absolute cost.
Pch101
The wages aren't a large part of the cost of the car. But most or all of the savings that come from lower wages are essentially pure profit, so there is considerable motivation to find ways to reduce labor costs.
More to the point, wages are one of the few areas remaining where meaningful savings can be achieved. Some effort can be made to create a more efficient plant, but a lot of that has already happened and future gains will be mostly incremental at best. Commodity costs are pretty much what they are — the price of steel won't vary much from market to market, for example. Wages are the one bit of low-hanging fruit on the tree.
Toledo South takes such little man-hours to assemble a Wrangler because most of the work is already done in the supplier park.
RobertRyan
It is not wages, but the growing infrastructure , various free trade agreements and being part of NAFTA that Mexico has
CrapBox
And Toyota already had a presence in Mexico and both Honda and Nissan recently expanded production in Mexico, not to mention Mazda building a plant there a few years ago.
@bball40dtw
I posted sometime ago how the Manufacturers were opening new plants in Mexico. Volvo has bucked the grand by opening a new plant in the US, admittedly in the no Union South
Right. Everyone is opening plants in Mexico and has been for years. What's your point?
@Bballdtw40
Yes they have been but the pace of opening plants in Mexico has picked up considerably. I feel as that Reuters article I think, stated Mexico has reached a critical mass and attracting new investment from the U.S., Europe and Asia. Highly probable that Mexico will be epicentre of vehicle production in NA, in the not too distant future.
I suppose it is relative. I would not fancy a stroll after 5pm in Detroit, unless you had a death wish. Anyway it will be interesting to see how Mexico develops as a Auto Capitol
Depends where you are. I used to run 5-10 miles at night four times a week when I lived in Detroit. This was in 2005-07 when Detroit was worse than it's current state. People in the neighborhood knew who I was and I never got hassled. Now, I wouldn't be happy if my daughter was doing the same thing, but she'll never be a 6'4″ 235 pound Army Ranger.
tresmonos
My ex Japanese supplier employer (major tire corporation) is all about investing in Mexican operations right now.
The Japanese are just a little more conservative when it comes to the next wave of cost savings.
tresmonos, would they (your former employers) be thinking of buying that giant tire plant south of Ciudad Juarez by any chance?
It is a major source of air pollution for El Paso, TX. and parts NE from there.
No, that's Michelin. My ex employer starts with a letter further down the alphabet and makes rubber products (not tires) in Mexico. Their tire production is mostly in Asia and a very old and antiquated facility on the east coast.
Thanks! I was hoping some foreign company would buy that Mexican tire and rubber plant and do something about the smog and emissions.
It is terrible on the West S!de of the Franklin Mountains of El Paso, TX, and even worse in the North and East of El Paso.
My daughter lives and works on the West S!de.
There was talk some time ago that Toyo, Yokohama, Hankook and Kumho had been doing an independent site-survey there, but I never heard anything else after that.
And it rhymes with Moyo.
JohnTaurus_3.0_AX4N
You making up facts about Ford and GM trucks to support your moaning?
The F-Series built in Mexico is mostly for consumption south of (our) border. Most F-Series tucks sold in the US are built here and boast a very high percentage of US-content. Even the F-650 and F-750 medium duty trucks just had their production moved FROM Mexico TO the US (Avon Lake, Ohio; the plant that formerly built the E-Series as its replacement is built in Kansas City along side the F-150, what F-150s that are not built in Michigan).
GM trucks that arent built here are mostly from Canada. [I retract this statement as others have corrected me.]
Go walk onto a Ford lot and tell me how many trucks are built in Mexico. Noone can deny that full size trucks are their most produced product.
Dont forget to stop by and have another glass of Hateraid so you can come back and compare the F-150 XL single cab V-6 to the ATS-V.
danio3834
GM doesn't build trucks in Canada anymore since closing Oshawa truck in '09. Trucks that aren't built in Michigan, Indiana or Texas come from Silao Mexico.
Danio beat me to it.
I gotchya. I just remember seeing so many from Canada when I worked at a GM dealer some years ago.
Yup – my '02 Avalanche was Heche en Mexico.
I have to admit I'm really amused.
I've been accused of hateraid toward GM – all I need is CJ to come post today and call me a fanboi and the circle will be complete.
The current Silverado/Sierra are not built in Canada. There are three sites that build them: Flint, Ft Wayne, and Silao, Mexico. Most crew cab GM trucks are made in Mexico. Most extended caps are made in Fort Wayne. Flint does mostly HD and regular cabs.
Don't mention the crew cabs to JohnnyTaurus or he might flip out.
Awww, man…too late.
By "flip out", I guess you mean admit my mistake?
Or should I go on a 5,000 word misinformation essay about a car unrelated to this discussion as you would have done?
I retracted the statement. I am not as well versed in GM operations as I am Ford's.
It's not a big deal to me.
This isn't aimed at you, but I'm always surprised that more people aren't aware that % of domestic parts content is the real tell as to where the overwhelming amount of labor, engineering, R&D and other resources were parlayed regarding the production of vehicles, and that location of assembly of these many thousands of components and subcomponents into a complete vehicle rates as a distant second in terms of value added to the economy.
And on that note, there are a lot of patriotic feeling people purchasing "domestic" vehicles who'd be shocked that so many of the "furrin" vehicles around them in traffic are more U.S. economy stimulating in their design & fabrication.
(This is not a moral judgment, but an objective, secular observation about peoples' massive misunderstandings.)
Big Al from Oz
A couple of weeks ago an interesting article was in one of our Aussie news sites regarding the content of US manufactured vehicles.
The US is ever more reliant on automotive components coming in from Mexico and China in particular.
The article showed that even though US vehicle production has increased by a couple of million vehicles per year the local US work force has not increased.
The US auto industry is becoming more and more a vehicle assembly business, Ikea of the motoring world like many other nations assembling vehicles. The global auto industry is sourcing components more and more from cheaper sources.
I don't know why people are so wrapped up regarding where a vehicle is made. Who cares?
Those who use this support local industry as an excuse are living on another planet. Imagine if everyone in the US bought locally manufactured goods, you standard of living would drop significantly.
Looking at manufacturing as the panacea of an economy is rather backwards looking. I think some of our American brothers and sisters are worried not just about American jobs, but American dominance.
Don't fear, the more wealth globally (and just concentrated in a few nations) the better it is for everyone.
Well dremit, at least we know where we differ. I disagree. We have never really committed ourselves to solving the border security problem. The Southern border is not secure, it is not more secure than ever, it is, in fact, porous. The deportation system is a joke. The employment verification system is a joke. The visa overstay enforcement is a joke.
Democrats looking for future voters and current Hispanic voters, many Republicans, the Chamber of Commerce, the Wall Street Journal, many small businesses and corporations and many libertarians want it that way. That is why border security is never done and advocates will tell you it is impossible. No, it is not.
Your approach is, in practical terms, surrender to untold millions of illegal immigrants and make them legal ad infinitum. This is the end of controlled immigration, the end of legal immigration, the end of national security. There are an unlimited number of people south of our border all the way through Central and South America who love your plan.
A better idea is to secure the border and then give law-abiding people who have integrated into this country an opportunity to become legal.
Whether you believe the fantasy that the border is secure or you believe the propaganda that border can never be secure (or, seemingly, both) you have surrendered your nation. That would be a shame, considering how many have sacrificed to preserve it.
I didn't say it was secure; I said it was more secure than it's ever been. That is hard to argue with; we have more border patrol agents than ever before, and giant ugly fences all over the place.
If you would have it be secure, then: how would you do it? And how would you pay for that?
I'll also remind you that most of those who sacrificed to preserve this nation, as you say, came over here from somewhere else. To get through Ellis Island, all you needed was $50 and the name of a friend or relative who would take you in.
People coming to America to work is a constant in our nation's history. The only thing that has changed is the legality of it.
We certainly will never find common ground dtremit if you cannot or will not distinguish between legal immigration and illegal immigration. That is a bridge too far for me.
There are plenty of plans for securing the border. Do some research.
In 1970, fewer than 1 in 21 United States residents were born abroad. Five years from today, the Census Bureau estimates that more than one in seven United States residents will have been born abroad. Eight years from today, the share of the population that is foreign-born will rise above any level ever before recorded and keep surging.
It defies reason to argue that the record admission of new foreign workers has no negative effect on the wages of American workers, including the wages of past immigrants hoping to climb into the middle class. Why would many of the largest business groups in the United States spend millions lobbying for the admission of more foreign workers if such policies did not cut labor costs?
thelaine, and I think that most Americans are OK with that, being foreign-born, because we are a nation of immigrants.
But even in the olden days, the days of the pioneers, there was accountability of where a man came from when settling down in America.
Napoleon started all that in Europe.
As Americans we just can't waltz into Mexico or Canada and squat there but libtards in America believe that anyone, any foreigner, should be able to waltz across America's borders and squat, vote and claim all the rights and privileges of American citizenship with none of the responsibilities.
From about 1860 to 1930, about one in seven United States residents was born abroad, too. Somehow we survived that.
Statistically, the anomaly today is the birth rate, not the immigration rate.
dtremit, I think it made America better, that's why we survived it.
My dad came from Portugal in 1946, my mom from Germany in 1931.
I was born in America in 1947. Fewer are these days so, I agree, the anomaly today is the birth rate, not the immigration rate.
Even Caesar Chavez was perceptive enough to understand the difference between legal, controlled immigration and illegal, uncontrolled immigration. He opposed illegal immigration.
Yes HDC, a nation without borders is not a nation.
@DW – it has nothing to do with Cadillac, you could skip it.
skeeter44
May 2nd, 2015 at 2:04 pm
You guys are dreaming. Have you seen the GDP in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua – not to mention Boliva, Venezuela, etc ? Mexican jobs will do nothing to stem the tide of immigration. Meanwhile your kids can look forward to ever poorer job prospects or finding work overseas.
Kendahl
Given the drug cartel violence in Mexico, I'm surprised any foreign company would expand its facilities there. Maybe the reports, like the premature ones of Mark Twain's death, are greatly exaggerated.
Not a problem as long as you pay protection.
The only people who get paid protection at Ford are anyone above the Director level (VP's, etc). All I got was a Hybrid fusion and a few STD's.
"All I got was a Hybrid fusion and a few STD's."
That's a t-shirt.
They are not exaggerated, but violence in Mexico is down. Homicides peaked in 2011. Intrestingly enough, Mexico is way safer than most other Latin American countries.
Eh, I've heard its become more violent since I was down there two years ago. The previous president kept assassinating cartel bosses to the point where street thugs got 'promoted within' to be the new terrorist organization leaders.
You had eyeballs on the ground there, so I don't doubt your words, but I was under the impression that much of the serious violence and serious corruption (versus graft) was narco-cartel related and concentrated disproportionately in particular regions such as Juarez (as one example), and that Mexico's government & judiciary had cracked down on areas having manufacturing zones/parks (such as Coahuila, as one example).
We got to see what only could be a Narco hit in Cuatitlan. That was tons of fun. 5 dead in a Dodge Ram in the middle of the street. Gunned down 1.5 miles from the plant. Also – Last week I was there, all those kids got abducted from a night club 1.5 blocks from the US Embassy just off Reforma. Those kids are dead as f*ck because one of their friends ticked off some narco boss.
Yeah. Only the northern parts are bad. I highly suggest the B&B go visit Cancun and socialize with the Zeta's for their next family vacation. Better yet, Acapulco was super safe when I visited. Make sure to bring your teenage blonde haired daughters with you. All that drug stuff is only on the border where the talking heads have done their professional risk assessments.
I must have forgotten about the time that Mexican Marines kidnapped my coworkers and took all their money. Those classy, trustworthy mutherf*ckers must have just been playing a prank on us! Haha! Get back to fighting crime you silly soldiers.
Also: borderlandbeat.com
Whenever I ventured out to visit stuff with coworkers, I would read this until I got super depressed and familiar with whatever current narco activity guerrilla reporters could miserably track.
I recently spent a week down in the state of Jalisco for work, which admittedly is very different from the border areas that generally are the source of drug related issues. Didn't see or hear of any violent crime, seems that it's mostly the standard issue of property crime that people are worried about (broken glass cemented to tops of walls, etc). I did have sketchy guys on bikes with backpacks offer to sell me all sorts of drugs, at least once every evening I was there (resort area where the hotel was).
In Tucson, the news would have a "BorderWatch" segment every night. My favorite was the drug smugglers catapulting drugs over the fence with an actual catapult that was towed by a Lobo.
The violent groups are more fractured now. It's like all the Al-Queda offshoots once OBL was killed and thrown in the ocean.
I haven't been to Mexico since the height of the drug wars in 2011, but friends tell me that many places are better. Sinaloa, Sonora, and Baja California are better, but some other places are worse. Violence has actually shifted out of cities and to the countryside and thr rural US.
Murders are down quite a bit, but Mexico is still far from safe.
Stay long enough anywhere with my degenerate behavior and you'll see the violence. Most people stay in and don't socialize or drive around like they own the place.
I see some of my old Mexican coworkers are more self aware of the cartel and corruption issues of their country via social media. That makes me happy as I feel like there's hope for a shift in the mindset of that culture.
There are many educated engineers who I worked with that are just as good as our best up here. The faster they fix their issues, the sooner I can retire there and enjoy their superior climate and topography.
"superior climate and topography"
Does topography = T&A?
"the sooner I can retire there and enjoy their superior climate and topography."
After spending a week in balmy weather, surrounded by delicious cheap food (50 peso meal at 'comida corridas' in small villages blew anything I ate in the resort part of town out of the water), my colleague and I were both half-seriously scheming and inquiring about property values and ex-pats' experiences there. My dream would be to farm a small piece of land out there, cook on an outdoor stove, take siestas in the shade, and drive my produce to market in a beat up little Nissan NP300 :)
An emphatic YES on that point. Must be something in the water…
A Hermosillo 5 is a middle America 10.
@gtemnykh
Might be the lack of HFCS in the general diet.
"Must be something in the water…"
…or maybe something that's not in the water?
Hermosillo is chocked full of gorgeous women. The DF not so much. That being said, I had a Mexican GF was was absolutely gorgeous when I lived there. Probably the most or second most attractive woman I've dated. And I picked her up being a miserable over worked DB.
Actually no, much safer countries in the rest of the Americas where the drug trade is not big
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303603904579495863883782316
Wrong again Bob. Mexico is far from being the most violent Latin American country.
Also, based on even more recent statistics, Mexico has dropped in those ratings even farther. those are from 2012, which had 6000 more homicides than 2014. Other countries in Latin America had homicides increase.
Once upon a time the average Detroit auto worker made around $35 an hour. And there was much grousing about the workers being overpaid. So factories moved to right to work states in the south.
Once upon a time the average southern auto worker made around $24 an hour. Auto companies enjoyed massive tax breaks to bring the jobs south. Detroit turned into a rotted out husk. Still, there was much grousing by the shareholders about workers being overpaid. So factories moved to Mexico.
Once upon a time the average Mexican autoworker made around $4 (USD equivalent) an hour. And there was much grousing about them being overpaid…
As of 2005, based on the UAW's own statistics, the median wage of a UAW worker in a manufacturing facility owned & run by GM, Ford or Chrysler (Daimler then) was $74 hourly, which included $28 per hour in terms of cost for health insurance, pension plan funding, etc.
I was an intern at a financial institution in 2002 and personally saw W2's of UAW line workers who then made over 100k in salary with overtime included.
Not so sure about this part since they pretty well match the lowest cost regions in the world. Still, everyone wants a better deal.
"… since they pretty well match the lowest cost regions in the world."
I think NAFTA did a lot in support of that for Mexico. But all-in-all, NAFTA has done more good than it has harmed.
Obviously, not from the UAW perspective but the take-no-prisoners philosophy of the UAW re their employers has been a huge impetus to get American-based automakers of all nationalities to seek the more profitable green grass on the south s!de of the fence.
I think it is great. If Mexico employs that many more of their own people, maybe we'll see that many less on this s!de of the border.
Every single thing that Ross Perot said back in the 1980s about what passing NAFTA & MFN Trade Status for China would do to the American middle class has come true, yet the establishment politicians such as the Bush's & Clinton's made fun of Ross and demonized him as some sort of conspiracy theorist at the time he made those predictions.
I voted for Ross Perot. To no avail.
And I realize that for SOME American workers NAFTA has been catastrophic. They lost their jobs because they were not competitive.
But I still believe that looking at the whole picture, NAFTA was good for America and the vast majority of our 330+ Million residents.
During the most recent Dockworkers and Longshoremen strike, their union had to deal with the Chinese and the Chinese who run America's ports, harbors and docks don't mess around, and nearly broke the union.
Just like Sergio doesn't mess around with the UAW.
My brother in the LA area told me that the Longshoremen there didn't gain squat and in fact lost a bunch of pay in the process of not working on weekends and overtime.
So selling our harbors and ports to the Chinese paid us some dividends I never expected when Bill Clinton sold them to the Chinese.
I was against that but I was wrong.
NAFTA was great in theory, if we had only focused on educating our workforce for higher tech trades. We never evolved from WWII industrialization. We never reinvested in our children's public education. All that money went into everyone's investment portfolio's and bumping up the bar of welfare so all those textile workers' standard of living didn't change whether they were combining cotton or smoking pall malls on their front porch watching their mill get torn down.
dal20402
"Every single thing that Ross Perot said back in the 1980s about what passing NAFTA & MFN Trade Status for China would do to the American middle class has come true"
That's narrowly true. But NAFTA and trade policies didn't end up actually being the cause of all those bad effects. Horrendous fiscal policies are the cause.
I voted for Ross also. I literally cried that election night.
Ol' Ross wasn't 100% correct with 23 years of rear view vision, but he had some very valid points.
No elected president was ever 100% accurate. And even if Ross Perot had been elected, both chambers of Congress would have been against his ideas for the betterment of America.
And so it is every national election. The Majority rules, even if the voting majority is way less than the eligible electorate.
And when things don't go their way, they b!tch, p!ss, moan, whine and complain just like all the libs and eco-freaks who now complain that their prez isn't doing what they want him to do.
And we're not even mentioning the unions who now see that their Cadillac Health Plans will be heavily taxed in the future.
So, I'm ROTFLMAO, because America always gets exactly what it deserves, because we vote for it.
If you don't want your neighbor coming over the border, you may want to tell your right wing nut job representative to focus on domestic issues that will make Mexico safer. Until then, chicken before the egg.
It could be worse; he could have Debbie Stabenow as a Senator…
Cameron Aubernon
Speaking of anniversaries, this Tax Day is my third anniversary with TTAC. On this day in 2012, I introduced fashion blogging into this piece about the New York Auto Show: https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2012/04/a-new-writer-offers-a-new-look-at-the-nyias/
Thank you! I should have said something sooner, but better late and several comments down than never!
eggsalad
Quick: List all sub-$20k cars that are NOT built in Mexico.
um, and…?
Cruze, Focus, Corolla, Civic, Fit, Dart…
The Fit is built in Mexico now. By 2020, Corollas with be Mexican built.
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Leahy: Constitution Says Senate 'Shall Advise and Consent,' Voted Against Cloture for Alito
Ian Hanchett
Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT), who voted against cloture on Justice Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court in 2006, stated that the Constitution says the Senate "shall advise and consent" on Supreme Court picks on Wednesday's broadcast of MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports."
Leahy said, "[T]he rule they've always followed is the one that Senator [Orrin] Hatch (R-UT) and I gave in a letter, which the Republican leader put in the Congressional Record saying that we shall have hearings and votes on such nominees. … Come on, stop the nonsense, stop the games. Let's start following the Constitution. The Constitution says the president 'shall nominate'. The Constitution says we shall advise and consent."
Article II, Section II, Clause II says that the president "shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments."
The phrase "shall advise and consent" does not appear anywhere in the Constitution.
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I will be travelling to Angistri in May, and heard that there was a small tourist train that runs around the island. Is this true? Otherwise, is there a bus? Does anyone have any info on these two forms of transport?
I don't know of a train but the island is almost certain to have a bus service.
There is a tourist train but it only potters around Skala, usually in the afternoon and evening.
There is a bus that goes around all the main places on the island and they have the timetable posted at the bus stops. Beware: sometimes it can leave a little early if it fills up! There is also a bus that meets the hydrofoil at Milos to take people to Skala.
There are also taxis but not sure how to book them.
Saving the best to last - hire a scooter instead!
If your ferry arrives at Skala and you need to get elsewhere, walk up the path to the little tourist office and you can follow the shore road/path round the beach to the church. There is a timetable pasted up where the bus stops. The bus is a mini bus, and when were there is summer looked to run every half hour-ish. We caught it to Milos. The timetables didn't appear to be publicised anywhere on the internet, as I searched widely before we went. After this, we hired a moped to get around, which seemed the easier thing, and allowed us to hop on and off at our leisure. I only saw a taxi once!
It's such a small island that a moped is ideal for getting around. Very little traffic really.
The bus timetable is also displayed in some shop windows.
The island is small enough to rent a bike or motor scooter. The "train" is rather wimpy and only goes so far on the island.
Off course there are car rentals or you can walk and enjoy a very lovely island more known for it's beaches than anything else.
Either way Angistri is an overlooked island by tourists but very popular for Greek day trippers from the mainland.
Any more info on bicycle hire?
I think there are two cycle hire shops in Scala, don't know about the rest of the island.


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study description: It is known that 33-50% of Classic and Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome patients eventually develop dysautonomia, otherwise known as "POTS" - Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. Some of these patients develop dysautonomia as a result of a retroflexed odontoid, Chiari 1 Malformation or cranial settling and the resulting basilar impression. However, many Ehlers-Danlos patients suffer with the same symptomology with no evidence of cause according to MRI imaging. It is the author's hypothesis that low-level External Communicating Hydrocephalus appears to be responsible for the constellation of autonomic and cranial nerve symptoms, and if present in the very young, an analysis of head circumference growth in the first 15 months of life should reflect abnormally rapid head growth, supporting the hypothesis. The investigators will evaluate the head circumference of Ehlers-Danlos patients who display dysautonomia later in life. The head circumference analyzed will be from birth to approximately 15 months of age, as the sutures of the skull generally fuse between 16 and 18 months. Additionally, pediatricians do not usually measure head circumference routinely beyond this age. In a small subset of Ehlers-Danlos patients who developed postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome in their childhood or teen years, retrospective analysis of their head circumferences indicates such megalocephaly. On average, the children's heads were found to increase from approximately the 35th percentile to over the 90th percentile. Their weights and lengths did not increase in the same fashion, although some of the children remained in the higher percentages for their length. A review of literature indicates that studies of children with megalocephaly (not necessarily having the diagnosis of Ehlers-Danlos) were considered to have a benign condition ("Benign External Communicating Hydrocephalus") because CT's at the age of 2 or 3 years appeared normal and neurological exams also appeared normal. However, studies have also shown that a large percentage of these children exhibited delayed motor development and some of them had delayed speech development.In some studies these children were treated with Diamox, and in other studies the children were merely observed. It is the author's hypothesis that delayed motor development found in Ehlers-Danlos children is due at least in part to hydrocephalus, and not merely due to flexible joints, as previously surmised. It is the author's contention that mild symptoms of irritability, headaches, sleep disorders, emotional "fits", and the later development of dysautonomia were never considered in these studies, yet are the likely symptoms of a low level of pressure that continued to be exerted on the brains of these children. High pressure on the brain (even if subtle) could be evidence of congenital CCSVI (cerebrospinal venous insufficiency) or increased CSF (cerebral spinal fluid) production, or the poor drainage of cerebral spinal fluid, or both. Retrospective examination of skull expansion is a necessary step to ascertain these possibilities, allowing for early treatment and the hope of avoidance of the neurological symptoms, and often disabling effects of dysautonomia (and/or multiple sclerosis). It is the author's contention that "Benign External Hydrocephalus" is not a benign condition.
Measurements of head circumferences, weight and length of children (retrospectively), will be compared to "normals" as established by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2008.
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Over the next two weeks we have scheduled a few days to work on 1 Rep Max lifts.
Don't view these days as day off or as light days, we are establishing where you are as lifters. In 26 weeks we will re-test the same lifts to monitor progress.
Today, we start the process with two lifts. The Strict Press and Front Squat.
If you have recently hit a MAX lift in either of these movements you can focus on the one that needs attention.
After the strength portion today there is still a WOD. YESSIRREE BoB! In fact it"s a fave.
THis WOD starts promptly at 45 minutes from the start of class. Ready or not….


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Unilever owns Dove, Lipton, and Ben & Jerry's, among other brands, and is one of the world's top advertisers. It has an annual marketing budget of $9.8 billion. A quarter of that. or nearly $2.5 billion, is currently spent on digital platforms. Unilever's brands are purchased 2 billion times a day.
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Q: Login/Register with the same submit button in Rails3 I've tried searching everywhere but cannot seem to find an answer.
I am using Authlogic for authentication in my Rails app. I would like to allow users to login or register using the same form, and the same submit action/button. An example of the behavior I am going for is how tumblr handles their login/signup: http://www.tumblr.com/
When a user enters their email address and password, if they already have an account, it logs them into their account dashboard. The same form can be used to create a new blog (with the URL text field).
My actual form is incredibly simple:
= form_for(@user_session) do |f|
  = f.text_field :email, :placeholder => "email address"
  = f.password_field :password, :placeholder => "password"
  = f.submit "get started"

I have tried creating a custom action in the application controller that redirects to the appropriate controller depending on whether the User already exists, but to no avail:
  def login_or_register
    params[:user] = params[:user_session]
    if User.find_by_email(params[:user][:email])
      redirect_to :controller => "user_sessions", :action => "create"
    else
      redirect_to :controller => "users", :action => "create"
    end
  end

Then, I tried creating a new User if it did not exist from the user_sessions/new page (inside the UserSessions controller). Similarly, I tried not creating a new User and then automatically logging in from the Users controller. Neither of these approaches worked, and at this time I've reverted my code so I do not have the samples I used.
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated... thank you so much!
-Z

A: Imho, the approach where you create user in user_sessions/new if he doesn't exists should work.
It's a pity you don't have your code anymore. Here is one gotcha I can think of: when you create a new user, make sure you make your user active because Authlogic won't let you to create UserSession for inactive user.
Also here is a tip: use VCS like git
If you have some new or crazy idea just make a new branch from your master. You do not have to revert anything, just just switch branches and maybe delete them if your crazy_idea branch turned out to be too crazy.

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