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Tony Stewart will miss the final 13 races of the Sprint Cup season with a broken right leg, but the three-time champion received a sliver of good news Monday.
His first choice for a replacement will drive his No. 14 Chevrolet for 12 of the final 13 races this season.
Starting with Saturday night's Irwin Tools Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway, Mark Martin will be behind the wheel of the Stewart-Haas Racing ride in place of Stewart, who already has missed the past two races since suffering a broken right tibia and fibula in a sprint car crash Aug. 5.
Martin will leave Michael Waltrip Racing to spend the rest of the season in the No. 14 aside from the Oct. 20 race at Talladega Superspeedway, where the driver will be Austin Dillon (who finished 14th Sunday in place of Stewart at Michigan International Speedway).
"He was obviously the best option," SHR director of competition Greg Zipadelli said of Martin. "A lot of people reached out to us, and we're very thankful for obviously everybody wanting to have that opportunity. But Mark just seemed to be the fit. Him and Tony, they've got a bond. Tony was very excited about it. That was his first choice, so that's what we went after."
Stewart and Martin have been expressing mutual admiration for several years, notably during their duel for the 2002 championship, which was Stewart's first.
"Sometimes I have a hard time understanding how Tony could possibly feel that way toward me when the guy is so amazing, the modern-day A.J. Foyt," Martin said during a conference call with reporters. " When I was growing up, A.J. drove anything and everything and was fast and won in everything he drove. And Tony is the guy today that really does that and is successful at it.
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"Obviously, I'm disappointed to be out of the Bass Pro Shops/Mobil 1 Chevy for so long, but the team is in very good hands with Mark Martin and Austin Dillon," Stewart said in a statement. "Mark is someone I've looked up to my entire career and I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. Austin is a great young talent, and he showed that Sunday at Michigan. This isn't a situation anyone wanted, but we're going to make the best of it. In the meantime, my focus is on getting healthy and getting back into my Bass Pro Shops/Mobil 1 Chevy."
Stewart-Haas Racing said Stewart is expected to return for 2014 preseason testing, which usually kicks off the first week of January at Daytona International Speedway.
"We expect a full recovery by Daytona or close to it," Zipadelli said. "It may be able to be done earlier, it's just not worth it. It's a bad break to the leg, and he needs time to go through the process of healing, rehabilitation. With Mark coming on board, I think it gives us the window to go to the end of the year."
Stewart's No. 14 is ranked 13th in the owners points standings, tied with Martin Truex Jr.'s No. 56 Toyota at 653 points. By virtue of Stewart's victory at Dover, the car could qualify for one of the two Chase for the Sprint Cup wild card berths in the race for the owners title (which is separate from the drivers championship).
Martin, 54, is a five-time runner-up for the championship in NASCAR's premier series. Winning an owner's title could be a fitting end to a Cup career that started in 1981. The Batesville, Ark., native hasn't announced any plan for next season and said Monday "and I don't want to think about 2014 at all right now" when asked if this might be his last year.
The veteran has enjoyed a renaissance after initially tabbing 2005 as his final full year in Sprint Cup. He returned to run the 2006 season with Roush Fenway Racing, then raced partial schedules with Ginn Racing and Dale Earnhardt Inc. in 2007-08. He returned full time for a three-season stint at Hendrick Motorsports (making the Chase for the Sprint Cup and leading the circuit with five wins in 2009) before moving to a part-time role at Michael Waltrip Racing last year.
"I never dreamed of what would take place from 2007 on," he said. "It's been a really great experience to have the opportunity to work with so many great people (and) teams; learn from so many people and make so many good friends throughout the time. It's really been a rewarding experience to have the opportunity to work with Hendrick Motorsports, DEI and MWR and now Stewart-Haas. I'm excited about an opportunity to get inside the organization.
"One of my goals is that I want to be able to bring something to the organization in stability, and hopefully we can turn the car back over to Tony an even stronger organization than what it was when he got injured."
He is tempering expectations for Bristol, though, noting that it was a challenge to hop into injured Denny Hamlin's No. 11 Toyota earlier this season at Martinsville Speedway (he finished 10th).
"The first thing we've got to do is put it together really quickly," said Martin, a two-time winner at Bristol with a series-best nine poles, 16 top-five finishes, 23 top 10s and 1,200 laps led in 46 starts. "I've driven for a lot of different teams, and I've worked with a lot of different people, but when you do something like the 11 car at Martinsville on four days' notice or going into Bristol with this short of notice, it is like jumping into ice-cold water.
"It's going to be challenging, and challenges are good for me. They drive me hard, and I will do everything I can to step up to the plate."
The move effectively ends Martin's tenure driving the No. 55 Toyota for MWR. Brian Vickers, who was announced last week as the full-time driver of the ride starting next year, will handle the final nine races slated for Martin along with three he already was slated to run. Team owner Michael Waltrip will drive the car at Talladega.
Waltrip credited Martin with making his team "stronger, better and more confident and more focused than the day he showed up."
Waltrip later made a lighthearted reference on Twitter to the Aaron's commercial they star in together.
In 24 starts last season, Martin notched four pole positions, four top fives and 10 top 10s.
"It's been such an incredible experience," Martin said of MWR. "The working environment that they have there is so great. It is the least uptight and the least tense of any place I've ever been. I really have enjoyed being a part of it. I've felt really warm and welcome there, and I really love the people in that organization.
"A lot of the people there I've worked with before at other places or known, and it was a very comfortable situation. And people can say what they want, but I have had very little to do with the progression of that organization. I stepped in at a good time when the organization was on an upswing, and it was just starting to show on the racetrack before I arrived there, and when I stepped in, everything was just in place and clicking."
Martin has 40 victories, 56 pole positions, 271 top fives and 452 top 10s. He has 21 wins at the 11 tracks where he will race for SHR.
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The point is not to stop Patrick from winning. The point is to come up with a scoring system that is more in tune with our intuition about what constitutes a good skating performance.
The point is not to stop Patrick from winning. The point is to come up with a scoring system that is more in tune with our intuition about what constitutes a good skating performance.
It's not just this one skater. I have some (not all) sympathies with PoodlePal (maybe in part because I'm a "poodle pal" too!). I'm wondering if the additive nature of COP is to blame. As long as the score rewards "more," skaters will add all they can, even to the point of "more" than they can handle. Hence the falls.
Anyway, chuckm, Chan's last season was brilliant. He doesn't necessarily fall in every event and he was sick this weekend. Let's see how he does later in the season. To me this isn't mainly (or at least not just) a Chan thing but an overly-tricky program/system thing.
And I'm not denying that beautiful programs have come out of COP. Jeremy's and Daisuke's programs alone this season are proof of that. Choreographers ETA: and skaters! can be geniuses. But you have to wade through a lot of dullness and mistakes to get to those beauties.
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ITA with that. I've posted quotes by Stravinsky here to that effect. I remember reading about conversations between Balanchine and Stravinsky, when they were collaborating on a new ballet, where B. would say, "Give me about 2 minutes," and S. would say, "Do you want 2 mins. 10 seconds or 1 min. 59 seconds?" (This is a very rough account. Actually it may have been related to a ballet for baby elephants!)
That's the perplexing thing about COP. It has a lot to brag about as well as a lot of neuralgic issues.
6.0 produced mostly dull programs too but it's the beautiful ones we remember. With CoP, it's more challenging to have both beauty and athletism.
Isn't it clear that the best programs are performed by the high PCS skaters? To think someone wants to punish or discourage them by reducing the weight of PCS! The zeal to stop Chan from winning sometimes can be blinding.
More quads, less footwork? "Cause that is what recent changes are about.
Now the point I was addressing was the proposal to reduce PCS's weight in scoring the performance, while voiding all fallen jumps with zero points. What kind of intuitively recognized good perfromances will that produce?
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Just watched Chan. Thinking about the other men. Dai Abbott etc. It looks like everyone is designing programs including Chan to push the envelope technically and pcs wise. This has to be good for the sport right? Playing it safe as a male skater doesn't seem to be a winning strategy anymore. Apart from the jumps some of the moves, edges and performing are awesome.
What made you think that Patrick wasn't brave enough to try 3A and quad in the same free program?! Patrick planned two quads, one in combo, and one 3A in his LP. He actually went as planned. Notice the open leg in the air when he did that first 2A? That was supposed to be 3A. But something went wrong in the air. He wasn't able to finish 3 turns. So he openned his leg and only did a 2A. Are falls the only measure to show skaters bravery?
I partially agree with you. You know what? It was off from the get go at SC too since I also have used JO's standard to measure both his performances at SC and TEB. His JO performance was artistically the best of all three times he's done so far. At there, his openning moves made me a fan of this program in first a few seconds. It was pretty magical. I agree he looked tired at TEB in both his SP and LP. He didn't have his ustual energy and attack as he had in SC. However, this weakened Patrick was still pretty powerful. I bet if Abbott or Kozuka has had this level of energy in his programs, it'd be viewed as great. But not in Patrick's because people were used to see Patrick had more attacks and powers. This time he was certainly lack of it. But he did fight very hard for it to the end. Each time he made mistake, he quickly recovered and put the mistake behind and focused on the next movement and element. Yes, I've noticed he fell behind of the music on death drop. But he gradually caught up. Apart from a few unfortunate jumps and an ugly fall from footworks, he's maintained the artistic level in general. In another word, he did not lose much PCS, though he did lose some. I have no problem on the PCS he's got.
If he skated this program clean, I, too, will consider it one of the all time great programs. I will cherrish this program like I've been cherrishing Alexei Yagudin's many programs.
And I, too, hope that he could have dumped "Take Five" which I've never liked much. I wouldn't mind him keeping Aranjuez. But generally, I don't like skaters keeping their programs.
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Then there would not have been the Olympic controversy. And some Worlds controveries. They had not been able to do both well in the same program. It wasn't necessary then. Some one, like Joubert, would win with quads and some, like Buttle, would win with skating. Takahashi won without a quad.
That's because both Lambiel and Takahashi were injured/recovering from severe injuries by the time the Vancouver Olympics rolled around. They had been able to do both quads and footwork well in the same program in the past--e.g. 2006 Worlds for Lambiel, 2008 4CC for Takahashi, 2007 Worlds LP for both--though I recall Takahashi's quad in his LP in Tokyo was not quite so perfect, but it was landed and given full credit with only a little negative GOE.
As for Worlds and controversies, well, like Chan at TEB this weekend, Lambiel and Takahashi had their bad days, and for them, it so happened to have occurred at a World championships (2007 Worlds SP, 2008 Worlds as a whole for both of them, I guess).
But no offence, saying Chan is the first to combine the ability to do quads and quality footwork is tantamount to re-writing skating history.
I just went to watch Lambiel's Championship winning LPs. He really was an all round skater. Exquisite spins, beautiful footwork and jumps including quads. He is forever one of my all time favorites, jumps or no jumps. However, the step sequences were not quite the same standard as today, shorter and simpler. The jump entries were typical too, with cross cuts to build up speed and long glides into the jumps. Mind you, his cross cuts and gliding are a beautiful sight to see. But technically, his programs were quite a bit less demanding than a winning program of today.
I am sure if he were 20 today, he would be one of the very top all round skaters with the highest levels of footwork, transitions and jumps. But it was a little less demanding then. He won with flawed performances too.
Whatever the timing of physical conditions of any skater, Chan's 2011 Worlds win was historical and convincing, with little comprise in any aspect of the highest level of skating. The impact on the standard of skating was immediate, building up even before Worlds. This is not rewriting history.
Different rules/requirements at the time, different step sequences. But the quality is still evident even today. Lambiel's Poeta step sequence, in my mind, is one of the most memorable step sequences ever. Takahashi's step sequence in in his Phantom sent the audience in near-complete hysterics when he finished--I watched it live on TV in 2007 and I still remember how it sent chills up my spine.
Also, I never said the impact of Chan's 2011 Worlds win was re-writing history. He skated magnificently and deserved the world title by a country mile; I'm sure it pushed many skaters to up their level of skating. My original objection was to your statement "Before Chan, it was either quads or footwork," which, as I pointed out, was inaccurate given what Lambiel and Takahashi had accomplished long before Chan added the quad to his repertoire of elements.


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As someone who taught myself to program in GWBasic before I knew English (at the age of 12 as well), I would say that he should jump straight at what he is interested in. Just try to help him if he gets stuck with something basic in the beginning. |
As someone who has spent a fair amount of time teaching programming to children, I would highly recommend working with him through the book Learn To Program, by Chris Pine. http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/ |
I believe there are two ways - the fast way and the long way. The long being that he learns to program on something easier (preferably in java so he can transfer that skill) that does not require learning a framework just to learn the basics fof loops, conditioning and that basic programming stuff. It has the advantage of giving him skills for the long haul but being very exhausting and not seeing results for a while might mean he will give up quite fast. The short one is more taxing on you, if he has an idea of what he wants from the app to do, you can sit along with him and help him throughout the process, it's a much faster proccess that means he'll have something he can see (and show) in a short time but it will be tough on you and can introduce some reverse learning (learning how to attach an event to a gui before writing his first loop). |
Kojo is a learning environment for kids that uses Scala (which is like Java, and Scala itself can be used to write Android apps [see the writing and work of Michael Galpin for more on Scala and Android]). Kojo: http://kogics.net/sf:kojo I will be doing some lessons on Kojo in the weeks to come, here: http://young-programmers.blogspot.com/ |
Basic4android can be a good way to start with Android programming. It is an IDE similar to Visual Studio and the language is similar to Visual Basic. |
Let him do Android, but make sure he has a few good books and/or websites that he can copy-paste examples from. That's how I learnt basic (started at 7, shifted to c++ at 13). With something more complex like an Android app, it's invaluable to have a big set of example programs that you can change and alter. Also, I'd recommend to have him work more with graphical games/apps rather than database:y stuff, as visual stuff is more interesting, easier to grasp and less cluttered with abstract concepts and various thought traps. |
Scripting Layer For Android (SL4A) springs to mind. You can code, debug and compile simple things directly on the phone with the minimum of fuss. Phone keyboards obviously make this annoying for anything but the simplest of programs, but I've done far more on the phone than I would have expected. You can code in a variety of scripting languages: python, lua, perl, Javascript, rhino, JRuby, Tcl, beanshell. (I'd go for lua or python as great easy to learn languages). You can move him onto a proper IDE and more comprehensive language once he gets bored of popping up "hello, world" notifications and making his phone say rude words aloud. |
Kids get frustrated or bored quickly and need a constant motivation. My personal advice is to learn Ruby. You can write Ruby programs without knowing a thing about classes (or even too much about types). It takes away all the noise that beginners have to just accept to get started at all. There are (at least) two great beginner guides to Ruby:
With Ruby installed and a guide in hands, he needs something cool to play with.
Rubygems offer a great centralized way to download existing libraries. For example persistent is a great straight forward way to store things. With that and shoes you can actually build some really nice apps (that are cross platform on top of all). I think it's a great way to start programming, without all the clutter that more "conventional" languages have. Dealing with all that mess is hard when you're completely fresh and it takes up a lot of space in your head learning and following incomprehensible rituals. Without this burden, you can focus on programming, which is ultimately the only way to learn programming (and thereby understand the meaning of all that mentioned clutter). |
What about the Android app inventor? It doesn't require any programming skills and would help him develop the necessary logical thinking skills and processes involved in programming, as well as allowing him to create something usable quickly. Once he reaches the limits of the app inventor, then he could move on to Java. |
Actually I am programming a little app for Android platform called Algoid. This app has the ambition to have a small feedback loop with a complete and full paradigm language. It's goal is to learn progressively programming through actual great languages features and be as closed as possible with industrial standards (c / java). The paradigms are : imperative, functional, object and aspect. |


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meh, virtualbox has always been like this. Throw a few betas in the general direction of the internets, then release the next day.
Really, take a look at any release ending in .1 and enjoy the gems in the changelog. And just when it's almost stable again, they rush out the next feature release.
I understand that they're chasing a moving target (vmware), but a little QA really wouldn't hurt.
That said, I use vbox for my occasional virtualisation needs, but I'm not sure if I'd rely on it when money is at stake.
The betas sucked, I've now installed the final to see if it works any better.
Well, from my personal experience, I've a different opinion from most of you.
Although it's somewhat slower in raw perfomance than VBox 3.2.x, I'm not having stability issues (both Windows/Linux guest machines) with VBox 4.0 on my Linux / Windows 7 hosts.
Furthermore, now we've USB 1.1 support for free and VBox is GPL2-licensed (unless you want to install the extension pack). So, why complain because it's being co-developed by a proprietary company (Oracle)? Didn't it also occured when Sun co-developed it?
For me, Vbox 4.0 seems a bit like the experience I had with KDE 4.0. Most people were complaining about bugs, but I didn't notice any major problems (one bug or another, but nothing show-stopper). Now (with KDE4.6 almost being released), most of us can say KDE4 was revolutionary for the Linux Desktop (Linux left from a 90's-like DE to a 21st-century-like one).
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Kunai | |
Name | |
Kanji | クナイ |
Rōmaji | Kunai |
Debut | |
Manga | Chapter #1 |
Anime | Naruto Episode #1 |
Movie | Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow |
Game | Naruto: Clash of Ninja |
OVA | Find the Four-Leaf Red Clover! |
Appears in | Anime, Manga, Game, Movie |
Kunai, along with the shuriken, is one of the most common ninja tools in the Naruto series. It is a black dagger designed for thrusting and stabbing, though it can still do some damage if thrown despite not being designed for it, and is about the length of one's hand.
Many shinobi attack by attaching an explosive tag to the blade. The kunai is usually thrown so that it lodges in an object near the target, and then the explosion from the attached tag destroys the target. This use of the weapon is known as an explosive kunai (起爆クナイ, kibaku kunai).
Kunai can also be kept on spring-loaded wires up the user's sleeve, as seen in Naruto Uzumaki's fight with Sai when they first met. They can be used for close combat, like a normal knife. Empowered with chakra flow, kunai thrown into targets can cut through solid wood and even solid stone targets.
Shinobi appear to favour them so much due to both their sturdy and dependable nature, as well as their evident versatility.
[show]Types of Kunai
Different types of kunai have been seen in the series:
- Zabuza Momochi was shown using a special kunai that curved inward on one side, making it more suitable for stabbing and thrusting.[1] This type is also shown used by Kirigakure in the anime.
- Kabuto Yakushi, when threatening to kill a hospitalised Sasuke Uchiha in Part I, held a kunai with a curved blade to Sasuke's neck (seems to be the same type that Rōshi used).[2]
- Before the first part of the Chūnin Exams, Zaku Abumi used a kunai with holes in the middle and no ring at the end.[3]
- During the first part of the Chūnin Exams Kotetsu Hagane threw a kunai at Sukima, that had a tassel connected to the ring.[4]
- During the second part of the Chūnin Exams, Team Oboro used double-bladed kunai while facing Team 7.[5]
- Shiin used kunai with long, thin, red ropes attached to them.[6]
- In the anime, a young Naruto finds a special Takigakure kunai with an extending blade on one side.[7]
- Minato Namikaze used three-bladed kunai that had a special seal applied to them in order to perform his Flying Thunder God Technique.[8]
- The Father puppet, created by Sasori, was equipped with a segmented wooden whip covered with kunai.[9]
- During their battle with Hidan, Izumo Kamizuki and Kotetsu used kunai the size of ordinary blades to attack him.[10] When next observed, the pair were connected by a length of chain, with a weight attached to its centre.[11]
- In the manga, the Prajñā Group used very long kunai to assault Danzō Shimura.[12] However, in the anime, these were replaced instead by the standard variant of kunai and later, katana.[13]
- An unnamed Iwa shinobi of the First Division used a kunai with a manriki-gusari attached to its hilt, in a similar manner to a kusarigama during their initial engagement with the Akatsuki forces in the Fourth Shinobi World War.[14]
- An unnamed Kiri shinobi of the Fourth Division used a kunai with a noticeably serrated edge along at least one of its sides, during their first direct engagement with the Second Mizukage and Third Raikage in the Fourth Shinobi World War.[15]
- Kusuna used a double-bladed kunai that can disconnect into two kunai during his first attempt to assassinate Shion, and the kunai each have a grip around the handle.[16]
- The Taki Kunoichi had a kunai with a two thin blades, one larger and one smaller.[7]
- Deidara was shown wielding a kunai with a square hilt in his mouth. Asuma was also seen with a pair of these after being reincarnated.[17]
- Tenten used a smaller version of kunai when threatening Menma.[6]
- Among the many weapons created by Iō there were two variations of a kunai: a double-bladed one without a handle and poison on the blade (and therefore, dangerous to the user) and one with another ring at the end instead of a blade. Obviously, they were basically useless.[18]
Kunai Launching Weapons
- Kiba Inuzuka employed the use of a clone of Akamaru to release kunai when approached. The doppelgänger swells and then burst launching the kunai at the opponent.[19]
- Tenten used a grenade that releases kunai and shrapnel in an omnidirectional manner once it detonates.[20]
- Chiyo used a simple length of cord to thread numerous kunai together, in such a manner that the entirety could be released and thrown consecutively with just a single motion.[21] A similar arrangement was employed by a shinobi of the Third Division, during their attack on the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, in the Fourth Shinobi World War.[22]
- Dotō Kazahana's army of Yukigakure ninja used mortars mounted on their train compartments to launch a massive amounts of kunai at a very rapid rate.[23]
- The ninja of the Land of the Sky equipped themselves with hand-held launchers that can fire kunai rapidly, similar to machine guns.[24]
- When Hiruko declared war against the Five Great Shinobi Countries and Konohagakure was blamed for it, Tsunade had prepared a large amount of mortars with giant kunai loaded into it, akin to missile launchers, in an attempt to defend her village from Sunagakure's attack.[25]
- The alternative spelling for "kunai" is written with the characters 苦無, which translate as "no hard feelings" ("bitter", "hardship" and/or "suffering" (苦), and "negative", "no", "not", "lack" and/or "have no" (無)).
- Historically, in reality, the kunai were just simple farming tools. When the Japanese emperor announced Martial Law and banned weapons, farming tools were among the easily disguised substitutes adopted, mostly because of how cheap they were to manufacture.
- ↑ Naruto chapter 26, page 3
- ↑ Second Naruto artbook, page 4
- ↑ Naruto chapter 40, page 5
- ↑ Naruto chapter 41, page 17
- ↑ Naruto chapter 62, pages 4-6
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Naruto episode 214
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Naruto: Shippūden episode 178
- ↑ Naruto chapter 239, page 8
- ↑ Naruto chapter 268, pages 5-7
- ↑ Naruto chapter 322, page 16
- ↑ Naruto chapter 530, page 8
- ↑ Naruto chapter 456, pages 3, 6
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 199
- ↑ Naruto chapter 526, page 6
- ↑ Naruto chapter 548, page 6
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden the Movie
- ↑ Naruto chapter 533, page 5
- ↑ Naruto: Shippūden episode 184
- ↑ Naruto chapter 205, page 7
- ↑ Naruto chapter 256, page 8
- ↑ Naruto chapter 264, page 16
- ↑ Naruto chapter 523, page 3
- ↑ Naruto the Movie: Ninja Clash in the Land of Snow
- ↑ Naruto Shippūden 2: Bonds
- ↑ Naruto Shippūden 3: Inheritors of the Will of Fire


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LesHairDark BrownNormal HairGiftI really love this dryer! The temperature is hot enough in my opinion and its not at all noisey at least in my opinion. I am very pleased and believe its money well spentposted Jan 21, 2013Link to this post
YvonneBirmingham, ALHairDark BrownThick or Coarse HairRelaxed HairExcellent DryerI have had my dryer for a few months now and use it once a week.Drys my hair shoulder length thick hair thoroughly. No issues with heat. Stable and strong. I love the shut-off when I lift the front of the hood. Great product and well built.posted Jan 13, 2013Link to this post
CapriceFloridaHairMedium BrownDry HairCurly HairChemically Treated HairCurly Haired Girl's Best FriendI got so tired of going to work with wet hair and waiting for it to dry on its own (plus, it doesn't look professional and it was a 50/50 chance of even turning out ok). I sometimes still wish I had straight hair (but you do the best you can with what you've got). I tried using a handheld dryer in the past (low, no diffuser), but it just turned me into a fro-puff. I got this because I wanted to try a new route and the reviews were good. I frikkin love this helmet, plus it drys so fast! I can be 90-95% dry in about 10 minutes on high (haven't tried low, since I'm always running late in the morning)...much quicker and not to mention less work than a handheld with a diffuser attachment (plus better results). My husband has been teasing me mercilessly about it though...he calls it my space suit helmet and shows anyone that comes in our house (can you believe she bought this?!?). He sometimes will pick it up and point it around the wall of the room I am in to make it look like Marvin is peeping in on me. I don't care (it's funny). I think this dryer is great. I just sit under it (and play on my smartphone, read, or watch the tv with closed captioning on it). It's nice to feel like you are in a salon...plus it forces you to have a little quiet me-time. I get the best results if I use Ouidad Climate Control Gel then "plop" my hair while I am putting on my makeup, then take off the microfiber towel and go under the dryer. My curls are always 100% prettier if I do this combination. I would buy this again in a heartbeat. I just tuck it on the side of my makeup vanity and point the top over the tabletop, so it's really not in the way. It's awesome. I can't wait to try it with some rollers to see if I can "set" it and have more of a loose curl.posted Oct 18, 2012Link to this post
RoseMinnesotaHairLight BrownCurly HairColor Treated HairLove It!!!I've got my standing dryer about 3 weeks ago, and it is working as expected. What I love the most is; it is so quiet, probably is too soon to write this review but I am happy so far. Also, it was so well protected in the box got home in one piece, very lite to lift the box and easy to put it together. I don't give 5 stars because I haven't use it long enough.posted Apr 3, 2012Link to this post
AldoraHairBlackDry HairRelaxed HairBest Investment In Hair Care, So Far!!!I really like the dryer. I recently moved, and only get to visit my beautician twice a month instead of every week. After constantly looking for someone comparable to do my hair the other alternating weeks, I gave up and decided to go with this dryer to deep condition and roller set at home. I am impressed. It's modertely loud (doesn't bother me one bit) and it does the job. The only reason I gave it 4 stars is because it could've been a little deeper for bigger rollers (I wouldn't suggest anything larger than 1.5 inch rollers) and if it got a tad bit hotter, it would have been perfect! Don't get me wrong, it gets pretty hot, but I can stand it to be hotter. For those of you who are a little heat sensitive, high would be perfect.........posted Mar 21, 2012Link to this post
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EDITOR'S CHOICE -- SCOTT SUTTELL Hertz may ditch Cleveland airport location to complete Dollar Thrifty dealBy SCOTT SUTTELL 11:00 am, November 15, 2012
Bloomberg reports that the Federal Trade Commission is prepared to approve Hertz's $2.6 billion acquisition of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Inc. after the company agreed to shed more airport locations than it initially offered, including in Cleveland.
Cleveland is setting the pace among cities trying to transform urban agriculture from a niche interest to a full-blown food system, according to this post on the Fast Company blog Co.Exist.
The headline will make you scoff — it's "What journalism can teach the business world" — but there's some good insight from the Cleveland Clinic in this post from Forbes.com. You also can follow me on Twitter for more news about business and Northeast Ohio. PRINTED FROM: http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20121115/BLOGS03/121119894/0/undefined&template=printart |


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Things to See: Floyd Gottfredson fan art by Kevin Huizenga | |
Written by Mike Baehr | Filed under Things to see, Kevin Huizenga, Floyd Gottfredson, fan art | 25 Nov 2011 6:45 PM |
Kevin Huizenga sketched this detail from Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Vol. 1: Race to Death Valley and posted it up on his blog as part of a series of drawings making note of comics he's recently enjoyed.
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