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ParisStreetPitCrew wrote:Tell me all about Finn!! Are there photos??
ParisStreetPitCrew wrote:Eeeee! I love Finn! What pretty colors. I'm not familiar with Cape Parrots. Do they come from S. America?
You really need to take some videos!!
ParisStreetPitCrew wrote:He doesn't really do tricks, but only because I have NO IDEA how to trick-train. Do you do it? Any suggestions?
The only really "trick" he does is play catch. He will catch (usually a balled up sock or wadded piece of paper) and throw it back over and over. He's actually pretty good at it too. One night we were playing catch and the ball went behind him. I told him to go get it because I couldn't reach it. So, he turned around, looked at the ball and said "Come here!"
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In the past few weeks, the genealogical playing field just got a lot more complicated. The team standings become muddled and it is going to take some time to figure out the rankings. Although we still have some outstanding players, partnerships, alliances and sharing deals make it much harder to distinguish between the players. What is clear is the huge benefit to the genealogical community watching all this on field activity.
OK, enough of the sports analogy. If you know me at all, you realize that is really out of character. So much has happened, if you missed even one day, you need a refresher. I need to start back a few years.
FamilySearch.org and Ancestry.com have had file sharing agreements since the rush to put original source records and indexes online began a few years ago. You might note that I refer to these entities as if they were websites, but really, they are huge multi-faceted organizations. FamilySearch is the genealogical organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is a wholly owned corporate subsidiary formerly known as The Genealogical Society of Utah. In some form or another, it has been around since 1894. During all that time since 1894, FamilySearch has been accumulating genealogical materials including millions of microfilm copies of records from around the world and tens of thousands of books. All of those records, where available and not restricted either because of copyright restrictions or other limitations, are currently in the process of being digitized and put online.
Ancestry.com has been in the same general business, that is, putting genealogical records and indexes online as a commercial entity. One of the early agreements between Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org involved the 1880 U.S. Census. The images were on Ancestry.com and the index was on FamilySearch.org. Fast forward to today. After a whole lot of negotiations, the 1880 U.S. Census images now appear on FamilySearch.org.
So what is happening? The entities are focusing on the main objective; that is to provide worldwide access to genealogical records. Some of the entities are commercially operated and make money through subscriptions to their services, FamilySearch.org is free to everyone and always will be. Sharing records and technology benefits the genealogical community at large and also each of the participating entities. They each get something that they couldn't otherwise use to further the interests of the community at large.
Another example is the agreement between MyHeritage.com and FamilySearch.org. MyHeritage.com has developed a fabulous search engine technology which they are now going to share with FamilySearch.org in exchange for access to source documents from around the world. Rather than try and duplicate what FamilySearch.org has accumulated, MyHeritage.com can focus on what it does fantastically well, that is do searches in the accumulated databases. Who benefits? Obviously both companies involved, but also every one of those searching online for their ancestors using either company.
This same advantage is conveyed by the agreement between FamilySearch.org and D.C. Thompson (findmypast.com and other websites). As a member of the researching part of the genealogical community, you can't avoid reaping the benefits of these alliances.
What about the nay-sayers who are concerned about the commercialization of the records? Well, the records were not going to be made available any other way. It is evident that the governmental entities around the world were, for the most part, not going to digitize their own records and make them available to genealogists for free, so there is likely no other way so many of the records could be made available. This is clearly a win-win situation. The records in FamilySearch.org remain free. The other records on the other entities still remain subject to subscriptions, but are, for the most part free at FamilySearch Centers. I don't see any of that as a problem.
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The Benefits of the New Online Genealogy Alliances
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ROCKFORD — An agency that strives to "give children help, hope and opportunity" will celebrate its 75th anniversary Thursday with an open house.
Children's Home + Aid Northern Region, 910 Second Ave., winner of the Rockford Register Star's 2013 Excelsior Award, will host guests from 1 to 5 p.m.
Children's Home + Aid provides adoption services, child and family counseling, early prevention in the community, foster care, intact family services and youth services. It also runs MotherHouse Crisis Nursery in Rockford.
"We will continue the important work in Rockford of strengthening families stressed to the breaking point, so children can stay in their own home," said Eileen Liezert, vice president for the northern region.
Liezert said the agency connects parents with resources they need to keep their families together, helping parents develop skills through support and counseling to reduce the odds of violence, abuse or neglect.
The northern region became part of the statewide Children's Home + Aid in 1939. It serves northwestern Illinois.
"Rockford is a community with high needs, and 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, we continue to give children a place to belong and the support they need to love, to learn, to heal, to dream and to reach their potential," Liezert said,
More than 2,000 children have been adopted through the northern region since the early 1960s. Today, the agency says most adoptions are through foster care. MotherHouse provided 12,000 hours of childcare for 1,513 admissions in fiscal year 2013.
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The Maryland Senate is scheduled to consider proposed changes to the state budget.
Last week, a Senate budget panel decided to address a downward revision in revenues by tapping into money set aside to shore up the state's pension system in a long-term plan. The Senate is expected to consider the changes Wednesday.
Gov. Martin O'Malley's proposed $39 billion budget would use one-third of $300 million that had been planned to be put back into the state pension system above the required annual payment. The governor proposed doing that indefinitely to help tackle a deficit in future years.
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Rocky Mountain National Park boasts one of the most expansive areas of alpine terrain in the United States as well as beautiful forests and mountain meadows.
To better understand, appreciate and protect this national treasure, the National Park Service and National Geographic Society are teaming up to host a 24-hour BioBlitz species count and a two-day Biodiversity Festival, Aug. 24-25, 2012. Part scientific endeavor, part festival and part outdoor classroom, the BioBlitz will bring together 200 leading scientists and naturalists from around the country, thousands of local citizens of all ages and nearly 1,000 students from around the state. Together they will comb the park, observing and recording as many plant and animal species as possible in 24 hours. Inventory activities include counting elk, catching insects, spotting birds, exploring and examining aquatic invertebrates and using technology to better understand the diverse ecosystems of this unique national park. In this extraordinary experience open to the public, participants are invited to work with experts to count, map and learn about the park's diverse organisms, ranging from microscopic bacteria to towering pines.
To be part of an inventory team, you must register online beginning Wednesday, July 25. While children ages 8 and older may participate in inventory teams with their parents, there will also be age-appropriate activities for younger kids at the Biodiversity Festival to be held at the Estes Park Fairgrounds, 1209 Manford Avenue. The Biodiversity Festival, which will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 24 and 25, will feature music, live animals, science demonstrations, hands-on activities provided by prominent science and environmental organizations, food and art. This free event is open to "explorers" of all ages. Members of the public can even "graduate" from Biodiversity University by participating in select activities. No registration is required for the festival. For a schedule of events, go to www.nationalgeographic.com/bioblitz. National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis, who is scheduled to attend, said, "The BioBlitz offers each of us, especially young people, the opportunity to discover and connect to nature.
I can't think of a better way to celebrate the National Park Service's 96th birthday on Aug. 25!" Rocky Mountain National Park Superintendent Vaughn Baker said, "This will be a great family event, and we invite everyone who knows Rocky, or wants to know the park better, to get involved. There is amazing biodiversity that exists within the park and in our own backyards. We hope locals and visitors will participate in this one-of-a-kind opportunity to connect even deeper with this special place." "We expect to reach new heights at Rocky," said John Francis, National Geographic's vice president of Research, Conservation and Exploration. "We will have leading scientists from around the country and the region to help citizens explore the park like never before. One of our BioBlitz scientists, Dr. William Miller, just published about a new species he discovered at the Biscayne BioBlitz in 2010. We look forward to working with Dr. Miller, other amazing scientists and the public to make new discoveries — personal and perhaps scientific — and appreciate the rich biodiversity in the park and our own backyards."
The Rocky Mountain National Park BioBlitz has been made possible through the generous support of foundations and corporations. Through National Geographic's partnership efforts, the 2012 presenting sponsors are Verizon Wireless and GEICO. Additional corporate and foundation support comes from Southwest Airlines and the Harold M. and Adeline S. Morrison Family Foundation. National Geographic has had a close relationship with the National Park Service since it helped draft legislation to establish the Service in 1916. National Geographic has given grants to establish or sustain national parks and has extensively covered the parks in its media for nearly a century. The Rocky Mountain National Park BioBlitz is part of the organizations' latest joint venture.
It is the sixth of 10 annual BioBlitzes that will be held at national park units around the country, leading up to the National Park Service's centennial in 2016. The first annual BioBlitz took place in 2007 at Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C. The others have been at Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area in California in 2008; Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in 2009; Biscayne National Park in Florida in 2010; and Saguaro National Park in Tucson, Ariz., in 2011. Smaller-scale events throughout the year happen at various national parks across the country, and information about these can be found here.


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After reassembling my hex with a 2.5 apm and new hex pdb, I tried a test flight or two and after flipping a few times and busting a prop, i reduced my expectations to just a hand test or two so i could validate my wiring etc. However, as i would arm and then throttle up, the copter would suddenly stop and disarm requireing me to re-arm. Id throttle up again and same cycle over again after maybe 20 seconds of run-up.
I had re-soldered the whole pdb and had specifically re-soldered the APM power leads with a heavier guage wire than the stock ( Is it me or is the stock cabling unnecessarily flimsy?) but logic says that maybe theres a cold solder joint that disconnects power to the APM. Problem is whenever i check continuuity and futz with cables, it tests good. Anyone have a suggestion?
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Bart, It would help if you could explain the setup in more detail, particularly for people that has not seen your PDB!
What is the supply voltage and current capability?
Where is the supply being connected?
Are there any Servos connected?
What current is being taken with the motors not running?
For a voltage drop to occur on throttle up suggests that the battery is shot, batt connections are making poor contact, very thin supply leads etc...
my apologies- I thought i had specified that the PDB was stock issue DIY drones, hence my complaints regarding the flimsy signal leads. When i first assembled the board, i had done so with cheap solder, and then reconsidered and redid it all with known good quality stuff. THat's why im dumbfounded that im having problems now. It's also why you can see so much heat distress in the attached photo. FWIW ive also soldered ( with the good stuff) the esc leads to the motors. Im considering 2 things, and please speak up if anyone thinks this is foolish.
1. resolder all signal leads to the esc signal pins instead of the board and
2. doing likewise with the APM power leads.
I should also add that the battery is a new 4400 3S ( yes, yes i know eflight sucks on ice but its what i got). I should also add that there are no servos and that the esc signal outputs have a 3" extension so as to make reattaching escs simpler without needing to field strip the copter just to re-plug/ re-seat.
I'm not sure how to say lightly this but uh... that's really pretty bad. Bart, are you soldering with open flame? There's really no telling what is going on with that thing.
I think you're going to need to get new electronics and see if there's somebody who can help you. You can't fly with that.
loolol well kinda. Thanks for not mincing words, because if it sucks, then it sucks. Dontcha hate when some pansy-ass gets their feelings hurt over legit criticism? The deal is I had bought a butane bernzomatic soldering iron that's been very spotty- not getting hot enough etc..and id used the open torch to do the main pads quickly and then had desoldered with it as well. Just to salve my own pride, it looked great when id first done it. :P And yes, i know i need a real solder station too, but that'll have to wait till there's some extra green.
Is there any benefit to the board aside from the weight? I mean as opposed to just using wire- at least for the main power leads? -because eventually, id like to integrate everything in a fiberglass shell if that will prove light enough. Maybe that's stupid as it could create EM fields if the runs are too long, right?
Thanks guys, and may all your brown-outs be non-pants related.
Bart, Stating that it's a stock pdb is not much help to anyone who isn't familiar with said board!
Also as already realised here, a photo can go a long way in helping diagnose problems. Although in this case (as L has said) from the picture, it's hard to see whats going on in that board!
Ok, we can still try to make some progress! The chances are that your battery is fine, your soldering capabilities have already taken a hit but from what can be seen, the leads does seem to be soldered to the board, different types of solder would not cause the problems your experiencing, at least not immediately!
As you have noticed, a pdb is not vital, it's just a very convenient way to solder several wires together! For instance, you have at least two heavy wires coming in from the battery, then several medium wires going out to the ESC's. It would be hard to do this neatly without some kind of PDB, nothing fancy, a piece of PCB would do just as well!
From your description, Your problem appears to be a voltage drop somewhere on the supply side!
1) Looking at you photo, I can't see any heavy wires coming in from your battery?
2) You really need access to a cheapo meter, measure for resistance/ voltage drop across the supply leads
3) ESC signal wires only need light wires, no current flows in these as such, just signal and signal ground.
4) Brownout seems to be the current (generally misused) buzz word, adopted for any problem that crops up, forget it! Your problem is in the main supply wiring, connectors etc.
Bart, you don't have to spend a lot of money on a soldering station. I started out with a $20 40W iron and it worked for years.
Mind you... a 40W iron will have trouble doing those bigger joints. But I got a lot done with it.
Thanks! All good suggestions / criticisms. It seems this is a tool issue that i should have addressed sooner, I actually do have a multi meter and had tested continuity of all of those cables before reassembling it. And correct me if Im wrong but the APM is actually separated from the main circuit by the ESC such that the power is regulated, right? Is it a bad thing to just pull direct from the battery to power the APM? Further, whats to stop me from wiring all of the esc's directly without removing the power leads? Stupid question but I dont really know if its a bad thing to have all six leads into the apm directly-err in parallel. I mean,connecting them in this way wont effectively make the connection in series would it? Further, would this create a ground loop? Knuckleheaded questions, but I know just enough to be dangerous and im trying to resolve that.
Thanks to everyone for their help and interest
I actually do have a multi meter and had tested continuity of all of those cables before reassembling it. And correct me if Im wrong but the APM is actually separated from the main circuit by the ESC such that the power is regulated, right?
Well yes it is but if the supply to the esc's drop below about 1.5v above the bec voltage then the bec output will start dropping! So it's worth measuring for voltage drop on the main supply wires! switch the multimeter to low volts, connect the multimeter leads one to the +v cable (near to battery as possible), and the other lead near to ESC as possible, increasing load (higher rpm) should show hardly any voltage drop. If it does then the leads are not thick enough or you have a poor connection somewhere.
If that sounds a bit difficult to do then at least monitor the bec voltage at the apm while increasing rpm on the motors. Any voltage drop there will mean the supply voltage is dropping substantially somewhere! Please lash the multi down and be careful, the props are needed to be on so that the motors are running under load and drawing current, always respect the spinning props!
Is it a bad thing to just pull direct from the battery to power the APM?
Don't do this, it will blow the APM board! v supply is 5v -+ 0.5v
Further, whats to stop me from wiring all of the esc's directly without removing the power leads? Stupid question but I dont really know if its a bad thing to have all six leads into the apm directly-err in parallel. I mean,connecting them in this way wont effectively make the connection in series would it?
If you mean the ESC signal leads then yes they would be effectively in parallel
If the ESC's use a 'Linear' bec, then it should be ok. (You should be able to find this out in the ESC data sheet!) If they are not Linear then its not recommended to use them in parallel, just connect one bec, so one esc signal lead will have its three wires, all the rest will have the white pin pulled out of their plug and taped up.
would this create a ground loop?
Yes but there probably won't be any observable problems with that.
Awesome Peter- those questions have been plagueing me for a while. Thanks also for explaining a practical test for loading. As you may have guessed, the nuts and bolts of circuitry are a little out of my bailiwick. But not for too much longer, thanks to everyone's generosity


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Fontenehuset necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 82 diseños de 31 diseñadores freelance.
We are seeking a logo based on our existing organization logo draft.
Fontenehuset Oslo Øst
We are a new branch of an already existing international organization called Fountain House http://www.fountainhouse.org/ each house has its own identity and logo. So we cannot base our logo on what the other houses have.
We have already made a draft of a logo (linked to here), but need help to make it look cleaner and more professional. Especially the fonts need some work. We are open to suggestions on text placement and fonts. We are happy with how the house in the logo looks like, but are open for suggestion on size, position, stretching and other (added) details. We like a red color palette (no pastels).
Please note that the text in the logo contain a Norwegian letter.
Our logo draft: http://www.fontenehuset-osloost.no/…ehuset.gif
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I have a request for a client who has three level of navigation and would like to use the global navigation to set the navigation links in site site settings>navigation.(/_layouts/AreaNavigationSettings.aspx)
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It may seem ironic to talk about sleep for fitness gains when we are continually being encouraged to get off the couch and get active, but finding a balance between exercise and recovery is important for performance, health and fitness.
It is during sleep that the natural power of the body is restored. How much sleep you need varies from person to person however we are seeing a lack of sleep as an epidemic in modern society.
The recommended amount of sleep for adults is between 7 to 9 hours of uninterrupted sleep per night. The average amount of sleep North American adults get is much lower, around 6 to 7 hours per night. This sleep deficit adds up and can accumulate to losing a full night of sleep once per week. Lack of sleep can lead to impaired cognitive function, diminished physical performance, irritability, and increased risk of high blood pressure and diabetes.
Fatigue can affect a person's ability to think clearly. People who are fatigued find it hard to gauge their level of impairment. Fatigue can slow reaction time and make it hard to focus. Research indicates that staying awake for 17 hours straight or accumulating a sleep loss of two hours a night has a similar effect to drinking two to three beers. In fact, it is like having a blood-alcohol content of .05, the legal limit in Alberta.
When it comes to overall health, fitness and performance, rest is vital. In the article Sleep: The Athlete's Steroid, by Mike Bracko published in one of the leading international fitness journals, IDEA Fitness Journal, he reviews the research relevant to sleep and performance. Research has shown that the healing powers of sleep can assist exercisers in reaching their performance goals. Even a nap had been found to lower heart rates, improve alertness and accuracy on a reaction time test. Critical metabolic and immune processes occur during specific stages of sleep therefore there is a relationship between physical recovery and ability to train at maximum capacity with optimal results.
Sleep occurs when your brain and body cycle several times through two phases of sleep: NREM (non rapid eye movement) and REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. NREM sleep has four progressive stages before entering into REM sleep, and then repeating the entire cycle again throughout the night. It is during the third and fourth stage of NREM sleep that human growth hormone (HGH) is released into the blood stream to rebuild and repair the body. Allowing the body to restore from the stresses of life, work or training. This is the part of sleep that many coaches and trainers refer to as the "athlete's steroid."
A growing body of research suggests that paying close attention to your body clock and its effects on energy and alertness can help determine the times of day when you perform your best. As everyone's body clock is different it is important to observe when you have the most energy, clearest thinking and problem solving abilities. Designing your fitness program around your highest energy times will give you the ability to perform better. However there is also an argument to working out during lower energy times to increase your energy levels. The important thing to remember is your goal. If your goal is to run faster, then training during your most alert times of day will give you better results. If your goal is to use your fitness program to help increase your energy than working out at lower energy times will meet your needs.
Sleep or lack of sleep can affect our weight. There is compelling evidence that chronic lack of sleep alters hormones that control appetite. Poor sleep triggers the brain to eat and reduces the signals that enough food has been consumed. The hormone cortisol appears higher in individuals that lack sleep. This hormone increases your need for quick energy and the craving for "comfort food." The research indicates insufficient sleep led to an average weekly weight gain of nearly a kilogram due to changes in hunger and decreased satiety. The increased food intake during insufficient sleep is a physiological adaptation to provide energy needed to sustained additional wakefulness. However due to easily accessible food and a craving for simple carbohydrates and fats the intake surpassed the need.
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adii necessitava di un nuovo design di logo e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 72 design presentati da 30 designer.
I need a new logo for my blog at http://www.adii.co.za The logo should fit in with the current style and colour scheme of my blog. I'm a freelance web designer and new media consultant, so you should keep that in mind when designing your entries.
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Same colour scheme as my blog (http://www.adii.co.za)
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Fresh, new, unique, sexy, artistic, trendy, Web 2.0 & professional.
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Please see my blog at http://www.adii.co.za, as I'm going to refer to it quite often.
- Â The logo should fit in with the current style and colour scheme of my blog.
- Keep in mind I'm a web designer and new media consultant, so I need a logo that is professional and trendy.
- The logo should include my name "adii" (all in lowercase!) and a tagline "wordpress rockstar" (also lowercase!).
- I'd also like the logo to include some kind of symbol / icon (more about this later).I'm open to anything creative that you can come up with - so don't feel you need to stick to what I have on my blog at the moment. I'm looking for something fresh and new, so let your creative forces go with the flow... :)
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As mentioned, the logo should include "adii" (larger font-size) and a tagline of "wordpress rockstar" (smaller font-size) - all in lowercase.
The Symbol / Icon
The logo should have some graphical element (symbol / icon) that would be discernable so regardless of if you read English, you'd know what the brand was or something about the way it is represented that speaks to the product itself. [Think Nike Swoosh]
I'd be willing to entertain a symbol that is related to "rockstar" or "rock 'n roll", but remember that the logo needs to be sexy, artistic and more importantly professional.
The Feel
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- trendy
- Web 2.0
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Big Bone Lick State Historic Site
3380 Beaver Road
Union, KY
The Discovery Trail is a 4.5 mile trail mosaic comprised of all the park's hiking trails combined into continuous circuit. Collectively, the ...
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Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park
137 Juliana St
Parkersburg, WV
History:- Harman Blennerhassett, a wealthy Irish aristocrat, settled on the wilderness island in 1798, where he built a magnificent mansion. Desig...
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Boone Station State Historic Site
240 Gentry Road
Lexington, KY
Daniel Boone (1734-1820), known for his role in the exploring and settling of the Kentucky frontier decided that the settlement of Boonesborough ha...
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Butler-Turpin State Historic House
1608 Hwy 227
Carrollton, KY
With a commanding view of the Ohio River Valley the restored home built in 1859, in the Greek Revival style, displays military documents, furniture...
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Chief Vann House Historic Site
82 Ga. Highway 225 N
Chatsworth, GA
During the 1790s, James Vann became a Cherokee Indian leader and wealthy businessman. He established the largest and most prosperous plantati...
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Constitution Square State Historic Site
134 S. Second Street
Danville, KY
Constitution Square is the site of the signing of Kentucky's Constitution in 1792. Stop into the Visitors Bureau at Grayson's Tavern to get a map o...
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Dahlonega Gold Museum Historic Site
1 Public Square
Dahlonega, GA
Twenty years before the 1849 gold rush in California, thousands of prospectors flocked into the Cherokee Nation in north Georgia, marking the true ...
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Dr. Thomas Walker State Historic Site
Barbourville, KY
A replica of the cabin constructed by explorer and physician Dr. Thomas Walker stands on a 12-acre tract six miles southeast of Barbourville. Locat...
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Etowah Indian Mounds Historic Site
813 Indian Mounds Road, South West
Cartersville, GA
Home to several thousand Native Americans from 1000 A.D. to 1550 A.D., this 54-acre site protects six earthen mounds, a plaza, village site, borrow...
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Historic Forks of the Wabash
3011 West Park Drive
Huntington, IN
Historic Forks of the Wabash preserves the story of the interaction between the Miami Indian nation, the European settlers, and the American govern...
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Isaac Shelby Cemetery State Historic Site
6725 KY Hwy. 300
Junction City, KY
Visit the smallest park in the park system where the ½-acre burial grounds of the Shelby family sits amid the peaceful countryside of Lincol...
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Jefferson Davis State Historic Site
258 Pembroke-Fairview Road
Fairview, KY
Jefferson Davis State Historic Site is a memorial to the famous Kentuckian born on this site on June 3, 1808. A 351-foot obelisk constructed ...
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Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site
402 South Lincoln Highway
Lerna, IL
Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site preserves the site of the 1840s farm of Thomas and Sarah Bush Lincoln, father and stepmother of our 16th pres...
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Lost World Caverns
Fairview Road
Lewisburg, WV
About:- Descend 120 feet below the Earth's surface into a vast wonderland of stalactites and stalagmites. Lost World Caverns, discovered in 1942, i...
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Morris-Butler House
1204 N. Park Avenue
Indianapolis, IN
History:The Morris-Butler House in Indianapolis takes its name from two families who lived there in the nineteenth century. In 1864, John Morris co...
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New Echota Historic Site
1211 Chatsworth Hwy NE
Calhoun, GA
New Echota is one of the most significant Cherokee Indian sites in the nation and was where the tragic "Trail of Tears" officially bega...
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Oconaluftee Indian Village
218 Drama Road
Cherokee, NC
As you enter the soft trails of the village, it's no longer the 21st century: you're immediately transported to the 1760s. You won't need your robo...
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Oconee Station State Historic Site
500 Oconee Station Road
Walhalla, SC
Originally a military compound and later a trading post, Oconee Station State Historic Site offers both recreational opportunities and a unique loo...
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Old Mulkey State Historic Site
38 Old Mulkey Park Road
Tompkinsville, KY
The Old Mulkey Meeting House is a log church erected in 1804. It is the oldest freestanding log meeting house in the Commonwealth. Adjacent to the...
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Organ Cave
63 E Route 219
Ronceverte, WV
History:- Significant fossil discoveries bear witness to the early natural history of Organ Cave: giant ground sloth, grizzly bear, nine-banded arm...
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Cowgirls Get Big Win over Griz, 79-65
Kayla Woodward scored 23 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to lead the Wyoming Cowgirls past the Montana Lady Griz, 79-65, Tuesday night in Laramie. Woodward took over and scored 12 straight points in during a 2 minute stretch of the second half that propelled UW to the victory.
Wyoming (8-2) was tied with Montana for the ninth time in the game at 40-40 with 14:55 left in the game. Then, Woodward followed up her own miss down low for a basket inside. After another offensive rebound and put-back in the paint, she knocked down consecutive 3's and added a pair of free throws. That gave the Cowgirls a 52-40 lead with 11:51 left.
Montana pulled within 6 points twice down the stretch, but back-to-back baskets from Kaitlyn Mileto and Kaylie Rader with 5 minutes left put Wyoming back up by 10, at 68-58, and the game was never in doubt after that.
The Cowgirls had three other players in double figures. Fallon Lewis scored 18; Marquelle Dent added 14 points and 5 assists and Rader contributed 12 points and 3 assists. UW shot 46.8 percent (29-62) from the field, which included nearly 58 percent in the second half. They were 3-10 (30%) from 3-point range and 18-28 (64.3%) at the foul line. They out-rebounded the bigger Griz, 46-40. Wyoming also had 21 assists on their 29 field goals and held a 44-22 edge on points in the paint.
Montana (6-3) was led by Kellie Cole with 13 points, while Jordan Sullivan had 12 and Torry Hill 11 points. The Lady Griz were held to 34.8 percent (24-69) shooting on field goals. They were 9-30 (30%) from deep and 8-10 (80%) at the stripe.
The game featured 5 lead changes and 7 ties in the first half. Montana got out to a 13-6 lead early, but an 11-0 spurt by the Cowgirls put them in front 17-13 midway through the period. It was back-and-forth after that. Wyoming took a 32-30 halftime lead when Dent went the length of the floor with 5.4 seconds left and scored on a lay-up at the buzzer.
The Wyoming Cowgirls return to action on Saturday with their final non-conference game at Idaho. Game time is at 1 p.m.


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CNN's Howard Kurtz apologizes, but few pay attention
While members of the media thumped their chests and tore at their hair over Howard Kurtz's exit from the Daily Beast, television viewers were not particularly interested in the Kurtz chapter of the Jason Collins story.
An average of 359,000 people watched Kurtz apologize to his audience on his CNN Sunday show, "Reliable Sources," in which he regularly takes the media to task for any ranygazoo they've perpetrated that week. He said he was sorry for his inaccurate piece on Collins's coming-out essay last week in "Sports Illustrated," as well as for his slowness to correct his error.
After opening the show with the apology, Kurtz subjected himself to grilling at the hands of Politico's Dylan Byers and NPR's David Folkenflik.
The show's average audience this calendar year is 477,000. Just one week earlier than his show's mea culpa episode, Kurtz clocked 518,000 viewers with Boston Marathon bombing media coverage on the front burner. And, one year ago, on the comparable Sunday, "Reliable Sources" averaged 430,000 viewers.
The 359,000 who watched Kurtz's self-flagellation this past Sunday is, in fact, made up his smallest audience this calendar year, according to Nielsen stats.
In his Daily Beast coverage about Collins' coming out, and in a video for the Daily Download, Kurtz claimed that Collins did not tell the whole story -- the rest of the story being that Collins dated a woman for years and was engaged to marry her, Kurtz maintained.
"I think this really muddies the whole plot line," Kurtz, former media critic at The Washington Post, said in the video.
Except, in the Sports Illustrated essay posted on its website April 29, Collins said that he'd dated women and had been engaged.
With the publication of the essay, Collins came to be viewed as the first active male athlete in a major U.S. professional sports league to come out as gay.
"It was a mistake that I made, and it was sloppy and inexcusable," Kurtz said at the top of Sunday's show; he also expressed regret for his snarky video on Collins's revelation, calling his criticism "inappropriate."
After Kurtz's Daily Beast article was published, it was changed to say that Collins "downplayed" the detail about his fiancee, after which that was changed to a correction -- after which, Daily Beast retracted the piece entirely and said that it regretted Kurtz's error.
In the wake of that flurry of activity, Daily Beast chief Tina Brown tweeted that the site and Kurtz had parted company, adding: "We wish him well."
"Why didn't you have the decency to apologize to [Collins] at that time when you knew what you had written was wrong," Folkenflik asked Kurtz sternly on Sunday, as only 359,000 watched.
Speaking of Jason Collins, he continues his march across The Platforms of Disney. In addition to giving his first TV interview after his Sports Illustrated essay -- to Disney-owned ABC's "Good Morning America" infotainment show -- now comes word that he and twin brother Jarron Collins will make their late-night TV debut on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" next Wednesday. (J.J. Abrams got demoted to also-ran on Kimmel's guest list for that night.)
And no, you're not the only one speculating that Jason Collins will be cast as one of the celebrities on the next edition of ABC's competition series "Dancing With the Stars." We had exactly the same thought -- as did, we see, other media types, including the website Deadline.


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STOCKTON - Police are investigating to determine whether the same man was responsible for two armed business robberies that occurred 2 miles apart over a span of 17 minutes Thursday, authorities said.
STOCKTON - Police are investigating to determine whether the same man was responsible for two armed business robberies that occurred 2 miles apart over a span of 17 minutes Thursday, authorities said.
The first robbery was reported at 10:04 a.m. in the 8900 block of Thornton Road, police said. A man entered the business, milled about the restaurant until customers left, ordered a sandwich and then pulled a black handgun out of his backpack, police said.
The man took money from the cash register and stole a cellphone from an employee before fleeing on foot, officers said. He was described as an Asian man in his teens, 20s or 30s standing 5 feet 7 inches tall with a thin build, a black beanie with stripes, a gray shirt and black pants, authorities said.
The second robbery occurred at 10:21 a.m. in the 6100 block of Pacific Avenue, police said. A man walked into the store and acted like he was looking at headphones. When an employee turned his back, the man pulled a handgun from his backpack, pointed it at employees and ordered them to the floor, officers said.
The man took two sets of headphones and an undisclosed amount of cash before fleeing on foot on Porter Avenue, police said. He was described as an Asian man in his teens, 20s or 30s standing 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighing 180 pounds with a gray beanie and a gray shirt, officers said.
STOCKTON - Armed men tied up a woman during a home invasion robbery Wednesday night in south Stockton, police said.
The victim told officers she was home in the 2000 block of Pock Lane about 9:55 p.m. when the men forcibly entered the residence and knocked her to the ground. One held her at gunpoint while the other brandished a knife, police said.
The men took undisclosed items from the home before fleeing, authorities said. One of the intruders was described as a Latino man 22 to 24 years old, 5 feet 3 to 5 feet 4 inches tall and 160 to 180 pounds with a gray T-shirt and blue jeans, police said. The other was described as a Latino man 25 to 26 years old, 5 feet 4 to 5 feet 5 inches tall and 250 to 280 pounds with a dark gray hooded sweatshirt and black jeans.
STOCKTON - A police officer sustained minor injuries when an intoxicated woman assaulted him as he placed her under arrest following a three-car collision Wednesday in north Stockton, authorities said.
Christine Lawless Croskrey, 68, was one of the drivers involved in the collision about noon near West Hammer and Misty lanes, just east of Alexandria Place, police said. None of the crash victims went to hospitals, but some sustained minor injuries.
When an officer attempted to arrest Croskrey, she hit, kicked and spat on the officer, police said. She was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs resulting in injury, battery on an officer and resisting arrest, authorities said.


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Minnesota Vital Records
This entry was originally written by Carol L. Maki and Michael John Neill for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
Legislation that ordered recording of county vital records was passed in 1870. In some counties marriage registrations began before that date, but these early records are somewhat incomplete. Researchers may request birth, death, or marriage records from the office of the court administrator or clerk of district court in the respective county courthouse. Some counties have recently begun to transfer their birth, death, and marriage records to the office of the county recorder.
In 1907 the Minnesota Vital Records law was enacted, giving the state the responsibility of keeping birth and death records. This office has birth records starting in 1900 and death records starting in 1908. The Minnesota Historical Society has an online death certificate index that currently runs from 1908 to 1996. There is no statewide marriage index until 1958 and the statewide divorce index begins in 1970, but these two statewide indexes only provide verification of the marriage or divorce. The specific county where the event occurred will also need to be contacted. More information (including current fees) can be obtained from the Minnesota Department of Health, Section of Vital Statistics, Attention: Office of the State Registrar, P.O. Box 9441, Minneapolis, MN 55440.
Some limited county vital records registers have been transferred to the Minnesota Historical Society Research Center, although access may be restricted. The center holds justice of the peace (marriage) records from some counties and coroner's inquest (death) registers. Other alternate sources for vital records may include local genealogical societies that have transcribed and indexed vital records and obituaries from their respective counties. The Minnesota Genealogical Journal (Roseville, Minn.: Park Genealogical Books, 1984) has transcriptions of marriages from several Minnesota counties. This publication has also printed extractions of marriage records, which include Minnesota people in Pierce and St. Croix counties, Wisconsin.
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) Historical Records Survey of township vital records was published in Guide to Public Vital Statistics Records in Minnesota. Many of these records have since been transferred to the Minnesota Historical Society.
Township records may include some vital statistics. Deaths and births may have been reported to townships or cities from 1870 through 1953. If these records are extant (and many are not), they will frequently contain more information than the county or state record. Many of these locally created vital records are at the Minnesota Historical Society Research Center. Township records may also include the clerk's minute books and township road records, indicating names of residents. If they exist, justice of the peace records are likely to be in these materials as well.
School records, rather than vital registrations, can often be used to help determine the age of an individual. Many of these are at the Minnesota Historical Society Research Center.
FamilySearch.org has a variety of collections available for free online:
- Minnesota, Births and Christenings, 1840-1980
- Minnesota, County Birth Records, 1863-1983
- Minnesota, Birth Index, 1935-2002
- Minnesota, Marriages, 1849-1950
- Minnesota, County Marriages, 1860-1949
- Minnesota, Marriage Index, 1958-2001
- Minnesota, Divorce Index, 1970-1995
- Minnesota, Deaths and Burials, 1835-1990
- Minnesota, Death Records, 1866-1916
- Minnesota, Death Index, 1908-2002
External Links
- Minnesota Birth, Marriage, and Death Records - free up-to-date guide to accessing Minnesota birth, marriage, and death records (FamilySearch Research Wiki). Includes links to FamilySearch vital record databases.
- Minnesota Official Marriage System https://www.moms.mn.gov/ - free marriage certificate search of all 87 Minnesota counties.
- Minnesota Obituary and Death Notice Archive - free Minnesota obituary archive that has transcribed obits from across the state.
- Minnesota Library of Files - free Minnesota obituary and data files archive from across the state.


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NORTON, Mass. – Junior Sam Ocel (North Attleboro, Mass./North Attleboro) and freshman Tyler Savonen (Orleans, Mass./Nauset Regional) each scored goals to lead the Brandeis University men's soccer team to a 2-0 win over Wheaton College in non-conference men's soccer action Wednesday afternoon at Keefe Field.
Junior Blake Minchoff (Fiskdale, Mass./Tantasqua Regional) recorded three saves to earn his seventh shutout of the season and give the Judges (7-2-1) their first win over the Lyons (4-6-2) since a win in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Tournament in 1996. Since that loss, Wheaton owned a 13-0-1 record against Brandeis.
Brandeis outshot the Lyons 11-5 in the opening half and took a 1-0 lead at 29:06 on Savonen's fourth goal of the season. Junior Lee Russo (Westford, Mass./Westford Academy) started the play with a corner kick and sent a low, line drive into the box that Savonen's jumped and headed into the back of the net.
Ocel's third marker of the year just over eight minutes into the second half doubled the Judges lead. Senior Steve Keuchkarian (Watertown, Mass./Watertown) sent a pass through the defense and Ocel broke in alone on freshman keeper Devin Delfino (Bourne, Mass./Bourne). The forward deked around Delfino to the right, then sent a low shot just past the outstretched leg of a Wheaton back and over the goal line at 53:08.
The Judges finished the afternoon with a 22-9 advantage in shots and a 6-1 edge in corners. Minchoff pushed his record to 7-2-1 with the win while Delfino stopped eight shots to fall to 3-4-2.
Freshman Luke Finklestein (Peabody, Mass./Peabody) led the Lyons with two shots on goal.
Wheaton returns to action on Saturday when it travels to Coast Guard for a 1 p.m. match. The Judges play at Case Western Reserve at 11 a.m. on Sunday.


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Of the many policy battles being fought in the United States, few are as important to the long term future of the country as that over healthcare.
Simply put, if we don't find a way to slow down the growth of healthcare costs, we're eventually going to drown in debt. Increasingly expensive treatments, longer lifespans, chronic illnesses, and demographic trends all but guarantee it.
The passage of the Affordable Care Act was the first big effort in many years, and turned the issue into a political live wire, making progress even more difficult. Part of the effect has been a movement towards hospital consolidation as small practices are pressured and bigger systems hope to gain efficiency through scale.
But bigger hospitals are only the beginning. For costs to come down, hospitals need to embrace innovation in how they do business, and start to change some of the behaviors that have made healthcare more and more expensive without making it any better for patients.
We spoke to Dr. Delos Cosgrove, the CEO of the Cleveland Clinic. In the Presidential debates, both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney mentioned the hospital as a model of innovation and of how to bring healthcare costs down.
"You've seen by the recent shout-outs we got in the Presidential debates that we're being looked at a model of how to go forward," Dr. Cosgrove said, "And I really think our model is our secret sauce."
98 percent of the people that request a same day appointment at the Cleveland Clinic get one, and there were over one million such appointments last year. Focusing on costs doesn't have to come at the expense of the patient.
Changing the incentives
So what exactly do they do? One of the biggest issues in healthcare in the United States has been an emphasis on quantity of care rather than quality, as insurance companies and doctors often get paid more for expensive tests and procedures. That's led to a great deal of inefficient, expensive treatment.
The Cleveland Clinic's solution? All doctors are salaried and on one year contracts. "We have no financial incentives to do more or less. We just try to look after what the needs are for a patient because it doesn't make a difference to us personally," Dr. Cosgrove said. "We all have one year contracts, there's no tenure, and we have annual professional reviews. I don't know of another institution that has annual professional reviews and one year contracts. In the annual professional review we go over all individual contributions to the organization, and that contributes to our decisions about what we do about salary or whether we reappoint or don't."
Doctors focus on what's best for the patient, rather than what gets them paid, leading to fewer unneeded tests and surgeries. They're evaluated on the quality of care rather than earnings. When you can have cheaper care that's also better for the patient, it's clear that there needs to be some change in the industry.
Those one year contracts go all the way to the top level. Dr. Cosgrove's had 37 one year contracts in his time at the hospital. "You stop and think, almost every major business I can think of has annual reviews. And healthcare traditionally has not," Dr. Cosgrove said. "You got privileges at a hospital and they were yours for life unless you committed murder or something. So it's very seldom that people look at the qualities and the outcomes for each individual."
The data revolution
Part of changing the focus and how people are evaluated is actually having the data to do so. That's an area where hospitals can improve on cost and quality. "The more we measured, the more we found problems," Dr. Cosgrove said. "And when you found a problem you could really sort of screw down into it and find out what the root of it was and begin to deal with that particular issue. And what resulted is that we got better and better as we went along."
Now, every part of the hospital system transparently publishes its outcomes, adds more data every year, and continually works to get better. Cost is even easier to measure, and it needs to start to be a part of every decision. "Cost has been looked at what you get paid to do something, not what it costs to do it," Dr. Cosgrove said." So what we've done, over the years we've begun to understand how much it costs to do each one of our procedures. We've asked each of our institutes to go and look at the cost of their number one or two or three things they do. The urologists looked at prostatectomies, they looked at the cost of the sutures, how many instruments they had on the table, how long the patients stay in the recovery room, etc. and they were able to take 25 percent out of the actual cost of what they did."
Ending the Departments of Surgery and Medicine
One of the keys to what the Cleveland Clinic's done is not being afraid to change structures that have been around forever. Just because something's persisted, doesn't mean it's good, especially in an industry that's slow to change.
"Most hospitals are organized around the department of surgery, the department of medicine, the department of pediatrics. There's essentially a guild system for whatever your profession is. And what we said was, wouldn't it be nice to organize a hospital around what a patient needs? Novel idea, right?" Dr. Cosgrove said. "If you've got a headache, you don't know whether you need to see a psychologist, a neurologist, or a neurosurgeon. So let's put everybody who deals with a neurologic system in a neurologic institute, and we'll have one head. So if you go in for your headache you can see, there in one location, everybody who you could potentially need to see. And they talk to each other, they're physically proximate to each other."
It's more efficient and less costly because patients spend less time in the hospital bouncing around between departments. It was a huge change. Hospitals have been organized around departments of surgery and medicine for years, and people were nervous at first. Rather than slow down, Dr. Cosgrove sped it up.
"The whole organization was anxious. We started one by one to move people to various locations, and finally everybody was so nervous that we said we're going to do the whole thing at once. In one year we changed the whole organization, so there's no more department of surgery, no more department of medicine, it's all by institutes," Dr. Cosgrove said. "It wasn't beating guys over the head. Nobody came to me and said that's a terrible idea, not one person, but everybody was anxious. And nobody has come to me and said we have to go back. So everybody could see the value of doing it."
Cutting costs is also about doing little things, and being physician led has helped the Cleveland Clinic do that. "We also put a price tag on supplies in the operating room," Dr. Cosgrove said. "In the past, if a doctor thought he needed a suture he would just grab it, open it, and throw it away. Now, they see the price."
As a former surgeon, Dr. Cosgrove knows how they behave. "We didn't know what things cost, so we'd just say, 'give me one of those.'"
Where are the copycats?
So if this has all been so successful at the Cleveland Clinic, why haven't other hospitals emulated it? Dr. Cosgrove told this story to illustrate how entrenched certain habits are.
"Two years ago, I was invited to the White House and I'm there with 9 other CEOs of hospital systems, you know there's the New York Hospital System, Columbia, Penn, Hospital CEOs from all over the place. Everybody's given three or four minutes to tell their story about what they can do to improve healthcare delivery. I'm the last guy to talk and I described our system, how we're integrated and how we're all employed. And everybody says, 'Oh we couldn't do that.' I said, 'Wait a minute, guys. How many of you would like to have that system?' Everybody raised their hand. So the point is, that we're entrenched in a different system. We're going from an individual sport ot a team sport, and getting everybody to change their headspace is a big deal."
We're only at the beginning of what's going to be a long period of change for the healthcare industry. The Affordable Care Act hasn't even been fully implemented yet. Hospitals either need to be proactive about changing, or they're going to be forced to.
"I think the pendulum is moving fast," Dr. Cosgrove said, "it's really amazing how fast things are changing."
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The Dino 208 GT4 came about when Ferrari decided to fit a 2000cc engine in the body of the Dino 308 GT4. The car was destined primarily for the Italian market, because in those days taxation was particularly heavy on cars with engines above 2 litres. The engine capacity was decreased by reducing the bore of the three litre model, but maintaining the same stroke.
Although the reduction in displacement caused a similar cut in performance, the small but sophisticated V8 engine could still propel the car to over 220 km/h. The Dino 208 GT4 was the smaller engine capacity sister to the Dino 308 GT4 which had been introduced at the 1973 Paris Salon, as a 2+2 model to compliment the two seat 246 GT/GTS models in the Dino range. As with the 308 GT4 models they were given chassis numbers in the particular Dino even number series, which they maintained even when being produced alongside the 246 GT/GTS replacement, the 308 GTB/GTS series, which had chassis numbers in the standard Ferrari road car odd number sequence. The Dino 208 GT4 went into production in 1975 and was produced through to 1980, during which time 840 examples were produced in the chassis number range 08830 to 15596.Read more
The model was produced specifically for the Italian market and had a mid-mounted 2 litre V8 engine as opposed to the 3 litre unit of the 308 GT4. The raison d'etre of this being to fall below the Italian government's 2 litre tax threshold, which was punitive on engine capacities above this level. As this was a specific market model, all were produced in left hand drive configuration. As with other models in the Dino series, the numbers in the model title referred to the engine total cubic capacity, and number of cylinders, in this case two litres and eight cylinders, with the figure 4 relating to the number of seats.
The V8 engine was of 90 degree configuration, with belt driven twin overhead camshafts per bank, having a total capacity of 1991cc, with a bore and stroke of 81mm x 66.8mm, bearing factory type reference F 106 C 000. The engine was transversely mounted in unit with the all synchromesh five speed transmission assembly, which was below, and to the rear of the engine's wet sump. It was fitted with a bank of four twin choke Weber carburettors, producing a claimed 180bhp in 2 litre form.
The body was very similar to that of its 308 GT4 sister, a pronounced wedge shape from the pen of Bertone, which was very much in vogue with manufacturers of the period. Apart from the model badge on the boot lid, the easiest ways to distinguish a 208 GT4 from a 308 GT4, is the single exhaust pipe, instead of the latter's quadruple arrangement, and the plain aluminium finish to the louvres on the front lid and engine cover for the 208 GT4, instead of satin black on the 308 GT4.
Bertone did a very good design job within very tight dimensional boundaries, to produce a mid-engine 2+2 model on a 2550mm wheelbase, which was only 210mm more than that of the 2 seat Dino 246GT. The Dino 208 GT4 had a tubular steel chassis with a factory type reference F 106 CL 100, and a steel body with aluminium front lid and engine cover.
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We have published the first attempt to understand Tao philosophy in the book: The Dynamic Tao and Its Manifestations in 2004, after an intensive study of the underlying principle of Tao.. We have further achieved significant understanding of the Tao Te Ching in the last five years. The principle behind the cryptic verses is rather simple as the Principle of Oneness. We are hopeful that we may be able to provide an ultimate interpretation of this Chinese classic without leaving much mystic speculations. The two approaches are listed below, Click to select.
2013 New Interpretation: The Logic of Tao Philosophy
Historical commentaries on the Tao Te Ching have indeed blurred the basic logic of Tao philosophy, to the extent that Tao Philosophy has become an inexplicable "ancient thought." This article extracts a well-defined "Logic of Tao philosophy" from the first chapter of the Tao Te Ching, and shows that the logic of Lao-tzu is rather precise. His description of Tao is not "fuzzy and indeterminate" but has fully reflected the authentic characteristics of Tao. This seems to be the final revelation of Tao.
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The Dynamic Tao and Its Manifestations (2004)
This is discussion based on the book, the Dynamic Tao and Its Manifestations, published in December 2004 and two publications on the Basic Theory of Tao philosophy. This book makes use of our understanding of modern sciences to understand the fundamental concepts of Tao philosophy. This book is available here or at Amazon.com.
The Tao Te Ching: Philosophy of Oneness (2009)
This is an introduction to a complete reassessment of Tao philosophy with the Principle of Oneness. It is a systematic presentation of a non-dualistic world view, shared by Lao-tzu, the early Greeks, and the Buddha. We can now have an ultimate coherent interpretation of Tao philosophy and a consistent translation of the Tao-te-ching. This will be the second book in the Searching-for-Tao Series. [Publication format to be decided.]