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The sporting world will be focused in on Louisville, Ky., this Saturday for the Run for the Roses -- the 138th Kentucky Derby. It's billed as the most exciting two minutes in sports... so, if you're actually there for the race -- and it's only two minutes -- what will you do with the rest of your time? Heck, you can only consume so many Mint Juleps, right?
Why not play some golf?
With the Kentucky Derby in mind, we reached out to our PGA.com Facebook friends in the Bluegrass State and those who have played lots of golf there and asked: What are the best non-private courses in Kentucky?
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9. Seneca Golf Course in Louisville, Ky. originally opened for play in 1934, Seneca's picturesque course has been recognized as the best choice for public golf in Louisville.
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"Seneca Golf Course -- Gary Player won the 1958 Derby City Open there." -- TJ Crane
8. Wasioto Winds Golf Course in Pineville, Ky. Not far from the Tennessee border, Wasioto Winds plays to 7,037 yards from the longest tees for a par of 72.
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"Wasioto Winds." -- Donnie Caldwell
7. The Bull at Boone's Trace in Richmond, Ky. Aside from the cool name, The Bull is described on its website as, "one of the finest public clubs throughout Central Kentucky, offering its members and the public a challenging course, fun atmosphere, and exceptional service. Come see why The Bull was voted 4 1/2 stars by Golf Digest's 'Best Places to Play' and is the most affordable golf for the quality of the course."
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"The Bull near Richmond." -- Barry Judd
6. Kenny Perry's Country Creek Golf Course in Franklin, Ky. Owned and operated by PGA Tour and Champions Tour star Kenny Perry, you can enjoy 18 holes with a cart at Country Creek for as little as $30.
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"Kenny Perry's Country Creek in Franklin, Ky." -- Robert Tarrents
"Kenny Perry's Country Creek." -- Corey Gravil
5. Quail Chase Golf Club in Louisville, Ky. The beautiful Quail Chase provides 27 holes of golf and tabs itself as, "Country Club golf for the public golfer."
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"For the money, Quail Chase is a good 27-hole public facility. Admittedly, I haven't ventured much outside of the Louisville area." -- Brad Hall
"Love Quail Chase!" -- Brett Bowman
4. Dale Hollow Lake Golf Course in Burkesville, Ky. Golf Digest has rated Dale Hollow as the eighth best course in the state of Kentucky. Most holes have moderate to severe elevation changes.
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"Dale Hollow -- hands down." -- Justin Carey
"Dale Hollow." -- James Mills
"Dale Hollow." -- John M Houchens
3. Heritage Hill in Shepherdsville, Ky. Opened in 2007, Heritage Hill is a par 72 that plays 7,112 yards from the longest tees.
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"Heritage Hill." -- Cameron Harden
"Heritage Hill is as good a piece of ground for a golf course as there is in Kentucky. I liked Old Silo a lot also." -- Marc Steven Mathews
"Heritage Hill GC." -- Thad Fine
2. Charlie Vettiner Golf Course in Louisville, Ky. Charlie Vettiner Golf Course is an 18-hole public golf course and is one of nine public golf courses managed by Louisville's MetroParks Department.
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"Charlie Vettiner Golf Course! One of the hardest in the state. $28.00 gets you cart and green fees. If you're looking for a challenge harder than picking the Kentucky Derby winning horse, play Charlie Vettiner." -- John Causey
"John is 100 percent correct. Cheap, challenging, and really good greens for a public course." -- Geoffrey Bouchard
"Charlie Vettiner." -- Matthew Marco Leatherchest Cook
1. Old Silo Golf Course in Mount Sterling, Ky. Opened in 2000, Old Silo was identified from our PGA.com Facebook friends as the can't-miss public golf course in the state of Kentucky.
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"Old Silo in Mount Sterling." -- Adam Martin
"I have to go with Adam on this one. Old Silo is a great course. I believe at one time it was the No. 1 public course in the state." -- Jeff Jackson
"Old Silo or Houston Oaks. The Bull will kick your butt... Kentucky golf is the best!" -- Debbie Blose Harchelroad
"Old Silo by far." -- Teddy Williamson
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This political version of "musical chairs" arises as a result of the Voters FIRST initiative, a 2008 ballot proposition.
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They were ruining 'America's game.' It was a travesty.
Well, the real referees were back this past week. But could you really tell the difference?
Of course you could. It was obvious. The replacement refs were so bad that anything was going to be better than the supposed disgrace that Roger Goodell allowed to happen.
Sure, the difference between the real refs and the replacements was obvious. Just like it was obvious to these people on the street that the iPhone 5 was clearly better than the iPhone 4S. Too bad those people didn't realize that the good people from the Jimmy Kimmel Show were pulling a fast one on them and that they were, in fact, testing out the iPhone 4S, a phone which a number of them already had.
The hatred towards the replacement refs was a classic example of the public buying into media generated hype 101. From the preseason on, the media set the stage for that W-T-F moment. The stuttering on the announcement of a penalty and the inevitable bad call in the course of a game was going to be foreshadowing for their inevitable failure.
The public drank up every ounce of the hater-ade.
FoxSports analyst and former NFL VP of Officiating Mike Pereira wrote a very critical article after week 2 about the replacements yet was only able to cite relatively trivial issues.
The blown non-interception that upset more than a few cheese heads in Wisconsin was what everyone was waiting for. People said it was a disgrace to the game but it is exactly what everyone wanted, especially the media. They pounded on it like a hungry Lion waiting in the tall grass only to have a wounded gazelle stumble on by. The replacement refs were the wounded gazelle.
They never stood a chance.
The media used the replacement refs as if they were a placebo drug. The media scientists told us precisely what they were going to do to us and people put the blinders on and looked only for evidence that would fulfill that prophecy. The public's mind became set on the replacement refs being terrible and nothing was going to get in the way of that.
This past week should have shown us all that the replacement refs were not all that bad.
For the first 3 weeks, legions of fans echoed a similar sentiment of 'you don't know what you got 'til it's gone.' However, week 4 was more like getting back together with that ex-girlfriend you wanted to get back with so badly but after getting her back you wondered why you ever missed her so much in the first place.
I can bet that if we didn't know that the referees were replacements through the first weeks, the difference fans were truly aware of would have been minimal.
The lack of excessive pushing and shoving kerfuffle's was no doubt noticeable in week 4 but, again, this was really more of a minor issue than anything. The biggest problem critics of the replacement refs had with regards to this was that it slowed down the game. Okay then, the average time of games through the first three weeks was 3 hours and 14 minutes. The average time of games for week 4 was 3 hours and 8 minutes.
In case you weren't able to do the math, that's a 6 minute difference.
An absolute farce?
The replacement refs were subject to this double standard that they were ruining the integrity of the game or as some fans liked to say, "our game." Each blown call was met with criticism of ridiculous proportions. Luckily for the refs this past week, they were subject to a reprieve on most anything because, for some reason, there was this unreasonable standard placed on the replacement refs that crucial mistakes would not be tolerated.
But were the refs ruining the integrity of the game this past week when Darren Sproles was ruled down by contact even though he clearly fumbled? When the Eagles were flagged for consecutive non-existent pass interference calls late in the game? When the Cleveland Browns received an illegitimate shot at a final second miracle against the Ravens?
Didn't think so.
The replacement officials seemed so bad simply because everyone was so caught up in condemning and scrutinizing their every move. It isn't that the replacement referees were just as good as the real referees, it's that they weren't nearly as bad as they were portrayed to be.
I guess people just forgot that the real referees make gigantic game-altering mistakes as well.
In the moment though, it is so easy to forget what happened in the past. I mean, people already seem to have forgotten Lebron James embarrassed the city of Cleveland on national television to create his super team.
Thing is, the replacement refs were never tarnishing 'America's game.'
You just wanted to think they were.
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Each week we will profile the Davis Dandies. These are performances by under-the-radar standouts from the college ranks in addition to the high-profile, soon-to-be money-makers that sometimes go unnoticed.
(Oct. 23, 2006) -- This week's nominees are:
1) In the Ole Miss vs. Arkansas game, Rebels senior linebacker Patrick Willis came to play. Although his team faltered 38-3, the middle linebacker left no doubt in the minds of this viewer that he is a football player. Willis finished with 13 tackles (including 10 solo) and reminded people why he has been the most consistent defensive player in the SEC over the two past years. The Butkus Award finalist has sideline-to-sideline range. What I am most impressed about is his vision. Willis slipped underneath blocks and used angles to regularly beat the backs to the perimeter. He proved why he is currently second in the nation in solo tackles.
2) The Blackshirts defense from Nebraska gave the Texas Longhorns all they could handle in a tough, hard-fought 22-20 loss in Lincoln, Neb., on Saturday. Senior right defensive end Jay Moore was a nemesis to the Texas offensive line in the snowy conditions all afternoon. The 6-foot-3ÃÆÃâÃâý, 290-pound athlete finished with four tackles, including three from behind the line of scrimmage, a sack and a pass defended. More importantly, his explosive first step and strength at the point of attack consistently got underneath the Longhorns' lineman pad level controlling the line of scrimmage all afternoon. Moore is an ideal 3-4 defensive end or under tackle in a Tampa-2 defense.
3) There is a reason why the Michigan Wolverines are currently ranked fifth in the NCAA in total defense. Their defense is an offensive coordinator's nightmare. Senior outside linebacker Shawn Crable showed that he can play a little bit of football. While LaMarr Woodley and Prescott Burgess are the more heralded front-seven teammates, Crable showed that his 6-4ÃÆÃâÃâý, 241-pound frame can do a little bit of everything. On Saturday against Iowa, he put his hand down and got upfield to rush the passer and dropped back into coverage and made plays on the ball in his zone. He finished the game against the conference foe with three convincing sacks and one jaw-breaking forced fumble. Even though Woodley and Burgess receive more attention, look for Crable to potentially join them on Sundays. Crable has the look of a 3-4 outside linebacker in the DeMarcus Ware mold.
4) The one name from Saturday that left a fan like myself in awe was Ameer Ismail. The record-setting performance was enough for me to say, Ameer who? But if you watched the junior linebacker from Western Michigan, you would notice that the kid has game. Against Ball State, he tied Elvis Dumerville's single-season sack record with six takedowns against the Cardinals. The former running back shows good timing on his blitzes, but also the speed to get around the edge. Ismail plays with a confidence that he will not be denied any cost. The 2005 first-team all-MAC defender is a run-and-chase linebacker with instincts. He took a pick six to the house in the first quarter. Ismail leads the nation in total sacks with 11. People had heard about him regionally, but Saturday was his official coming-out party. This may not be the last time that you will hear his name called (hint, hint).
5) With 62 seconds remaining in a must-win contest and a potential spot in a BCS Bowl game on the line, Notre Dame senior quarterback Brady Quinn stared the vaunted UCLA defense in the eyes and said, "Give me your best shot!" With no timeouts remaining, Quinn used pinpoint accuracy to go 3 for 3 for 80 yards and the go-ahead touchdown pass in 35 seconds to catapult the Fighting Irish to a stirring come-from-behind victory 20-17. Sometimes with all the hype, the stars are expected to pull off this type of performance, but this guy right here has the 'it' factor. He is mobile enough to buy time in the pocket with his feet and strong enough to stand tall and drive the ball downfield. Quinn has a laser-quick release, good spiral consistency with the moxy of all the great ones. If the game is on the line, I'm hard-pressed to find another guy playing on Saturday to give the keys to. My hats off to Mr. Quinn for hoisting South Bend, Ind., on his shoulders and once again carrying the team to victory.
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The first railway package of 2001 consists of three Directives which form the basis for the European railway legislation. According to the Commission, the present summary and recast version is to remove any insufficiencies, uncertainties and gaps in the regulatory framework. It further encompasses the removal of barriers to competition and the reform of regulatory oversight (1. Part), as well as questions regarding the development and operation of the railway infrastructure (2. Part).Its major aim is to provide for a non-discriminatory competition in the railway traffic market.
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The aim of this Green Paper is to outline options for developing a European contract law (available in all official languages). To this end, the Commission presents for discussion various options for an "instrument of European contract law". By this it means a construct of EU contract laws which needs further developing in particular with regard to the degree of its legally binding nature (legal form), the regulation radius (material scope) and the applicability to contract relations that do not cross borders.
The EU patent is a third option flanking the national and the European patent and providing EU-wide patent protection. At the same time, a European patents court system is to be established. The aim of the EU patent is to provide applicants with an easier and cheaper EU-wide patent protection. With a court for European patents and EU patents, the solving of legal disputes on patent granting and patent infringements is to be more consistent and calculable as it avoids parallel proceedings before national courts.
Vertical agreements are entered into by companies operating in the production or distribution chain at different levels. Such agreements are generally prohibited, however, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union provides for exemptions from the general prohibition. The Commission decides whether or not an exemption is given. In its Block Exemption Regulation in the Motor Vehicle Sector (EC) No. 1400/2002 and its Guidelines, the Commission is presenting the conditions according to which an agreement is deemed in line with competition law. Said Regulation will expire on 31 May 2010. At the end of last December the Commission has submitted a follow-up Draft Regulation and Draft Guidelines.
Under horizontal agreements, undertakings co-operate as competitors at the same level in the value-added chain. The Guidelines are intended to make it easier for undertakings to assess themselves whether or not their intended horizontal agreements infringe the ban on cartels of Art. 101(1) TFEU and whether an exemption applies. They contain general and agreement-specific explanations of the assessment of horizontal agreements for goods and services. The revised version contains also contains explanations on "information exchange" between undertakings which are relevant in terms of competition law.
The Commission intends to restrict the maximum repayable amount of EU deposit guarantee schemes to € 100,000 in future. Deposit guarantee schemes are being obliged to mutually grant loans.
In the middle of the financial crisis the Council and the European Parliament decided to increase the minimum coverage level to Euro 50,000 and – by the end of 2010 – up to 100,000. Issues such as the EU-wide harmonisation of the financing of deposit guarantee schemes and the establishment of a European deposit guarantee scheme were postponed to 2010.
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Friday, April 19, 2013
Killing the Goose
FamilySearch seems to believe that adding more and younger users are the golden eggs. So therefore, if you kill the goose, you will get a whole lot of golden eggs at once instead of waiting for the old goose to produce more. You attract these young people (the golden eggs as they believe) by feeding them stories and photos. But do those stories and photos just magically appear? Where do they come from? Guess what they are the real golden eggs of the genealogy goose, not the new users of the website. So not only are they confused about where the golden eggs come from, but they are also confused about the value of eggs. So they kill the goose. No more eggs. No more stories or photos. Simple.
Now a change in analogies.
Genealogists are not the cause of the disinterest in family history. But they are being looked at as an unnecessary market in a re-branding effort to attract a new market. FamilySearch has evidently decided that their future market is composed of a lot of younger people rather than a few older people. So, like all marketers in today's economy, you dump the old image and the old market and focus on the new one.
The problem here isn't just a redesign of a website. The fact is that FamilySearch.org has considered the meat and potatoes part of genealogy to be a marketing liability for some time. In an effort to attract more people, the emphasis on "family history" as opposed to the unmarketable term "genealogy" has been going on for some time i.e. Family History Library and FamilySearch. The real question is whether or not the two are really in conflict? Do you have to kill off genealogy to have family history prosper?
The reality is that the research that produces family history in whatever form you want to cast it, is not fundamentally a very easy or desirable product to sell. It is mostly dull, hard work. It is interesting, engaging, stimulating, inspiring, spiritual, but it is still hard work. The main idea here should be that you are not selling anything. I learned very early in life that you can't sugar coat hard work. Hard work does not become easier just because someone tells you it will be fun. If you tell people that they are going to have "fun" doing something and then it turns out to be hard work, they will be angry and disappointed, just like many of our patrons at the Mesa FamilySearch Library.
Part of the problem is that the people who are trying to sell family history have never participated in the process of creating the family history resources in the first place. Let's take the FamilySearch Research Wiki as an example. Here we have what is easily the most valuable family history tool ever fashioned by man or technology. So what do you do with it? Consider it to be too technical for beginners? Not attractive enough to sell to consumers? To difficult to understand? So you bury it away and hope that it will not drive your new market away?
Why not look at those segments of the genealogical community that are growing and thriving? Why are the huge commercial genealogy companies growing and making money? Who are they selling their products to? How do they attract new customers? Are their websites aimed at young, new users? Do they hide their resources so they won't drive away customers? Or do they put all of their valuable resources right up front where the people who want to buy their products can see them and use them? Think about it. Do the large commercial genealogy companies listen to the market? Do they listen to the bloggers? Do they listen to the genealogists? Do they hire genealogists to help them with their marketing?
As usual, why do I care? This is easy. I have thousands of hours invested in the FamilySearch Research Wiki and I have good cause to fear that the whole project will be dumped to further the aim of attracting younger and more users to the website. I see a small light at the end of a huge tunnel in the availability of online digitized microfilm records that may be de-emphasized in an effort to water down genealogy to attract new adherents. I see other potential resources such as Community Trees being sidelined and perhaps discontinued due to budgetary issues, while more and more resources pour into attracting new users. Yes, you can sell to new markets by abandoning the old, but what if the old market is the one producing the product you want to sell?
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I understand your concern. I'm wondering what the payoff for FamilySearch is by attracting people with photos and stories and no interest in genealogy. How does FamilySearch benefit from filling up the Family Tree with these Photos and Stories without genealogy information?ReplyDelete
FamilySearch's mission has always been to obtain and provide as many genealogical records as possible. I can see splitting off the Family Tree from the genealogical research part of it as an option.
I have the same question as Randy. If FamilySeach is going to shift focus to hosting pictures and such, it will just end up in competition with FaceBook, which does a better job at it. It will lose that competition.ReplyDelete
I hope we are just seeing growing pains and false starts. I'd like to have an alternative to Ancestry (which I dislike), but for now, I view FamilySearch FamilyTree as a toy. It's fun to play with, but I'll do my work at my own site.
Whereas it used to open right up at searching historical records, now it takes three clicks to start searching. I hope they keep their weight of gold solid in the records collection. A missing link for the WIKI does not help either. You are right in the fact that we should not be sugar coating the hard work of genealogy; if someone wants to do it seriously, they will be up to the task.ReplyDelete
The amazingly obtuse site entry (logos that go nowhere) and structure (why do the designers think all "How To" material should be under "Help"?) can only be diversions.ReplyDelete
I wonder how many of those who look at the splash page for the first time think the link to "Photos" is to a collection of useful historical images? Instead, it is entry to a poorly explained procedure the viewer is wanted to engage in -- to add photos to a tree that they may never have looked at. If this were my experience I would say something like "tsk" and never return.
How many times will someone who only posts photos visit the site? I have a photobucket account. Haven't been there in forever. I only use it to send a link to someone but mostly I just send the picture and be done with it. And that way MY personal photos are not in cyberspace for every Tom, Dick and Mary to use without my permission. I can't figure out why familysearch would change its focus from historical documents to a plethora of miscelaneous photos. Can't you find those already on Google images? And the aforementioned Facebook? They're cutting off their nose to spite their face. The way it is now, I would not put my family tree on familysearch for any amount of money. It took years for me to straighten it out. Why would I invite strangers to edit it? Stupid idea. Remember One World Tree? Did that work? Rootsweb? How many copies of wrong information needs to be out there? I'm going to pay the money at ancestry again. It's the lesser of the available evils. If My Heritage had a 6 month I might do that. I can't pay for every site. I have to choose one.ReplyDelete
As we know all (and I mean all) genealogy/family history comes from research. The research can vary from conversations with immediate family members or other relatives to searching through records to discover good conclusions or the existence of that missing person.ReplyDelete
We have always wanted photos and stories preserved in the tree for generations. Think about it, when you talk about genealogy with friends and families, you gravitate to your experiences in the hunt and the stories you found about your ancestors. It is the stories that makes them real and, in my case, I can use them as examples to my family on Tanner expectations.
We want to expose more people to genealogy and the hope is if we start with stories and pictures we will be able to capture enough of the interest of new users (young.....old - the dots represent all of us in-betweeners) to get them to move to the next step of looking at records. Research, accurate genealogy, and preservation will remain the goal for Family Tree.
As far as finding great research and valuable records - we are sorry the new layout did not work. It was a mistake to hide some of these golden eggs in the back cupboards. We are rushing to redesign some menus so that things are more easily found. For example, you could always click on the Search in the main menu to go straight to search - 1 click. Now we have added Wiki as a menu under search. Click Search then Wiki - you're there. We will continue to readjust the placement of items to get them in the right place so you can find that goose with the golden eggs.
Thanks and keep telling us how to get better!Replies
Thank you for your kind comments. Have you seen TheAncestorFiles.blogspot.com for stories and sourced information?Delete


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Sticky stem ginger cake with lemon icing
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- kcal285
- fat10g
- saturates6g
- carbs50g
- sugars31g
- fibre1g
- protein3g
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It is my conviction, and I said this previously. On the off chance that you proclaim your hand that you are not ready to leave then you become supplicant to the exchange and without a doubt will be bound to provincial status in unendingness.
The remainers cause incredible store as to our rebelliousness in sending out to the EU in the event that we are to leave the Customs Union. We should manage this today.
1.If, we are no longer in a traditions association then our items that are fare to the EU would be secured by a FTA. Obviously we won't have one, at any rate not promptly, contingent upon the conduct of the EU ruler and experts this could be some opportunity approaching. So the remainers have some footing here with the exception of:
2.There is a component for WTO nations to go along through what they call MRA's (Mutual Recognition Agreements). There are numerous nations which don't have FTAs with the EU these nations exchange consummately well with a MRA place, including Australia, Japan and the United States. Obviously Remainers will muddle as the EU could retain, through some insignificant quarrel such endorsements. In which case UK fares to the EU would come to a standstill. This is a clouds' contention as exchange is two-way, and support the EU.
3. In any case, if the EU were to do such self damage. Retain these understandings this would be glaring segregation, justiciable, it would be superbly worthy to seek after the EU through WTO courts, and we would without a doubt win.
As a general rule MRAs ought to be basic as we simply proceed with business as usual. We ought to have been chipping away at building up these.
However, the remainers will guarantee that the procedure to enroll items for fare to the EU expects us to be an individual from 'crosswise over outskirt merchants register ' as Authorized Economic Operator. Obviously our enrollment here is through the EU. At the point when we leave we leave the AEO, this makes for another purpose of obscurity by remainers. Be that as it may, this isn't the endowment of the EU it is a procedure sorted out by the World Customs Organization 'WCO'. Like the WTO we are an establishing individual from the WCO and to be sure this is directed by HMRC (HM Revenue and Custom).
The significant part in the entirety of this is we finish up MRAs preceding leaving. It would be unreliable if the administration has not set up these so far. Likewise, the privileges of EU residents and UK nationals just as such things as flying and so forth. I'm sure these have been secured off which gives trust that the rest has been managed.


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On Friday, our last full day in Brazil, we hired a tour guide to take us into Old Town Salvador. We drove all through the city and parked very close to the Old Town Center of Salvador. We walked all around and learned some of the local history. At the edge of the Upper City at a bluff that overlooks the harbor (and right next to the square with government administrative buildings) is the Elevador Lacerda, which is a huge elevator that connects the Upper Town to the Lower Town, and was the first elevator installed in Brazil. In the Lower Town, we hit the local handicraft market to pick up a few small gifts for the kids and Grammy Joan. Just outside the market, there was a fruit stand selling mangoes, grapes, cherries and guava. The smell was A.Mazing! Our tour guide bought some mangoes to take home to his family and for he rest of the day, we got to smell fresh mango.
One of the best parts about Old Town was the colorful buildings. Each individual building section had its own color scheme and it made for a delightful view down the city side streets. I took this picture at an intersection looking down towards the edge of the Upper Town.
The last stop of the day was the highlight...a visit to Sao Francisco Church and Convent. (This picture was taken inside the courtyard looking at the backside of the facade of the cathedral.) Despite the rather austere exterior, the inside was extremely Baroque. The walls were covered in blue tile images depicting says of the Roman poet Horace and the interior was entirely decorated in gold leaf. Beautiful!
The day was so much fun...I loved Salvador!


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Meghann and James were not planning on eloping. Meghann just happened to have stumbled on One and Only Paris Photography while searching around for Vera Wang wedding gowns.
She came across a Paris elopement. While looking though those photos, she became captivated with the idea of eloping to the city of love. A few months later, she was living out that fantasy. Below, you can see Meghann on her laptop video-chat with her mother who's across the Atlantic.
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Girl caught in crossfire returns home from hospital
12-year-old shot in shoulder during shootout
A 12-year-old girl wounded in a weekend shootout is back home.
Police say Kavonna Gardner was caught in the crossfire when Demarco White, 19, and Kenuel Collins, 26, opened fire on each other in Lower Price Hill late Saturday.
"There was a street full of kids," said the girl's mother, Latoya Gardner. "I mean, there's no respect – none."
She was shot in the shoulder and taken to Children's Hospital for treatment before returning home.
"I heard the gunfire, then I turned around, then something in my arm, and then I felt it and it was blood coming out of my arm," Kavonna said.
She ran to get help from some neighbors, and one of them scooped up the girl and helped her find her mother.
"We turned our heads and heard, 'pow, pow, pow,' the shooting going on, then the little girl ran up to us and said, 'I got shot, I got shot,'" said Alesa Sturgill, who helped the girl along with her husband.
On Monday, medics returned to Gardner's home after she reported numbness in her arm, but determined the problem was typical and not serious.
White was in court Monday after being shot five times during the gunfight. He was ordered held on $400,000 bond. Collins is awaiting a court appearance.
Police said witnesses stepped forward to identify the suspects, which officers said doesn't happen in every case.
"It offended the sensibility of the community to the point they said, 'Enough's enough,' in this case, 'We're going to talk to police,'" said Lt. Joe Richardson, of Cincinnati police.
Latoya Gardner said she's ready to move.
"These kids don't ask to be put in a situation like this by grown people," she said. "They're just now getting their life; they trying to live their life and they trying to stop it."


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Amazon is offering an advertising-subsidised version of its flagship Kindle, putting adverts on the idle screen and main menu in exchange for a $25 discount on the hardware.
The company is making much of the fact that the adverts will link to special deals and money-off vouchers, but they're still adverts that will hang around at the bottom of the main menu and remain on the screen whenever the Kindle is turned off. The addition of adverts brings the price of a Kindle down to $114, a shade over £70, though it will be US-only for a while.
This is what the Kindle was built for of course. When it was launched Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos talked about dynamically-updated adverts embedded in the books themselves, not to mention author and reader annotations to the work, which would cease to be a book and become a ever-evolving meta-document in the style of a Wiki. "This isn't a device, it's a service," he said in 2007, predicting the end of the book as an inviolate form and Kindle as the enabling platform.
All that becomes possible thanks to Kindle's use of what Amazon calls the Whispernet. Whispernet is really just a 3G phone embedded in the Kindle connected to a data-only tariff for which Amazon pays. The innovation in Whispernet is in the business model, which hides the network entirely from the user. The customer pays for books and other content, not the cost of delivering that content, which is invisible.
That model enables Amazon to reach out to every Kindle (every 3G Kindle at least) to update downloaded work, embed new adverts or update dynamic texts. However, the market has again proved far more conservative than the technologists expected, and today the Kindle platform (hardware and software) is used mostly to read books and has failed to become the physical embodiment of Web 2.0 – so far at least.
Slotting adverts into the bottom of the menu screen is a tiny step towards that Web 2.0 nirvana, and at least Amazon is being clear about customer options: pay an additional $25 and be free from advertising, or take the money and lose control over your idle screen* graphic. ®
* Amazon insists on calling the static graphic displayed when the Kindle is switched off a "screensaver". But given that e-ink screens don't need saving, and the static nature of the image, which wouldn't save anything, we're sticking to "idle screen".


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DURHAM — The University of New Hampshire volleyball team beat Stony Brook (N.Y.) in four sets of America East action on Friday.
It was UNH's seventh straight win as they improved to 12-8 overall and 4-0 in the conference. Stony Brook fell to 6-10, 1-2. Game scores were 25-19, 25-22, 20-25 and 25-16.
Morgan Thatcher had 18 kills and Tori Forrest and Abby Brinkman recorded 13 kills apiece for UNH.
UNH is at Albany (N.Y.) next Friday.
Field hockey edges Albany
DURHAM — Casey Pohlmeyer scored a goal with 20 seconds remaining in regulation and Meg Flatley scored at 6:29 of overtime to lift the 19th-ranked University of New Hampshire field hockey team to a 2-1 win over Albany (N.Y.) in America East Action Friday at Memorial Field.
UNH, which played into overtime for the fifth consecutive game, improved to 6-5 overall and 2-0 in America East. Albany is now 5-7, 0-2.
Carlie Tarbell made seven saves for UNH, which is at Virginia on Sunday.
Women's hockey bests 'Cuse
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Kristina Lavoie notched the game-winning goal as the University of New Hampshire women's hockey team beat Syracuse in the season opener for both teams on Friday. Sara Carlson recorded a goal and an assist for the Wildcats, who take on Colgate today.
UNH roundup: Wildcats go 3-0 vs. N.Y. teams
DURHAM — The University of New Hampshire volleyball team beat Stony Brook (N.Y.) in four sets of America East action on Friday.


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Virtual City in Review – SimCity for the less ambitious…
Whenever people speak about a city-simulation game the first one that comes to mind is, of course the SimCity franchise: SimCityâ"¢ Deluxe (ChiffaN's SimCityâ"¢ Deluxe review, shigzeo's SimCityâ"¢ review). And stunned by EA's glory, they often forget that the SimCity franchise, while the best known, is far from being the only city-building simulation out there.
G5 Entertainment, one of the larger mobile games publishers, have just released their own contender to the city-building throne – Virtual City – a smaller scale version of the same concept.
Virtual City is a city-management sim game, which is actually closer to the Transport Tycoon series than to the SimCity series. You are put in charge of running a city and have to reach the goals set in a limited amount of time (at least if you wish for a hefty bonus). The goals freely range from reaching a set amount of population/environment rating/happiness to building a particular supply chain or delivering a specific amount of products.
There are two main activities in Virtual City: construction and transport management. In the former you'll be trying to find some free space to place your buildings in and then finding the cash to upgrade them. The buildings come in 4 main categories – the production facilities, housing, environmental/happiness related and miscellaneous, including trash collectors, recycling plants, bus and tech stations. The production facilities manufacture goods, sometimes needing specific other goods to be delivered to them. The environment facilities combine the fire and hospital services, some structures to raise the environment rating and some for entertainment purposes. Almost all facilities can be upgraded to raise the production capacity as well as the environment bonus, though most have to be unlocked first in the R&D lab for investment points earned for completing missions.
Transport management is where a large portion of the action takes place in Virtual City. Delivering goods, collecting garbage and transporting citizens is how you'll earn your cash. To do so you have a limited park of vehicles divided into trucks, garbage trucks and buses respectively. The limit is defined by the level of your garage, so if you run out of space it's time to upgrade it. The trucks automatically change to handle the load they're assigned and can be upgraded as well to handle more load. The world is not a perfect place and vehicles can break down and if they're not in range of the nearby tech station you'll have to manually fix them.
On the graphics part Virtual City is quite nicely drawn in lively sprites and can be zoomed in for more details to be enjoyed. The max zoom out rating I did find frustratingly low. The interface is well adapted to the iPhone and I haven't experienced any issues using it. I did miss the upgrade all button for the vehicles on a number of occasions, requiring to go through the whole lot manually.
There is no use comparing Virtual City to the SimCity series – they are simply completely different games. Whereas the more famous counterpart is centered on high-level city management, Virtual City brings the player closer to the masses, requiring to handle individual bus and truck routes rather than considering city-wide policies. Whether this is good or bad depends more on taste than anything else. In all respects it combines colourful detailed graphics, addictive gameplay and 50 challenging levels across 5 settings into an aspiring small-town mayor's dream.
With this I declare Virtual City officially touched!
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It was a night when "angels" walked the ramp. The annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, at the 69th Regiment Armory in Manhattan, New York saw the world's hottest supermodels on one ramp, to display the finest lingerie collection of the year. The show had several segments - Circus, Angels in Bloom, Dangerous Liaisons, Calendar Girls, Silver Screen Angels - and the models flaunted toned bodies in different outfits, to tunes provided by superstar musicians like Justin Bieber and Rihanna.
The highlight of the show was Brazilian model Alessandra Ambrosio, who walked the ramp in a Floral Fantasy Bra worth $2.5m (£1.5m). The extravagant piece of lingerie was designed by London Jewellers and embedded with 5,200 precious and semi-precious stones.
Meanwhile, another sultry Brazilian, Adriana Lima, was back with a bang as she walked the ramp just two months after giving birth. In one costume she resembled a circus ringmaster with top hat and a black bra and panty set, combined with a red, blue and gold robe and gold embroidered black knee high boots. In the next, she was seen in a rose petal shrug with leaf bustle, along with the Victoria's Secret Angel Fantasies push-up bra and garter skirt.
Australian mom and supermodel Miranda Kerr sported three looks through the show. For the Circus segment, she wore a velvet trapeze artist corset and matching cape, using Swarovski Elements. In the next segment - Dangerous Liaisons - she was seen in a silk plastron with a Victoria's Secret Angel Fantasies push-up bra and matching knickers (again using Swarovski Elements) and in the Silver Screen Angels segment, the supermodel wore the signature angel wings with be-jewelled feathers and a Victoria's Secret Dream Angels push-up bra with matching knickers and, again, Swarovski Elements.
Adding spice to the event, apart from Rihanna and Bieber, was Bruno Mars. Rihanna had two outfit changes for the day - she appeared in a very seductive black gown with a slit running right up to her hips and exposing her toned legs. She later changed into a pink lace outfit and sung Diamonds, from her upcoming album Unapologetic, and Fresh Out the Runway.
The show also paid tribute to the victims of Superstorm Sandy and Lily Aldridge waved the American flag down the ramp.
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Thursday, May 10, 2007
Believe that You Can
My reply was always the same because I knew it to be true. I knew how to lose weight, I knew how to improve my level of health and fitness, and I knew I had the willpower and discipline inside of me, I just didn't know why I wasn't ready to implement all of those things yet. (Not to mention the fact that I was married to the "World's Best Personal Trainer" and strength expert/genius!) And I still don't know exactly what happened. I know the events that lead up to the day I chose to change it, but I still don't know why. What I do know is that I always believed that it would.... always. I can't stress that enough!
When I talk with someone that has given up I wonder what kind of response they expect to get, sympathy won't be coming from me! But I think that's what people want, (not all people of course). Like me, people want love, acceptance, and validation, but they look for it in the form of sympathy. Being a victim is not empowering. It's not taking responsibility or accountablity. It's surrendering your belief in yourself.
Believing in yourself, in your strength, in your ability, applies to all areas in your life, not just your weight. Your attitude can lift you up or bring you down, it's your choice. I think that's why, although overweight and uncomfortable, I was never "depressed" about my situation.
I'll be honest and say that I started to wonder during the last few years of being overweight if it would ever change. Would I ever find motivation before it was too late??? And then a miracle happened. My motivation came, and I transformed myself, body, and now soul. More than I could of ever imagined. But always believed.
Believe in your good life.
9 comments:
- Christine said...
I was married to an RKC, I met him when I was very overweight, he was my trainer. We got married, we're not anymore. I think a small part of it was his/our focus on my body, like some kind of group project we had going-- it made me very insecure. I've since gained weight during the divorce-- some weird sort of rebellion I think.
The person I date now is a lifter too, but the response I get when I mention my weight is "As long as you're comfortable." Helps to date a PLer I think!
This post I think speaks to the strength of your marriage. :)
- May 10, 2007 at 3:43:00 PM PDT
- Yoana Teran Snideman said...
AMAZING post!!!!I loved it!
God bless you!
- May 10, 2007 at 4:17:00 PM PDT
- Tracy Reifkind said...
christine, yea, he's alright! LOL
Hey, 20 years don't happen by accident! Alot of people don't know that Mark and I were engaged in less than a week after meeting eachother (6 days to be exact, we met on Wed. and were engaged on the following Tues.!) We were married about 3 months later.
- May 10, 2007 at 5:09:00 PM PDT
- Mark Reifkind said...
lol, sorry, @ "like some kind of group project". I can relate. I was always trying to get Tracy engaged in some way in training of some kind.then I just accepted it once i realized it was up to her and when and if she did it it wouldnt be because of my nagging her.
- May 10, 2007 at 8:31:00 PM PDT
- Mark Reifkind said...
she put some kind of spell on me I think. its still on....
- May 10, 2007 at 8:32:00 PM PDT
- Christine said...
Bless your heart for seeing that while encouragement is good, ultimately it was up to her. ;)
- May 11, 2007 at 12:17:00 AM PDT
- Joe Sarti said...
AWESOME! Amen Sister! That is spoken from the soul, from truth that only you can speak but all can learn and draw inspiration from!
- May 11, 2007 at 11:09:00 AM PDT
- Lauren Brooks said...
Now that is what a true relationship is all about. Truly inspiring for everyone!
- May 11, 2007 at 10:12:00 PM PDT
- Tracy Reifkind said...
Hey! I put up with alot too!
- May 12, 2007 at 5:06:00 AM PDT


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"The King's Speech" managed to gain even more momentum heading toward Oscar, dominating the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards.
The English historical drama took home seven trophies, including Best Film, British Film, Original Screenplay (David Seidler), Actor (Colin Firth), Supporting Actor (Geoffrey Rush), Supporting Actress (Helena Bonham Carter) and Original Music (Alexandre Desplat).
"Inception" and "The Social Network" both won three awards each, with "Alice in Wonderland" earning two to round out the multiple-award winners.
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The BAFTA's historically don't have much predictive value when it comes to Oscar night, but this year's awards tally is another indicator of the fact the "The King's Speech" has supplanted "The Social Network " as the favorite. We wouldn't vote for either film, but we are glad that there will at least be some suspense when it's time to announce the top prize.
Here's a complete list of this year's winner, click on the titles to read our reviews and watch the trailers:
Film — "The King's Speech"
British Film — "The King's Speech"
Director — David Fincher, "The Social Network"
Actor — Colin Firth, "The King's Speech"
Actress — Natalie Portman, "Black Swan"
Supporting Actor — Geoffrey Rush, "The King's Speech"
Supporting Actress — Helena Bonham Carter, "The King's Speech"
Rising Star — Tom Hardy
British Debut — Writer/director Chris Morris, "Four Lions"
Original Screenplay — David Seidler, "The King's Speech"
Adapted Screenplay — Aaron Sorkin, "The Social Network"
Film Not in the English Language — "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"
Music — Alexandre Desplat, "The King's Speech"
Cinematography — Roger Deakins, "True Grit"
Editing — "The Social Network"
Production Design — "Inception"
Costume Design — "Alice in Wonderland"
Sound — "Inception"
Visual Effects — "Inception"
Makeup and Hair — "Alice in Wonderland"
Animated Feature — "Toy Story 3"
Short Film — "Until the River Runs Red"
Short Animation — "The Eagleman Stag"
Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema — The "Harry Potter" films
Academy Fellowship — Christopher Lee


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British artist Helen Sear's series Beyond the View was featured in issue 203 of Aperture magazine, in which Jason Evans notes that often she seems to be "an installation artist who goes as far into a space as you can while remaining two-dimensional." Her work demands participation by the viewer, as we try to "read" an increasingly ambiguous picture that meshes "visual and cultural theory." "I like things to be complicated," she says. "I want to raise questions."
States the artist: "The pictures are made up of the combination of two photographs, one superimposed over the other in the computer. I erase part of the top image through a process of 'drawing' with a pen and tablet across the whole surface of the image. The women turning away and the landscapes were initially referring to the northern romantic tradition of painting, where the figure is often pictured immersed in the landscape. The images are also an attempt to consider a gendered perspective in relation to the history of landscape photography. The lines/marks of the hand drawing create a visual noise on the surface of the photograph. One half of the image is erased to partially reveal the other; neither are seen in their entirety.
"The process of enmeshing the two images together with the hand drawing collapses the traditional distance in photography between the viewer and the view, and also extends the photographic moment. It brings the image close to the surface of the eye. I was interested to discover the word for retina in German is Netzhaut, which is also a net or a trap. These women are in some way also trapped in the landscape. The marks I am making while erasing are similar to a net, whether lace associated with handicraft or a hand-drawn line reminiscent of the screen of the computer or a loom. I am working in a montage tradition, but the intervention and touch between images is more of a caress than a cut associated with collage. I want the elements of the image to be inseparable."
Helen Sear was born in 1955 in the UK and studied Fine Art at the Slade School of Art, London, and Reading University. She works in digital media, both photography and film, and has been exhibited extensively in the UK as well as abroad. Recent exhibitions have been at Zinc Gallery, Stockholm, Axel Thieme Galerie, Damstadt, Germany, Yard Gallery in Nottingham, England, and Gallery Harmonia in Jyvaskyla, Finland. Sear is represented by Klompching Gallery, New York. She lives and works in Wales, UK.
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Fixing Factory Mistakes - 1999 - 2004 Ford Super Duty Trouble Spots
Improving What The Factory Missed
When Ford unveiled the ¾- and 1-ton Super Duty line in 1999, it was an immediate hit with truck enthusiasts across America. With a spacious cab, powerful 7.3L diesel engine, leaf-sprung suspension, and front and rear solid axles, the Super Duty platforms offered something for nearly everyone in the heavy-duty truck market and even enticed first-time buyers with plush interior finishes. Fast forward to today, and the first-gen Super Duty trucks continue to thrive and have an abundance of aftermarket support.
So, how then does the Super Duty make it in our Fixing Factory Mistakes section? The simple answer is that there is no such thing as a perfect truck. Regardless of how many are still on the road today, there are a few items we would upgrade or be on the lookout if we owned or were looking to swap into one. We've limited our trouble spot list to the '99-'04 first-gen ¾- and 1-ton 4x4 models, as they are some of the most commonly found and affordable.
The Problem: 6.0L Head Bolts
Much to the dismay of 7.3L diesel enthusiasts, in 2003 Ford made the switch to an all-new 6.0L V-8 diesel engine. It didn't take long for the first of a few issues to arise with the fresh powerplant. Probably the most well-known and problematic is the issue with the factory head bolts. Essentially, the bolts stretch, which results in a blown head gasket.
The Fix: ARP Head Studs
ARP (Automotive Racing Products) (www.arp-bolts.com) offer head studs that replace the faulty bolts. The stud conversion is very straightforward, but extremely time consuming. Most diesel shops we spoke with actually raise the body from the chassis to gain access to the engine.
The Problem: Vacuum Leak
Although the Super Duty uses unit bearings up front from the factory, the trucks are still equipped with selectable hubs. Many of the early trucks were equipped with Ford-specific hubs which had an auto and on setting only. These hubs were vacuum-assisted and known to be problematic. A leaking or dry-rotted vacuum line is not uncommon to find, nor is a damaged hub actuator. Pictured here is a quick trail fix that uses a stick to plug a vacuum line that was leaking and no longer needed because the truck was outfitted with aftermarket hubs.
The Fix: Warn Hubs
It's never a bad idea to make sure all of your vacuum lines are in good shape. Age and heat can break down a stock hose and often create havoc on the four-wheel drive and HVAC system. Upgrading to a set of Warn (www.warn.com) Premium Series hubs is another worthwhile investment. If you do opt for the Warn hubs (PN 38826), be sure to plug the hubs original vacuum lines.
The Problem: Front Unit Bearings
Big tires and unit bearings don't always mix well. Even in the factory configuration, the non-serviceable unit bearings have a limited life cycle. The easy way to check for a bad unit bearing is by jacking up the front axle, one side at a time. You'll want to raise the tire off of the ground enough so that a prybar can be placed under the bottom of the tire. You can also use your hands to test this, but the prybar will give you extra leverage.
You're looking for major camber change in the wheel. If you find that the camber is changing drastically and/or the wheel seems wobbly, there is a good chance that the wheel bearings are toast. Be sure to check that the ball joints are in good shape as well, as they are also common wear items.
The Fix: Dynatrac Free-Spin Kit
Replacing worn parts with factory-style replacement parts is always a simple and easy option. That being said, replacing the faulty parts with the same type might not be cheaper over time. We are fans of the Free-Spin kit from Dynatrac (www.dynatrac.com) as it replaces the stock unit bearings with a serviceable full-float spindle, along with Warn Premium Series hubs. The Free-Spin kit is also rated for up to 44-inch tires and allows you to retain your stock wheel bolt pattern.
The Problem: Carrier Bearing
The four-door crew cab models were extremely spacious, but the long wheelbase came with a carrier bearing driveline support. The carrier bearing union that supports the two-piece driveline is notorious for wearing out and causing driveline vibrations. A lifted Super Duty or one with an incorrectly spaced carrier-bearing drop will aggravate the situation and increase wear.
The Fix: Replacement Bearing
Assuming that your driveline joints are all in good working order, most trucks simply need a new carrier bearing. The part can usually be ordered from your local parts store or driveline shop. We suggest having the driveline balanced and inspected if you feel tremendous vibration on a non-lifted truck.
The Problem: EGR Cooler
The 6.0L diesel has a bad reputation for blown head gaskets and sticking EGR (exhaust gas recirculation) valve. While stretching head bolts are partly to blame for the head gasket issue, programmers that turn up the power in your 6.0L truck are guilty culprits as well. Simply put, the stock EGR cooler cannot keep up with filtering a modified 6.0L. A failing EGR cooler can cause your truck to overheat, run poorly, and add to the potential for head gasket failure.
The Fix: Performance Cooler or Delete
For the most part, you have two EGR cooler options. The first option would be to delete the cooler in its entirety with one of the many delete, bypass, or block-off kits offered in the aftermarket. This would be considered a competition or off-road only conversion as it would require removing emissions equipment. The other option would be an upgraded cooler, such as those from BD Diesel Performance (www.dieselperformance.com) and Bullet Proof Diesel (www.bulletproofdiesel.com). The high-flow coolers are designed to improve flow and reduce issues common with the factory EGR cooler.
The Problem: Fuel-Water Separator
The fuel-water separator drain valve is a common culprit for leaking diesel fuel on top of the 7.3L diesel engine. Located on the backside of the fuel filter housing, the drain valve has two O-rings that can go bad over time.
The Fix: R&R
We've actually experienced this issue firsthand, and found a Ford dealership was the most efficient way to get the right parts we needed.
The Problem: Dana 50
We struggled with whether or not to call the Dana 50 a factory mistake, but given that it is not as strong as the Dana 60 and was ultimately discontinued, we figured you should at least be aware. Stampings on the front and back of the differential will indicate whether you have the 50 or 60. The 60 also has a longer pinion snout. Early ¾-ton trucks are the mostly likely to be equipped with the Dana 50 front, as they were eventually phased out in 2003.
The Fix: Dana 60
If you plan on fitting your rig with tires over 37 inches, then swapping out for a Super Duty Dana 60 is worth the hassle. Since the conversion is mostly bolt-in, there is no need to sub out the job to a shop. We recently covered the 50 to 60 Super Duty conversion ("Dana 50 to 60," Sept. '13), and the article can now be viewed online at www.fourwheeler.com.
The Problem: Metric Bolt Pattern
OK, having a metric wheel bolt pattern isn't exactly a problem, but it's worth noting. This means you should double-check that the guy selling 8-lug Ford wheels online are actually 8-on-170, not 8-on-6½. To date, only ¾- and 1-ton 8-lug Ford Super Dutys use an 8-on-170 bolt pattern.
The Fix: 8-on-170 Wheels
Simply make sure that you are purchasing 8-on-170 wheels. Pre-Super Duty era ¾- and 1-ton trucks had an 8-on-6½-inch wheel bolt pattern, just like Chevy and Dodge (now Ram).


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Since 2007 I have been an active user of Facebook and I have witnessed many upgrades and deletions of apps and such that drive interaction on the most common social network in history. I've also watched businesses and author jump on the band wagon without a clue of what the game was about. Monkey see, monkey do. And so it is with many authors.
This series of social media blogs for authors was birthed out of a desire to help authors stop being crowd followers and begin to open their eyes to the wealth of resources and income potential social networks bring. Today we will discuss the buttons or tabs that seem to get ignored because some people think that clicking them will break the computer or something.
So let me make it clear once and for all. Buttons are your friends. They want you to push them. They are crying out to you, "please,
pretty please stop ignoring me." Now that we are clear let's move on. The first question that any human has when exploring a subject is why and this is where we will begin in today's session.
When you press any button, you are activating or deactivating something. Press the power button on your computer and you turn it on. Press again to turn it off. Visit your email and enter a login code and password then press the login button to login or get started reading and responding to messages in your inbox. Its kinda like when you come home from work, put the key in the key hole and turn it to enter your home. If you turn the key the wrong way, you may not get in the door but you have learned that if you turn the key in the opposite direction, chances are, you gain access. You see, it's that easy.
So, the number one reason for pressing the button is to gain access and the second is to link access. If you are asking what you are gaining access too, then you are with me. The answer is you are gaining access to the originator of the button and in the case of social networks, you are also gaining access to the originator's network and if you add a link, you are giving access to an additional network. How cool is that? If you are not following me, don't worry, I'm going to make this all relevant in just a few.
Hopefully by now, every reader of this blog has a "like" page for their book. If not, stop reading this blog and do it now. Stop procrastinating and just do it. I want you to jump on the band wagon and explore your surroundings. This is a coaching blog so you are learning and not simply following.
Ok, now that you have your page up, you've followed all the prompts to populate the page with relevant content and invited your friends to join, visit www.facebook.com/socialmediamadeeasycoaching and let's stay connected just in case you need more support.
Back to gaining and linking access. Off-line people speak negatively about cliques because they have not gained access. They believe that the exclusivity of these groups or networks of like-minded individuals is a bad thing. They are jealous, because in their minds, they have placed the members of the clique in an elite position above themselves. Social media takes the veil off cliques
because to gain access all you have to do is press a button. Are you with me now?
I'm still discussing the importance of buttons on social network sites in gaining and linking access. So imagine there is a book store that you want to sell your book. You go to the store's page and click the "like" button. You now have access as a fan of
the bookstore. You look for the page owner's photo and button and click to access their personal profile. (BTW, you must access people on Facebook as yourself, not your business) You study their info page and find a common interest and on the basis of that common interest, you click the friend request button. Guess what? You now have access to their news feed (unless they have blocked non-friends) and you can get to know them better by reading it from time to time. You establish a rapport with the book store owner by liking, commenting and sharing relevant content and they invite you to do a book signing at their store yielding you hundreds of new customers. How about that for access?
Now let's explore access from the standpoint of a company looking for a speaker who is an expert in a certain topic. You are the expert and your book delves into the topic the company is seeking. They place the topic (keywords) in the search bar but will they find you? The company reads one of your blogs and finds that you are knowledgeable, professional and your readers respond to you by looking at the comments, likes and shares at the bottom of your blog. Will you be the expert they contact? Have your readers actually enjoyed your content enough to link it to their Facebook page by pressing share. Is your comment box empty?
I've asked a lot of questions in hopes that they will trigger some thoughts and feelings regarding the importance of pressing buttons and interacting with good or bad content. The two examples I used, demonstrate the benefits of others using the buttons for your content but the golden rule is "do unto other that which you would have the do unto you." Be a teacher. Show your contacts how it should be done by breaking free from the fear of pressing buttons and see how the back links, shares and comments begin to flow. Let's get liberated. Let's go viral baby. Start today by clicking the buttons below. If this blog was no good, say so by posting a comment. If it was helpful, you know what to do. Press "like" and add a comment to encourage your friends, groups or fans to also read it. Finally, commit from this day forth to never spend the time reading an article and not let your valuable opinion count.
Until next time, press the button, I dare you.
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Why The Oracle Java Patents Were Literally A Joke Played By Sun Engineers
from the our-patent-system-at-work deptThere's a famous story of how IBM sued Sun for patent infringement in the early days. The patent claims from IBM were ridiculous, and Sun's engineers pointed that out to IBM's lawyers. In response, the men in blue made the famous statement:
"OK, maybe you don't infringe these seven patents. But we have 10,000 U.S. patents. Do you really want us to go back to Armonk [IBM headquarters in New York] and find seven patents you do infringe? Or do you want to make this easy and just pay us $20 million?"I had been thinking of that story after seeing the news that Oracle was suing Google over patents it received in buying Sun, and it seems that the joke of an IBM lawsuit may be indirectly responsible for this equally laughable lawsuit. Slashdot points us to a blog post by early Sun engineer James Gosling, where he admits that the experience with the IBM lawsuit resulted in a game among Sun engineers to come up with the most ridiculous thing that could be patented:
In Sun's early history, we didn't think much of patents. While there's a kernel of good sense in the reasoning for patents, the system itself has gotten goofy. Sun didn't file many patents initially. But then we got sued by IBM for violating the "RISC patent" - a patent that essentially said "if you make something simpler, it'll go faster". Seemed like a blindingly obvious notion that shouldn't have been patentable, but we got sued, and lost. The penalty was huge. Nearly put us out of business. We survived, but to help protect us from future suits we went on a patenting binge. Even though we had a basic distaste for patents, the game is what it is, and patents are essential in modern corporations, if only as a defensive measure. There was even an unofficial competition to see who could get the goofiest patent through the system. My entry wasn't nearly the goofiest.While that patent that Gosling names isn't included in this particular lawsuit, but others have noticed that one of the patents (RE38104) is a Gosling patent.
Of course, it's easy to point out that the folks named on the patents are claiming themselves that the patents were part of a joke to see how bad the patent office is. But, you can take it to another level altogether, and have folks who actually know quite a bit about the technology go through the patents one by one and explain why each of them is a total joke.
This is yet another in an exceptionally long line of examples of what a complete mess our patent system has become. I'm curious if the patent system supporters out there can come up with some sort of way to defend the patent system in this particular situation.
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Art Director Thomas Cardone speaks on Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 5:30 p.m!
Learn about the art of visual storytelling with Blue Sky Studios' Art Director Thomas Cardone! With credits ranging from Aladdin and Beauty and The Beast to Ice Age: The Meltdown and Rio, Cardone may seem high-tech, but he speaks passionately about timeless craftsmanship. Discover what it takes it create the overall look and feel for some of your favorite animated films.
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