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A Summertime Family Tradition: Night of Fire

Spirit of '76, Robosaurus, Jet Cars, and Fireworks

Fourth of July weekend is quickly approaching and many of you have decided to stay in Las Vegas instead of travel. I have been one of the many that chooses to stay home and enjoy the events available around my community. One of the biggest events is the Independence Day Jubilee at Seastrand Park in North Las Vegas. Every year the City of North Las Vegas holds an big event that includes food, music, a firework show and this year isn't any different.

However, I have recently come across an event worth sharing and hopefully you too will be out there to celebrate the Fourth of July. The Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway will host its annual Night of Fire event. The event will be held Sunday, July 3rd and will feature some of the most exciting west coast racing in the circuit. During my internship I've had to create Facebook events and written up scripts for This Week at LVMS, our small broadcast. I didn't realize how big this event was until I recently found out that there would be a 40-foot,  fire-breathing, car-crushing, mechanical dinosaur named Robosaurus. Now if that's not exciting, I don't know what is.

This is just one of the many highlights of the night. A few other events going on that night include a 50/50 raffle to benefit the children of southern Nevada, a 76-lap Super Late Model feature, Jet Car burn, and one of the biggest firework displays ever. For more information you can read the press  release at lvms.com.

Come out for a night of fun at The Bullring

I've had the opportunity to go to a few events at The Bullring and even if you don't like NASCAR there is so much more going on and it's just a great way to have good time in your own community. Many locals don't take advantage of these events that go on in the comfort of their own homes. This is one event that you wont want to miss. Join me this Sunday, July 3rd at The Bullring to celebrate Independence Day and while you're out there enjoy a dollar hot dog and a dollar beer.

Facebook’s Forever Changing Privacy Settings

I’m sure that many people have heard, “be careful what you post on Facebook,” and other social networking sites alike.  In this day and age, employers are not hesitating to turn to Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, etc. to look over the profiles of their potential employees.  Some people do not want to believe this, but as one of my old mentors said, “your generation is Facebooking your opportunities away.”  I, in no way, am condoning that you hide things, other than personal information, but there are many different privacy settings available that some people may or may not know about.

My Facebook after tampering with the privacy settings.

Facebook is constantly changing their privacy settings.  Everytime I seem to have my page completely locked up, they change something else that I have to hear about someone protesting in the news.

Most recently, I found out how to disable your name from turning up in all search engines, as far as Facebook is concerned.  In my playing around, I also found out that some of my information that I thought I had blocked from people who are not my friends was still visible to them.  They added on new settings that require you to individually go in and set who can or can’t see your status updates, wall posts, picture albums, things you like, etc.  I could go on forever!  One instance, I found out that because I had logged into Facebook from my cell phone, it automatically posted my number on my page.  Despite my disabling the phone number setting, I had to manually go in and delete my number.

I’ve seen how-to article after how-to article on how to properly set your privacy settings, but they seem to get more complicated with the constant upgrades and add-ons to the site. I never knew that protecting yourself could be so hard!

Hopefully my YouTube video can help you better understand how to keep your personal information just that – personal.