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9 Tricks to Design The Perfect HTML Newsletter
An e-mail newsletter is the perfect way to stay in touch with your clients or followers. Often your company or website will have numerous product updates, or possibly upcoming events you'd like to share. It's always possible to post new information to your blog or social media streams, but your audience can only go so far to reach you. In this case, e-mail is certainly not dead technology, merely untapped potential.
The process of creating and sending out a newsletter is a lot easier than one may think, but to design a custom template and build your own code — this can take a bit longer.
We have compiled some fantastic tips to get you designing high-quality HTML newsletters like never before. Even if you're a newbie to the subject you'll surely find some invaluable information to get you started in the e-mail marketing process.
Goals of a Newsletter
Before getting into the design aspects we should clarify your purpose for building a newsletter. Depending on the type of website you run, the information contained in your newsletter may vary dramatically from others, but the core purpose of a newsletter is to deliver convenient updates right to your reader's Inbox.
Heavy Internet users are likely to check their e-mail more than twice a day. Even those who are constantly busy will take the time to go through their messages at least once a day. This is the perfect time to capture attention even without requiring visits to your site. Even if nobody is clicking through your links, the information is still received, which is great for building a brand name.
Consider some of the topics you would need to offer in your design. Are you including links to signup for your service; possibly blog links, or most recently published articles on your site? The layout of your newsletter will reflect how you wish for your readers to respond, but ultimately you are looking to drum up interest and pass around some interesting tidbits of information to the masses.
1. Utilize Tables in your Layouts
This may seem a bit contradictory towards today's modern web standards, but e-mails are still archaic in their rendering engines, thus you have to build towards older models. Unfortunately tables are the easiest way to get everything working properly among the various e-mail clients. Depending on your knowledge of building table-based layouts, this might actually come as good news!
You may also wonder why div
and other block elements are not such a good idea. Most e-mail clients are built to strip away any extraneous CSS content. This means you won't be able to use much of anything except for inline CSS (and even full support is shoddy). Clients such as Microsoft Outlook 2007 and Google's Gmail have very poor support for floated elements and direct positioning.
The best solution would be to nest multiple tables inside each other. Padding and margins are not set to a particular scale between many e-mail clients. This is a reason to stick to using width="value"
on all of your table cell elements. These will always display the same width no matter which e-mail client your readers are using, so it's a lot safer and more consistent to set padding and margins using empty table cells.
2. Fixed-Width Positioning
You have a few options when building the drafts of your newsletter layout, however the best option to follow is to set fixed widths for your containing table. There are many varying monitor resolutions — you won't be able to please everybody. If you don't have particular elements with static widths, you could always use width="100%"
on your containing table. This will allow your content to fill the entire width of all e-mail clients.
However, for many this method is a little too lax. Constructive newsletters will require a fixed width in most cases, especially if you'll be using banners and images set to a particular size. I recommend working with 500px – 600px maximum document width. The horizontal screen size of the iPhone and some BlackBerry models are limited to 320px, so even at 500px your e-mail template will be scaled down to fit properly.
Considering that many mobile users choose to view e-mail without HTML anyways, this shouldn't be a huge problem. Users of desktop and webmail clients will likely experience a similar setup regardless of the Operating System they use. When in doubt create a few template designs and choose the ones you like best!
3. Pixel Units
Unless you'll be using fluid elements in your newsletter it's likely that you'll need to size a few things. Try to keep it in pixels (px) rather than in another type of unit. Percentages can easily get mixed up with the many webmail clients and software windows. With fewer page elements, fluid layouts can come out unscathed, albeit with a few bugs.
But pixels are always a sure thing. Working within the 600px max width limit, you can actually fit a lot of content inside. Exposure is easier if you split your layouts into two or three columns, and always write your sizes in pixels. The only exception may be to font sizes where ems can support your readers better, but em
sizing will differ in a similar way percentages would – so for simplicity's sake, stick to pixel-based alignments.
4. The Possibilities with CSS
It may seem like e-mail design is out to destroy the use of CSS styles. Although there are a lot of unsupported features, CSS is still perfectly acceptable in many cases. Campaign Monitor has a beautiful table of supported CSS properties listed by e-mail client. All will support the basics like font-family
and font-style
, so you can skip over the
tag if you wish.
Be cautious about your font styles as to not push the boundaries too far. If you do feel uncomfortable with inline styles, it's always possible to use the HTML font tag even though it's been deprecated. If you're a CSS designer, you don't need to quit the system, but any shorthand CSS coding may result in buggy designs. As an example the font: 12px/14px Arial,sans-serif;
shorthand can help save a lot of space, but it isn't fully accepted for e-mail design, even when it's used with inline styles.
Even your color choices should be written out longhand. Hex colors such as #ccc
or #e3f
must be written in full as #cccccc
or #ee33ff
, respectively. If you can build what you need without CSS I would recommend that path, but don't completely shy away from CSS in e-mail designs because contrary to popular belief it is supported in most cases.
5. Anchor Links Best Practices
You'll surely want to include some links into your newsletter. These could be outbound links to other pages around the web, or maybe links leading to the most popular pages on your website. Additionally most footers will contain an unsubscribe link for your readers to opt out of the e-mail process, but how should you handle all of these links in your design?
Well it should be noted first that e-mail clients are very finicky with their designs. Many will choose to overwrite your link styles, even with inline CSS. A neat trick is to include both inline color and an additional span tag within the anchor element. If the color and styling of your links are important to the overall design you'll want to take the extra precaution. I've added a small code example below:
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Hover effects are not supported in Outlook 2007/2010, Gmail, iOS or Android. You may still want to include the a:hover
style for all supporting clients: Outlook 2000/2003, Hotmail, Apple Mail, and Yahoo! mail, but personally I don't see much benefit in the partial user experience, since the anchor selectors aren't heavily supported I recommend just offering 2-3 link colors to use throughout your design.
As a presumption users will also expect your links to open in a new tab or window. Ideally the target="_blank"
attribute should be enough for all browsers to recognize this functionality, and the inclusion of this attribute on your anchor links shouldn't negatively effect e-mail software such as Lotus Notes, or Outlook either.
6. Test in All Major Clients
A recent study of most popular e-mail clients (done by Campaign Monitor) shows ten of the most popular e-mail clients in the past year. It may seem a bit tedious but designers should get into the habit of checking their newsletters on all major e-mail clients, at the very least on some of the more common clients such as Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail.
This doesn't include webmail solely, but also operating software on both Mac OS X and Windows. Also according to their diagram iOS Mail and Android have both rocketed into the top 10 list over the past few years. In fact iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad Mail ranks the #2 most popular right under Outlook! Unfortunately there isn't a way to test these without owning one of the devices — so you'll have to settle with other options.
One bug with the mobile support comes in many iPhone and Android models. Mobile e-mail rendering will often resize the text inside your template. This may not affect your design very much, but it can be annoying to some readers. Using the CSS -webkit-text-size-adjust: none;
, will ensure an even default text size throughout all parsing engines without needing to test it.
If you know any friends or colleagues who use alternative software, you may wish to ask for their help on testing the newsletter. You can either send them a copy of the e-mail to check on their device or borrow the device to actively clear out coding bugs. Luckily Outlook does offer a Mac install version so you won't need to track down a Windows user for those optimizations, but when it comes to Lotus Notes or Windows Mail, you may be out of luck.
The alternative is to pay for a solution such as Preview my E-mail, unfortunately they do not provide any free demo accounts, but their service is well renowned for offering terrific previews of your design. E-mail on Acid is a similar service which does offer a free account but does not let you test on all clients, which kind of defeats the purpose. Online rendering services should be useful if you need to test many newsletter templates over the long run without the use of alternate computers, however they are not fundamental, so don't stress if you can't test them all!
7. Always Offer Web-Based Views
Readers won't always be able (or be willing) to view your e-mail natively. Offering another version somewhere on the Web will give a sense of ease and compatibility. This process can't be completely automated unless you're looking to include a plain text version.
This way, you would strip all HTML tags from the newsletter layout. You wouldn't be able to include links or styles for anything. All content would simply be laid out as a plain text file for readers without the rendering capabilities. This is certainly a good alternative, but when you offer a full Web version of the same newsletter it takes away the damage done by any rendering bug. Most readers will be running an up-to-date Web browser which you can style and build your newsletter on and to perfection.
How you set up the page is entirely your choice. Some websites will dedicate an entire blog post to duplicating the e-mail's content, maybe with some additional information. Others will create a separate page off the main website without any direct links in the navigation. This method can be beneficial since readers won't be distracted by your main website template or sidebar content.
8. Adding Image Content
Images are another reason to offer your readers a web-based solution. By default, e-mail clients are set to strip images out of the content. If your address is added to a safe list, all images will be displayed by default, but the user has to accept this setup so it's certainly not a guarantee. Just make sure images aren't required as part of the main content, but included as an extra topping for page aesthetics.
Once you get to exporting graphics there are a few tips to building images specifically for e-mail. You'll want to always set both width and height attributes on your img
tags. Without these specifications in order, some clients will distort the image content. An alt
tag will also prove useful, so visitors will know what the image content contains before it's loaded.
As mentioned before, positioning the images in your e-mail can get tricky. Avoid using floats at all costs! The image align="left"
attribute will work much better, or alternatively map out exact table cells to fit your images along the top, left, or right side of your newsletter. You won't be able to get a perfect match-up with so many clients out there (especially mobile clients), but optimize your images and keep file sizes small for best results.
As for image storage, it's recommended that you keep all files in your own Web server. This is the better option instead of using another image host, or by uploading the files to an online newsletter service. Additionally you should separate the content for your newsletters away from the rest of your images in a folder structure like so /img/email or /img/email/2011.
9. Avoid the Spam Folder!
This can be difficult to hear, but not all e-mail clients are friendly towards newsletters. There are billions of e-mails sent every day and the majority contain spam or malicious content, thus having these security measures built into the Inbox is clearly for safety precautions.
However when it comes to Internet marketing, you can easily be discouraged to see your latest newsletter end up with the junk. To reduce the chances of this happening you should clean up your design for simplicity. Don't make annoying images or blow up your title text with hundreds of keywords.
Also try to keep your content brief and on-topic. You don't need to include full content for all of your articles or pages. Try adding a sentence or two with an alternate link out to your website in place of a long listing. The more brief your e-mail looks, the more likely it'll pass spam inspection.
Newsletter Design Gallery
What fun would an e-mail newsletter article be without some fantastic examples? There are tons of e-mail newsletter designs and templates to check out in Google. HTML E-mail Gallery is a very popular source for inspiration.
Below I've included screenshots from the many newsletters in Campaign Monitor's gallery. Hopefully these terrific layouts can provide you with some great ideas for your own designs.
Have fun designing your ideal newsletters!


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Mike Sniper, aka Blank Dogs, cleaned up his sound and embraced hi-fidelity last October with the release of Land And Fixed. Before then, the Brooklyn native was one of the more "mysterious" artists around, though he admittedly never wanted that to be the case.
According to a press release: "The anonymous thing happened in the very beginning because I didn't even have a backing band to play shows with," Sniper said. "It led to some ridiculous rumors-that I wear a mask onstage, that I'm Stephen Malkmus...funny stuff."
During that time of mystery, he began catching a steadily increasing buzz through the release of EPs, singles, and lo-fi, melodic recordings. And Sniper's just announced that many of those tunes have been compiled on Collected By Itself: 2006-2009. It's a collection of out-of-print singles, EPs, and tracks from cassettes and compilations, with none of the cuts coming from Sniper's previous full-lengths. They also hail from before his sound became a bit cleaner, so that air of thick white noise is heard throughout.
You can get a taste of that noise by streaming the track "Slow Room!" below. The compilation is due out April 26. View the track list below the Soundcloud widget.
Collected By Itself: 2006-2009 track listing:
01 Leaving the Light On
02 Slow Room!
03 Two Months
04 Before the Hours
05 Keeping All The Time
06 Freezing Styles
07 1480 Fox
08 The Tied
09 She's Violent Tonight
10 Dismorphobia
11 Doorbell Fire
12 The Other Way
13 Calling Over
14 Yellow Mice Sleep
15 Outside Alarmer
16 Waiting
17 My House is Red
18 Butler Hospital
19 Poison Ivy
20 Scenes In a New Town
21 Anywhere
22 They Said
23 Ages Ago
24 Mirror Lights
25 Splitting
26 Leaves
27 Stuck Inside the World
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A cocktail agenda for Obama
I know President Obama was joking at the White House Correspondents Dinner when he suggested it would be a burden for him to have a drink with Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell. But it doesn't have to be a joke. I'm not naive enough to believe they would solve big problems, but there are some areas where a meeting of the minds of the president of the United States and the Senate minority leader could do some good.
Here are my top three items for cocktail hour:
First, the confirmation process for senior government officials has become too slow and cumbersome. It's a disincentive for good people to offer themselves for government service. The process needs to be accelerated, which means the minority party – currently the Republican Party in the Senate – should agree to adhere to a tight schedule to vote on the president's nominees, regardless of which party holds the White House. And the Senate needs to abolish the blatantly unconstitutional process of the anonymous hold on nominations.
The president should streamline the process for vetting appointees. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Second, the president should agree to start now on his 2015 budget. Obama can make amends for his neglect and non-compliance with existing budget procedure by agreeing that next year he will submit a budget on time - or even early - after a reasonably collaborative process. The president can take the lead by submitting a budget that has a chance of impacting public spending and policy and McConnell can agree to bring Republicans to the table.
Third, Obama and McConnell can insist that the appropriations committees do their work and rationally pass funding bills. With the bully pulpit of the White House and any president's ability to guide work done by his party in Congress, Obama could have a great deal of influence on ending Washington's practice of bouncing along from continuing resolution to continuing resolution. Officials often don't know until the eleventh hour to what extent, or even whether, various programs will be funded, it is hard to undertake reforms or plan thoughtfully.
Appropriators used to be among the most influential members of Congress. Now, nobody pays attention to most appropriations bills because everybody knows they are not going to pass. A true appropriations process could help Congress and the administration address spending priorities, duplicative or unnecessary programs, or even comprehensive cost-cutting.
These are small-bore initiatives, but the walk of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Or, in this case, a single cocktail.
Ed Rogers is a co-host of The Insiders blog for the Washington Post, offering commentary from a Republican perspective.
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More of Trey and Essence, hope you like it!
The Stalker Diaries 2
More of Trey and Essence, hope you like it!
I'm starting to feel the vibe of essence becoming a little crazy herself...I understand not wanting to feel like a mole but geez don't go out look to start the drama first...hopefully she doesn't do anything that she will soon regret or that will land her in jail....Then who will be with Trey..cuz I'm pretty sure he won't be waiting on Essence to get out of jail
I agree with Coco, Lovey, and Juicy. Im sure they dont want him to go to jail or lose his career over Jasmine. But damn, what is he gonna do to help or take care of this situation. He's a lot of the reason why this is happening to her. I feel so bad for him too because who knows what hes going through too. But Im just saying...he's gonna have to do more than d*** her down when she's not feeling well shoot. They need a serious vacation, again, together and Jasmine should be taken care of at that time.... Hoe is straight Looney Bin material!


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Just the name "Zanzibar" sounds exotic, doesn't it
Trip Start
Jun 25, 2006
Trip End
Aug 01, 2007
We started out a few days ago with a short flight south from Mombasa to the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar. The island was a major hub for the Indian Ocean trade in gold, ivory, spices, and other goods as early as the 1300's. In the darkest part of its history, it was a major port to sell slaves to Arabia and Persia in the mid-1800's. The slave trade was ended in the late 1800's when the Sultan of Oman ruled the region, and the commerce through the island was so economically important that he actually moved the capital of Oman from Muscat to Zanzibar. The old town (known as Stone Town) is a really interesting mix of historic buildings (in varying states of repair) arranged around labyrinthine pedestrian streets. Actually, it reminded me a lot of the historic marketplaces in many Moroccan cities. The people are a laid-back and friendly m�lange of predominantly Africans, with a lot of Arabs and Indians mixed in. Since the island is predominantly Muslim and it being Ramadan, most restaurants were closed until sundown. We chose to hit a museum in the old royal palace and then spent the rest of the day sitting on our balcony watching life unfold in the streets below.
On our second day on Zanzibar, we headed to the northern side of the island to spend the rest of our time at the beach village of Nungwi. The drive here was quite interesting. I think this was the first time it really struck both of us that we were "in Africa". Imagine roads lined with people on bicycles laden down with reed baskets of vegetables, men driving bullock or donkey pulled carts overflowing with crates of fruit, and groups of women wearing outfits in a rainbow of colors casually walking with arms at their sides all the while toting impossibly huge loads on their heads. Most of the houses we passed on the street were traditionally constructed, framed with sticks then filled with coral rocks, plastered over with whitewashed mud, and topped with a palm thatch roof. During the very potholed inland drive we caught an occasional peek through the lush vegetation at the turquoise blue waters of the Indian Ocean lining the coast, hinting at what awaited us! After bumping our way along the rutted, trash-strewn access road for way too long, we finally arrived at what must be pretty close to paradise.
This place is dazzling! Our guesthouse sits on the edge of a powdery white sand beach lined with rough coral walls. Along the shoreline there are a number of small restaurants and shopkeepers catering to the tourists who make it this far. Dhows (traditional wooden sailing boats) anchor just offshore and fishermen in dugout outrigger canoes cast their nets in the shallows pulling up the catch of the day that is sold both to locals and to diners like us in the waterfront caf�s. In Nungwi, tourism and "real-life" seem to exist harmoniously side-by-side. Typically when we go to beaches our time is consumed by reading and dozing off, but this place is so beautiful that I find it difficult to concentrate on a page when there is such a sublime view to be taken in by just looking up. Other than the usual beach walks, swimming etc, about all we've done during our days here is taking a daytrip to snorkel at a nearby island, complete with a beach barbeque. The lunch was prepared from a silvery three-foot long whole tuna fish that our cook toted on board with him...yum! Zanzibar is one of the loveliest places I've ever seen, and certainly has the most dazzling beaches I've been to. I didn't think water could be this shade of blue!
The Tanzanian people we have encountered thus far are universally humble and soft-spoken while at the same time very friendly and sincere. It is difficult to imagine a Tanzanian being angry or aggressive; that just doesn't seem to fit the genuinely affable demeanor of anyone we've come across. Virtually everyone you pass on the street or beach greets you with a warm smile and friendly salutation. All those news media images of misery-plagued masses just don't match up with anything we have experienced thus far in Kenya or Tanzania. I truly hope that in the next few months as we progress further into the continent those words will not come back to haunt me...but for the time being we are in perfect bliss here on the idyllic beach of Nungwi.
On Saturday we are off to the island nation of Seychelles. Internet access will probably be very scarce so our next update might not be posted for a week or two.
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Every time we step outside here, it is like looking at a Ralph Lauren Paints color palette. I keep imagining rooms decorated with these blues, greens and whites, what the accent colors would be, and the one color that would be sprinkled in to give the room a little punch. We are on the west coast of the island, so the sunsets happen right over the ocean. Every night the colors are so bright and vivid with so many shades of orange and pink that it seems fake (see attached pic). I can tell that we have been away from home for quite sometime, because I am daydreaming of home improvement projects and color schemes for party decorations.
A few days ago, we spotted a lizard walking along a fence near the beach. Only this was no ordinary lizard... it was dancing and walking with robotic movements. Quite bizarre, and definitely worth checking out the attached video (if it uploads on this dial-up internet). We were thinking that the Hokey Pokey would be a good sound track!
There are many men here in traditional tribal dress, which at first looks like a cross between Halloween costume and a really bizarre combination of accessories. The red-and-black-checkered knee-length cloth tied around the waist and draped over one shoulder is the centerpiece of the outfit, and is what provides the most coverage. To accent this, a silver mesh/chain sash with little medallions hanging from it is also draped across the chest and around the waist. Sweatbands (not really, but it is the best way I can think to describe the shape) made of white beads are around each ankle and look like white athletic socks from a distance. Shoes are literally car tire treads carved and shaped in to a sole and fastened to the leg with leather cord. Several clunky silver bangles are worn on each arm, and a wooden club and a machete in a silver sheath hands from a waistband. Hair is long, straight, and in several braids down the back in a ponytail, with the bottom 3 inches of the scalp shaved. Aviator sunglasses top off the outfit. What?? Well, it is really bright here. The look is growing on me, and I am trying to convince Todd to shave the back of his scalp and to let me braid his hair... he's not in to it.
Anyhoo, yesterday on our snorkeling trip the one thing that I have been WAITING for on this trip to so many beach destinations finally happened!! I couldn't believe it and actually almost made a fool of myself on the tiny little wooden boat. The guy sitting next to us pulled out a tube of sunscreen and applied it. But it was AVEENO� CONTINUOUS PROTECTION(tm) SPF 30 for the Face!! My little baby, all the way in Zanzibar!! I couldn't believe it made it here in someone else's bag! Oh, the excitement.


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Subaru has built the world's first flat four-cylinder diesel for production cars. Europeans have been driving it in the Legacy and Outback since January, and in about a month, after the Paris Auto Show, they'll have it in the new third-gen Forester, too. Americans…well, we'll have to wait, but we could get the boxer-diesel Forester sometime in 2010. If, that is, Subaru gets the message (wink wink) that American buyers are seriously interested.
Yesterday I drove the new Forester 2.0D through the idyllic rural roads of Austria and neighboring Slovenia, and it's an appealing piece indeed. The boxer diesel is essentially an all-new engine, sharing its bore centers with Subaru's 3.0L gas six (to help reduce machining costs) but otherwise made mostly of unique parts. The twin-cam, four-cylinder mill displaces 2.0L, feeds off a common-rail fuel-delivery system, and breathes via 16 valves and a variable-nozzle turbo. Output is 145 hp at 3600 rpm but the engine makes a manly 258 lb-ft of torque at just 1800 rpm (compared with 226 lb-ft for the Forester's 2.0L turbo gas engine).
Subaru notes several advantages to the boxer's design. Most important, the horizontally opposed configuration is naturally balanced, requiring no weight- and friction-increasing counter-rotating shafts for smooth spinning. The engine is extremely compact, thanks to a bore pitch reduced 6mm over the 2.0L gas engine. An aluminum block minimizes weight, while a low-mounted turbocharger helps drop the car's center of gravity. The engine also wears a diesel particulate filter (DPF), a closed silicon-fiber honeycomb that traps particulate matter as it passes through the exhaust.
Mated to the new engine is a new six-speed manual transmission designed especially for the boxer diesel. Subaru currently has no automatic capable of handling the diesel's lofty torque output, and given the relatively low volumes anticipated for the diesel the company isn't inclined to spend big bucks on creating a new one. Expect the manual to be the one and only transmission offering when (if?) the Forester diesel eventually makes its stateside debut.
Official EPA fuel economy figures of course aren't yet available, but in Europe the Forester 2.0D is rated at an amazing 37 mpg city/highway combined. If you're a driver who likes to pour on the miles, here's your rig: With its 16.9-gallon fuel tank, the 2.0D has a range of more than 600 miles. Got a boat or a trailer? No problem. With the tank-like boxer-diesel, the Forester 2.0D can tow up to 4400 lb (compared with just 2400 lb for the gasoline-drinking, turbo 2.5L four in the Forester XT).
The engine lights off with a pushbutton starter and settles into a subdued clatter. You know right away it's a diesel, but the sound from beneath the hood isn't intrusive. Pull away from a stop and in a blink the turbo spools up and you're surging ahead. This isn't a quick car by any means: Subaru claims a 0-to-62-mph time of 10.4 seconds. Instead, think "stout." On an incline, the diesel powers up without fuss or undue shifting. On the autobahn, it hovered along at 90 mph with a refined thrum.
Aside from its new powertrain, the Forester 2.0D is otherwise the same immensely likeable and well-rounded machine that, in gas-powered form, has trumped such rivals as the Volkswagen Tiguan and the Mazda CX-7 in recent MT comparison tests. Ride is well-controlled with a polished feel, the steering arcs through bends with nice weighting and feedback, brakes are strong, and you've always got Subaru's full-time all-wheel-drive system on hand should the road turn gravely, wet, or snowy.
Two versions will be offered in Europe: the base 2.0D X and the more richly appointed 2.0D XS, which adds 17-inch alloy wheels (versus the standard 16s), HID headlamps, roof rails, and a seven-speaker surround-sound audio system, among other features. DVD navigation and leather are optional on the XS. The Forester's interior isn't as dressy as, say, the VW Tiguan's, but it's hard not to appreciate its roominess and functional simplicity.
There's a lot to like about this newest Forester. Fuel savings versus even the base 2.5X model's naturally aspirated gas 2.5L four (rated at 20/26 city/highway mpg) is significant. Towing capacity is incredible for such a modestly sized rig. The refinement is there, and so is the Forester's proven off-road capability. The Subie may not be able to rock-climb like a Land Rover, but it's a genuine SUV-albeit with far more carlike moves than truck-based rivals.
Compared with the gas Forester, the diesel will sticker for roughly 2000 euros ($2800) more in Europe. Given its superior fuel economy and enhanced "greenness" (not to mention that formidable towing prowess), the 2.0D should prove popular indeed across the Atlantic.
Even with the premium Americans currently pay for diesel fuel, the Forester 2.0D makes sense on many levels. The question is, How bad do you want it?
Send your applause Subaru's way. A few whoops and cheers wouldn't hurt, either.
BASE PRICE | $28,000 (est) |
VEHICLE LAYOUT | Front-engine, AWD, 5-pass, 5-door SUV |
ENGINE | 2.0L/145-hp/258-lb-ft turbodiesel DOHC 16-valve flat 4 |
TRANSMISSION | 6-speed manual |
CURB WEIGHT | 3400 lb (mfr) |
WHEELBASE | 103.0 in |
LENGTH x WIDTH x HEIGHT | 179.5 x 70.1 x 65.9 in |
0-62 MPH | 10.4 sec (mfr) |
EPA CITY/HWY FUEL ECON | 34/41 mpg (est) |
CO2 EMISSIONS | 0.60 lb/mi (est) |
ON SALE IN U.S. | 2010…if you want it bad enough |


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Nike Free 5.0 V4 "Deconstructed Pack": First Images
It seems that when Nike is a concept, he uses it all the way, at least that is what one may think of the treatment 'Deconstructed'. After the Air Force 1, Dunk and other Blazer, this finish gets to where it was least expected, ie on the Free 5.0 V4. Not that this is disappointing, quite the contrary, the quality seems to be to go and comfort has no doubt, but a good Air Max 1 would have been welcome. It will be available, normally at around the start of September.
Nike Free V4 5.0
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Losing five of the first seven on this 10-game homestand has left the Marlins in a precarious spot. Keeping in mind nobody figured they would factor into the National League East race this season it's conceivable the Marlins before month's end will be altogether eliminated.
Thursday's 6-0 loss to Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers at Marlins Park dropped the club's tragic number to eight with eight August games remaining. Any combination of eight Marlins' losses or Braves' wins and another year will pass without an NL East pennant.
What has been a mostly brutal stretch against top shelf teams has illustrated just how far away the Marlins are from affixing another flag to an outfield column. Since Aug. 2 the Marlins went 6-13 against the Indians Pirates Braves Royals Giants and Dodgers teams that opened play Thursday with a combined .548 winning percentage.
"We played with them this series" left fielder Christian Yelich said. "Today was the only game I thought we didn't really put up a fight. The first three games we were in it until the end…I don't think we got blown out of the water this series. We didn't win it or split it but I don't think anybody in this locker room thinks we couldn't play with those guys."
The main obstacle between the Marlins and a four-game series split with the Dodgers was Kershaw among the favorites for the National League Cy Young Award. He inched closer to claiming his second in three years after allowing five hits over eight shutout innings with three walks and six strikeouts. Kershaw became the seventh starter this season to blank the Marlins over eight or more innings.
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Advice needed asap - farrier issue Ok so denny threw a shoe afew days ago. I couldn't get off work and my sister said she could handle it after i had worked with her and denny after work for the last 4 days until the farrier could come... Well she did as i told her. Tie all the horses to there hitching rail... She had caught denny first, then bailey, then lil red, then jessie... All going well and for some reason the farrier wanted to do bailey first... Don't know why since his werent an immediate fix needed... Anywho farrier supposedly while working on bailey denny breaks his halter and gets loose... My sister gets him into the field but not by catching him but by opening the gate an he ran in... Well as farrier kept working on bailey, my sis kept trying to catch denny.. Got to the point he started his charging business again :(... Well my sis being a non horse person didn't know what to do, so the farrier tried to catch him... He gave up as well..which is understandable. Now my dilemma...i like this farrier alot as in i like the work he does. He does great work and for once i feel like i get great service for what i pay. He left without getting denny all fixed up and therefore i have a horse still without a shoe... My sis gave him a 40 dollar tip which was only 20 dollars shy of what the bill would have cost me if denny had been shoed again... I want to apologize to the farrier but i don't know how to go about it?? Any ideas?? Pls no comments on they shouldn't have been near the horse without me... This is a learned lesson!!! And i after months of him not charging since my last post i thought we were on our way to success with him being handled by a certain few of family members. But now i am back to square one and will need to start all over again and dont blame anyone but myself... So what should i say to him? |
Just call him, apologize, and thank him for trying. I'm sure he'll appreciate the call. Posted via Mobile Device |
thanks paint i will keep it simple and talk to him .. err nerve racking |
i left him a voicemail...about 20 minutes after he left which means he would have been driving seeing as i am the farthest he travels to work... so he most likely ignored my call... and he has yet to call or text me back like he usually does.. errr now i am nervous i just lost a farrier **** it!!! |
Eh I wouldn't worry about it. It doesn't sound like he got hurt? We had this happen a few weeks ago. A horse got loose and shes a crazy so was hard to catch. Farrier kept working then watched us try to catch her, he's not in the business to get hurt and there were enough people so no need for him to get involved. I did feel bad as I had been working with my mare but after the whe incident she was not having any of that standing still stuff. He worked with her though thankfully and I gave him all the extra cash I had for a tip. He will call back maybe he stopped to eat? I know I forget to call people back all the time and that's my job haha. Plus he got a pretty good tip. Posted via Mobile Device |
I don't really think it's an issue. So the horse got away. So what? One time shouldn't be a big deal for the farrier. He might be annoyed at losing money, but as long as it doesn't happen often, the farrier should get over it. As for not getting your horse done, well, what did you want him to do? Spend two hours chasing your horse down? He has other clients to see. If your horse was where he should have been, the farrier would have fixed him up. Since he was frolicking in the field chasing your sister, the farrier had no obligation to fix him. He's a farrier, not a horse-catcher. A $40 tip normally would be a bit overboard. I don't even give my farrier a tip. But since he was supposed to have gotten paid for shoeing your horse, and couldn't cause your horse got loose, I would probably have paid the guy anyway, for wasting his time. It's not his fault the horse got away. And I don't think a missing shoe requires "immediate" attention. The horse can live with waiting an extra twenty minutes while the farrier works on the other horses. Tell the farrier you're sorry the horse got loose, and that you couldn't be there. Ask if he wouldn't mind coming by to get that shoe on whenever he has time. If it's a big rush, just have one of the neighbor's farriers slap a shoe on if they're in the area. |
oh rascalboy you took my post the wrong way...i dont expect the farrier to catch my horse nor do i expect him to teach him to stand still thats my job. i am just pissed because that was the horse he was suppose to come out and fix since this was a week earlier then our original appointment to get all the horses done and none of the other horses needed to be done techincally for another 1-2 weeks. and i don't know why he wouldn't tackle that job first :/ but oh well s*** happens i just want a call back to apologize again ...i feel horrible the whole incident even happened. |
Okay, I am not sure what you are apologizing for? B/c the horse got loose? Or b/c you were unable to be there and the horse got loose? I don't see a real issue, but if it would make you feel better....I would just say I am sorry that I was unable to be there b/c I am sure he wouldn't have gotten loose if I had of been, and if i had of been there the communication that I wanted him reshod first and foremost would have not been lost. That covers it. :) |
yeap but still no call back so now i am on the hunt for a new farrier :( just my luck |
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I took almost 1000 pics at an off road race last week with my new DSLR. I insert the SD card in my MBA but can only see a thumbnail view , not full screen, of each photo without importing it into iPhoto. I have the Nikon Transfer app too but it seems to work the same. I really don't want to put a 1000 photos on my already maxed out 128gb MBA, i want to just pick out the best ones for importing. Is there an easy way to view the photos full screen without importing? Thanks!
Have you considered putting your library on an external drive? IMHO... your core problem is too small of a drive for your intended purpose. You are considering a convoluted work-flow to compensate. The alternate approach is to get an external drive, and preserve a quality workflow. BTW: The is exactly the reason I choose a large SSD for my MBA. When I am in the field... I like to import everything into my MBA... which is then backed up to the cloud nightly. I shoot RAW+JPEG... so at 30MB/picture... my library grows fast... typically several GB/day. /Jim
I'm no professional photographer. I dont have a library. I just like to take pics of my hobby. Plus I have no idea how to take a really good picture, so I snapped a lot just to get a few good ones, which I use for screensaver shots or to share with friends (my intended purpose). I dont want to keep them all...just a few, which dont take up much room on my computer. Thanks for your reply, though. Now back to my original question...
In that case... just take the SD card out of your DSLR and put it into your SD Card slot on your MBA. Navigate to the place where your pictures are stored... and double click your pictures one at a time. It should open in a large window using the "preview" application. If it doesn't open with preview, right click and select "Open with preview". (there are ways to make Preview the default if is already isn't for some reason). If you would like to quickly scroll through tons of pictures... select them all (Command-A is the fastest way)... then open them all at once in Preview. You can flick through them using the arrow keys. /Jim
Thanks! Seems so easy now I'm not too computer savvy. Exactly the help I needed. Here's one of my better pics from the race
If you're going to take that many photos on a regular basis, I'm thinking that using an external drive might be a good idea. If you create a new library and save it to the external drive, you could then import and review your pics there. With that many photos, I think it's going to be much easier (and faster) to compare photos and delete the bad ones than using Preview. You could then export your favorites and import them into the iPhoto library on your internal MBP hard drive. This way, you can have a repository with all your photos on the external drive (that can stay home if you want) and the best ones on your internal drive that you can take with you everywhere. It's something to think about.
Thanks for that info. After yours and the previous poster suggested it I bought an external drive to save pics. Seems like a good idea. I also buy smaller SD cards and fill em and save em in a safe place. Thanks all!
I wouldn't use SD cards as storage for you photos. That could get expensive quickly and become a nightmare to try and search for photos. I would recommend a second hard drive as backup.
I did get an external drive. Just stating that when I fill up a card, I don't erase it and re-use it. Rather I will stash it away in a safe place as a backup of my backup. SD cards aren't all that expensive.
SD cards are very expensive relative to hard drives, and they are not a viable backup of your backup. You should be considering something like Time Machine and/or Carbonite, but don't continue down the SD card path. I forbid you!
I appreciate all the replies. I really don't take many pics though. I paid like 6 bucks for the 8gb card that I shot like almost 1000 pics with at the KOH race. There's still some room left on it. That is a rare occurrence for me to take that many pics. The 32gb card that came with my camera is maybe 1/4 full, if that. I bought it like 3 months ago and took a lot of test pics with it. On average I would guess that I will take maybe 50 pics a month at the most. At that rate it will be a very long time before I fill a 32gb card. Sure it may cost me a few bucks to stash away that 8gb card Rather than reuse it, but I like knowing that I have a backup of my backup in case something bad happens. I just picked up an Apple time machine for backup of my MB air. Can I store my photos on there too?
Having a back up of your back up can never hurt. For digital media to be safe you should have at least three copies, in two different locations (cloud or physical location of one of your copies).


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Here is Ed's entire GM career:
Here is Ed's entire GM career:
Woj does mention that the Blazers are wanting to hire Stefanski as well, but that he is relunctant unless he is given permission to report directly under Paul Allen. I suppose if the Blazers really want him they could provide him with that concession.
I don't think that will happen. The power structure in Portland has always been an issue from my recollection. Paul Allen is a demanding owner who must be sold on every move. Larry Miller, the team president, is also very 'hands on' and there has been issues in the past of his interference - again from my recollection. All of this is tied in with Pritchard as well. Who knows what the truth is.
Woj is one of the more reliable NBA reporters though.As the Oregonian reported on Friday, Stefanski has been targeted again as a candidate in the Portland Trail Blazers' GM search. He turned down the job several years ago as a New Jersey Nets executive, and sources said Stefanski hasn't been interested in the Blazers job this time around unless he can report directly to owner Paul Allen.
I trust Woj a lot. Time and time again he has shown himself reliable. But what he says is not that Stefanski would want autonomy with the Blazers, but that he would want to report directly to Allen. This does not seem like a stretch if you look at the executives they have in place. Based on this link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ers_executives) it seems like Cho would have reported to Allen, but I may be mis-reading things.
I see the chain of command as
owner ---> president -----> GM
My interpretation would be Stefanski wants to be in a situation where the only person he has to sell on a roster/team decision is Allen. He would not want to have to go through Miller to get to Allen.
I realize I could be entirely wrong but that is my interpretation of the article.
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Alex Kennedy (HoopsWorld.com) Twitter.AlexKennedyNBA: Ed Stefanski is expected be hired as the next general manager of the Toronto Raptors, according to league sources.
Man, I'm going through withdrawals! It has come down to waiting who the next GM is. Bower or Stefanski. I say neither.
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Adrian Wojnarowski is reporting that the contract talks with Ed Stefanski and the Raptors have hit a snag
According to Woj, this has now pushed Jeff Bower and Kevin Pritchard to the front of the search! Good times!
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Who do people prefer between Pritchard and Bower?
Based on what I have read, Pritchard seems to be the favourite around here. Both have good experience in the position but have very different styles and history. Here are there Basketball Reference Pages
Bower: http://www.basketball-reference.com/...owerje99x.html
This does not show extensions like Pritchards deal with Brandon Roy.
Pritchard had the wealth of Paul Allen behind him, which gave him the ability to push the limits a little bit more. His Reference page shows that on three separate times he either bought a draft pick or a player. Pritchard does have some good second round draft picks (Hightlights: Omar Asik, Joey Dorsey, Patrick Mills, Armon Johnson) but in 4 years he did have 19 draft picks to use.
Pritchard also made some quality trades:
- Cash for Rudy Fernandez and James Jones
- Turned Joey Dorsey into Nic Batum (three team trade)
Pritchard and BC also share the distinction that they each turned Jarrett Jack into Jerryd Bayless.
Bower on the other hand worked for a penny pinching owner. In 5 years he had 8 draft picks to work for and the highlights of his picks have been Julian Wright (we know how that worked out), Darren Collison, and Cole Aldrich.
Best Trades:
- PJ Brown and JR Smith for Tyson Chandler
- Andrew Betts for Peja Stojakovic
- Jarvis Varnado for Marcus Thornton
- Tyson Chandler for Emeka Okafor
Pritchard seems to be stronger in drafting, and potentially analysis. But Bower has a stronger trade history.
Those are some pretty terrible signings, but you could argue the same thing with Pritchard based on the Brandon Roy situation. Knowing full well that a players knees are completely failing on him, and then paying him above market value despite that knowledge. I would argue that Brandon Roy's contract is currently more destructive towards the Blazers then any of those signings were towards the Hornets.
But I would agree, help on free agent signings would be big for BC. The problem is that I don't particularly see this as a Pritchard strength either. Pritchard is great with advanced metrics/statistics, and has shown the ability to pull in some quality second round picks because of that. But what are his key free agent signings that would put him as a stronger candidate then Bower?
Based solely on their track records, I'd go with Pritchard. I prefer his overall approach to team building. Especially in a market like Toronto where accumulating a variety of cost-controllable assets and exploiting inefficiencies in the system are key to building a good organization. I imagine Pritchard as an outside-the-box kinda guy and the Raptors definitely need more of that.
Especially if the new world order is a hard-cap or de facto hard cap. The rich teams will be using those saved salary monies to buy draft picks, stash players in Europe, beef up scouting and coaching departments, improve facilities, etc. Teams like Toronto will have to keep pace and be creative in doing so. Nothing in Bower's history suggests to me he is the type of creative thinker they need going forward.
I had not thought of that. Thanks.
I think Toronto will be alright though. BC has a solid track record on drafting. Also Toronto was 5th in revenue I believe. I think they will do very well in a hard cap or defacto hard cap environment. Toronto needs someone who can control Colangelo's contract offerings - I don't think Stefanski or Bower are that guy.
Am I the only one feeling that this process has been dragged out a little too long? Linsey pulled out a while ago. Now it sort of sounds like Stefanski may have as well. What's the problem here? Maybe the perception that Colangelo will be heavily hands on is bothering people?
Or that MLSE possibly has a finger in the decision making with senior hires like this?
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By Scott Foundas
The new Woody Allen film, Whatever Works — his 40th for those keeping count — signals a return for the filmmaker in more ways than one. For starters, it is his first film to shoot on location in New York since Melinda and Melinda in 2004, interrupting a half-decade European vacation during which the 73-year-old Allen has directed three films in London and one in Spain. It also marks the realization of a project he first conceived in the 1970s as a vehicle for Zero Mostel, then set aside following the actor's untimely death. The result is a light comic burlesque — a minor key but eminently pleasurable Allen confection — starring Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm mastermind Larry David as Boris Yellnikoff, an atheistic, egotistical, misanthropic physics professor whose contempt for the entire human race is lessened by his chance meeting with (and eventual marriage to) the ditzy Southern belle (Evan Rachel Wood) he finds squatting underneath his backstairs.
Allen is running late on the sunny May afternoon, when I show up at his Upper East Side editing room, tucked away inconspicuously behind a door labeled "Manhattan Film Center" on the ground floor of an otherwise residential building. It's here that Allen cuts all his films, screens them (and others) in a soundproof, green velour screening room, auditions actors for his upcoming projects (and there is always an upcoming project), and otherwise holds court. On the two previous occasions I have come here to interview him, the results have never been less than surprising, Allen holding forth with unexpected candor and ease about his films and about the cosmic matters that weigh heavy on his soul. And today is no exception, as Allen enters in his signature attire of pastel button-down, khaki trousers and well-worn brown lace-ups, apologizes for his lateness, and proceeds to talk at length about the meaning of life (or lack thereof), the trouble with actors, and the allure of younger women.
L.A. WEEKLY: The title Whatever Works suggests a philosophy of life but also a work ethic. In other words, if you make a film a year, as you do, you can't afford to sit around waiting for the muses to descend.
WOODY ALLEN: I've never been someone who's waited for the muses, because my background is in television. When I came up, we used to write shows, and if you were writing for Gary Moore or Sid Caesar — whoever it was — you had to have a show. It was live. When you came in on a Monday morning, you had to think of something. You couldn't wait for inspiration; you just had to do it. So I got used to that, and I can do it to this day. I can go into a room and — it doesn't always come out good — but I can produce something. I do think it's an ethic. It keeps you out of mischief. If you work, it keeps you distracted. It keeps you from thinking about yourself too much, about how terrible you are, about how great you are. It's certainly humbling.
I've often used this comparison: With mental patients in an institution, they give them basket weaving, finger painting and things like that to do, because the very act of working with your hands is healthful and therapeutic. It's the same thing with making a film, which is a handmade product. You have to write it, you have to go out and shoot it, then we come here and we put the film together and put the music in. For a period of time, you get two rewards: You get the reward of distraction — you don't think about the outside world, and you're faced with solvable problems, and if they're not solvable, you don't die because of it. And then, if it's the right film, you get to live in a fake reality for a number of months. So if I'm making a picture like The Purple Rose of Cairo or Bullets Over Broadway or Everyone Says I Love You, for several months, I get to live with very beautiful women and very witty men and they have costumes, and the sets are beautiful. It's a very pleasant way to waste your life.
It's funny that you mention those three films in particular because, like them, Whatever Works seems like a fantasy. The characters and the story all have a heightened, exaggerated feel.
Right, it's a cartoon tale. The mother, the father — everyone in the movie is cartoonlike.
I was also reminded of two of your more recent films, Match Point and Cassandra's Dream, both of which also concern luck, chance and the randomness of life, even though Whatever Works is actually a script you wrote more than 30 years ago. When we spoke at the time of the release of Match Point, you said, "You're always searching for control, and in the end, you're at the mercy of the hoisted piano not falling on your head." And here there is a scene in which a person falls from a window onto another person's head!
The same obsessions I had when I first started, I have now. I've been in psychoanalysis, I've been successful, I've had ups, I've had downs. I've had some hit movies, movies that failed. But with everything that's happened to me, all of my experiences, I've never been able to solve the real problems of life that have plagued every playwright since Euripides and Aristophanes. No progress has been made on the existential themes and the subject of interpersonal relations, which are still brutal and painful and fragile and very hard to make work, and which cause everybody an enormous amount of suffering and grief. Why are we here? What is the point of it all?
Take Camus' question [in The Myth of Sisyphus] of whether or not to commit suicide. Now, even the most grim people come to rationalizations where, in Camus' case, he feels that pushing the rock up the hill, the doing of it, is worth it and you don't have to succeed. But I feel — in answer to the question of why should we not kill ourselves given a meaningless, godless existence — that it's a pre-intellectual question, and that your body answers it for you. Your mind will never be able to give you a convincing justification for living your life, because from a logical point of view, if your life is indeed meaningless — which it is — and there's nothing out there, what is the point of it? Well, the point of it is only that you're too scared to terminate it because you're hard-wired, it's in your blood, to live and to want to live and to want to protect yourself. So, while I'm home babbling about how meaningless life is and how cruel and brutal and without any purpose, if there's a fire in my house, I'll go to extreme measures to save my life. And then when I've saved my life, I'll say to myself, "Why did you bother to do that?"
Even by the standards of some of the antisocial, unlikable characters you've written in the past, including the ones you yourself played in Anything Else and Deconstructing Harry, Boris seems a step beyond.
You know, at one point I was going to call this film, when I first wrote it for Zero, The Worst Man in the World. I thought it would be a funny character — a guy who is the quintessence of misanthropy and who can't fit in, doesn't want to fit in, rejects everything, just isn't someone who can deal with life or wants to deal with it. He doesn't accept it: He finds the fact that he's mortal to be unacceptable. He cannot agree to the rules of life. The characters I've played in those other movies were certainly in that direction but not as extreme as I wanted to make the character of Boris.
Did you, at any point in the past three decades, consider playing the role yourself?
No, because when I thought of it for Zero, I thought of it as a part for a fat man. I thought of him as a big, aggressive physicist, a Russian chess genius who had no time for "microbes" and "earthworms." And I can't do that. My source of comedy is more victim — I find myself frightened when I hear the noise in the other room, that sort of thing. This guy was grandiose. It was hard to think of people who could play him now, and then [casting director] Juliet Taylor mentioned Larry, whom I had worked with very briefly before and whom I knew from Curb Your Enthusiasm. But it seemed to me that he could do it, because on his television show he's very authentic. He's not an overacter or a fake posturer. Of course, he told me up and down the line how he couldn't do it, how he's not an actor and this and that, and then I knew he'd be great. Because it's the ones like Diane Keaton, who tell you how bad they are, who always come through. It's the ones who tell you how great they are who never come through.
People who can act are naturals. Over the years, I've met and worked with people who studied all over the place, and if they had natural talent, it was great. If they didn't, the fact that they had studied didn't mean anything. I've gotten guys off the street — literally off the street — who come in here and, when they speak, they're un–self-conscious and authentic. Whereas, with a lot of professional actors, they come in to meet for a part and we'll be chatting like we're chatting now, and they're just fine. Then, they read the part and they go into their acting mode, and everything about them suddenly becomes inauthentic. They feel they have to do something to the material or they're not justifying their paycheck. So they start acting it, and you don't want them to act it; you want them to just say it. If they're supposed to be a salesman, you want them to be a salesman like you'd experience a salesman. But they don't. They start playing a salesman.
The real revelation in the film, I think, is Evan Rachel Wood, who has been very strong in a number of movies but who hasn't had an opportunity to play this sort of 1930s screwball ingénue.
I had never heard of her, and my wife said you should look at this girl Evan Rachel Wood, because I saw her in one or two movies and she's just great. Then a few days after that, [production designer] Santo Loquasto was talking to me and he said the exact same thing. So I checked her out and saw that she was a remarkable actress — complicated and dark, really exceptional. I didn't know if she could do comedy or not. I thought she could, and she agreed to do it, so I assumed she wouldn't agree to do it if she didn't think she could. And so she did it and she was incredibly good. I said to her, "It's a Southern girl, you're going to have to do a Southern accent," and she wouldn't do it for me, wouldn't show me her Southern accent until we shot. Now, I can empathize with that. It's risky, because if she couldn't do it, I would have been in very serious trouble. But she did it, and she just did it great.
On the other hand, Ed Begley Jr. [who plays Wood's father] had no idea he was going to be required to do a Southern accent. He came to New York, got into costume, came to the set. The first shot we shot in the movie was with him, and he had no idea. I said, "You know you're going to have to play this with a Southern accent. You do do a Southern accent, right?" He said, "Well, I think I can." I said, "Okay, because I assumed you knew that when you read it." But he didn't, and he just simply did it. So much for all this meticulous preparing.
So much for The Method.
I was with a Japanese lady yesterday, who was in town doing interviews because Vicky Cristina Barcelona is opening in Japan. She asked me what pictures I've liked [recently] and I mentioned Rachel Getting Married, which was a picture I liked very much. She said she had interviewed Jonathan Demme and he had said it was the first time he shot a picture without rehearsals, and of course everyone in it was great and it was a wonderful picture. I, on the other hand, have never done rehearsals. I just don't think they're necessary. And yet, there are directors — great directors, like Ingmar Bergman — who would rehearse and rehearse. I wouldn't know what to do at a rehearsal. When I was in Paul Mazursky's Scenes From a Mall, he did extensive rehearsing, and he's a wonderful guy and a wonderful director, but I thought it was nuts at the time. I thought, "How do you have the patience for this?" But that's how he works. I just never put a minute's thought into it beforehand, to the point where an actor will come to the set not even knowing he's got to do a Southern accent. And yes, I could have been very traumatized if he had said, "Oh, I can't do a Southern accent. I just can't do one. If you need British, fine, but I can't do Southern." So I've been lucky that way, that I haven't run into a catastrophe. It's the same thing if there's a scene with a lot of physical action. I work it out with the cameraman and bring in the actor with no rehearsal and say, "Start over here and go over there and pick up a cigarette and then come over here," and 99 percent of the time that's exactly what they do and it looks fine. Once in a great while, someone will say, "I don't know what I'm doing over there. I'd feel better walking over to the window." And I always say, "So, walk to the window."
The film suggests that Boris is redeemed, humanized in a way by his encounter with this much younger woman, and you yourself have said that you've found a happiness with your wife, Soon-Yi, that you never imagined you would find with a younger Korean woman who has no connection to the film industry.
In fiction, that was even a theme as far back as Manhattan, that in this presumably more innocent, younger person — before they get spoiled by the world — that one can find a certain happiness. Mine was very good luck, personally, that way, but that has always been an idea of mine going back quite far. Even Annie Hall, when you think of it, was kind of a naive girl from Chippewa Falls, who was young and came to New York and knew nothing and was a real hick, a rube, with all her colloquial expressions but with the thought that she would become a mature woman. At that time, she represented for me the same kind of freshness.
When we spoke last year, you were just about to come to Los Angeles to direct your first opera, Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, and you joked that you were going to skip town quickly before anyone had the chance to tar and feather you for it.
It turned out in the end to be quite a pleasant experience, because I was surrounded by gifted people. The cast was wonderful; I didn't cast them, they gave me the cast. The conductor was wonderful. It was just a pleasure. And, of course, I was working with a piece of material that's great. It was the first time I directed anything that wasn't mine, and so I could devote myself strictly to directing. I didn't have to write and constantly patch up bad writing. This is what I'm doing all the time in my own films. They're always an original script, and they're all full of mistakes. It's not like it's a Broadway show, where I take it out of town and iron the kinks out. With a movie, this is it, so I'm rewriting all the time and fixing and helping and adjusting. Here, Puccini has a little masterpiece both musically and in terms of the story, so all I had to do was mount it. Now, it's a short opera, and I don't think I could do Aida with the elephants.
Is there anything you can say about the film you are preparing to shoot this summer, other than that it takes place in London again and stars Naomi Watts?
You know the full cast, right? Anthony Hopkins, Frida Pinto, Josh Brolin, Antonio Banderas. The cast is great. It's a comedy-drama, I can tell you that. It's a comic film but comic in the way that either Vicky Cristina or Hannah and Her Sisters was. It's not comic like Bananas. This is real, with a serious side to it but hopefully a reasonable amount of laughs. Hopefully.
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Mary Beth Aiello 5/4/2008 7:00:21 AM
Kara -- This is absolutely beautiful. And a winning monthly theme entry. #914563Nikki McDonald 5/4/2008 7:08:02 AM
Great idea, beautifully captured, Kara. Perfect monthly theme and perfect for spring with the fresh yellow and green on the white background. #5881540Anna Diederich 5/4/2008 7:08:42 AM
Kara, I just love this! Beautiful color and perfect for the monthly theme! #5881543Katarina Mansson 5/4/2008 8:07:36 AM
Brilliant for the MT and soooo beautiful! Love the composition, colors and title. A true "Kara picture"! #5881915Dominick M. Dimacale 5/4/2008 9:12:43 AM
So lovely, Kara, right on for the MT.
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Sheila D. Robertson 5/4/2008 10:06:53 AM
Kara....you really nailed this one. It's perfect! #5882422Les Rhoades 5/4/2008 10:10:17 AM
Wonderful flowers...good luck in the MT...this is a killer "flower" photo. #5882429Datha Y. Thompson 5/4/2008 10:51:29 AM
EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!! :0) #5882539Stephanie Frey 5/5/2008 5:29:00 AM
Wonderful ideal! Beautifully done. #5885492Kara L. Hendricks 5/5/2008 6:45:03 AM
Thanks so much! #5885553Robert Baer 5/8/2008 7:08:49 AM
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Thank you! #5899864Erica Murphy 5/9/2008 9:12:35 AM
Kara, this is lovely!!! #5904735Kara L. Hendricks 5/9/2008 12:15:03 PM
Thanks! #5905362Colleen Farrell 6/16/2008 12:39:42 PM
I can see why this is your favorite for May, Kara! How did you do that? Was it PS? I can't imagine the flowers actually growing that way but it looks so real! Awesome floral and perfect for the MT!! (Oh, are they not real flowers?!) #6066886Kara L. Hendricks 6/16/2008 5:25:45 PM
Thanks Colleen.. I simply twisted them and held them till they stayed.... They kept unravelling on me so I had to shoot quick... They ARE REAL!..:)) #6067779Corinne M. Thompson 6/19/2008 8:44:59 AM
Congrats on your Finalist for this wonderful image Kara! #6078220Jennifer L. Alder 6/19/2008 9:17:43 AM
A wonderful finalist, Kara, congrats! :) #6078549Christian Rosito 6/19/2008 10:05:55 AM
Great finalist Kara, excellent image! #6079160Elida Gutierrez 6/19/2008 11:20:18 AM
Congratulations for your Finalist!!! #6079984Leslie McLain 6/19/2008 12:20:51 PM
Congrats on your fantastic finalist! #6080409Kara L. Hendricks 6/19/2008 12:33:11 PM
Thank you all so much!!! #6080481Cheryl E. Davis 6/19/2008 4:07:57 PM
WTG, Kara! You are hitting it big this month! Congrats on the Finalist! Wonderful shot! #6081333Sam Britt 6/19/2008 5:11:46 PM
Congratulations again, Kara! #6081661Colleen Farrell 6/19/2008 6:55:11 PM
Your May fave! Big congratulations on this amazing finalist, Kara! #6082075Kara L. Hendricks 6/19/2008 7:42:10 PM
Thanks so much!!! #6082275Debra R. Harder 6/19/2008 8:18:39 PM
WOW, Kara!! You are so CREATIVE!! BIG CONGRATULATIONS on another SUPERB finalist!! Deb #6082470Datha Y. Thompson 6/19/2008 8:55:32 PM
YES!!! Congratulations LOVE it!!! Absolutely a FAV :0) #6082659Jessica Jenney 6/20/2008 5:06:13 AM
Congratulations, Kara on your beautiful finalist! #6083933Stephanie Frey 6/20/2008 5:39:36 AM
Congrats on your finalist! #6084050Terry L. Ellis 6/20/2008 6:00:16 AM
Congratulations, again, Kara! Another beautiful finalist! It's your month, girl! #6084166Kara L. Hendricks 6/20/2008 6:36:43 AM
Thank you!!!!!!! #6084375Colleen Farrell 6/20/2008 12:31:17 PM
Woohoo!! WTG, Kara! Congrats on your win! #6085767Jennifer L. Alder 6/20/2008 12:58:13 PM
BIG CONGRATS, Kara, AGAIN!! Awesome winning image :) #6086031Anita Hogue 6/20/2008 12:58:42 PM
Congratulations on both your big wins, Kara! #6086037anonymous 6/20/2008 1:09:41 PM
Congratulations Kara on your Beautiful win! B- #6086146Jessica Jenney 6/20/2008 1:22:04 PM
Congratulations, Kara on your beautiful win! #6086225Linda D. Lester 6/20/2008 1:56:36 PM
Awesome...Congratulations! #6086425Kara L. Hendricks 6/20/2008 1:57:58 PM
Thank you all!! I am smiling!!! #6086434Bojan Bencic 6/20/2008 3:09:03 PM
Congratulations, Kara! #6086720Judy V. Kennamer 6/20/2008 3:21:24 PM
GORGEOUS!! CONGRATS KARA! #6086774Susan Fox 6/20/2008 4:19:40 PM
Congrats Kara!!!!!! #6086963Bob Cournoyer 6/20/2008 4:31:04 PM
Way to go again, Kara!!! #6086990Kara L. Hendricks 6/20/2008 4:36:17 PM
Thanks alot guys!!! #6086995Jill Flynn 6/20/2008 6:41:14 PM
Great title and inspiring! Congratulations on another wonderful win Kara. Way to go this month! #6087456Elida Gutierrez 6/20/2008 8:23:26 PM
CONGRATULATIONS!!!Renee Doyle 6/20/2008 9:56:04 PM
Double GOLD, DOUBLE Congratulations Kara!!!! Just fabulous!! #6088100Tarun Bose 6/21/2008 1:36:42 AM
Big congrats Kara for your excellent winner. #6088554Les Rhoades 6/21/2008 3:42:48 AM
Love it! Love it!Colette M. Metcalf 6/21/2008 3:56:04 AM
CONGRATULATIONS once again, Kara! WTG!!!! #6088859Kara L. Hendricks 6/21/2008 7:11:54 AM
Thank you all!! #6089716Bill Knaps 6/21/2008 7:38:28 AM
Congrats on your well deserved win Kara on this beautiful capture. Bill #6089833eileen bedford 6/21/2008 12:22:54 PM
Congratulations Kara, well done......... #6090646Laura L. Gonzales 6/21/2008 12:45:24 PM
Congratulations Kara on your beautiful win!!!!! Laura #6090671Sharon Day 6/21/2008 1:01:56 PM
Gorgeous shot, Kara!!! Perfect isolation! Big congratulations again!! #6090706Terry L. Ellis 6/21/2008 1:23:43 PM
An excellent win, Kara! Congratulations, again! #6090765Kara L. Hendricks 6/21/2008 2:17:10 PM
Thank you all!!! #6090877Stephanie Frey 6/21/2008 3:59:40 PM
Congrats on your beautiful win Kara! #6091128Kara L. Hendricks 6/21/2008 5:42:08 PM
Thanks alot!! #6091297Amanda Chapman 6/22/2008 4:22:34 AM
CONGRATS KARA!!!Kara L. Hendricks 6/22/2008 5:59:58 AM
Thank you Amanda!! #6092566Leslie McLain 6/22/2008 8:19:28 AM
Congratulations on your fantastic winner. #6092972Kara L. Hendricks 6/22/2008 2:05:01 PM
Thanks!!! #6093842Michelle R. Kovach 6/23/2008 11:19:41 AM
Congratulations Chica! Lovely winner! #6097716Kara L. Hendricks 6/23/2008 4:17:51 PM
Thanks Michelle! #6098580Wally Orlowsky 6/24/2008 5:42:32 AM
Congratulations on another marvelous winner, Kara! #6100595Kara L. Hendricks 6/24/2008 6:03:58 AM
Thank you Wally! #6100671Dr Silly 7/2/2008 6:40:36 AM
Congratulations Kara on this wonderful negative space GOLD. :O)Kara L. Hendricks 7/2/2008 6:41:53 AM
Thank you Doc!! #6132045Dominick M. Dimacale 7/6/2008 3:24:28 PM
Congratulations Kara on your Win.
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Thank you Dominick! #6147171Usman M. Bajwa 4/19/2012 8:53:31 PM
Belated CONGRATZ on this terrific capture and Gold Winner, Kara!UB. #10099909
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The rumor mill appears to have it right. For the past year, Google has been running a service codenamed Bouncer. The service scans new apps, apps already in Android Market, and developer accounts for malware. Here's Google's take on how Bouncer works:
"Once an application is uploaded, the service immediately starts analyzing it for known malware, spyware, and trojans. It also looks for behaviors that indicate an application might be misbehaving, and compares it against previously analyzed apps to detect possible red flags.
We actually run every application on Google's cloud infrastructure and simulate how it will run on an Android device to look for hidden, malicious behavior."
That's good news.
It won't work
No more than thirty seconds after I finished reading the press release, my friend — an Apple-enthusiast — called. "You know, it won't work," he snapped, no hello, no how's it going. "They have the nerve to say malware in Android Market has been decreasing. That's just wrong."
I then realized he was referring to this part of the news bulletin:
"The service has been looking for malicious apps in Market for a while now, and between the first and second halves of 2011, we saw a 40 percent decrease in the number of potentially-malicious downloads from Android Market.
This drop occurred at the same time that companies who market and sell anti-malware and security software have been reporting that malicious applications are on the rise. While it's not possible to prevent bad people from building malware, the most important measurement is whether those bad applications are being installed from Android Market and we know the rate is declining significantly."
Fast forward four days
My friend calls again. I'm really hoping for a hello this time. Nope. "Did you read Andy Greenberg's latest article?" he asked. "Bouncer is so screwed. Your Android bug hunter, Professor Jiang has found a workaround."
That got my attention. Dr. Xuxian Jiang, Assistant Professor at North Carolina State, is not one to ignore. I have relied on his expertise time and time again.
Google Bouncer and RootSmart
I read Andy's article and started to get excited — alarmed would be more accurate. It seems Dr. Jiang and his research team discovered RootSmart, a malware variant that initially appears to be benign, allowing it to sail through scanner and permission checks. After it's settled, RootSmart attempts to download the nasty malware from remote servers.
This must be what my friend was referring to — RootSmart could potentially fool Bouncer.
Then I read Andy's update to the article. It appears Google has patched the hole exploited by RootSmart. Still, scrupulous bad guys could find another exploit vector. I thought I should check things out, then get the word out. So I contacted Dr. Jiang to get the details. Here's what he had to say.
Kassner: Your latest Android malware trophy is RootSmart. There is significant buzz about this malcode. Why is that? Jiang: RootSmart is an interesting piece of Android malware that can dynamically fetch code from a remote command and control (C&C) server for execution. The downloaded code contains a root exploit that — if successful — can bypass the built-in security mechanism in Android. Kassner: I've read on your blog that RootSmart is similar to Gingermaster — the first root exploit to target Android version 2.3 — with one exception. Would you explain what that is? Jiang: Very good question. The difference is that in RootSmart, the root exploit is dynamically fetched from a remote server while GingerMaster encloses the root exploit in itself. In other words, RootSmart will be much stealthier by not containing the root exploit. Kassner: Your blog mentions that GingerBreak is the malware RootSmart downloads to obtain root access. I've heard that Google patched the vulnerability GingerBreak attacks. To be sure, I contacted Google and one of their spokespersons offered the following:"Every Android device updated after May 2011 has had GingerBreak patched. We explicitly test for it in our Compatibility Test Suite, and we won't approve a device that has the exploit present.
The corollary here is that there are other methods to protect users beyond a malware scanner. This speaks to Android's defense in depth approach, not a reliance on any specific user-protection measure."
That said, Dr. Jiang, is GingerBreak a requirement?
Jiang: Not necessarily, the malware could download other types of root exploits. Meanwhile, I have to say even though the GingerBreak exploit is patched, there are Android devices that run old and vulnerable versions of Android. Kassner: I wasn't real clear on what happens when RootSmart phones home. So I asked Android expert and fellow TechRepublic writer, William Francis for his help. Francis: To answer your question, saying an app "phones home" is just that, a saying. By that I mean it's not really using the phone to dial home but a TCP/IP socket. That means no root privilege is required. In fact, any app that has the INTERNET privilege could theoretically "phone home".What does require root access is installing and executing arbitrary code. So while an app could phone home without root privileges and even download malware to the device (if the app also had local SD write permissions), without the root exploit the app could not install or run that malicious code.
Kassner: Now to the question everyone is asking. Google has just released information about their new service Bouncer. It supposedly will locate and remove apps containing malware from Android Market. Will exploits like RootSmart fool Bouncer? Jiang: It is an arms race. I won't say RootSmart will fool Bouncer, but it will certainly pose some challenges for its detection. Kassner: I'm curious if mobile antivirus apps will recognize RootSmart when it's first installed on the phone? And, is the answer different if RootSmart downloads the actual malware payload? Jiang: You can see the current detection rate of RootSmart at this link. Basically, among 43 anti-virus engines hosted at VirusTotal, eight of them are now able to detect this piece of malware. If the malware downloads the actual malware package, I suspect more anti-virus engines will detect the downloaded malware package, but not necessarily RootSmart itself. Kassner: Do you have any suggestions/precautions we should be following to avoid RootSmart? Jiang: Please see my blog on possible mitigation. Basically follow common-sense guidelines for smartphone security. For example:- Download apps from reputable app stores that you trust; and always check reviews, ratings, as well as developer information before downloading.
- Check the permissions on apps before you actually install them and make sure you are comfortable with the data they will be accessing.
- Be alert for unusual behavior on the part of mobile phones and make sure you have up-to-date security software installed on your phone.
Would they be willing to help this writer and his inbox out?
Jiang: They are wonderful Ph.D. students to work with — motivated about learning and passionate on identifying mobile threats. This is why they work on very advanced research projects dealing with smartphone and virtualization security. The entire team is dedicated to monitoring and identifying emerging Android malware and threats.Final thoughts
The Google spokesperson wanted me to make it clear that RootSmart was not found in Android Market:
"Bouncer is not relevant to this discussion, because Bouncer is focused on malware in Android Market. Dr. Jiang's findings do not concern any apps in Market."
For the moment that is true. The cat and mouse game continues.
A special thanks to Dr. Jiang, his research team, and William Francis.
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Cadillac Seville / Cadillac Eldorado Forum Discussion, Carbon build up on the intake.... in Past Cadillac Vehicle Discussion; Last nite I cleaned the TB on my 98 STS that has 130,000. The stuff was an 1/8" thick on ...
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Carbon build up on the intake....
Last nite I cleaned the TB on my 98 STS that has 130,000. The stuff was an 1/8" thick on the back side of the throttle blade and a 1/8" thick rim of the crap behind the throttle blade!!! Looking down the inside of intake it looked as bad if not worse! So I cleaned the TB up to the intake and boy did the throttle responce pick up when I test drove it!
Is the paper air filter doing a good enough job keeping the dirt out? Why is this happening? Too much blow by? My car does not use hardly any oil either...
I'm going to clean the intake too....as there must be a ton of power robbing gunk in the intake....a clean intake will flow so much better I can only imagine how much more the engine will pick up some hp's and run better!!!!Can someone who has removed an intake from the Northstar give me a heads up to how much work this is and what envolved?
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Re: Carbon build up on the intake....
Forget about the crud on the inside of the manifold; it is only harmless unburned petroleum products that is common to all "dry" intake manifolds (there is no gasoline spray to wash it off). Continue to keep the throttle blade clean every 40,000 to 50,000 miles to prevent a sticky throttle condition at off-idle.
Re: Carbon build up on the intake....
I did this about a month ago.
I used a plastic scraper to remove the build up. There was so much of it that I could actually stick the scraper in the "cake" and it would stay there. I (as you did) notice the intake was also full of it too. I purchased the gaskets for the throttle body and replaced the intake gaskets as well (they are reusable as well), I just did not want to be stuck without them when putting it back together (if worn) which they were.
Cleaning the intake was a choir. There is no easy way to clean the inside. TB cleaner only did so much, scraping it was the only way and that was inpossible, unless you have tooth picks for arms. I think it would have been easier to have it hot tanked. Maybe look around for a shop that can do it for you. Take the intake to them. If I knew then what I know now, that's what I would have done.
Anyways, I just used Spray Nine, let it sit for 5 minutes then rinse with hot water. Did that about ten times. Used compressed air to get most of the water out, and let it sit over night. By morning it was bone dry. - Sponsored Links Remove Advertisements
Re: Carbon build up on the intake....
My clean tank has non flamable cleaning solution or simple green would work. I think it would increase flow if it were cleaned up. I would never put down a intake that is this bad on my 68 gto....it would kill my port/port match work that I have done to the RPM intake I use. I think my N* would really pick up if it were clean...what causes this to happen to the intake?
Re: Carbon build up on the intake....
I have a really long tappered bristle brush...pickup a hardware store. I used it on my RPM after I ported it. I think hot tanking it might warp it. Maybe I'll port match it since I have it off already.
Re: Carbon build up on the intake....
Mike how did the run after you cleaned the intake?
Re: Carbon build up on the intake....
interesting post. Where are the throttle blades located and do you have to remove anything to get to them?
Re: Carbon build up on the intake....
Pay attention to JimD. What you are seeing in the intake is coming from the PCV. Clean it and it will be back in short order. Don't waste your time. Clean the TB yearly and it will be much easier.
I assume you are talking about a Northstar, you don't say, (4.9 is a little different). You need to remove the intake ducting and MAF sensor. Throttle plate is inside the TB bore (much like the lower portion of a carb). Do a search. It has been discussed many times. I think there are some posts with pics in the Tech Tips section. - 03-03-06 03:44 PM #9
Re: Carbon build up on the intake....
Thanks RANGER. I was talking about a Northstar motor in my 95 STS.
Re: Carbon build up on the intake....
Honestly, I did not notice a difference (performance wise). The TB was sticking, thats why I started to clean it, and didn't stop. I did also notice the (see attached) red arrows on the left were almost pluged from the inside. I did not see the restrictions from outside with the tubes pulled off, pipe cleaner did the trick there. This is what I observed.
The arrow on the far right - this is a spring loaded flap. It was extremely "caked" up. I'm not exactly sure what it does but, it's in fine flapping order now.
I did notice there was no more puff's of smoke coming out the exhaust when I floored it.
It also appears to excelerate smoother. - 03-03-06 05:59 PM #11
Re: Carbon build up on the intake....
Those tubes you indicated are where various vacuum lines are connected.
The flapper you talk about at the front is an over pressurization valve. Basically a spring loaded trap door. In the event of an overpressurization (backfire), it is forced open and the pressure is relieved rather than blowing up the intake. - 03-03-06 08:45 PM #12
Re: Carbon build up on the intake....
Thanks for the clarification.
Would it make sence that the various vacuum line connections on the intake would become pluged? I do recall using a flash light to see if I could "see the light at the end of the tunnel", but I was unable to. I guess over time this would be possible without proper maintenance. I think now that I have it cleaned up, the WOT's would now be part of my preventitive maintenance schedule to stop this kind of build up in the future. I don't think (aside from my cleaning efforts) WOT's or fuel additives would have cleared that out. Am I wrong?
Appologies, not my post, but I think it's relevant. - 03-03-06 09:04 PM #13
Re: Carbon build up on the intake....
I have never heard of the vacuum ports becoming clogged and would not expect it as the inside of the manifold is usually nothing more than an oily residue.
Remember, the WOT proceedure is to clean out the combustion chamber. It does nothing for the intake manifold or TB. - Sponsored Links Remove Advertisements