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Kerastase Oleo-Relax Masque
183 reviews
80% would repurchase
Package Quality: 3.5
Price: $$$$
Package Quality: 3.5
Price: $$$$
INGREDIENTSAqua (Water), Behentrimonium Chloride, Cetearyl Alcohol, Glycerin, Amodimethicone, Potato Starch Modified, Cetyl Esters, Isopropyl Alcohol, Elaeis Guineensis / Elaeis Guineensis Oil, Shorea Robusta / Shorea Robusta Seed Butter, Methylparaben, Trideceth 12, Citric Acid, Chlorhexidine Dihydrochloride, Cetrimonium Chloride, Cl 47005 (Yellow 10), CI 14700 (Red 4), Parfum/Fragrance
on 5/29/2011 8:08:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Medium, Cool
Hair: Brunette, Relaxed, Fine
Eyes: Hazel
I had such hopes for this product but it doesn't do much. not worth the money.
on 4/27/2011 10:15:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Brown, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Brown
Expensive but worth it if your hair is dry as hay. It's expensive, but it lasts a long time and a little bit goes a long way. I bought one last year, and i'm almost done with it. I use it once a week and leave it in for 20 minutes. Non frizzy hair after it dries. LOVE IT!
on 4/2/2011 4:08:00 PM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Neutral
Hair: Other, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Green
This stuff is amazing. I have long naturally curly hair. Thin strands but lots of them. I applied this in the shower after deep cleansing with Suave clarity shampoo and the results are amazing. My hair is soft smooth full of body and totally managable. It does have a slight fragrance but it really isnt over-powering. I work in an ICU and have to be VERY careful about not wearing anything that could cause my patients (or co-workers) any sort of resp. issues or adverse reactions. If you've found the scent of this to be overpowering you've applied way too much or not rinsed it out thoroughly enough. Highly recommend and will def. repurchase.
on 9/13/2010 4:38:00 PM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Oily, Fair, Cool
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
What a horrible experience. Never again! Not only was this stuff outrageously expensive ($50.00 for a small jar), but it was the worst hair product experience I have ever had. I remember reading a few reviews that spoke about the obnoxiously strong perfume scent, and they were not exaggerating! I'm not a smoker and am sensitive to scents and odors. I can handle most scents, but this is just crazy sickening. I thought it would fade after my hair dried, but it never did. It's florals on steroids with a truly disgusting chemical undertone. For a moment, I was beginning to think I had put an actual relaxer on my hair! It smelled exactly like that stuff you get a whiff of in the salons when people are having that procedure done. The scent was so dizzying that I got a migraine from it.
I guess because I hadn't suffered enough, my scalp began to itch like crazy. Between the overwhelmingly obnoxious scent, which never faded, and my itchy scalp, I felt like I was going to jump out of my skin. I excused myself from work early just so I could go home and wash this crap out of my hair! I noticed another couple of reviews peppered in from other women who also had this type of allergic reaction, and they have my sympathies! I get it trust me! Oh and in case you are wondering, I bought this from an authorized dealer who was able to confirm that it was not an old batch. It came in a box that was completely sealed and had never been opened. A word of caution to those who might want to give this product a try. I would make darn sure to buy this from a place that allows returns of products that have been opened. This was a very costly lesson for me (and I got better results from Pantene's new Pro-V Curly Hair Series Deep Moisturizing Treatment, which costs next to nothing)! Ugh!
on 6/12/2010 2:52:00 PM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Normal, Other, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Blue
Good product but expensive.
on 6/7/2010 7:56:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I love it...Its an excellent mask lives my hair soft and shiny!!
on 5/17/2010 4:58:00 PM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium, Neutral
Hair: Blond, Curly, Medium
Eyes: Blue
Why doesn't this stuff work for me? Everyone loves kerastase, but it really does not do anything for my dry hair. I have daily conditioners that seem to do more in 5 minutes than this does in hours. This was my second time buying it, hoping that this would be the time that it worked. Nope. Went back to my favorite Giovanni deep treatment and my new favorite, Thriven by killer strands.
on 4/23/2010 8:59:00 PM
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Tan, Warm
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
My hair is naturally wavy, coarse, dry, and is in the process of being grown out from its chemically relaxed state. I usually need to flat iron i to get the cuticle to look smooth and shiny, but Oleo Relax makes it so soft, shiny and frizz free, that I just need to twist my damp hair into a bun, and I get awesome glossy curls/waves once its dry!
Smell wise, it has a pleasant lingering floral scent. The product itself is quite thick, a bit like butter, but it seems to rinse out fairly easily. It helps control the volume of my hair, so this may not be ideal for girls with fine hair, as it may be too heavy. The only detractor is the wowza $65 price-tag, but Im beginning to see that Kerastase is truly the gold standard when it comes to haircare. Their line has transformed my hair. Definitely a re-buy!
on 4/3/2010 7:55:00 PM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Combination, Medium, Warm
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
I have baby fine hair which gets weighed down easily and looks flat and limp with the wrong products. I decided to try a jar of this recently and to be honest i expected that it would be way to heavy for my hair but something made me give it a go and boy am I glad I did. The first time I tried it I blowed dried my hair after and it was so soft, swingy and bouncy, not flat or weighed down in the least but really moisturised. The next time that I used it I thought I would give it a real test and leave my hair to air dry. I've only recently started air drying as I want to grow my hair down. All I can say is the stuff passes the test with flying colours. I don't usually like my hair that much air dried but this does a fantastic job of reducing frizz and still makes my hair swingy without blow drying it! This is without doubt the best mask I have ever used. Defo HG status.
on 3/27/2010 7:04:00 AM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Brown, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Green
I love this mask! I have a lot of thick, strong wavy hair and started going white since my early 30s :( so I have to dye my hair. The colouring made it really dehydrated, dry and frizzy. I tried quite many products but nothing helped, the frizz remained... then I tried this mask and it was unbelievable, it made my hair immediately shiny, soft, silky. I still have to use the Kerastase Oleo relax elixir in addition after this mask for beeing 100% frizz-free, but it is fantastic!!! I also love the smell. The only negative thing is the price, but it works so somehow I always collect the money :)))
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Thursday 14th of February 2013
I have a Motorola Electrify M, recently factory-OTA-updated to Android 4.1.2. With the update came Google Now and the Google Voice Dialer.Google's Voice Dialer sucks! It always get the name wrong, and then immediately places a call to the wrong person! It doesn't even ask for confirmation of the name, and to top it off the voice it uses is so irritating and LOUD it makes me want to jump out the window while driving down the freeway!The Voice Commands app that originally came with the phone worked reasonably well, and I'd like to get it back (or even a third party app, like Dragon Assist, would be better than the current POS that's taken over the voice capabilities of my phone).How can the Google Voice Dialer be disabled or uninstalled?
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want to speed up your phone/save battery life?get an app such as Autostarts or Startup Auditor, and disable the green services. stay away from the red ones.safeGoogle Partner SetupNetwork Location (if not using apps which need geolocation regularly. ie. Gmaps, GeoTag, etc.)Bluetooth Share (if not using BT device)Email (if not using email service other than Gmail)Messaging (if using 3rd party sms app, ie. Handcent SMS. or if infrequent texter)Calendar (if calendar is not used regularly)Calendar Storage (if calendar is not used regularly)Voice Dialer (if not used)Google Talk Service (if GTalk is not used regularly)Maps (if GMaps is not used regularly)unsafeClockMedia StorageAndroid SystemGmail StorageSync FeedsDialerSystem Updater (not sure about this one)My Uploads (not sure about this one)Download Manager (not sure about this one)please note that disabling the services does not mean you wont be able to use them, it just means they wont startup when your phone boots. disabling anything that is used regularly will actually slightly slow your phone down as it has to start the service wh
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I have a Samsung Nexus S 4G (Sprint) and I am running Android ICS v4.0.4After being upgraded to ICS/4.0.4 just a few days ago I removed my Voice Search (NOT Voice Dialer) icon from my screen. After doing so, I disabled Google Search via "Manage apps" so that the search bar will no longer appear on my screens. Today I decided to add the Voice Search icon back and it is no longer available for me to add!I confirmed Voice Search is still installed. I am not sure if disabling Google Search had anything to do with the Voice Search icon going away but that is the only major change I made after removing the icon. All other changes I made were basic changes, i.e. adding and removing other icons and such.Solutions I tried:- I rebooted the phone: No change!- I enabled Google Search and rebooted again: No change!- With Google Search still enabled, I disabled Voice Search and rebooted and then enabled Voice Search: No change!, so I then rebooted the phone again: No change!Also, in addition to making sure the Voice Search app is still installed, I did confirm it is still working. I am a
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I have spent two hours searching androidforums and xda developer forums for a solution with no luck so I have resorted to creating a new thread. Hopefully I'm just doing something wrong. I use google voice and after trying out Groove IP and Talkatone I'm leaning towards talkatone because of its compression capability over 3G/4G. The only issue I have is that I cant answer calls fast enough to use talkatone. The first two rings come in on talkatone and because I have google voice forwarded to my mobile number as well as google chat, the third ring comes in on the native dialer and takes the focus. Is there any way at this point to choose talkatone to answer? If I reject the call with the native dialer it sends the call to voicemail and I cant answer with talkatone. I understand that I can always answer calls with talkatone by disabling forwarding to my mobile number but my concern is that if there is an issue with the talkatone app that I could miss calls without knowing, so I'd like to keep forwarding to my mobile. Hopefully that was coherent. Has anyone found a good strategy for thi
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Bought Pro. Really like it. Only problem with voice command calling (ok Google Now, Call....) The call is placed but I'm getting blank screen. can't end call even. Trying to find a way to make swipedialer the default so voice dialing will work. I tried disabling stock dialer app, no luck. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! Sent from My MAXX
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Is there supposed to be an HTC voice dialer on the M8? The Google app is so-so because it treats voice dialing as a general search. Even when using my Bluetooth and initiating via the activation button, Google still sometimes opens a search result page instead of searching my contacts only. I only use my Bluetooth for calls and don't care for voice searching the internet, Google Now turned off, have "Ok Google" detection turned off, and always prompt it by saying "Call..." but I haven't found a way to limit Google to ONLY function for calls. I know it's hearing me right by the text read out it displays. I tried disabling Google Search all together, thinking maybe it was set as a default and preventing access to an HTC dialer, but that left me with no voice dialing at all. Plus if the screen is off, it asks me to confirm every voice call request and it's mildly annoying. My last phone had its own voice dialer independent of Google that worked only with calls and was hoping for something like that on the M8. If there isn't one, can anyone recommend a good third part
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While at 4 weeks pregnant that sweet, sweet heartbeat hasn't yet arrived, a distinct blood vessel has formed inside your embryo, which will soon develop into your baby's heart and circulatory (blood) system. In the early stages, the heart resembles a tube that twists and divides, eventually forming the heart and valves (which open and close to release blood from the heart to the body). In fact, by week 5, teeny channels dubbed heart tubes actual begin to beat. During those first few weeks, precursor blood vessels begin to form and clump into what's called blood islands.
When you'll hear baby's heartbeat for the first time
This is what your baby's heart sounds like at 8 weeks, at about 150 beats per minute.
By 6 weeks, your baby's heart — now beating 80 times a minute — has four hollow chambers, each with a one-way opening to allow blood to flow in or out. In just two more weeks, that number will rise to 150 beats a minute. That's about twice as fast as yours!
With all of this growth, the chances are strong that you'll be able to hear your baby's heartbeat for the very first time around week 9 or week 10 of pregnancy — it's already accelerated to about 170 beats per minutes by this time (a rate that will slow from here on out). You doctor or midwife will place a handheld ultrasound device called a Doppler on your belly to amplify the telltale sound.
Can't hear it now? Don't worry. It just means your shy guy or gal is hiding in the corner of your uterus or has his or her back facing out, making it hard for the Doppler to find its target. In a few weeks (or at your next visit), the miraculous sound of your baby's heartbeat is certain to be audible for your listening pleasure.
The nuchal translucency screening
At 11 weeks, your practitioner will likely perform an NT (or nuchal translucency) screening. Here, a trained sonographer will complete an ultrasound where she confirms the heart is healthy by looking for problems with the heart's structure, possible chromosomal issues or congenital heart defects. About 36,000 babies (or nine of every 1,000 infants) are born every year with a congenital heart defect, making it the most common type of major birth disorder. When a heart defect is diagnosed in utero, you may receive medication to help fix the problem before birth, while other heart defects can be fixed with surgery right after birth. The good news is that the majority of congenital heart defects can be repaired and managed if detected early and treated in time, though many kids need to occasionally visit a cardiologist throughout their adult lives.
You can hear baby's heartbeat with a stethoscope!
Here's how the heart sounds at 24 weeks – at about 140 beats per minute, or 30 beats less than when your baby's heart rate was at its highest per-minute average.
Exciting circulatory events continue to happen at 12 weeks, when baby-to-be's bone marrow begins busily producing white blood cells — a.k.a. germ-fighters. And by 17 weeks, the fetal brain begins to regulate the heart in preparation to support baby in the outside world. (Up until this point, the heart has been beating spontaneously. Baby gets nutrients and oxygen from Mom via the placenta until birth, when he takes his first breath and his lungs kick in.) Three more weeks, and by around week 20 you can hear your baby's heartbeat with a stethoscope. If your doc needs a better listen (and a view), she may recommend you get a fetal echocardiogram, a special ultrasound that evaluates the fetal heart between 18 to 24 weeks. (If you have a family history of congenital heart defects, or if you personally have diabetes, phenylketonuria or autoimmune disease, make sure you get one.)
By the close of week 25, capillaries (the smallest blood vessels) are forming and filling with blood. Capillaries move oxygenated blood from the heart's arteries to tissues throughout the body and then feed deoxygenated blood back to the heart – making these teeny-tiny blood vessels a central component to the circulatory system.
Baby's heart at birth
Baby's circulatory system will continue to slowly and steadily grow, so that by 36 weeks it's ready for its debut outside the womb. By the time your little one is full-term — or week 37 of pregnancy — his or her heart rate will be at about 130 beats per minute.
While the fetal circulatory system develops rapidly throughout pregnancy, it's actually quite different than what will be in place after birth. Remember, before birth baby's lungs (which will one day inhale and transport oxygen through her body to all of her organs via her heart, arteries and veins) aren't yet functioning, since her heart doesn't need to pump blood to the lungs to pick up oxygen. So until your baby is born and takes those first independent breaths, the developing circulatory system relies on the umbilical cord to supply the embryo with oxygen- and nutrient-rich blood, transporting what she needs from you to her and back (thanks to umbilical arteries and veins).
A few other differences: The fetal heart has two shunts — or shortcuts — that direct blood around the lungs and liver (since they simply aren't developed enough to receive or process blood flow). Your fetus also doesn't have a proper pulmonary artery and aorta yet — instead, they're connected by another blood vessel called the ductus arteriosus. Finally, your little one has a for-the-womb-only opening between the upper chambers of the heart.
Once baby is born, however, all of these fetal differences go away completely (or start to go away). When the umbilical cord is cut, baby's lungs take in air and the fetal circulation system is switched off, shunts begin to close, and all systems are a go for baby.
How to keep baby's heart healthy
As you can see, a lot is developing and changing when your baby's in the womb. And while certain things are out of your control that can impact the development of your baby's heart — like chromosomal or genetic abnormalities — there are steps you can take to help ensure your baby's ticker is as healthy as possible:
- Taking folic acid before and during pregnancy, for one, appears to help prevent congenital heart disease in babies
- If you are a smoker, quit ASAP: Researchers estimate that maternal smoking during the first trimester may account for up to 2 percent of all heart defects, including anomalies of the valve and vessels
- If you have type 2 diabetes or gestational diabetes, keep your blood sugar under control during pregnancy, since diabetes is associated with an increased risk of heart defects
- Abstain from Accutane (for acne), which can also cause fetal heart defects
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Project: Turn audio recordings into PowerPoint Videos
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1) Listening carefully to audio recordings and creating PowerPoint slides with "builds" to match the important points being covered in the audio,
2) Recording a screen capture video (Camtasia or Screenflow) recording the audio synced to the PowerPoint
3) Editing the video and rendering into MP4 format, suitable for iPhone playback
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This job should be relatively simple for someone with the right skill set.
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If you're interested and can do this job in a timely fashion let me know and I'll send you a dropbox link. In the folder you'll find two completed videos, along with the source audio and the PowerPoint for those audios. These are intended to be examples.
You'll also find a 20 minute audio entitled, "Sales Voodoo 0203 Lead and Territory Management.mp3"
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Your job is to create a PowerPoint, using the template and a similar level of detail to the two samples. Once you've created the PowerPoint you will sync the video to the slides/builds and crearte a MP4 video according using software such as ScreenFlow or Camtaisa.
The "tricky" part of this job is creating the PowerPoint slides from the recorded audio. The challenge is getting the right level of detail on the slides using the same or similar language to that in the recording. Use the two examples as a guide to the right level of detail. Err on the side of too much text and too many slides rather than too little.
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Most dividend investors are influenced by the current yield when they enter a particular stock investment. Dividend growth investors are no different either. It is hard to blame either of these groups, as there is no point in a company that strongly raises its dividend payments, yet it might take up to two decades for the yield on cost to reach any meaningful level. Add in to that the fact that a double digit dividend growth could only be supported by a double digit earnings growth only for so long. If the dividend payout ratio was low at the beginning this could extend the strong dividend growth by a few years after earnings growth slows down to a more reasonable level.
Some of the best dividend growth stocks however would always spot a low current yield, coupled with strong dividend growth for many years to come. As some might typically yield 1% or 2 %, they would be completely ignored by most investors. The trick here is that a company that yields 2% today and raises its dividend by 12% every year would double your yield on cost in just 6 years. In most cases such companies stock prices also tend to follow the changes in the dividend payment, which could lead to strong capital gains over time. Thus, if the stock increased distributions by 12%, it is very likely that the stock price might increase by about 12% as well. This leaves the dividend yield unchanged at 2%, which doesn't matter much for original investors, who purchased the stock 6 years earlier.
In my experience as a dividend investor I have always implemented a minimum yield criterion of between 2% to 3% when screening for dividend growth stocks. I implemented this control in order to protect myself in the event that the company I am heavily invested in stops raising distributions. That way I could at least receive some return on my investment until I try to unload my position above my breakeven price.
Looking back at the best dividend growth stories of Wal-Mart (WMT) and McDonald's (MCD) however, my minimum criteria would have prevented me from getting aboard on these success stories. Other investors who are currently seeking high current income might also have missed out on these plays, which are delivering double-digit yields on cost for anyone who purchased Wal-Mart of McDonald's in the 1980s.
I recently came out with a way to tweak my entry criteria of 3% minimum initial yield by grouping higher yielding and lower yielding investments with my purchase. At the end of the date, one could easily create a dividend portfolio which consists both of high yielders with slow to no dividend growth and low dividend yielders, which have the potential for strong dividend growth. If one manages to allocate the varying dividend components in their portfolio carefully, they would be able to achieve a target initial yield on cost for their stock holdings as a whole.
For example I recently added to my position in Wal-Mart Stores (WMT), which I consider of the best run companies in USA, with a strong position in the retail market and good opportunities for growth. The low current yield of 2.20% however was too low in comparison to the 3% entry criteria I apply for new and existing investments. I do believe however that the strong dividend growth would more than compensate for the low current yield, and I see the yield on cost on an investment in Wal-Mart today doubling to 4.5%-5% by the end of the next decade. That's why I added the high dividend stock AT&T (T) to my portfolio. For every two shares of Wal-Mart (WMT) stock, I bought one share of AT&T (T). At the current prices this mix yields 3% right now.
I view AT&T (T) as a slow grower, which might end up cutting distributions sometime in the future due to its high payout and stagnant earnings in the highly competitive telecom market. The strong dividend growth at Wal-Mart (WMT) however should more than compensate for any potential dividend cuts at AT&T (T). If AT&T (T) cuts its dividends by 50% to 82cents/share, but Wal-Mart (WMT) managed to raise its distributions by 36%, my total dividend income would be unchanged. I believe that Wal-Mart (WMT) would be able to raise distributions by 36% over the next 3-4 years, assuming that it follows the most recent path of dividend growth.
Other stocks that I could use in dividend grouping for income could be high yielding triple net lease real estate investment trust Realty Income (O) or pipeline operator Kinder Morgan (KMP).
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Dividend Grouping for Dividend Income
Most dividend investors are influenced by the current yield when they enter a particular stock investment. Dividend growth investors are no different either. It is hard to blame either of these groups, as there is no point in a company that strongly raises its dividend payments, yet it might take up to two decades for the yield on cost to reach any meaningful level. Add in to that the fact that a double digit dividend growth could only be supported by a double digit earnings growth only for so long. If the dividend payout ratio was low at the beginning this could extend the strong dividend growth by a few years after earnings growth slows down to a more reasonable level.
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I think a lot of what determines allocation is time frame. I'm in my 30's, meaning that I'll have 20+ years before I start drawing on the income. Thus, I'm willing to trade a bit of current yield for future dividend growth.ReplyDelete
Of course, that doesn't stop me from drooling over the few stocks that have both, but getting diversification is tougher since so many of them are staples.
- AnonymousNovember 13, 2009 at 5:02 PM
A new book on Amazon, called Dividend Growth Investing, seems to reflect exactly what you are trying to do with your service. However, it is oriented to helping us to do dividend growth investing ourselves, if we have the time and patience to do the necessary research. You may want to review this book, as I found it very helpful.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 14, 2009 at 5:59 AM
Thank you for continuing to advance the thinking in dividend growth investing.ReplyDelete
I don't have the tools to do so, but I'd love to see someone incorporate the issue of inflation at some point. A payer that only increases the dividend at the rate of inflation doesn't do investors much good, even though the yield on cost might look great on paper.
I guess what I'm wondering is whether there's a way, looking back to some starting point, to recalculate a real yield on cost, net of inflation. It's easy enough to eyeball in any given year (especially now, with no inflation!) but seems to get obfuscated over time.
Thanks again for thinking differently about dividend growth investing.
I have been reading your blog and it has been really helpful. Thanks a lot. Sorry I don't where to leave a message for this.... but I want to know your thoughts on KMB, Kimberley Clark.....ReplyDelete
Thanks for the article! Real estate finance stuff is so hard to understand, especially terms like triple net lease and 1031 exchange property. Do you know of any good resources I could look at?ReplyDelete
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They sold out the Hollywood Bowl out soooooooo fast.
Spicy pie is mainstream shit.
F: AC/DC, Nero, Cloud Nothings, Lykke Li, Interpol, George Ezra, Azealia Banks, Todd Terje, Gorgon City
S: Parquet Courts, Perfume Genius, Danny Tenaglia, Kasabian, Jack White, Royal Blood, TWOD, Chet Faker, What So Not
S: The Orwells, OFF!, St. Vincent, Gesaffelstein, Joyce Manor, Lil B, Kaskade, Madeon
That is fucking hilarious. Kicked out of a strip club for... cell phones. ROCK & ROLL!
2013 = Coverchella
2011 = Perfectchella
"Mumford And Sons played their last tour date in support of 2012 sophomore album Babel on Friday night (September 20th) in Bonner Springs, Kansas, and the band told Rolling Stone that they are about to embark on a long break. Keyboard player Ben Lovett explained prior to the gig, "There won't be any Mumford & Sons activities for the foreseeable future following Friday's show."
Asked how long the hiatus would last, Lovett said, "We have no idea. We just know we're going to take a considerable amount of time off and just go back to hanging out and having no commitments or pressure or anything like that. It feels like the last week of school right now, before school holiday when you're in high school. The atmosphere on the road is one of . . . I think everyone's excited about being free of schedules."
Friday - OutKast / The Replacements / The Afghan Whigs / Shlohmo / GOAT / Flatbush Zombies / Glitch Mob / John Spencer / DJ Falcon / The Bots
Saturday - QOTSA / NAS / CHVRCHES / Temples / Mogwai / Warpaint / DARKSIDE / Ty Segall / Graveyard / Carbon Airways
Sunday - Beck / Disclosure / Motorhead / Little Dragon / Trombone Shorty / Frank Turner / Bombino / Bad Manners / J. Roddy / Scuba
Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience ― Mark Twain
So they're gonna go blow their nest eggs and then have a reunion album and tour and make three times as much. Great.
2013 = Coverchella
2011 = Perfectchella
April 1 - Yob
April 6 - Swans
April 7 - Liturgy
April 10-12 - Coachella
April 17 - Clark/Nosaj Thing
April 23 - John Talabot
April 27 - The Body & Full of Hell
May 1 - Sleep
May 8-10 - Austin Psych Fest
May 13 - Noel Gallagher
May 15-17 - Psycho California
May 23 - St. Vitus
June 6 - The Rolling Stones
June 7 - Melt Banana
June 10 - Melvins
June 20 - Blur
June 24-28 - Glastonbury
July 18 - Death Grips?
July 19 - Smashing Pumpkins/Marilyn Manson
4/10-4/12 - Coachella
4/15 - Ratatat
5/20 - Noel Gallagher
5/21-5/24 - Lightning in a Bottle
ACDC - Tame Impala - Alabama Shakes - Ride - George Ezra - RHHeat - Sylvan Esso - Cloud Nothings - Allah-Las
Jack White - Alt-J - Belle/Sebastian - Ratatat - War on Drugs - Tycho - Royal Blood - Kasabian - Ryn Weaver
St. Vincent - Odesza - Jenny Lewis - Mac DeMarco - Angel Olsen - Saint Motel
This guys create a lot of buzz. Sound Which is most likeable and pleasant to my ear. Everyone having a own Taste and like.
they died
Everyone's a Photographer
While I am very burnt on them due to the ungodly amount of radio play they got and the mediocrity of there 2nd album, they were pretty great in 2011 and would love to see them again, just not if it takes a headlining spot which it probably would
Coach 06,07,08,09,10,11,12,13.1,14.1
Sasquatch 12
Lolla 11(Chile)
Street Scene 07,08,09
Rock the Bells 07
They could have headlined in 2011, good god people went crazy for them.
Reeber has developed cancer now . Sorry man ...
Spicy pie is mainstream shit.
I would LOVE to see them again! Although realistically I don't think they'll be there.
I was betting they were going to be a headliner last year.
I was shocked to see that they weren't
Last years lineup caused ticket sales to dip big time this year.....I expect many HUGE NAMES on the poster this year.


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According to an email sent to School Committee members by Jason Defalco, the Chief Academic Officer, at least ten teens broke into the school Saturday night, vandalizing school property, tossing food around in the community room, leaving graffiti in the auditorium, and breaking video equipment
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Michael Shea, the former Voc-Tech superintendent and interim New Bedford superintendent, has been asked to temporarily manage Dartmouth's school system. The Standard-Times reports that the Dartmouth School Committee voted 3-1 to ask Shea to manage the district after Superintendent Ana Riley leaves for a post in Portsmouth, Rhode Island
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Nexus 4 is making its way to different markets around the world, courtesy of local Google partners. Its latest destination appears to be in the United States via giant retailer Best Buy, which plans to sell the LG-manufactured very soon, reports said.
The quad-cored Android handset, according to Android Community, will be offered for American customers willing to plunk down $US199, which includes a two-year contract with T-Mobile.
The same report indicated too that Nexus 4 is available unlocked through Best Buy but with a surprising price jump, to the tune of $US599 or three times higher that its original price level at Google Play store.
The mark is in line with the jacked up sticker price that the smartphone has been carrying when appearing on channels outside Google. In Australia, for instance, Nexus 4 will be sold starting this week at premium price.
Regardless, buyers seem bent to take plunge and pay more so long as they are able to grab the phone where it is actually available. Since its launch late last year, Nexus 4 has been plagued with chronic stock outs - the cause of which appears to be the miscalculations of Google, per LG's recent pronouncements.
The South Korean mobile phone maker has been hinting lately that global shipments will resume shortly and true to its word, Nexus 4 will soon roll out to selected Middle East countries, likely signifying that production of the smartphone is gradually reaching normal pace.
LG said its has ramped up efforts to meet demands from markets around the world but concerns of questionable quality also emerged with the perception that some compromises were accepted in order to quiet the discontent of consumers waiting for months to get their hands on the handset.
But in exchange, quite a number of Nexus 4 units proved too fragile to handle, per the report of Consumerist.com. Citing complaints from Nexus 4 owners, the site claims of many occasions that "the glass back of a Nexus 4 (was) shattering without any impact at all."
Also, one owner reported that his Nexus 4's screen was cracked and rendered unusable after a short fall of less than a foot. Another insisted that even with a protective case and hitting a carpeted floor, the Google smartphone's screen easily broke.
Of course, the same report suggested that owners may have been a bit careless in handling their Nexus 4 but not without suggesting that design flaws were likely overlooked by LG during the handset's production process.


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LINZ, Austria -- Stefanie Voegele won the last eight games to beat Klara Zakopalova 5-7, 7-5, 6-0 Monday and advance to the second round of the Generali Ladies.
Voegele failed to serve out the second set at 5-3 as Zakopalova leveled at 5-5 but the 58th-ranked Swiss player didn't concede a game afterward. Zakopalova lost her serve eight times and saved 19 more break points.
The result ended Voegele's seven-match winless streak on the WTA tour, which started in the second round at Stanford in July.
Earlier, Elina Svitolina and Francesca Schiavone earned straight-set wins to also reach the second round.
The 44th-ranked Svitolina defeated Mona Barthel 6-2, 7-5 after the German double-faulted eight times and dropped five service games.
Schiavone hit four aces in beating Karolina Pliskova 7-5, 6-2.
The top-seeded player in Linz is ninth-ranked Angelique Kerber, who was given a late wildcard entry to replace Petra Kvitova after the former Wimbledon champion pulled out with a back injury.
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"local landfill for recycling"
Recyled as . . . an artifical hill ?
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Recyled as . . . an artifical hill ?
Keep your text config files in git, and use gitlab or something similar to be able to browse and comment on, and link to from wiki documentation, all the changes.
Amazon doesn't normally do that -- they just rent the (virtual) servers, the dashboard and other software including the OS would have been installed by the customer, at most they might reboot or shutdown and restart a machine . . . but they provide a self-serve API to do that, so probably not even that.
Unless the access involved the attackers getting the AWS account credentials, I don't think there's much Amazon could do.
We, the open source and freedom-loving community, may need an organized task force to keep track of these programmers, track their incomes, and store their communications -- just for future reference in case something comes up and a mole is suspected, not an actual search as the Constitution defines it, of course. Similar to the Apache Foundation and other Foundations for Open Source causes, but tasked with keeping our communications secure, and breaking the other side's communications where feasiable. We'll have to keep the existence of the Association secret as much as possible of course, and thus also hide it's budget in small items spread accross the other Foundations. They'll archive all the repos and mailing lists and IRC channels and any other communication medium, but advances in technology make the storage on that scale cheaper. We might have to rent a large building out somewhere that has cheap land and few pesky curious tresspassers, Utah or something. We'll just refer to it as No Such Association for now. A small and expedient measure given the threats of our times.
This is similar to vole:
https://www.writelatex.com/ and https://www.sharelatex.com/ and several desktop latex editors seems to work OK despite your logic.
The main appleal of LaTeX is precisely that you aren't supposed to continuously re-render it, you are supposed to write things. Then you twiddle how it looks a bit at the end.
Optimizing web pages for speed of rendering the output seems reasonable, but I'm not sure that should be a big consideration in a document format.
Or that could be done with a plugin . . . it would also deprive google of the data of what links were clicked in searches.
Will they make it so that if you arrive on a web page via a google search, the operator of that web page cannot see the search terms that lead you there ? I think that would be an improvement.
According to the UN Charter itself, spying would not be an act of war, definitely not a reason to start one. See:
As a practical matter, we cannot allow spying to be considered a reason to go to war, because by it's nature it is hard to prove and easy to fake; it would basically be giving states the right to start a war whenever they want. At times in history we've tried that, such when most of the states of Europe were basically the persons of kings, and it didn't work out so we came up with rules.
This issue is a distraction, as is Private Manning's sexual identification. It just doesn't matter. It is actually the job of the NSA to spy on those communications, and as institutional, political communications they don't have the same moral scanticy and protection as private, individual humans' communications. Prior to Terror being the primary justification, the NSA used to justify some of their actions by saying that they discovered when large foreign contracts had been decided by bribe, and saved American companies the cost of bidding on them; that is also exactly what they are supposed to be doing.
The fact that the NSA got caught, or perhaps even worse yet chose to leak this activity to distract from the fact they got caught in their other activities, is more evidence the agency is out of control and needs to be brought to heel.
In my opinion, the NSA was basically killed by giving it an unlimited budget. Under such circumstances an organization tends to seek out the most expensive, least innovative, least risky things to do and firehose money into them. Take your favorite causes -- defense and law and order if you are right wing, education and health care if you left wing, or your perfered church if you are religious -- and the quickest way to thoroughly destroy that cause is to give it's institutions an unquestioning loyalty and unlimited budget.
In spite of the fact that I think some things the NSA does are good, and perhaps necessary in the long term, I think the best action currently would be to close the whole agency for a number of years. We'd run some risks in doing so, but leaving them on their current path is also running some risks. You can't wave the bogey man of an Islamic Caliphate or whatever and then pooh-pooh the bogey man of a internal Cheka or Stasi. I think if we cut the place down cold, and let the giant glass buildings and huge datacenters collect dust and mold for about 4 to 6 years, we'd be in a better position to restart something smaller and more disciplined around 2020. I think you need to close it for that long, so that all the careerists in there know they have to switch careers and get into other areas. You might end up hiring a large chunk of them back, of course, but half a decade in a different industry shakes up the bureaucratic allegences and gives people a different point of view.
I like your site and your portfolio and products.
If you want to get the free slashvertisement of a
Also, your store sends people to inertialabs.com which then in turn sends people over to robotmarketplace.com. Have it take people directly where they need to go.
Post-apocalyptic, but it's a very interesting take on it.
I don't think they are bullshit, as a user of the latest firefox that ships with Ubuntu I see this all the time:
23974 rgr 20 0 2656m 1.8g 40m S 55 23.3 164:03.18 firefox
It's a great laptop with 8 GB of RAM, 4 cores, etc. Still, I often restart firefox just to get work done.
The state of the browser world is pretty shabby right now. Basically, the browser is replacing the desktop window manager as a key piece of software - between webmail (gmail), web-based time tracking (harvest), keeping notes in an internal wiki, etc, much of my work is done in a browser. The state of that browser world is basically like the desktop world about 1995: the easiest solutions to use are filled with other people's programs running on my resources to their ends (usually advertising), the most private and ethical solutions lack the capability to do many things (in 1995 it was run specific programs, now it is use specific websites).
I don't see much hope from the web development and browser communities. When you talk to anyone in those communities and ask an open ended question such as "what's the biggest problem we're facing" or "what most excites you about the industry today" the response is usually about web standards, java script, and bastardizing page description into a bad programming language, making websites less ugly on mobile devices.
That your computer does what you want it to, instead of merely generating heat, or even worse yet computing flashy ads you don't want to see and collecting information for your enemies, isn't on their radar except as a knee-jerk platitude or afterthought. "Oh yeah, and privacy. We only write websites that don't track you if you put your name on a list."
So it is not a surprise that the browser they produce barely runs on the kinds of computers the top few percent of the world can afford, and that it collects information for the top 0.01 percent.
Perhaps if much of the world starts using tiny computers based on the new cheap system-on-a-chip ARM stuff, like the Raspberry PI and Beagleboard Bone and etc, there will be a brief opening where there is no good browser available for those machines and a new one could make headway. But I think we'd end up back in the same place on that platform for the same reasons unless we do something differently.
I think the best inhibitors of histronics are the long and subtle posts on the value of contemplation of underlying forces acting in society. Post away, ignore the peanut gallery.
DrupalCon can be expensive. If you can get there cheaply and perhaps share an AirBnB with someone or otherwise cut costs, it might be worth it.
However, you definitely need to continue freelancing or contracting so that you build a portfolio that you can point to.
In terms of self promotion, I would advise that one of the biggest bang-for-your-buck methods would be to present at Drupal Camps that you can attend cheaply. Make a 45 min presentation out of one of your projects as a "case study", those types of presentations are popular.
Eventually you will get a job offer if you keep that up.
In the longer term, you cannot neglect your education. This doesn't mean going back to school or taking formal classes necessarily, but you have to realize that you will have to be improving yourself for the rest of your career - either learning new technologies before your customers need them, deepening your theoretical background, learning a foreign language, something. Try to attend to that in a disciplined way.
The degree does not do much to help employers evaluate people; a potential employer may apply it as a filter, but for development jobs and other creative work, it is not a good filter. The ones that are actually using it to refuse interviews are managed by lazy, unimaginative types and you don't want to work there. It is more likely that the requirement of a degree is posted as a formalism, perhaps the company doesn't want to suggest publically that they have low standards in hiring, and that an appropriately qualified candidate will get an interview.
The fact that you have taught people who finished a degree late, and they thought it was worth it, is not really evidence. The reason why they were still persuing the degree is that they thought it would be worth it in the end; perhaps they attached more importance to the emotional aspects of degree as a societie's validation of themselves, and this might also lead them into the more bureaucratic and entrenched parts of the industry, which also attach importance to degrees.
Learning that concrete technologies are meaningless but the large ideas behind them are, will happen in the workforce, much faster than the 4 years of a degree.
Finally, you trot out the old "it doesn't mean anything but you need it for advancement" nonsense. That just isn't true. It may have been true when GE, GM, and IBM were large portions of the workforce and had their corporate ladders in place, but few organizations trust their own internal promotions anymore - they prefer the validation, not of a degree, but validation that another company hired you for a similar position already. You advance two ways: a growing company grows underneath you, or you leave for a higher position somewhere else, perhaps returning later. The growing company method is mostly luck, and lateral switching depends mostly on the job you are leaving, not on the degree you do or don't have.
Education is not a waste, you will have to do that your whole career. But educational insititutions are a waste, and don't have as much education in them as you would think.
"You're a creature of the night, Michael. Wait'll Mom hears about this." -- from the movie "The Lost Boys"


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Hedge bush with some "Acne"
RelmarBoysMay 29, 2014
Moved to a new house. Previous tenant had some bushes for hedge.
I noticed weird growths on the leaves.
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Do you have a mattress protector?
Not just a regular mattress pad, but something that's waterproof or helps reduce allergens or something that keeps mites and other ickies at bay?
I was in a mattress store this weekend and noticed them for sale there. If I recall, they were zippered. I'm sure the markup is crazy high, but I just wonder if there's anything beneficial to them any more than a waterproof mattress pad you can pick up at Target or Kohls?
I'm not freaked out by mites, and knock on wood, bedbugs haven't invaded my space. And I don't have kids, so I'm not worried about young-uns' having accidents in the bed. Just the out-of-the-blue spill of, say, Gatorade!
We have a sleep number bed and ordered one of those AFter the craziest thing happened. It got below freezing here in tn , our upstairs bathroom pipes froze , I took a shower up there since my dh was using the MBR bath . I didn't know of course the pipes were frozen . We left to go to mall , movies , dinner and grocery shopping . Gone all day long ! Came home , pipe had burst in upstairs bathroom , flooded the floor , thru master ceiling and all over bed. There was so so much water , the entire downstairs was in about 2 inches of freezing water . When we opened the front door it was completely surreal . Our poor dog was on the couch with a horrified look on his face ! And the bed was right below the pipe , like a giant faucet had turned on above it . Oh was it a mess and a month before things were normal .
So we get another sleep number with this pad. It dosnt creek or make a plasticy sound like some . Have a new puppy , doing great with his training . I put him up on bed 2 days after putting pad down . He decided in middle of playing to just panic and pee ! Right there that pad paid for itself . The bed would have never been clean from that otherwise .
2 great examples of why I am thankful to have that 200$ mattress pad !
Of course it never would have stopped the bed from being ruined under the pipes . But all it takes is one accident , and you wish you had one ! :)
I rent my house, so I have mattress protectors on the queen beds, both the box springs and the mattresses, and then I have a mattress pad over that. they're nylon, and i got them at Building 19, cheap. It's like this. But I don't want to sleep on plastic or nylon, so I have a cotton/wool matters pad over it.
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I purchased one that the mattress recommended without it they would not honor their warranty. It had a rubbery backing and it was so hot I had to take it off. I hated my new mattress till I took it off. I only use a regular mattress pad now.
We just got two twin XL matresses and as Jeannie said if you want the warranty you get the pads. We were lucky and didn't have to pay for them as we'd mentioned we had first looked at the big furniture mart next door and the small Serta store gave us a better deal. Even gave us a set of very nice sheets too.
The mattress pads are not noisy at all.
KSWL, my gd has reallllly bad allergies with enemy number one, we just discovered, being dust mites. Looked on many a site, but have never seen the UV wand's mentioned. Please !. More information!! We're pretty desperate for help. She gets so sick.
Please excuse this semi - hack.
We put a new mattress cover on our new mattress. After suffering with heat issues for 2 years we finally removed it. Relief. The cover repelled water, was not waterproof but it sure reflected heat back to us. We decided it was worth the risk to the mattress to be able to sleep comfortably.
Just something to consider.
My allergist recommends mattress covers for certain allergies. I believe they are particularly good for dustmites. Something like shown above that completely covers and zips up. Just like pillow protectors (which we use). We use a mattress pad that is waterproof. Has a vinyl backing. I think it is quilted to the cotton covering. It doesn't make any noise, isn't hot and we have used it for years. I don't remember where I bought it, it wasn't expensive and I am a bit sad, because yesterday, while changing the bed I thought to myself that I need to replace it.
We don't have children (or grandchildren), our pup is completely housebroken (she does sleep on the end of the bed), but I do think about illness or just some kind of accident. We have always had a waterproof cover on our mattress.
I use the Protect-A-Bed Waterproof Cotton Terry Mattress Protector. I bought it from QVC. I like it very much. I don't even feel that it is there and it doesn't make a sound when you turn in bed.
Here is a link that might be useful: Protect-A-Bed Waterproof Cotton Terry Mattress Protector
Absolutely use a mattress protector. We use one for allergens and liquid resistance, but not the full on plastic waterproof kind. I've never heard of wanting your mattress to absorb sweat. Body oils, fluids, and sweat will contribute to breaking down the mattress foam and materials over time, as well as encourage mites, breed bacteria, and make it smell. A mattress can nearly double in weight after years of sweat, skin shedding, mites, etc. It's gross to think about, but it's true. Most mattress companies require a protector to keep the warranty valid. One stain and they void the warranty. A protector and mattress pad are used because they can be washed or even completely switched out for new on a yearly basis, whereas a mattress is too expensive for such.


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Cider-Braised Brussels Sprouts
This recipe uses the sweetness of autumn cider to mellow the flavor of the sprouts. From The Cleaner Plate Club* by Beth Bader and Ali Benjamin (Storey Publishing, 2011).
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With this recipe for salt and vinegar-flavored kale chips, you want them to be both crispy and bright green. If they start to brown, they can taste burned. If you find that the chips are browning before the kale is crispy, reduce the oven temperature. From The Cleaner Plate Club* by Beth Bader and Ali Benjamin […]
Marinated Asparagus with Mustard Vinaigrette
Slender stalks of asparagus are a delightful sign of spring, and benefit nicely from the tang of a mustard dressing. This simple room temperature preparation makes a nice first course for any kind of meal for everyday or company.
Corn Pudding
Don't be fooled by the term "pudding." The texture of this Appalachian dish is more like creamed corn meets quiche than that of dessert pudding. The outer layer is just firm enough so that you can cut into it like a quiche, but it becomes smooth and velvety once you take a bite. It's so […]
Mock Chicken Noodle Soup demonstrated by Vegan Break
Pumpkin Spice Ice Cream
You can cook a fresh pumpkin for this recipe if you like, but canned works just fine. You can also substitute puréed sweet potato or squash for the pumpkin. Contributed by Cathe Olson from Lick It! Creamy Dreamy Vegan Ice Creams Your Mouth Will Love* (Book Publishing Company; reprinted by permission).
Vegan Caramel Sauce
This sweet caramel sauce makes a great addition to pies and ice creams, but you should try it along with the Pumpkin Bread Pudding! Contributed by Beverly Lynn Bennett (reprinted by permission of the author), author of Vegan Bites* and other titles*. Photo by Hannah Kaminsky.
Pumpkin Bread Pudding
Simple as all get-go, I might argue that it's even better than that ubiquitous pumpkin bread that everyone and their best friend feels the urge to make around this time of year. Warm, creamy, and comforting, it's the perfect dessert to ward off those autumn chills while celebrating the season's bounty. It's a snap to customize […]