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We've all had bad haircuts that resulted in bad hair days - or, occasionally, bad hair years as we attempted to grow said bad haircut out. Nothing can ruin your day faster than recalcitrant tresses, no? Even if no one else thinks you look bad, YOU think you do. (Of course, there's also hairdos you thought looked amazing at the time, but looking back, you wish someone had just shaved your head to put you out of your future misery.)
In the spirit of sharing, I, Janetor, confess to attempting to cut my own hair in 4th grade. I had the early 90's boyish bowl cut/mullet hybrid so popular at the time, and I didn't do too badly.... Until I got to my bangs. I cut the center section too short, and thought "Hey, I can SHAVE this off!" So, in the center of my forehead, there was an inch-wide shaved triangle. It looked okay - until that shaved triangle started to grow back. I have yet to live this one down. There are many, many pictures. Which I, uh, didn't have time to ask my mom to find. I swear.
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When I was in second grade I decided I HAD to have short hair. My mother tried talking me out of it but I simply would not hear it. For the next 3 months I understood her trepidation, as I heard over and over what a cute little boy I was.
My mom was a hair dresser when I was a little girl and when I was 5 she cut my hair and gave me bangs. I HATED bangs so when she wasn't looking I got into her bag and took out her cutting shears and chopped off all off my bangs. My mom tried fixing it but the damage was done and my mom learned her lesson never to leave her shears where I could find them. And I learned my lesson too because she made me wear hats for about 3 months after that.
Didn't everyone get the Rachel? Of course, it looks good on women with long faces. For some reason, I thought having big cheeks meant it would work. It didn't. At all.
Playing beauty parlor with my friend across the street when I was five didn't turn out as beautiful as I had hoped. I wasn't able to get it fixed before Easter pictures that year. It's a haircut I can never forget.
I was going for the angled bob when I was 16 so I asked for it to be pretty short in the back. She had the men's trimmers out and told me she was just evening up the back. Well, she basically gave me an undershave up to the middle of my head. It was the only time I cried after a haircut and my friends at work called me 'butch' for a few weeks!
I had a boy, bowl haircut as a 5th grade (girl) because I was an orphan in Oliver! at a local theater company. Shoot.
I got drunk one night and let a guy I liked talk me into shaving my head. 'Nuff said.
Mine is a color disaster - does that count? In high school I had a fondness for DIY rainbow hair colors. Green was fine, bright red was fine; platinum blond was Not Cute. So in the true spirit of DIY color, I dyed over it with an ash blonde shade. Apparently ashy shades interact with platinum hair in Unexpected Ways... my hair ended up platinum blond with streaks of green, spots of orange, and a large blue oval above my left ear. This was not the rainbow hair I had in mind. My mom made a late night call to her hair dresser for an emergency fix. It ended up dark brown, but the spots that had been green, orange and blue were a lot lighter than the rest of it. I stopped dying my own hair after that.
I once thought the only way I could style my hair while I grew it out was to get a "body" perm. However, I didn't take my naturally thick, wavy hair type into consideration and neither did the fresh-out-of-beauty-school hair stylist. My hair soaked up that perm solution like Snookie soaks up alcohol and I ended up looking like a fuzzball. At that time (mid-80s) there were few frizz remedies on the market so I had to live with it until it grew out. I've never had long(er) hair since. Lest I forget that "fabulous" 'do, my husband found a picture of me sporting it and proceeded to put it on a billboard announcing my 40th birthday.
oooh... how about the time in elementary school when my mom cut my hair but got my bangs uneven, so she cut more and they were still uneven, so she cut more... I ended up with ridiculous short bangs that took forever to grow out--ugh. and I think they were still uneven!
When I was in 5th grade I thought it would be cool to have one side of my hair short and the other long. So not cool.
I've always had really flat hair. In high school, I decided to get some layers...cut a little higher than normal, to give me some volume. I also decided to put some blonde streaks in my medium brown hair. On top of that I got bangs. I thought I looked really cute, until that night, when a guy I liked told me "hey, you have the same hair cut as my mom". yikes.
Ahahahaha I would have been about six and I was hanging out with my cousin and we decided to play hairdresser. I remember walking down the stairs so proudly to show my parents the "bangs" I gave myself which were about 1/4 inch long straight across my forehead. Good times.
I decided to dye my hair a lighter color to celebrate summer. The stylist ended up giving me two tone hair color. After trying to correct my hair two more times that day and wasting an additional 2 hours, I ended up with a dark line around my head. Lovely.
Shaving one side of my head in high school. I thought I was so cool, but I actually just looked like a dork.
My junior year of high school, I let my boyfriend talk me into going to see a family friend to get my hair cut. She has been cutting and dying his family's hair for years, so I gave in. I went to get my hair cut shorter for the summer, and died a little lighter blond. It was a disaster. She had parted my hair at a weird angle so one side was about an inch longer than the other, and for some reason, the dye reacted faster at the base than it did at the ends of my hair, so the top of my head was bright orange... After trying to get used to it for a few hours, I ended up buying dark brown hair dye from the closest convenient store. The dark hair dye still didn't completely cover up the orange. NIGHTMARE!
Ahh, freshman year of high school. I wanted bangs and went to a SuperCuts before school. The lady's hands were shaking as she started to cut the hair across my forehead, and at 14, I wasn't able to say anything. I ended up with inch-long bangs across the top of my forehead, which was nether trendy at that time nor flattering. I ended up clipping them back or to the side for months until they grew out! Fortunately, I go to professionals now...
Back in '08 I decided "YES, THE VICTORIA BECKHAM IS AWESOME!" so, as any broke college student would, I stopped in the MasterCuts at the nearest mall and asked for it. I should have heeded the flashing danger signs when the stylist went to her manager and I overheard the manager say, "It's an A-line bob. You know you can do it!" As the stylist went from left to right to left to right... trying to trim it to the same length, I watched my hair creep from mid-neck to chin-length before I asked her to stop and almost burst into tears. The manager did the best she could to fix it but I ended up with a bob that curled to my lips in the most unflattering rendition of Victoria Beckham I know.
I asked for the "Rachel" haircut from friends... when that was the rage... and got the 90210 chick mullet instead.
Cried everyday and hung my head off the side of my bed in hopes that it would grow out faster.
When I was about 6, I decided to cut my OWN bangs. I used tape to make sure my line was straight. (It wasn't.) Not only was my work very obvious to my mom, but I couldn't get the tape off for hours.
In third grade, I had long curly locks, a toothless grin, and everyone loved to pinch my chubby cheeks and poke my dimples. My mother loved to dress me up and do my hair, but I HATED it! As self-proclaimed tom-boy, I decided that I had finally had enough. My mother sent me to school with piggy-tails one day and I thought it would be a perfectly acceptable excuse to say that someone standing behind me in line cut my piggy-tails off. After the last bell rang, I enlisted the help of my friend Mallory, who helped me hack my hair off with safety scissors that I had snuck out of the classroom. Not thinking my lie through, I decided to keep the hair as proof that someone had cut them off. We poured the hair into my Sailor Moon backpack and rode our bikes home. Needless to say, my mother was anything but speechless as she screamed and checked my head for stab marks. She did not buy my story and the hair in my backpack did nothing to help. She immediately took me to the salon to salvage my hair and I came out with a pixie cut. I thought I had won, but our dog, notorious for not liking little boys, barked at me when I got home. I also spent the next few months in my bike helmet or getting into fights as people would mistake me for a little boy in the girl's bathroom.
My worst was third grade when my mother gave me a Dorthy Hamil cut..ugh or should I say a bowl cut! It was the worst and I looked like a boy for a long time. Hated it
Last July I took my mid-back length redhaired self to a new salon. I was really annoyed with my hair and said I was either going to forgo any major length taken off or go a bit shorter. The new girl turned my chair away from the mirror and got to work. Being used to perfection at my old salon I ignored everything until we were done. I nearly puked when I saw it. She had cut off chunks of my hair in all different lengths. I ran out and back home to try and fix the mess. Turns out it was the hair, not the style. I had a penis growing out of my head. I hysterically called up my old salon and apologized profusely for leaving. The owner stayed late and had me come in. After agreeing I had a penis head he then added it looked like I had mange. The fix? Cutting off all but 1/2" of my hair. I went from long haired beauty to pixie cut gal in the matter of an afternoon.
I once had this brilliant idea that a poodle perm would make a fantastic hairstyle for me. Sure...fantastic on a super-skinny,tall,gawky 14-yr. old with acne and teeth too large for her mouth. I looked something like an awkward pasty white sista' with no booty. There was a cute guy that I had a massive crush on;super hot, built,sports hero, ladies man,agent 007...not really, but you know the type. We were friends. Or, he just took pity on me,but he used to like to touch my head and say, "Poof! How did you make your hair do that?"
"Umm...I thought it would be fun to see just how nerdy and goofy looking I could make myself look. Yeah, for fun." Not really. At that point, I usually slinked off into a corner and crawled into a locker. No, not really, either. All I can say is, never again. I like my "blend into the woodwork with every other soccer mom bob."
After a really bad panic attack one day (over a midterm, of course) I took a pair of scissors and just started chopping off all my hair. I felt so relieved and free from that action ... until I had a look in the bathroom mirror. Cried a while, then went to the salon for some extensions.
It was the day before Valentines day and I wanted to get a trim so I could look my best. I had really long, super blonde hair, and after going to a highly reputable salon, the stylist "misunderstood" and cut my "bangs" all the way to the back of my hair (think 3 inch hair on the entire crown of my head).... instant MULLET. It was so embarrassing that I had to cut my whole hair shorter than shoulder length so that I didn't look quite as ridiculous. To top it off, I had to pay the $100 for the ultimate worst hair cut of all time.... happy Valentines day to me!
I asked for layers, what I got was two completely different "layers" One long, the other super short. There was no way to fix it besides chop it all of and add some real layers to it.
I was probably 7-8 when my cousin, who was about 5-6, was playing with my hair. Neither one of us had ever seen a round brush before and she decided to roll my shoulder-length hair with the round brush. Of course it got stuck and the only way to get it out was to cut it from the very top. I had a buzz cut, weighed about 50lbs and looked like a little boy for the next 6 months. I still have an irrational fear of round brushes.
When I was about 5 years old I definitely was rocking a hard core bowl cut. Recently I was looking through old photots and came across that god awfull haircut and I questioned my mother. Asking her if I had gotten gum in my hair or if I had cut my own hair and that's why the bowl cut was necessary. She responsed with oh no, it was just so cute! thank you mom, thank you.
When I was about 5 years old I definitely was rocking a hard core bowl cut. Recently I was looking through old photots and came across that god awfull haircut and I questioned my mother. Asking her if I had gotten gum in my hair or if I had cut my own hair and that's why the bowl cut was necessary. She responsed with oh no, it was just so cute! thank you mom, thank you.
by far the bowl cut my mom gave me in 2nd grade through 4th grade, i already was a tomboy and it absolutely took my awkwardness to a whole new level. suprisingly short hair and i get along quite well in adulthood - glad it didnt scare me from pixie cuts forever!
The day before my first day of 8th grade I was so excited to get the epic Rachel haircut (from Friends). What I came out with was something completely different and uglier than you can imagine. I showed the stylist the picture and as soon as she made the first snip I knew I was in for something bad because she cut my first layer around 3 inches long. To top it off I had a stylist that seemed pissed at the world so when I piped up to make sure she looked at what I wanted she snapped at me and said she knew what she was doing. Apparently she didn't because I ended up looking like Carol Brady from The Brady Bunch instead of Rachel. Not a good look, not a good first day of school, and not a good year!
Ok I lost my lengthy original post. Anyways, my worst harcut was from a supercuts. She cut my hair to 2 lengths on each side. Eay to fix right? NOT! She cut the right side down to only 1/2 inch of hair left. Now I wear my hair long, so wow was that a mismatch.
I had the same hair cut as Monica Lewinsky (a modified version of the Rachel) when the scandal broke. I was a little heavy like her, and my dad thought it was hilarious to call me Monica. I guess I bore a resemblance to her, I just didn't have her affinity for blow jobs.
I am reliving the HORROR right now. I switched schools right before starting 6th grade and was petrified of starting fresh. It did not help that my mom took me to this practice studio to get my hair cut...This woman feathered and razored and chopped at my hair until it was almost David Cassidy-like from "The Patridge Family". GREAT cut to give a curly haired girl who doesn't know how to use a blow dryer!! Even worse was when I took matters into my own hands and decided to cut off my bangs to the scalp instead of waiting for them to grow out. Needless to say I had a hard time adjusting to my new school/adolesence with my hideous freak hair.
Worst hair cut ever was when my mom trimmed my fringe (missed it and got my eyebrow instead).
'Snip' went her scissors right when she was finishing and I still remember thinking "Oh-my-&^%7-that was not my fringe!"
Left a gaping surprisingly neat square hole in the middle of my left eyebrow. Harharhar. I tried so hard to use my fringe to cover the gap that it inevitably drew people's attention to it. Oh well.
I have really thick, really curly hair... my dad always used to make me get it cut like a boys hair cut (and people told me I always looked like Peter Pan). Then, like freshmen year of high school I had longer hair and when I went to get it cut she (stylist) basically just sat me in a chair and cut it straight across... I ended up looking like triangle head for EVER also like I stuck my finger in an electrical socket with the frizz... ugh! I still have trouble to this day finding a good hair cut.... 350 days out of the year U wear it pulled back :(
When I was a lot younger, I had a horrible bowl cut with bangs. And with my thick hair, it poofed out and made my head three times wider. Yuck!
Growing up in SoCal with super curly hair, I've had every bad frizzy, triangle-shaped, poodle-puffed cut there is. But the worst was probably when I decided to try to cut my own hair. Problem was, I was about 7 and since curly hair is never even, I just kept cutting and cutting to try to get the sides the same. The result: Needing to chop off basically all my hair so I looked like a boy...and a poodle.
During my freshman year in college i got really drunk with my best friend/roommate and we went to a party where i got in a fight with my boyfriend. When i stormed back to our dorm with her I was so mad i took it out on my hair. She was telling me to forget about him when i grabbed the scissors and chopped all my hair off. I was so drunk i just kept chopping but in random sections! It was horrible i looked like i got attacked by a weed wacker. The relationship and the haircut were both disasters that i am happy to say i have never repeated. They were equally embarrassing! =\
I had a haircut appt. the afternoon before a first date with a guy I thought was way out of my league. For some crazy reason, I picked that day to totally try a very short cut. Long story short- it was just one date and I am sure to this day that it was the haircut.
When I was 6, my mom attempted to cut my hair, but couldn't get it even. She kept trying to get it even, until I looked like a boy. I still don't like looking at my first grade school picture.
When I was 5 I cut off my waist length red hair up to my ear but only one one side and painted it brown because I didn't want to be a redhead anymore. Now, I love it! But I don't cut my own hair anymore.
Out of sheer spontaneity, I decided to check out a hair-care place in a mall when I was in my earlier teens and decided on a whim that I would get my haircut then and there. No researching or ideas in mind, I decided I would just go with whatever the stylist had in mind and to "surprise me".
About half an hour or so later, I ended up with a fancy mullet and when I didn't style it, it was just a regular mullet. I went to get ice cream after and a little girl tugged at her mother asking very loudly if I was a man or a woman.
For the record, I am an Asian Female.
My worst hair days always seemed to be on school picture days. Between the side ponytail of the late 80's and the short bob of the 90's I have many beautiful school photos. I do however blame them mostly on my mom since she was the one that did my hair those days.
Bowl cut when I was 9. I have twin brother and one of my mom's distant relatives said "I didn't know Melanie [my mom] had two boys!" I am a girl.
In high school, side bangs were the haircut de rigueur and simply had to have them. So one afternoon, I sat in front of my mirror and snipped away at my hair until I had makeshift side bangs. Unfortunately they didn't look as fabulous as I had hoped so I cut a little more off and then just a little more, until... my bangs were so short they stuck straight up! A bad hair day for about a month until my mom took me to a professional stylist to fix my misshapen bangs.
My sister and I used to go to the local beauty parlor and have our bands permed - yes, just the bangs. The rest of my hair would remain straight, but the bangs were like a big poodle party on top. I cringe when I look back on these photos. When the perm died down, my hair would look all frizzy, and I was known as Garth by my entire eighth-grade class.
My sister and I used to go to the local beauty parlor and have our bands permed - yes, just the bangs. The rest of my hair would remain straight, but the bangs were like a big poodle party on top. I cringe when I look back on these photos. When the perm died down, my hair would look all frizzy, and I was known as Garth by my entire eighth-grade class.
My sister and I used to go to the local beauty parlor and have our bangs permed - yes, just the bangs. The rest of my hair would remain straight, but the bangs were like a big poodle party on top. I cringe when I look back on these photos. When the perm died down, my hair would look all frizzy, and I was known as Garth by my entire eighth-grade class.
When I was a teenager, my sister and I used to go to the local beauty salon, which was pretty much like the movie Hairspray. After our haircuts, we would have the ladies perm our bangs - just the bangs. Henceforth, we'd leave the salon looking like half-poodles. Somehow I thought this looked extremely hot. The rest of my blond hair would remain straight. After some time, the perm would relax, and I'd end up with some frizzy blond hair, which led to my nickname of "Garth" given to me by my entire eighth-grade class.
I had an unfortunate bowl haircut (complete with very short bangs) when I was 12, and I had a round chubby face too - it was just horrible.
I have always had really thick hair. When I was little I would watch my Mom use the curling iron and round brush to make her hair wavy. Me, being an ambitious little child of maybe 5, decided to try it. So I took a chunk of my hair from the front and wound it all the way up with one of those round brushes and then tugged. Nothing happened. Tugged harder... nothing. By the time my Mom got to me the hair was so tight and matted against the brush we had to cut it off. Yay beauty ambition!
In middle school, I had a series of horrid haircuts that included ridiculous colors. In 6th grade, I had this short pixie cut with thick blunt bangs and then I decided to dye it bright purple. In 7th grade, I had let my hair grow out some, so it was a bit longer, but had no shape and it was bleached blonde. Then in 8th grade, it was finally long enough to go something with, so I decided to dye it bright pink. Then I had to dress up as a clown for something, so, rather than wear a wig, I had my mom curl my hair really really tightly with perm rollers and then we teased it. I literally had a bright pink clown fro. People kept asking me where I got my wig. At the time, I was so proud that it was my own hair.
I wore the Dorothy Hamill "wedge" my senior year in high school. No wonder I didn't date much.
Worst ever was my freshman year when I want a little bit of body and walked out of the hair salon with a full blown afro :( Stylist said it would calm down once it relaxed 3 months later and I still looked like one of the Jackson 5. :( Needless to say my hair was cut very short :(
7th grade, (middle school is just universally awful right?) I went to get nice layers added to my long hair. The "stylist" put 3 distinct levels or steps in my hair & then permed it. I looked like a poodle.
That haircut still haunts me.
My dad still has my school photo from that year. He sent me an email with the scanned photo and the subject line, "Give me $1,000,000 or I'm posting this all over the internet. Love, Daddy".
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Ahhh Paris. Land of outstanding wine, superb cheese, women with inimitable style and hair. I wanted that hair, you know those luscious curls and sexy bounce. Well in 1984 that meant a perm, yes a perm. As the chemicals seared my head I realized I had made a mistake. A big mistake. And when I hopped off the plane in NYC my sister, as only sisters can do, told me it looked like pubic hair. Not the luscious curls I was going for. Mon dieu!
When I was younger I wanted one of those rat tails, you know the tail off the back of an otherwise short cut. Well, my mom let me do it. I kept it from 6 grade through all of 7th grade until I found out it was definitely not cool and never was.
When I was in college I couldn't afford to get highlights anymore, and definitely couldn't afford to go to a fancy salon. I decided the best option, rather than having my roots slowly grow out, would be to dye it all my natural color again, but decided to go to one of those cheap chain salons in the mall. The girl who did the color was super young, and as she was washing out my hair, and I could tell she was getting more and more nervous. When I asked what was wrong, she told me that it was coming out a strange color, but that she'd get me back in the chair and under the better light to be sure...and sure enough, it was lavender! Definitely not my natural color. She was the only one in the salon at the time and was so afraid that she'd further damage my hair, that she left it that way. She didn't charge me, but I learned my lesson about being cheap with my hair!
When I was in college I couldn't afford to get highlights anymore, and definitely couldn't afford to go to a fancy salon. I decided the best option, rather than having my roots slowly grow out, would be to dye it all my natural color again, but decided to go to one of those cheap chain salons in the mall. The girl who did the color was super young, and as she was washing out my hair, and I could tell she was getting more and more nervous. When I asked what was wrong, she told me that it was coming out a strange color, but that she'd get me back in the chair and under the better light to be sure...and sure enough, it was lavender! Definitely not my natural color. She was the only one in the salon at the time and was so afraid that she'd further damage my hair, that she left it that way. She didn't charge me, but I learned my lesson about being cheap with my hair!
Since I was the first born my mother was overly excited about me starting my first day of school. She went all out from new clothes, accessories, the best school supplies and then finally she took me to get my hair done. Once we arrived at the stylist she said that I could do anything I wanted to my hair. After looking through a couple magazines I decided that I wanted extensions. My mother thought that was too easy because I already had long hair so she then convinced me to do something drastic and cut my hair short. The stylist went to town... By the time she was done I had hair just below my ears and bangs. Since I have fairly thick hair the short cut made it look awkwardly big (think 80s without all the teasing). Thanks mom for giving my teachers and future friends the very best possible first impression ;)
When I was 7 my Mom took me to get my hair cut. I had straight brown hair that was a couple inches past my shoulders with bangs. I thought I was just going to get a trim. My Mom went into the store next door while I was getting it cut. I watched the stylist cut it up to my chin but I was too shy to say anything to her, if that wasn't bad enough she then took a small curling iron and proceeded to curl my hair into very small short ringlets and toped it all off with a small gold bow. When my Mom came back in she saw me trying to hold back my tears. I can still remember jumping on my parents bed crying and screaming at my Mom refusing to go to school the next day.
At the end of 8th grade I decided to cut all my hair off. I was that girl who had the longest hair in the whole school. Let's just say, I always sat on it...
Anyways, the day of my 8th grade graduation, I decided to chop it off and go from brunette to blonde. BAD IDEA
My hair turned orange (first time died, ever!) and my hair was so thick and wavy that there was no help for it. I looked like a mushroom head.
When I was five years old my dad decided to give me a haircut (without my moms permission). My dad is a Marine so you can only imagine how bad the outcome was. He placed a plastic bowl over my head and used it as a guide. After he removed the bowl, I was left with hair style that looked like an upside bowl on my head. I was mortified and refused to go to school!!!
I had Big Bangs in 7th grade. Even my teachers called me "Razor Blade." I have destroyed all copies, sans yearbook,of this horrid pic.
I'm having trouble thinking of an actual "worst haircut" story. Sure, I had fluffy bangs and sometimes permed hair in the 80's, but that was pretty normal. And I didn't really like my shortest haircut ever, but it wasn't close to tear inducing. Unfortunately, I think I've just never had good hair/haircuts. It's always just flat and boring- short, long, bangs, no bangs, layers, no layers- doesn't seem to matter. I guess I could use some new hair products!
My sisters were learning to be a stylist when I was a kid and I become their guinea pig since I was the youngest. I remember they got these new long rods to perm hair, not the hard kinds but the plastic kinds that you can bend. Of course they had to try it on me first. I wanted big waves but instead got tight, tiny curls that was puffy. I looked like an afro. When my dad and brother saw me, they said I look like a black girl (I'm Asian). The worst part? My picture was taken for the yearbook later so it's not like I can forget it. Another time, I wanted dark purple streaks and instead got bright, burnt orange. I would tie my hair up and wear a hat.
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I have at least a zillion green tomatoes on two plants and it's almost mid-September in Minnesota. Average frost date is next week - time is getting short.
Yesterday, in the car, my daughter Ava (age 8) asked if we should make those green tomatoes pickles we read about in a Laura Ingalls Wilder book. She obviously shares my concern that things in the garden aren't going as planned.
I've done my research on what you can do with green tomatoes and have come up with a few ideas. Now, I haven't tried them yet but I feel a sense of urgency to publish this article before our first hard freeze - which could be next week!
Average first frost dates in MN: http://www.victoryseeds.com/frost/mn.html
Here are my top ideas for your green, unripened tomatoes:
Fried Green Tomatoes - a very good step-by-step guide from Southern Plate
I thought these looked cool:
GREEN TOMATO PARMESAN (if you didn't grow any eggplant)
You could also put fried green tomatoes on your favorite salad - as compensation for not achieving the red ripe fresh ones.
Enough of fried stuff - after all, I am supposed to be a healthy cooking writer! We like rice at our house so I thought a nice rice bake dish would be good for the cooler weather and I found this:
Green Tomato Rice Bake with Bacon (you could substitue ham or chicken easily)
I mentioned green tomato pickles - I don't really do pickling, but if you were so inclined, here how Ma Ingalls may have done it for her family.
Do you like salsa? (what a silly question). I am all over this really easy recipe for Green Tomato Salsa! This would go great with my Green Chile Chicken Enchilada recipe.
These are just a few ideas - there are tons more but I picked out ones that I might actually do in my kitchen. From my research, green unripened tomatoes have a lot of diffferent uses than ripe ones since they are firmer.
So, don't despair over your greenies - think of them as an opportunity to try new recipes from your garden!

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My Linux version is
Linux 3.4.76-65.111.amzn1.x86_64 x86_64. It's AWS.
These days I'm suffering from the absence of monitoring tools, processes sometimes die without knowing it.
My need is simple. Though they might be achieved by my own shell script, I want it managed by tools.
- Alert if specific processes die
- Alert if resource(hard disk space, CPU, MEMORY) reaches to treshold
- Tracking resource usage
- Free for corporation use


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Date: March 08 2013
Linc Energy says it has been contacted by about 70 companies from North America to India to fund the development of shale oil prospects in central Australia.
''You've got the majors, but by the same token a lot of second-tier groups with big chequebooks,'' said Peter Bond, chief executive of the Brisbane-based company. ''We've had about 70 inquiries.''
Linc has hired Barclays to find a partner to develop shale oil prospects in the Arckaringa Basin that it says might be similar to acreage in the Bakken and Eagle Ford shale regions in the US.
Any partner would follow global energy companies including Chevron Corp, ConocoPhillips, Statoil and BG Group in making shale bets in Australia to tap the world's sixth-biggest potential resource of the fuel.
''There's a good likelihood of a partnership forming,'' said Paul Jensz, an analyst at PhillipCapital. ''You'd think there would be a few majors involved. It's risk management. They don't want to be left out of a large new energy play.''
Linc is seeking a partner to contribute as much as $300 million to fund the shale oil exploration, Mr Bond said on Thursday.
Of the companies that have contacted Linc, there are a ''lot of North American groups, but quite a few from Asia and India and Europe as well,'' he said.
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I want to replace the sights on my Kahr CW9 and my Springfield XD 45 and I want to do it myself. I bought a "universal" sight tool that doesn't fit the Kahr and due to the aluminum jaws deforms the jaws rather than pushes the sights on my XD.
Can anyone recommend a good sight tool?


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Penguin Random House, the global trade book publishing group established last year by parent companies Bertelsmann and Pearson, announced on March 19, 2014 that on that date it signed agreements with Santillana, the book publishing business majority-controlled by the Spanish media conglomerate Promotora de Informaciones, S.A (PRISA), to acquire the trade book business of Santillana Ediciones Generales, which operates in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America (including Brazil). Before the merger of Penguin and Random House, the Big Six publishing houses accounted for 60% of the books published in the English language. Now this group is reduced to the Big Five, the other four publishers being: Hachette Group,[1] HarperCollins Publishers,[2] Simon & Schuster,[3] and The Macmillan Group.[4]
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, the publisher's Spanish-language company, will purchase the Spanish-language and Portuguese-language trade book business companies of Santillana Ediciones Generales. Last year, Penguin Random House announced effective Monday, November 4, 2013 Random House Mondadori was renamed Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial and the Mondadori Publishing Imprint would take the name of Literatura Random House.
The acquired Spanish-language business will be merged with Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America (except Brazil). The Spanish-language imprints being acquired include Aguilar, Alfaguara, Punta de Lectura, Suma de Letras, and Taurus.
Penguin Random House Brazil, Penguin Random House's Brazilian holding company, will acquire Santillana's Brazilian trade publishing business, Objetiva. In Brazil, the imprints being acquired are Alfaguara, Foglio, Fontanar, Objetiva, Ponto de Leitura, and Suma de Letras.
Markus Dohle, C.E.O of Penguin Random House, and Miguel Angel Cayuela, C.E.O. of Santillana, made the announcement. They expect the deal to close "once the relevant legal and administrative obligations are completed."
Dohle said, "It is very exciting that our first international acquisition for Penguin Random House is the prestigious Santillana Ediciones Generales publishing group. It meets two of our major strategic goals: to strengthen our long-term commitment to Spanish-language book publishing as we increase our literary and commercial potential in one of the world's most vital language markets, and to strengthen our publishing presence in Brazil. We will draw and build upon the great publishing traditions of Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, Santillana Ediciones Generales, Companhia das Letras, and Objetiva, and the creativity and dedication of their enormously talented staff. With our combined company, we will be in an even stronger position to provide authors and booksellers with a tremendous variety of publishing opportunities, and readers with an incomparable range of reading choices. The union of Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial and Santillana's trade book businesses will be ideal for bringing Spanish- and Portuguese-language authors to a wider global audience, together with achieving greater international reach for Penguin Random House."
Santillana is shedding ancillary businesses involved in the publication of trade books to focus on its core business: education. Mr. Cayuela stated, "This was not an easy decision to make. However, these are times that require us to devote all our efforts to the very operations that defined us from the very beginning of our company, and our core business, which is education. Spurred by innovation and technology, we are experiencing a major transformation across the sector, and our hope and commitment is that Santillana will be a major player in this change. We now hope to put all our knowledge and ideas to work in the service of a new and better education program." Cayuela thanked "especially the work done by all employees of Santillana's general-interest publishing houses."
Penguin Random House stated, "The combination of two highly-regarded Spanish trade book publishers will significantly increase Penguin Random House's presence in Spain and Latin America. The acquisition of Objetiva gives Penguin Random House a fully-owned publishing presence in Brazil, South America's biggest market."
Until the deal closes, Penguin Random House and Santillana Ediciones Generales operations will continue to operate independently. After the deal closes, Santillana Ediciones Generales operations in its Spanish-language territories and in Portugal will become part of Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial.
Núria Cabutí will continue in her role as Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial's C.E.O., with the support of Armando Collazos, Global Director for Prisa Ediciones. The newly expanded business expects to publish 1,500 titles a year.
Penguin Random House Brazil, which also holds a 45% minority stake in Companhia das Letras, will acquire full ownership of Objetiva, which is located in Rio de Janeiro. Luiz Schwarcz will supervise the operations of Penguin Random House in Brazil, with the support of Roberto Feith, C.E.O. of Objetiva. Penguin Random House noted Feith is supported by "the highly regarded team which has made Objetiva one of the leading publishing houses in Brazil." Schwarz will also continue as Director General of Companhia das Letras. Editora Objetiva publishes many leading Brazilian and international authors, including: Jon Lee Anderson, João Cabral de Mello Neto, Daniel Goleman, Daniel Kahneman, Stephen King, Haruki Murakami, Vladmir Nabokov, Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro, Mario Vargas Llosa, Luis Fernando Veríssimo, and Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
Companhia das Letras imprints are Boa Companhia, Claro Enigma, Companhia de Bolso, Companhia das Letras, Companhia das Letrinhas, Panelinha, Paralela, Penguin-Companhia (Classics), Portfolio-Penguin, Quadrinhos na Cia, and Seguinte. Among the authors they publish are Jorge Amado, Martin Amis, Paul Auster, Saul Bellow, Roberto Bolaño, Jorge Luis Borges, Chico Buarque,, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Italo Calvino, J.M. Coetzee, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Nick Hornby, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Stieg Larsson, Vinícius de Moraes Alice Munro, George Orwell, Amós Oz, Orhan Pamuk, Fernando Pessoa, Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, José Saramago, Jô Soares, Donna Tartt, and Érico Veríssimo.
Schwarcz stated, "It is an honor for Companhia das Letras to become a part of this fantastic, creative universe, which combines the best publishing houses in the world and a catalogue of authors that is unrivalled anywhere. It is also an unprecedented opportunity to broaden the promotion of Brazilian authors internationally, which Companhia das Letras has been intensely developing during the past years. It will be a tremendous privilege and great pleasure soon to be able to collaborate with Roberto Feith and the excellent team at Objetiva. In bringing together the storied heritages and outstanding authors of both companies we believe we can create a new standard for Brazilian publishing as we maintain the autonomy and editorial identities of our imprints."
Feith observed, "For me and the team at Objetiva it is a unique opportunity and an immense source of satisfaction to become part of this superbly qualified publishing group, Penguin Random House. Additionally, after the closing of the deal, it will be a pleasure to work together closely with Luiz Schwarcz. We have been colleagues and friends for years, and Objetiva surely will benefit from his experienced leadership and his respect for our publishing programs."
According to Penguin Random House, "With this acquisition, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial will expand its consumer-publishing business in Spain, and in the high-growth Latin American markets, such as Santillana's businesses in Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile and Uruguay. It will also gain a new foothold through Santillana's trade book businesses in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay, Venezuela, Dominican Republic and Central America. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial will have a new presence in Portugal, and expand its presence in the Spanish-language U.S. market. This transaction does not include the acquisition of Santillana's children's and young adult literature geared to schools and educational institutions."
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial as a newly combined company will maintain the editorial and entrepreneurial identity autonomy of all of its imprints. It will publish original Spanish-language and Spanish translations of adult and children's fiction and nonfiction in hardcover, paperback and digital formats under Santillana's trade book imprints Alfaguara, Aguilar, Altea, Fontanar, Punto de Lectura, Suma de letras, and Taurus, as well as under Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial's existing imprints: Beascoa, Caballo de Troya, Collins, Conecta, Debate, Debolsillo, Fantascy, Grijalbo, Literatura Random House, Lumen, Montena, Nube de Tinta, Plaza & Janés, RHFlash, Rosa dels Vents, and Sudamericana.
The union of Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial and Santillana Ediciones Generales will create a complementary roster of Spanish and international authors, including many Nobel Prize winners such as Alice Munro, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García Márquez, José Saramago, J.M. Coetzee, Orhan Pamuk, Doris Lessing and V.S. Naipaul and Gunter Grass; Cervantes Award winners such as Juan Marsé, Jorge Edwards, Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Sergio Pitol; and Spanish National Literature Award winners Javier Cercas, Javier Marías, José María Merino and Luis Mateo Díez, among others. The international bestselling authors published by both groups include Isabel Allende, Claudia Bonelli, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Joël Dicker, Umberto Eco, Albert Espinosa, Laura Esquivel, Ildefonso Falcones, Ken Follett, Carlos Fuentes, Elizabeth Gilbert, John Grisham, E L James, Stephenie Meyer, Kate Morton, Julia Navarro, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Paul Preston, Quino, Marcela Serrano, Hiromi Shinya, and Manuel Vicent, among others.
Ms. Cabutí stated, "With Santillana Ediciones Generales we bring together the knowledge, experience and capabilities of two prestigiuous [sic] publishing groups dedicated to Spanish-language book content, both fully committed to their authors, agents, booksellers and colleagues. We will preserve the identity and independence of all imprints, as well as our publishing programs in both companies. Authors will remain our top priority. We always will strive to offer them the highest-quality editorial, marketing and distribution support for their books. This milestone event will enable us to offer our readers an unprecedented range of titles, along with our ongoing commitment to excellence across all markets in which we operate."
Amando Collazos, Global Director of Prisa Ediciones, stated, "Following the decision of Santillana to strenghten [sic] operations in the education sector, and in light of the need to optimize global operations in a new, fast-changing environment, it gives us great satisfaction to know that a group with international leadership such as Penguin Random House will be providing continuity to the work our publishing teams have carried out in recent years to connect our authors with their readers."
In related news, on December 13, 2013, Penguin Random House announced it had completed its purchase of Times Media Group's majority stake in South Africa-based Random House Struik. Random House Struik was formed in 2008 following the merger of Random House South Africa and Struik Publishers to create a significant new player in the African book publishing industry.
The new company, known as Random House Struik, brought together two of the country's most prominent book publishers, with The Random House Group holding a 49.9% stake and Times Media Group's New Holland Publishing holding 50.1%. Following the acquisition, Penguin Random House took 100% ownership of Random House Struik.
Penguin Random House stated, "Random House Struik and Penguin Books South Africa will now work in close cooperation under the excellent respective leaderships of Steve Connolly and Stephen Johnson with a view to integrating the businesses within Penguin Random House in 2014." Random House Struik locally publishes books written in both English and Afrikaans, under the Struik Lifestyle, Struik Nature, Struik Travel & Heritage, Fernwood Press and Zebra Press non-fiction imprints and the Umuzi fiction imprint. It also promoted Random House's global catalog of titles.
[1] Hachette Publishing Group is owned by Hachette Livre which publishes books. Owned by the French media conglomerate Lagardère, it is also known as Lagardère Publishing. [Lagardère Active SAS publishes magazines, owns and operates radio and television stations, and produces content. Lagardère Services owns subsidiaries that operate duty-free shops in Europe, produces unscripted television shows (news, celebrity gossip shows, etc.), and publishes Auto Moto magazine. One subsidiary, Atlantique Productions produces dramas. Another subsidiary, Armand Colin, is even another publishing house. It publishes books in the humanities and social sciences and scholarly journals. Lagardère Unlimited handles sporting event broadcast rights, events management, professional sports marketing and associated products, represent professional athletes, and manages sports academies.] In 2006, Lagardère acquired the Time Warner Book Group (which included Little, Brown & Company) from Time Warner and renamed it the Hachette Publishing Group. Under the new parent company, Warner Books, which published the likes of James Patterson and Nicholas Sparks, became Grand Central Publishing, as Julie Bosman reported in The New York Times. Hachette Livre is the largest publisher of trade books in France, the second-largest in the U.K. and Spain, and the fifth-largest in the U.S. Last June, Hachette Publishing Group announced it would acquire Hyperion Books from The Walt Disney Company. It thus gained a catalog including Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Jamie Oliver's Jamie's Food Revolution. Under the deal, The Wald Disney Company will continue to publish Disney-Hyperion branded books for children, as reported by Bloomberg's Edmund Lee.
[2] HarperCollins is a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which publishes newspapers and books. [It is also called the New News Corporation.] In 2012, Murdoch spun-off the publishing business from 21st Century Fox, the larger successor to his original news corporation, which controls Fox Entertainment, the divisions of which include the movie studio 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, Fox Studios Australia; the animation studio Blue Sky Studios, 20th Century Fox Television (which produces and distributes television shows), Fox Television Studios (which also produces television shows), 20th Television (which handles syndication rights of television shows produced by 20th Century Fox or for FOX Broadcasting Company); 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (which produces DVDs and Blu-ray Discs of 20th Century Fox movies, MGM movies, United Artists movies, and FOX television shows); the television network FOX Broadcasting Company; Fox Television Stations Group; Fox News Channel; Fox Business Network; FX; FXX; Fox Movie Channel; and Fox Latin America. Big Ten Network is co-owned with the Big Ten Conference and the National Geographic Channels are co-owned with the National Geographic Society. 21st Century Fox also owns Star TV, a pan-Asian television service. Sky is the name brand for a group of direct-broadcast satellite pay-television platforms. 21st Century Fox owns Sky Italia; a 39.14% stake in British Sky Broadcasting Group, which operates in the U.K. and Ireland; and a 54.5% stake in Sky Deutschland, which operates in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. British Sky also offers broadband Internet and telephone services. A third company, News Corp. Australia (formerly News Limited), owned by the New News Corporation, publishes 142 Australian newspapers and magazines, performs mark research, runs Web sites, distributes movies, and owns Fox Sports Australia. The Australian pay television company Foxtel is a joint venture with Telstra Corporation.
[3] Simon & Schuster, Inc. is a division of the media conglomerate CBS Corporation, which is majority-owned by National Amusements, a family-owned company controlled by Sumer Redstone, who serves as Executive Chairman of CBS. In 2006, Redstone split Viacom, Inc. in two. The name Viacom was retained by a new parent company for Paramount Pictures Corporation, BET Networks, and MTV Networks, while the other operating companies were to be controlled by a new CBS Corporation. In addition to Simon & Schuster, those other operating companies are the television network CBS Broadcasting; CBS Radio (formerly Infinity Broadcasting Corporation); CBS Interactive (which operates Web sites); CBS Outdoor (which owns billboards); CBS Records, CBS Sports Network; CBS Television Distribution (which handles distribution rights for syndication of television shows from the CBS library and television shows, miniseries, and telefilms made by Paramount); CBS Television Studios (a successor to CBS Productions, Inc., Desilu Productions, Inc., and Spelling Television that produces television shows mostly for CBS and The CW); and Showtime Networks, Inc. (which includes Showtime, The Movie Channel, and the Smithsonian Networks). The CW is a joint venture with Warner Bros. Entertainment, a subsidiary of Time Warner. TVGN is a joint venture with Lions Gate Entertainment.
[4] Macmillan Education and Macmillan Publishers being divisions of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck (known in English as the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group), a family-owned company based in Stuttgart, Germany.


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Schaefer Raposa
Oct. 31, 2013
DALLAS (SMU) - Following a three-week hiatus from competition, the No. 10 SMU equestrian team will resume action on Friday, as the Mustangs host South Dakota State at BuckBranch Farm at 10 a.m. CT.
"I think the three weeks off came at a very opportune time for us after a couple losses on the road," head coach Natalie Burton said. "It gave us time to get over that, get our heads together and get back to work. We've been focusing on the fundamentals, getting back to the basics and polishing some things up heading into Friday."
HEAD COACH Natalie Burton
Interim head coach Natalie Burton is in her first season in charge of the nationally-ranked SMU equestrian program, following three years as an assistant under predecessor Haley Schoolfield. The Hampshire, England, native came to the Hilltop after serving as an assistant trainer at Noah's Ark Farm near Knoxville, Tenn., while finishing her law degree at the University of Tennessee. As a rider, Burton won the flat individual national championship in 2004 and was part of Auburn's 2006 team championship. Burton and the Mustangs are 2-3 in the program's first year with a western team.
After a three-competition road trip, the Mustangs return to BuckBranch Farm on Friday where they are 11-4 in the last three years, including 7-1 over the course of the last two seasons. SMU has won both of its competitions at home in 2013-14, including a win over one of next week's opponents, University of Tennessee at Martin.
"It's always a comfort thing to compete at home," Burton said. "You know the horses, you feel comfortable with whoever you draw. We feel confident, and have competed very well at home. It'll be good to get some of our confidence back before we return to the road next week."
While the western program kicks-off its first season at SMU, the hunt seat team returns riders that reached the NCEA Second Round last season. The Mustangs hunt seat team individuals are 25-19-2 in competition this year. SMU is led on fences by sophomore Schaefer Raposa and freshman Sylvia de Toledo, both owning 4-1 marks in the event. Raposa leads all riders with two MVP honors this season. The fences individuals are 16-8, and the squad has gone 3-1-1 in 2013-14. On flat, sophomore Mary Abbruzzese is 3-1-1, while freshman Charlotte Jacobs is 2-0, combining for a 4-0 mark in the two hunter seat events.
First-year western coach Trista Adkins filled the newly created western coach position in the offseason, as Adkins and Burton team-up to bring the western discipline of equestrian to the Hilltop. Adkins is no stranger to starting a western program, after starting Baylor's program in 2006, helping lead the team to the National Championships, the only first-year western program to earn an invitational that season.
The inaugural season of the western program at SMU has seen four freshmen make their collegiate debuts this season, led by Hannah McCain's 4-1 horsemanship mark, including two MVP rides this season. Classmate Morgan Redwine is 5-5 in her western appearances this season, including a 3-2 reining mark, the only Mustang with multiple wins on the event. Kristen Schramm has gone 2-2 and Jaclyn White has picked up an additional win for the program in horsemanship. The lone upperclassman, junior Courtney Line, is 2-5 on the western side this year, a year after competing for the SMU hunter seat discipline. SMU western individuals are 15-27-3 through the first five competitions.
"I think they are starting to learn to stand on their own," Burton said of the western team. "They are learning to support one another, teach one another and be there for the extra hour of practice. I think that's really going to start paying off in their performances as the season progresses."
SMU will hit the road again next week, as the Mustangs take on Kansas State (Nov. 8) and University of Tennessee at Martin (Nov. 9) in Martin, Tenn. The Mustangs matchup with Kansas State is slated after Wildcats matchup with UT-Martin.


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Getting frustrated with the D2...
And there's only one reason for this: the UI is complete BS. Absolutely horrible.
Everything works fine, the player sounds amazing, it's not too big for my needs though I do prefer thinner sizes... but that user interface... not cool.
Now of course with the crisis it looks like it's been money wasted. I'm back to using my Sony A729 for everyday use, with the Clip as backup. The Sony cost me half as much as the Cowon though doesn't sound that good, sadly enough...
So yeah... hopefully it'll go soon and I can recoup some of the money. I'll never get any of the time invested back into it though. I can keep it too but the Sony does essentially the same things, and it's a lot easier to use.
It's a GREAT sounding player. It's fun to tweak around. It's decently priced. It looks good. The screen is great. But it's just too frustrating to use. I don't get why Cowon can get away with this. As a marketer it scares me. I guess the market is different in Korea and people who favor sound quality don't mind as much...
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I got fed up with the D2 in about 2 weeks and eventually gave it away to a family member.
I find the UI annoying but not that big an obstacle since I spend more time listening to it than messing with the UI. Sooner or later Rockbox will be working well enough to replace the factory UI and then I'll switch.
I also usually have it just on... but I'm a tinkerer and I enjoy, quite often, being able to play just the one playing artist for instance, then go back to all random shuffling. This was VERY easily done with the Zen (button for random shuffle all, and you could select the now playing artist), quite easily with the Sony (can select all songs by the artist now playing) but very frustrating with the D2+. Options like 'boundary' don't actually do much that's consistent and you can't select the artist from the now playing menu using the touchscreen.
They released a touch screen player but without most of the benefits that it could have benefitted from.
Thank Zeus it sounds incredible. I'm also holding out for Rockbox if no one buys it before that. I really hope it'll be manageable then, I never tried Rockbox...
I Love the UI. don't get what the problem is. only took me 5min. to get use to.
S9 16GB Chrome
The UI is pretty stupid.
You could try some of the custom skins that people have made.
Go to iaudiophile.com,they have a pretty big archive of D2 flash skins.
"I don't think, therefore I am not"
hmm sad to hear that, liking/disliking the UI depends on what kind of function you want. I guess its not working for you, but works PERFECTLY for me. My primary concern is responsiveness, and I am extremely happy with the ultra first response, no delay at all. I am used to a bit more of maneuvering to get one thing done, don't mind that at all.
I liked the D2 as long as I had it, my new S9 is quite a bit less responsive due to Flash (but a better player overall). Usability was just fine for me on the D2. You should try the O2 in comparison - that one is a real nightmare to use.
I also hated the D2's interface. Whats up with Play/Pause being right in front of the track info?!?! So dumb...
Anyways, I got my D2 from amazon and it broke so I'm trying (unsuccesfully) to find RMA info for Amazon. In the mean time, before I even have hope of getting my money back in some way, I bought the Spinn. Had a clix2 before and LOVED it, so if the Spinn doesn't work out, then back to a Clix2.
for those complaining about the now playing screen, just install a flash skin, there's plenty of good ones over at iaudiophile.com Then again you have to be using 3.xx firmware for that.
Cowon iAudio D2 16gb (D2+ FW 2.11) + FiiO E5 + Head-Direct RE2s.
x2 on the Flash skin if you have the 3.xx firmware, as it almost makes it a different player. And there are so many themes out there to choose from, as well.
I recall being somewhat annoyed with the UI, when I first got my D2. But, once I started fiddling with themes and skins, I managed to make it much more usable.
Active DAP's: Cowon D3, Sansa Clip 2GB Rockboxed, modded Gigabeat F series
Non-working / Sold DAP's: Cowon S9, Zune 30, iPod Video 30/80GB, iPod 4G, Sansa E280, Gigabeat S60, iPod Shuffle 1G
Cans: Sennheiser HD 600, Yuin PK1, Sony MDR-V6
the hole point in abi is to give people the chance to see what the other choices are... so i use this site and use "you toob" to see how the ui works..
so before i paid $299 aus for a d2 16gb... i studied the player for a long time because i knew this player was the one for me... i use more mono by DFKT.. flawless
i wouldn't expect a hummer to have the same steering as a supercar..!
and yes the ui may be bland but it works fine..... and to top it off i can change the eq setting just off nowplaying insted of... pressing back back back etc etc
this isnt a rant..!
i have major tooth ach!
I don't mind the player itself. It sounds incredible, was well enough priced. But the GUI simply makes no sense at times. To be honest I didn't need the D2 since my Sony A729 can do everything the D2 can, and easier. But the D2 is a fun player nonetheless with great battery and incredible sound, regardless of its faults.
I chose this player because I disovered it through ABI. I knew about the UI being bad. I didn't realise I was going to care so much however. Normally I just stick all the songs on shuffle and skip/fast forward. For this it works fine. For anything else however...
Anyway I installed Rockbox on it and I'm liking it. A lot more possibilities, and it took a few minutes to set up but now it's all good and running. You give up the BBE+ but it still sounds pretty damn good.
i have rockbox too.. its cool but the touch screen go's off after 2mins..lol
and i have to use the top buttons to work it...pain in the arse
i just wish cowon would update the s9 with a micro sd slot and in sold!
It may not be to your taste. It's not possible to please everyone. I prefer smooth peanut butter and my sister will only eat crunchy. I like both, actually, but I prefer the smooth. That doesn't mean that either type of peanut butter or my sister are absolutely horrible. Well, at least not the peanut butter.
Well I would hope nobody on here would need a talk on subjectivity vs objectivity but unfortunately for having been on online forums for way too long I know how you feel ...
However let me assure you that what I am talking about doesn't just reflect my own feelings. It's purely rational. I'm a musician and just as well placed as anyone else to know what everyone hears, feels, tastes different and may have different opinions. And I don't really care, they're entitled to it and so am I.
The interface barely makes any sense. That's how it is. I still haven't figured out all the weird quirks.
For instance... pressing fast forward ignores the Folder settings. Why? If I want to select all songs in a particular album or by a particular artist, wouldn't I sometimes want to skip past one or go back one..? Well that's not working.
I honestly don't know why it's that way. Some people may like it and kudos to them. I don't mind nor do I care.
The D2 is a great little player, I love mine. The sound is incredible. The screen is stunning. And with Rockbox it's even more potent though I do lose the BBE+ effects.
But the interface is having me at lost a lot of the time.
If you don't like the interface then you just don't. I have no argument.
I think the interface is pretty good but if I didn't like it it wouldn't matter much to me as long as I found it easy to do the things I do with the player. Beyond that it doesn't really matter to me. I don't think I've ever bothered to learn all the quirks of any player. I just learn to do the things with it that I want to do.
I have used a couple of players with interfaces I didn't like. The prime example of that is the Creative Zen Xtra. Like the rest it would do what I wanted it to do but it was hard to remember how to do those things from one session to the next. Still, I liked the player and the interface was just a minor issue to me.
I still use an Iriver e100. I have some video lectures on it and I watch one or two most days. I have to figure out how to use that silly thing every time. I don't really care. It does what I want and it just takes a little extra thought.
I also have a tiny Coby player, 512 meg, with 2 speakers even though the whole thing is tiny. I could fit a dozen of them in a shirt pocket and they wouldn't be crowded. It's interface is really, really bad. I keep some old time radio shows on it and thoroughly enjoy it.
Aye in the end that's the problem I have with the D2, I can't do the things I want to do with it. And since they're very simple things I would have expected it to.
It's just little quirks I guess. The weird, weird browsing system from the now playing screen. The 'play' button being right in front of the song's name etc...
It's a nice player. Sounds incredible. I prefer the sound to my Sony A729. But the Sony is just 100% what I need on browsing and STILL sounds incredible... And I paid 70 pounds for it brand new Which makes the D2+ with half the storage a bit expensive and a frustrating luxury.
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This is a level 2 number activity from the Figure It Out theme series.
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Speed, expressed in kilometres per hour, is an advanced concept. Students will have some reference for this from their knowledge of the speed limit for vehicles, 50 km/h on city streets and 100 km/h on open roads. You will need to explain to them that a speed of 65 kilometres per hour means that the creature would swim 65 kilometres if it kept swimming for an hour at that speed.
These speeds can be related to a journey with which the students are familiar. For example, it would take a mako shark just over two hours to swim the distance from Christchurch to Ashburton.
Students can perform the operations required in these problems by using the distance part of each speed. For example, for question 4, a human swims at 4 km/h and a flying fish at 60 km/h. Since 15 x 4 = 60, the fish is travelling 15 times as fast as the human. Note: Not every human swims this fast, and you may have to explain to students that this is an example of average speed.
If it is the swimming season, students might like to know how fast they can swim or run. Time them over 50 metres in seconds (for example, they may take 90 seconds to swim 50 metres). Divide 180 by their time in seconds (for example, 180 ÷ 90 = 2) to work out their speed in kilometres per hour.
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I'm in the middle of a book project. I've agreed to write a chapter in a big wine book that will cover all the major wine regions of the world and the top producers in each region. My area of responsibility will be Sonoma and Marin counties, which the book is combining into a single section. I'm enjoying the process of thoroughly combing through the region's wineries to select the several hundred that I get to highlight in the book, but in the process I'm running up against a conundrum.
My charter is quite simple: list a bunch of Sonoma and Marin wineries. But the difference between the theory of that charter and the practice of actually selecting the wineries is proving quite difficult, because the definition of what is a winery these days isn't so clear. For starters, not all wineries have wineries. These days there are plenty that are just labels without buildings, or often, even without vineyards. But that's just the start of my problems.
Let me give you a couple of examples of some producers that have caused me to scratch my head a little:
A producer that owns a vineyard in Sonoma county, makes wine from only that vineyard, but the offices and the place where the wine is made are not in Sonoma county, they're in Napa.
A producer based in Napa with their own winery facility that makes only wines from Sonoma County.
A producer based in Marin with their own winery that does not make any wines from grapes grown in Marin county.
A producer that makes wines only from contracts with several Sonoma County vineyards, has offices in Sonoma County, but uses a custom crush facility in Napa.
A producer that owns a vineyard in Sonoma, has a winemaking facility in Sonoma, but their tasting room is in another county.
A producer that makes mostly Sonoma county wines, but also has a Napa Cabernet in the portfolio. All the grapes are grown on contract, the wine is made in a custom crush facility in Sonoma county, but the winery's official address is in Napa.
Which of these is actually a "Sonoma winery" or a "Marin winery?" It would be easy if there were some sort of clear cut legal definition like the address on the winery's bond issued by the government, but that really doesn't make sense in a lot of cases, as that address is pretty arbitrary and often has nothing to do with the winery's real operation.
To add an extra layer of complexity, one of the implicit purposes in making this atlas of wineries is the idea that it can be used by consumers who want to go visit these wineries. It's not a guidebook, of course, but there will be maps and the wineries will be plotted on the map. So where the heck do you put some of these wineries in a way that is most useful to consumers? In some cases you'd point the consumer to the vineyard, where they might meet the owner and taste wine in their kitchen. In some cases you'd point the consumer to a tasting room which may or may not be anywhere near where the grapes are grown or where the wine gets made. In some cases there may not be anywhere to point the consumer, just a warehouse in some industrial park that will carry the name of many producers because they all make wine there. Better that, I suppose than some little business office or P.O. box in the middle of nowhere, right?
After a couple glasses of wine, I'm less frustrated, and contemplating thoughts like "the damn grapes know where they're from. Who gives a shit about anything else?" But that's not exactly going to make the publisher very happy.
Maybe I should have volunteered to write the chapter on Macedonian wineries. I'll bet they're much less difficult to pin down.
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While smartwatches and wearable tech have reached new heights recently, their downside is that they cannot operate without being attached to a smartphone via Bluetooth, but that is about to change. A report released today May 23 shows that South Korean tech giant, Samsung are planning to release a stand-alone smartphone watch this summer.
The report from the Wall Street Journal states that the new smartwatch phone will be a stand-alone unit that will be capable of making and receiving phone calls, and text messages thanks to a built-in SIM card. Details about the device are very slim right now, but one would imagine that the new smartwatch will take on a similar shape to the recently released Samsung Gear 2. The new line of Gear watches use Samsung's in-house operating system, Tizen rather than Google's Android.
Just what else Samsung has in store for this device remains a mystery, but seeing as this smartwatch is trying to be a smartphone replacement, one would imagine that it would incorporate features such as a camera, IR blaster, and a significant amount of internal storage. Following on from the rest of the Gear line you should also expect features like a heart rate monitor, and the ip67 ratings for dust and water resistance, but perhaps the one thing that could potentially let this smartwatch phone down will be the fact that it will be running Tizen, a young operating system that has very few apps available for it.
The world of wearable technology is heating up, and in just a few weeks Google are expected to announce their venture into the smartwatch race with their Android Wear line. Motorola are also gearing up to launch their new smartwatch along with the likes of LG and possibly Apple. Analysts are predicting that more than 3 million smartwatches will be shipped and sold this year, compared to the 1 million units that were shipped in 2013, so there is no doubt that the smartwatch segment is one to watch.
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By Eric Bezille-Oracle on juin 13, 2013
A quick report of last month Oracle Solaris Users Group event in Paris... in french...
A quick report of last month Oracle Solaris Users Group event in Paris... in french...
Avec le renouvèlement complet des serveurs SPARC annoncé il y a 2 semaines, Masood Heydari, vice-président de l'ingénierie SPARC sera à Paris le 18 Avril, afin de partager avec vous, les apports de ces nouveaux serveurs T5 et M5 sur le marché. Après l'intervention de Masood, Didier Vionnet, ACCOR vice-président du back-office, Bruno Philippe, président du groupe français des utilisateurs de Solaris, Renato Vista, CTO CAP Gemini Infrastructure Services, Harry Zarrouk, Directeur des Systèmes d'Oracle pour la France et moi-même, participeront à une table ronde sur les apports de ces innovations pour la modernisation des systèmes d'informations et les nouveaux besoins métiers des entreprises. Je vous invite à vous inscrire à cet évènement afin de venir échanger avec l'ensemble des intervenants.
With the complet renewal of SPARC Servers announced 2 weeks ago, Masood HEYDARI, Senior Vice President of SPARC Servers Engineering will be in Paris on April 18th, to share what the new SPARC Servers T5 and M5 bring on the market. Following Masood key notes, Didier Vionnet, ACCOR Vice-President of Back-office, Bruno Philippe, President of French Solaris Users Group, Renato Vista, CTO CAP Gemini Infrastructure Services, Harry Zarrouk, Director of Oracle Systems for France and myself, will exchange on the benefits those innovations bring to IT Modernization and Business needs.
It will be very difficult to summarize in a short post all the details and already available customers and ISVs results leveraging Oracle investment, design and ability to execute on SPARC servers complete renewal with not one but 2 processors launched : SPARC T5 and M5. It is somehow captured in the title of this entry, in Larry's own words: "extreme performances at exceptionally low cost". To give you a quick idea, we just announced 8 552 523 tpmC with 1x T5-8 (a new 8x sockets T5 mid-range server). Adding on top, "extreme scalability with extreme reliability", as with the M5-32 server, we can scale up to 32x sockets and 32 TB of memory, in a mission-critical system.
New way of designing systems
As what John Fowler was saying : "this starts with design". Here at Oracle, we have a new way of designing. Historically systems were designed by putting servers, storage, network and OS together. At Oracle we add Database, Middleware and Applications in the design. We think what it
takes for the coherency protocols, the interfaces, and design around those points... and more.
Today we introduce not one but 2x processors with the whole family of servers associated with them. Thanks to common architecture they are design to work together. All of this of course runs Solaris. You can run Solaris 10, Solaris 11 and virtualize. No break on binary compatibility.
Direct benefit for your applications... at lowest risk... and lowest cost
This is good for our customers and our ISVs, enabling them to run their applications unchanged on those new platforms with no equivalent performance gain, lowest cost and lowest risks, thanks to the binary compatibility and the new servers design under Oracle era. There was many customers examples on-stage, so I will just pick 2, SAS moving from M9000 to M5-32 with a x15 gain overall, and Sybase moving from M5000 to a T5-2 with a x11 gain overall. Those being in my opinion very important as they are reflecting real applications and customers experiences, many of them being in the financial services, and already having jump on those new systems (thanks to the beta program).
To get a better idea of what the new SPARC T5 and M5 will bring to your applications, being Siebel, E-Business Suite, JD Edwards, Java, or SAP... Have a look here : https://blogs.oracle.com/BestPerf/ on the 17 world records... on performances and price.
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Tribe i miss uFacebook is nice and all, but there's really no forums, and no blog, and no counter culturey vibe on there....... people's moms are on facebook for chrissake. Too bad all my friends are on there too, and not on here anymore.
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PUBLISHEDHey everyone,
i wrote a book.
It's called "Warrior Dharma" and i feel really good about putting it out into the world at this time. I've self published on Lulu.com, so you can check the book out or purchase by going to www.lulu.com/content/pap...arma/6306129
There is a hard copy version for sale as well as a free download available.
Please enjoy!
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Moving onDear Friends,
I am very excited to soon be transitioning to an entirely new adventure. I will be moving from the mountain home and community where I have been teaching massage, Asian medicine, and energy healing for the last two years and embarking on an intensive study of Permaculture and Medical Qigong Healing.
Things are changing quite rapidly in my world and I am putting the call out to community for any assistance in easeful transition.
I will be moving in just two short weeks, I still do not quite know where, but I will be studying every week in the Monterey, Ca area. I am seeking a working and living situation that will involve a great deal of gardening and plenty of time for my personal practice - Ideally and intentional community or Organic farming situation.
It is very possible that I will end up slightly north of San Fransisco and commute down to the Monterey area. In this event, I will be looking for someone with which to stay for two nights of the week - or possibly camp in their yard with my little tent. I can exchange massage, qigong healing, holistic nutritional and herbal consultation, cooking, and cleaning. I am hoping to find a friend in the monterey/Santa Cruz/or boulder creek area. I am also looking for a house sitting, or subletting opportunity for the month of February while I make my move to this new life, schedule, and locale.
If you have leads on helping me to fulfill any of these needs, I would be very appreciative if you send that info along.
As another part of the newest phase in my life, since my ordination I am offering all of my healing work on a donation basis in order to make it more widely accessible. This will soon be listed in the "services" section of my website www.lingqidao.com. I am practicing consultations, Qigong therapy, and Asian bodywork in the northern california area, as well as offering consultations and energy healing from a distance via email. If you or someone you know is interested in this kind of work - or if you would like to support my dharma practice, please inquire with me further.
Thanks so much!
Shi Fa Jun Shakya
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the prezI don' know if president-elect Obama is really as amazing as he sounds, or if he just has a great speech writer, but DAMN.
To hear the president of the US talk about investing in alternative energy and transparency in spending and accounting is just knocking my socks off. I know there is a long way to go in this country, but I do feel a sense of hope in this moment that perhaps the same values I uphold might just make it to the forefront of peoples minds.... maybe because of a little pain, but not because of the great suffering that is possible if we continue on in the way we have been.
Wishing you all prosperity, ease, and honesty in the year of the Earth Ox
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reishi mushroom and poor choices do not mixNote to self: Sugar and coffee make you go crazy - remember this.
I think it must be the mushroom tincture I'm using. I have tons of energy and inspiration - definite improvement during the times I've been using this tincture. Only problem is that if I engage in less than optimum dietary or thought choices I feel anxiety and frustration almost instantly.
This is different from the raw-foods diet that once made me go slightly crazy all the time. It's not a reduction in my ability to tolerate the world. This is more like being clued in to what is always happening when I engage such choices - only rather than having it all spread out in general mediocrity, it all hits me at once, because it doesn't match what the rest of the system is doing.
Well, i guess that's one way to clean up my act - just make it intolerable to do anything else.
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Road trippinDear Friends,
I'll be taking a trip for the next week through the Monterey Bay area, Southern Cal, and Las Vegas... I am offering bodywork sessions and nutritional/herbal consultations if anyone in these areas is interested.
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sniffleWent out to a bar for the first time in a while the other night.
Actually, that wasn't part of the plan... but you see my car kicked the proverbial bucket and i needed a friend to give me a ride for the hour and 45 minute trip home... a movie and a trip to see his friend's band was part of the bargain.... well, after sushi and sake, movie and espresso, i was having a good time, and hanging at the bar and dancing till wee hours... having all these thoughts about how I should let go of control a little more often and have a few extra drinks and live a little and relax.......
And now i'm sick ;) (not bad, just enforced restfulness really)
And it puts me back on the track of detox and meditate - it's true though that there must be a balance, but i think it's more in the heart than in any physical activities. A soft heart, drunken and dancing is what I really crave.... and perhaps i can save myself some of the cost that comes of actual drunkeness and smokey bars!
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SynchronicitySo, i'm still pondering if it's Really what I want to do to move south to Monterey.... i looked up the start date for the program i'll be taking there... it happens to fall exactly on the last day of classes here at Heartwood. Things don't really get much more synchronistic ;) I'm greatful that the universe is compassionate enough to make her messages to me on the obvious side.
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Quick, who do i know in Santa Cruz????Dear friends..... it is always so interesting to me how this universe works - the institute where I live and teach will be closing it's doors to residential students for a while to focus on becoming a world class permaculture center. Way cool, i know - and it happens to leave me looking for a vision of what I will do next.
Yesterday I found that vision, which involves training with a certain qigong master, and that will happen in Pacific Grove, CA. The program just happens to begin exactly when my teaching commitment here ends - like within days.
Right now I am contemplating my options in moving to that area and am looking to network with locals about starting a bodywork practice, co-housing, farm shares, and basically all that good ol hippie local, sustainable, spiritually thriving, community stuff.
if you have any leads for me, i'd love to hear them... i'm looking to transition in February.
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San FranDear Friends,
I am planning on taking a workshop in the bay area the last two weekends of this month and need a place to rest my head for a couple of evenings.... do you live there, or have a lead on a friend I may not remember.
much love
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College Hockey:Schwartz leaves Colorado College for NHL deal with St. Louis
Colorado College sophomore forward Jaden Schwartz signed with the NHL's St. Louis Blues Monday and will forgo his last two years of NCAA eligibility.
Schwartz will join the Blues in Chicago and could make his pro debut Tuesday night against the Blackhawks.
"Jaden had an excellent college career and we are excited that he is ready to make the jump to the NHL," said Blues GM Doug Armstrong in a statement. "He will add depth to the skill level on our team and give us some options as we begin this stretch drive."
"It's been a dream of mine to play in the NHL and I'm excited to be able to do it as a St. Louis Blue," added Schwartz. "The Blues are having a terrific season and I will do whatever they need me to do just to help out."
According to a report in the Colorado Springs Gazette on Monday, Schwartz's older brother, Rylan, a junior with the Tigers, may also sign a pro deal and leave school.
Jaden Schwartz was the Blues' first-round pick in 2010 and tallied 32 goals and 56 assists in 60 games the past two seasons with Colorado College, leading the team in scoring both seasons. He also captained Canada at the 2012 World Junior Championship.
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SO-CALLED GUARANTEE GAMES TO BECOME SCARCE College football's Davids will get fewer chances to knock off the Goliaths in the coming years.
Part of the fallout of the sweeping changes coming to college sports will be a decrease in so-called guarantee games in football, where a power conference school pays hundreds of thousands of dollars to have a team from a lesser league play at its stadium.
The result will be far fewer opportunities for embarrassing blowouts (Oklahoma State 84, Savannah State 0) and startling upsets (Appalachian State 34, Michigan 32).
The commissioners of the lower-revenue conferences say losing the pay days won't kill their leagues and that giving players from smaller schools a chance to compete on the big stage has value.
Mid-American Conference teams will play 13 games against Big Ten teams this season, plus six against the Southeastern and two each against the Big 12 and Atlantic Coast, and many of them fall into the category of guarantee games.
The shift to nine-game conference schedules, along with an increased emphasis on strength of schedule for the coming College Football Playoff, all but guarantee fewer opportunities for the other five conferences (MAC, Sun Belt, Mountain West, American Athletic and Conference USA) in FBS to play the top five.
Add in the need for the power conferences to beef up their schedules to create made-for-TV matchups to justify the millions they are getting in media rights deals, plus a possible reconfiguration of Division I, and it leads to speculation that the big five soon will be playing exclusively among themselves.
Montana's football program was placed on probation for three years and will have its scholarships reduced from 63 to 59 over the same period after the NCAA found boosters provided extra benefits to players, including bail money and free legal representation for two athletes. Other player perks provided by boosters included free meals along with clothing, lodging and transportation, the NCAA found.
The penalties, many self-imposed by the school, include vacating five wins for games in which ineligible players participated after receiving help with their legal problems in violation of NCAA rules.
Florida gave football coach Will Muschamp a $250,000 annual raise in salary after an 11-win season. Muschamp will now make $2,928,000 annually through the 2017 season.