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Q: How fast can I drive with chains?A: You should not drive over 30 mph whenever running chains. It can create a lot of heat. Plus, you get expansion in the chains by centrifical force which can lead to chain failure.

Q: How far can I drive on a set of chains?A: Chains are not meant for long distance travel. Avoid bare pavement for extended periods. Chains are designed for compact snow and ice for short amounts of time.

Q: Will all cars accept chains?A: No, some vehicles have limited clearance, not allowing for chain application. But there are other alternatives, such as spider spikes and quick trak, which allow for a traction device on the car.


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By Bob Cox


Every year as I prepare for our annual New Years edition of Go For It Magazine, I get really excited like I did when I was a kid at Christmas. As I get closer to wrapping up the January edition in mid December, my spirit gets caught up in the excitement of setting new resolutions for the upcoming year while looking forward to more adventures. At the same time, it’s also the perfect opportunity to review and reflect on the past twelve months to see how well I’ve done with the resolutions I set way back in January. Oops, that’s where reality collides with my hopes and dreams.

Apparently, I’m not alone. According to the research of a popular website; every year, 100 million Americans set resolutions and four out of five will eventually break our promises. Worse still, one third of us will give up before the end of January…ugh!

As I reflected on this past year; however, I was shocked when I realized that I had kept my resolution. Actually, I made two resolutions last year, one for myself and one for my wife Diana and they both came true! My goal for 2012 was to simplify my life and my business while either maintaining or increasing my net profit. My other goal was to help my wife improve her health and vitality, but after the first eight months, those prospects looked extremely bleak as her health gradually worsened as the year dragged on. Then suddenly, a miracle happened when she was rushed to the emergency room. During an amazing 10 day stay in

the hospital at Mercy San Juan, she had a large cancerous tumor removed and now feels healthier and better than she has in years!

When I reflect back on all the other resolutions I’ve set and broken, a common pattern emerges. Before last year, I was overly ambitious by setting too many resolutions. Over time, I lost focus and gave up on them all.

If you are a master at multi-tasking and have had success keeping all your New Years resultions, keep up the great work! If you’re like me; however, you have my deepest sympathies! In all seriousness, don’t dispair if you haven’t had the best track record keeping resolutions. Resolve to set only one resolution this year and stay on top of it until the bitter end, the end of the year that is!

The best question to ask yourself is this: What’s the one single thing I can change that will create a better life for myself and the people I love. Once you’ve answered that question, be sure to write it down and review it every day. If you really want to succeed, make sure your resolution is something you’re truly excited about and you’re willing to share it with others. If they support you great, recruit them to cheer you on. If they don’t, no worries. Use their lack of belief in you as fuel to prove them wrong!

This year, I have one resolution: TO BE THE BEST ME THAT I CAN BE…FROM THE INSIDE OUT! What does that mean? Each month, like me hero Benjamin Franklin (You know, the dude with the 18th century mullet that flew kites in the rain), I’m going to resolve to work on one character trait each month. But instead of a random trait, I’m selecting a trait that represents each month of the year. For the month of January, I’ll be challenging myself to get off to a great start each day by focusing on something to be genuinely enthusiastic about. As for the other character traits for the remaining 11 months? Great question, I will have to resolve to make that decision before February arrives!

Bob Cox is the founder and publisher of Go For It Magazine. He can be reached by phone at (916) 266-3115. His email address is [email protected]. Go For It Magazine is owned and operated in Rancho Cordova, CA. Copyright © 2013.

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New Year’s is generally a happy time and a great time to start doing something new, exciting and beneficial to the quality of your life. Most of us make New Year’s resolutions but many times we forget about them soon after. So, what should we do to increase our rate of success? Let’s start by writing them down by priority and be realistic with our goals. Write your goals in bold letters so you can see them and stay motivated. Let’s keep our list short, maybe start with two to five resolutions.

New Year’s resolutions may be about our current health, career, job, education, marriage, etc. When writing your goals, be specific about them. Don’t just write, “I want to lose weight.” Write the details and be realistic. For example, say “I’ll take a 30 minute walk every other day,” “I’ll buy and cook vegetables every day,” I’ll learn how to cook healthy and delicious food at least once a week.”

Here are the Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions of 2012, accordingly to the “2012Resolutions.org” 1. Be more productive.2. Organize my things. 3. Boost my confidence. 4. Start a business or get a stable job. 5. Be more friendly and approachable. 6. Learn how to cook. 7. Quit smoking. 8. Shift from alcohol to healthy drinks. 9. Be a vegetarian for a month. 10. Share knowledge with others.

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Car Tech TalkMaintenance Really Pays Off

The time of year is upon us, temperatures suddenly drop into the 20’s or even low teens at night. The unfortunate side affect is the failure of plastic radiators and overflow tanks. The operating temperature of the engine remains fairly constant. The big difference is the much lower temperature that the system starts out at.

When the temperature is low, the components shrink in size much more than normal. This temperature differential increases the amount of expansion. This expansion causes stress in the tanks and overflow container. After about 80k miles, this stress will cause the plastic to tear. Unlike metal, which tends to fail over time, the plastic fails more dramatically, usually with little to no warning. We recommend replacement of the parts as a preventative measure at 80k miles. Most of our customers are very savvy and have read about maintaining these items rather than perform a break fix which can be much costlier. These costs include tow fees, loss of work, or worse, destroying an engine!

Plastic is a layman’s term I use; the real material is a DuPont PA66-G33F fiber reinforced nylon. With the advent of superior hose material, plastic radiators and coolant formulations. Gone are the days of rusty cooling systems and blown hoses. The tradeoff for all this joy is what we deal with today. A cooling system, if cared for properly, will be trouble free for approximately 6 or 7 years. As cars become more high tech, both in materials and design, the maintenance needs change.

BMW’s or German built cars are maintenance cars. They are designed to last for 400k to 500k miles, mostly unheard of with domestic and Japanese cars. Maintenance schedules are aimed at keeping the support components like cooling, brake and other systems from failing. In Europe, cars are kept much longer than in the U.S. It is

not uncommon for us to have customers with over 250k to 400k miles on a BMW.

It is difficult to convince an American consumer that it is worth keeping a BMW over 200k miles. We are bombarded with domestic auto manufacturers telling us our 2 or 3 year old car isn’t cool anymore. They even entice us to trade in, even if it means we roll our debt into the new car. Ever heard this on TV? “Are you tired of that old car?” or “Sick of making payments on an old car?” Car loans are typically less than 5 years, so how can you be paying on an “old” car? The average length of ownership in the U.S. is approximately 5 years. There are now reports that people are keeping cars longer due to the downturn in the economy. Compared to Austria where 52% of the cars are German built, their average is 12.5 years, or over twice as long.

Simply amortizing the cost of the car over twice the amount of years will show a drastic savings. One report found that by simply keeping your car and additional 2.5 years over the national average will result in savings. If you buy a car designed to last a long time, your savings are even greater.

The simple answer is the same for any purchase. Buy the best quality you can afford, maintain it properly and over time you will have saved money. For me, this means buy a BMW, follow the manufacturer’s recommendations and you’ll drive a car you can be proud of and put a little extra in the bank too.

Editor’s notes: Walter Ford is the owner of Valley Motorwerks. He can be reached at his shop, which is located at 11401 White Rock Road in Rancho Cordova, CA. His phone number is (916) 636-9526 and his website is www.vmwerks.com.

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Most of us remember a time when a phone was only used for making calls and technology was something that only engineers had to deal with. Now phones are “smart” and tech-stuff isn’t just for geeks anymore...

There are a few of the early adopters and the “Net Gen-eration” who embrace everything new, stand in line for the next tech release, and relish in the evolution of all things tech. But for the rest of us, it all changes too fast for us to keep up and we of-ten find ourselves overwhelmed and frustrated. One entrepreneur told me she doesn’t necessarily need to reach the top of the summit, but just needs a “toehold in technology”.

Alvin Toffler, author of “Future Shock”, said:“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write,

but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” The challenge now becomes we not only have to learn something new, but

we have to unlearn something old like habits and preconceived ideas (“I’ve always done it this way...”). But the motivation is, if we ignore the need to learn, we may be missing out on tools we can use to our advantage to help our personal produc-tivity, our professional profitability, and community connectivity. In short, learning a few new tricks may save an “old dog” some TIME & MONEY!

Because I personally am on a mission to gain a toehold in technology (and a leg up) we are launching a meet-up group and website to serve as a resource. What’s more, we plan to have fun learning and supporting each other. Learn more at BobsPocket.com.

So if it’s GEEK to you now, you know what they say... “When in Rome...” (no, wait, rephrase that.) When in a techy world, learn to speak the language (or at least pick up some key phrases).

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Camerata California Concert: Saturday, January 5, 2012, 7 pmSacramento’s premier Chamber Chorus will perform, La Posada at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament. This Mexican tradition of celebrating Epiphany will feature Misa Criolla and Navidad Nuestra by Ariel Ramierez plus Carols and Lullabies by Conrad Susa. Conductor, Peter Nowlen on the faculty at UC Davis and Sacramento State University.

Tickets: $22, Seniors $20, Students $10 and under age 18 FREE.

Art by the Sacramento Rivers: 2013 Northern California Arts Workshops Join us for a workshop with some of the top artist/instruc-tors throughout the United States. We are opening with Frank Webb, internationally known artist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Lian Zhen will be teaching Chinese Painting.

Chris Van Winkle from San Luis Obispo will be taking you out to do plein aire painting in oil or whatever media you chose. Steve Memering, very popu-lar local artist, will be teaching you “Painting Koi with Modern Acrylics.” Lynn Forbes from Carlsbad, California to teach a “Live Figurative Sculpture” workshop. Our own, David Peterson, will be leading his “Watercolor Painting Outdoors Fast and Loose.”

CLICKS exhibit of Photography and Digital Art by Rancho Cordova Artists on display through January 31 at Rancho Cordova City Hall.

Visit www.CommunityArtsAlliance.com for more details.

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The hottest new online radio network is broadcast right here in Sacramento and it’s called 1musicnetwork.com. 1musicnetwork.com has 18 separate music stations and one station that offers the best in talk radio called Today’s Talk. Today’s Talk is a channel that houses 18 independent talk shows. These shows are very fresh, unique and exciting.

How do the shows on Today’s Talk compare to other radio shows? They are completely different from traditional talk radio, where you have some of the nationally known talk hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Michael Savage. This is a talk channel that features independent shows that are being done by people that are knowledgeable in the particular show topic they’re covering. For instance, we have a love and relationships expert named Joey Garcia. She also writes a column in the Sacramento News & Review and she’s been offering advice on love and relationships for 13 years.

We have many other talk show hosts that cover a wide spectrum of different topics, including motivation, health and fitness (two shows), and

as to why a negative event happened and how to prevent it from happening again. So, it’s a positive approach instead of screaming at someone like

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How does one listen to our talk shows? If you’re on a smart phone, download the Radio Loyalty app, scroll down and press the Today’s Talk tab. If you’re on a computer, type in 1musicnetwork.com, go to the top of our

home page and press the Today’s Talk tab. From there, you will see a complete lineup of every host that’s on the channel, which also includes the times and titles of each show. Today’s Talk on 1musicnetwork.com offers our listeners a non-traditional approach to radio programming, so we welcome you to tune in, experience the positive difference and enjoy!

Editor’s notes: Don Alias is the C.E.O. of 1musicnetwork.com. He can be reached by phone at (916) 879-1939 or email at [email protected].

even a vitamin show. These are all actual shows that are a part of our network on Today’s Talk. These shows are all hosted by specialists in their field. So, each and every week, it’s a different topic, so when you tune in, you’re hearing about how to better your life, learn the dos and don’ts of owning a business, and hear other things of that nature. So, Today’s Talk is really a self improvement and knowledge channel.

While our shows are positive based, some of our shows are also topical and controversial. We have two motivational shows, one called Elements and the other called

More Truth Than You Can Handle. These shows do dip into the controversial topics of the day, but Berry Accius (the show’s host) is a motivational speaker, so he takes the negative from the media coverage and turns it into a positive by offering insights and solutions. He also explores ideas

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