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In Hope Springs, Tommy Lee Jones plays an AARP-aged workaholic who reluctantly agrees to marriage counseling with his long-suffering wife (Meryl Streep). As he fidgets and grumbles and resists the vanilla overtures of their cotton tie-wearing pop psych therapist (Steve Carell, not allowed to be funny), it's not difficult to see Jones, in a sense, not acting. Here's a simple analogy for Hope Springs: Jones' character is to marriage-counseling as Jones is to a marriage counseling movie. Coaxing an intransigent jowel monster into a feel-good weepie is actually not a terrible joke, even if what the filmmakers do to him technically counts as Guantanamo-grade torture.
Watching Jones genuinely squirm through The Newlywed Game -level inquiries into his (non)sex life and cuddling prowess, alas, is the only real, unique joy to be derived from the latest from David Frankel (The Devil Wears Prada), which essentially plays as a tutorial video for aging marrieds that just happens to star two Oscar winners. The surreally overqualified cast tick off the therapy checklist as they proceed from separate rooms, awkward sit-down dinners and golf show-induced narcolepsy towards candle-lit dinners and Al Green-backed makeout sessions. For what it's worth, the geriatric sex may be played for yuks, but at least it happens: Streep even gets to 'bate, although the filmmakers stop an inch before she practice-fellates a banana, while Jones hasn't been sexualized on screen since at least The Betsy in 1978.
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About multiple myeloma
Multiple myeloma is a cancer formed by malignant plasma cells. Plasma cells are found in the bone marrow and are important for immunity.
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Cancer disparities both incidence rates and survivability vary greatly among American Indian tribes and between American Indians and other ethnic groups.
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The Circle of Life Initiative is a partnership of the American Indian and Alaska Native Tribal communities and the American Cancer Society. For more information, visit www.cancer.org/circleoflife
To find out more about Heritage of Healing in Ypsilanti visit www.heritageofhealing.org or call 734-550-7094. heritage of healing.
Shoshana Phillips has dreams.
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Cancer is tough enough, Phillips said. Try being poor.
Even as she fights multiple myeloma, or cancer of her bone marrows plasma cells, Phillips envisions a support network for those who face the unknown without the comforts of loved ones nearby, a stable home or familiar routines.
Phillips has established Heritage of Healing in Ypsilanti what she hopes will one day be a robust support system that will provide a place for out-of-town patients who need somewhere to stay when they seek treatment at U-M nearby, support for families with children and even a way to get fresh food thats so crucial during cancer treatment.
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As in so many areas of health care, disparities persist in cancer rates, detection, treatment and care. Cancer is more survivable overall these days, but the death rate is still significantly higher for some minority groups.
Among American Indian tribes, cancer incidence rates and mortality rates vary greatly. But several studies have concluded that many cancers are more deadly for American Indians than other groups, possibly because of poor access to care, less health insurance, and lower awareness and screening that could lead to early detection when cancer is most treatable.
After her diagnosis, Phillips better understood how cancer disproportionately affects American Indians and that families of all backgrounds, especially the children, often dont know how to cope. That's when Heritage of Healing came to mind.
Ive always been a person who wants to make a change, she said. The natural step is to step up and say, What can I do about it?
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Doctors found Phillips cancer in 2006.
Phillips and her then-husband had been activists for years in American-Indian initiatives. But a paying, nonprofit job dried up and they set out on the road, traveling from town to town and from pow wow to pow wow.
She became interested in American-Indian issues growing up around Washington D.C. and attending community college and later University of Maryland. She spent much of her adult life in unpaid positions and paid positions in non-profits advocating for American Indians.
It hasnt been an easy life, but she loved that her young son and daughter got to see the U.S. Niagara Falls in the dead of winter, the Grand Canyon and parts of the country that nonnative people dont often see.
But there was growing pain and exhaustion, too. She eventually carried a misdiagnoses of fibromyalgia to Ann Arbor for a clinical trial at the University of Michigan.
She was turned down from the trial. Doctors, instead, found cancer.
She was terrified teetering at the edge of homelessness and not sure what to tell her children.
Phillips took part in a clinical trial that involved the drug Velcade that since has become standard therapy for multiple myeloma patients.
She had two bone marrow transplants in 2007 and these days shes on a new chemo regimen, trying to stay one step ahead of the cancer.
Life now is still far from certain, or easy.
Boxes, papers, and furniture haphazardly fill the converted fraternity house that now serves as her home as well as the office for Heritage.
Earlier this month even as she begged for more time on the rent a skin infection forced her to the emergency room once again.
She chuckled: Ah, the adventures of being a cancer patient.
Still, she pushes on, tapping out grant applications on her computer and beading jewelry to pay personal bills and finance the operation.
Philips admits theres not a lot of luxury here. She stretches as much as she can from the disability she gets from the state for her family of three.
She is not complaining. She has always been able to live without the kinds of permanent luxuries that others might have, in part, because of a lifetime sometimes spent on the move.
Brighter days are ahead. Shes sure of it.
Heritage recently was approved by the Michigan Department of Human Services as a navigation site to help others tap into state help financial assistance and Medicaid, for example.
Heritage also organizes walks through Ypsilanti Farmers Market, encouraging exercise and healthy eating for healing and for disease prevention. Participants get $5 in gift certificates to purchase produce.
Finding relaxation
When Heritage has more money, she mused recently, perhaps it can spring for water bottles as an extra incentive for the walkers.
Meanwhile, Heritage holds crafting sessions and movie nights for local patients facing any kind of diseases, as well as their loved ones. It is here they can come to relax.
They dont have to pretend.
Friends are trying to be nice, but they dont know what youre going through, Phillips said. And you dont want to complain all the time, but sometimes you feel like absolute crap.
Sometimes those with cancer and their families want to share that pain and exchange stories.
Other times, they dont even want to hear the word anymore.
Sometimes you want to talk about what groceries are on sale at Kroger this week or where youre going on vacation not how many hours you spent at the cancer center or how many doctors youve seen or what a drag the whole thing is, she said.
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War on Women: Mexican nationals charged with running underage prostitution ring
On December 10, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the successful extradition to the United States "of four Mexican sex traffickers," who allegedly ran a prostitution ring on New York's Long Island between 2003 and 2011.
The girls, some as young as 14-years-old, were brought to the U.S. illegally from small, impoverished Mexican towns with promises of romance and a better life.
The girls were put on the streets and forced to service multiple men a day, reportedly working 12-hour shifts. When one of them refused to comply, she was brutally beaten by the defendants, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Mexican nationals, Benito Lopez-Perez, 32, Anastasio Romero-Perez, 39, Jose Gabino Barrientos-Perez, 51, Antonio Lira-Robles, 37, have all been charged with sex trafficking, interstate prostitution, alien smuggling and money laundering offenses.
If convicted of sex trafficking, each defendant faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years and a maximum sentence of life in prison.
During the investigation, federal authorities were able to reunite one of the victims with her child, who was fathered by a convicted sex trafficker and was being held captive in Mexico.
An ICE press release states:
The successful reunification of a Mexican sex trafficking victim with her child, who was being held in Mexico by members of a trafficking organization, was also announced as part of the investigation. The man who had trafficked the victim and fathered the child was convicted in 2005 of multiple counts of sex trafficking and numerous other crimes in one of the first sex trafficking cases prosecuted by the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York (EDNY). After substantial post-conviction investigation and international coordination, the child was located and reunited with the victim-mother.
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A Novel Way to Share Songs
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By using FM radio, Heath got around another pesky problem: patents. Heath is not the only one who has thought that wireless music sharing would be a good idea, and some researchers already hold patents on ideas similar to hers. In 2005, researchers at the MIT Media Lab Europe patented their own system, which involved wirelessly sharing music using Wi-Fi or Bluetooth (a wireless communication scheme used for short-range data transfer between digital devices).
Mike O'Malley, now a program manager for Microsoft, built a similar device while he was a student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst last year. His scheme used Bluetooth to transmit music.
O'Malley thinks that Heath's product is interesting because it gets around a problem he encountered during his research. Unlike O'Malley's system, NoeStringsAttached can broadcast to multiple devices at once. O'Malley says he also appreciates the fact that it can work with different kinds of devices.
"That's the compelling part about it," he says. "Any device–whether it's a Zune, iPod, or Creative Zen [player]–can share the same music."
Microsoft's Zune player also lets owners wirelessly share songs, but the recipient only gets three plays or three days with the track–whichever comes first. And songs can only be shared from one Zune to another.
FM radio doesn't offer the same sound quality as Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, but Heath believes that people won't mind. She notes that the old-fashioned radio signal is still a popular broadcast medium.
"I think the quality is good enough for them, especially when you consider the price," says Heath.
Now CEO of her own company, Passive Devices, Heath hopes to study business in college. She has already submitted a patent for her idea of broadcasting to small spaces and plans to submit more. (The Heath family is still based in San Francisco, but the company is officially registered in Denver because Colorado allows teens to write checks.)
A NoeStringsAttached kit, which includes two transmitter/receiver units and a set of headphones, costs $59.99. Powered by a single AAA battery, each unit can transmit tunes for up to 9 hours or act as a receiver for approximately 20 hours.
Right now the kits, which are manufactured in China, can only be purchased through eBay. Heath declines to say how many kits she has sold so far, but she says that an updated version of the device should be in stores by Christmas.


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When Worlds Collide
Since I do a fair amount of conference program planning, I read Meetings & Conventions magazine. Imagine my surprise when I found the opening sentence of the January 2009 cover story, "Blogged Down," to be all about a librarian blogging the 2008 ALA annual conference! She was "stunned and appalled" to pick up a pamphlet in an ALA session room selling diet pills, with the sales contact person being the wife of the speaker. The article then goes on to quote Jenny Levine, as a representative of ALA, on what conference organizers should do when a blogger posts negative comments. Never did I think I'd be reading about Jenny — or about a national library conference — in the non-library trade press. Very cool! And the advice given in the article is excellent, including how to respond to a negative post, where to track your reputation in the blogosphere, and why conference planners should pay attention to bloggers and, now, microbloggers on Twitter. I particularly liked the quote from Kenny Lauer, director of digital technologies for George P.Johnson, who said, "You lose control if you're not listening, if you're not joining the conversation, if you're not present." Very true.


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Nov 29 (The Sports Xchange) - Highlights of Friday's National Hockey League games:
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Flyers 2, Jets 1
Left winger Scott Hartnell and center Sean Couturier scored goals, Steve Mason made 25 saves and the Philadelphia Flyers beat the Winnipeg Jets 2-1.
It was the Flyers (11-12-2) seventh win in the last 10 games and they have inched their way back into playoff contention following a 1-7 start.
Right winger Michael Frolik scored the only goal for the Jets (12-12-4).
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Bruins 3, Rangers 2
Black Friday turned into Black and Gold Friday in the third period as the Boston Bruins scored twice to pull out a 3-2 decision over the New York Rangers.
Center Patrice Bergeron and defenseman Zdeno Chara beat goalie Henrik Lundqvist in the first 8:55 of the final period as the Bruins rebounded from Wednesday's 6-1 loss to the Red Wings in Detroit by dominating the second and third periods.
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Red Wings 5, Islanders 0
Center Darren Helm and right winger Daniel Alfredsson each scored two goals and goalie Jimmy Howard made 29 saves in a shutout as the Detroit Red Wings beat the slumping New York Islanders 5-0.
Right winger Gustav Nyquist also scored as the Red Wings (13-7-7) won their third in a row, a stretch in which they have outscored the opposition 14-2, and their fourth in five games since a seven-game losing streak.
The victory also snapped a decade-long drought against the Islanders (8-15-3).
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Ducks 5, Flames 2
Left winger Dustin Penner scored twice as the Anaheim Ducks continued their dominance of the Calgary Flames at Honda Center in a 5-2 victory.
The Ducks (18-7-3) won their 18th successive game at home against the Flames (8-13-4), who have not won in Anaheim since Jan. 2004.
Anaheim also improved to 10-0-1 on home ice, where they remain the only side to avoid losing a game in regulation.
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Penguins 3, Lightning 0
Goalie Marc-Andre Fleury had 21 saves to lead the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 3-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Fleury, who was replaced during his most recent start after a little more than a period of play, had a tough assignment against the explosive Lightning but made several tough saves to re-establish himself as the Penguins' top goalie.
Pittsburgh (17-9-1) made a first-period goal by left winger Chris Kunitz hold up as the blue line consistently frustrated a Lightning (16-9-1) attack that had scored nine goals in their previous two games.
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Sharks 6, Blues 3
Right winger Brent Burns' first career hat-trick enabled the San Jose Sharks to beat the St. Louis Blues 6-3.
Burns converted a power-play goal at 12:19, just 60 seconds after the visitors had cut a four-goal deficit to only one. Burns has eight goals and 13 points in 12 games this season.
The Sharks have now won seven out of the last eight while the Blues had their five-game winning streak ended.
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Capitals 3, Canadiens 2
Center Mikhail Grabovski scored to force overtime and then produced the winning goal in the shootout to lift the Washington Capitals to a 3-2 victory over the Montreal Canadiens to snap a four-game losing streak.
It looked as if the Capitals were headed for another loss, trailing 2-1, when right winger Eric Fehr fired a shot on goaltender Peter Budaj late in the third period.
Fehr lost his stick and after scrambling to pick it up and shift it to his right hand, fired a pinpoint pass to Grabovski who ripped a shot past Budaj to draw Washington even.
The loss ended Montreal's five-game winning streak.
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Avalanche 3, Wild 1
Left winger Gabriel Landeskog scored a goal and set up goals by defenseman Jan Hejda and center Nathan MacKinnon as the Colorado Avalanche withstood a Minnesota Wild rally for a 3-1 victory.
It was the fourth win in the past five games for Colorado (16-5), who got 27 saves from goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere.
Dany Heatley scored the only goal for Minnesota, which lost its third game in a row.
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Blue Jackets 4, Oilers 2
The Columbus Blue Jackets got a much-needed home win after scoring three second-period goals to pull away for a 4-2 result over Edmonton.
Ryan Johansen, Artem Anisimov, Nick Foligno and Jack Skille scored for the Blue Jackets.
Sam Gagne and Jordan Eberle scored third-period goals for the Oilers after the Blue Jackets had staked a 4-0 lead.
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Devils 5, Hurricanes 2
Center Adam Henrique's go-ahead power-play goal with 7:58 remaining helped the New Jersey Devils produce a comeback and defeat the Carolina Hurricanes 5-2.
Henrique flipped a rebound past Carolina goalie Cam Ward as the Devils avoided what would have been a fourth consecutive loss by scoring four third-period goals.
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Sabres 3, Maple Leafs 2 (OT)
Defenseman Christian Ehrhoff scored 38 seconds into overtime to lead the Buffalo Sabres to a 3-2 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Ehrhoff's blast from the blue line found its way through traffic and beat Toronto goaltender James Reimer between his legs.
The goal came as Leafs (14-10-2) defenseman Paul Ranger exited the penalty box for a holding penalty.
Left winger Matt Moulson and center Luke Adam also scored for the Sabres (6-20-1), who ended a five-game losing streak.
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Blackhawks 2, Stars 1 (SO)
Ben Smith scored the clinching goal for the Chicago Blackhawks in a 2-1 shootout win over the Dallas Stars.
Smith, the 11th Chicago player to take a shot, beat Dallas goaltender Kari Lehtonen with a wrister over his glove for the clincher.
Lehtonen had stopped the previous eight attempts and Chicago goaltender Corey Crawford turned back 10 of Dallas' 11 shootout attempts. (Compiled by Ben Everill in Los Angeles)
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Unlike Fonda, Phillips' was simply stumbling over the word "contributor," so it was a complete accident. We think. And don't worry about Sanchez – she has a good chuckle over the vulgarity. Those Republicans are just such sports!
Jane Fonda didn't "shock the world", British tv viewers have been used to the word "cunt" on tv since it was first used on a primetime drama in the late 1970s (on a commercial network), there are no taboos on language on UK tv, still less in the UK press (and I mean the quality broadsheet press like the Independent and the Guardian); can't imagine the NY Times letting itself go like that, can you? I certainly cunt. I mean can't.


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Vintage Hunk: Marlon Brando
In the 1950s Marlon Brando was considered a true sex symbol. I hit my teen years at the end of that decade and I could never see Marlon Brando as sexy at all. I still don't. No major American actor made more lousy movies with equally bad performances than Brando.
Yesterday I saw The Wild One (The epic motor cycle invasion movie) on the big screen at LACMA. And I finally figured out why Marlon Brando did not appeal to me – his voice. He had sort of a high squeaky voice and it mitigated most of his performances. At the end of The Wild One, Brando has a final silent scene where he just smiles at Mary Murphy and you feel drawn to his face. But even in 1954 he already had a double chin and Lee Marvin stole the movie as the drunken ex motor cycle buddy. (Marvin keeps telling Brando: "I love you." which gives the movie a whole new meaning 60 years later. Lee Marvin was not remotely handsome but his energy made him sexier than Brando.)
But Marlon Brando was a sensational phenomenon. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1924 and created Broadway history playing Stanley Kowalski in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire. After his film debut in The Men, Brando reprised his role in the film version of this landmark play. Everyone else in the 4 star cast won an Oscar except Brando. He was pretty stupendous as you did not see vulgar low class sexuality so startlingly portrayed before in a movie. Brando followed this hit with two great films again directed by Elia Kazan Viva Zapata and On The Waterfront.
But what followed was pretty mediocre. Terrible in the musical Guys and Dolls, embarrassing as Napoleon in Desire and really lousy (with a phony southern accent) in Sayonara. Brando reached his nadir with the foppish performance in the epic flop Mutiny on the Bounty. The 60s brought flop after flop until Francis Ford Coppola came to the rescue and cast him (against studio wishes) in The Godfather. Brando was excellent in the film and won his 2nd Oscar. But it was the film itself that was the towering achievement. Everything in it was first rate. More junk followed including the ludicrously overrated Last Tango in Paris.
On the personal front Brando struck out romantically as well and his life was inundated with tragedy and sorrow. Disastrous marriages and affairs haunted him. His daughter committed suicide and one son went to prison for murder.
Marlon Brando should be lucky to be even listed in the company of America's three greatest films actors: James Stewart, Henry Fonda and Spencer Tracy. But Brando was a cultural sensation and watching him in his wordless scene at the end of The Wild One you could see partially why audiences of the day responded to his brand of charm and sexuality.
Watch Brando sizzle in this early Hollywood screentest, filmed as he was just starting to set Tinseltown ablaze.


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- Stamp three hearts with Blue Blending Blox ink into White cardstock. Stamp Scalloped border twice and also on White cardstock using the same ink. Cut out all three pieces leaving a small white border. Punch holes in scalloped border as shown. Mount scalloped borders on either side of a Blue Metallique panel. Punch holes in three hearts piece and insert brads.
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Have you ever seen an amazing printed swimsuit and thought, darn, I really wish my iPhone could wear that?
OK, me neither.
But now that I've seen Mara Hoffman's cool tech cases—which are covered in the designer's mystical, tribal prints—I wonder why I haven't. After all, your iPhone is probably the only accessory you carry around every day, so why it shouldn't it be at least as cool as the coolest swimsuits?
The Mara Hoffman x Incase iPhone5 cases are under $40 each, which, if you think about it, is actually pretty cheap for something you'll use every day. And if you love Hoffman's prints but don't want to shell out the $300 the suits usually cost, these are a much more affordable way to get in on the action.
Which of these are you loving? What's your go-to phone case?


text: Topokine Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing topical medicines that act on adipocytes to contour the face and body. The company's lead program, XAF5 Ointment, is in Phase 2 clinical development for reduction of excess eyelid fat (steatoblepharon). Topokine's pipeline also includes TAT4, a topical therapy that increases subcutaneous fat for rejuvenation of the hands and face.


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Please note, my thoughts always lean to the dark side.
I see a story revolving around a nosy woman (single mother) always complaining and gossiping about the neighbors and how they have everything. The woman's daughter suffers under lack of attention and ends up falling for the neighbor's boy. The woman openly wishes harm to the neighboring family. Harm soon comes in the form of a violent breakin. The woman is delighted at first, but quickly realizes her daughter is in that house. She has to reevaluate her feelings and who she is while trying to save her daughter and rebuild that relationship.
What do you think?


text: This Summer, when everybody was wetting their Zubaz over a stupid donut/croissant hybrid, zee Germans slinked in and attempted to take over our sandwiches. Glancing at the new menu items that have popped up since then, it appears they've succeeded. It's as if Drs. Frankenstein and Moreau teamed up to create a new mutant sandwich vessel, but somehow the test subjects began breeding uncontrollably. Now they're everywhere. And they must be stopped.


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Steve Alford on Kentucky: They're best team I've ever coached against
What's the only way Steve Alford could put his team's embarrassing and pathetic performance Saturday into a reasonable context? By giving Kentucky all the praise he possibly could. Alford's UCLA Bruins, yes, the same program that has won a record 11 national championships, were held to just seven points in the first half of their…Read More


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Amex Digital has just put out a new USB VOIP phone, the I Talk Nano IT-N501 Lite. Our device features a USB 2.0 port, hands free talking function, LCD display, echo cancellation, noise reduction, and a full duplex communication function.
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Cheetahs forced to make changesComment on this story
Bloemfontein – Free State Cheetahs coach Rory Duncan has made a couple of injury-enforced changes to his side for their Currie Cup encounter against the Sharks in Durban on Saturday.
Prop Luan de Bruin, loose forward Boom Prinsloo and flyhalf Elgar Watts all sustained injuries against Griquas last weekend.
Young prop Rudolph Botha would replace De Bruin, with Neill Claassen coming off the bench as back up for Prinsloo. Willie du Plessis would resume the role as flyhalf role after he had played second fiddle to Watts for the game against the Pumas in round one.
"We have been affected by a couple of injuries, but we believe we have adequate depth and that we are as strong as possible for the game against the Sharks," Duncan said on Wednesday.
"We know it is going to be tough and we have prepared for it likewise."
In the back line, Duncan included newcomer Clayton Blommetjies, who would play in his first Currie Cup game for the Free State since he relocated to Bloemfontein from the Blue Bulls earlier this season.
He had proven his worth at training and Duncan believed he had done enough to get a bid in the run on side.
"We are giving AJ Coertzen a rest and have decided to give Clayton a chance at fullback. He has put in the hard yards on the training field and we believe he is ready.
"This is a good chance for him to stake a claim as a regular inclusion in the competition."
Among the replacements were a host of unfamiliar faces. Prop George Marich, loose forward Vincent Jobo and flyhalf Pieter-Steyn de Wet would all make their Currie Cup debuts if they came off the bench.
Cheetahs team: Clayton Blommetjies, Rayno Benjamin, Francois Venter, Joubert Engelbrecht, Raymond Rhule, Willie du Plessis, Sarel Pretorius, Jean Cook, Neill Claassen, Tienie Burger, Francois Uys, Carl Wegner, Rudolph Botha, Torsten van Jaarsveld (captain), Kevin Stevens.
Replacements: AJ le Roux, George Marich, Henco Venter, Vincent Jobo, Shaun Venter, Pieter-Steyn de Wet, JP du Plessis. – Sapa
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When it comes to smartphones, many people have their preferred selection of apps that they download when first setting up a new phone. But one thing that people tend to ignore is their browser.
To most consumers, a web browser is just a utility that you need only on certain occasions, and there isn't much use in taking up storage space with an additional browser. To some users however, a browser is their gateway to the internet, and the stock browser that comes preinstalled just doesn't cut it. Below we've listed some snazzy alternatives to stock browsers, all of which were born and raised in Asia.
1. Dolphin Browser
Dolphin browser is one of the most known browsers to come out of Asia. It prides itself on the extra features it adds to the browsing experience such as gesture control, which basically lets you draw on the screen to go to a website (for example, draw a "G" to go to google.com). Other features include an array of browser add-ons; and "Sonar," which allows you to search the internet with just your voice, not unlike Google's voice search.
Dolphin was also one of the first browsers to introduce tabbed browsing. In my hours of testing Dolphin, it performs on par with mainstream browsers like Firefox and Opera and even outperforms Chrome in some ways. If watching web video is a huge part of your day, Dolphin is most certainly the best option for you as its rendering engine is miles ahead of the competition. It manages to playback HD video quicker and at a higher bitrate than any other browser.
Dolphin has over 50 million users in 208 different countries.
Dolphin is available on Android and iOS.
2. UC Browser
Sometimes, a simple browser is not enough for some users. That's where UC comes in. At first glance UC seems like just any other browser, but take a deeper look and it starts to feel like an operating system of its own.
With its own library of apps, widgets and even tiled homescreens for your apps and widgets, UC is for those who want their browser to be the central hub for all their mobile activities. Performance on UC is decent but rendering images and large websites does cause it to stutter and choke, and if you use it regularly you'll get accustomed to the occasional force quit.
UC Browser has over 400 million users worldwide.
UC Browser is available on Android and iOS.
3. One Browser
One Browser, developed by Tencent, is yet another of the many alternative browsers available in the Google Play Store. One Browser prides itself on supporting its user community and taking up suggestions. In the latest version they even mention that a lot of the added features, such as night mode, page capture, and custom font-sizes, are based on requests from users.
In the performance department however, One Browser is severely lacking. It takes a few clicks of the "Go" button to register the click and even then still takes an extremely long time to render a web page.
One Browser is available on Android and iOS.
4. Baidu Browser
Baidu Browser, while lacking some of the bells and whistles of the aforementioned browsers, has gained popularity with good reason.
The app tries to reduce clutter while still keeping useful information at your fingertips. Baidu Browser has one of the best-looking built-in weather apps I've ever seen, and also features a news ticker/shortcut menu that's curated with articles based on the region you reside in.
Other than that, however, there's not much else to say about the browser. It has decent performance and load times but won't really blow your socks off. One feature that I found rather obtrusive was that the Baidu icon remains on the screen (similar to Facebook's chat heads), but this function can be easily disabled.
Baidu Browser is only on Android.
5. Next Browser
Next Browser is developed by the team behind Go Launcher EX and Go Locker 1 and for that reason I had low expectations. Boy, was I mistaken.
Next Browser is the fastest Android browser I have ever used. Not only was it blazing fast on my HTC One, but even on lower-end hardware like my Galaxy Nexus, Next Browser prevails where Firefox and Chrome tend to burn out.
Next doesn't have that many extensions, but it offers up night mode, Pocket, and Evernote integration, all of which are very useful. Next also lets users switch between search engines with a single tap, a feature that's helped me out on several occasions.
Next Browser is exclusive to Android.
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Rusty Garrett here with the weekend outlook: Saturday, rain stays with us, but should taper off by Sunday, the drier of the two days.
Rusty Garrett here with the weekend outlook: Saturday, rain stays with us, but should taper off by Sunday, the drier of the two days.
The Kids Count study by the Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore reported teens aged 15 to 19 has the had the highest birth rate in 2004.
According to the study, Hispanic teens are more than
three-and-a-half times as likely as Anglos to have a baby. Blacks
are more than twice as likely as their white peers to give birth.
The study, updated annually, said the Texas rate of 63 births p;er one-thousand teens remained the same from 2003 to 2004.
Texas reflected the activity in the rest of the nation reporting a decline in teen births since 1990.
Frances Deviney, director of Texas Kids Count, says Texas has
been showing improvement, but not as much as other states.
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Speeking of the ZF-lenses only, I think the answer isn't that easy. Some of their lenses are outstanding but others aren't any better than comparable MF-Nikkors. Examples of the less impressive ones are 2,8/25mm, 1,4/50mm and 1,4/85mm. Incidently, all of them inherited their optics from Yashica/Contax lenses from the seventies. The younger lenses are generally better if not outstanding.
I think Ted the question you should be asking is, will Zeiss lenses make have any significant improvement to outcome of my photography considering their extra cost over other leading marque lens manufacturers optics ?, I believe the answer is no.
Like any "is lens A better than lens B" question, you'll get a lot of different answers, some useful, some not so useful.
First of all, the 55 Zeiss that you mention isn't for sale yet. They claim is is the first of a new generation of Zeiss optics for 35mm (probably not "new" in the new-to-earth meaning--I bet they are just designs from their motion picture gear--highly regarded--or scientific optics, repurposed to still photography).
I *do* own a number of the Zeiss-for-Nikon lenses and I do like them. I'm not a pixel peeper and don't do "lens testing" (quotes intentional) but the images do seem sharper, more contrasty, and just a nicer look than other lenses. I've tried a variety of Nikkors but not Sigmas or Tamrons, or any of the more obscure off brands, though I hear in many cases they are quite good.
i suspect that Zeiss's quality control process is more rigorous than Nikon's. That is to say, I've had lenses from Nikon that other's have praised that I have not had as much luck with--especially zooms--while each of my Zeiss's has been excellent. So part of what you may be paying for is simply the extra cost of more thorough testing, etc. The guy at Lens Rentals is the only one who has seen enough samples to really know...
You are also, in my experience, paying for outstanding customer service. I've had two problems with my Zeiss lenses. Both were taken care of immediately (as in, days). In one case I was sent a new lens, despite the problem being one that could easily have been repaired.
A big advantage of the Zeiss line is that they are manual focus. AF is great for many purposes but no so great for others. You'll notice that on the same focal length, the barrel of an AF lens only has to turn a little bit to go from it's minimum focus distance to infinity--I guess that makes it focus faster--less lens to turn. (As a side note, I've always wondered if that also caused more focus errors--a very slight miss would be a significant distance change for the plane of focus...) That also makes them problematic to focus in manual mode for many uses. Too hard to hit your target. Much easier to be precise with a manual focus lens (Nikkor or Zeiss) at the sacrifice of speed. The focus stays put, too. On AF lenses in MF mode I find the AF far too easy to bump. Try shooting astro images in the dark with one without taping the focus ring and you'll know what I mean. Or stitching a 24-image stitch. Whoops. Must have bumped the focus ring around image 8. Oh well. Uggh. Been there, done that.
On the other hand, I have had in some cases outstanding luck with Nikkors. I had a 28-300 Nikkor that seemed better than the average, based on what I saw on the web. Its focus (or the camera's focus) wasn't always spot on all the way out--quite frustrating--but when it was on it was surprisingly good at 300. I also have a new 300 f/4 Nikkor that is simply stunning. I read they were very good on all the forums but the one I received seems extraordinary (shooting on a D800e).
But they are a different breed. No zoom. No AF. Expensive. If those aspects don't bother you--or, indeed, if they attract you--buy one used or rent one. Renting is inexpensive, buying used is often free as you can sell it at about the same price if you buy it right.
This is my conclusion too. see my thread http://www.apug.org/forums/forum45/1...teresting.html where I did a little test. OK, a fairly grainy film/developer combination and yes, all at 250 F8 so stopped down, not wide open, but I half expected the 50mm MIJ Zuiko 1.8 to be the "best" (as it's a lens that has an excellent reputation), and in fact it was indistnguishable from the Schneider on the Retina and the Jupiter 8 Sonnar clone on the Kiev. the resolution disappeared into the film grain, and I don't believe any lens would have given a different result.Quote:
I rented a bunch of premium lenses a while ago, Zeiss included, and maybe I'm crazy but I didn't notice any difference between them and mid-range lenses except maybe wide open or at extreme enlargement. The build quality was much better for the premium lenses, but the size of a 35mm negative seemed to set the image quality limit, not the lens.
Well obviously. If you shoot at f/8 on grainy film, there's no point buying anything more than a consumer f/5.6 zoom. You're only going to get the benefit of these lenses on ultra-sharp films, e.g. TMX, and near wide-open. Any other case is either diffraction- or grain-limited.
It's interesting to reflect that the majority the great photographers we all admire used equipment to become legends that most rank amateurs these days wouldn't give house room. :)
Okay, so I have and (more or less) regularly use the ZF.2 50/1.4, AF-D 50/1.4, and Ai 50/2. Among them, I like the ZF the most, and the AF-D the worst. Actually, my copy of the AF-D suffers from some "blue dot" phenomenon, where under certain (outdoor) lighting conditions and apertures a blueish circular haze can be seen in the image center. This is most noticeable on digital sensors, but can sometimes also be seen on color film. This makes this lens pretty much useless for me, except for indoors use.
In a side-by-side comparison at infinity, the ZF clearly beats the AF-D at all apertures up to f/8. The image borders and corners are noticeably worse on the AF-D until f/2.8. However, the ZF shows some "haze" due to residual spherical aberration, i.e. the sharp image is overlaid with some hazy shine. This is gone by f/2.8.
In the same comparison, the Ai 50/2 is about on par with the ZF from f/2.8 on, and sharpness wise slightly better at f/2 due to the lower amount of spherical aberration.
However, where the ZF.2 really shines is the range f/2.8-f/5.6 at medium distances, where you'll get a beautiful "popping" rendering emphasizing the subject's 3-dimensional structure. Here, the Nikkors just cannot compete IMHO. And, this is not an artifact of digitally emphasizing image sharpness - it works on Rollei Retro 100 with Rodinal as well (or maybe even better). On the other hand, the ZF.2 is not a good available-light lens for wide open night time use - lots of coma make it practically impossible to correctly render point-light sources wide open.
The ZF.2 50/1.4 is my only Zeiss lens for 35mm. I got it, since the performance of the AF-D was so much hampered by the blue dot. If I hadn't lots of good choices in other focal lengths, I'd probably add one or two more ZF lenses at other focal lengths, however, given their price point, it's hard to justify adding one that's redundant to my other glass, as long as that performs "good enough".
So, yes, I think the ZFs are significantly different from the Nikkors, but whether they're better depends on ones usage.
As for the ZFs being MF only, yeah, that's a pity to some extend - most modern focusing screens (post-AF era) don't allow for proper manual focusing. On the F5 it's no problem to change the screen against an A type, for example, but on the digital bodies proper manual focusing is pretty difficult. I'm still thinking of filling my 85mm-portrait-lens-gap with a ZF.2 85/1.4, but the difficulty to properly MF this on some of my bodies makes this decision pretty difficult...


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Lantern Road was closed between 116th Street and Fishers Elementary on the morning of Nov. 19, 2012, due to a small underground natural-gas leak. A passing motorist smelled gas around 12:15 am and called 911. Firefighters arrived, and with assistance from a Vectren representative, determined there was a leak seeping up from underground.
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Despite a recent break-in and burglary on Sunday, July 28, store owner Tommie Plank knows that the locally-owned bookstore is loved.
She knows that because of the Tri-Lakes area community's response.
"I find is so touching that this community has embraced this store," said Plank last week.
Customers, other businesses, and community members have been calling all week, bringing more books, making donations, and writing checks to help replace what was taken from them during the break-in.
The store is celebrating its 20th anniversary, in addition to a special book drive designed to offset losses for Black Forest elementary school children.
In fact, that is how they discovered the break-in that weekend, when Covered Treasures employee Paula Primavera stopped to pick up any books that were donated and left at the store's door.
So far, as of Thursday, July 1, the drive has secured 2,472 books and additional cash, to distribute to students at Edith Wolford Elementary and Kilmer Elementary who lost everything in the Black Forest Fire.
"It was terrible," said Monument resident Mike Wicklund, who was writing a check to replace books and help the bookstore..
"My gosh, what an anniversary present. Robbing a book store is almost like robbing a church."
But as Plank says, "The community has such a strong connection and finds it (the store) so important, they have really rallied around us."


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Goggle designs seem to be getting out of hand—when did everyone suddenly become so dissatisfied with their old goggles that they're willing to get new ones that make them look like fighter pilots on the mountain? Airblaster took a different approach with the Terry Goggle. The frame is wide and sits close to your face for unrestricted peripheral vision and a comfortable fit so you can see everything there is to see without all the unnecessary tech.
- Baker lens has chrome coating on the outer surface of the inner lens so you can't scratch it no matter what
- Moisture Impermeable Lens Function (MILF) technology allows air to pass in and out of the space between the lenses to prevent fogging
- Helmet compatible so you can play it safe
- Anti-fog coating keeps your lens clear
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Two occupants of the house at 1901 E. Yale Ave., James Harold Hannis III, 48, and Jennifer Lynn Smith, 36, were each arrested on five preliminary charges: dealing in meth, possession of meth, possession of precursors, maintaining a common nuisance and reckless possession of paraphernalia.
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I attended the Los Angeles 3rd street Promenade Store Opening and was able to get some more info on a wide range of stuff.
Here's some miscellaneous info across the board:
* Tesla is actually still developing the 40 and 60 battery packs. They are not complete which is why the 300s are going first. Everything they worked on was the 300 first.
* The battery pack you order will largely dictate your delivery. They aren't building all 300s only, but the lower battery packs will sprinkle in at the beginning. This is not an assembly line thing according to the rep I spoke with.
* I asked about grey leather interior delaying delivery. He was unsure if that was still true. He was going to check for me.
The grey leather is very light. I'd day 20% grey, maybe less, but not white at all.
* All the performance cars come with different colored piping on the trim of the seats. Black leather had red piping, but other colors like grey had a different color. None were the same from what I recall.
* He showed me an interactive tool to figure out your electric costs per year. It was averaging just under $600 for EV car like Tesla. It was around $6k if you got around 22 miles per gallon on your ICE car. Over 120 months at 22mpg, you were looking at roughly 22k in gas. It was about 5k in electric if I remember correctly.
THIS IS THE ONLY CAR YOU CAN BUY (non-collector) THAT WILL BEGIN TO PAY FOR ITSELF AS TIME MOVES ON!
* I'm 5' 10" and I sat in the back of a Performance S. My head was hitting the roof. There was no pano in this model.
Over the driver seat the rep was sitting in with no Pano, he had an inch or two of clearnace and he was 6' 4". There is a carve out towards the sky in the roof of the S that has no Pano. FYI. Makes the ceiling a little strange looking to me.
* the ambient lights are under the backseat door handles and thats the only place.
* two small overhead lights in the ceiling over the 17" screen were operable by screen and by physically pushing on them.
* The handles on the car as slick as sh$t! They are slow though.
* backup camera display was messed up in the car I was in. Showed a split image and it looked like a reflection issue. Was weird but rep said they can fix it in software and download it to you. The beauty of it.
* Car felt smaller than I was expecting while sitting in the back. I'm not a big guy but not small either. I wouldn't say I had very much room and again, my head was touching the roof if I didn't slouch or lean back a bit.
* Wireless question wasn't answered. He said no dongle for connectivity but then this model had a USB one in it. Maybe for the event they had to? I think he said we could pick our carrier.
* I asked three different people about the TBD nationwide charging for the 60 and 85 and nobody would budge on it. They simply would not tell me how much or if it was a monthly fee or what. Sort of annoying. I can't imagine a monthly charge. This is the sort of thing where it should be pre-paid or pay as you go. Maybe one time activation BS fee.
* Delivery option is only personal delivery. It can be to anywhere. One Price. $990. That's it. It's $990 even if they deliver to plant at Fremont.
* A Rep said it has twice the cargo space as a 550i.
* tan interior is slightly on the mustard-y side, but not saturated like mustard. Think closer to Grey Poupon.(sp?)
* Model X is slick as hell too.
* Carbon fiber in a number of places on the Model S Performance. Crap I want that version.
Carbon on the center console towards the back between the seats. Two vents for AC/heat from the center console to the back seats. Doesn't look like dual climate for back seats but unsure about that. May be screen operated.
* Two drink holders in center between seats a part of the console which moves forwards and backwards. Sliding movement.
* small horizontal compartment under 17" screen to place phones and such. Only a 2" opening but deep enough to put a DVD in?
* Air suspension is the ONLY option right now. There are no other suspension systems because they are working on them now. The alternatives are not completed.
* Safest Sedan around because of tension bar that spans the front axel where normally in an ICE the engine would be. It, along with low COG and the battery pack pan on the bottom make for an extremely rigid and safe ride.
* Acceleration is smooth and strong. Gone are the days of feeling the gear change. Regen breaking is pretty strong but can be dampened from inside the car under controls. Thank Roadster owners for this because they demanded it.
Thats about what I remember. Feel free to question me about anything and maybe I'll remember.
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+1 Scwins. Thanks!
Can someone measure the internal dimensions of the rear seat console storage? Is it big enough for iPad, net book, laptop?
Thanks Scwins, this is great information. Where are the USB ports? Is there one in the small horizontal compartment under 17" screen?
I asked the same question at the test-drive event, and was told the USB port or iPod port would likely be right below the current front center armrest / cup holder area. The vehicle I tested only had a standard lighter-power port there.
I was also told that the touch-screen software was far from complete, and although it is operable for the current test cars and early deliveries, I got the feeling they are still working on a final production version for the majority of the final production versions of the car. Thus, some early deliveries might not be seeing the final version of the software until they start delivering production versions.
The USB ports are on the front of the cupholders along with a 12v socket.
Note the slot under the screen is part of an "opportunity console" option, not a feature of the production cars, AFAIK
My test car had the compartment below the touch-screen, however didn't have an opportunity-console in it, so I think that compartment is standard on all cars.
Well, that would be very nice, indeed! Based on the TMC "opportunity console" photos, that compartment's proportions appear to vary based on which console option is pictured. Hopefully I can get a good answer this Friday in Seattle.
That compartment is indeed very nice but IMHO it needs a door, lid or cover so that items placed in it are not visible to potential thieves. It is a step in the right direction but with its contents totally exposed it has only limited utility and does not address the need for concealed storage. With some type of lid or door, however, it would be quite handy.
It is still not showing up on the "Design Studio," so I'm hoping that that is an oversight.
does it have a 'glove box'?
vouteb, yes.
It is opened with one of the two only physical buttons on the dash board. I heard someone mention that it has a electronic lock, so it can probably be configured such that, e.g., a valet cannot (easily) open it. I personally checked out the size in the Model S Beta that was at the Geneva Motor Show in March this year, and it's just a regular glove box, I think maybe even slightly larger than your average glove box.
glove box --to be precise it is the right button beside the screen
and the left button is for the warning lights
Nice picture of the USB and 12V supply. Thanks!
Pictures of the various seats can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/73818094@N08/sets/72157630256153982/
These are my photos from the Fremont Get Amped event.
phb....great photos. I especiaaly like the shots inside the factory.
I found the turn signal lever too low and kept hitting the cruise control by mistake. I think they should have moved the cruise underneath and farther away and kept the turn lever up higher. You dont really drive with your hands below 6 and 9 oclock. The subwoofer and bass did not work at all in my test car. I got the feeling these were all beta cars still being fiddled with. I also asked about a plastic key or something you could get wet, i.e. go surfing with. There was nothing possible although one tech thought about putting a lock box in the front bumper. A simple keypad on the door would be nice but then again they said you could not lock the key in the car anyway. I'm a little worried about unplanned lock outs from a malfunctioning or damaged key and having no place for a spare key. Rear camera was great but would also liked to have seen ultrasonic sensors as an option. These are all minor things, overall the car was incredible to see and drive.
Thanks phb for the photos. Looking at the pitures though, some of the shots show the rear seat with the cup-holder in place. Does the cup-holder fold away? If not, does it take the space one one passenger?
It is removable. Perhaps you could put it in the frunk's microwave when you needed that spot.
Removable? What? It should be integrated for God's sake. I'm heavily disappointed! I'm thinking I might have to wait for 2.0 or even 3.0.
I also asked about a surfing key. No one had a solution other than hiding it in the bushes out of range or taking the battery out and putting it in a hidden lock box. Neither very practical or elegant. As many buyers will be active people and all electronics fail at some point, Tesla should provide a plastic emergency/wet key with a key hole somewhere. My vote would be under the taillight flap opposite the charger flap.
By the way, you can get a 10' longboard inside.
Met a house framer the other day carrying just the thing. A waist-holstered 12" crowbar!
Actually, all Tesla would need is a necklace or bracelet or something similar with the RFID tag built into it (even a ring could work). Those would be waterproof and would let you unlock & drive afterwards.
Vawlkus, clever! We're so stuck with our 20th century way of thinking about keys that RFID technology looked like a problem to us where it actually is the solution. :-)
Good thinking !!
They could maybe team up with a watch maker and produce a combined waterproof watch & RFID key ? With small buttons on the side to unlock the trunk, frunk etc.
That would be quite a unique option for such a unique vehicle.
I was already thinking how convenient (and cool) the matchbox car key is. You never have to take your keys out for anything since the car locks/unlocks itself with the tech package.
I really hope Tesla sees this idea and considers it. Very forward thinking for the car that is revolutionizing how we think of vehicles.
Even as a paid option it would be a very convenient. I can see other options as well: a card you put in your wallet, built into your iPhone case, a bracelet. But an official Tesla watch would be awesome. Though after buying this car I'll have no money to purchase said watch!
jkirkebo: I like it! A combo watch-Tesla key-phone with car controling apps. "Calling Dick Tracy..."
Can I view the car's charge status and rear view camera on that watch too :)
I want this!!!
With Bluetooth-connected sun glasses so I can see the display in HD!
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Master The Newest Hair Trends Without Any Muss or Fuss
Fashion is nothing if not circuitous. One school of thought holds that trends cycle every twenty years. The fact that the 1990s are apparently back (have you noticed the abundance of waist-slung plaids, grunge-inspired boots, cropped tops and short-alls?) would suggest that there's some truth to this theory. When it comes to the newest hair trends, however, it doesn't seem as if the two-decade mark applies. Year after year messy low ponytails, barely-there waves, deconstructed buns, and braids of all forms resurface on the runways, alongside over-the-top voluminous 'dos (our thoughts turn immediately to Thom Browne's insane-asylum-chic coiffures). However, when it comes to hairstyles, it's the slight variations that make all the difference.
There have been, of course, some more obvious changes when it comes to tailoring tresses. Ombré tips are out, and have been replaced by dye jobs that start a couple of inches below the roots (take, for example, the newly blonde Kim Kardashian). Braids are getting ever more complicated and glorious (fishtail, inverted French, crowned plaits). This year's most reactionary trend? Nothing at all. Well, not quite nothing. Undone hair is all the rage for fall 2013. Whether your tresses are stick straight, slightly textured, loose waves, or slightly slicked back, consider yourself en vogue. This is great news for all of us who have barely bothered with our hair for years now (actually, it's meaningless news, because we obviously didn't pay any mind to passing crazes to begin with). However, if you're tired of just parting, brushing, and hitting the road, here are some of the latest simple, yet elegant ways to update your look. And don't worry, you don't need a Bumble+Bumble specialist on hand to master these 'dos.
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Okay, you may not need a professional stylist around, but seeing their interpretations of these trends sure couldn't hurt your creative process. To check out these looks in their full runway glory, click through the slideshow above.
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