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Update: My post below created a great deal of discussion about Twitter Auto DMs and whether they are welcome and worthwhile or unwelcome and damaging to senders' reputations. Because of the diversity of opinion, I created a brief 10-question survey and invite you to complete the survey and then share it with your followers on Twitter. The survey should take less than 3 or 4 minutes to complete, so please visit: http://blogs.forrester.com/augie_ray/10-11-02-please_complete_a_brief_su... or http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CFSTQ3D. I'll share all of the data here on the Forrester blogs in a week or two!
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Posted by Augie Ray on October 25, 2010
Rewarding people for "liking" a brand on Facebook has created some eye-popping headlines. Bing offered FarmVille players three units of "Farm Cash" for friending the search engine on Facebook, and the outcome was 400,000 new fans in a day. Einstein Bagels offered a free bagel to new fans and increased its fan count from 4,700 to near 350,000 in three days. It's hard to argue with success, but could tactics like these come back to haunt brands as the next generation of search evolves in the coming years?
Bing recently launched a new social feature on its search engine. If you're logged into Facebook when you conduct a search on Bing, you will see specially highlighted search results of links or brands that your Facebook friends have liked. The "Liked Results" feature makes sense--it's as if your friends are beside you as you search and chiming in with their personal recommendations.
Facebook owns spectacular portions of its users' time and has the right to use their data; this is the basis for Facebook's significant revenue potential and is a great reason why we should hold Facebook and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, to very high standards. But Facebook's success is not nearly sufficient cause for the level of demonization that occurs today in popular media and among social media insiders. Facebook deserves the scrutiny it receives, but the excessive reputational lynching that is underway could result in outcomes that are contrary to the interests of both consumers and marketers.
How bad has the Facebook scaremongering gotten today? I opened my latest issue of Maxim to find "The 12 Most Dangerous Men in the World: Meet the Dirty Dozen who very well could be the last people you see before you die." And there, stuck between the Mexican drug lord who uses severed heads as a warning to rivals and the Jamaican drug lord responsible for street battles, is Mark Zuckerberg. To be fair, the magazine was being comical, citing as a threat "annoying people from your past 'friending' you" and including Brian Austin Green in the same list; still the casual and easily accepted association between Facebook and evil is not without repercussions.
Posted by Augie Ray on October 13, 2010
Today's Bing news is very interesting, not because the new functionality that Microsoft and Facebook announced is terribly powerful, but because it demonstrates how the next great evolution of search will occur. In brief, Bing announced two new ways it is introducing social data into its search results:
Posted by Augie Ray on October 7, 2010
Yesterday Facebook released new tools to help improve users' control of Facebook sharing and data. The reaction to these new tools has been generally very positive (and, in my opinion, deservedly so). But there's been some interesting buzz among social media gurus, particularly about problems with the new Facebook Groups functionality. These gripes seem to be based less on a consideration of how the average consumer will use Groups than on a set of use cases and problems unique to social media professionals. In short, I worry social media specialists are making the classic mistake that trips up marketers time and again: You are not the target market!
I believe there are three reasons that social media professionals may end up judging new tools based on their biases and not upon the potential use and adoption by the average consumer. These reasons are:
Posted by Augie Ray on October 6, 2010
Welcome to the new Facebook. No, I don't mean Facebook the social network, although today's changes do represent some exciting new capabilities for Facebook users. Instead, I mean Facebook the company. The organization that today announced new features seems a different Facebook than the one we've seen in the past. Today's Facebook is one committed to transparency and user control and mindful of its increasingly vital and high-profile position within people's communications and lives.
By now you may have heard of (or seen) the new features Facebook announced at its press event this morning. Here is a brief summary:
Posted by Augie Ray on October 5, 2010
Barring any unforeseen technical difficulties, I'll be livetweeting from the Facebook press event tomorrow, October 6, 2010. Facebook hasn't said what the event is about, but speculation is circulating about a Skype integration, an evite-like event feature, Facebook credits or enhanced social gaming.
If you're curious, follow me on Twitter (@augieray) or watch the widget below for a live feed of tweets from Facebook in Palo Alto, Calif. The event is scheduled to begin at 10:30 am PDT/1:30 pm PDT.
If the widget below doesn't update, come join me on Twitter.
Posted by Nate Elliott on October 5, 2010
Something amazing has happened to social media in the past couple of years: Overall adoption of social technologies has effectively reached saturation. We're now at the point where more than 80% of US online users engage with social media - and although there's been some hand-wringing over the fact social media adoption has plateaued at that level, let's keep things in perspective: 80% engage with social media! That's as many people as own a DVD player or use SMS.
This kind of scale gives marketers the potential to generate reach through social media. Sure, it's a new and unfamiliar kind of reach for many marketers - rather than just shouting uniform messages at millions of people, they must engage directly with their audiences and then hope those audiences turn around and talk to and influence millions more users. But as we've proven, this new model of reach can also provide the same kind of massive scale that the old reach models did: Just a tiny handful of Mass Connectors will create 256 billion influence impressions in the US this year.
Posted by Augie Ray on October 2, 2010
After months of anticipation and speculation, The Social Network has finally arrived in theaters. In advance of the opening, many people wondered "could (the) film affect Facebook's brand?" and it was said that "inside Facebook, they think the movie will not be good for Mark's image, and that worries them." It is easy to understand these questions and concerns considering how Mark Zuckerberg and the early days of Facebook are portrayed in the film, but having seen it for myself, my strong belief is that The Social Network will have no impact on people's perception of Facebook.
In many ways, The Social Network is as much about Facebook as Titanic is about the White Star Line. Certain aspects of the film's fact-based but fictionalized plot may reflect badly on Facebook in a vague sort of way, but as with any great movie (and The Social Network is a great movie), the viewer is swept up in the human emotion of the story. In a world filled with real-life cautionary social media horror stories of people losing their jobs, their marriages or their lives, the tale of how a few geeks and freaks got caught up in an entrepreneurial frenzy, cheated each other, and destroyed their friendships is hardly an indictment of Facebook.


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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist tells the story of the self-made billionaire who built the Kendall-Jackson empire from nothing into the biggest-selling brand of premium wines in the U.S.
Jess Stonestreet Jackson was one of a small band of pioneering entrepreneurs who put California's wine country on the map. His life story is a compelling slice of history, daring, innovation, feuds, intrigue, talent, mystique, contrarianism, and luck, offering a unique window on the elegant, adventurous, and cut-throat worlds of Jackson's two passions: wine and horseracing. Time after time his decisions would be ignored, derided, then finally envied and imitated, as whole industries watched him become a billionaire and tried to keep up. He reinvented himself at mid-life, and became founder and CEO of Kendall-Jackson. The empire he constructed endures and thrives even after his death in 2011. In A Man and His Mountain, Edward Humes brings us the no-holds-barred tale of the brilliant, infuriating, successful man who seemed to win more than his share by staying far ahead of the pack.
©2013 Edward Humes (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
"Yikes! Not what I was expecting!"
A different writer and a different narrator for starters.
The gentleman is quite likely a good narrator, just not for this book. My judgement is that Mr. Foster's voice and reading style would be better suited for children's books. I'm finding it difficult to continue listening.
I wouldn't cut any character from A Man and His Mountain.
I'd just like to say that I am a member of the KJ wine club. I enjoy the welcoming facility, the staff and the wine. Further, I very much enjoy books about wine history, particularly those related to the Napa/Sonoma area. Having recently listened to The Judgement of Paris, Gallo Be Thy Name, The Billionaire's Vinegar and The House of Mondavi, I was anxious to hear about Mr. Jackson's contribution(s) to the area. Unfortunately, for me, the audio book came across as more of a eulogistic oratory, with only one goal in mind, namely, to make sure that the audience knows what a superhero Mr. Jackson was. My feeling after 4 chapters is disappointment. I'm not sure that I can continue listening to what I feel is likely an oversensationalized depiction of Mr. Jackson's contributions to the development of California's best known counties. Finally, I feel that the KJ staff at Santa Rosa provides a much more believable account of Mr. Jackson than A Man and His Mountain.
"Required listening for any wine maker"
Wonderful, inspirational story. Thank you, Jess Jackson, for motivating us to go beyond our comfort zones and work hard to develop better wines and better service. As a small farmer winery, we will implement what we learned here to better serve our customers.
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"Vanity published?"
I'd like to know what happened to his first wife. This man appears to have been ruthless. Also, the reader mispronounced "St. Helena" it was grating. We finished the book anyway. Donald Trump would be jealous of his "big hands" - that was mentioned often enough!
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The popular photo sharing website Flickr has taken down the original version of the now famous Obama Joker poster that's been sweeping the nation.
Apparently, management is concerned about a copyright infringement issue due to the appearance of the Time magazine logo in Firas Alkhateeb's parody that ended up being reprinted with the word "Socialism" at the bottom.
Oddly, a quick search of Flickr identified a number of Bush parodies with Time's logo present (vulgarity alert below the fold).
As such, one has to wonder if Flickr's decision is actually censorship. According to Read Write Web (h/t Ken Shepherd):
In a recent L.A. Times profile on Alkhateeb, it's reported that the photo generated over 20,000 pageviews during the time it was hosted on the photo-sharing website Flickr.com. However, as of last Friday, Flickr removed the photo from their site. Why? Alkhateeb says he received an email from the company stating it had to be taken down due to "copyright infringement concerns." (Apparently, TIME magazine wasn't too happy seeing their brand associated with this sort of political commentary.)
But isn't this sort of political commentary, political parody in fact, protected as a form of free speech? Noted photographer and blogger Thomas Hawk thinks it is, citing a precedent for fair use (Folsom v Marsh) which states "if you produce something that is transformative, and not derivative, then it's fair use." Although Hawk isn't a lawyer, he may be right on this one. Says Corynne McSherry, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit that defends digital rights, Alkhateeb has a strong fair use defense if he was ever sued. "You really want to think twice about going after a political commenter," she noted.
Yet, a quick search of Flickr found the following:
And this (pardon the vulgarity):
And this:
Why wasn't Flickr or Time concerned with copyright issues involving these parodies?
Not surprisingly, this isn't the first time Flickr came to Barack Obama's defense:
Hawk also blogged about how the site deleted the account of a user named Shepherd Johnson after he made critical comments about Obama in the Official White House Photostream back in June.
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The supposed visit by Princess Diana's spirit to Chinese tourists in Scotland, revealed last week, was a timely apparition: ghosts are gearing up to make their presence felt this year, thanks to a succession of high-profile new books, films and cultural shows.
On Tuesday, Daniel Radcliffe will attend the premiere of The Woman in Black, an adaptation of Susan Hill's chilling novel. It is the first feature ghost story from the legendary British Hammer film studio. The West End adaptation of the book is enjoying its strongest advance sales since it opened 23 years ago.
Well-known literary figures are now turning to the genre for the first time: Helen Dunmore's ghost story The Greatcoat is being released next month through Hammer's publishing imprint. Eloise, the debut novel by Judy Finnigan – of the Richard & Judy Book Club – is being released by Sphere in October. Catherine Burke, the editorial director of Sphere, said there was a "surge of interest from readers" in ghost stories, and agents were receiving more submissions in the genre. With high-profile releases expected to be popular this year, she predicts we will see even more ghost stories in 2013.
The current interest coincides with the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of the genre's most famous proponents, M R James, whose ghost stories were recently re-released; and the British Library's exhibition "A Hankering after Ghosts: Charles Dickens and the Supernatural", which marks the bicentenary of Charles Dickens and remains open until March. Michael Joseph is re-releasing Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories next month, while Radio 4 is airing a dramatisation of Wilkie Collins's The Haunted Hotel in May.
The Turn of the Screw
NI Opera is taking its new production of Benjamin Britten's work, based on Henry James's classic ghost story, to four locations across Northern Ireland in March and to the Buxton Festival, Derbyshire, in July. The opera is being directed by Oliver Mears and conducted by Nicholas Chalmers, who were behind the company's debut production, a site-specific Tosca, last year.
The Apparition
Not to be outdone by Daniel Radcliffe, Tom Felton, who played Harry Potter's school rival Draco Malfoy, will appear in Todd Lincoln's flick, due to be released later this year. The Brit, who plays an expert on the supernatural, stars alongside Ashley Greene, best- known for playing Alice Cullen in the film adaptations of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novels.
You Came Back
Named by Granta as one of America's 20 best young writers in 2007, following the release of his book of short stories in 2005, Christopher Coake has chosen a ghostly theme for his debut novel. Dubbed "a modern day The Lovely Bones" by its publisher, the book – which is published in June – explores bereavement and the difficulty of letting go.
The Greatcoat
The first ghost story from the Orange Prize-winner Helen Dunmore, released next month, is the first original title under the Hammer literary imprint. The memory of sleeping under her father's RAF coat on a cold night with her sister as a child helped to inspire the novella. In the story, Dunmore says, "it is the object that becomes a subject almost".
Ghost: The Musical
Despite receiving a mixed reception from the critics, Ghost: The Musical is a hit with audiences. The show, which has been adapted from the 1990 Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore film, has been seen by almost a third of a million people in the West End since June last year. It opens on Broadway on 23 April and then in Melbourne, Australia, in August next year.
The television presenter and Richard & Judy Book Club champion Judy Finnigan has chosen a ghost story for her debut novel, which is released in October. Set in Cornwall, the book tells the tale of Cathy, who starts to have unsettling dreams which suggest that the death of her best friend Eloise from breast cancer was not all it seemed.
The Woman in Black
Susan Hill's chilling story is already a successful stage show, and now we have the film. Daniel Radcliffe plays lawyer Arthur Kipps next month in his first big-screen outing since last year's final instalment of Harry Potter. The film, which charts Kipps's visit to a remote village, is the legendary British studio Hammer's first feature ghost story.
Being Human
BBC3's award-winning comedy drama returns for a fourth series this year, following the exploits of twentysomething housemates living in a former B&B in Barry Island, South Wales. So far, so normal, except Annie (played by Lenora Crichlow) is a ghost and her housemate George and their new friend are werewolves. And they have to deal with vampires.
The Secret of Crickley Hall
The BBC's controller of drama, Ben Stephenson, announced earlier this month that BBC1 will spook viewers this Halloween with its adaptation of James Herbert's bestselling ghost story. The haunted house tale, which will be told across three hour-long episodes, is being written and directed by Joe Ahearne, best known for working on Doctor Who and This Life.
Ghost tours
English Heritage has upped the number of ghost tours at its historic sites for 2012 and is running twilight visits between January and March for the first time, rather than just at Halloween, to satisfy public demand. The spooky experiences, which take place at properties including Pendennis Castle, Cornwall, and Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, range from the family-friendly to the scarier adult-only.Reuse content


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June 6,7 & 8, 2014 have been designated as FREE fishing days in Virginia. No fishing license of any kind will be required for rod and reel fishing in freshwater or saltwater,except in designated stocked trout waters, onthese days.
Saturday, though out the state there will be Free fishing events for kids.
Who taking a kid fishing tomorrow?


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Just some food for thought....
I like you, for a long time had been looking for a good used trailer on the cheap, but like you, I wanted certain things that are VERY hard to find in a trailer:
-10k or better axles
-electric brakes on both axles
-easily serviceable bearings/brakes
-drive over fenders
-8' or wider deck, with deck "outriggers" in front of and behind the fenders, extending the deck to full width, without going deckover
something like these....
Well I looked and looked and looked...and after a year.....I'd found NOTHING in my price range. Finally, last September I found this bad boy for $300.00
It wasn't much when I got it, and it's still in the process of me repairing it and fixing it up, but it's getting there. For the price I paid, I didn't do too shabby. I'm gonna keep the older mobile home style donut rim style hubs, rims and tires. My father and I have had 3 trailers in the past with these and have never had a problem as long as the tire is clamped even and tight.
Here is my list of what I want to do to it to get it ready to haul:
-extend the frame out to a full 8' like the pics I showed you above with drive over fenders
-If I can find lumber at a decent price, I might go ahead and put a new 2x6 treated tongue and groove deck on it.
-new wiring/tail lights and marker lights
-new seals and bearings
-update the brakes so they are actually serviceable unlike the welded on backing plates I have
-new jack for the front
-dual spare tires
-build stake pockets and 3' tall side racks for hauling dirt/firewood
-possibly new paint
-mount toolbox to front of tongue
-winch on front
The reason I am sharing all of this is because it might be something you might want to consider. You can find older SOLID frames and rollers that need work that have these axles for CHEAP. You might have to dump $500 or so into what you want, as I am, but you'll end up with EXACTALY what you want in the end.
Just my $$0.02
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Amon Lanc, the Naked Hill, was a hill in the southern parts of Greenwood the Great. After a millennium of the Third Age had passed, Sauron came to Amon Lanc and built a stronghold there. The hill and fortress were then together called Dol Guldur, and the wood it which it stood became known as Mirkwood.[1]
Amon Lanc is a Sindarin name, consisting of amon ("hill") + lanc ("naked").[1]


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I was wondering if a nose filler help fix a blunt nose tip? I am relatively happy with the straightness and height of my nose, but I would really like... READ MORE
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Hello, i have been thinking of rhinoplasty for quite some time -- but since i only want to change my nose minimally (raise the tip, and reduce bump a... READ MORE
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I am an Asian patient with a slightly short nasal tip. Would it be possible to add a bit more projection and definition to my nose using products such... READ MORE
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I'm 16 and wondering if I would be a good candidate for a nonsurgical rhinoplasty. I am looking to possibly make the slight appearance of a thinner... READ MORE
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Is fillers safe ...ive been wanting to do fillers to define my nose tip a little bit but im afraid.. Is it gonna be sensetive like rhinosphy?? What is... READ MORE
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To state the obvious, there are few more significant statutory interventions than the use of compulsory powers under the Mental Health Act, and one concerning trend in the last couple of years has been the rising use of these powers.
All of this means that how information is collected in relation to the use of these powers is of vital importance, so it's worth putting away any aversion to statistics and responding to a consultation on this topic from the NHS Information Centre.
This is looking at the case for scrapping the existing standalone data collection on Mental Health Act powers (or KP90 to its friends) and instead collecting this information instead through the Mental Health Minimum Dataset (MHMD), which collects a host of other data about the use of specialist mental healthcare.
As I understand it, the key advantages of the change are:-
- Better information about the care pathways taken by people detained under the Act or placed on community treatment orders and about how long people are detained. Information on this could help improve the commissioning and design of services in local areas.
- Breaking down the use of compulsory powers under the Act by employment status, diagnosis and, crucially, ethnicity, rather than just gender, as the KP90 collection currently does.
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Denilson comes straight back into the Arsenal starting line-up for today's clash with Hull City at Emirates Stadium.
The Brazilian midfielder missed the trip to Burnley with a back injury but returns to the starting XI in place of the injured Cesc Fabregas.
Arsène Wenger has made two other changes to the side that draw 1-1 at Turf Moor in midweek, brining in Emmanuel Eboue and Eduardo with Bacary Sagna and Theo Walcott dropping to the bench.
With usual captain Fabregas ruled out due to a hamstring injury, goalkeeper Manuel Almunia will lead the team against Phil Brown's side.
Arsenal team in full: Almunia (c), Eboue, Gallas, Vermaelen, Silvestre, Song, Diaby, Denilson, Nasri, Arshavin, Eduardo
Substitutes: Fabianski, Sagna, Ramsey, Wilshere, Walcott, Emmanuel-Thomas, Vela


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So i noticed that some of the WRX wagons have some additional body moldings on them and some don't. Like this one NO MOLDING:
and then theres this one WITH A MOLDING
Impreza + WRX STi Body Side Molding Protection 2008-2014, SubaruGenuineParts.com
Now theres a body molding half way on the door on the above link. Is that a model issue or difference between base/premium/limited? And how difficult would it be to remove? I have that additional molding on my car and the more i see it the less i like it.


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Siggav - My Rio 180 (56k)
Right so I decided I wanted to have a thread tank journal thing for my tank. Right now this is the only tank I'm running. I upgraded from a 29g tank to this one just over 2 years ago.
The tank is a juwel rio 180, 40" by 16" and 20" tall. 48 gallons of water or so in it. Still just use the filter that came with it, I've always been understocked so that's not really been an issue. I'm starting to come closer to full stocking so we'll see a bit how that goes
No Co2, barely dose fertilisers either, root tabs, substrate is fine gravel and sand with laterite.
I've always kept plants in that low tech low stakes sort of way but recently wanted to try to aquascape it more and make it prettier. This is what it looked like before I started messing with it:
Then I got a nice piece of redmoor root several months back and finally actually went and put it into the tank and moved plants around just a few days ago. I've also added 12 penguin tetras and 3 otos fairly recently
Current state of tank:
Vallisneria, don't know what type, it gets very long and sends out runners like crazy
Crypt of some sort, wendtii?
Java fern
anubias nana in the corner
1 pearl gourami
5 neon tetras
2 cherry barbs
12 penguin tetras
2 sterbai cories
3 otos
Lights are just the default 2 x 45w T5 that came with the tank, don't have a reflector in atm and still no Co2 or any real fert dosing. Basically all very low tech. I still need to throw out a bunch of vallisneria regularly though.
Im still getting used to the penguin tetras, they took to the tank very well but they fight a lot with each other. Lots of movement from them though and activity and they don't really seem worse for wear with all the scrapping.
Btw took the first photo with my phone, don't really know why the colour balance got so green, should be the same colour on the background in all the shots.
Any advice on aquascape or plants? I want to stay low tech but I could start fertilising etc if I have to. I think the extra bioload from the tetras will probably be a bit extra for the plants so was planning on just waiting and see how things go in the next couple of months before making any changes. I'm fine with slow growth as long as the tank looks pretty.
Tank looks very good, normal activity for the Tetras.
Added 4 german blue rams, we'll see how they'll go in the tank. I've wanted dwarf cichlids for ages and decided to just go for it.
They're absolutely lovely so far, two youtube clips of the tank one slightly older one, pre rams and then with them
It's fun watching them explore the tank, and with that addition my stocking is completely done, if I want to tinker more it'll be plants.
Absolutely gorgeous little fish
love the tank german blue rams look awesome! i have a pare my of german blues myself!
More and better photos of the fish, the crypts and anubias are doing really well though, extra crypts turning up and all of them are putting up new leaves and there's been like 4 new leaves on the anubias in the last 2 weeks which is pretty good going for it really.
These two have paired up and they've been getting pretty possessive over a corner of the tank. I'm not in a position to raise any eggs but it's nice to watch them interact though
Paired male on his own
Sparring with the other guy
Other guy on his own
Updated FTS
I had to moderately wreck the aquascape a bit to put in more breakers of line of sight and stuff into the tank. Also in that shot some cucumber and zuccini and lettuce for my otos, Im not sure I have enough of the right type of algae to feed them just from the tank so I'm playing it safe.
The second female I have of the GBRs is being bullied somewhat by the others right now. She's not gone into hiding and she eats well still but her colour is paler than the others and they all chase her around a fair bit and she has a small wound on one side.
She also has a bit of a defect where a part of her gillcover is missing. She was like that when I got her and I didn't have heart to take her back to the LFS. It doesn't seem to affect her and she was bullying my currently single male a few days ago. The drama never stops with these fish.
Anyway here's her:
Came home to a dead pearl gourami and oto. Pearl gourami had had a growth at the base of her pectoral fin for a while so I guess that ended up doing her in, don't know about the oto.
Bah, it's never fun loosing fish.
I had a powder blue gourami with a similar growth. After about two weeks of him barely getting around, fins tattered and gasping at the surface I finally put him down. Weird though about the growth on the pec fin though.
Absolutely stunning tank, I really like the rescape!
Love your tank Siggav. The penguin tetras are a really nice look. It seems like they school pretty well together?
I like the val background, but I think it might look even better with some sort of backing on the glass. I myself prefer black paint. Even without it you have a very peaceful scene.
Thanks! Ive put black background on the tank before but took it off, I've gotten so used to seeing the shimmer of the lights on the wall behind the tank and getting a bit of extra light into the tank through the back that it just felt really weird and closed off to me having a solid background. I know a lot of people much prefer tanks with proper backgrounds. I might try again with a background that has a frosted glass effect that might hit the sweet spot of being more of a background while still letting light through.
The penguin tetras are fun, they school tightly when they're a bit insecure, during waterchange time or just after eating etc. at other times they'll spread out and fight amongst each other quite viciously sometimes, with scales falling off down to the bottom. I don't really understand them. They seem to be doing fine though. I have 12 which I think is a good number.
My pearl gourami was around 3 years old so not a baby but not old yet either I think. Still oh well I guess, I was sad to loose her though. I don't know if I'll get another. Maybe try an angelfish instead push the tank into something closer to a full on SA tank.
I should probably update with a new full tank shot, experimenting with a few carpeting plants so it's a bit work in progress right now, just seeing if any of them will take off or not, I'm mostly expecting not. Also got some weeping moss to tie on the driftwood
I really love the plant selection!!! Fish too!!! GBR are 1 of my favorites, and though I have never kept them the penguin tetras are FUN to watch! Sterbai Corys are VERY COOL TOO!!! I would think about putting a few more of them in the tank, as the corys really like to have a group of their own kind! Maybe 3 or better yet 5 more! I usually try to keep odd numbers of fish. I really don't know why, but I have read LOTS of Fish keeping mags and books over almost 30 years of fish keeping, and most of the writers say odd numbers work better! ??? Who Knows??? lol
I my really wanting to scape my 40B very much like this for the breeding pair of Angels I have! I still need to build a stand for my 40B though, so they are in my 55g which is more of a high tech setup with T5 HO and Pressurized Co2. Even though I have mainly Crypts in it now! lol But I want to do a peaceful low tech so the Angels will have a easy time while trying to hatch a spawn!
Anyway I hope you don't mind me borrowing from your scape! You have done a EXCELLENT JOB!!!
Keep up the awesome work, and with the great pics too!
P.S. SORRY about the loss of the Pearl and Otto! Pearls are my favorite Gourami, of the bigger Gouramis, and ottos can be tricky to get acclimated to a new home! I have lost a few myself, as have most of us! I usually buy 3 more than I am wanting in a tank to makeup for losses!
Wow thank you :D and im just really flattered that you're inpired by my tank!
I used to have 9 sterbai cories but had a tank disaster and lost most of them. Only one left now :/ he's close to 7 years old and not entirely well. Basically something happened a few months back (before rescape) and all the MTS died in a day. Still have no idea what happened. I sort of want to change out my substrate before adding more cories
More bad news, lost both of my female GBR to wounds, one had a part of her lip bitten off and the other had the wound on her side. So that's not brilliant.
The two males appear to have a truce mostly with the tank almost divided in two between them. One is more dominant over the other though but the tank is big enough and planted enough that they mostly keep out of each others way. We'll see how it goes.
I have two baby angelfish in there now as well. I know they might not get along as they grow up but they're fine for now. I went to the LFS to see if they had good looking healthy female GBR to add in but they only had small and thin ones so I didn't feel confident to get any of those. I however succumbed to the angelfish.
I should probably have thought it through a bit more but watching them makes me smile so that's something.
I loove angels. Those colors are very unique. I once only had two angels in a tank and I got them who they were about nickle size, They ended up becoming a pair. I think I was just lucky tho. But keep it up! Love the wood btw.
Yeah, I really like altums (well aware that Im not going to keep any though) so I've sort of been after striped angelfish and even though I know that's the wildform colour not seen many at all around, lots are veiltail koi etc, and I was wanting just normal fin silver ones.
Those little guys I have now are a bit extra stripy, but that's fine :) (and also the other colours of angelfish are all great, it's more that the ones Ive seen have often had wonky ventrals and huge eyes and looked abit stunted etc.)
My longer term stocking in the tank for now is:
2 german blue rams
2 angelfish (we'll see about how they get on)
12 penguin tetras
5 otos
Tank is 40" by 16" so more floor space than a standard 55g since it's wider but it's shorter.
Other fish in the tank as well right now
1 sterbai cory
3 neon tetras
2 cherry barbs
I can always move my neons into my shrimp tank if the angels start getting bigger and interested but those neons are ancient now and I'm expecting them to die off in the next few months. I used to have a school of around 12 tetras years ago and those 3 are the last survivors at this point. Same with the barbs and the cory.
I might try to change out my substrate next weekend. That'll be a lot of work.
Ok took some updated tank photos. It's a bit less clean than it was at one point but I wanted to see how a few different plants would grow so there's a bit too many plant species in there really (I tend to like a fairly minimalistic plant selection) however dealing with the val had been a pain and I gave it a big haircut. I started getting BGA problems from lack of flow I think, the surface was getting clogged with the super long valisneria leaves.
I have no idea how the one sprig of cabomba will do, it came with some shrimp I got for my nano tank and I wasn't going to put it there. Way to nice looking to just throw away though so in it goes.
The new guys
I clearly like black and silver in fish, hah
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text: Statehouse Beat: Travels with Angela Mascia By Phil Kabler November 2, 2013 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- At various times this year, the press has written about state officials commuting on the taxpayers' dime, including former DHHR acting secretary Rocco Fucillo, acting Juvenile Services director Stephanie Bond, and Workforce West Virginia assistant director Claudia George.However, one state employee puts their commuting to shame -- and unlike the others, there's no question that she has permission from her bosses for her travels.During the governor's video teleconference from the state's new European trade office at the Zurich World Trade Center in Switzerland (the state shuttered its old trade office in Munich, Germany in 2012), Commerce Secretary Keith Burdette said the Development Office initially would not staff the office with a full-time director, but said international economic development representative Angela Mascia, who participated in the trade mission, would be spending part of her time in the Zurich office.In fact, so far in calendar 2013, Mascia has wracked up $20,654 in expenses, with expenses for the October trade mission trip not yet reported to the state auditor's office.That includes previous two-week trips to Europe in April and June.While the expenses reported to the auditor show $4,383 in expenses for the April trip and $3,647 for the June trip, the actual costs were $8,048 and $9,040, with airfare and other expenses on each trip listed as "charged to agency ghost account."(The ghost account, I was informed, sounds more exotic than it really is. The state Travel Management Office has a corporate account set up with National Travel Service. Rather than bill each state agency individually, National Travel bills the Travel Management Office, which subsequently gets reimbursed by the agencies. Bottom line, those costs don't show up on the individual's expense reports.)The spring trip ran April 14-28, and including stays in Frankfurt, Germany, and Milan, Florence and Rome, Italy. Total expenses included: * $1,536 for airfare (Charleston to Frankfurt via Washington, Frankfurt to Milan, and Rome to Charleston also via D.C.)* $600 for rail fares, $500 for taxis and ground transportation, $788 for car rentals. (These figures might seem inflated, but remember, the U.S. dollar to Euro exchange rate is brutal ... )* $3,950 for lodging for 10 nights (staying exclusively at Marriotts or affiliated hotels). Mascia indicated she kept the lodging costs down by staying with family for the three nights in Naples.* $2,102 for meals. Interestingly, instead of turning in receipts, Mascia is allowed to charge the federal per-diem rate for meals set by the State Department. On this trip, the per-diem ranged from $140 in Frankfurt to $197 a day in Milan.* $1,700 for miscellaneous expenses, including baggage fees, Internet charges, laundry, guest meals, and gas for the rental car. Mascia also got reimbursed $101.50 for 14 days' long-term parking at Yeager Airport. (Wouldn't it have been cheaper for somebody from the Development Office to give her a lift to the airport?) *Mascia's June 2-16 trip included stays in Frankfort and Stuttgart, Germany, and Venice, Verona, Naples and Rome, Italy. That trip totaled $8,048, with $2,565 for airfare (in addition to flying to and from Europe, the trip included Frankfurt-Stuttgart, and Stuttgart-Venice flights), $2,068 for lodging (again, staying with family and friends while in Naples), $1,414 for meals (using federal per-diem rates ranging from $105 in Verona to $160 in Naples), and $1,500 for miscellaneous (including another $100 for long-term parking at Yeager).*Closer to home, Mascia turned in $805.11 in expenses for an overnight trip to Wheeling July 31.The biggest cost was $561 (discounted from a total tab of $713) for dinner for six "confidential clients" at The Pointe restaurant at the Wheeling Island casino.Prior to the discount, the meals cost $575, along with a sizable bar tab. That included three bottles of Ravenswood Zinfandel ($90), three martinis ($24), two Jim Beams ($12), a Jameson whisky ($8), a Macallan 12 scotch ($10), plus three beers ($12). (Now that we're all three sheets, let's talk business ... )* Unlike the governor's European trade mission, the entourage for the state Senate's trip to Taiwan is small. The only person on the Taiwanese government-sponsored trip besides Senate President Jeff Kessler, D-Marshall, Finance Chairman Roman Prezioso, D-Marion, and Sen. Bob Williams, D-Taylor, is Steve McElroy, special assistant to the president.* Finally, Keith Judd, the Texas federal prison inmate who won his 15 minutes of fame by picking up 41 percent of the vote in the state's 2012 Democratic presidential primary, recently completed his 171/2-year sentence for extortion.Don't expect a victory tour of West Virginia anytime soon, however. Seems he got pinched for a probation violation earlier this month, and has a probation revocation hearing set for Nov. 18 in federal magistrate court in Midland, Texas.Reach Phil Kabler at email@example.com or 304-348-1220. 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I have a '66 Galaxie 500 w/a 289; my cam is as follows:
Lift: .448"/.472"
Adv. Duration: 262°/272°
My car is a cruiser, I'm going to be running duals from factory manifolds & I have no plans to do any kind of racing, but I also want to get as much power out of what I have; so which one do I want to go with?
Which one "what"? Please provide as much information as possible, including what your goals are.
x pipe.. and a good set of points that not bounce.. and send the tach to the moon..
Sorry about that! X or H pipe for my dual exaust.
I hate points, that's why I have an HEI distributor.
wont make much difference on a stock engine
adding an"H" pipe is cheaper,makes it quieter and sounds better
Well, my engine's not stock. Pistons are +.030, crank is -.010, Jegs cam & lifters~ Lift: .448"/.472" Adv. Duration: 262°/272°, Comp pushrods, Comp Magnum roller tip rocker arms, Pertronix HEI distributor, MSD Helicore Wires, Edelbrock Performer intake, Edelbrock 600 CFM 4 bbl (stock intake was cast iron w/ 2 bbl), Autolite Platinum plugs with a 3" K&N air filter to top it all off. Keep in mind this car weighs around 4800 lbs. & it's a cruiser, not a bruiser.
On one hand you are saying its just a cruiser and then you want as much power as possible.......:confused:
Face the facts...its a big car. That little 289 is overworked.....If you want to go fast, you are going to need more cubes....maybe a big block
or, just be happy with what you have
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The amount of difference in power gain from an X pipe as opposed to an H pipe is negligible , unless you are up in the 5-600 horse range. Then the X might net 7-10 h orses.
Run the H. They are far cheaper, I have the Flowmaster H pipe mandrel bent system on my ride. It was like 360 bucks from summit. Worked out nice.
I would order it without mufflers if I did it again as the flowmasters are a bit droney at a certain RPM. I think the magnaflows are a better sound...like the 40 series.Or even the 40 series deltas.:thumbup:
My buddy was standing around when I drove by and he said it sounded real good with the flowmasters on it. And it sounds good at an idle and when revving in the shop, just wanted to mention the flow masters do have a little drone at certain RPMs and may or may not on your car.
I wouldn't bother with either. I don't think you'll see much difference with that heavy car. More cubes would help more than anything.
That is a very heavy car for such a small engine. My 3/4 ton truck can't weigh much if any more than that car.
Turbo or supercharge it if you want it to get out of its own way.
I appreciate all the advice & constructive criticism. I want to balance the exhaust pulses from both banks so I don't get those annoying popping sounds from my exhaust, which is why I asked the question in the first place. Again- thank you all so much for everything! :cool:
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Just run duals with glass packs in the middle & resonators on the ends! Like in the 60s the 289 with the dual grind cam would sound nostalgic look for a dual quad intake at swap meets or even new at speedway!!! Cruisers aren't supposed to be fast just look cool :thumbup:
Not much difference between the two performance wise. The h-pipe will give the classic muscle car noise, the x-pipe will give it a more modern v8 sound. It's mostly about what will fit the car and you budget, plus what sound you prefer.
Ever consider a dual in/dual out muffler? I had one and the sound was amazing. Really smooth yet muscly sound. I really liked it. I don't know how it would affect performance vs a dual muffler system though. I do believe that some sort of crossover, whether it be h or x pipe, or a dual in/out muffler will yeil better performance than a dual unbalanced system.
Nothing wrong with trying to maximize your potential. I'd go with the H-pipe and a low restriction muffler
If you dont want 'popping', don't run glasspacks on true duals without a resonator.
If you install a balance pipe; you may want to think about not welding it in solid. I helped a friend R&R his 700r4 and we had to sawzall his homemade exhaust system...He was kinda grumpy about it.
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With its 80th birthday on the calendar, Lacoste has cause to celebrate this year, and one need but glance at the anniversary window displays of the flagship store on Fifth Avenue to get a sense of the heritage. As the inventor of the first metal racket, the first tennis ball machine, and, of course, the iconic polo shirt, René Lacoste was a man who preferred to look to the future than the past, and it's a sentiment shared by the brand's current creative director Felipe Oliveira Baptista. "I wanted to take the classic fabrics that are familiar to Lacoste in this very light and technical direction," said Baptista backstage before show.
Using the simple lines of a tennis court as the overarching framework for his collection, Baptista ran trompe l'oeil inlay in architectural formation along the border of cropped pique tees and A-line skirts. There was an echo of the clean and chic 1930s blueprint set forth by the label's founder in white piping along polo shirts, which were bonded at the seams for an extra sense of weightlessness. That airy feeling continued through a series of diaphanous organza-like nylon looks, inset with graphic opaque pockets, cuffs, and collars. His clever spin on tennis white would likely appeal to any number of stylish players currently battling it out on the courts of the US Open, but it's also in line with the sun-blanched and optic white palette we've seen on the runway so far—not to mention the longer, leaner 1990s silhouette and barely there nude slip-on shoe. With his languid, minimalist sportswear, Baptista is tapping into Lacoste's history, and keeping his eye on the ball here and now too.


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Lane Adkins told OBR subscribers this morning that, barring things heading south, that WR Donte Stallworth was going to sign a contract with the Cleveland Browns. Things didn't head south, and now Stallworth will add depth to the Browns wide receiver corps.
FoxSports.com is reporting that Stallworth has signed a contract with the Cleveland Browns that includes $10 million in guaranteed money.
The addition of Stallworth adds an additional threat to the Browns group of receivers, which has been badly needed as 2007 demonstrated that neither Tim Carter or Travis Wilson appeared to be developing into the third receiver option that the Browns needed. WR/KR Josh Cribbs continued to display potential, but the team appeared to be concerned about conserving to focus on special teams.
Stallworth will help stretch the field and will be taken more seriously than Carter, which should help to open up TE Kellen Winslow underneath.As the 2007 season continued, opposing teams increasingly rolled coverage to Braylon Edwards and TE Kellen Winslow.
The additional receiving threat will help to open up the already-potent Browns offensive attack.
At the same time, Stallworth's contract should be relatively team-friendly. The six-year veteran found himself well down on the depth chart in New England, having lost his starting job to WR Jabar Gaffney during the season.
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Thirty eight years ago Irish people were marching when British soldiers began firing and when the day was over, 14 Irish citizens were dead in the city of Derry. A senior judge issued a report on Tuesday in which he concluded the murder of the marchers was "unjustified and unjustifiable." Within hours, Prime Minister David Cameron issued the first apology by a member of the British government. Cameron told Parliament, "what happened on Bloody Sunday was both unjustified and unjustifiable." and that all who died were innocent. None of those murdered were armed with firearms an no warning was given by soldiers before firing. He stated bluntly that soldiers were guilty of "losing their self control." The Sayville inquiry claimed "many of those soldiers(who testified) have knowingly put forward false accounts in order to justify their firing."
It remains unclear if any who participated in the massacre will be prosecuted. Soldiers who testified were granted immunity, but anyone who lied could be prosecuted for perjury. As far as this reporter knows, the nation of Great Britain has not collapsed because its government admitted mistakes. President Obama continues to avoid an inquiry into the invasion of Iraq which resulted in the deaths of over 4,000 Americans on grounds it would be divisive. Prime Minister Cameron apologized to his nation and to relatives of those who were murdered. Certainly, parents and wives of those who died in Iraq are entitled to a similar apology.


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Johnson said he is feeling progress in 10-minute sessions of long-toss, which he throws on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays off flat ground. He plans to stretch out to 120 feet soon and perhaps throw off a mound in late August.
"I've worked it all out in my head many times," Johnson said. "It's frustrating."
Johnson wants to return to the rotation, even if it's only for a couple of late-season starts.
"Peace of mind," Johnson said. "There are a lot people telling me it's not worth it ... make sure you're healthy for next year."
Johnson was 3-1 with a 1.64 ERA in his first nine appearances before a sore shoulder landed him on the disabled list in May.
He will have missed most of the season regardless of what happens in September.
"Throwing and feeling good is a step in the right direction," he said.
Fish Wrap
--C John Baker, who had Tommy John surgery last Sept. 2, hopes to start playing rehab games later in August and join the Marlins for a few games as a September call-up. He is hitting, catching bullpens and playing catch. He played about a week of minor league games in May before feeling pain, shutting it down and starting his rehab over.
"I probably would have done a lot more damage had I kept playing and my career probably would have been over," he said.
--Neither OF Scott Cousins nor C Buster Posey will be with their teams when the Marlins and Giants play a three-game series this weekend. It's the first series between the teams since Cousins plowed Posey on May 25, ending the Giants catcher's season. Players don't expect any lingering fallout in the series that starts Friday.
"They've had to move on, we've had to move on," said Marlins INF Greg Dobbs. "Cooler heads will prevail. That's the way it should be."
Cousins has been on the disabled list since June 14 because of a degenerative disk in his lower back, an injury not related to the collision.
--Mired in a seven-game losing streak, the Marlins had strict orders Thursday to stay away from Sun Life Stadium on the team's day off.
"I think the guys need to get away from this place," manager Jack McKeon said. "Don't even come near it. Get a little mental therapy."
--Injured CF Chris Coghlan said his lost season "has been very humbling" but he hopes to get back on the field at the end of August.
"It's one of those things where I've definitely learned a lot about listening to my body," said Coghan, the 2009 Rookie of the Year. Coghlan was hitting .230 in 65 games this season before being sent to Class AAA New Orleans. But he was shifted to the disabled list a few days later after revealing his knee was sore. He played in 11 rehab games in July before injuring his elbow.
"One thing I've learned through this whole process is not to put a day on anything because each time I have it's been kind of a letdown," Coghlan said. "I want to be back and help this team win as many games as I can. This is what I enjoy doing."
--RHP Jose Fernandez, the Marlins' top draft pick, remains unsigned as Tuesday's deadline approaches. Fernandez, taken with the 14th pick, threw a 98 mph fastball with Alonso High School in Tampa.
BY THE NUMBERS: 7 -- Consecutive losses for the Marlins after a 6-2 defeat to the Braves on Wednesday.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "Our starting pitching has got to get tough and hold them down early in the game. We cannot keep battling back with an uphill battle." -- Manager Jack McKeon, after Florida's 6-2 loss on Wednesday.


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I hava a 2003 GMC Sierra with a 4.3L V6 and it is killing me on gas. I fill up the tank and 150 miles later im at half a tank. What can I do to improve my gas mileage? Or is something wrong with some sensors or other parts? My truck has 20" rims and is stock height, and has dual electric fans, nothing fancy. I dont have a heavy foot, and only drive from home to work and back.
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The series protagonist, Takehiko Inoue's take on the lengendary sword saint Miyamoto Musashi.
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* BloodKnight: At first, but gradually grows out of it as he becomes more enlightened.
* CantHoldHisLiquor
* CombatPragmatist: In keeping with both his characterization from the novel (as well as historically) Musashi occasionally eschews fighting purely honorably in favor of using what simply ''works''. For example, he begins his fight against the seventy Yoshioka swordsmen by incapacitating/killing them with unarmed blows before attacking with weapons he has taken from his opponents, and attacking from the shallowest direction (that is, that with the fewest swordsmen between him and his target)... and he doesn't hesitate to resort to the GroinAttack either!
* FastestGunInTheWest: A samurai version of this trope. As his reputation grows, ''ronin'' hoping to make a name for themselves seek him out and try to kill him. [[DoomedByCanon Needless to say]], [[CurbStompBattle they all fail.]]
* HandicappedBadass: Becomes this for a while after suffering a near-crippling injury to his right leg during the battle with the Yoshioka.
* MookHorrorShow: The Yoshioka battle, full stop.
* OedipusComplex: He had a complicated relationship with his father, Shinmen Munisai, to say the least. Takezo tried to kill him several times as a child, and as a young man he became obsessed with surpassing him.
* OneManArmy: [[spoiler:Musashi cuts down about seventy highly trained and nationally respected Yoshioka swordsmen -- that is, the ''entire'' school membership, after diving right into their center at the start of the conflict and mortally wounding their leader. This single-handedly catapults him to a national figure]] and doubles as a Crowning Moment of Awesome.
* SlipknotPonytail: Sometimes during fights.
* ToBeAMaster: Deconstructed. His driving motivation is to become "unrivaled under the sun", but the closer he gets to achieving this goal the more realizes how little the title means, ''especially'' when [[spoiler:his massacre of the Yoshioka school ends with him crippled and forced to crawl away past their already-rotting corpses]].
* TookALevelInBadass: Keeps getting more and more Badass over the course of the series.
* VillainProtagonist: Starts off as an amoral thug, who challenges people to death matches for the sake of [[GloryHound personal glory.]]
* WalkingTheEarth: Musashi lives as a [[TitleDrop vagabond]], seeking out the strongest opponents all over Japan.
* WarriorPoet: Paints, carves Buddha statues and practices calligraphy.
!!Hon'iden Matahachi
Takezo's childhood friend who persuades him to leave Musashi village and join the war, thus setting of the events of the story. [[HeroWithAnFInGood A decent person deep down, Matahachi continually lets himself and others down due to his very weak moral fiber.]]
!! Tropes:
* CantCatchUp: Not that he really tries anyway.
* CharacterDevelopment: Subverted time and again. [[spoiler: Finally played straight after the death of his mother.]]
* DirtyCoward: And it fuels his inferiority complex to Takezo.
* {{Foil}}: To Musashi naturally. They both start out at the same place. Musashi pursues martial perfection, often living like an ascetic and choosing to live in privation even when better options are available. On the other hand, Matahachi ends up wallowing in worldly pleasures, taking every advantage of every opportunity to make himself more comfortable.
* GlorySeeker: Leaves Miyamoto village and go to fight in the battle of Sekigahara to make a name for himself. He fails pretty badly.
* MilesGloriosus: [[spoiler: He borrows Kojiro's identity for a while to live of his reputation.]]
* TheHedonist: Pretty much every time Matahachi sees an opportunity for immediate satisfaction, he takes it. It ends up biting him in the ass every single time.
An orphan raised at the temple in Miyamoto village, Otsu is a childhood friend to both Musashi (Takezo at the time) and Matahachi. She was originally betrothed to Matahachi, but then he broke it off after he decided to run away with Oko and not return to Miyamoto village. She instead fixates on Takezo/Musashi (it's implied that he was actually the one she was in love with all along) and leaves Miyamoto to go after him when he heads out to make his name as a swordsman.
* AdaptationalBadass: Otsu in the original novel was pathetic and needy, with a very weak constitution, often to the point of getting physically ill over emotional matters. In the manga, she is much more self-sufficient and even takes lessons in self-defense from the Yagyu.
* ArrangedMarriage: Was originally betrothed to Matahachi.
* InsistentTerminology: Continues to refer to Musashi as Takezo, long after he has officially changed his name.
* SilkHidingSteel: Otsu is more than capable of fending for herself in the rather less-than-safe byways of Japan, especially after she takes some pointers from the Yagyu on how to defend herself.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Otsu is fixated on Takezo and won't give anyone else a second glance.
* YamatoNadeshiko: A bit more rugged than the usual version, due to her traveling, but many characters who meet her often comment on her poise and beauty, even in unusual situations.
!!Sasaki Kojiro
Musashi's rival. Portrayed as a {{Bishonen}}, deaf mute.
!! Tropes:
* AdaptationalHeroism: Book!Kojiro is much darker than his happy-go-lucky ManChild counterpart. The original novel portrays him as cunning and sadistic, although courageous and not without nobility.
* BloodKnight
* {{Bishonen}}
* CharacterFocus: The first arc featuring Kojiro took up about a third of the then-twenty volume series by the time it was done.
* ChickMagnet: Receives a lot of female attention even at a young age, and is frequently caught in women's beds by other characters.
* DissonantSerenity
* HandicappedBadass
* ManChild: He's very socially unaware and does things impulsively. Characters are frequently frustrated at his disregard for societal norms.
* MosesInTheBulrushes: Kojiro is introduced in this fashion. His father had him sent by boat from a besieged castle to be raised by his master, Kanemaki Jisai. His mother had been swept overboard and killed during the voyage and he would have suffered the same fate if Jisai hadn't saved him.
* TheUnintelligible
* WhatBeautifulEyes: Random robbers have been struck by thoughts of how Kojiro's eyes look beautiful and too innocent for him to have killed anyone. There is a lot of focus on his eyes in general, as being deaf has led to him having very sensitive, perceptive eyesight.
[[folder: Miyamoto Village]]
!!Granny Hon'iden
!! Tropes:
* MyBelovedSmother
* TheResenter
* RevengeBeforeReason
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior
* SelectiveObliviousness: Refuses to acknowlegde that Matahachi was the one who betrayed Otsu.
!!Shinmen Munisai
* AbusiveParents
* PosthumousCharacter
[[folder: Yoshioka School]]
!!Yoshioka Seijuro
The second genration master of the Yoshioka Kempo's school of swordfighting in Kyoto. While a superbly talented swordsman, he is also hedonistic and carefree, though he can and will be serious and take appropriate measures in times of crisis.
* AdaptationalBadass: In the novel, he really is little more than a hedonistic pretty boy, who is actually inferior to Denshichiro in swordsmanship.
* AloofBigBrother
* ArrogantKungFuGuy
* BigBrotherInstinct: While he remains an AloofBigBrother, he still ultimately cares for Denshichiro. [[spoiler: He even tries to kill Musashi in a sneak attack to prevent him from fighting Denshichiro, having already known that Musashi would win... unfortunately for Seijuro, Musashi had surpassed ''him'' too.]]
* {{Bishonen}}
* CombatPragmatist: [[spoiler: Not above ambushing people. See BigBrotherInstinct.]]
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass
* IaijutsuPractitioner
* TheHedonist: Prefers spending time in the pleasure quarters over running his dojo.
!!Yoshioka Denshichiro
The second son of Yoshioka Kempo.
* AdaptationalBadass: In the novel, while he was considered the more competent of the two brothers, Denshichiro wasn't all that much better than Seijuro overall.
* TheBigGuy
* CantCatchUp: As hard as he works he can never match Seijuro in swordsmanship. [[spoiler:And in the year leading up to their rematch he utterly fails to keep up with Musashi, who makes the most of the year and grows into one of the very best swordsmen in the land.]]
* HappilyMarried: Shown briefly to be a devoted father and loving husband.
* HonorBeforeReason: He insists on fighting his rematch with Musashi even though he is clearly outmatched and stands nothing to win.
** He also expels Ueda Ryohei, his ''de facto'' brother, for trying to protect him by arranging for Musashi's demise[[note]]although his will reveals that after his death, Ryohei was to be readmitted ''and'' succeed him as headmaster[[/note]].
* OverShadowedByAwesome: Skilled and dedicated swordsman, but hopelessly outranked by his brother and eventually Musashi.
* SiblingYinYang: Very much so. Seijuro is a carefree pretty boy blessed with supreme talent and confidence, and Denshichiro is a stern, hulk of a man, who works hard trying to be as good as his brother.
!!Ueda Ryohei
A senior disciple of the Yoshioka School. He was raised by the Yoshiokas and is almost regarded as a brother to Seijuro and Denshichiro.
* CombatPragmatist: Hopes to ambush Musashi rather than fight honorably.
* LikeASonToMe: Yoshioka Kempo considered him his third son.
* SpiritAdvisor: [[spoiler:Becomes one to Otsu and Musashi]].
* TenMinuteRetirement: Is banished from the Yoshioka school by Denshichiro, but Den dies a day later with his will stipulating that Ueda is to be readmitted to the school and made headmaster.
[[folder: Hōzōin Temple]]
A temple of spear wielding monks. Musashi seeks them out after leaving Kyoto to challenge their master.
!!Tropes shared by the Hōzōin monks:
* BaldOfAwesome
* BladeOnAStick: Their WeaponOfChoice
* WarriorMonk
!!Hōzōin In'ei
The first generation master of the Hōzōin spear technique. Has retired from teaching the spear technique and now lives as a farmer near the temple.
* CallToAgriculture
* OldMaster
* RetiredBadass
The second generation master of the Hōzōin spear technique.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Not as much of {{Jerkass}} about it as some others, but he certainly doesn't hide his supreme confidence in his own abilities.
* BloodKnight: As with many of the most prominent fighters in the series he loves to fight strong opponents.
* [[spoiler:LaserGuidedAmnesia]]
* NoSocialSkills
* [[spoiler:NearDeathClairvoyance]]
* SlasherSmile: Frequently sports one.
* WakeUpCallBoss: After fighting Inshun it really dawns on Musashi that there are still fighters much stronger than him.
A skilled spearman of the Hōzōin. He takes pride in his ability with the spear, but is otherwise reserved and deferential to In'ei and Inshun.
* CatchPhrase: "You have had/will have the privilege of being defeated by Agon of Hōzōin."
* SparedByAdaptation: In the original novel, Musashi never fights Inshun, but ends up killing Agon with a single blow...with a wooden sword no less.
* ProfessionalButtKisser: Towards In'ei
* SmugSnake
* TheStarscream: He wants to supplant Inshun as the second generation master of the Hōzōin
[[folder: The Yagyu]]
!!Yagyu Sekishusai
* BadassPacifist: Holds Musashi off with a backscratcher while bedridden and completely saps Musashi of his will to fight without even being fully conscious at the time.
* HeroicNeutral: The Yagyu clan have always kept out of the conflicts of the greater clans.
* OldMaster
* TheMagnificent: Other swordsmen consistently refer to him as "the ''invincible'' Sekishusai".
!!Yagyu Hyogonosuke
Sekishusais favorite grandson and heir.
* HeirToTheDojo
[[folder: Recurring Characters]]
!!Takuan Soho
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the novel he sentences Takezo to three years of imprisonment before christening him Miyamoto Musashi
* BadassPacifist: "He cut me down with his mind!!"
* CoolOldGuy: Only 36, but definitely gives off this vibe.
* TricksterMentor: To Musashi.
!!Kanemaki Jisai
An old, retired swordsman who's washed up and raises Kojiro as his son after his parents die.
* AintTooProudToBeg: He's so devoted to Kojiro that begging the villagers for food doesn't bother him.
* ParentalSubstitute: To Kojiro.
* OldMaster: Though he's rather washed up at the time the story begins, he is eventually treated this way by the villagers after he cuts down old man Fudo. He explicitly refuses to teach Kojiro, wanting him to have a peaceful life, not that it stops him.


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The LFA's engine is a V-10 simply because that was the layout of Formula 1 cars when Lexus embarked on the project. Plus, according to chief engineer Tanahashi, "We couldn't get such high revs from a V-8, and a V-12 is too big and heavy." The 72-degree angle is best for primary and secondary balance on a V-10, Tanahashi adds. Exotic features of this engine include titanium valves and connecting rods, individual throttle bodies for each cylinder, carbon- and silicon-coated rocker arms with integrated oil jets, and magnesium alloy cam covers. The engine spins so quickly that Lexus says it had to use a digital tach because an analog version couldn't keep up.
To keep the center of gravity low, the engine has a dry-sump oil system, and the oil and water pumps are mounted low and to the rear of the engine. The engine is connected to the transaxle by a massive torque tube—the exhaust system runs underneath this piece to ensure a narrow central tunnel that enabled the engineers to place the occupants lower and closer to the centerline of the car. The obsession with keeping mass within the wheelbase and as low as possible led to a 48/52 percent front-to-rear weight distribution. The six-speed transmission fires off shifts between 0.2 and 1.0 second depending on the program the driver selects.
A reason this car took so long to emerge is that its chassis construction changed from aluminum to carbon fiber during development. Lexus used carbon fiber to keep weight down, claiming that the body in white is 221 pounds lighter than it would be were it made of aluminum.
The LFA uses a central carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic monocoque with aluminum subframes at the front and rear, which are bolted on and reinforced with glue. If the car is damaged, these subframes can simply be unbolted and replaced. (A full carbon-fiber structure would cost much more and require more repair time.) Sixty-five percent of the body structure is made of carbon fiber, with the remaining 35 percent being aluminum. Lexus decided to produce the carbon fiber in-house, using its own weaving technology. The company also decided to abandon traditional carbon-fiber fixings, in which threaded aluminum inserts are wrapped in the fabric; instead, Lexus engineers used a flanged aluminum collar to link carbon fiber to aluminum.
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Is my ELR twice as good as my Volt?
Like many people, when I first read the official price of the ELR, I wondered how Cadillac could justify implying that the ELR was twice as good as a Volt (since it cost twice as much). Would the ELR accelerate twice as fast as the Volt? Would the ELR have twice the range as the Volt? Would it have twice the interior space? I was very excited at the prospect of owning a "super Volt" that would finally include all the luxury features I was missing on my 2012 Volt.
But then I saw the specifications, and - like many people - I gasped in disbelief and shouted at my computer screen that GM was insane! $76k-84k for the same acceleration, less range than the 2013/14 Volts, two fewer doors, less interior space, no cooled front seats, no head-up display, no 360-degree parking cameras, and no hatchback. I was ready to drive down to my Chevy dealership and grab a 2014 fully-loaded Volt that very day.
However, curiosity gave me the fortitude to wait for a test drive of the ELR, and so I resisted. My first drive or the ELR was good, and the car made a nice initial impression, but nothing really felt twice as good as a Volt. My second drive was better, helped by a knowledgeable salesperson who showed me all the customization options and demonstrated the value of the car.
By the time I took my third test drive at the same dealership, I was sold. The rides home from the dealership in my Volt after the first two test drives was depressing: no regen paddles, no premium sound system, no adaptive cruise control, comparably excessive road noise on the freeway, and a frustrating center console that I still haven't mastered after nearly two years due to its unintuitive and unergonomic design.
After my third drive, I realized that the ELR had spoiled me for the Volt, and I had to get it. But only because I could afford the ELR, not because I felt it was truly twice as good as my 2012 Volt. However, because I had seen Cadillac's lack of promotion and support for the ELR, I was wary about buying one due to the prospect of finding myself in the same situation as I was currently in with my 2012 Volt where Chevrolet decreased the price of 2013/14 models by $5,000 and destroyed any equity I had left in my model. So I investigated the lease, and determined it was barely adequate.
Luckily, GM Financial released a new program shortly before February, and the dealership was willing to offer the ELR at employee pricing, so - having hit my target number - I pulled the trigger. Now I see that Cadillac has taken the bold (or insane) step of increasing lease rates on the ELR in March, so I feel pretty good about my deal!
But back to the core question: after a month of driving my Volt, do I consider the ELR worth twice the price? Well, from a purely bean-counter perspective, NO. While the ELR's acceleration feels faster over 50 mph as compared to the Volt, it's no different from 0-60. And even though I'm supposed to get 37 miles per charge vs. the 35 for which my 2012 Volt is rated, I'm not able to drive any farther in my ELR. And because the ELR is missing features found in older Cadillacs models (XTS, ATS, etc.) and in Chevrolets (2014 Volt, Corvette, etc.), the ELR's value on paper does not equal double that of a Volt.
That having been said, since I took delivery of the ELR in January, I've only driven my Volt 3 or 4 times! I know I need to get some more value out of my Volt lease since I'm still paying for it, but I just can't bring myself to get into the Volt in the morning when I see the ELR sitting there! I use the adaptive cruise control, premium sound system, regen paddles, blind spot warning, and cross traffic alert every time I drive the ELR, and I really miss having those features in the Volt. I love that the ELR remembers my seat position and slides back conveniently when I turn off the car. And in the recent rain we just had in California, my ELR didn't even flinch whereas my Volt spun its wheels on hills & turns and slid all over the place.
So if I add in the intangible enjoyment of the car and my lack of interest in ever driving the Volt again, I'd have to say that the ELR is worth what I paid for it. The list of features that set apart the ELR from the Volt is very long, and I'm still discovering some that I didn't know about.
Recently, I took three friends to dinner in my ELR. The 6'1" friend sat in the front passenger seat, and the 5'8" guy and 5'4" girl sat in the back. I asked several times if my rear seat passengers were uncomfortable, and they said they were quite happy. They said there was surprisingly ample leg room, and my 5'8" friend told me he didn't need to slouch (which I still don't believe since I'm 5'7" and I do!) So I guess the back seat isn't as horrible as I once thought, either.
Would I recommend an ELR to anyone who has to stretch his/her finances to afford it? No, I wouldn't. The Volt is an amazing car, and it makes more sense to enjoy everything the Volt has to offer. Nobody needs memory seats or adaptive cruise control, so why spend money on it if your budget is tight?
But if you can afford a $75-85k car, are happy being faster off the line than 65% of vehicles on the road instead of 90% (like you would be in a more expensive Tesla or less expensive CTS-V and Corvette Stringray), and don't anticipate ever needing more than four seats, I would strongly recommend the ELR.
There is one thing that's definitely twice as good as the Volt, and that's the silence in the cabin. While the Volt and the ELR are equally silent on side streets at lower speeds, the ELR remains nearly as quiet on rough highway surfaces at high speeds. That plus the amazing sound system makes this former professional musician a very happy camper!
Oh, I almost forgot: the reverse camera is also twice as good as the Volt's. But since the Volt has one of the worst reverse cameras I've ever seen, that is NOT a compliment! How a $79k ELR got saddled with such a sub-par parking camera is beyond me. The ELR's camera is what should have been in the Volt! The Rav4 EV's premium reverse camera (or better) is what should have been in the ELR. Now I'm not such a happy camper thinking about that. Grrr....
But to end on a positive note, IMHO, the ELR looks ten times better than the Volt. So there's definitely that!
Re: Is my ELR twice as good as my Volt?
i've said this before and i'll say it again:
if you take Voltec out of the volt you have a cruze
if you take Voltec out of ELR you have a CTS coupe premium
with cruze around $17 to 23k and CTS coupe premium $55k this makes Voltec about $20k
and there you go volt starting at middle $30k and ELR at $75k
everyone is so hyper-focused on the voltness of ELR and forgetting about the Cadillacness of ELR which includes better wheels, suspension, interior, tech features, styling, warranty, service, safety features like adaptive cruise and auto braking, lane departure warning, cross traffic alert and so on
Does anyone really believe that it costs twice as much to produce an ELR, than it does to produce a Volt? The pricing is ridiculous. I honestly believe they priced it that way to give people the illusion that they were getting more car than they actually were. They've done this before - Taken a Chevy, added a few nicer bits, jacked the price up, and tried to pass it off as a premium car - ...the Cimarron. Granted, the ELR is not just a rebadged volt with leather and a few more features, but it's still quite ridiculous.
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Hopefully for us buyers that we see the employee discount promotions, that was how I got my Escalade and a Buick. Both were thousands less then than the ELR now combined!
Re: Is my ELR twice as good as my Volt?
calling this same old GM is untrue...modular construction / platforming is pretty much how production line cars are made, and even the low volume cars like exotics share some of these manufacturing techniques.....no one is taking Audi/Lamborghini to task for building siblings like the R8/Gallardo (both being VW owned brands) the Chrysler 300/Maserati Ghibli/Quattroporte are frankencars made from chunks of Mercedes e-class(bottom half of uni-body) and s-class (suspension) this is just modern cars why throw away good ideas/design/engineering because you made a car out of it already....Porsche has made a fine art of this, evolving the crap out of cars and iterating them to the point that there were 30 different 911's in 2012...with Voltec we only have two....old GM would have given you a Volt with a Cadillac grill and charged twice as much for said grill and leather, not a new and nicer car with shared tech.
this is interesting how freaked out people are by the price of ELR, and how this has become an ELR is similiar to a chevy therefore its too much thing
But this parallels another chevy vs cadillac pair of cars the Camaro and CTS coup
like ELR/Volt the Camaro/CTS share similiar drivetrains being RWD with the 3.6 v6 also similiar the ELR/Volt they have different unibodies and suspension and also like ELR/Volt the CTS is close to twice as much as camaro yet no one is crying foul here and CTS coupe sold well
that said i somewhat agree cadillac might have initially put themselves a few thousand out of the running i think early traction would have improved if they kept it under $70k....but this story is just beginning BMW is going to throw an interesting wrench into this market the i3 is like a kia soul and will be $54k if equipped like the ELR and i8 is going to be around $120k....and yes tesla starts cheaper than ELR but that is a terrible car stripped by the time you get it equipped like ELR it's above $130k...so we'll soon see how this pricing pans out


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Our website will be a tool for vintage card collectors, We would like the design to have a simple user interface with the web 2.0 look and feel
wakoopa is a good example of the design look and feel as well as the dashboard. Log in page like digg.com.
Our website will be a tool for vintage card collectors, We are trying to create an easy to use useful site for vintage card collectors to get historical sales data for their hobby as well as many other features associated with the hobby. The same functionality as VintageCardPrices.com but with a cleaner and easier to use interface and updated look and feel.
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