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Amazon KDP appears to be a well-designed assembly line that mass-produces Kindle e-books and takes the lion's share of the e-book market. It's structurally optimized to deliver solutions to all problems that may arise from all aspects and stages of book publishing and marketing, with KDP as the chute to market for e-books, CreateSpace as that for printed books and Author Central as the shared portal between the two. You have a question? Amazon has an answer!
Behind this impressive façade, Amazon is no more than a Darwinian monster who is frantically and constantly realigning itself to better process the books in its pipeline. Without a doubt, Amazon is a superb survivor who is always able to innovate in order to stay ahead of or catch up with its competitors.
Need an example? Just reflect for a minutes on the major steps Amazon took in the last couple of months in 2013: It introduced Kindle Book Countdown as an alternative to the conventional Free Book promotion; it introduced Kindle Matchbook program; it started offering matte finish of covers for printed books and last but not least, it stopped charging $25 for Extended Distribution for printed books.
It's fair to say that Amazon knows what it is doing. Nevertheless, do not assume that Amazon holds the crystal ball for the future. Your guess about the future of e-books is just as good as Amazon's. All Amazon has in its power to maintain its lion's share in the e-book market is the will to survive and the agility to adapt.
And adapt it does, sometimes ever so frantically. If you use KDP Bookshelf as often as I do, I am sure you have noticed the unannounced service down notice and the rather frequent changes of the user interface. And if you are as "lucky" as I have been, you would have observed absurd incidents. For example, in the month of October, 2013, I often got to see a French writer's royalty report, when I refresh my KDP royalty summary page. To prove that I am not just making this up, I have pasted in the screenshot as follows:
I remember saying to myself when I saw this page in my own KDP Royalty report: Damn, these books are doing great for eight days into the month; I wish they were really mine!
Prior to that, I've also once seen the author Jamie Adams' royalty summary, as shown in the following screenshot:
Judging from the sales number, she's also doing great and making me wish that this royalty summary was really mine.
These two freak incidents both happened when I was doing something completely normal – just clicking around after I had logged into my KDP account. Weird. Totally bizarre.
But there is a perfect explanation for them: the coders at Amazon were having a bad day in the office. They were trying to pull off a quick fix instead of methodically revamping a cog in the KDP machinery. It also appears that they were in a hurry, or else such bizarre incidents should never have happened in the real KDP production environment. They should have tested the fix thoroughly in their QA environment.
Whatever. Amazon is not as strong as it would let on. It has its own Achilles' heel. And when it strives to fix its weaknesses, it exposes vulnerabilities.
For as long as I have been publishing on KDP and CreateSpace, I have kept a close eye on Amazon's weaknesses. I see my KDP publishing career as my personal David vs. Goliath.
If I want to survive in the Jungle of Amazon, I need to gain the upper hand sometime in my battle against Amazon. There is no way I can gain any upper hand if I do not have any clues on Amazon's weaknesses.
This book is a result of my observations on Amazon's weaknesses. I am sure as time goes on, I will discover more and share with you. But as of now, I think I have enough to pack into a little book and make the readers happy.
But before I go into the details of what I want to share with you in the subsequent chapters in this book, I would like to summarize the principles I employ in devising strategies that target Amazon's weaknesses I have identified.
Ask, and You Shall Not Receive
I am sure that you have seen those arbitrary prices big publishing houses put on the Kindle editions of their book. Like you, I can't help wondering about the wisdom of their pricing. I have seen many prices above $1.00 but somehow mysteriously below $2.99. I have also seen prices between $10 and $18.
They do not make sense to me. By Amazon's rule, Kindle books priced in between $2.99 and $9.99 are entitled to the 70% royalty rate. Any Kindle book priced below $2.99 are subject to the 35% royalty plan. Why would the big guys price their Kindle books below the $2.99 threshold?
By the same token, any Kindle books priced above $9.99 are also subject to the 35% royalty plan. In order to get the same royalty a $9.99 book gets on the 70% plan, a book with a price higher than $9.99 would have to go up to $19.98. Again, why would the big guys bother to price a book at $15 when they can get more royalty out of it at a price of $9.99?
The answer is simple: The big guys do not play by the rule Amazon sets for the small guys. The big publishing houses work with Amazon on negotiated royalty plan. I do not know what royalty rate they are getting, but I am sure it makes perfect sense for them to price their books with total disregard for Amazon's $2.99 and $9.99 thresholds.
I do not know about you, but I, for one, would like to get the 70% royalty rate when my books are priced below the $2.99 threshold. I do not really care much about the other end: Pricing a Kindle book above $9.99 seems to be rather extreme.
But, would I get the 70% royalty rate for a book of mine that is priced at $1.49 if I ask Amazon for it? Of course not. Who do I think I am? The most I will get out of my inquiry is the predictable form email from KDP support with links to KDP's pricing rules.
I am using the above example to illustrate a point: You can ask Amazon for a favor, but you will not get it. Amazon will always act in its own best interest and not grant favors to authors. Think of Kindle e-books' one-week return policy. It is very generous to the buyers but has irked so many authors, of whom so many have written to Amazon or vented on forums to complain about it. What has Amazon done to ameliorate the pain for authors? Nothing.
Remember, when dealing with Amazon, it is "Ask, and you shall not receive."
Push the Right Button, and You Shall Receive
On the contrary, if you push the right button, Amazon hands you what you want on a gold plate.
Why? You may be asking. Well, think of Amazon as a giant robot playing a game of chess against you. It is wired together with a plethora of complex algorithms. Unlike the human brain which can act on hubris, intuition and other illogical instincts, these algorithms are 100% logical and reactive – hence predictable.
This robot will outsmart you if you keep making logical – hence predictable – moves to advance your own interest. It analyze, evaluate and predict your follow-up moves in nanoseconds and make a move to block your planned route. Along any series of logical moves, if you see three steps, the robot probably sees eighteen hundreds. Forget about it. You will never beat Amazon if you play like a robot.
You can only beat the robot if you make disjointed moves. For example, you make move "A" and then move "B," each of which indicating to the robot that you have a hidden goal to achieve. The robot instantly ascertains that the two goals are disjointed and they cannot be achieved at once; it also establishes after a tremendous amount of calculation that when A and B are made together, the overriding likelihood is that the perpetrator is trying to achieve the goal associated with A.
Therefore, the robot makes a move to block you from getting any closer to the goal of A. For the sake of easy reference later, let us call this move of the robot R1.
Game is over, if you are indeed trying to achieve A. You cannot change plan to achieve B either, as the robot has the upper hand now in the game and can easily block you from getting closer to B with its next move, R2.
But, what if all you really wanted is R1? You make A and B so that the robot reads your mind the way a robot predictably would and it is bound to make move like R1. And R1 is what you have really been craving for, not the goals affiliated with A or B.
Wouldn't you consider the mission accomplished when you see R1 on the table? I would. And that is what I refer to as pushing the right button.
With Amazon, when you push the right button, you shall receive. If all this strikes you as too abstract, do not worry. You will get all the details and specifics when we get into the game moves of pushing the right button so Amazon hands us the 80% royalty plan, among other goodies covered in this book.
Don't Get Mad, Get 80% Royalty
If you hang out in virtual places like GoodReads' Author Feedback Group, you will notice a lot of complaints about Amazon. It is an understandable sentiment: Everyone loves to hate the Yankees. Being at the mercy of a giant will do that to you. Many Indies find many reasons to feel bitter about Amazon and wish for Amazon's instant demise just for spite. This is evidenced in the waves of rumors we hear about flight of quality among Indies from KDP to other platforms.
I have read and heard about so many shocking statistics that indicate that pretty much everyone currently enrolled in KDP Select is thinking about leaving it, if not already did. Theoretically, that should have made it easier for the few foolish ones like me who have chosen to stay behind.
Not so. Amazon is as ever a competitive battlefield for anyone to survive. In fact, it may be tougher than it has ever been.
My humble advice is: Don't get mad, get the 80% royalty rate. That ought to increase your odds of success on Amazon.
Get the 80% royalty rate how? The secret is all in Ka-Ching! The 80% Royalty Formula for KDP: Buyer Beware: You Will Never Settle for 70% Again!


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This specialization consists of a minimum of 42 credit hours in History courses, 15 more credit hours in courses drawn from a prescribed list of courses from other disciplines, and 24 credit hours in Cognate Courses.
The selection of Historical Studies credits shall be based on the following regulations:
1. History 1000 and 1001 or History 1100 and 1101 are prerequisites for all other courses.
2. Students must also complete a six-credit hour Historical Studies core specialization requirement consisting of History 3840 (Historical Methods) and History 4950 (Independent Project in Historical Studies).
3. In addition to the requirements in (1) and (2) above, students will be required to take 12 credit hours from courses in each of the two following categories: Early Western History and Later Western History.
NOTE: When selecting these courses, students should note that the general College regulations require the completion of a minimum of 12 credit hours in 3000-level courses in the area of specialization.
A) Early Western History (Choose 4)
History/Classics 2035 (History of Classical Greece)
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History 2330 (Medieval Europe 1050 to the Reformation)
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History/Art Hist. 2700 (Art History Survey I)
History 3050 (History of Warfare to 1789)
History 3110 (History of Newfoundland to 1815)
History/Anth. 3520 (The Early Ethnography of North America's Native Peoples)
History 3760 (Women in Western Society and Culture [I])
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History 2110 (North Atlantic History Since 1820)
History 2200 (Canadian History 1497 to 1867)
History 2210 (Canada Since 1867)
History 2310 (Europe in the Nineteenth Century: 1789-1914)
History/Art Hist. 2701 (Art History Survey II)
History 3060 (History of Warfare Since 1789)
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History/Anth. 3525 (Later Ethnohistory of North America's Native Peoples)
History/Econ 3630 (Canadian Economic History in the 20th Century)
History 3770 (Women in Western Society and Culture [II])
History 3800-3830 (Contemporary Problems in Historical Perspective)
4. Students will complete at least six credit hours in 4000-level History courses from the following list (no more than three credit hours from any single category):
History 4110-4130 (Special Topics, North Atlantic History)
History 4210-4229 (Special Topics, North American History)
History 4240-4260 (Special Topics, Canadian History)
History 4310-4330 (Special Topics, European History)
History 4230-4231 (Special Topics, Newfoundland History I/II)
History/Art Hist. 4730-4731 (Modern Art I/II)
5. Students will complete fifteen credit hours in courses from the following list. These are courses that are thematically or methodologically relevant to the study of history (students may be allowed to take others with permission of the Programme Chair). Applicable courses used to satisfy the Cognate requirements may also be counted as Historical Studies credits. No more than six credit hours from any one discipline will be counted as Historical Studies credits. The selection of these courses must be approved by the Programme Chair.
Anthropology 1031 (Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Economics 2010 (Introduction to Microeconomics I)
Economics 2020 (Introduction to Macroeconomics)
English 2005 (Literary Survey I)
English 2006 (Literary Survey II)
English 2007 (Literary Survey III)
Folklore 1000 (Introduction to Folklore)
Folklore 1050 (Folklore Studies)
Folklore 2401 (Folklife Studies)
French 1050 (First Year French I)
French 1051 (First Year French II)
French 2100 (Intermediate French I)
French 2101 (Intermediate French II)
French 2550 (Introduction to French Literature I)
French 2551 (Introduction to French Literature II)
Geography 1000 (Introduction to Geography I)
Geography 1001 (Introduction to Geography II)
Geography 2001 (Cultural Geography)
Philosophy 1001 (Philosophy of Human Nature)
Philosophy 2701 (History of Ancient Philosophy)
Philosophy 3400 (Political Philosophy)
Political Science 1000 (Introduction to Politics)
Political Science 2000 (Introduction to Political Thought)
Political Science 2500 (Introduction to Political Behaviour)
Religious Studies 2013 (Introduction to Christianity)
Religious Studies 2050 (Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament)
Religious Studies 2051 (Introduction to the New Testament)
Sociology 2000 (Principles of Sociology)
Sociology 3040 (Introduction to Methods of Social Research)
Sociology 3150 (Classical Social Theory)
6. Candidates for the Historical Studies degree must also complete a coherent set of 24 credit hours in cognate courses in one or a balanced combination of two disciplines. Cognates will be approved in consultation with the Programme Chair of History and the Programme Chair of other disciplines concerned. For general regulations concerning cognate courses, see the Core Programme requirements under the Grenfell College section of this calendar.
7. Students will normally be allowed to register in History courses having the initial digit '3' only after they have successfully completed six credit hours in courses having the initial digit '2'.
8. Students will normally be allowed to register in History courses having the initial digit '4' only after they have successfully completed six credit hours in courses having the initial digit '3'.
9. In addition to meeting the requirements above, candidates must also fulfil all the Bachelor of
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Sunday, September 07, 2008
The End of Mana
The tradition definition of mana is a resource which powers your abilities that starts at full, is slowly depleted, and can only be regenerated out-of-combat or through long periods of inactivity.
If you look at the current WoW mana classes, many of them are moving towards a self-contained cycle for their main resource. For example:
Warlocks: Cast Spells -> Lifetap -> Drain/Heal
Enhance Shamans: Use Abilities -> Shamanistic Rage
Protection Paladins: Use Abilities -> Regain mana through Spiritual Attunement
In WotLK, more classes will join the new model:
Hunters: Full Damage with Aspect of the Hawk -> Mana Regen with Aspect of the Viper
Ret Paladins: (hopefully) Use Abilities -> Judgements of the Wise
The two categories left which use the traditional mana model are mages/boomkins/elemental shamans and healers.
So why are more and more classes shifting away from the traditional mana model? I think the main reason is that mana does not really handle fights of varying length well, especially for DPS classes. If the fight is too long, you run out of mana. If the fight is too short, you have mana left unspent. Indeed, this was part of the reason chaining mana potions was so powerful, as it allowed you to tailor your mana pool to the length of the fight.
As well, in theory the traditional mana model is supposed to make you trade-off longevity for damage. In practice, most people just blasted away with their main nuke, and didn't really adjust tactics in-game to compensate for fight length. The only class which really considered longevity are classes with a 2-cycle spell rotation. And a 2-cycle rotation is perhaps overly sensitive to fight length.
The self-contained model, on the other hand, scales to any arbitrary fight length. The length of the fight is no longer restricted by the mana of the players, it can be as long or as short as desired.
This didn't matter as much in 5-mans, as 5-man fights have an implicit timer: the healer's mana bar. When the healer's mana bar runs out, the fight usually ends. As well, unlike DPS which has very little "over-damage", healers can extend their mana bar by playing smarter and avoiding overheal. Wasted mana is very important for a healer, unlike DPS. However, once you have more than one healer, a healer's mana bar can last a lot longer through efficiencies and trading off regen time, or even just reducing the damage done. Unlike DPS, the rate at which healers spend mana is very dependent on the specifics of the encounter.
I think time has shown that the traditional mana model is not the best resource for an MMO. In a lot of ways, it is either too constraining, or ends up not mattering at all. I think that more and more MMOs will move towards self-contained resource cycles to power abilities.
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As well, in theory the traditional mana model is supposed to make you trade-off longevity for damage. In practice, most people just blasted away with their main nuke, and didn't really adjust tactics in-game to compensate for fight length.
Indeed. And the reason for this was that non-mana-using classes did not have to make that tradeoff. A melee class chipping away at an opponent does at least as much damage as a caster that's nuking. So to stay viable, the caster had to nuke at full blast at all times, mana be damned.
Indeed, this was part of the reason chaining mana potions was so powerful, as it allowed you to tailor your mana pool to the length of the fightReplyDelete
This makes we wonder why chaining mana potions was removed. If it was a viable game mechanic which allowed for more flexibility for both players and developers, why remove it? It surly could not have been due to Blizzard worrying about the gold-cost of the potions, not with 8k-gold rings introduced to the game...
As for "allowing DPS to nuke regardless of mana", don't melee nuke regardless of energy/rage? Why shouldn't casters be allowed to nuke? The only mechanic which does and should limit nuking is threat. Limiting casters ability to nuke, without limiting the melee, would simply create a game imbalance.
This makes we wonder why chaining mana potions was removed.ReplyDelete
It's back again, btw. Apparently Blizzard didn't want to rebalance encounters to not require chaindrinking.
As Shalkis said, the potion sickness debuff was removed like, 6 or 7 patches ago? I was sure that it was removed even before the Alpha ended, but I kept seeing people still think it was in effect all over the place, so it made me worry that maybe my own information was wrong.ReplyDelete
Anyway, I just have to mention that if you're going to consider Shamanistic Rage, then you probably should consider a Mage's Evocation, a Druid's Innervate, and the new Paladin Divine Plea.
- Anonymous5:46 AM, September 08, 2008
The potion sickness debuff is still there (only 1 potion per fight).ReplyDelete
The reason people think it has been removed is that the debuff icon is not showing up correctly.
- Anonymous6:08 AM, September 08, 2008
I think all the clever abilities and systems you see in place in WoW for mana regen are implemented in an effort to do something better or at least different from Everquest. In EQ, the Enchanter class has a spell that allowed the player to regen mana at an elevated rate. It was necessary for raids, awesome for groups, and in a some cases was the only buff that allowed some classes to solo effectively. Clarity (the buff) was so desireable that I remember charging people to cast it on them. The duration was an hour, so they could usually get their money's worth out of the buff. The mana regen system went through changes in eq too. Originally the only way you could regen mana is if you were staring at your spellbook (took up the full screen). We can all see the problem with that... you couldn't see the rest of the world that sony had programmed for you, and that world was a dangerous place for most.ReplyDelete
Anyway, I just have to mention that if you're going to consider Shamanistic Rage, then you probably should consider a Mage's Evocation, a Druid's Innervate, and the new Paladin Divine Plea.ReplyDelete
RJ, perhaps my view is incorrect, but I see Evocation, Innervate, and Divine Plea as more of a one-time boost to your mana, rather than a cycle that is supposed to repeat over and over during the fight. Shamanistic Rage is closer to a repeating cycle, as it is used multiple times during the fight.
Basically, if you could "go infinite" with Evocation or Divine Plea (while still using abilities at a very high rate), then yes, I would say that class has transitioned to self-contained model. I just don't think that has happened yet.
This is very true and mana needs to be changed especially for mages. As you explained our dps should not correlate directly to the number of mana pots we consume. A system of energy would make us much more economical and balance our class a lot more.ReplyDelete
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I agree with your post, the traditional mana system doesn't work very well. The problem is, what would you replace it with? I can think of only 3 systems: Rage, where you build up a resource by dealing damage. Energy, where the resource builds up very quickly over time, but not quite quickly enough to spam abilities non-stop. Or you could not have any resource at all, but all abilities are on a long enough cooldown that they can't be spammed. The last one isn't in WoW right now, but it seems like it could work OK. Do you have any other ideas for alternatives to the traditional mana system?ReplyDelete
Actually Macawber, the time or cooldown system is very similar to Death Knight runes. It's sort of like a bunch of abilities sharing a cooldown. As well, to a certain degree, Prot/Ret Paladins are cooldown-based.ReplyDelete
Rohan: While I see your point and don't really disagree, Shamanistic Rage's cooldown means that you might at best only use it once or twice in a typical boss fight, and if you're unlucky you might end up getting even less mana back then the Mage who Evocates, or the Priest/Druid who got Innervated.ReplyDelete
Shamanistic Rage is kind of an "in-between" between the abilities that just give "one-time" massive lumps and those which give back smaller amounts over smaller periods of time.
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From a PvP rogue point of view, what I don't like in the current implementation of mana is that, especially for healers, it seems to be an infinite resource (especially coupled with no-more-spell-pushback talents).ReplyDelete
Rage and energy, even if they seem infinite, seem much more restrictive than mana. Rogues cannot spam their abilities because of the energy regeneration speed (an a mage can spam ice lance all day long while running away from us doing 180 jumps).
In battlegrounds, I have pounded on holy paladins for minutes while they just sit there and spam their healing spells (and watch me kill myself on Retribution Aura).
My .02 USD about mana.
@ anon pvp rogue... just wait till our ret aura scales with our spell power. you wont fight that holy paladin for very long. you will kill yourself long before then =) and no we are not OPReplyDelete
The anon rogue has a point. Traditional mana classes have very few transitions between "enough" mana and "not-enough" mana. A rogue, in contrast, shuttles between the two states all the time.ReplyDelete
This is both good and bad. It sucks for the rogue while the mana-class is still in the "enough mana" state. But once the mana-class has been forced into the "not-enough" state (say through mana-burn) it's a lot harder for them to recover.
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This is a bit of an odd ball theory relating to solidstate's comment. it might work back to wanting to keep gold farming down to a minimum. with the mana pots the primary source was an alchemist. needing herbs to make them. a not insignificant portion of the herbs coming into your typical AH would have been from gold farmers botting the herbing. in this case the gold is still in the player system, and can be sold by the gold sellers once their bots collect it. an 8kgold vendor bought ring on the other hand permanently removes that 8k from the economy of WoW. This may seem like a long shot. but if you look at where you see the gold farmers on servers they are farming materials (primals ore herbs etc) not questing for gold. So in effect the gold seller's biggest source of gold is other players buying their goods. By removing the worth of huge amounts of these materials. they limit the ability of a gold farmer to get gold for bottingReplyDelete


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The Three Faces of The Ford U-100 Bronco - Backward GlancesPosted in Features on September 13, 2013
The 1966 to 1977 Ford Bronco has long been an acknowledged classic and collectable 4x4, as well as a favored builder. When it was introduced in August 1965, the Bronco was an instant trendsetter that helped put FoMoCo on the 4x4 map.
Ford had not offered factory-built 4x4s long when the Bronco debuted. Factory-assembled four-wheel-drive Ford pickups first appeared in 1959. FoMoCo had previously relied on Marmon-Herrington to do conversions for the few customers who demanded a Blue Oval with all-wheel drive. With the upswing of recreational four-wheeling and outdoor hobbies in the early '60s, Ford began to see the short wheelbase SUV market as a growth opportunity. The successful introduction of the International Harvester Scout for 1961 provided a role model and impetus. Other examples included the Jeep, Land Rover, Toyota Land Cruiser and Datsun Patrol. Ford reckoned to join a 4x4 market that was increasingly demanding more comfort and daily driving capabilities versus the traditional rough-and-tumble 4x4 utility.
The legendary Ford Mustang was well on its way to being a reality when Ford Product Manager Donald Frey convinced VP Lee Iacocca that Ford needed to be in the burgeoning SUV game. Henry Ford II eventually signed off with the stipulation that it be a minimum effort development utilizing the existing Ford parts bins as much as possible.
Development Engineer Paul Axelrad headed up the technical side of the project and managed to come up with some innovations that would later be heralded as leading a technical charge towards more comfortable and capable SUVs. That list is topped by the coil-spring front suspension, an industry first, which was developed concurrently for both the '66 Bronco and ½-ton F-100 Ford trucks. It consisted of two forged steel radius arms to locate the Dana 30 front axle longitudinally and a track bar to locate the axle laterally. Weight was carried on a pair of tall coil springs and the shocks were attached to the radius arms. In back, the rear 9-inch dropout axle was located by a pair of long, supple leaf springs and the body was supported by no less than eight rubber mounts.
The Bronco was known for its good ride and handling, but also for a very tight 33-foot turning radius. This beat even the 81-inch wheelbase Jeep CJ-5. Part of this feat is correctly credited to the coil-spring suspension, which allowed more room for the tires, but it can also be credited to Dana, or rather the request Ford made of them to develop a tighter-turning axle. Another of the Bronco's firsts was its open-knuckle front axle, which was the first to appear on an American 4x4. The open-knuckle allowed more steering angularity, as well as a reduction in weight from the old closed-knuckle styles. This was a trendsetting axle development that would finally take over by the early '70s.
Along similar lines, Ford also requested that Dana develop a special version of its then-new Dana 20 transfer case. The Ford version featured a single-stick shifter as well as a unique 2.46:1 low-range gear (versus the standard Dana 20 2:1). The Dana 20 would live behind a Ford Model 303, "three-on-the-tree" manual transmission with a decent 3.4:1 First gear that came straight from the Ford parts bin.
Early on, Ford hinted at an available V-8, but when the Bronco debuted, only the Ford 170ci inline-six was available. With about 105 gross horsepower on tap, it was adequate for the job and on par with the primary competition. The March 1966 intro of the 289ci V-8 in the Bronco blew everyone out of the water. It was the first offering of a V-8 in an American short-wheelbase SUV, and that set another milestone for the Bronco. The V-8 would become a popular option.
The Bronco series was given the model designation U100, with each of the three basic body styles given a separate model number. The U130 Roadster was the bare-bones offering, sold without top or doors. The U140 was called the Sports Utility and used a bulkhead and half-cab to create a mini-pickup. The U150 was a fully enclosed Station Wagon. This range of body styles precisely mimicked the Scout and both vehicles offered the option for owners to interchange tops and doors. The Roadster had a fiberglass door insert that was screwed into place. A little known fact is that a Roadster could be ordered with doors (with or without glass) fitted from the factory. Just as IH discovered, the Roadster models would be the least popular and the Station Wagon the most. Both Ford and IH would quickly drop their Roadster models a few years into production
The press would be very kind to the '66 Bronco, especially after the V-8 debuted. We published the results of our own two-month test in the March 1966 issue, and summed up with: "The new Ford back country machine is one which an off-the-road enthusiast can easily become friends with in short order." In just the next issue, we announced the V-8 option and almost all the Broncos tested subsequently would be V-8 powered.
Initial Bronco sales were strong, nearly 24,000 units that first year, numbers that would slowly creep upwards and then drop back down. Stiff competition from the existing SUV makers would cut into sales. Jeep upgraded its model line to compete better, and IH refined the Scout and offered V-8 power. The biggest blow would come in 1969 with the intro of the Chevy Blazer. It didn't help sales that Ford spent next to nothing further developing the Bronco. Power steering and brakes, factory A/C, disc brakes, all the stuff buyers clamored for, would all come late in the game for the Bronco. This seems incomprehensible until you know that by 1972, Ford had a Blazer-beating-big-Bronco in the works. That intro would be delayed by the gas crunch, but when the big Bronco debuted for 1978, sales would soar to over 70,000 units. That would set the trend for all the Broncos built to the end of the name in 1996. But that's another story.
Little did Ford know that the early Bronco would take on iconic status not long after its demise. It is now almost universally known and often compared to the legendary Mustang. The comparison is apt. They were both developed by the same people to take a bold step into their market segments and slice out Ford's customary large piece of the pie. It could be said that the Mustang was a larger commercial success, but both were trendsetters and equally well remembered in their genres.
From a technical standpoint, the '66 Bronco is almost unique and this makes for a difficult restoration. That provides an interesting challenge that attracts some and repels others. For a long time, the '66s were the unwanted stepchildren of the Bronco collecting world and prices were low. No more. Today, despite the challenges, they have become just as collectable as the original essence of Ford's seminal 4x4 thinking nearly a half century ago.
At A Glance
Vehicles: 1966 U-130 Bronco Roadster, '66 U150 Station Wagon
Owners: Tim Hulick, Bill Quarterman
Estimated value: $25,000-$45,000
Engine: 170ci I-6 (std), 289ci V-8 (opt)
Power (hp): 105 @ 4,400 (I-6), 200 @ 4,400 (V-8)
Torque (lb-ft): 158 @ 2,400 (I-6), 282 @ 2,400 (V-8 opt.)
Bore & stroke (in): 3.50 x 2.94 (I-6), 4.00 x 2.87 (V-8)
Comp. ratio: 9.1:1 (I-6), 9.3:1 (V-8)
Transmission: 3-spd manual, Ford 303
Transfer case: 2-spd, Spicer 20
Front axle: Dana 30, open knuckle
Rear axle: Ford 9-inch, 28-spline axles
Axle ratio: I-6: 4.11:1 (std), 4.57:1 (opt), V-8: 3.50:1 (std), 4.11:1 (opt)
Tires: 7.35-15 (8.15-15, others, opt)
L x W x H (in): 151.1x68.8x70.7
Wheelbase (in): 92
GVW (lbs): 3,900 (std), 4,700 (opt)
Curb weight (lbs): 3,160 (I-6, SW)
Fuel capacity (gal): 14.5 (12 aux opt)
Min grd clearance (in): 6.6
Approach angle (deg): 40.6
Departure angle (deg): 29.4
Ramp breakover (deg): 27.7


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Just because someone lives on an acre of rain forest cut by a cold mountain stream in a historic Hawaiian home filled with exotic treasures three minutes from downtown Honolulu, that doesn't mean she's in paradise, does it? Mary Philpotts McGrath, lucky girl, must admit that it does.
Born and raised on Oahu with Hawaiian lineage through her mother, Mary is among Hawaii's best-known interior designers and exponents of its East-meets-West style. (Her daughter, Marion, who lives next door, is also a designer at Philpotts & Associates.) From architecture to orchids, Mary embraces all things Hawaiian.
"Our home is signed by Hart Wood," she proudly reports of the 90-year-old house she shares with her husband, John Williams McGrath. To those with a knowledge of Hawaiian architecture, that's a bit like citing Moses as the provenance of certain stone tablets in one's personal possession; Wood is the source of the style. After moving to Honolulu in 1919, he consciously crafted a distinctive Hawaiian architecture using indigenous materials, forms that functioned optimally with the weather, and an amalgam of Eastern and Western design elements that made sense for the Pacific Rim.
"What this house [and Hawaiian] style is, essentially, is eclectic," says Mary. "Some features--like the roofline [steep, double-pitched]--are uniquely Hawaiian, and other elements are Chinese. Because Wood was a classically trained architect, you also see a strong European influence in his proportions."
Those proportions are what first drew her to the house. "The width, length, and height of every room are all pleasing. I also was attracted to Wood's attention to detail. From the entry to the living room, the dining room, and the family room, the house has no interior doors, just framed portals. The entire first floor is all opened up through these wide apertures. Wood articulates the detailing of each space beautifully while still using a common vocabulary," explains Mary.
Ahead of its time for mainstream architecture, the open concept was less an aesthetic objective than a functional one. "With the windows and exterior doors open, the trade winds are free to move and cool the house," explains Mary.
When the McGraths bought it 20 years ago, the house was in superb condition. Aside from lightening the family room's paneling back to its original pickled finish, they've had to do little to improve it. Mary credits Wood's choice of materials. From the ground up, he built the entire first floor with stone. "It was the basalt stone laborers would chip out of the fields when they were not working the pineapple and sugar cane plantations," Mary explains. "It was used in rectangular blocks and covered with a plaster mortar. It remains the same temperature all year long. I believe it's what has given this house longevity."
Other materials that merit credit include termite-impervious ohia, an indigenous and increasingly rare wood that grows near volcanoes and covers most of the rooms' floors. The original flooring in the family room--as ahead of its time as the open floor plan--is black-stained concrete.
Along with scoring an important piece of Hawaii's architectural heritage, Mary considers herself nearly as fortunate to have purchased many of the home's original furnishings. Artworks like the living room's large framed Japanese screen are ideally suited to the scale of the house. "It was a matter of rearranging and moving things. I don't think I left a single piece in its original place," she says.
Furnishings original to the house, such as the massive antique Venetian gilded mirror that stretches almost to the ceiling, fascinate Mary. "The original owners were German, and like most immigrants to Hawaii, their furnishings came from all over the world. I just can't imagine how they shipped them here."
Each piece tells the home's history, and Mary happily enriches the story with some offerings of her own. The couple's collection of new to 200-year-old bowls crafted from native Hawaiian woods is displayed throughout the home. "Collecting is a by-product of my profession," Mary jokes. "Many of these bowls and vessels were revered items presented to commemorate an occasion or used in food ceremonies. They're a part of our cultural history." Neatly pulling them together with the European antiques and Japanese art are some practical Hawaiian decorating approaches. "Bare feet, bare floor," laughs Mary. "We prefer to leave our windows bare and our floors minimally covered. We prefer to look outside--to live in our gardens."
Interior design: Mary Philpotts McGrath, Philpotts & Assoc. Inc., 40 S. School St., Suite 200, Honolulu, HI 96813; 808/523-6771, philpotts.net.
Photography: Joe Schmelzer
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Mary repickled the family room's paneling. A lauhala mat of plaited pandanus leaves skims over concrete flooring.
The living room's Italian ormolu burlwood chest displays silver bells of English monarchs.
An antique Japanese vase tops the entry's antique Italian chest.
The dining room's Venetian mirror.
Nuuanu stream.
An Italian antique original to the home is crowned by a portrait of Mary's mother, Muriel Flanders.
A Japanese stone lantern decorates the garden.
Wooden bowls gather at the piano, while Jacoulet prints hang nearby.
Huddled atop a chest in the guest room, Mary's frogs make up one of her many collections. A Sexton floral-print from the Mauna Kea Hotel hangs above a chest stenciled by John's mother. The antique Italian chair came with the house.
More wooden bowls from another of the McGraths' collections are displayed on library shelves.
Victorian beds that were Mary's father's childhood furniture join an Eastlake parlor table in the guest room. John Kelly prints hang on the colored-plaster walls.
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KERSHAW – Diane Garrett of Romarco Minerals said she plans for her company to be in Kershaw for decades to come.
Romarco Minerals is drilling at Haile Gold Mine in Kershaw, and will soon begin construction of a laboratory. The 7,500-square-foot lab will house 12 employees, including a team of analytical technicians, said Jim Wickens, process manager for Haile Gold Mine.
Dean Faile, president of the Lancaster County Chamber of Commerce, hopes that group's new Think Lancaster First marketing campaign can help give local businesses a better chance to stay open.
The campaign, which was launched Sept. 28, will feature posters, fliers and other materials encouraging Lancaster County residents to think about Lancaster County businesses before heading outside the county to shop, dine or get other services.
Faile believes the campaign is a "component of a strategy" that can prevent local small businesses from closing.
Fresh food at affordable prices was the name of the game at Wagz & Wishes in downtown Lancaster.
The South Main Street deli-cafe opened in October 2008 and quickly developed a following of customers who came to enjoy their soups, sandwiches, salads, coffees and made-from-scratch baked goods.
Its laid-back atmosphere was a major attraction, too.
"Downtown was missing a place to eat and socially gather," owner Dawn Wagner said. "It became a nice social hub for Lancaster."
September is Celebration of Service month at The Home Depot, and this year's theme is "30 Days of Green."
On Sept. 16, seven associates from the Lancaster Home Depot met at White Oak Manor in Lancaster to plant flowers and vegetables for the residents of the assisted-living facility. Store manager Eric Tweddle, Lynette Waid (a Home Depot team captain), Tiffany Bunton, Mandy Cauthen, Joshua Glenn, Daisy Prosser and Patrick Williams arrived eager to complete the beautification work.
Lancaster attorney Elizabeth Robinson came from a family of teachers.
She majored in special education and later attended law school at the University of South Carolina with the hopes of becoming an advocate for children with special needs.
But when she finished law school, Robinson couldn't find a job in the specialty she wanted.
She began researching and found that only two law firms represent parents of children with disabilities in due-process actions.
Bo Thai Cuisine had its regular, devoted customers.
But the exotic eatery, known for its fresh stir fry dishes and flavorful curries, recently closed its doors on S.C. 9 Bypass after almost three years of business.
A "Sorry, we're closed" sign hangs in one window, a "For sale" sign in another.
Those may be signs of the times.
Another restaurant on the S.C. 9 Bypass with a more familiar name, Dairy Queen, announced its closing with a sign, too.
For the second time in a year, the administration at the Lancaster County Airport is changing.
Sandy Laubscher, a county employee who took over as airport supervisor in December, is stepping down from the post today to accept a management position at a Rock Hill company.
Laubscher took over at the airport after Lancaster Aviation, a private business that oversaw the day-to-day operations at the airport for more than six years, shut down its operations there at the end of 2009.
KERSHAW – Tattoo enthusiasts may soon be able to get their ink in Kershaw.
Kershaw Town Council passed first reading of an ordinance Aug. 16 to allow tattoo facilities in its general commercial zoning district.
C.J. Brower, 23, wants to open a tattoo shop and rented a store next to Town Hall before council passed the ordinance to allow tattoo facilities. However, the zoning district where that building is situated in a more restrictive zoning district.
Mayor Wayne Rhodes expressed concern about the shop being right next to Town Hall last month.
INDIAN LAND – Margaret Barfield carefully scanned the shelves for deals as she pushed her cart through the new ALDI food market in Indian Land.
Barfield, who lives just miles from the store, was one of many shoppers swarming the aisles of the store during its grand opening Thursday morning.
She has been traveling to the Rock Hill ALDI for years to take advantage of the chain's unique discounts and brands, and couldn't wait for her favorite store to open near her home. The new store is at the intersection of Marvin Road and U.S. 521.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 149 diseños de 61 diseñadores freelance.
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With Pfizer poised to hand off full promotional responsibilities for Enbrel to its partner Amgen, New England Journal of Medicine has published a study suggesting that the $4 billion RA drug may not be worth the premium price. Researchers found they could match Enbrel's effectiveness by combining sulfasalazine and hydroxychloroquine with methotrexate, which is a common RA therapy. They also compared this three-part combination to an Enbrel-methotrexate combination, which is not unusual.
The potential significance of the finding is fuzzy – an NEJM editorial noted that doctors tend to stick with what they know, and may not be willing to switch treatments because of the new data. Authors Joan Bathon and Donald McMahon note that this probably hinges on payer preference and that docs' comfort level with Enbrel could make the finding irrelevant.
This does not mean that doctors will go for just any biologic, and experts have said that RA biosimilars are going to have to fight for market share once the FDA gets the biologics look-alike market rolling, as the complexity of an RA biologic will give them pause about inexact replicas. Expectations are that less complex biosimilars will gain traction first, giving Amgen's Enbrel and AbbVie's Humira more time to ring up strong sales, even as patent protections disappear.Yet this comparative stronghold doesn't mean these brands are impermeable – Pfizer has said in recent earnings calls that its RA drug Xeljanz has an increasing fan base among physicians, and news from Bristol-Myers Squibb Wednesday indicates that a head-to-head comparison between its drug Orencia and AbbVie's Humira shows the drugs, when paired with methotrexate, to be comparable.


text: Just How Bad Is It? An Aerial View of Crops in Iowa and Minnesota August 5, 2013 05:12 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Tyne Morgan US Farm Report Host Email Crops may look fine from the road, but an aerial view of northern Iowa and southern Minnesota reveals a true picture of what too much rain can do. "AgDay" continues to hear reports of poor crop conditions in northeast Iowa and southern Minnesota. After receiving aerial footage, it's apparent the crop can't be accurately measured by walking through fields; a view from above tells the true story. Pro Farmer's Chip Flory joined two crops analysts, including Peter Meyer of PIRA Energy Group, for an aerial tour of the hard-hit area. They took off from Charles City, Iowa, on July 29 with a camera in hand. The footage is mind-blowing; just watch the video to see for yourself. Bare fields, large holes in the middle of lush, green fields and inconsistency stretching for miles. This is an aerial view of northern Iowa and southern Minnesota, and proof of what too much rain can do. "The pounding rains, the saturated soils, the late plantings and then the mudding it in in a lot of cases led to these problems," says Brian Grete, Pro Farmer senior market analyst. Peter Meyer of PIRA Energy Group decided to get a first-hand look of these issues from the air. Earlier this summer, he conducted a driving crop tour in states like Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota. He saw acres and acres of unplanted fields then, but an aerial view confirmed his original analysis of Iowa and Minnesota: it's bad. "The water, the holes in the field are as big as football fields," says Meyer. "The soybeans there are so small and with the daylight getting shorter, I just don't know how sustainable this soybean crop is." Meyer says based on what he's seen on both crop tours, he thinks the prevented planting acreage number in Iowa and Minnesota alone will be around two million acres just in corn. Meanwhile, in USDA's June Acreage report, the agency still thinks total acreage will set records this year, despite the dramatic picture of Iowa and Minnesota. USDA says scouts are resurveying fields across the northern Corn Belt, but there's still doubt if the agency will adjust the numbers enough in the upcoming report. Grete lives in northeast Iowa, and he's seen the poor conditions first-hand. After getting an aerial view, he says conditions can't be accurately measured when just driving by. "Now these may not be visible from the road; in fact, some of these crops we're seeing here from a 1,000 foot-view, may actually be rated as good to excellent fields by USDA at this point in time, because they're not visible from the road," he explains. "But when you get an aerial view of them, you see all the holes that are out there, the thin stands, and so on and so forth." So, if this year's crop is as bad as these scouts are seeing in Iowa and Minnesota, why have we seen a dramatic drop in crop prices lately? Grete says unfortunately, we may not get an accurate account of this year's crop for a few more months. "These are isues that may not be covered until later in the growing season and maybe not until combines actually roll this fall," says Grete. "So this is a situation, as we've been saying, where it may be later rather than sooner before the market realizes some of the problems that are hidden out there that are hidden in those Iowa and southern Minnesota fields." "AgDay" has heard about possible record-breaking yields in central Illinois this year, with some farmers even saying initial yield checks top 250 bu. per acre this year. Much of this year's crop, however, all across the Corn Belt got planted late. Now, fears are surfacing about what an early or even normal freeze or frost could do to a large portion of acres. So, meteorologist Mike Hoffman's 90-day temperature outlook could be key. Unfortunately, it doesn't paint a pretty picture, as he's forecasting below normal temperatures for much of the Corn Belt, including all of Illinois and Iowa and the northern half of Missouri. Watch the temperature outlook: Back to news


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NSA Official Positively Compares Metadata Searches To Stop And Frisk
from the an-apt-comparison,-but-hardly-in-the-way-he-means-it dept
There's a huge disconnect between the mindset of the intelligence community and everyone else outside it. Considering the majority still lies with those on the outside, you'd think they'd make more of an effort to connect. But, as this statement, made to the PCLOB (Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board), indicates the gap hasn't narrowed in the slightest.
Employees at the National Security Agency follow the same standards as controversial "stop and frisk" policies when accessing phone surveillance data, intelligence officials said Tuesday.It simply cannot be stressed enough that you need to choose your words wisely when discussing programs that are already suspected of violating civil liberties. Comparing them to something just as controversial only calls the programs into further question, not to mention Rajesh De's judgement.
Though the agency collects data about all U.S. phone calls, NSA employees need to demonstrate "reasonable and articulable suspicion" when they want to access that phone call data.
"It's effectively the same standard as stop and frisk," NSA General Counsel Rajesh De said during a hearing held by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, which supervises anti-terrorism surveillance programs.
A board member called De out on this, pointing out the NYPD's program is hardly without its problems, seeing as it's currently the subject of multiple lawsuits including two high-profile cases in federal courts. Having been apprised of developments outside the intelligence bubble, the officials "amended their claim," so to speak.
The intelligence officials defended their version of the process, saying that searches of the phone call database are subject to more oversight than police officers who stop and frisk people on the street.Well, one would hope so, considering the particular "cops on the street" Rajash De compared NSA analysts to have had very little oversight over their program, which simply requires an officer to fill out a small form and check some boxes ("furtive movement") in order to justify shoving someone up against the wall.
As it stands now (especially with the City's stay being granted), stop and frisk hardly even needs "reasonable suspicion." Supposedly the NSA does, but again, we're expected to take officials' word on this, and any references De (or anyone else) makes towards "oversight" should probably be ignored. "Oversight" is the ideal, not the reality. The same goes for the NYPD, which has been granted (like the NSA) an extremely long leash by indulgent overseers (Mayor Bloomberg/intelligence committees).
DNI counsel Robert Litt added that the "actual degree of intrusion" when the agency searches the (not officially a) collection is much less than that of a stop and frisk search. Well, I would hope so. For one thing, no one's pockets are being turned out or having their crotch region manhandled. If they were, there'd be a whole lot fewer unnoticed privacy violations, much to the chagrin of Mike Rogers.
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