Have you driven a Ford lately?

Have You Driven A Ford Lately?

By Laurie Beth Jones

Yesterday I test drove the new Ford Transit Connect, which is might I say a darling design and keen concept small delivery van. It looks like a PT Cruiser married a small half bus/truck. See photos at www.ford.com “Transit Connect.” Having been successfully used in Europe for several years, it is now invading the shores of the United States. As a delivery van made especially for small business owners, and priced around $22,000, the Transit Connect is selling like hotcakes.

It handles well, has a basic interior, and has options for detailing the inside with every configuration of drawers and bins you can imagine. The demo video shows it in use with a produce company, a child home protection company, and a kayak company, which is what drew me in. In the back of my PT cruiser I have a “bin” for my journal stuff, a “bin” for my swimming gear, a “bin” for my biking gear, and a bin to hold some of my smaller bins. I have a bin for “dry cleaning” and a bin for “Donations.” I also have a bin for “library books.”

While this may sound almost compulsively organized for a wind, I assure you that it is not. It is an attempt to organize the stuff of my life, and keep it with me in mobile fashion. Who knows, for example, when I may get an urge to create a leather journal at the beach? And right after that ride my bike and then go for a swim? Having my things together with me allows me to live a larger life, I say to myself. It also saves times and energy. So….why not a delivery van? Then I could get bigger bins and buy bigger toys, or even maybe set up a small office in it, like Georgia O-Keefe did when she took out the backseat of her car and turned it into a mobile art studio.

(My therapist appointment is coming up, I assure you.)

The Transit Connect brochure says it is an ideal van for florists, caterers, dry cleaners, handymen, etc. The salesman who showed it to me says he is thinking about buying one to set up a mobile embroidery business on weekends. He and his wife could take it to trade shows in the area and do on the spot custom embroidery. The possibilities are ENDLESS!

Besides all that, I really like the way it looks. It is different. I could do a full graphic vehicle wrap and then have a traveling billboard, PLUS having all my goods with me. When I shared this with friends at dinner one of them asked “Are you sure you want people to know what you do, and where you live?”

I paused. First, I would have to figure out exactly what I do, and what I would put on it. “The Path. Find it. Live it. Love it.”

“How is my driving?”

Or “LBJ Journal Making. None for sale.” Or “Author driving. May make sudden stops or u-turns.”

All I am telling you is that Ford is on to something here. Like the millions of small business entreprenurs who can do it all, wherever they are.

Now, if they just make sure the brakes work, they may have themselves a winner.

What could you use a delivery van for?

What graphic would you put on it?

Laurie Beth Jones

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Ferrari California pictures

More information about this car: http://www.blogofcar.com/auto/2010/03/ferrari-california-added-6-speed-transmission-model/

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EARL COOPER | AUTO RACING LEGENDS AT THE DAWN OF THE GOLDEN AGE

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Earl Cooper, auto racer, taken at the auto races at Salem, New Hampshire. Cooper’s last major victory was here at the Rockingham board track speedway. He won that 200-miler with a front-drive Miller in 1926.  – Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS— Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

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Nebraska-born in 1886, Earl Cooper became a star just as the Golden Age of auto racing was dawning. Cooper’s illustrious racing career, in which he racked-up three National Championships (1913, 1915 & 1917) and 11 top 10 points finishes, all started in 1904– in an ironic and bittersweet twist.

It was 1904, and Cooper was on the West Coast working as a mechanic at a Maxwell auto dealership.  Cooper was bitten by the racing bug, but when he appealed to the Maxwell dealership for sponsorship in a San Francisco race, he was refused.  Turns-out his own boss was competing in the same race and did not welcome the friendly competition.  So Cooper scoffed at the dealership’s snub, and somehow was able to convince a kind old woman to let him enter  her brand new Maxwell in the race.  Cooper soundly beat his boss– and just as quick, found himself unemployed.  With nothing left to lose, he went on a racing tear, up and down the West Coast, where he was at times unstoppable.

Cooper joined the Stutz racing team in 1912, and just one year later went on to win the National Championship– racking up 2,610 points.  Cooper dominated the scene that year, winning five of the eight major road races, along with one 2nd place finish.

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Earl Cooper and his riding mechanic in the Stutz car. Picture taken at Indianapolis 500 qualifying in 1919. (Indianapolis Motor Speedway photo. Noel Allard collection)

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In 1913, Cooper’s Hell-bent rival, Barney Oldfield, was driving for the Mercer team.  The two battled fast and furious in a battle of skill and will on the track–

Cooper and Oldfield would run head-to-head at the Santa Monica Road Race, held on an eight-mile macadam course near the ocean. Oldfield blasted away from the starter’s flag and held a sizeable lead, but Cooper passed Tetzlaff for second and began running Oldfield down. With a 4-minute lead over Oldfield, one of Cooper’s tires blew out and he had to coast into the pits. As his riding mechanic struggled to get the wheel off, Oldfield roared past. Cooper jumped out of the driver’s seat and wrenched the wheel off, the tire was changed and the car back on the track to begin running down Oldfield once more. In his exuberance to stay ahead, this time Oldfield blew a tire and bumped into the pits as Cooper whisked past and on to the checkered flag as the winner.

On September 9, 1913, Cooper and Oldfield again met head-to-head on a 3-mile paved track that circled the town of Corona, California. Cooper, after experiencing the tire problem at Santa Monica, had cannily practiced on the course to find what maximum speed he could drive in order to not make any tire stops at all. He determined that if he drove 75 mph. for the entire race, he could do just that. Oldfield, hell-bent-for-leather, predicted that the race average would go to 90 mph. Oldfield set the pace from the start, over Cooper, Tetzlaff, DePalma and Spencer Wishart. He clocked an awesome 98 mph on one lap, but the track had started to break up from the pounding it was taking from the heavy cars. Oldfield burst a tire and Cooper inherited the lead. Oldfield was back on the track and again at speed when again, a young spectator ran onto the track in front of him. Oldfield swerved to avoid the lad and crashed heavily, injuring several people and himself. Cooper won again and would go on to take his first AAA National Championship.

–Noel Allard

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Earl Cooper in action at the start of a race in 1925, Laurel, Maryland.

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1915 was another banner year, as Cooper battled back from health issues that had kept him largely sidelined in 1914. He won the first race of 1915 at Point Loma, California, then was forced to take time off from racing due to his health for the early part of the season. He scored points at Indianapolis with a 4th place finish, along with another 4th place finish at Maywood, IL, and two 2nd place finishes at Tacoma, WA. Cooper also managed 2nd in a 50-lap invitational on the Chicago board track. He followed that with a win in one of two events at Elgin, IL, and at a 500-mile race on the cement speedway at Fort Snelling, MN, outside Minneapolis. He also won three 100-mile non-points-awarding races in the West to close the season.

On May 26, 1925, Earl Cooper became the first driver to exceed 110 mph at the famed speedway in Indianapolis when he drove his Junior 8 to 110.728 mph in an official qualification lap. The record didn’t last long. He was eclipsed later in the day by Harry Hartz with a speed of 112.994 mph and again the same day by Peter DePaolo at 114.285 mph in a Duesenberg.

He also set a four-lap qualifying record at 110.487 mph in 1925, but was topped by Hartz, DePaolo and eventual pole sitter Leon Duray in a Miller at 113.196 mph.

Earl Cooper’s impressive racing career lasted until 1927. But retirement did not mean an end to racing– Cooper spent several years as a team manager. Along with his loyal mechanic over the years, Reeves Dutton, they built three front-drive Cooper racing cars, one of which competed at Indianapolis into the 1940s.  Earl Cooper died on Oct. 22, 1965 in Atwater, CA, at the age of 79.

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San Francisco, California — Photo shows auto racing legend Earl Cooper of San Francisco at the race at Rochingham. — Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

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To be continued…

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Runes Of Magic Bot

The ROM bot usage guide

The RoM bot is very easy to setup.

To get to the bot screen, you must launch the game.

1. Type Bot ID and PW that you have created, then click login.

2. Load: Load a saved Configuration File.

Save: Save the current Configuration File

Start: Start botting

Training Arrange: Botting range round the current coordinate.

No KS: Don’t kill steal.

3. Potions, back town condition setting, type, and the amount of potions you want to buy.

4. Set the priority skill, recommend “intelligence release”, then it will auto-estimate the attact range and overtime.

5. Set the saved coordinate as botting spot when there is not script. When there is a script, it will bot based on the script.

6. When the long range occupation release skill – we recommend that you set the pick up range up to 30.

7. The pick, storage, sell setting support the search and the search range setting.

8. Choose the script you’ve recorded.

9. Record script.

1) Run to the relive spot, click start

2) Run from the relive spot to sell spot, click “set the current as sellspot”. Copy the content of A(NPC’s name) to the input box.

3) If you want to store, you have to run to the storage spot, click”set current spot as storage spot”, copy the content of A(npc’s name) to the input box.

4) Run to the botting spot, click stop and saved. Record script is done

notice: Use your mouse to run when record script. Pick next destination when your character stops.

10.

1) Gather setting. gather wood first, mining or gather, hunting .

2) Only hunting but no gather: only gather wood, mining or gather, no hunting.

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Alliance Insurance Agents of Texas (AIAT) Launch New Website

For Immediate Release

AUSTIN, TEXAS (Press Release) March 16, 2010 – AIAT has a long standing reputation of standing for the independent insurance agent since 1993.  Our association has a commitment to provide independent agents a forum for open discussion, formulate educational programs, and provide legislative representation.  As a demonstration of that commitment, we have launched a completely redesigned, interactive website at www.aiat.org. 

The new design was specifically devoted to provide a more comprehensive source of insurance information and services for prospects and our current membership.  In-depth information for the insurance industry professional can be obtained through the useful articles, events section, and a news center posted on the site.  The site features a modern look and streamlined site navigation. 

The site is provided and hosted by Insurance Technologies Corporation through their Insurance Website Builder.  Insurance Website Builder, the premier insurance agency website, was designed specifically for insurance agents to have a fully interactive, lead generating online presence.  We want to extend our thanks to ITC for their continued commitment to our association and the independent agent.

AIAT aims to provide a social network for independent agents, carriers, and vendors to meet and explore avenues to make our industry better.  Visit our site at www.aiat.org for more information.

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Produse Vikan

Gama pe deplin completă de sarcini produse de curăţare specifice pentru sectorul de transport commercial. Echipamentele profesionale sunt o condiţie esenţială pentru rezolvarea sarcinilor rapid şi eficient. Acest lucru este, de asemenea, relevant atunci când vehiculele rutiere sunt  curăţare. Din acest motiv, VIKAN a dezvoltat  cea mai cuprinzătoare, pentru folosinţă îndelungată şi la preţuri competitive o serie de sarcini si instrumente de curăţare specifice pentru sectorul transporturilor. Fiecare instrument este unic  creat pentru intervalul sau – şi în colaborare cu – utilizatorii profesionişti în sectorul de transport. Cu instrumente de curăţare mai multe de 70 la numar, VIKAN permite tuturor sarcinilor de curăţare să fie efectuate într-un timp mai scurt şi cu cele mai bune rezultate posibile. VIKAN oferă o gamă largă de produse atractive de calitate, inovatoare şi desene sau modele funcţionale pentru curăţenie:  - Vagoane Touring, Oras Autobuze, Camioane Comerciale & Vans, trenuri de căi ferate, aeronave comerciale şi de autoturismele personale

Pentru mai multe detalii cititi brosura :

http://www.vikan.dk/graphics/Trykkeri/VTS/VTS_72/VTS_CAT_ENDK.pdf

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Dealer Pulsa Elektrik Murah - The Right Stuff - The Auto Dealer's Promotional Supply

dealer pulsa elektrik murah

Ke kesukaan mengembara terus-menerus tidak ada pilihan lain tetapi untuk dibawa ke jalan. Yah satu juta orang lain akan dealer pulsa termurah mengatur untuk transit jadi saat mobil menjadi rumah sementara kadang-kadang bahkan Dealer Pulsa Electrik dibaptis dengan sebuah nama itu harus dilengkapi dengan aksesori hanya sebagai kebutuhan rumah yang harus disediakan. Biarkan perusahaan Anda diketahui ke kerumunan pemilik mobil. Browse melalui dealer mobil pilihan penawaran promosi untuk mendapatkan promosi yang otomatis aksesoris mobil utama kebutuhan. Produk pemasaran Anda akan berada di sana untuk mereka ketika kunci hilang ketika sebuah ban berjalan datar atau ketika mobil hanya perlu Daftar Dealer Pulsa deodorized. Dealer mobil pasokan promosi bahkan dapat berbagi dengan teman-teman. Lebih dari Bisnis Dealer Pulsa sekadar iklan bisnis Anda aksesoris mobil promosi ini menunjukkan bahwa Anda adalah sebuah perusahaan untuk berbelok ke bila ada sesuatu yang penyaradan. Billboard klien hanya menangkap amp perhatian namun Dealer Pulsa Telkomsel bermanfaat aksesoris mobil terpercaya pengalaman ini membuat pelanggan merasa bahwa Anda mendapatkan mereka kembali saat mereka keluar di jalan.

Promosi besar situs-situs seperti jaminan Branders.com perintah anda dealer promosi otomatis penawaran dan promosi aksesoris otomatis akan kapal Dealer Pulsa Tronik pada tanggal kami dijanjikan atau mereka Dealer Isi Pulsa akan GRATIS. Pembelian dealer pulsa termurah lebih dari layak untuk mendapat GRATIS sampel otomatis pasokan promosi dealer pilihan Anda. Anda juga mendapatkan off jika pertama kali Anda untuk mendapatkan barang-barang promosi dari kami.

Waktu berikutnya Anda berencana untuk membeli grosir grosir perlengkapan promosi otomatis selalu mencari penawaran yang terbaik yang merupakan item yang sempurna pada harga terendah.

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