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STX Finland Makes Management Changes
STX Finland announced a number of management changes, citing the challenging market situation. The primary target set for STX Finland is profitable operation. In 2011 this target was achieved, and now the focus is strongly on how similar development could also be secured over the years to come. By consolidating sales and marketing into a corporate level activity, STX Finland strengthen and increase the efficiency of its strategic targets which main focuses are diversification, differentiation and customer relationship management. Appointments and special areas of responsibility: - Timo Suistio has been appointed EVP, CMO of STX Finland. He is tasked with enhancing the functioning capacity of sales and marketing and boosting the order book of the shipyards to ensure long-term operation of the company. - Jari Anttila has been appointed EVP, COO of STX Finland. He is tasked with ensuring cost-efficient implementation of company projects, exploiting the resources of both Turku and Rauma shipyards. Mr Anttila will also continue as Director of the Turku Shipyard. - Suistio and Mr Anttila will report in their duties to President and Chairman of STX Finland Oy, Mr Su-Jou Kim. - Toivo Ilvonen has been appointed Director of the Rauma Shipyard. - Tapani Pulli has been appointed Deputy Director of the Turku Shipyard. He will also continue as Vice President, Strategic Planning.
Double-ended Ferry Named at STX Shipyard
STX Finland Oys Rauma Shipyard sees the naming & delivery of the new ferry to Suomen Lauttaliikenne Oy (Finferries). The godmother of the next generation road ferry, Professor Elina Pirjatanniemi, named the ship Stella in the presence of invited guests, the representatives of Suomen Lauttaliikenne, STX Finland, and the classification society Bureau Veritas. The environmentally friendly double-ended ferry, NB 1380
STX Finland Rauma Shipyard Signs Double Ended Ferry Order
On 8 April 2011, STX Finland Oy and Finferries signed a contract for the construction of a Double Ended Ferry to operate in Finland, Turku Archipelago. The ship will be built on STX Rauma shipyard and it will be delivered at the end of 2012. The ship will be 65 metres in length and 12.8 metres in breadth. The construction of the environmentally friendly ferry will bring some 100 man-years of work to STX Rauma shipyard personnel and the personnel of its supplier network
Shipyard Seeks Loan to Build New Cruise Ship
STX Finland is now lobbying the Finnish government on behalf of Royal Caribbean in a bid to get contract for third 'Oasis-class' cruise ship. A loan would help facilitate a deal to avoid Royal Caribbean building its third Oasis-class cruise ship in Germany or France. STX Finland's chief operating officer Jari Anttila commented on the importance of getting a deal done, "We have asked the government to reconsider the financial settlement."
STX Finland: Contract Signed Well Intervention Vessels
STX Finland Oy and Eide Marine Semi AS, a subsidiary of Eide Marine Services A/S, signed a contract for the outfitting, completion and delivery of two highly sophisticated well intervention vessels with an aggregate contract value exceeding EUR 300 million. The t well intervention vessels with deadweight of 31,000 tons will have a length of 122m and a width of 45m. The vessels are designed to operate in rough open sea conditions on Brazilian continental shelf
Launching of Fisheries Research Vessel in Finland
STX Finland's Rauma Shipyard celebrated the launch of the special purpose vessel ordered by the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources of the Republic of Namibia. Representatives of the owner, classification society Bureau Veritas and STX Finland were present. Newbuilding No. 1378, RV Mirabilis, measures 62 meters in length and, upon completion, will operate as a research vessel, gathering information on fish stocks and their living environment
STX Finland Signs a Maintenance Contract for Saipem
On 20 April 2011, STX Finland Oy and Saipem S.p.A signed a contract on major overhaul and maintenance of the semisubmersible pipelay vessel Castoro Sei. The work on the ship, providing employment for as many as about 1,000 people, will be completed by STX's Turku shipyard. The Castoro Sei is a 152 metres long and 70.5 metres wide semisubmersible pipelay vessel, owned by Italian offshore company Saipem S.p.A. She is currently deployed in laying the pipeline for the Nord Stream project
Meyer Werft joins forces with STX Finland
German cruise ship builder strengthens its yards. MEYER WERFT joins forces with the STX Finland shipyard in Turku. Following weeks of negotiations the Finnish Government and MEYER WERFT signed a share purchase agreement with the current owner STX Europe. With its 70% stake MEYER WERFT takes the industrial leadership of the new company. At present some 1,300 employees and a specialized supplier network are involved in the construction of the cruise ship Mein Schiff 4 for the
Finnish Border Guard Gets LNG-powered OPV
On Friday May 9, 2014, STX Finland Oy's Rauma Shipyard handed over a next-generation offshore patrol vessel to the Finnish Border Guard. The vessel was christened Turva by her godmother, Minister of the Interior Päivi Räsänen, in the christening and float-out ceremony held on August 2, 2013. The technically advanced and highly versatile 96 meters long and 17 meters wide offshore patrol vessel will be used for frontier supervision, maritime search and rescue (SAR)
STX Shipyard Delivers Polar Supply and Research Vessel
On Wednesday, April 4, 2012, the STX Finland Rauma Shipyard delivered a polar supply and research vessel to the South African government's Department of Environmental Affairs. Newbuilding 1369, S.A. Agulhas II is a multipurpose vessel which, among other tasks, operates as a supply, research and passenger vessel, as well as an icebreaker. Representatives from the client, the South African Government's Department of Environmental Affairs, as well as the Embassy of South-Africa in Finland
Meyer Werft Buys Finland out of Turku Shipyard
Germany's family-owned Meyer Werft shipyard is buying the Finnish state out of Turku shipyard in southwestern Finland, the government said on Wednesday. Meyer Werft and the government last year bought the troubled shipyard from Korean trade and ship corporation STX
Meyer Acquires Turku Shipyard
The Meyer family, operating the shipbuilding company Meyer Werft in Germany, and the Finnish State acquired Turku shipyard from STX Europe in September 2014. Meyer Werft took up 70 percent of the shares, and the State of Finland purchased 30 percent of the share capital through the Finnish
Finland: A Maritime Powerhouse
Innovation, superior technology and competitiveness are the characteristics that have brought the Finnish maritime industry world repute. Its well-knit maritime cluster responsible for achieving a high level of production has propelled it into prominence in the global market
Arctech Helsinki Shipyard to Russian Ownership
Arctech Helsinki Shipyard is now 100 percent Russian-owned as United Shipbuilding Corporation bought the remaining half of the company's shares from STX Finland Oy. Arctech Helsinki Shipyard Inc. was founded in December 2010 as United Shipbuilding Corporation bought the first 50
Meyer Werft, Finland Plan to Buy STX Shipyard
Germany's closely held Meyer Werft and the Finnish government are nearing a deal to buy the Turku shipyard in southwestern Finland from STX Europe , the Finnish economy ministry said on Monday. STX Europe belongs to Korean STX. The Turku shipyard specialises in building cruise ships and has
New Cruise Ship Sea Trials Navis NavDP 4000 System
Finland headquartered Navis Engineering says that recently completed sea trials by the 99,430 gross tons cruise ship Mein Schiff 3 have confirmed the high performance of its dynamic positioning (DP) control system, Navis Nav DP4000.
STX Finland Completes Fjord Line Cruise Ferry Conversion
On June 4, 2013, STX Finland and the Norwegian passenger ship company Fjord Line AS signed a contract on conversion of Fjord Line's cruise ferry. The steel production for the conversion project began January 10, 2013. In connection with the rebuild of MS Bergensfjord
STX Finland Delivers Cruise Ship to TUI
On Thursday 22 May 2014, STX Finland Oy's Turku Shipyard handed over the first newbuild to TUI Cruises. Mein Schiff 3 is a sophisticated and highly innovative cruise ship, designed for the German premium-class cruise market. With the production started in November 2012
Russian Partners Agree Icebreaking OSV Constructions
Sakhalin Energy and Sovcomflot (SCF) inform they have agreed to extend their co-operation having signed a number of agreements for construction and long-term operation of support vessels for the Sakhalin-2 project. SCF explain that the vessels will be used as year-round personnel carriers and
Sakhalin Energy, Sovcomflot Order Newbuild
The companies have signed a number of agreements for construction and long-term operation of the vessels for Sakhalin-2 project. At an official ceremony in Moscow, Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. (Sakhalin Energy) and Sovcomflot Shelf (SCF Shelf) on behalf of Sovcomflot Group have
TUI Cruise Ship Keel Laid at STX Finland
On 25 February 2014, approximately nine months after the keel laying of TUI Cruises' first newbuilding Mein Schiff 3, TUI Cruises and STX Finland celebrated the keel laying of Mein Schiff 4 in the Turku shipyard. Following the old shipbuilding tradition
Finland Takes Majority Stake in Aker Arctic Technology Inc.
A Finland government owned investment company, Finnish Industry Investment Ltd, has today purchased a 66.4 per cent majority stake of the shares of Aker Arctic Technology Oy (Aker Arctic) from STX Finland Oy. Aker explain that In recent months the Ministry of Employment and the Economy has been
Cruise Ship Floated at STX Turku Shipyard
The float-out of Mein Schiff 3, an environmentally friendly cruise ship being built for TUI Cruises, was performed at STX Turku Shipyard on Friday, November 8, 2013. At the press conference held at STX Finland Oy's Turku Shipyard earlier the same day, Richard J
Negotiation to Save Finnish Shipyard Completed
STX Finland has been actively seeking solutions for saving the Finnish shipyard industry. In September 2013, the company launched a major restructuring aimed at safeguarding the operating potential of the company and, by extension, the entire maritime industry in Finland
STX Arctech Helsinki Shipyard Sale to USC Russia
The Russian state-owned shipbuilding firm USC has confirmed it will take full ownership of the financially challenged Arctech Helsinki shipyard from its current owner, the Korean company STX, according ot the Finnish newspaper Yle. United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) already holds a 50 percent


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Tearing up the town
The man who revealed embarrassing EQC leaks says he's not a fighter by nature, but, as he tells Martin van Beynen, he's sick of how Christchurch's quake victims have been treated.
Talk. This man can talk. Perhaps it's because he's Australian.
Or maybe it his Sri Lankan, Polish and Irish heritage.
Bryan Staples is New Zealand's man of the week and, although initially reluctant to enter the fray in a public way, he says he is enjoying his 15 minutes of fame.
Staples, 54, who has spent most of his life in Brisbane where he worked as an insurance loss adjuster, is the man to whom a senior Earthquake Commission (EQC) manager sent, by accident, a potentially explosive email and spreadsheet containing a wealth of material on 83,000 Christchurch earthquake claimants.
Since the Monday leak, New Zealand has got to see and hear quite a bit from Staples, and many would be struck by the colour, fluency and brazenness of his statements.
Some might find him rabid, others would say he displays a refreshing passion and chutzpah not usually associated with the classic Kiwi personality.
Last week, for instance, as he talked in a Christchurch cafe, he spoke of his plans to put coffins outside his office in Fitzgerald Ave. Three black ones would symbolise, he says, the three Christchurch people he knows who committed suicide after soul-destroying encounters with insurance companies and EQC.
Another bunch of coffins would be adorned by graffiti applied by local "kids" to symbolise how the earthquakes and the aftermath will affect future generations.
"It's not really about us any more," he says, downing his cappuccino.
As he puts it, EQC could not have sent the email to a worse person. He has been a caustic critic of EQC since he left the organisation in February last year, just not in public.
The email gave him yet more ammunition - and a public platform - to boost his depiction of EQC as incompetent, untrustworthy and self-serving.
EQC is justifiably sensitive about the information, for reasons quite apart from the fact the breach was a massive leak of private information. Had it gone to a friendlier party, the public may never have known about the leak.
The most sensitive part of the email was a spreadsheet with a column showing EQC's cost estimate of repairs to the claimant's house.
In the wrong hands the information would water down EQC's bargaining position with contractors, and if householders knew the figure they would be loath to settle for less.
Unfortunately this appears to have been the case, with Staples giving two examples of clients who were given cash settlements significantly less than the EQC estimate as shown on the leaked email.
The Press newspaper will be investigating these cases over the next week.
When Staples first received the email he thought the sender, EQC claims process Manager Susan David, was "jumping ship" because she was fed up with her employer.
He agreed to delete the email but by then four or five others had seen the material and he cannot be responsible for them, he says. "I'm surprised EQC never asked me who else had seen or had access to the email."
The subtext of course is clear. The content of the email is out there somewhere, although as far as Staples is concerned he has done all he promised in a statutory declaration he signed on Tuesday.
EQC has laid a complaint with the police, although the nature of the complaint is unknown.
It is probably an allegation Staples has appropriated confidential material and made a false declaration, which is an offence under the Crimes Act.
STAPLES CAME to Christchurch two days after the September earthquake in 2010 and hit the ground running. He was one of about 30 Australian loss adjusters who had been trained by EQC in anticipation of a large-scale New Zealand disaster.
He was told that disaster was likely to be an earthquake in Wellington. Once he started in Christchurch, it wasn't long before he was wondering if EQC managers were actually more interested in a "cushy racket than doing the right thing by the people of Christchurch".
"I wasn't well liked because I kept asking questions. I vividly remember one EQC manager saying to me, 'we're going to make this gig last. Just get a pencil and paper and do as you're told'."
So why didn't he just take the $75 an hour and perks and keep his mouth shut? Why, in fact, did he not, on leaving EQC, keep his head down and make money by working with EQC. Staples says he is not a fighter by nature.
"I've never been in a physical fight. I've won all my fights by 100 yards. But I can't shut up if I think people are getting a bum deal. I worked for EQC for six months but became sick of the nepotism, cronyism and psychopathic behaviour of the people in charge. I sort of had an epiphany and thought I could help the people of Christchurch get their entitlement from EQC and the insurance companies."
He and his associates now employ about 45 people, he says, and he makes no bones about the fact he wants his business to make him money. However it's a struggle. He claims EQC owes his company, Earthquake Services, about $700,000, although EQC says the work Staples undertook was unauthorised and now needs to be checked. "Thank God for the ASB and BNZ," he says.
BRYAN WAS brought up in a non-religious, Liberal-voting household with his mother a nurse and his father a fruit and vegetable wholesaler. His Dad kept a photo of Margaret Thatcher, herself the daughter of a grocer, on the wall.
"They were always helping people. We didn't get Christmas presents. On Christmas morning we all went down the Salvation Army or some such outfit and helped with giving out food."
He laments the fact EQC/EQR hubs are now surrounded in barbed wire to repel outraged residents.
"I want to know what happened to the Anzac spirit we saw after the earthquakes. I was just amazed when I got here how people helped each other. And look at that beautiful spirit we saw with the student volunteers. We want to set up outside each hub and invite people to tell us their stories, and we will give them an Anzac biscuit and a cup of tea and listen to them."
Calling himself the Robin Hood of Christchurch, Staples says he has watched EQC destroy its brand by taking on responsibilities it never needed to.
"EQC's role should never have been to compete with insurance companies doing assessments. EQC should have captured the high moral ground early and taken a stance defending the rights of Cantabrians against the multi- national insurance agents. All EQC had to do was set up a cheque writing service and deal only with insurance companies."
The commission should also have established a crack team of loss adjusters, engineers and quantity surveyors to investigate any claims and hold insurers to account, he says.
He has said all this before, he says, in letters and emails to EQC, but it has fallen on deaf ears.
After the email leak, Staples is a man EQC can no longer ignore.
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April 28, 2017 6:00 am
The way baseball is played has changed, so it's time to change the way we treat beanballs.
In his postgame remarks Sunday, Matt Barnes swore up and down that he didn't mean to throw at Manny Machado. That was a fairly transparent lie, and also a fairly blameless and understandable one. Admitting to intentionally throwing at any batter roughly doubles the suspension a pitcher can expect. Barnes was just saying what he needed to say, in order to lose as little of his paycheck as possible.
He did say one thing that seemed eminently sincere, though: that he didn't mean to put the ball anywhere near Machado's head. I have no trouble believing that. In fact, I actively accept it. Most players acknowledge the role of beanball wars and even (unfortunately) embrace that form of vigilantism. They believe their judicious, tactical firing of baseballs at one another keeps the scales of justice balanced and prevents all-out brawls of the kind we saw more often 30 years ago. However, nearly every player also acknowledges that hitting a player anywhere near the head is a dangerous and damnable error, whether intentional or not.
January 17, 2014 6:27 am
A look at the mechanics of Catfish Hunter, Hoyt Wilhelm, Don Drysdale, Juan Marichal, and Bob Gibson.
Five pitchers were elected to the Hall of Fame by the BBWAA during the 1980s, a number that feels light when one considers the half-dozen arms that were elected in the first five years of the '90s. But the five-pack fairly represents the average induction rate for the four-decade period from 1970-2009. For all the talk about how the modern era is underrepresented in the Hall, it is worth noting that the BBWAA elected just 0.32 pitchers per year from 1936-69 (11 total arms) but has enshrined 0.58 pitchers per year since 1970 (26 total, including the 2014 inductions of Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine).
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June 8, 2012 5:00 am
Francisco Liriano breaks the game of baseball, Ernesto Frieri learns to dance and Bob Gibson whoa whoa holy whoa.
Welcome to the Three Best Pitches Thrown This Week. There are many more than three pitches featured here. They also extend beyond this week, in one case to a time that predates many of your favorite things: The Wire, and all varieties of Skittles, and every dog currently alive. You might consider this a flaw, but we consider it bonus material, and no refunds will be given. Enjoy the Three Best Pitches Thrown This Week.
3. Francisco Liriano, slider to Jeff Francoeur
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March 28, 2012 3:00 am
The inaugural edition of the Research Mailbag explores pitchers starting both games of a doubleheader, players with the same name, and Opening Day starting pitchers.
Welcome aboard, and thank you for joining me for the maiden voyage of the Baseball Prospectus Research Mailbag. This week's mailbag features two reader questions as well as the answer to a topic Kevin Goldstein pondered on Twitter a few days ago. Along the way, we'll explore long, contrasting days had by Wilbur Wood and Don Newcombe, the baseball card collection I maintained as a child, and the worst starting pitchers deployed by defending World Series champions on Opening Day.
Feel free to send me a note with your research questions (please remember to include your name and hometown) for possible inclusion in future editions.
June 10, 2011 9:00 am
A year after the team's ugly 65-97 finish, manager Kirk Gibson has helped the Diamondbacks play winning baseball.
Kirk Gibson vowed there would be changes at the end of a difficult 2010 season for the Diamondbacks. He wasn't lying.
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October 27, 2010 8:00 am
With the Fall Classic now upon us, the staff at Baseball Prospectus shares their most memorable World Series moments.
Every baseball fan has a special World Series memory, whether it's Willie Mays' catch, Bill Mazeroski's home run, Brooks Robinson's defense, Kirk Gibson's limp around the bases, or Derek Jeter becoming the first-ever Mr. November. With the World Series opening tonight at AT&T Park in San Francisco with the Giants facing the Texas Rangers, many of our writers, editors, and interns share their favorite memories of the Fall Classic.
July 7, 2010 8:00 am
Oakland has quality young pitching but sorely needs some power hitting, along with notes from around the major leagues.
The Athletics for the span of eight seasons from 1999-2006, defied the idea that a small-market team could not consistently contend. They won four American League West titles during that time and made the playoffs as the wild card on two other occasions. General manager Billy Beane's ability to build a team by finding economic inefficiencies in the player market became immortalized in Moneyball, Michael Lewis' seminal book.
February 5, 2010 1:26 pm
The Indians' special adviser reflects on nearly six decades in professional baseball.
Few people have experienced as much in the game of baseball as Johnny Goryl. Now 77, the personable Cumberland, R.I., native signed his first professional contract nearly 60 years ago and has worn a uniform ever since. An infielder with the Cubs and Twins from 1957-64, he has spent the last five decades coaching and managing at both the minor- and major-league levels and is currently serving as a special advisor in player development for the Indians. Goryl sat down with Baseball Prospectus to talk about his long career, including time spent around Ernie Banks, Harmon Killebrew and Norm Cash, and why you didn't want to mess with Bob Gibson.
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February 22, 2009 1:01 pm
A famous rocker talks about one of his other great loves beyond music: baseball.
There are baseball fans, and then there is George Thorogood. An icon in the music world, Thorogood is not only a passionate Mets fan, he is also a walking-and-shouting baseball historian. A former second baseman with the semi-pro Delaware Destroyers, Thorogood has multiple gold records to go with his baseball pedigree, not to mention a reputation as one of the best live performers on the blues-and-rock circuit. About to hit the road for yet another tour, Thorogood shared his thoughts on performance-enhancing drugs, the brilliance of Sandy Koufax, and what it was like to talk baseball with the legendary John Lee Hooker.
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February 7, 2008 12:00 am
The Mets' big move creates the question: Where does a Pedro/Johan pairing rank all-time?
In terms of its current ramifications, I don't have a ton to say about the Johan Santana deal that hasn't already been said by my BP colleagues. The one thing I find most shocking is that three of the four players the Twins acquired were pitchers. Given their core competency of generating mid- and back-rotation starters, why Minnesota would settle for a pair of back-enders like Philip Humber and Kevin Mulvey, guys who likely won't wind up better than the already on-hand Kevin Slowey and Boof Bonser, is beyond me.
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September 21, 2007 12:00 am
The conclusion to Nate's overview on the game's best player, season by season.
This is the resumption of the discussion of the best player in baseball, season by season throughout history, that began with yesterday's article. If you missed Nate's handy field guide and spreadsheet from yesterday's piece, you can download it here.
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May 23, 2007 12:00 am
Variations on a theme are on David's mind, as he proposes other possibilities in more sensibly structured divisions.
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Please recommend inexpensive conditioner for damaged hair
I had my hair colored a while back and it is still soooo dry! It doesn't even curl as well as it used to. I get these straight pieces that I used to never get. My hair is begging for moisture!! I need a leave-in conditioner or at least one I CAN leave-in (even if it isn't technically for leave-in) I have to use gel and I use Biolage firm control but it has been feeling like straw lately. It used to work great. Sometimes I wish I could just get by without any gel but my hair is just too frizzy without it. HELP!! :cry:
You might try Garnier Fructis leave in. I use the curl & shine. I understand the sleek & shine is also good. Another relatively inexpensive thing to try is jojoba oil for a DT. I put some on my ends and leave it overnight. It washes out well w/o using a sulfate shampoo, and leaves my hair much softer. There are other oils that you can use, but I'm not sure which ones. I'm sure someone here will chime in about that.
Good luck!
My favorites are the VO5 Moisture Milk Strawberries and Cream, Garnier Fructis (either the Sleek-n-Shine or Curl-n-Shine). My hair needs lots of moisture and these work well for me. And they're cheap!!
Thanks for the advice. I've used Garnier and it seemed so drying to my hair. I guess I should have noted that I am a 3B. That's probably the difference. Thank you anyway! :)
Have you used Elucence? You have to get it online in most places, but it's relatively inexpensive, especially if you get the liter. It works great both as a rinse-out and leave-in.
If you order Elucence from the florida distributer listed on their site you can get a liter of that real reasonable and it's real moisturizing.
There's the link.
For grocery store brands I was going to suggest GF but I see you've tried that. If you look at LB's Conditioner Chronicles she lists some bargain ones. I believe Suave healthy curls is among them.
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No, but thanks! I'll check it out!
Cute little pooch! :D
Where do I find LB's conditioners chronicles?
Thanks for the bump! :D
Bailey says he already knows he's a handsome devil, but thanks anyway! :D
He's modest too! :lol:
Sherrybp, I've found that the Activate Hydrating conditioner is one of the most moisturizing drugstore conditioners that I've used. I've found it in both Walgreens & Ulta, & both stores run a BOGOF special on it quite often.
It's not as cheap as VO5, for example, but I only need a small amount of the Activate. In fact, I rotate other conditioners, because I will get overconditioned using just the Activate.
For some reason, I can't use the VO5 condishes - they make me totally frizzy. I think it's the stearylkonium (sp?) chloride ingredient, because the Suave brand works MUCH better for ME & Suave doesn't contain that ingredient.
thank you kjwavy! :)
Don't know how inexpensive this is or if you are near a health food store, but I have found that rubbing a good size glob of shea butter in my hair before condition- washing helps a lot. Often I will use a pea-size glob of shea as a leave-in (in addition to whatever else I am using). I think this makes a big difference, at least for me.
I actually wondered about the shea butter. What type of hair do you have?
I always thought I had 2 - something hair. Frizzy, undefined, wavy. But I do not know anymore--I think my hair is a mix--3 on top--2 underneath.
Elucence is my favorite so if you can try that give it a go.
Free me up freesia by V05 has worked very well for me as a cowash. So it may work for someone that may not need as much moisture as I do.
Trader Joes Spa Nourish if you are near a trader joes go get it.. very very cheap and works very well.
Activate didnt work out very well for me as just a conditioner but does as a co-wash.
Thanks for the tips curlies!!
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I'm looking for a "set & forget" backup app that will let me backup a couple of gig spread across a couple of Macs.
Jungle Disk is looking good so far because it's appears you can encrypt with your own key, and if/when I outgrow the bundled 5gb there's no sudden jump to $10/month like you have with things like Spideroak.
All I need is a backup app, dropbox works for stuff I need available anywhere though I'm not ruling out something which combines both.
Any other suggestions please?
I'd choose Crashplan over JungleDisk... just my personal opinion based on 3+ years of being VERY satisfied with Crashplan.
The ability to set multiple backup destinations (like a home "server" or a friend's server as well as Crashplan's cloud was the biggest feature to me... takes care of onsite and offsite backups and "just works" in the background just as you'd hope. I tend to completely forget about it until I view network traffic charts, and realize that there is a spike in outbound traffic every time I import the contents of a SD card from my camera, or anything of the sort.....
Time Machine.
Erm... Why not just use Time Machine? Backup to a Time Capsule or Mac Server. Boom... hourly differential backups for multiple computers, one time cost.
Backups kept in the same physical space as the computer being backed up (i.e. - Time Machine) are nice, but if you are going to have only one backup, make it offsite. Also, Crashplan can do local computer-to-computer backup and cloud backup all in one neat little package.
Crashplan does multiple computers with unlimited space for $287 for 4 years. I couldn't buy enough HD space for $287 to do this at home.
You can also encrypt with your own key on CrashPlan as well. 1.5TB backed up there to date.
Unlimited space means that I can keep files that I may throw away here archived there as well. Not that I trust it for that, but it does appear to work. As one of my machines has 500GB of data, but 550GB of data stored at Crashplan.
I use Crashplan+ with 3 computers and over 2Tb currently and will probably add my father's work computer into the fold since he's not a good backer-upper. I'm a big fan of their service especially since they save deleted files once they've been uploaded. What it doesn't do like Time Machine obviously is keep variations of files over time. So it's useful if you need something you threw away but it's not useful if you need a version of the file you had at 3pm instead of 8pm unless it just happens to be that your last backup is coincidentally the last version you need. I think both of them are good for different reasons which is why I use both.
CrashPlan (super++)
It can be set to keep versions of files for a variety of time intervals. i.e. every 15 minutes, etc.. and keeps deleted files. It has saved my bacon 4 times in the past 5 months. In all cases, PowerPoint decided to corrupt the talk I was working on... to the point of losing all the pictures and scrambling text. (The first time this happened was 11:30 at night with the talk coming due in 8 hours. OMG - pooping bricks I was) After I blew off steam that first time on the road (and away from my TimeMachine), I realized that I had set CrashPlan to backup every 15 minutes, opened the app, restored the version from 15 minutes ago and 'Boom', I was back in business.
RUN, do not walk, and get yourself the 4 year multi computer deal at CrashPlan. It's already paid for itself many times over for me. I have about 2.5 TB from 6 computers on there. All 6 computers backup to TimeMachine locally, and CrashPlan remotely. All it has to do is save you once, and you'll wonder why you waited.
Another one for Crashplan. Tried it for clients to replace Retrospect and now recommend it to anyone and everyone. I have my whole family on it, as well as my machines. The plan you want is likely going to be Crashplan+ unlimited, unless you have any more than one computer, in which case, the family plan unlimited.
I get everyone to do BOTH Crashplan and Time Machine. Crashplan is great because it's saving files away from your computer, which saves you in case of fire or break-ins. However, the most likely thing to happen is a drive dying. In that case, you need a ton of files at once, and having even a monthly Time Machine backup will save you tons of time downloading files from Crashplan, or waiting for a drive to ship from them. Once you restore from your Time Machine backup, then you can download whatever was backed up more recently with Time Machine. Both backups are cheap, and both have complimentary purposes (in my opinion).
One addition to Time Machine backups is that I recommend backing up and then unplugging the backup drive. If your house gets hit by lightning or a power outage, unless our drive is unplugged, it's potentially a goner.
Time machine for quick restores when a computer shits the bed (I've had to use it once for that) and when upgrading to new hardware (used twice).
Crashplan to get everything important out of the house in case it burns down or is broken into or a power surge fries everything in the house. Yes it costs some money, but it's worth it to safeguard irreplaceable data like my pictures.
He needs Time Machine Extreme.
...barf, tnx god that's over.
I use Arq and have had a good experience with it. Use your own encryption key, set your S3 budget in the app, really responsive developer.
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I get everyone to do BOTH Crashplan and Time Machine. Crashplan is great because it's saving files away from your computer, which saves you in case of fire or break-ins.
Makes sense, but I'm still uncomfortable with storing all my stuff online.
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One addition to Time Machine backups is that I recommend backing up and then unplugging the backup drive. If your house gets hit by lightning or a power outage, unless our drive is unplugged, it's potentially a goner.
Better yet, use a bus powered 2.5" drive for TM. those are quiet and so much more convenient than those 3.5" drives with their unwieldy power cables. And easy to transport, so you can use two that you keep in different places, swapping them every month or so.
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v8media wrote:
I get everyone to do BOTH Crashplan and Time Machine. Crashplan is great because it's saving files away from your computer, which saves you in case of fire or break-ins.
Makes sense, but I'm still uncomfortable with storing all my stuff online.
That's why you choose your own crypto key..... You're just storing blocks at that point. Nobody has a clue what is inside those blocks but you....
You can also use Crashplan to backup to a single machine @ home, or a friend's machine. (eg - if you buy me a 2TB drive, I could throw it in my machine, give you my Crashplan "code" and let you backup to it.
I too recommend CrashPlan.
Here's how my setup is set up.
I have a dedicated computer that's always online and networked that happens to host both my backups and my media library. In this case it's a Mac mini connected to my HDTV. It has about 7 HDD's connected to it for a total of *adds up in head* 15 terrabytes of data. (With roughly half of that being backups of the other half) It backs up my media, the files on the mini itself, and holds local backups of both my and my dad's computer.
For local backups within the network, I use Carbon Copy Cloner. It's simple, FREE and works quietly and discretely if you want it to, or vocally if you want to know what it's doing. I have CCC installed not only on the mini for backing up the media and settings, but on both our computers to backup daily for dad and 4 times daily for me. (Every 6 hours. Used to be every hour until I got CP.)
For internet backups I have CrashPlan on a 4-year family plan. It cost a total of about $288 for the whole 4 years and up to 10 computers. That's a hell of a deal if you ask me. (As it comes out to about $72 per year or $6 a month.) The initial backup took a while, but I set it up to max out my internet upload speed when the computer was idle, but it still took a few weeks to get it all totally uploaded on both computers. (The mini had 700GB to upload while the MacBook Air only has 80GB backed up.) My dad is still on Carbonite for another year, but when his plan ends I'm going to put him on my plan as well. I am also going to get my brother and sisters on it. Since CrashPlan is unlimited, REAL unlimited, for 10 computers on the Family plan, I still have 8 computers slots to use up. PLUS it backs up and keeps old files. It's basically like an internet version of Time Machine without the pretty space-y user interface. (In fact, I wish it was an option to have CrashPlan store its backups in a format TM could access then have a TM interface to browse and recover the files, but it still works fine as it is.) I have my incremental backups set to 15 minutes and keep forever. It keeps every 15 minutes for a week, every hour for 90 days before that, every day for the year before that and every week for the rest of time.
But the real benefit is when you have an iPhone or an iPad or an Android or Windows Phone. They have apps for every device that let you browse and download files to view on the device (File type and OS playback restrictions permitting of course) and also have online file browsing and downloading for when you are away from your normal computer, or are at another one that isn't the one you backed up from. So you are literally almost NEVER unable to get to your files.
It's nice to know that if you ever lost everything because of disaster, it won't be hard to pick up the pieces right where you left off. The best part is that it's risk-free and there's a 30-day trial. You can cancel any time and they will refund you the entire amount of your remaining plan time.
Love my CrashPlan!!
For me, it backs up my SAN, so my Macs backup data to the SAN and then CrashPlan backs up the Macs + SAN for full coverage. Works great!
Can confirm all of the above replies.
My first layer is Time Machine. I have a hackintosh running Lion Server, and even on the hackintosh, Lion Server's Time Machine server Just Works. It's wonderful. I've found it more reliable than Time Machine to external hard drives. It's saved my bacon when I've done stupid things to a document, and I did do one flawless restore from it.
My second layer (only for the small but important stuff) is Crashplan.
For one particularly large item that's too big for Crashplan but that's critically important, I have an external hard drive in a safe deposit box.


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THE sun's starting to shine more regularly, the rain isn't falling quite as much, and people in Cwmbran are starting to use their boating lake more and more.
And next month the lake and Llanyravon Manor will host The Big Event, and thousands of people will visit and enjoy it – hopefully in glorious sunshine.
The lake is used by families with children, community groups and individuals who can take part in a wide range of activities, and they all benefit from a redesign partly financed by Torfaen council and other groups.
Ben Black, who runs the blog Cwmbran Life, said he usually takes a trip to the boating lake once a week: "I take my daughter down on her bike. And it's flat there so it was a brilliant place for her to learn.
"In the summer we go fishing there during the hot months. I have got pictures of me there, picture of my daughter there.
And he says it's easy from people not just from Cwmbran but from Newport and Pontypool to get to – so much so that going there for some people from Newport is like going to Tredegar House.
While Coed Eva's county councillor Fiona Cross runs up to five times a week and has visits the boating lake regularly after she took up running up to five times a week two years ago.
"I love the boating lake. Something interesting is they have moved the walks around the boating lake, which is fantastic."
"The upgrading is marvellous. I would be down there now if I could. I love Torfaen and I love the boating lake.
"Overall it is great and obviously working towards the Big Event - and then you've got Llanrayvon Manor too."
She added she was "really slow the first year" but now she's getting faster, with regular trips around it.
While the landlord Richard Hall of The Crows Nest pub, is located near the boating lake on Llangorse Road, says the pub really benefits when people visit the lake it on bank holidays – and that he himself uses it once a month.
And Torfaen council is keen to recognise how much has changed at the lake. Only five years ago it was waiting to be refurbished – and has overcome problems like an arson attack last April to some its park.
The leader of the council, Cllr Bob Wellington, said: "Cwmbran Boating Lake is one of Torfaen's greatest assets and among our most popular and well loved locations, enjoyed by thousands of people, of all ages, every week of the year.
"It has benefitted from significant investment over recent years with new play equipment installed and the new boathouse and landscaping works helping to transform the area. There has also been a lot of infrastructure work to connect the lake and park with local communities with new walking and cycling routes making it even easier for local people to access."
Bob Mayers, who runs the Torfaen Angling Participation Project, will be at The Big Event next month. The group has visited every one since its launch.
He said the lake was the perfect place for fishing groups he runs for children, usually aged eight or nine in one group or 14 or 15 in another.
"The lake is good for us because it is nice and local. There's also good car parking. If we can get the youngsters out they're be better for it."
A wet woodland and island habitat helped improve access and repair works. Funding came from the Welsh Assembly, the Cwmbran Operational Group, the Environment Agency and Splash, a water recreation challenge fund.
And the lake will provide the setting for the fourth Cwmbran Big Event next month on the afternoon of Saturday, June 14.
Over 10,000 people went to the lake to see last year's event, which included a visit from Elvis impersonator Darren 'Graceland' Jones, who will be performing again this year. Its annual raft races will be held on the boating lake, and there will be tens of stalls from Gwent businesses.
But car parking arrangements will be announced close to the day. There will be a number of car parks available for the event, the details of which will be announced closer to the event itself.
Regular updates on the event, including details of stalls, exhibitions, performing artists and activities, will appear here.
For more information on the event and finding how to be part of it, phone 01495 742333.


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Obie Sims' I AM Set for United Solo Fest, 10/6; Production Added to 'Best Seller' List
"I am", a one man show written, produced, and starring Obie Sims is a snapshot into the lives of six men and their journey towards self discovery. With an energetic blend of spoken word, comedy, and drama, the show, an edgy expression of one's struggle to find purpose, is coming to United Solo Theatre Festival on Sunday, October 6, 2013. The show will be performed on Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY at 6:00pm.
After graduating from Boston University with a degree in finance, Obie Sims decided to leave the amazingly fun world of spreadsheets and number crunching to try his hand at something more stable - like becoming a movie star. With just enough belongings to fill his 1992 Isuzu Amigo, Obie, a Maryland native, headed west to pursue his dream of becoming a working actor. Despite many barriers and heartaches, he steadily pushed on.
Under the intense instruction of Robert Carnegie and Jeff Goldblum at Playhouse West Repertory Theatre, he went on to not only land national commercials for such companies as "Dodge", "Nokia", "AT&T", and "Applebees", he has also booked roles on such hit shows as "The Wire", "Law and Order: SVU", "Grey's Anatomy", "House M.D.", "Charmed", and "Medium". He plans on continuing to live and breathe his passion for the arts, which brings us to a one man show he created to uplift, motivate and inspire us to keep pushing on.


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The 100-Year DowHumans are particularly bad at thinking about long periods of time. We have evolved with much shorter cycles: A daily sunrise, a monthly full moon, annual seasonal changes. Longer periods of time are outside of our personal experience. They create an analytical blind spot. When we look at the "long term," we discover interesting things. Consider each "market" period in this 100-year chart. Regardless of how each one ends, every bull market over the past century has been followed by a significant refractory period. As the chart shows, it takes quite a while to recover from a crash. Some of this is due to the destruction of capital. At the end of bull markets, many industries end up with excess capacity (think optical fiber or telecom.) But do not overlook the large psychological component of the pain incurred by investors. The damage gets repaired when investors finally forget about the pain they suffered -- or when a new crop of investors (without scars) finally appears. Today, market junkies have a new mistress: homes. Their former passion for stocks has been replaced. As we have seen, their equity wounds -- plus 46-year low interest rates -- has made real estate the new hottie. My guess is that nothing short of a large and sustained move upward (e.g. several quarters) will rekindle their love affair with equities. How likely is that? Is it possible that an 18-year bull market (1982-2000) could be followed by a two-and-a-half-year bear (March 2000 peak to October 2002 low), then followed by another multidecade (2003-2018) bull? Sure, anything is possible. But as the chart above shows, it would be historically unprecedented.
16-Year Trading RangeOn the 100-year chart, take a close look at the bear market prior to the most recent bull. It's the 1966-82 trading range. On the long-term chart, it looks like a fairly benign flat range. In reality, it was a volatile, dangerous period:
|A Colorful History
Markets are correspondingly colored -- green for bull, and red for bear -- revealing their cycles
|Source: Barry Ritholtz
Assuming we are, in fact, in a long, post-bull trading range, than this is year five (give or take) of what could be a 10- to-15 year secular bear market. As the 1966-82 experiences shows, we may be in for violent moves down and rapid blastoffs.
|Ups and Downs; Mostly Downs
The 1966-82 experience says we may be in for violent moves down and rapid blastoffs
|Source: Rydex Funds
If we are repeating the 1966-82 experience, I'd say we are somewhere around 1972-73. The similarities are imperfect -- especially regarding interest rates -- but an unpopular war, a potentially scandal-ridden second-term president with low poll numbers, and the end of a 20-year bull run five years prior are too similar to ignore. Compare the numbers: the Dow is up 45% from its October 2002 low and the S&P by about 60%. That parallels the Dow's 67% gain from the 1970 low to the 1973 peak .
Four-Year Presidential CycleThe next chart reveals what is known as the four-year, or presidential, cycle. The theory behind this is that U.S. markets have a tendency to make a low in the second year of a president's term and a high in the fourth year. It has held up quite well historically, with the notable omission of 1986. Recall, however, what happened in 1987. The chart suggests that cyclicality is at play. Given the upward bias of markets over time, regular corrections of 20% or greater may be inevitable. What is truly astonishing is the very human propensity to downplay or even ignore these periodic dislocations. The classic example is the tendency of humans to build homes in earthquake zones, in flood plains, where tsunamis have previously hit -- even near volcanoes (!). Investors have similar blind spots.
|Hail to the Chief
The presidential cycle suggests trouble ahead
|Source: BTR Capital Managment


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I'm having both surgeries done together. I have no fears about the surgery only excitement and a feeling of "I just can't wait" .im new to this site but think it a fantastic way of helping each other and giving support where needed. I have always been shy and so embarrassed with large breasts that I don't feel so much of an oddity sharing with all of you. Hi everyone,this is an update at 5... READ MORE
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Osama bin Laden is dead — and his terrorist buddies are dead quiet.
Authorities yesterday said they had detected no increase in possible terror activity or discussion about launching attacks to retaliate for the killing of bin Laden — even as security measures were ramped up around the city, state and nation.
"I spoke this morning to people in the FBI and Homeland Security and the head of the counter-terrorism office for New York City, and they have not detected . . . an uptick of threats or events against our city or our country," said Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY).
"This didn't happen by accident," Schumer said. "We're much better at fighting terrorism. We know who the terrorists are when they're part of a group, and we can hear what they're saying, so it's not an accident, praise God, that there haven't been any acts of terrorism against the United States since 9/11."
But Schumer noted that any terror threat to the Big Apple — and to the rest of the United States — is "more likely to come from an individual, like the Times Square bomber, who act on their own and not in an organized group."
"Might they in the next few weeks decide to take action into their own hands? They may," Schumer said. "We have to monitor the lone wolves."
To prepare for that possibility, city, state and federal authorities were on higher alert yesterday, deploying extra manpower to transportation hubs and other possible terror targets.
"There are no specific threats against New York City as of this moment, but we are certainly not taking any chances," Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan.
"Our assumption is that bin Laden's disciples would like nothing better than to avenge his death by another attack in New York. That is our operating premise."
Kelly ordered that officers working the midnight-to-8-a.m. shift continue working through the morning rush hour, along with ordering extra bag searches in subway stations, helicopters over sensitive locations, and closer attention to waterborne traffic.
Additional reporting by Larry Celona, Amber Sutherland and Jamie Schram


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The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) will be rolling out a new Uniform CPA Examination in January 2011, sending many candidates racing to pass the CPA exam as soon as possible. Industry experts concur with this strategy.
"Candidates should take as many sections as feasible during the next two CPA exam windows, as the new version will include structural adjustments and added content to comprehend", said Bob Monette, a Philadelphia-based CPA and longtime exam review instructor. "Given that most have already invested time and money into exam prep for the current version, completing the sections for which they've already prepared should be top priority."
In addition to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) being tested, portions of all four Exam sections will change. These changes are not only significant and copious - in effect a "new CPA exam" according to AICPA - they are all scheduled to go into effect at the same time. Some of the most notable changes include:
- New Content and Skill Specifications (CSOs/SSOs), including International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
- Changes in the scoring percentage value of examination components.
- Replacing the two long simulations in the current format with several short Task-Based Simulations (TBS) in Auditing and Attestation (AUD), Financial Accounting and Reporting (FAR), and Regulation (REG).
- Deleting the written communication testing from AUD, FAR, and REG.
- Adding written communication testing to the Business Environment and Concepts (BEC) section.
- Reducing the scoring weight of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) in AUD, FAR, and REG by 10 percent and reducing the weight of MCQ in BEC by 15 percent.
- Doubling the simulations in AUD, FAR, and REG.
"The extensive changes debuting in the 2011 Uniform CPA Examination have given preparation a renewed priority among students", said Sandy Levine, VP of Marketing Services for Bisk Education.
Passing the CPA exam is far less challenging for candidates who have a solid plan of attack. Bisk CPA Review recommends the following steps when preparing for the exam:
- Create a study plan. Candidates should examine their daily routine to identify the times they won't be able to study, and then block out an hour a day of personal time. With the remaining time, they should be able to find 10 to 14 hours of study time per week.
- Practice, practice, practice. Take CPA practice exams to determine any weak areas and refocus study efforts on them.
- Develop an exam strategy. Become familiar with the format of the CPA exam and know exactly what to do when entering the testing room. Planning in advance will save time and confusion on exam day.
- Choose suitable study materials. When selecting CPA exam study materials, candidates should look for those that match their learning style. Some students need the guidance of an instructor, some prefer to work alone and other students learn best through video, audio or books.


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How much of a bargain is Nigel Reo-Coker?
The MLS Players Union released 2013 salaries on Monday and the Whitecaps best player came in at $237,362. Englishman Reo-Coker, 28, is the sixth-highest paid Whitecap, behind Kenny Miller ($1.2 million), Jay DeMerit ($375,000), Camilo ($247,500), Andy O'Brien ($242,250) and Daigo Kobayashi ($238,883).
Miller is one of eight millionaires in MLS, a list led by Red Bulls' Thierry Henry at $4.5 million.
Liviu Bird has this thorough league analysis at SB Nation, though he uses base salary numbers, not the total compensation listed here.
In terms of total compensation, the average MLS salary dropped to around $160,000 from $179,000. The median salary (half the league makes more; half makes less) is up from $85,000 to $89,000. Those numbers are according to Jeremiah Oshan.
New DPs arriving by the summer should make up for that correction in average salary, which would have been affected greatly by the departure of David Beckham and Rafa Marquez.
Aside from Miller and Henry, MLS millionaires are Marco Di Vaio in Montreal ($1.9 million), injured Dutch striker Danny Koevermans in Toronto ($1.7 million), L.A.'s Landon Donovan ($2.5 million) and Robbie Keane ($4.3 million), New York's Tim Cahill ($3.6 million) and Seattle's Obafemi Martins ($1.7 million).
Whitecaps guaranteed compensation:
Miller 1,132,492
DeMerit 375,000
Sanvezzo 247,500
O'Brien 242,250
Kobayashi 238,833
Reo-Coker 237,363
Young-Pyo 231,100
Mattocks 212,000
Rochat 190,000
Cannon 189,917
Koffie 176,000
Salgado 136,869
Rusin 120,000
Harvey 112,500
Manneh 84,500
Hurtado 81,500
Alderson 80,000
Davidson 78,020
Watson 71,752
Leveron 71,188
Knighton 66,000
Teibert 65,600
Hertzog 60,671
Heinemann 51,975
Abdallah 46,500
Klazura 46,500
Mitchell 46,500
Clarke 45,500
Clement 35,125
Thomas 35,125


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I recently dealt with TFL member TDSUS. I posted asking about the EOTech, and he made me an awesome deal on a new EOTech 550. His shipping was very fast, even with the Christmas rush on, and I am very impressed. He even gave me a "rough guess" of $10.00 on the shipping, but said he did not know for sure at the time. When I placed the order on his site it showed $13.00 for shipping. I thought "wow, he was pretty close." I was very happy with the deal, and then he went and changed it to $10.00 just because "that is what he told me." I would highly recomend him, and will probably be dealing with him more in the future. Check him out! http://www.tds-us.com/


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Jon Connor On Sway In The Morning – Shade 45 [Video]
I know a lot of people probably hate the fact that I rep my man Jon Connor so much, but the truth is when someone comes out of Flint, MI and goes this hard for your city it's hard to deny them. Connor has done nothing but support his hometown since day one and preach positivity. I'd mess with more Flint rappers if they did the same. Check him out on Shade 45 'Sway in the Morning' yesterday and get ready for Season 2 on 12.12.11.
Jon Connor Freestyle At Statik Selektah Shade 45 Show [Video]
Jon Connor is gearing up for his Vinnie Chase: Season 2 release in November and he stopped by the Statik Selektah show on Shade 45 last week in NYC. Connor has been repping hard for Flint and did a impromptu freestyle over "Love Me Sexy" from the Will Ferrell Semi-Pro movie. Check out both frees below and make sure to get all Jon Connor's music here!
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Did you miss the Eminem & Jay-Z Tour this year?? Eminem announced that he will broadcast one of the Home and Home concerts he and Jay-Z played in Detroit earlier this year. The show will air on Eminem's satellite radio station, Shade 45, on New Year's Eve.


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I play guitar mainly as a hobby. I find it to be a great stress reliever in addition to being enjoyable. For the curious, my guitar setup is a U.S. Masters Lacewood F-Classic guitar, Mesa/Boogie Mark III Simulclass all-tube amplifier, and Mesa/Boogie Recto 4x12 cabinet. I also have a 1958 Gibson acoustic guitar and a Dunlop Crybaby Wah-Wah pedal.
Do you play any musical instruments?
Audio wisdom holds that musicians tend to neglect their stereo systems. But we're wondering how many of <I>Stereophile</I>'s readers play music themselves, both for fun and professionally.
Played in groups (semi-pro) throughout the '60s (ah, the '60s . . . can hardly remember a thing!), and still have a music room full of guitars and keyboards. Now, of course, they are used mainly by my 17-year-old son and twin 15-year-old daughters, who are slowly driving me insane by playing grunge/punk/rock etc. . . . badly!
I play classical guitar---every time I get frustrated not being able to afford the megabuck gear you review, I take heart that I can produce the actual acoustic sounds, which, I doubt, many of these rich owners can do.
I own 3 guitars(2 Taylors and PRS custom), and nothing beats playing my acoustics very early in the morning before I go off to work and no one is in the house. This is heaven. Now I own good hi-fi (Aerial, Krell, CAL, McCormack), but sometimes you just HAVE to play.
I play the bassoon quasi-professionally. I don't make my living doing so, but enjoy much more the opportunity to play in and support a number of professional-quality community-based musical organizations in the Twin Cities. These include several fine orchestras, woodwind quintets, and other chamber-music playing opportunities. I hope Stereophile readers everywhere make the effort to support and enjoy your community groups in addition to the professionals. One of the few things that is better than listening to a fine recording (of, say, the Vienna Octet perfoming the Beethoven Septet) is participating in a fine performance!
I'm just a duffer, but I enjoy expressing myself through music as well as listening. I think that having some working knowledge of how instruments are played helps a music listener evaluate the merits of specific players and styles.
Having the best in both CD and Phono front ends allowed me access to both formats. I played my CD system, maybe 30 times this year and never for over an hour. I would just get borred with it. Listening to vinyl is my choice by actual experience. Vinyl time 98%% to 2% for CDs. Who knows why? It just satisfies me more.
I started playing guitar about 4 months ago. During that time I found myself listening to my home stereo less. However, my wife got me a subscription to Stereophile for Christmas, and now the upgrade bug has bitten. Long live 2-channel stereo! Seriously, though, my experience and this topic stimulates some much-needed thought. For me to be trully happy with music and enjoy it to the fullest extent, there needs to be some middle ground for the musician and the listener (in myself as well as others) to come together on. Otherwise, we are distined to grow further apart, thus ultimately killing each other's true love: THE MUSIC.
I am a professional conductor. I know what real music sounds like. Analog playback on vinyl and even metal cassette tapes on a Nakamichi deck sound more musicial than anything digital. I refuse to record onto anything digital because I know how harsh and unmusical it sounds, and because that technology is constantly changing. I don't want my master recordings on an obsolete digital format, while analog is forever.
Played organ (classical) for a few years as a kid; abandoned it for guitar (too many strings), and then bass guitar. Naturally, I was in several bands which broke up for want of a keyboards player. I still play bass (a Fender Jazz with Alembic strings, JA) in a band with some old friends, one of whom I have now converted to high-end sound. Fortunately, he's the one building the all-analog recording studio in his basement!
Everyone in my family played a musical instrument. I didn't, yet I am the only one interested in having a large music collection and good reproduction equipment. The most talented players still listen to boomboxes!
I play trombone in several community groups, and I find that there is no better way to get acquainted with great orchestral music. As much as I love my audio hobby, the time I spend making music means even more to me.


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ANC won't tolerate it
THE imprisonment of former Rustenburg mayor Matthew Wolmarans and his former bodyguard Enoch Matshaba is a lesson to those who use murder to hide corruption.
Moss Phakoe, a local councillor in the Rustenburg municipality, was shot dead at his home in March 2009. He had compiled a dossier implicating Wolmarans in corruption in the municipality and handed the document to Sicelo Shiceka, the former minister of cooperative governance, in the presence of Wolmarans. Two days later he was killed in cold blood.
The court has found Matthew Wolmarans and Enoch Matshaba guilty of the murder of comrade Moss Phakoe.
Matthew Wolmarans and Enoch Matshaba are murderers and I am glad that they were arrested, charged and found guilty in a court of law.
When a person contemplates taking the life of another, plans and discusses it and eventually does it, such a person, in my view has no soul and being a member of the ANC will not help to protect them from punishment that must be meted out.
Wolmarans and Matshaba are no longer members of the ANC. They are expelled. But it is the atmosphere that breeds the hatred that they developed for another human being that we must cleanse the ANC of.
The ANC's code of conduct is a set of guidelines adopted to militate against behaviour that will bring the party into disrepute and encourage anarchy.
Many people who have joined the ANC and see it as a stepping stone to wealth and resources soon become victims of their ill-found ambitions.
Murder, rape, child abuse and domestic violence, stealing, perpetuating mob violence, fraud and many more are crimes that insult the ANC's values in the most direct manner.
Any ANC member who is party to a meeting where taking power to "own" resources is already visiting upon him or herself a crime.
It can only go downhill for that person and for the organisation from that point forward.
All the laws in place to protect the state from corruption were laws enacted by the ANC-led government or laws amended to improve on older versions of laws from the apartheid era.
The ANC has been at pains to ensure that our legal framework complies with the Constitution of the country.
A Constitution developed to assist in the transformation of South Africa from a country where violence was institutionalised by the previous government to one where the burden of proof is on the state and every person is innocent until proven guilty.
Wolmarans, Matshaba and anyone else who sits and plans murder for political gain or for the "awarding of resources to themselves" are no better than the policemen who murdered ANC freedom fighters.
Any person who fears for their life must go to the South African Police Service and make a statement. It is the responsibility of the police to investigate claims, lay charges and to test them in the court of law. While the organisation's rules are a guideline to prevent any form of criminal behaviour, the ANC must and does act against its members who bring the ANC into disrepute, commit criminal acts or plan crimes. I say thank you to the police for investigating and arresting these criminals. I say thank you to the court for finding these murderers guilty.
The ANC is cleansed of these undesirable personnel with undesirable tendencies. They will now be confined to where they belong, in jail - away from the society seeking to redefine itself under new values and a commitment to fighting crime and corruption.
Jessie Duarte is a member of the ANC NEC. Her opinion first appeared in ANC Today.


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The Passover Celebration
Christians, whose traditions are rooted in Judaism, share the Passover experience of a people enslaved and then redeemed when God brought them to freedom, to covenant, to a Promised Land. Through the centuries, the ritual of Passover has allowed each generation of Jews to relive their history and make the story their own. This booklet has been prepared especially for those occasions when Christians are invited to join with members of the Jewish community to celebrate the Passover Seder. The cover and interior has been completely redesigned and contains art by Judith Joseph. The service provided in this booklet is completely faithful to the Jewish tradition and provides background on the Seder meal, instruction, commentary, and a glossary of terms. It enables all who attend the Seder meal to participate in this joyful event. Published by Liturgy Training Publications.
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ALISO VIEJO, Calif., July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- eyeonics, inc., the developer and manufacturer of the crystalens, the first and only FDA approved accommodating intraocular lens, today announced that revenues for the second quarter ended June 30, 2006 totaled $4.3 million, up 30 percent from revenues in the same period last year. Revenues for the first half of 2006 were $8.4 million, a 21 percent increase over the first half of 2005. At the same time, implants have grown more than 27 percent year-over-year. As previously announced, the crystalens has now been implanted in more than 50,000 patients worldwide.
"We are seeing more and more evidence that accommodating technology will become the lens of choice for surgeons and their patients in the premium channel market," said J. Andy Corley, Chairman and CEO of eyeonics. "As predicted, complications with multi-focal technology such as glare and halos, lack of intermediate vision, and loss of contrast sensitivity continue to surface."
Mr. Corley added, "Like our original crystalens, our second generation crystalens SE accommodating lens, introduced in September 2005, focuses vision at all distances much like the eye's natural lens and has been very well received by ophthalmologists and their patients. 'SE' reflects its square edge, and the crystalens SE implants are now growing at a faster rate than the first generation product with virtually no capsular issues."
Jay Pepose, MD, Director of the Pepose Vision Institute and Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, added, "crystalens has many advantages in that its mechanism of action closely resembles many aspects of natural accommodation. Most importantly, we do not hear complaints of disturbing night halos or waxy vision, which is more common with multi-focal lenses. We have had extremely high levels of patient satisfaction and the fewest complaints across the board with crystalens."
Kevin Waltz, MD, Director of Eye Surgeons of Indiana and Assistant Professor of Optometry at Indiana School of Optometry in Indianapolis agreed, adding, "The crystalens gives my patients the opportunity to see well at all distances with a minimal risk of glare and halos. It gives the patient and surgeon options that no other lens is able to deliver."
About crystalens(R)
The crystalens is the result of more than 14 years of research and development by J. Stuart Cumming, M.D., F.A.C.S., and was approved by the FDA in November 2003. More than 50,000 lenses have been implanted worldwide. During clinical trials, all of the patients who received the crystalens greatly reduced their need for corrective lenses or eyeglasses. The patented crystalens technology is designed to allow the lens to move in the eye in a manner similar to the natural lens. By using the eye's muscle to move the lens back and forwards naturally, patients can focus through a continuous range of vision including near, far and everywhere in between. All other intraocular lenses are designed to remain fixed in the eye. For more information about the crystalens go to http://www.crystalens.com/ .
About eyeonics, inc.(TM)
eyeonics is a privately held medical device company headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, founded in 1998. eyeonics is committed to developing a new class of visual enhancement systems that will enable patients to see up close, far away and all distances in between. For more information about eyeonics, inc. and the crystalens go to http://www.eyeonics.com/ or http://www.crystalens.com/ .
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Since DayZ first came out and YouTube gameplay videos began to gain popularity, we've been excited for the idea of the imminent explosion of a genre of video game that scratched that infected itch for a massive survival sandbox experience, where the only rules are the ones players choose to play by. DayZ was a fan-made mod for ARMA 2 (and now ARMA 3) and it's sinced evolved into the development of a full-fledged standalone release by ARMA studio Bohemia Interactive.
Before DayZ was a thing, another open-world sandbox game played with our imaginations, another title that began as a mod, aptly titled Garry's Mod (GMod), a project built on Half-Life 2's Source engine that's constantly evolved since its 2006 release. Players simply use all of the tools and objects from the game and from other people's creations to do whatever they want. Facepunch Studios, the team behind it, have their own sandbox survival title coming out titled Rust, and like DayZ, it's also in its alpha stages.
Unlike the repeatedly delayed DayZ by creator Dean Hall, the alpha build of Rust is available right now for free. You can download it here. From viewing gameplay of Rust, it's no surprise that it actually began as a clone of DayZ, zombies and all, but Garry Newman's team knew they couldn't compete with the resources behind DayZ (see: ARMA) so they decided to make it more like the STALKER games, still open-world, but with radiation and the ability for players to craft their own builds anywhere on the map. The theme emphasized by the team is freedom.
One of our main aims with Rust is to not control how people behave directly. For example some people want us to implement something to discourage people killing each other. Some kind of rating. Or turn killers red to warm you they can't be trusted.
I hate that. It's not giving the players freedom. The players should decide how they play the game. You should be fearful of others. That is the whole point. This is a game where the player makes their own story.. and emotion plays into it a lot. If you see another guy in game.. — you're going to be scared of him at first. But then you sniff around each other and decide to go on an adventure together. You begin to trust each other. That means so much more if you both had the ability to kill the other at any time and didn't. And you weren't just doing it for a green +1.
So what's to stop you from going around killing anyone you want and taking their shit and becoming more powerful? Nothing. What's stopping it from becoming a PVP killfest? You. Our job should be to give the players the tools they need. If you're sick of getting killed — start a town. Build town walls. Give all the town members red clothes. Put warning signs up outside the town. Set up trip wires and alarms. Watch each others back.
As the video above indicates, there's a lot of work that needs to go into polishing and expanding Rust so the current plan is for the team to continue with bug fixes and work on adding their own assets, beginning with player models, clothing, weapons and tools. Eventually the game will hit Steam. And:
"I also want a 100 foot giant that will come and smash your buildings up — forcing you to work together to take him down. But I'll have to sneak that past Helk."
As for DayZ, Hall showed off gameplay of the latest build at the Rezzed 2013 developer conference. Some highlights include the new inventory screens, new map system, crafting and the following:
- Players use up different amounts of calories depending on temperatures and how much physical strain they endure.
- Pirate radio stations featuring content chosen by community. Players can place radios on ground as bait.
- Disinfectants and human blood that must be kept cold, purification tablets for water.
- Can create improvised explosive with things like duct tape, flares and butane.
- Weapon attachment system: all guns redesigned, can add silencers, etc.
- Zoom in from 3rd person to 1st person with weapons.
- ARMA II sounds in the game will be replaced with original content after gameplay is refined.
- Oculus Rift support coming eventually.
- Zombies spawn at very beginning, and zombies killed in an area stay dead until players leave and new ones spawn in. There are also roaming zombies.
- There are super rare items that literally may be one-of-a-kind.
For players eager to get hands-on with DayZ, the devs have set an internal date with a one-week timeframe. We don't know when that is but it should be relatively soon. The intial plan was to release a limited amount of codes incrementally but now the plan is to open it to everyone to test the servers, architecture and to get feedback for improvements. As Hall referenced previously, the pricing model of DayZ will follow that of Minecraft with it being relatively cheap during alpha and increasing in price as it moves to beta then eventually, full release. It will eventually make its way to consoles as well, but not for quite some time.
The ultimate community-focused, community-crafted sandbox games are on their way and we're excited to try both.
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The Salt Lake Community College women's softball team will open the 2013 as the nation's No. 1 junior college softball program. The Wolverines, 59-9 last season, lost to Chattanooga State in the NJCAA Nationals.
SLCC, coached by Mary Kay Amicone, opens its season Friday at the Southern Nevada Kick Off in Henderson, Nev.


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On Saturday 12th March Motion returns to The WorkShop for another massive night playing the best in tech house, progressive and techno.
We bring you not one but two of the biggest rising stars in production - Ryan Luciano and Justin Steel. Both enjoyed a fantastic year in 2010 with the likes of the legendary Sasha championing their music.
Joining them will be Motion residents Sam Hedworth & Darren Lee Fenton, who will be playing one of their trademark back to back Motion sets. Anyone who has been to Motion before will know that these guys really tear up the dance floor with their blend of tech house, progressive and techno. Expect another beast of a set!
And completing the line-up we welcome back DJ's K & Mr. F from Shoreditch club night SubGenus. Last time they played a fantastic deep techno warm up set. Expect more of the same!
With a new extended finishing time of 5am it promises to be one hell of a party!!! See you on the dance floor!
Ryan Luciano
Ryan Luciano a DJ / Producer / Remixer currently located in the South East of the UK who has been currently busy producing house music for the last three years. Ryan has been adding his unique elements to his remixes to labels worldwide, labels such as Hype Muzik, Stripped Digital, Endemic, Low Bit Records, We Are Here Records and of course Divert to name a few, and now he is concertrating on his own new label 'Divert' which has many releases in the queue which are ready for release very soon. In fact his first release 'Le Freak' with 'Divert' got signed by Carl Cox's Space Ibiza Album [Revolution Continues] this year. Ryan's time is dedicated mostly in his studio at his home creating his next moves into the music industry. It has been a success that is well deserved though, as the London \ South East Producer believe's he's come along way as he has always been so dedicated to his creativity throughout his production work, trying to create a unique electronic tech sound that stands out from his peers with building melodies that take far longer than the usual eight bars to unfold.
Ryan has always been totally devoted to his electronica music for many years, being inspired b mant big djs across the globe and following big nights such as Global Underground, Renaissance & Bedrock being his favourites. Ryan has been djing for many years on and off and most of the time he is concertrating on his remix work which has become more of a priorty. Ryan's style of djing can only be described as multi genre as he will play anything from ambient electronica house, tribal, tech, progressive, techno.
He's latest success this year was a signing to Carl Cox's Space Ibiza Album 'Revolution Continues 2010' and also Sasha including a Remix of Ryan's which was 'Istanbul' [Stripped Digital] onto his April 2010 Podcast as well as playing it non-stop in Mexico and Miami this year.
Ryan's Productions & Remixes are gaining recognition and support from some of the worlds top DJ's. Including Sasha / John Digweed / Hernan Cattaneo / Nick Warren / Anthony Pappa / Anil Chawla & Jimmy Van M and thats just naming a few.
Ryan has played at many events around the globe all starting back in 94' but mostly played in London UK that's where he's main success has been, including many nights at Turnmills & Ministry of Sound with monthly gigs booked. Ryan has had a few of his own nights in London with nights such as 'Twisted' and 'Lets Connect' with both nights having a real successful run until he stopped doing them to move onto Production.
Ryan's Productions & Remixes are now gaining recognition and support from some of the industry's top DJ's. Including Sasha / Digweed / Hernan Cattaneo / Nick Warren / Anthony Pappa / Anil Chawla & Jimmy Van M to name a few.
Justin Steel
'With his style firmly meshed in all things deep, this is one DJ who can make you feel like you're on a sun drenched beach in Ibiza or the pits of a dark club about to lose your sanity!' Quote: Progressive-sounds.com
Justin has supported some of the industries top DJ's in a career spanning 10 years playing in clubs such as Turnmill's, Ministry of Sound and Pacha. His production talents have also come to the fore with major support for his work coming from the likes of Sasha, Nick Warren and Hernan Cattaneo. Label credits include Endemic Digital, Stripped Recordings, Cubism and F*** House Music and he is currently working on his debut album set to drop sometime in 2011.
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Cengiz Camci obtained the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1977; M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1979; Ph.D. degree from Von Karman Institute/Katholieke University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, in 1985. Camci was an Assistant Professor in 1986, Associate Professor in 1992, and Professor in 2000. Camci has been a Member at AIAA from 1987 to present, Member at ASME from 1986 to present, Member at ASME International Gas Turbine Institute from 1986 to present, and Member at ASEE from 1988 to present. Camci obtained P&W/PSU Centre of Excellence grants on turbine research, in 2010–2014. He served at the College of Engineering, Global Engineering Education (GLEE) Planning Committee, in 2011-2012; College of Engineering, Advising Center, Representative, Preengineering adviser, in 2011–2013.
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CHICAGO – The Chicago Cubs haven't won a World Series title since 1908, so they're content to wait as long as possible until Joe Girardi decides whether to accept an offer to stay with the Yankees or pursue other opportunities.
There's plenty of guarded optimism because the Cubs have made it clear through channels that they are willing to top whatever offer the Yankees tender, according to a source familiar with the negotiations.
Girardi, who is completing a three-year contract that paid him about $3 million in 2013, could be in line for a new contract that is longer than three years and could be more than $5 million annually, the source added.
Source: Mark Gonzales, Chicago Tribune