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Especially chosen for this voyage, our team of expert leaders and lecturers serves to bring a comprehensive educational component to your adventure through lectures, guided excursions, and daily recaps.
Russ Evans (Expedition Leader)
Russell Evans is a 6th generation Falkland Islander who grew up working on farms on Pebble and Saunders Islands. In the mid 1990s, Russell left farming to pursue his interest in the sea and small boats (especially sail boats), and he went to work crewing and skippering commercial work boats for island companies. He has spent the past few years as dive boat support, assisting with scientific research and medical evacuations, conducting sightseeing trips to local islands, and working with cruise ships that visit the region.
Kelsey Simmons
Kelsey is a graduate of the University of Washington Art History program and came to Zegrahm Expeditions with a passion for travel. After graduating from UW in 2006 and studying abroad in Rome, Kelsey spent time traveling in Europe and living in various places along the west coast. Ultimately, her love for the Pacific Northwest brought her back to the Seattle area where she currently lives, with her Alaskan malamute. By nature Kelsey is very friendly, dedicated, and detail-oriented.
Michael Moore
A Chicago native, Mike earned both his B.S. in biology and an M.S. degree in ecology, ethology, and evolution at the University of Illinois. Since then he has spent 10 years conducting research around the Pacific Rim, where he lived in the highlands of New Guinea, logged hundreds of hours beneath its waters working for conservation organizations, and taught field biology courses for the University of PNG.
Kevin Clement
Although his specialty is subarctic ecology, Kevin's work as a naturalist and adventure travel guide has taken him from his home in the Pacific Northwest to all seven continents. In 1995 he became a Certification Instructor for the Wilderness Education Association and in 1997 joined the adjunct faculty of the University of Alaska. That same year he initiated an outdoor leadership program for the non-profit Foundation, leading students on month-long backcountry courses. He has worked in several national parks and has guided groups in whitewater rafts, in sea kayaks, and on foot.
Brad Climpson
Brad was born in Sydney, Australia and has lived for the last 20 years in North Queensland, on the edge of the Great Barrier Reef. In 1996 he earned a Bachelor of Science degree majoring in marine biology and zoology at James Cook University, Townsville. With the Great Barrier Reef serving as both playground and laboratory, Brad has developed an intimate knowledge of how complex reef systems work.
Rob Dunbar
Professor Rob Dunbar is the Vicky and Roger Sant Director of the Earth Systems Program and Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. In the fall of 2001, he also became the first director of Stanford's new Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Environment and Resources. In over twenty trips to Antarctica, Rob has conducted extensive research on oceanography, glaciology, and climate dynamics.
Conrad Field
A resident of Homer, Alaska, Conrad is a professional naturalist and biologist as well as an accomplished artist in the media of pen-and-ink and scrimshaw. He and his wife, Carmen, own Northcountry Nature, a small natural history publisher, and together have written and published guides and children's books on marine life. Since 1989 Conrad has been a naturalist-lecturer aboard a variety of expedition vessels, primarily in polar and sub-polar regions, including more than 70 voyages to the Antarctic.
Jeff Gneiser
Mountaineer, ski instructor, sailor and scuba diving professional - all of these titles describe Jeff's ability to share the outdoors with others. His appreciation for nature's pristine beauty and awesome power is rivaled only by his love for the sea. Jeff spent his summers working on charter boats, sailing and taking passengers scuba diving. After graduating with a bachelor of science in computer/electrical engineering at the University of Colorado, Jeff returned to the travel industry as a dive instructor and expedition leader. In the past decade, Jeff has earned his 100-ton U.S.
Ellen McIlvaine
Ellen grew up exploring the mountains and rivers of Idaho where she whet her curiosity for adventure. She completed her degree in theater and sociology in India and has studied, lived, worked, and traveled extensively throughout Asia. Eager to work with intrepid travelers and on true expeditions, Ellen joined the Zegrahm team in July of 2012 and has worked as an Expedition Advisor, Project Manager, and Cruise Director. When she isn't in the Zegrahm office or on an expedition, Ellen teaches yoga and explores the Pacific Northwest from her home base in Seattle.
Dan Olsen
Dan has spent the last 10 years in Seward, Alaska, as a kayak guide, mountain guide, naturalist, and captain of a 150-guest tour boat, looking for whales, seals, puffins, and glaciers. Dan studies acoustic killer whale dialects to identify pods (families) by their calls, and is currently working on a Masters degree thesis on killer whale foraging habitat. In addition, Dan has performed improv comedy, flamenco guitar, and fire juggling! Don't expect to see the fire juggling...
Rick Price
Rick Price began his career as a marine biologist in 1978, working for the British Antarctic Survey. He spent five winters at the BAS base on Signy Island in the South Orkney Islands, two of them as Base Commander. In 1988, he was awarded the Polar Medal by Her Majesty the Queen at Buckingham Palace. Life as a marine biologist sparked an interest in underwater photography that evolved into a career as a freelance wildlife cameraman.
Tom Sharpe
Originally from Glasgow, Scotland, Tom is a graduate of the universities of Glasgow and Leicester and has spent the last 35 years as a geology curator in the National Museum of Wales. He is a Chartered Geologist, a Fellow of the Geological Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, as well as a member of a dozen other geological and polar societies. Tom has over three decades of experience of interpreting geology for a wide range of audiences, through talks, lectures, field trips, exhibitions, and publications.
Brent Stephenson
Brent was born in New Zealand and has been a birder since childhood. In 2005 he completed a goal he had from a young age, with the conclusion of his Ph.D., studying the breeding biology of Australasian gannets in New Zealand. This further heightened his interest in seabirds, and in 2003, along with Sav Saville, he rediscovered the "extinct" New Zealand storm-petrel, a bird known previously from only three museum specimens collected during the 1800s. With support from National Geographic, he led a team conducting further research on this enigmatic seabird.


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'Finding Mr. Right': Pregnant and predictable in Seattle
A two-star movie review of "Finding Mr. Right," a predictable Chinese rom-com that pays homage to Nora Epron's "Sleepless in Seattle."
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'Finding Mr. Right,' with Tang Wei, Wu Xiubo, Song Meihui. Written and directed by Xue Xiaolu. 121 minutes. Not rated; suitable for general audiences. In Chinese and English, with English subtitles. Pacific Place.
We can only wonder what the late Nora Ephron would've thought of the Chinese rom-com "Finding Mr. Right," which was a big hit in China last spring. It's the second film (after 2010's "Ocean Heaven") from writer-director Xue Xialou, who pays homage to Ephron's "Sleepless in Seattle" with a bright, sentimental bauble that's blandly generic and predictable from the get-go.
Xue isn't alone in honoring Ephron's 1993 hit. Her lead character, Jiajia (Tang Wei), is hooked on the movie's unabashed romanticism, despite being the pregnant, spoiled mistress of a shady Beijing fat cat who's under criminal investigation. To avoid scandal, she's sent to Seattle to have her child in a clandestine (i.e. illegal) maternity center, where Frank (Wu Xiubo) works as the driver who picks up Jiajia at Sea-Tac airport.
Jiajia recognizes Frank as the Beijing physician who'd once treated her father; he'd sacrificed his career to care for his daughter Julie (Song Meihui) when his wife took a lucrative, Seattle-based job in pharmaceuticals. For reasons that aren't even remotely convincing, Frank hasn't told Julie that he and her mother have divorced.
This setup is never less than obvious, prompting Jiajia to stop being a spoiled brat as she and Frank grow closer. Later separated by time and distance, they reunite in New York. You can probably guess where.
While Seattle gets the rainy-glossy, picture-postcard treatment (scenes were filmed here and in Vancouver in late 2012), "Finding Mr. Right" goes through the motions you'd expect from a film so boringly titled. To be fair, though, it does touch upon the notion of Seattle (and the U.S.) as a sensible escape from the garish materialism of Beijing and Hong Kong.
While fueling a current boom in frothy Chinese rom-coms, it's a tolerably cute showcase for Tang Wei, once banned from Chinese films for appearing in Ang Lee's controversial "Lust, Caution" and now restored to stardom.


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'Here Comes the Boom' Trailer Sees Kevin James Making Less of a Fool of Himself Than Usual
Movie News By Nathan Adams on June 27, 2012 | Be the First To CommentOver the last decade or so, Kevin James has found his niche. He stars in wacky, slapstick movies about bumbling losers who are defined by their occupations. Think of it as the big screen version of the Simpsons episodes where Homer gets a new job for a few days and everything goes wrong. Whether he's a mall cop or a zookeeper, as long as Kevin James is falling down a lot and mugging for the camera, filmgoing audiences seem to come out en masse. At first glance, Here Comes the Boom seems to be the latest film that sticks to what has now become James' M.O. Here he's playing a schlubby high school teacher who tries to join the world of mixed martial arts in order to make a quick buck. Predictably, Kevin fall down and go boom. But a funny thing happens as you keep watching the new Here Comes the Boom trailer. It starts to become clear that this isn't James' usual slapstick movie at all. Sure, there's some of that in here, but this time he seems to be serving up a whole new tonal spin on things. Instead of being a wacky comedy, this one looks like it's James taking a swing at making a legitimate, sappy sports drama. Here he isn't the goofy teacher who's in over his head, he's the hero teacher who will go to any lengths to help his kids. He isn't the fat guy who looks funny trying to do things […]
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I was amazed when a lady from my local Master Gardener organization said she had been reading me for years on this forum but had never posted anything herself. That is twice something like that has happened. I guess we'll never know how many visit without posting (lurk). Maybe it is like public speaking for some people but I come from a family of big talkers and after all, this is just a big conversation about gardening and writing. Jump in there. |
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Amy, I'm glad to have come out of the shadows. I read a little of your blog. Yes, we had a worm scam here(Oklahoma). It is amazing that these things can get going so easily. |
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Hey Eddie, So,Im the lurking lady, I dont really think of it as lurking,as much as hesitant to write the wrong thing. I do enjoy all the info,I have read from this site though. I did a presentation today,for a garden club.I have been doing this for a few years now,but I always get nervous ahead of time, and then afterwards so relieved its over,even though it went real well. Public speaking is always putting yourself out there,I never know how it will go,but I just keep trying,and people keep asking us to speak again,which is a good sign. |
"writing the wrong thing" -- don't worry, we all do, at times. |
I'm a lurker by nature, learn more by keeping my trap shut so I can hear what others have to say. I'm not a 'writer' by any means but enjoy this site. |
I'm a lurker by nature, learn more by keeping my trap shut so I can hear what others have to say. I'm not a 'writer' by any means but enjoy this site. |
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Hey! enough expanding already. |
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Today, The Washington Post ran a column praising 17-year-old Olympic gold medalist Missy Franklin as a tenacious athlete. In fact, you could describe columinist Sally Jenkins' piece as gushing. So it's unfortunate in an otherwise awe-filled piece that Jenkins' made a poor choice of words (emphasis mine):
This was her first Olympic gold medal attempt in a grueling program of seven planned events — and on top of that, she had had to swim a semifinal heat in the 200 freestyle less than 15 minutes earlier. But with about 25 meters to go in the backstroke, a mean girl took possession of her.
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There will be a Race Against the Shadow Tournament at the Fantasy Flight Event Center on Sunday, January 26th at 2:00pm. Please arrive by 1:30pm.
The tournament will begin promptly at 2pm, and there will be a pairing process for those who do not arrive with a teammate.
There is no strict requirement that you bring a decklist with you, but decks must conform to the rules as stated in the latest Core Rules and FAQ, which can be found on the FFG support page for the game.
That said, please do bring a decklist. If people do this, then I will be able to run some statistical analyses on the data and post a bunch of interesting numbers for all to see after the event.
Also, the Race Against the Shadow format does require the use of a timer, such as a chess clock. There are plenty of mobile apps for this, and some phones do this anyway. That is something to be mindful of.
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How great to now have a recipe in my repertoire that doesn't require marinating! I followed another recipe's instruction to tenderize first by pounding with a hammer or heavy object (I placed in large ziplock, place on a sturdy cutting board and pounded with a cast iron skillet) until 1/2" thick. This cooks quickly, so watch your grill. Also, the chimichurri makes the dish.
I made this recipe last night. The chimichurri was delicious plus I can save most of it for future use. Great recipe.
I don't understand why this recipe says to salt and pepper the steak instead of marinating it in the chimichurri. Also, I love chimichurri, but I feel like this recipe is lacking. I've made it a couple times and can't figure out what to change though.


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CHFF Impact Still Lingers in Office of Late NFL Films Great Steve Sabol
Peter King of SI.com and Monday Morning Quarterback fame recently took readers inside the office of late NFL Films kingpin Steve Sabol, who was a great supporter of CHFF. It turns out our impact on NFL Films still lingers in Sabol's office.
Natural Spirit Of Combat: Football Violence Healthy, Vital To American Character
Once upon a time the NFL embraced its identity as a combat sport, a way for iron to sharpen iron and for the nation to distinguish. Somewhere along the line it has lost that sense of identity and purpose, and that is a problem for society.
Young Stud Quarterbacks And The Evolution Of The NFL Passing Game
NFL Films comes to the CHFF world headquarters this week to discuss a masterpiece: our brief, fact-filled history of the evolution of the passing game, from 1933 NFL championship game hero Bronko Nagurski to 2012 young studs Robert Griffin III, Russell Wilson and Colin Kaepernick.
Top 10 Stories of 2012 NFL Regular Season
From the quest for individual records to the tyranny of replacement refs and Roger Goodell, Cold Hard Football Facts' resident Voice-of-God Patrick Imig ushers in the Top 10 stories of the 2012 season.
CHFF Radio: NFL Films' Greg Cosell Discusses Sabol; Plus Pats-Ravens, Tailgating
Week 3 of CHFF Radio on Patriots.com was highlighted by a visit from NFL Films producer Greg Cosell, who worked the late Steve Sabol for 33 years.
Steve Sabol Tribute: The Autumn Wind Is A Pirate
When Steve Sabol, who passed away Tuesday was at the peak of his powers at NFL Films, "NFL" stood for "Nothing" but "Fun League." His "The Autumn Wind is a Pirate" tribute to the old Oakland Raiders is genius.
Pigskin Poet: Steve Sabol Dies After Battle With Brain Cancer
NFL Films president Steve Sabol passed away Tuesday morning after an 18-month struggle with brain cancer. He was 69. We don't get too emotional around here at the CHFF world headquarters. But the death of Sabol is a tough one.
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Halloween is known for kids in costumes and scary decorations. But the 2 Investigators found some decorations that could actually be hazardous to your health. Pam Zekman reports on this Halloween scare.
'Bumbo Seat' Under Fire From Child-Safety Advocates
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Microsoft Reportedly Working On TV Service For Xbox 360
Netflix? (121 comments)
Currently, I can watch Netflix on my TV using my 360. I'm assuming that capability will strangely disappear soon.
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Netflix? (121 comments)
Currently, I can watch Netflix on my TV using my 360. I'm assuming that capability will strangely disappear soon.
Testing? (39 comments)
They're testing their software in an accurate environment? They're not pushing beta testing onto their users?! Preposterous!
Re:No surprises here (273 comments)
Firefox equipped with NoScript and Adblock Plus will do 99% of that without having to write code.
Re:Because there's no need to change (397 comments)
You know, I was so disappointed with Fallout 3, that I said I would never buy another Bethesda game immediately after release; I would wait until it had been patched. But when I heard that New Vegas used the Fallout 3 engine, I figured I'd buy the game at release. Surely, they would have fixed the bugs in this new release!
That's what I get for having faith in humanity.
Re:Probably a console user :) (397 comments)
Get some of the DLCs for Fallout 3, and then you'll see some serious bugs. Heck, the "Broken Steel" quest can't even be completed on my PS3 because the game freezes so much.
Re:My experiences of Fallout: New Vegas bugs (397 comments)
The PS3 version of New Vegas is pretty freaking bad. There are several areas I can't even walk into because a bunch of strange polygons fill up the screen and make it so I can't even figure out where I'm going.
Re:Obsidian (397 comments)
In the defense of the Elder Scrolls series, I have never once had a significant bug on the XBOX 360 version of Oblivion. Note, however, that I purchased the Game of the Year edition, which was fully patched.
No Graphing Calculators, etc. (870 comments)
I didn't require graphing calculator functionality for any of my college physics classes--I only needed a basic scientific calculator with trigonometric functions.
Outlaw all electronic devices except (non-graphing) scientific calculators. If a student needs a dictionary, tell him/her/it to get an old-school paper dictionary. The test is open book to begin with, so what's another book?
Re:How about gratuities? (156 comments)
I always look at poor service in a restaurant as saving me money--because I only leave a single dollar for the tip. (I leave a single dollar, because leaving no tip might make them think I simply forgot. No, I didn't forget; you simply suck at being a server.) OTOH, I have been known to leave 30% tips for absolutely stellar service.
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But there is no competition in Farmville... Buying credits gives you no "leg up" on your friends.
Re:What a coincidence (473 comments)
You're telling me that limited free distribution of copyrighted work can act as an advertisement for said work? Unpossible!
Re:The thing is... (479 comments)
... It's a public relations disaster, brought only by people who don't have an iPhone 4 and who seem to have a vendetta against Apple for not making a phone that they want...
So you're saying that this is all a conspiracy?, that this is some sort of bullying on the school playground?
"Stop picking on poor, defenseless Apple! Can't you see you're hurting Steve Jobs' feelings?!"
Re:It is just an update to an existing toolbar (285 comments)
According to TFA, a Microsoft spokeshuman didn't even know about the toolbar being forcefully installed:
"The worst part of this issue is that Microsoft does not seem to be aware of it: a Microsoft spokesperson simply pointed us to the aforementioned Microsoft Support page that inaccurately describes the update. We asked the company for an explanation of why the extension was installed and what it does, but have yet to receive a reply."
'Nuff Said (1123 comments)
People should not be afraid of their governments; governments should be afraid of their people.
--V for Vendetta
A Firefox Browser on My iPhone Would Be AWESOME (170 comments)
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Commander Shepherd WON'T BE IN THE MOVIE (142 comments)
People, stop whining that the movie will suck because the Commander Shepherd on the silver screen won't be your Commander Shepherd from the games. Shepherd has not appeared in any of the Mass Effect comics or novels for this very reason. Most likely the movie will not have Shepherd in it, either. It will be a separate story set in the Mass Effect universe.
Re:Can it wait? (142 comments)
That is of course assuming they choose a male for the lead. It seems a little difficult because some of us may have associated Shepard with a female character. Others may have chosen a male. It's tough when you have characters that aren't clearly defined in the game, especially customizable ones.
That is, of course, assuming that Commander Shepherd is even in the film. Commander Shepherd has not appeared in either the comics or the novels for this very reason.
Re:This always happens (510 comments)
Over the life of my PS3, updates have commonly caused severe issues. I've had to reformat the hard drive several times and I even had to send it in to be "repaired" after updating. Sony really needs to work on not breaking their own system.
I have owned a PS3 for years and have never once had a problem with their updates.
Out of curiosity, are you doing anything "weird" with your PS3, such as running other OSs or anything?
Re:Par for the course? (510 comments)
Consoles have serial numbers. Those serial numbers are visible through a window on the box they are packaged in. Said serial number is scanned when you purchase the console.
In other words, your proposed attack against "The Man" wouldn't work.
OLD NEWS (206 comments)
Wow, this is old news. Seriously, this was discussed over a year ago. In fact, I submitted this story to Slashdot way back then, but it was rejected. No Slashdot love for the Zebra.
After nearly three weeks, Google is finally repairing a glitch that hid search suggestions for the phrase "Islam is," which had led some to conclude that Google — whose mantra is "don't be evil" — had been censoring its search results.
How a bug would only affect one religion is beyond me."
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"In this country, you don't punish people with just allegations
"It gives the RIAA [Recording Industry Association of America] way too much power, but it's going to take acquiescence from the ISPs [to happen]," Sohn says. "I think it's unfair and un-American in many different ways. No copyright holder should have that much power based on an allegation."
In New York State, the RIAA and ISPs last summer began working with Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who's acting as a broker between the two sides, on what's being characterized as another "graduated response" program.
Details are hard to come by, and the ISPs aren't talking, but the ultimate punishment for repeat infringers who ignore warnings might be termination of Internet access. Internet speed could be slowed for those who ignore warnings but haven't quite reached termination level.
The last thing we need is to give the RIAA even more power."
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Some people may go as far as not flushing their toilet as often because the less sewage you produce, the less sewage rate you pay," says Adelaide University Water Management Professor Mike Young.
This policy doesn't yet have a name, but I would like to propose If It's Yellow, Let It Mellow; If It's Brown Flush It Down."
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Barack Obama collected Spider-Man comics as a child, so Marvel Comics wanted to give him a "shout-out back" by featuring him in a bonus story, said Joe Quesada, Marvel's editor-in-chief.
The comic starts with Spider-Man's alter-ego Peter Parker taking photographs at the inauguration, before spotting two identical Obamas.
Parker decides "the future president's gonna need Spider-Man," and springs into action, using basketball to determine the real Obama and punching out the impostor.
Obama thanks him with a fist-bump.
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The CEO announced that a nearly final "beta" test version of Windows 7 will be available Friday for regular PC users to download and tinker with.
The new operating system — which could be available for purchase on PCs within a year — uses much of the same underlying technology as its predecessor, the much-maligned Vista.
But Windows 7 aims to resolve many problems PC users had with Vista. For instance, Microsoft pledges to make it easier to install peripheral devices and to have the software pump out fewer annoying warnings and notifications.
Ballmer also pledged that Windows 7 will boot faster and drain laptop batteries more slowly.
"I believe Windows will remain at the center of people's technological solar system," Ballmer said. "We're putting in all the right ingredients: simplicity, reliability and speed, and we're working hard to get it right and to get it ready."
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26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring. | 26 Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. |
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It's little surprise, then, that so many outside the country think so fondly of it, whether Italy represents an ancestral home or the ultimate romantic getaway.
And for those who can't go (or are still a few weeks away from a summer on the Amalfi coast), it's still possible to evoke the spirit of everything Italian this coming weekend, May 18-19, at the premiere of an annual Manhattan festival, New York Toasts Italy.
The magazine was founded in 2006 by Brin and Chicago businessman Vince Naccarato, who loved traveling to Italy with his two sons. And Bene certainly does "celebrate the beauty, the passions and the tastes of Italian life and style," as Brin puts it: The current issue includes articles ranging from the next outstanding generation of female vintners in Piedmont and the latest Capri-inspired, beach-ready fashions.
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- The staff was friendly and attentive. - It had a balcony (even though very small) - Air conditioned - Walking distance to the airport in Faro (500 meters) - Parking - Anonymous
The room size, the bathroom size, good breakfast and most of all the location near the airport. - Henrique
Excellent service, staff helped us a lot when we had problems with flight delay. Hotel is quite old, but rooms are tidy and breakfast is good. Hotel location is convenient for public transport - bus from the airport stops less than 1 min away. Taxi to the airport costs ±15eu and bus ticket - only 1,95 eu. And there is a great Chinese restaurant just 3 min away (with fixed price 13 eu for dinner including all meals you want). - Anonymous
I recommend this hotel to anyone and everyone who is looking for a quiet, clean and peaceful stay in beautiful Faro. The staff were kind hearted, courteous and professional, offering service that went above and beyond the call of duty. The shuttle service to the airport, the beach or the city center was an absolute bonus. The cost of my room including an ample breakfast would have been spent in taxi fares alone without this convenience. I am thoroughly satisfied with my three days at hotel Monac - Helen
Ricardo and Pedro at the reception were extremely helpful and efficient. They went beyond their obligations and provided us with valuable support and information. The hostel has a perfect location very close to the bus and railway stations, the centre of town and the old town and the marina. It is very clean, the room and bathroom were big and we had a balcony. We highly recommend this hotel. - Anonymous
I especially appreciated the customer approach of the staff, who was very kind and helpful. The guest rooms are really spacious, simple, but very clean and comfortable, the most of them have big terraces. The ample secured car parking in front of the hotel is included to the price. The overall value of money is excellent. Hotel is located only a few kilometers from Faro airport (the taxi costs 8 Euros), so it's very convenient for the late arrival, when all car rent offices in the airport are c - Anonymous


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What I'm listening to: Death Rattle Boogie
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The Datsuns new full length album, 14 tracks in 50:31 minutes, does what the Datsuns do best: arrives by smashing into your old car, revving and squealing and doing donuts and burnouts, and then disappears into the distance in a puff of smoke, leaving a fading trail of car alarms panicking in its wake.
Death Rattle Boogie is exquisitely sequenced, with tempos and energy levels peaking and pulsing, and magnificently played, relentless, on the beat and, as the title says, boogie. I've only had it for a week and already I think it's my favourite Datsuns album.
Heavy rock, as a collection of sub-genres, has a thin palette of feelings: rage; lust; perhaps slightly shot through with sorrow (for things unattained) or grief (for things lost).
On earlier releases the Datsuns pretty much wore their smirks on their sleeves - you could tell they were having the most fun you can have while breathing. In a fairly typical kiwi way they were faintly undercutting their own way of life by having far too obvious a sense of humour.
On this record the fun is still there (Hole In Your Head, the new-wave style track, has the best punchline of any Datsuns song ever) but it's under control, and that takes the "cartoon" (viz the Ramones) energy away, making the menacing and edgy material stand out.
The sound of the record is extraordinarily simple. Bass and drums; rhythm guitar in one channel, lead guitar in the other, though most of the solos drop in the centre; no long solos, most are 8 bars, one is a verse and a chorus; the singer is right up front and a few backing vocals - two tracks have some keyboards up front, an anonymous guest rolls Nicky Hopkins flavoured rhythm and boogie piano on one track (Goodbye Ghosts also has the best backing vocals, and is a showcase for Dolf de Borst's mature vocal control).
The sound is equally careful. The audio verite buzz of amps, backing vocals dropped on a single word in a verse: "horror". No hand claps. A quiet but insistent shaker (probably made of bone) in Skull Full Of Bone.
The Datsuns trademark sound is de Borst's epic screech threaded with Christian Livingstone's yowling guitar against a thunderous rhythm. On this record they have elevated their interplay - Wander The Night could almost be a duet, vocals and guitar crooning off hand in hand into the sunset. Livingstone's guitar is probably the main beneficiary of the record's clean sound. He has a beautiful tone and great control, and his licks are considered and melodic.
It seems the Datsuns are in peak form. The point of the Datsuns is to rock hard. This disc is hard from front to back. The epic Fool's Gold has big hooks, a catchy chorus, and the coldest lyric I've heard since Shaft's Three Little Pigs.
The opening track of the album, Gods Are Bored, can be heard at http://thedatsuns.bandcamp.com/.
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Model animation - too many calculations
#1 Crossbones+ - Reputation: 1177
Posted 04 February 2011 - 06:44 AM
The problem is then with animating the model. I'm using a low-polygon model - something like 760 faces, with less than 2000 vertecies.
I then have to calculate the new position of each vertex based on it's bone attachment. For each bone, this consists of 3 multiplications, type double, to rotate to the correct position, 3 additions, again for doubles, to translate it to the correct position, and then a multiplication of that whole result by the weight assigned to that bone. At the end, I simply add up all the results for each bone, to get the new position.
The above method works, assuming the attachments are correct. The problem is that it seems to take TOO long to compute that for all vertecies. I split the calculation up in 4 parts, where each update event it does 1/4th of the vertecies, and then updates only after all of them are calculated. That allowed me a bit over 60fps, but considering I'm only drawing one low poly model, that framerate is unacceptable. (For comparison, without calculating the vertex positions, I get framerate of 900+). I'm not sure where to optimize the calculations. They're all done on the CPU, which is a pretty big bottleneck, but I can't figure out how, if at all possible, to use the the GPU for that.
Anyone have any experience programming model animation? Perhaps animating a model from a skeleton from an existing animation format? Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
#2 GDNet+ - Reputation: 386
Posted 04 February 2011 - 06:52 AM
Bear in mind that a Bone is effectively a transformation matrix, and your Graphics API (OpenGL/DirectX) will be doing these anyway when you set the position of the Vertex (glVertex...(), etc). Offloading the calculations to a Vertex Shader would be a good boost.
#3 Crossbones+ - Reputation: 6784
Posted 04 February 2011 - 07:32 AM
Also, it sounds like your weighting algorithm is suspect. As AndyEsser mentions, bones are really reference frames, commonly implemented as matrices, not separate rotations and translations.
In any case, a common approach (which can be implemented on the CPU or GPU):
// Given a vertex vin, 3 weights, 3 bone indices for that vertex, and an array of bone matrices.. vector3 vout = vector3(0,0,0); for( int i=0; i<3; i++) vout += weight[i]*vectorMatrixMult( vin, boneMat[ boneIndex[i] ] );
Please don't PM me with questions. Post them in the forums for everyone's benefit, and I can embarrass myself publicly.
#4 Crossbones+ - Reputation: 1177
Posted 04 February 2011 - 07:56 AM
I thought I was minimizing calculations by using my method instead of a matrix. What I have is a set of Axes that gets rotated, and that determines the bone's orientation. When loading the model I store the original relative position of each vertex to every attached bone's axes. Then to get the vertex's transformed location I essentially have a vector: ( origRelVer_x * x_axis + origRelVer_y * y_axis + origRelVer_z * z_axis), where xyz_axis are orthogonal vectors (i.e. the axes's axis) I thought this would be less calculations than a matrix multiplication, but then, it's all cpu. (Edit: now that I saw my code again, I realize that's actually a multiplication of a scalar times a vector = 3 mults, so 9 total multiplications + 2 additions, and that's before the other 3 additions for the correct position. So, yes, quite a bit more than I originally mentioned, and not actually an improvement over matrix multiplication)
You're right that FPS isn't the best measure, especially since I average it over a second. The function clearly is slow though, so I need to improve it. Though from what it sounds like I might have to rework the way my bone rotation is stored.
I'm starting to wonder whether it's worth reinventing the wheel for the experience. I know this problem has been solved before, though I haven't found too detailed descriptions about it.
#5 Crossbones+ - Reputation: 6784
Posted 04 February 2011 - 08:18 AM
Also, if you have 700 faces and 2000 vertices, sounds like you're not using indexed vertices. If you use an indexed mesh, that might cut down the
Also, it obviously depends on the number of material changes that're made, also. Combining multiple textures into one will reduce the time to change texture samplers.
EDIT: With regard to experience, depending on how much animation work you'll be doing in the future, understanding what it takes to do skinned animation might serve you well. However, downloading some code and examining it for a good understanding may be better than working out all the details yourself.
Well, that's unfortunate, because I have no experience with shaders.
No time like the present. If you continue with game development, shaders are where you need to be anyway.
Please don't PM me with questions. Post them in the forums for everyone's benefit, and I can embarrass myself publicly.
#6 Crossbones+ - Reputation: 1177
Posted 04 February 2011 - 08:53 AM
Also for the vertex and face count and vertex count...hmm I just realized. See, I wrote my own .obj loader, and .obj format specifies a list of vertex positions, a separate list of normals, and a third list of texture coordinates. Then each face is a set of indecies to each list. Because I'm storing the texture and normal data in my vertex struct, I had to read in all the lists, and then when reading in a face, create its vertecies on the spot. I have a check to see if that perticular vertex (combination of position, normal and texture) already exists, and if it does, link to that instead of creating a new one. But, as I just realized, I turned that off, because it lengthens loading time by about a second. I'm going to turn that check on, which does indeed greatly decrease the number of vertecies (as most faces share). I don't think it will have a huge impact, but it's worth a try. Thanks for reminding me!
#7 Crossbones+ - Reputation: 4761
Posted 04 February 2011 - 09:05 AM
float matrices[20*4*3]; float vertices[2000*3]; float weights[6000]; float results[2000*3]; int matrixIndex = -1; float * vertex = vertices; float * result = results; float * weight = weights; for(uint vertexIndex = 0; vertexIndex<2000; ++vertexIndex) { result[0] = result[1] = result[2] = 0.0f; for(uint counter = 0; counter<3; ++counter) { matrixIndex = (matrixIndex+1)%20; float * matrix = matrices+matrixIndex*4*3; result[0] += *weight * (*matrix++ * vertex[0] + *matrix++ * vertex[1] + *matrix++ * vertex[2] + *matrix++); result[1] += *weight * (*matrix++ * vertex[0] + *matrix++ * vertex[1] + *matrix++ * vertex[2] + *matrix++); result[2] += *weight * (*matrix++ * vertex[0] + *matrix++ * vertex[1] + *matrix++ * vertex[2] + *matrix++); ++weight; } vertex += 3; result += 3; }Using doubles instead means it to last approx. 330 micro-seconds (debug) / 190 micro-seconds (release).
#8 Crossbones+ - Reputation: 1177
Posted 04 February 2011 - 09:18 AM
Here's what my vertex update code looks like:
mesh_vertex *currVer; for (unsigned int i = start; i < end; i++) { // for each vertex of the model Vec3f newPos(0.0, 0.0, 0.0), tPos; currVer = vertexList.at(i); for (int k = 0; k < vertexAttachedBones.at(i)->getNumBones(); k++) { // for each of it's attached bones tPos = getAbsolutePosition( vertexOriginalPosition.at(i).at(k), vertexAttachedBones.at(i)->getBoneAt(k) ); newPos = newPos + tPos * vertexAttachedBones.at(i)->getNormalizedWeightAt(k); } // update position currVer->x = newPos.x; currVer->y = newPos.y; currVer->z = newPos.z; }
Specifically, it runs in 1 or less than 1 millisecond (I used clock() to get the time). It could probably still use some improvement, but it's nowhere near as bad as I thought it was. Also, I know it's a bad measure, but I get ~650fps now. Much more acceptable.
Thanks for the help everyone.
edit: I have no clue why there's such a huge gap in performance between debug and release. Is it because I update everything with pointers? Not that it makes a big difference, since release is the mode to use for .. well, releasing.
#10 Crossbones+ - Reputation: 6784
Posted 04 February 2011 - 09:51 AM
Please don't PM me with questions. Post them in the forums for everyone's benefit, and I can embarrass myself publicly.
#11 Crossbones+ - Reputation: 1177
Posted 04 February 2011 - 09:58 AM
Debug compiles (depending on what API you're using) usually link in debug (vs. release) libraries. Those debug libraries commonly do a lot of error-checking ( that's what "debug" does for a living ) - looking for unitialized variables, array indices out of bounds, etc., etc. Your experience isn't necessarily out of the ordinary. E.g., I get ratios of 200-400 ( 180mS vs. 0.7mS for one of my routines comes to mind ) between debug and release execution times.
Yeah, I knew debug does a lot for checking for errors, hence why I usually run in debug mode when debugging (actually, I've noticed you can't rely on the debugger in release mode). I've just never had such a huge gap in performance, until now. That'll teach me to post on here with questions that could've been resolved by two mouse clicks. =)
#12 Crossbones+ - Reputation: 1177
Posted 04 February 2011 - 10:33 AM
#13 Crossbones+ - Reputation: 6784
Posted 04 February 2011 - 11:52 AM
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Blue Santa Visits La Porte
Christmas is, and always has been, a time for giving. The 2013 Blue Santa Program represented a collaborative effort between the La Porte Police Department, Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association (LPCPAAA), local Neighborhood Center, Independent School District, Ameco Equipment, Walmart corporation, as well as other sizable donations the La Porte Fire Department, Municipal Police Officer's Association, and other private individuals. The Program's primary mission is to provide toys and Christmas dinners for needy children and their families in the La Porte area, many of whom would not have the means to hold traditional Christmas festivities on their own.
As a result of this year's Blue Santa program, the joint La Porte organizations collected over 1500 new toys, including the combined distribution and upcoming delivery of nearly 490 bicycles, provided through the Elves & More Program. In addition, almost $5,000 in cash donations were received. Cash donations were used to purchase additional toys, all of which were distributed to less fortunate families by La Porte's Neighborhood Center and the City's Jennie Riley Community Center. All in all, the program's annual efforts touch the lives of countless families every year, allowing hundreds of children to experience the joy of Christmas.
La Porte Police Department stresses that it is through local teamwork, such as the Blue Santa and Elves and More Programs, that all La Porte residents can make a difference in the lives of those who are less fortunate. For more information on any of La Porte Police Department's community outreach initiatives, including the CPAAA, Blue Santa, and Elves & More Programs, please contact the Support Services Division at 281-842-3183.
'Tis The Season of Giving'
When it comes to Christmas time, Cathy Montreuil GM at the Comfort Suites La Porte is always looking for ways to help. When she heard that Gallery Furniture was donating furniture to families in need, she immediately took it upon herself to write a letter suggesting the perfect family that could benefit from such a generous donation.
Danielle is a front desk employee at the Comfort Suites and is also a loving single mother that clearly works hard to provide for her children. After hearing about Danielle's story, Gallery Furniture graciously chose her and her family to donate the house full of furniture to. On Wednesday, Dec. 18th, Gallery Furniture employees, Danielle's family, and Cathy surprised Danielle at her doorstep with a truck full of furniture as they sang, "We wish you a Merry Christmas". Danielle was overjoyed with excitement and overcome with emotion as she thanked everyone who worked hard in making this dream become a reality!
"I am so happy that this happened to such a deserving person, especially during the holidays. I would like to thank everyone from Gallery Furniture that helped make this a very special Christmas for Danielle and her family," Montreuil said.
Around La Porte would like to thank Cathy for being the person I know her to be.
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James Laube's column "Napa Cabernet on the Brink" (Nov. 15) resonated with me, and I'd like to add a couple of additional thoughts. First, Napa Cabernet has been in a market bubble for years. How long has it been since Cab prices in Napa have had any true relationship to their quality and value? The wine industry has told consumers for years that the market sets the price. There's a certain irony here: It seems the industry has not listened to its own words. Caveat venditor.
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The rabbi of Temple Adas Israel talks about how the temple has evolved, a educational trip to Israel and leaving the temple after 15 years.
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he founder of the Joshua Levine Memorial Foundation, an organization created in memory of Mr. Levine's son who was killed in an accident while working at Quail Hill Farm in Amagansett, talks about the organization's commitment to local agriculture, edible schoolyards and his drive to ensure Joshua's memory lives on.
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The new president of the Youth Resource Center of Sag Harbor talks about the future and why this not-for-profit needs community support.
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This Friday you will be hosting your annual environmental roundtable. What are some of the key environmental issues facing the East End this year?
In prior years, we had been almost solely focusing on issues of land preservation. Two years ago, things turned very abruptly to surface water issues. How do we protect our bays, our rivers?
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The president of the board of the Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation (SASF) who talks about the shelter's new veterinary mobile clinic, a van that will travel throughout the state to communities where low income pet owners are in need of spay and neutering services.
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Michele Thompson is the first director of the Southampton Center, a multi-disciplinary arts center in the former Parrish Art Museum space in Southampton Village. Thompson comes to the East End from the 92nd Street Y where she is currently the director of adult education and the arts at 92Y and former director of 92Y Tribeca.
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The Serve Sag Harbor board member talks about Cocktails & Conversation at The Corner Bar which she hosts this Sunday, January 19 from 5 to 7 p.m. as a fundraiser for the organization.
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Hillary Clinton agrees to Fox News interview
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This could be interesting, unless of course there will be predetermined "ground rules":
Showing that she's ready for the 2016 game, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has agreed to make a book tour stop for her forthcoming "Hard Choices" on Fox.
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FOX NEWS CHANNEL'S BRET BAIER AND GRETA VAN SUSTEREN TO CONDUCT JOINT INTERVIEW WITH FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON ON TUESDAY JUNE 17th
FOX News Channel's (FNC) Bret Baier and Greta Van Susteren will present a joint half-hour interview with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, June 17th spanning across the anchors' respective programs. It will begin on Special Report at approximately 6:45PM/ET and then continue during On the Record until 7:15 PM/ET. The joint half-hour interview will cover an array of topics, including Clinton's forthcoming book, "Hard Choices," the upcoming 2016 presidential election and the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
The Fox News interview could be a tough one for Hillary because she'll go into it having already been fawned over after ABC News really does its part to boost her book sales. Diane Sawyer will sit down for a one-hour interview with Hillary in prime time the day before her book is released. The tentative title of ABC's one-hour special is "Are we totally in the tank already, or what?"
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With this latest heat wave/mini-drought, my TTTF lawn is starting to die back severely. I started a new lawn last September. It was full, lush, green, and absolutely gorgeous. I fertilized it back in March, along with some pre-emergent, and everything was going great. Now, all of a sudden, the lawn is turning a light brown color on about half the lawn. I don't think it's a fungus because I can't see any fungus along the boundaries of the dying grass. It's really odd.
I grew up with a bermudagrass, and it was a piece of cake to maintain. I'm thinking of throwing down some bermudagrass seeds and just maintaining a TTTF and BG mixed lawn. It just seems like it has gotten too hot here in TN (in the past two years) to even maintain a TTTF lawn. Anyone have an idea why this die-off is occurring? |
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I'm not a turf expert, so wouldn't be the best to guess why your grass is dying (other than the hot, dry weather we're having), but I can't imagine why you would want a sickening looking Bermuda lawn. I'd just about as soon kill off the whole thing and have bare dirt (I HATE!!!!! Bermuda grass). Maybe try the Lawn Care Forum, or, even better yet, the local extension office. Too bad Bloomsday is over; UT usually has some renowned turf specialist there. |
Thanks, Brandon. I've posted in the lawn forum. Still waiting to see what people can come up with. |
As one who is fighting bermuda, I second brandon's revulsion at the thought of actually *seeding* bermuda. What was the lawn before you started new last Sept.? New construction? Maybe a soil test of the affected areas vs. the unaffected? Wondering if there's something with the soil in those areas that has meant weakness with the grass there, and the heat is exacerbating the whole situation. And if you really do want bermuda, you can come take all the plugs you want from my lawn. X-D |
LOL. OK, well maybe I'll just hope for the best and aerate/oversee this Fall. I am thinking of adding more shade to my landscape so the grass can stay cooler, increasing it's chances of making it through the hot summers (or spring in this case). |
Bermuda is a great warm season grass. The old way was bermuda in the summer and rye in the winter. That probably worked well in the new 50's suburbs where there were no trees. My dear old Dad who lived both north and far south said that Tennessee is the worst place to try to have a green lawn. We've found that to be absolutely true. My husband battles every year for a nice fescue lawn and he loses. Unless we want to spring for an irrigation system (for two acres?) we have to be satisfied with dead fescue under the trees and bermuda and weeds(where the fescue dies out) in the sun). I've been fighting the bermuda in my beds for as long as I can remember. This year I broke down and started spraying Round Up on the outer edge of the beds. So far, so good. If this is successful(meaning no plants in the bed and no lawn dies) I will no longer hate bermuda. |
So a little brown fescue in the summer. Just think bermuda brown all winter. PS I hate bermuda |
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We've had so much rain here in the eastern side near Chattanooga that our fescue has greened up wonderfully and it actually looks like there is more grass than weeds now. But I believe that will soon change unless I water a whole lot. |
Try zoysia. |
- Posted by bwmilam_tn 6b (My Page) on Sun, Sep 23, 12 at 16:45
I know I am late coming to this thread, but I have been researching zoysia here in Nashville, too. Does anyone have any suggestions? |
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Mike RodakORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- It's been a tough week for Marquise Goodwin. First, the Buffalo Bills wide receiver was a healthy scratch for Monday night's 38-3 win over the New York Jets. Now, the Bills have found another return man. The Bills claimed ...
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27 He did this to present himself with a splendid church, one without any sort of stain or wrinkle on her clothes, but rather one that is holy and blameless. | 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. |
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The prime contender for the Kentucky Derby this weekend was trained by Bob Baffert.
As the weekend approaches and horse racing enthusiasts descend on Churchill Downs, study the odds, and place their bets on the Kentucky Derby, many will keep a close eye on one of the favorites for the race, Bodemeister, trained by the Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert.
According to The Washington Post, Bodemeister did not make his career debut until this January, and no horse has won the Derby without running as a 2-year-old since 1882.
However, Baffert has trained horses that won the Derby three times since 1997, joining only four others on the list of all-time Derby-winning trainers, according to The Post.
"In the racing game today, Baffert is the undisputed master at preparing horses for the Triple Crown series. Besides his Derby successes, he has recorded five victories in the Preakness and one in the Belmont Stakes," said The Post.
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Less than two months ago, on March 26, Baffert suffered a heart attack in Dubai and had to have three stents placed in his arteries. Even while he was being wheeled in to surgery, Baffert relayed training instructions to his wife concerning Bodemeister, reported USA Today.
Bodemeister's owner, Ahmed Zayat, said, "He is a perfectionist. After a workout, he'll be looking at a horse for 20 or 30 minutes. I say, 'What are you looking at?' He pays attention to every, every detail. He's so gifted, it isn't even funny," according to USA Today.
Bodemeister, named for Baffert's son Bode, did not make it to the race track as a two-year-old, according to Reuters. But that didn't stop him from winning the Arkansas Derby on April 14 by nine and a half lengths, even without the still-recovering Baffert by his side.
Baffert said of Bodemeister, "So far, he looks good."
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23 And the same time there arose no small stir about that way. | 23 About that time there arose a great disturbance about the Way. |
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5 And I say, `I beseech thee, O Jehovah, God of the heavens, God, the great and the fearful, keeping the covenant and kindness for those loving Him, and for those keeping His commands, | 5 Then I said: "O LORD, God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and obey his commands, |
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I was very excited to try this spray, but was sorely disappointed.
My hair is cut as a long bob with a longer front and sliced ends. I have fine straight hair, but an abundance of it. Unfortunately, my hair gets greasy at the roots and lacks volume in general.
I bought this spray to get volume in my hair and a tousled out-of-bed- look for my normally flat hair. I also wanted a little bit of texture as my hair is straight and sometimes too soft to hold any style.
But no matter what I tried, it really didn´t work well for my hair.
The usual method I use this spray is spraying it onto the roots and concentrate on the back of my head where I want most of the volume.
The only thing this spray does is smelling awful and making my hair feel dirty. I find it hard to balance the amount of spray to the point where it is enough spray to work, but not making me feel like I have dirty hair or too much product in my hair. It smells like chemical cheap drugstore hairspray and makes me wish, they´d just skipped the perfume and made it perfume-free.
My hair doesn´t have the volume I want and I feel that throughout the day, my hair starts to look like I have no product in. Flat and lifeless.
I cannot archieve this effortless tousled look with this product and it surely doesn´t work for my type of hair.
The spray comes in a 150 ml/4 oz can and costs 30 Euros/30 dollars.
The price alone is one thing that puts me off. I don´t mind paying money for high-end hair stuff as I use Aveda, Kevin Murphy and Bumble and Bumble products. But this one oversteps the line having only a tiny amount of product for such a huge price. It´s simply no good value for money even for a high end product.
I wouldn´t buy this again and suggest to try this as a travel size first.
This was one expensive hairproduct mistake for me.
I like this stuff for occasional use. It really does lift and separate, which I love. However, it needs to be teased throughout the day to make it last. I wish it was just a tad bit stronger, which is why I'll be trying the Oribe Dry Texturizing Spray next. I've heard the two are similar are similar, but B&B is a bit less intense. We'll see, but overall I would definitely purchase again.
If you can afford to buy a $30 can of hairspray once a month and you've got fine hair, this might be for you.
I definitely think this is a product for fine hair only- I doubt it will do much on thicker hair.
Just as a previous reviewer, I too was seeking Brigitte Bardot volume for my fine hair and this product does the trick. It adds just enough texture and hold to boot - great because I have not found a hairspray that doesn't weigh my hair down or look awful after an hour or so. Fine hair is tricky! This stuff is magic!
HOWEVER, I can't keep buying it! I may buy one more can to use for special occasions but I seriously blow through a can in a month or less and this stuff isn't cheap! And that's not even with very liberal use - once a day, mainly on my fringe!
Terribly sad I can't afford this and I'm on the hunt for a comparable product that is more affordable - message me if you know of one!
My hair is straight and fine yet I always want Brigitte Bardot-style volume, which can be tricky sometimes. I love this product, though--I can spray it on my hair and voila, there seems to be twice as much of it and it isn't as slippery, which means I can coax it into those voluminous updos pretty easily. It doesn't get all stiff like hairspray or make my hair greasy, which I really appreciate. As a bonus, it smells divine! The price is a bit steep here, but for this I would say it's worth it depending on how long it takes me to go through a bottle. If it's anything like my other Bumble and bumble products it will last awhile, and if that's the case, I won't hesitate to repurchase.
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I love it. I have pretty fine hair and nothing adds the volume that much as this Finish Spray. I just got a haircut recently (up to shoulders lenght) and my hairstylist used this spray to add some volume. I must say - Wow, I was very impressed. My hair got that extra 80% volume and it was easy to brush out, still keeping the volume at 50%. My hair felt strong and thick for 2 days. I absolutely love it. It was $29 at the salon so I did not purchase it. But I am planning to buy it from Sephora, a smaller size for $16.
I had really high expectations for this. I expected it to give me some nice volume, texture and grit but unfortunately, it didn't live up to its expectations.
When I first use the Dryspun Finishing Spray in the morning, I like the results it gave me, but I have to use quite a lot of product to get the volume I want. It's great for adding some grit to my hair if I'm braiding it and that's about it.
It doesn't last long at all and there's too much product that comes out when you want to spray at little at a time. It's also very expensive and small for the price.
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Thank God that Boots allows one to buy a mini version of this product (still, I am minus £11 grrrrr) because it turned out to be another jolly disappointing product from Bumble & Bumble.
Packaging is really lovely but the product itself is a total waste of money if you like me have delicate, thin hair and you are hoping for some lift at the roots without having to dust powder, spray dry shampoo or a sticky hair spray - all of which always creates a sad, limp, terrible looking second day hair.
I watched a couple of reviews on YT (of lovely beauty columnist Sally Hughes among others who used it on her fringe where it seemed to work? Sorry, I have no fringe.) where people were hesitantly saying 'Errrrmmm, maybe it will work better for people with thin hair?' < well, if you have thick hair why do you bother with it in a first place and fyi if you have thin hair, nope, it will not work for us either.
The first thing is the smell. People, THE SMELL. Like I went on a time trip back to the 1980s and ended up in a suburban hair salon which would inevitably give you a poodle perm - simply awful, cheap, cologne-like smell. Who on Earth in the B&B marketing department came up with the idea?! Beware, it lingers and overpowers any perfume you would be wearing so you spray it, you're stuck with it until you wash your hair.
Then the main disappointment which is actually the product in action - there is no added volume. Nada. No grip, nothing gets a lift at the roots no mater how much you spray. What I got instead is a flyaway, matte, stinky hair that looked even thinner than before.
Not the look (or smell) I was hoping for - I am sticking with Charles Worthington texturising spray (pink bottle) or my absolute favourite (because one does not have to tightly control the amount sprayed like in Ch W's product case) L'Oreal Txt. I am yet to try the infamous Oribe but I've heard people talking about the perfume in it, and now I got seriously worried...
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I've worked with this for two weeks and it's going back. I have very fine hair but a decent amount of it. I need something to add volume to the roots or it lays flat on my head. Looking at the video for this I thought it might be a good way to get the hold and texture I get when I first add loose curls to my hair. Most hair spray weighs my hair down so the "dry spun" aspect intrigued me. This holds my hair the first day but the next day when I restyle without washing it's flat and chunky no matter what I do, not matter how little I use the first day. I had a co-worker ask if she could brush my hair to get it to look "like it normally does"! For the ridiculous price point it's going back. I'm sticking with my HG root lifting product Osis Dust It with a light spray to Tres 2.
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I like this spray. It really does just take a poof to start giving more volume to my second or third-day hair. I can start getting a fairly decent beehive as well with this and it lasts at least 2 days on me. As with all sprays, you can't tell how much is left in the bottle but it only take a few poofs to get results. The price is around $30 which is a lot but at the same time the bottle could last awhile.
I have (lots of) fine hair, with oily roots. I got this alongside the Spray De Mode (which I love) to give a bit of oomph to my hair when I curled it. I hate any type of texturizing/salt spray because it makes me feel like my hair is super dirty. I had high hopes for this one and I gotta say I'm dissapointed.
It does give that "airy" volume, and hair doesn't feel too crunchy, but if you spray this on the roots of your hair it makes it a sticky, gross mess. Not a fan of the scent either!
I think with this one it's best to use it SPARINGLY, spraying it from as far away as possible, and concentrating on the midlengths of the hair rather than the roots. Also, when you spray it on a section of hair make sure to let it dry (it's really wet, which you wouldn't expect from something called "Dryspun") before releasing the hair because otherwise it does absolutely nothing.
It took me a while to get a grip on how to use this, and it's alright if done properly but I definitely won't repurchase considering the underwhelming results and overwhelming price.
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