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It's a matter of principle. It's a matter of being responsible for a mistake that you in part made. It's about being courteous. The blacksmith is wrong is so many levels that I don't even know where to begin.
This same person might "accidentally" ninja the next piece of legendary that he can't use, shrug off and say "Life lessons suck".
If I'm the customer, I wouldn't have asked for a refund, but I'd walk off and never do business with the Blacksmith again... and if he asks for any compensation for his non-work, I'd do everything in my power to make sure he never gets any business or run with any decent guild until he pays his $15 US dollars penance and change his name and identity.
As an aside, that is one classy customer for handing over a tip after having all the crafting materials blown away by a careless blacksmith.

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ASKIN' FOR IT: It hasn't just been a kick we're on lately- that of examining laughably lame and confusingly contentions, slanted statements from bumbling bureaucrats designed to amply appeal to our guileless gullibility.
But it certainly isn't just here on little Kaua`i where a post plantation populous is too busy beachcombing and bathing to understand unctuous utterances from corrupt capos and cronies.
Behold the corporate actions in the case of the runaway Toyotas whose corporate overlords have apparently set up their own demise by just replacing the gas pedals.
We've spent the past few days asking our more mechanically inclined acquaintances, car mavens and repair people who have been following the story and not one- not a single one- believes that fixing the gas pedal alone will stop these cars from having a mind of their own.
One and all believe it has to be the electronic "brain" that they put in cars these days so that any repair at all starts at $1000 and can only be done at the dealership.
In that sense it was inevitable that those chickens would come home to roost and they would become so complicated that even they can't figure out what's wrong with their own Frankencoupés.
If you've been following this debacle you'll know that Toyota has spent months- actually years now- trying to figure out why on occasion their cars accelerate but then won't stop doing so.
First they said it was the floor mats, then it was something with the gas pedal. Meanwhile most who independently looked at it concluded that it had to be something in the computer electronics that control acceleration.
But when the feds told them to fix it NOW, in a "that's our story and we're sticking with it" manner they've settled on putting in new gas pedals in millions of cars and denying that it's anything more in a move seemingly destined to destroy any future for the company when it continues to happen.
The hastily concocted explanation for what's supposedly wrong with the pedal mechanism doesn't even make sense. It basically says that due to "wear and tear" the mechanism sticks where two pieces come together, But if something "wears" it wears down not up and its not going to stick, rather it's going to become looser, according what a couple of engineers told us last night after the "explanation" was given by Toyota.
So why should we care if corporate malfeasance brings down a car company other than the gazillion of manufacturing jobs?
It's simply the other side of the corporate personhood that's on many people's minds after the US Supreme court humanized them for purposes pumping more money into elections.
Because while this personhood extends to elections it doesn't extend to corporate wrongdoing and responsibility. Don't forget, it's people who are making the decision to do this without regard to the fact that it will almost assuredly blow up in their faces in a year or so once the crashes continue and we figure out that the "fix" fixes nothing.
But don't expect anyone to be punished for that. If anything happens to Toyota it will be because no one will buy one, not because the company is arrested and tried for murder.
But by the time anyone figures it out the same executives that made the decision to do this will no doubt have passed the hot potato to another ambitious young executive, received their golden parachute and gone on to bigger and better corporate criminal capers.
If you live on Kaua`i and own a newish Toyota and are headed down to the dealership for your "fix" and are then planning on driving off as if nothing is wrong you're probably the same person who believed that the new alignment of the bike path isn't going to be on Wailua Beach and that the $7.5 million the county paid in the Ka Loko Dam tragedy settlement wasn't due to culpability.
So we've just gotta ask you – what are you, a freakin' idiot?
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
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Toyota Overhauls Engine Plans
Turbochargers, CVTs, direct-injection on the menu; By Hans Greimel
For years, Toyota Motor Corp. has put hybrids at the center of its powertrain technology strategy, all but oblivious to the rapid fuel economy advancements rivals have made in the humble gasoline engine.
Meanwhile, Ford, Honda, Mazda, Hyundai, Volkswagen and others have turned to gasoline direct fuel injection and turbochargers. For them, those technologies were a quick, cost-effective route to better mpg. Turbochargers, for example, allowed them to maintain power output while making engines smaller, for a significant weight savings and higher fuel economy.
Now, in a major overhaul of its lineup, Toyota is playing catchup. It will introduce a new direct-injection engine next year and follow with a downsized turbocharged powerplant --its first -- in 2014. It is also committing to continuously variable transmissions across its range of small- to medium-sized cars.
Toyota is hardly forsaking gasoline-electric hybrids. It plans to introduce 14 new hybrids by 2015. But hybrids, led by the Prius, still represent only 10 percent of Toyota's global sales.
Toyota's latest environmental technology game plan, unveiled in Tokyo, shows it will start doubling down on the standard powertrains that are the backbone of its offerings. And Toyota expects big gains in fuel economy for its nonhybrid vehicles.
"By 2015, through improvement in the engine and powertrain alone, we aim to achieve a fuel-efficiency improvement of 10 percent to 20 percent on the models adopting the improvements," said Takeshi Uchiyamada, Toyota's outgoing product development chief.
The rollout won't happen overnight. Engineers are still debating how widely technologies such as direct injection and turbocharging should be applied.
Insiders say President Akio Toyoda, who wanted to make his company's cars zippier to drive without sacrificing fuel economy, urged his staff to embrace nonhybrid technologies.
Moreover, Toyota plans to combine direct injection with its hybrid system to deliver a new generation of hybrids that are all the more miserly with fuel.
Key elements of Toyota's plan:
-- A 2.5-liter direct-injection, Atkinson cycle engine, to be deployed first in hybrids in 2013.
-- A 2.0-liter downsized turbo-charged engine in 2014.
-- A shift to CVTs in small- to mid-sized vehicles.
-- More six- and eight-speed automatic transmissions for larger cars.
Today, the company doesn't offer any turbocharged vehicles. It experimented briefly with turbos in the 1980s but chiefly as a way to boost output from already powerful engines -- not as a way of getting more oomph from smaller, more efficient ones. And direct injection is limited to a handful of large-displacement V6 and V8 luxury sedans, such as the Lexus LS.
Compare that with rivals' lineups. Ford Motor Co., for instance, makes extensive use of turbocharging, from engines with displacements as small as 1.0 liter to engines in its big pickups. Honda Motor Co. and Mazda Motor Corp. are overhauling their engine lineups to make fuel injection their base technology.
Starting next year, Toyota will answer by piggybacking its D-4S direct-injection technology onto its AR family of four-cylinder gasoline engines. Toyota's AR engines are used in such models as the Toyota Camry, RAV4, Highlander and Venza and the Lexus RX. The injectors are supplied by Denso Corp.
A direct-injection, 2.5-liter AR four-banger initially will go into the hybrid version of the Toyota Crown, a Japan-market sedan. Future deployments could go in the Camry or other AR cars.
"This is the beginning of gasoline direct injection for the four-cylinder engines," said Takashi Shimura, general manager for engine development. "Smaller engines will be following this engine. As a trend, this is right. It will be standard."
Shimura said direct injection will start in bigger engines and trickle down to smaller ones. He didn't give a timeline.
In 2014, Toyota will introduce a downsized 2.0-liter, four-cylinder turbocharged AR engine based on the 2.5-liter powerplant. Toyota declined to identify the model or the turbocharger supplier.
Pairing direct injection with Toyota's hybrid technology can boost the system's overall fuel efficiency by 10 percent, said Satoshi Ogiso, chief engineer for the Prius family of hybrids.
But it is still unclear whether the next-generation Prius, due around 2014, will get direct injection.
The problem is balancing the added cost of fuel injection against the goal of making the Prius as affordable as possible. Cost sensitivity is compounded because the Prius, with its extra battery, electric motor and inverter, is already pricey to build. Direct injection would add an extra ¥10,000 ($128) to the car's cost, engineers say.
"It may be possible, but it still has to undergo a lot of discussion," Ogiso said. "That's because the Prius engine already has very good fuel efficiency without direct injection."
Yoshihiko Matsuda, field general manager in charge of engine engineering, says direct injection could be applied in hybrids with engine displacements of 2.0, 2.5 or 3.0 liters. But he said using it in a 1.6-liter hybrid would be "borderline"--delivering only incremental benefit for the added cost.
The current Prius has a 1.8-liter engine.
Toyota will use a newly refined version of the Denso-made D-4S injector. It was first used this year in the Lexus GS and the Scion FR-S sporty car manufactured by Subaru-builder Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd.
It improves mileage about 1 percent over Toyota's earlier D-4S injector, which debuted in 2006. It gets better results by using a slit-shaped, instead of a multihole, injector opening. That creates a richer fuel mixture inside the cylinder.
Toyota's embrace of more widely used technologies comes as it concedes it misread market demand for other alternative drivetrain technologies, including electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids.
In announcing plans for Toyota's own EV, Uchiyamada said the company would sell only about 100 of the cars in the United States and Japan on a limited basis, starting this December.
Two years ago, he predicted Toyota would be selling thousands of the EV, which is based on the Scion iQ minicar and called the eQ.
"But two years later, we found other conditions prevailing in the market, and we'll undertake a limited introduction," he said, in a tacit nod to the tepid sales of other makers' electric cars.
Uchiyamada added that sales of the Prius Plug-in, which began in Japan in January, were lower than expected. He said that car needs better marketing.
But Toyota is bullish on hybrids.
Toyota plans to launch 21 new or redesigned hybrid vehicles by the end of 2015. Toyota didn't name the models. But 14 will be either all-new nameplates or hybrid versions of vehicles that don't currently come with an electric-gasoline option.
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"Germans are selling clean diesels off of their lots like hotcakes, while TOYOTA ponders gasoline engines."
I hate to say this but the fact that the Prius is one of the top 3 best selling vehicles in the world, I'd have to say that Hybrids are selling like hotcakes, more so than the Diesels. In the end, there are very few choices that the Diesel crowd can make and that does help drive up the percieved demand of them.
There is also the fact that none of the German automakers are even coming close to Toyota yet in total unit sales and that is for American figures. Yet again, I'm not advocating the lack of diesels but simply that the market you claim exists seems to be more of a minority. I truly do believe that all automakers should give us the option to purchase a diesel equipped vehicle but economics doesn't support this desire as it becomes non-profitable for an automaker.
The way I see it is the Chevrolet Cruze will help us to establish if there is a real diesel demand in the USA. If it sells 20-30% of its total models with a diesel engine, then I shall believe that diesel demand is truly there. However, I'm willing to bet the total Cruze sales, with a diesel, will make 5-10% at most. Call it American ignorance, missinformation or whatever else but for some STRANGE reason, the American people are in LOVE with the Hybrid technology.
"I do not believe anybody who knows anything about automechanics would buy a gasoline hybrid."
I couldn't have said it better myself and not because of the inclusion of spark plugs, as you so love to rib on. The lack of a manual transmission, the mandateory added weight of the massive battery and the fact that the battery will have to be replaced one day all support my distaste for the vehicle. The ABS system in the hybrids become the heart and soul, which most don't even realize, in that it actually decides how much brake force is applied from the motor spooling in reverse vs the conventional brake pads.
Germans are selling clean diesels off of their lots like hotcakes, while TOYOTA ponders gasoline engines.
"Toyota put their money into the wrong technology. Nobody wants those slow dull hybrids and they know it."
Well, would you want to be driving an underpowered, ugly vehicle which still uses spark plugs and ignition timing, when you could be driving a clean diesel with loads and loads of torque and get the same fuel consumption and higher top speed? I do not believe anybody who knows anything about automechanics would buy a gasoline hybrid.
Where can I read more about that? What is your source of information?
I came back from Europe a month ago - of hundreds of thousands of cars I saw on the streets, I managed to count only 14 (yes fourteen) which were gasoline, and exactly zero were hybrids.
Every other car and truck was a diesel. To add insult to injury, all the TOYOTA cars I saw while over there were diesels.
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Silly scrpit about the love story of Ginny and Draco.
Scene 1
In the girl¡¦s dormitory
(Ginny is having a dream)
Maggie: WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You¡¦re talking in your sleep, and by the sound of it, you were having some dirty thoughts about Malfoy.
Ginny: Yeah, I¡¦m hopelessly in love with the guy.
Maggie: Too bad that he¡¦s a ~BLEEP~ing Slytherin.
Ginny: What¡¦s with the bleep?
Kathleen: Oh, this is a PG fic.
Maggie: Oh, so I can cuss and no one will stop me!!
Julianna: Well, keep on thinking those dirty thoughts, Ginny, ¡¥cause I made a bet with my brother on who you¡¦ll fall in love with.
Kathleen: Julianna, I thought you played the part of the all-powerful author.
Egan: Ginny, just kiss him.
Julianna: Egan, why are you in the girl dormitories?
Matt: What? We¡¦re not allowed up here? Man, ¡¥cause I made out Hermione.
Julianna: Hey, Guess what? There are children in the audience. fº
Ginny: Well I guess I should tell Malfoy.
(Exit Ginny)
Scene 2
In a dark hall way somewhere in Hogwarts
Ginny: Malfoy, I need to talk to you.
Malfoy: What is it?
Ginny: Well, I ~BLEEP~ing love you.
Malfoy: What a coincidence, so do I!
Ginny: Let¡¦s snogg.
Malfoy: Okay.
(Much Snogging) Scene 3
In the Gryffindor Common Room at midnight
Maggie: So, what happened when you told Malfoy you like him?
Ginny: He said he liked me, too.
Cassidy: It¡¦s SO romantic.
Egan: It makes me want to barf.
Julianna: You can¡¦t say anything. You and Cassidy makes ME want to barf.
Maggie: You can¡¦t say anything, either, Julianna. Have you seen yourself with Ron?
Kathleen: You can¡¦t say anything, Maggie. You seen yourself with Matt lately?
Cassidy: You can¡¦t say anything either, Kathleen. You and Harry is just¡K¡K.wrong.
Scene 4
The Yule Ball
(Ginny walks into the Great Hall with her red and green dress robes on, arm and arm with Malfoy)
Kathleen, Cassidy, and the rest of the original characters: WOW!
Ron and Pansy: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(The Weird Sisters start playing a slow waltz)
Malfoy: Shall we dance?
Ginny: Of course.
(The music suddenly stops)
Ginny: It¡¦s Voldemort!
Malfoy: Come on Ginny, we¡¦ll be guaranteed safety.
Ginny: Not unless my friends come.
Malfoy: But I can¡¦t. Having you come is a big enough deal as it is.
Ginny: If they don¡¦t come, I don¡¦t come.
Malfoy: Fine. ANYONE CLASSIFIED AS ONE OF GINNY¡¦S FRIENDS, COME WITH ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ginny: Those people are Julianna, Maggie, Cassidy, Kathleen, Matt, Egan, Ron, Hermione, and Harry.
Julianna: We¡¦re here. Now where are we going?
Ginny: I know.
Scene 5
The Courtyard at Hogwarts
Julianna: This better be good, Ginny.
Ginny: Oh, It is.
(Ginny opens a trap door)
Harry: Ginny, how do know about the passage.
Kathleen: Harry, do you really want to know?
Harry: Good Point.
Cassidy: Well, let¡¦s go in.
Scene 6
Inside the passage
Malfoy: I see a door!
Ginny: So do I!! Let¡¦s all laugh in joy!!!!!!! fº
Maggie: Why don¡¦t we go in?
(Everyone walks through the door)
Hermione: Well, look! Several seats!
Julianna: Nine, to be exact.
Cassidy: Well, let¡¦s sit down!
Ginny: Oh,yes, let¡¦s.
(Volemort bursts in, wearing a pink tutu.)
Everyone except Voldemort: (Insert Scream Here)
Voldemort: No, no, no. Don¡¦t scream. I¡¦ve given up trying to take over the world and kill muggles to become a ballerina.
(Everyone stares at Voldemort. Voldemort goes ignores the stares, and starts doing ballet.)
Malfoy: AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT BURNS!!!!!!!!!!
Ginny: I don¡¦t know why anyone would want to follow this ~BLEEP~ guy.
Cassidy: Yeah, I know. This guy¡¦s an adult version of Cameron Dennis. Dumb, Blond,
Harry: WAIT A SECOND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How do know his hair¡¦s blond?
Julianna: Don¡¦t you see the perfect bun on top of his head. What color is it?
Harry: Yellow.
Julianna: And when it comes to hair color, what is yellow called?
Harry: Blond.
Cassidy: Now that Harry understands that, I¡¦ll finish that list I was making. Dumb, blond, and ~BLLEP~.
Scene 7
Harry: Let¡¦s kill Voldemort!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Julianna: No, you have to wait ¡¥till at LEAST Scene 8 to kill the bad guy.
Kathleen: She¡¦s right you know.
Maggie: Yeah, If you killed him now we¡¦d have to change the name of the story ¡§Fire & Ice: In How Many Scenes it takes to Tell the story¡¨.
Ron: Well, let¡¦s pretend we¡¦re still at the Yule Ball, and Let¡¦s dance!
Ginny: Where¡¦s Voldemort?
Author: Oh, I just made him die a slow and painful death.
Scene 8
The Room Where they happen to be AND the Gryffindor Common Room
Ginny: Look, there¡¦s a magic hole!
Ron: Let¡¦s get into it!
Julianna: Ya¡¦ll know, it DOES actually help to have some common sense.
Hermione: Okay, let¡¦s not get into the hole. Instead, I¡¦ll poof us all back to the common room. Everyone except for Malfoy and Ginny.
Malfoy: Where are we going, Mudblood?
Hermione: Malfoy, get some new insults, please. Anyway, I¡¦m sending you and Ginny to the Astronomy Tower.
(Everyone, with the exceptions of Ginny and Malfoy, burst out laughing.)
(Hermione Poofs everyone back to Gryffindor Common Room Except for You-Know-Whos.)
Maggie: That was¡K¡K¡K.weird.
Author: Hey! We still got 2 more Scenes to do! Get off your bums!
Scene 9
The Author is too tired to write the places this scene takes place in, so you get to be surprised!
Ginny: Well, Draco, what do we do now?
Malfoy: I don¡¦t know.
G/D Fans: We want you to snogg each other!
Ginny: Okay, that works with me.
(Much Snogging)
Malfoy: That was fun, so let¡¦s do it until The author pulls some surprise on us.
Ginny: Works with me.
(The same thing as the last Italics, you idiot!)
The Author: Mwahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That¡¦s my cue!
Snape: You idiot Slytherin, you. Snogging a Gryffindor, your father would be ashamed!
Draco: Where¡¦d you come from?
The Author: Only I know that!
Scene 10
Who Knows!
Snape: I¡¦m giving you BOTH detentions!
Ginny & Malfoy: Don¡¦t give it to us, It was the author¡¦s idea!
Snape: Okay. Ms. Author, I¡¦ll need you to come to the dungeons at midnight on Saturday.
Ginny: Ooooo, I smell a sequel.
The author: Crap.


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Verizon Communications ($47.98, +$1.42, +3.04%) is in talks to pay as much as $130 billion for Vodafone Group PLC's (VOD, $31.63, +$2.22, +7.55%)(VOD.LN) stake in their U.S. wireless venture in a deal that could be completed within a week, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal that cites people familiar with the matter.
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Campbell Soup Co. (CPB, $43.14, -$1.57, -3.51%) swung to a loss in its fiscal fourth quarter as it posted a write-down tied to its European simple-meals businesses, as well as higher expenses, while sales grew more slowly than expected.
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Corinthian Colleges Inc. (COCO, $2.44, -$0.17, -6.51%) gave weak guidance, as chief executive Jack Massimino expects the for-profit educator to face "another challenging year," though it does expect new-enrollment growth this quarter at its physical locations. Online hasn't been without its hiccups either for the company, as fiscal fourth-quarter enrollments there were weaker than expected.
Fresh Market Inc.'s (TFM, $49.45, -$4.83, -8.90%) fiscal second-quarter earnings rose 17%, as the specialty grocer recorded a double-digit increase in sales. Still, the company lowered its full-year per-share earnings guidance, though it lifted the low end of its same-stores sales outlook.
Methode Electronics Inc. (MEI, $23.36, +$5.73, +32.50%) reported a big fiscal first-quarter earnings per-share beat, as the components maker benefited from a strong demand in the auto sector and the company pushing its power-products efforts in Europe.
Shanda Games Ltd.'s (GAME, $4.40, -$0.15, -3.29%) second-quarter earnings rose 21%, as the game developer's results were boosted by an income-tax benefit and improved margins. The company's earnings were better than analysts had expected.
Signet Jewelers Ltd.'s (SIG, $66.93, -$2.91, -4.16%)(SIG.LN) fiscal second-quarter earnings slipped 4.7%, as the retailer continued to see weak sales in the U.K., while higher costs pressured margins. Revenue growth was weaker than consensus, and the company gave a downbeat profit view for the current quarter.
Urban Outfitters Inc.'s (URBN, $42.52, +$0.57, +1.36%) board authorized a 10-million-share buyback program, the fourth time the clothing retailer has announced such a move since 2006.
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Next stop was Segesta. Another 6 Euros, plus E1.50 for shuttle all the way to the top of the hill to check out the Amphitheatre. It was a steep climb, and with the scorching summer sun, it's worth taking the shuttle. On the way down, a walk would give photo opportunities with a different ...
Wine country
Just a short walk and swim as off to Marsala on the west coast. Wine country.
Driving along the autostrada, went through several tunnels with no lights. Quite a strange sensation. Budget or maintenance ? Never mind, the Oleanders lining and dividing the autostrada were magnificent. Glorious shades of pink reaching to the skies. Unfortunately, never a good moment to request a photo ...
Cruising the Mediterranean
... It was actually pretty boring.
We were given 2 hours free time in San Vito Lo Capo. All this town had to offer was a long sandy (yellow) beach on the Mediterranean - actually a very nice beach - and restaurants (hundreds of them).
Why is it that whenever we get free time in a town it's always between 1.00pm and 4.40pm when all the shops (except restaurants) are closed for siesta? Well, tough titties Italy, I will have to spend all my money in ...
Notes from a runaway...,
... the situation.,... But there comes a point after you have been told you cant use loo roll, soap, running water or find any electrical points to keep the phone with power, eating only home made (overly crunchy) bread with lemon and oil for every meal, and getting drawn into very serious conversations where they seem to be siding with nazism ideals, where you realise enough is enough!!
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Tattoo Artist Brings Dots And Lines To New Heights In Stunning Geometric Ink Designs
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Imagine this scene:
Sharp waves stretch back for as far as you can see, eating up the horizon in a vast display of stunning movement. Like the peaks and troughs of a chaotic line graph, the seas capture jumping fish as they weave in and out of the thrashes. Careful shading separates the animal bodies as they surface, drenched in the bleeding red pigment of a sunset-flooded landscape.
The description might sound like a recounting of an ancient Japanese print or a sprawling painted canvas, but the words are actually attached to artwork of a different sort. They tell the story of artist Chaim Machlev and his gorgeous tattoos.
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I have been traveling on and off since the beginning of my career. I haven't always been able to travel as much as some of my peers because I have other obligations that make travel less accessible to me. But whenever I can I try to visit places and often I go where I have friends. True friends in life and in tattooing are hard to come by but as I have learned once you find them they make life so much more enjoyable.
There are several reasons that I travel. I go for work, I go for pleasure, I go to network with others in tattooing and I go for inspiration. Nothing pays off more than being inspired by your peers. That's why instagram is such a big hit! But instead of being glued to your phone get out there and meet all those great artists Face to face!
I recently went to Eagle River Alaska to visit my good friend Deb Yarian. It is a really beautiful place. Mountains, Fresh air, I really got the feeling that people there try to look out for one another. So different from here in metro Detroit where I am from. I have tried to bring a little of that brotherly love back here to Detroit with me. Being there just really made me look at the world a little differently. People there are somewhat isolated and it seems like it makes they so much kinder to one another.
Swallows & Daggers with Destroy Troy
I got some time and had an online chat with tattooer and all around good guy, Destroy Troy. Following is the interview, and ways you can reach him yourself for any inquiries.
Interview by Jordan Tinney
Reblogged from: www.swallowsndaggers.net
Jordan Tinney: What is your (nick)name and where do you work?
Destroy Troy: I go by "Destroy Troy". I tattoo at Timeless Tattoo in Historic Westport in Kansas City, Missouri. USA
JT: What year did you start tattooing professionally, and what got you started on tattooing?
DT: I started working in tattoo shops 2005 then started tattooing full time in 2007. I've always had an interest in art. Lots of drawing and painting when I was a kid, I got my first tattoo & the next thing I knew I had sleeves.
JT: How did your nickname "Destroy Troy" come to be?
DT: I was apprenticed by someone with a nickname/tattoo name and forced to get one. Not knowing what to pick, I used my URL from MySpace, which was DestroyTroy because TroyDestroy was already taken. Hahaha. I'm screwed now, if I google my birth name, nothing shows up.
JT: Where was your first shop, and how long were you there for?
DT: The first shop I worked at is in Kansas City. I worked there for 2 years as a front counter guy/cleaner.
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The charismatic and one of a kind Tas Danazoglou spoke exclusively to HeartbeatInk, while tattooing at his booth at London's "Into You" Tattoo Studio, about the art of the tattoo with absolute honesty and humour.
When did you first get involved with tattooing?
Twenty years ago, when I was 22 years old I began as an apprentice of Mike the Athens. Actually, Mike taught me everything I know. I still feel like Mike's apprentice (laughs), because he is a such a perfectionist and even now calls me and tells me "what you did wasn't that good, you have to do it like this". He is also one of my best friends. We are like brothers.
What were you doing previously?
I was a radiologist's assistant.
How did drawing come into the picture?
I have been drawing for as long as I can remember. My father was an amateur painter. Perhaps I was influenced by him. But yes, I definitely drew.
How did the transition from drawing to tattooing happen?
It's kind of funny. Mike was my tattoo artist and because he likes music I used to record cassettes for him with death metal bands (I think he still has them) and I would paint their covers. At some point, after seeing my designs, he asked me to become his apprentice. I had never thought I would become a tatooer…
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Acclimatization Tips: Bringing Indoor Plants Outside
Many of us enjoy Tropicals and other plants indoors over the cooler months, but once patio season begins it can be ever so tempting to bring those plants outside to pretty things up. Before you do, take a quick moment to read on and save yourself some potential heartache!
You might not realize, but bringing indoor plants outside in haste can increase the risk of damage, prevent growth, or in extreme cases, kill the plant altogether! Extend the enjoyment of your plants inside and out by following this simple guide:
• Start by bringing plants outside for an hour or so at a time, slowly increasing the duration over a 2 week period until the plants are out all day long.
• Avoid direct intense sun for the first while, even if the plant requires full sun.
• Avoid extra windy spots which can upset the foliage and dry out the soil.
• Avoid exposing the plants to excessive rain.
• Only leave plants out permanently once the threat of frost has passed.
The same rules can apply to seedlings started indoors. It may seem like a pain, but this practice, known as "hardening off" helps maintain a happy and healthy plant!
If you don't have the commitment, in the very least be sure to bring in the plants at night. We all know how wrong the weatherman can be—even if it doesn't call for frost, you won't want to risk it. That is how I utterly destroyed my geraniums just a few weeks ago!
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I previously lived in Michigan and I always put my plants outside for the summer. They loved the sun and always seemed to flourish. I recently moved to Nebraska and when I put my plants outside this year the intense wind dried them out instantly. I hastily took them back inside, and they seem to be surviving but they all took significant damage. Some climates don't seem to allow for keeping indoor plants outside!
Just make sure you remember where your plants are! I had a pair of awesome, unkillable aloe plants. My husband decided they could use some fresh air, then forgot about them and we had a late frost. They're totally destroyed. :(
thanks for posting this - it hurts me to see people bring their indoor plants outside for a full day to 'get some sun'.
indoor light is really much dimmer than our human eyes let us think - the light in a fluorescent-lit cubicle can be quantified at 10 ppfd. a clear sunny summer day can get up to 1800 ppfd depending where you live. putting a plant outdoors is nearly analogous to you thriving while eating 10 calories a day all your life, then suddenly being force-fed 1800 calories one day - oh, the pain!
oops, no wonder my plants are all drying up outside....thanks for the tip.
Important to remember that not all indoor plants like the sun all that much. Many of the plants sold for indoor growing are shade- or semi-shade-thrivers in their natural habitats. Cacti, succulents, and most flowering house plants would likely be happy in full sun, but a lot of the leafier ones would do better in the dappled light of a pergola or a big tree.
Don't be surprised if the existing leaves on your houseplants get sunburned when the plant is brought outdoors. As TOUGHCUPCAKE observed, indoor light, even near a relatively sunny south- or west-facing window, is nowhere near as intense as the direct sunlight out of doors.
One tip: A plant that's been devastated by scale, say, or mealybug or spider mite infestation might well be saved by a summer spent out of doors. It can be next to impossible to get all the insects killed without denuding the plant of leaves entirely and them thoroughly wetting the stems with whatever bug killer you happen to be using. But at that point a few weeks in the bright light and fresh air just may have it coming back stronger than ever. I did this once with a quite large crassula ovata (jade plant) that we had all but given up on. Once we ridded it of bugs and treated it to almost ideal growing conditions, it rocked and rolled.
I agree with GLINDA GOODWITCH. We saved our ficus last year in a similar way. It was completely taken over by scale insect. We did not go as far as to denude it. We, however, sprayed it with Neem oil and left it outdoors on our shaded front stoop. Made sure to water it regularly and it thrived. Left it there until late August and gave it one more Neem treatment before bringing it in. Haven't seen any scales on it so far. Moreover, it seems to be doing better than before it was infested.
I have always read that it is best to wait until the temperature at night is about 60 degrees before putting out houseplants. Our houseplants tend to be of the tropical persuasion. I have a 42 year old shefflera that has summered in Illinois, Maryland, Long Island and northeast Connecticut hills.


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Although WordPress was originally created to make blogging easy, it has since expanded into a fully functioning CMS with plug and play capabilities for ads, fundraising, popups, shopping carts, social media and much more.
WordPress may also be the most popular because it started with a large audience already adept at creating content: bloggers. Its use throughout the world is significantly higher than Joomla! or Drupal, and its original commitment to an easy-to-use interface hasn't wavered.
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If you want to create your own website, and don't have any experience, start by creating a free site at www.wordpress.com. This might be all you need.
If you're planning on a custom WordPress site, snoop around developer forums like www.wordpress.org/support to get a feel for the types of things you'll have to do. At YouTube, search for WordPress videos to watch, and Google anything you don't understand to find an explanation.
Creating your own website may be right for you, but keep in mind that it will take a lot of time and patience if you want it done well. Regardless of which technology you select, or whether you opt to work with an expert, your content should be a high priority. Gather and organize your content first, then decide how to build your website. For tips on content, see last month's Tech Essentials column, "Web Content to Keep People Coming Back," also archived at hawaiibusiness.com/tech.
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I find joomla as the best CMS because it is more user friendly, got more extensions.
I don't see any reason NOT to use Wordpress. I use it for about all of my sites, especially my company site http://bigrockinvestments.com . It allows for so much flexibility PLUS has the backbone of a user base that reaches around the world, which makes it what any website needs to be -- SCALABLE.


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|20.09.2011, 15:25
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A strike interceptor build
Just thought I'd come here and get some input before I have to start a new strike for the fourth time... And share some of my experiences with other newbies.
I am new to the game, only played for a few weeks and currently have my third strike interceptor to roughly lvl 10. I tried out a lot of stuff on the first 2, like all ranges cannons, mining setups, all kind of computer, engine and hull stuff. I came up with a way I enjoy to play and the right setup (for me)to match it.
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3 SR cannons
2 Hull plates
2 overchargers, 2 gyros
1 artemis(?) damage booster, 1 mining scanner
Idea is to move in real fast, then try to stay permanetly within 250m, when i have a good shot use artemis. For mining i just use the SR cannons, can be a bit hefty on tylium and power for the first few levels , but gets better quick. No issues from roughly lvl7 anymore. Noticing that im shredding people well over my lvl.
Skills I focus on are gunnery, piloting, and engeneering, other skills just to be able to upgrade the equipment.
Change I have in mind is replacing one overcharger with a avoidance thingie but not sure how well they work. Im noticing i am always using my boosters, until im close to my optimal range and then stay on or just under my opponents speed, the increased normal speed is hardly ever used. If i can use avoidance for that initial head to head fire, that might just give me a nice extra edge.
When I ever get to advance my raider, ill add a SR cannon and thinking about a turbo.
Basically my questions are; Am I going to run into unforseen problems as I lvl up, and, if you can read my playstyle by my setup, any tips?
Thanx in advance!
|20.09.2011, 15:51
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Overchargers = garbage. The increases to flank and boost speed don't stack like people think they do, and having more flank speed isn't really a good thing.
If you are looking for speed slap a couple more boosters in. People seem to favor rcs ductings these days as well, and lots of people favor gyros, but you best setup in the end will be determined by personal preference. I also would suggest playing around with a slide.
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|20.09.2011, 16:14
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Thanx for that Luno. I have doubted if the overchargers were stacking before. Never really looked into it. Ill keep 1 just to be able to match any speed out there, but the other one will be a boost turbo for sure then. I believe the duct is the avoidance one then right, ill play around with that too. I have tried sliding, and tho it certainly has it uses, its not for me. The fact that u slow down if ur not turned back to the front by the end of it is a killer for me. That, and I love the shredding power of the SR guns, Where the slide profits more from LR guns in my opinion.
Thats really valuable info there Luno, thanx again.
|20.09.2011, 17:15
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I guess I'm a bit old-school in not moving to gyros and ducting, but I'm completely addicted to my turbo boosters. Before moving to my mk7 I ran a full set of boosters in my mk2, speed means you can choose when and where to fight someone. These days since the buff to escorts I think that strikes need to be able to disengage and run from escorts if need be, and I've been able to match a wing mate in speed when he had a ducting viper and I was in my scythe.
As for the rest, 3 SRCs are always a giggle and the plates are pretty standard when starting out, although I wouldn't upgrade them too far as you'll probably want to move to the DC system eventually. The artemis is pretty standard and good for both mining and combat ops, however I'd consider moving to a combat orientated module instead of keeping the scanner in when not mining, maybe a Cassiopeia or Iapetus.
A combo you might want to try is using an aurora and slide in combination in order to increase speed and then maintain it with the slide. The slide and Cassiopeia is also good for a laugh.
Myself currently:
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|20.09.2011, 18:38
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Closing too fast means less of your rounds on the target. Having boosters not only gives you great boost speed, but it also increases accelleration which enables you to put distance between you and your target before swinging back around for another attack pass. Boost and accelleration are life in this game. If you get jumped by another Strike or an Escort you are going to need it to break out of your socks and extend an escape.
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|22.09.2011, 15:01
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Thanx for the replies guys, really appreciated.
I switched the overchargers for turbo booster and rcs duct. Definitly an improvement. Got pretty everything upgraded to lvl4 now. Getting expensive... Thinking of saving up a bit and advancing my raider now first. I'm at lvl 12 so i find myself fighting more and more escorts, and the power, life and extra gun seem to be just what i need to make those fights a bit smoother. Long term I think I will skip the escort class and keep working on the raider untill i can afford a line.
|24.09.2011, 21:35
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Luno's suggestion for a slide is a good one, especially if you plan to take part in squadrons and/or engage Escorts and Lines.
I love to imagine the look on someone's face when they unleash a hail of missiles at me, only to see me spin around, kill them all and keep moving. It's invaluable in providing screening fire and increases your lifespan in combat. Also, on the rare occasion that you come across someone who can literally fly circles around you, you can give them a rude surprise.
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|25.09.2011, 01:30
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Yeap, definitely look at a slide. Useful little module. Quite personally, I would recommend using gyros on your raider instead of boosters. Since you use SR cannons, gyros would benefit you more in those close up knife fights, than turbo boosters or overchargers will. You'll fly circles around a lot of opponents, with some good leveled gyros.
Also, Since you can afford to run those ductings without much loss in mobility, good choice taking some. Saves your metal hide a lot from escort fire.
And while some people will swear by hull plating, I would strongly recommend at least one DC module, when you manage to advance. The loss in HP is still worth the amount of mobility you gain, and the ability to repair, imo. It does get expensive to use, but with the daily login bonuses, having DC packs to use won't be too much of a problem.
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|25.09.2011, 14:24
Join Date: 17.09.2011
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More replies If im not gonna be the best pilot on this server with all this advice, its on me...
I have advanced my raider! Oh my, thats quite the upgrade. Killing escorts pretty easily now, some good pilots excluded ofcourse.
Only thing that i find anoying is that with the vizor camera angle (dont think thats the correct name, the one that keeps moving back to our target) it continiously keeps drawing you into your enemy. Difficult if u wanna keep up flank speed for avoidance against an escort or line. The chase camera style works only a little better, but then I forget to take it off and im wondering why its so hard to keep the next strike in my view.
The slide could really help with that i guess, to do strafing runs past big targets. Just gonna have to practice the turn around timing to prevent from coming to a full stop midfight.
I chose an extra rcs duct (so 2 ducts, 2 gyros and a booster) and an extra SRC (high crit) making that 4 in total. Actually stepped into the arena for the first time yesterday, won 5 out of 7 i think, I got a gold thingie over my head now. Which apparently doesnt mean much on a new server like canceron. Used the firewall cluster thing instead of the mining sensor for that, since i had one in my locker from loot. Dont know if thats any good, but seemed appropriate since i got debuffed quite a few times.
I will most certainly look into the dc thing, but from the missions number one gives you i remember that taking up quite a bit of power, and with 4 SRC's and an artemis, power is usually drained pretty fast. I will try it for sure tho, advice from here has given me so much that id be silly to just dismiss it.
Thank you all!
|25.09.2011, 14:42
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Good to hear
Just a couple more points. A slide works better with Long Range guns, as you'll be flying away, in a straight line, and you'll want to keep someone in your gun range as long as possible. And I wouldn't use the hardening cluster. Put your own debuff, or another buff into the slot, and you'll be just as, if not more, effective.
Apart from that, nice setup! And congrats on the arena ranking
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Dr. Samton was the best migraine dr. I have seen in the 17 years I've struggled. She helped me so much. Her dedication to aiding her patients, her compassion, her demeanor are all second to none. I feel so fortunate to have found her. She helped my migraines so much and I am grateful for the progress we have made. She listens to me about how I am feeling and she is SO well versed in neurology and current on all the new theories. She is definately at the top of her game all the time. She always gets back to you when you call her and really helps when you are in pain. I feel that her concern is genuine and her desire to heal is from the heart. I can not say a bad thing about my experience with her.
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I found Dr. Samton to be quite helpful. She didn't make me feel rushed and I found her to be both compassionate and knowledgeable. Although she looks quite young I was surprised to learn that she is Board Certified in both Neurology and Psychiatry. I would highly recommend this doctor.
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I think shes a wonderful person at heart however as far as her knowledge on things I dont think shes been in the field long enough. I felt like a lab rat. She prescribed almost everything in the book when something didnt work. I never got a concrete answer of what I had. There are better neurologists out there!
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Inova Loudoun Ambulatory Surgery Center
44035 Riverside Parkway, Suite 200
Leesburg, VA 20176
(Map and interactive directions)
Fax: 571-209-6478
Center hours: 6 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Inova Loudoun Surgery Center (Lansdowne) is a full service ambulatory outpatient facility. We are licensed, Medicare certified, and AAAHC accredited.
The Inova Loudoun Surgery Center is located on the Inova Loudoun Hospital campus. The surgery center is to the right of the hospital in the five-story building. The building is labeled Physicians Building II and we are located on the second floor.
The Surgery Center provides cost-effective outpatient services using modern, state-of-the-art technology in a friendly and caring environment by highly-skilled, compassionate staff serving Loudoun County, Virginia and surrounding communities.
Inova, 8110 Gatehouse Road, Falls Church, VA 22042
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