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" Manufacturer: Maxi-Cosi / Seat Type: Infant / Weight Limit Up to 28.66 lbs. / With Headrest / With Carry Handle "
We bought this car seat as it fitted on our iCandy cherry travel system. We have now been using it for over 6 months and it is a fantastic product. The head support and foam support which come in the seat meant that our baby was very comfortable and secure from new born. We moved the foam support when the baby was 2 months and the head support after 3 months. He is now filling up the seat pretty well but still sleeps very comfortably in it on car journeys. We bought the isofix family base with the car seat and it is great for getting the baby out of the car quickly, especially when I have my hands full. It is also very reassuring during the many sleep-deprived days I have to hear that the seat is securely fitted on the base. We use the car seat a lot when food shopping. I either strap it to a purpose-made trolley or to the base of my buggy. The seat cleans very easily and shows no sign of wear and tear yet. I would highly recommend it!
I bought this car seat from Halfords in a sale for £90. Was £100, but I cheekily asked the manager for money off because I was buying the isofix base to go with it at the same time.
My seat was the black reflection material - it was a well padded seat, that came with a headhugger for newborns and was in a nice reclining angle. It should be noted that if you do long journeys the manufacturer doesn't recommend that a newborn be in the seat for more than 2 hours or they could have breathing problems. The car seat can be fitted onto the isofix base or onto a base fitted with seat belts or can be held independantly with the seatbelt (tried this once - and it wasn't that stable on my rear seats). The use of the isofix base however made the car seat extremely stable and didn't wobble a inch - I would recommend this. It took a while to get used to smoothly releasing the car seat from the base - my husband found it really simple, but I struggled to release it sometimes. I used it in conjunction with my quinny zapp pushchair frame that it easily clicked onto.
It comes with a sunshade that is really useful, such a shame that it didn't come with a raincover. At the back of the seat is a little compartment which is the perfect size to fit nappy wipes and a couple of nappies - I found this really useful. The straps were easy to do up around your baby it came with extra padding around the buckle, however I found this kept falling off and we lost it in the end. The straps come with little shoulder pads on them. These weren't padded enough for my liking,so i bought additional thicker pads to go on mine.
I used this seat until my son was 14 months - he is quite tall and could probably have stayed in it for a couple more months, but he was too heavy for me to carry in it by then.
When looking for car seats safety was my top priority. I knew I would be spending all 9 months (well 8 in my case) of my pregnancy doing what I could to look after my babies so I wanted to ensure when they came into the world they were safe where ever we went. My other requirement was that I had car seats which were suitable for use with my travel system (iCandy Pear). After looking into this and speaking to other parents the Maxio Cosi Cabrio Infant Carrier seemed to be clear winner.
***Maxi-Cosi Cabrio***
The Maxi- Cosi Cabrio is a child car seat which is suitable for children from use from birth to around 13kg (around 12 months). The product has a side protection system which offers optimal protection against side impact if you were involved in a collision.
The Maxi-Cosi Cabrio has an integrated sun canopy on the top of the car seats which is easily pulled out from the top of the seat. Within the car seat, there is a small storage compartment. There is an ergonomic handle which uses a push button to adjust making it very easy to carry the car seat. The harness has beltpads and crotchpads attached for extra comfort for your baby. The harness has been designed to be very easily adjusted in one pull so you can adjust it to a length which fits your baby.
The car seat is suitable for use with a static 3 point seat belt or with the Maxi Cosi, EasyFix, FamilyFix or EasyBase. The Cabrio must always be fitted in a rearward facing position and never positioned on the front passenger seat if there is an airbag fitted which cannot be immobilised. The Maxi-Cosi Cabrio conforms to standards ECE R44/04
The car seat weighs 3.25kg in total. Which is pretty much average in comparison to other similar products.
The Cabrio is available in over 10 colours ranging from bright pink, blue to plainer colours like black and brown. I opted to go for the product in "black reflection", black with a dark grey trim.
You can purchase Maxi-Cosi accessories to go with the car seat which include a footmuffs (available in 8 different colours), a mosquito net, summer covers to keep you baby cool and "travel buddies" which are toys which you can attach specifically to the Maxi- Cosi carseats.
The Maxi-Cosi Cabrio is sold by a large number of retailers. This is both online and in store in a wide variety of colours. Large retailers such as John Lewis, Mothercare, Halfords and Boots all stock these infant carriers. You can check on the Maxi-Cosi website for stockists in your area by typing in your postcode.
My local baby store was selling the Maxi- Cosi Cabrio for £110.00 when I purchased two of these. Prices vary between £95 to £125 depending on where you purchase the infant carrier and also depending on colour. Prices are generally higher for the plainer more neutral colours.
***Using the Car Seat***
The Maxi-Cosi Cabrio can be fitted into all cars in a rearward position using a static 3 point seat belt. Basically you thread the lap belt and shoulder belt through the hooks on the back of the infant carrier and then click the seatbelt into the seat buckle. With practice this is very easy and takes around 30 seconds to do. In this position the car seat feels very secure however when I use the car seat in this way I do find myself double checking just to make sure it is firmly secure and the seat belt is attached into the hooks properly.
I purchased the Family-Fix Bases to use with the Maxi Cosi Cabrio. These fitted using the Isofix fittings within my car (a 59 reg Seat Leon). Once the base was fitted I found it very easy to fix the infant carrier to this, it is a simple case of lining the seat up into the correct position on the base then pressing down. Once you hear a beep you know the car seat is secured into a safe position, which filled me with total peace of mind and stopped me constantly checking the seats. Attaching the car seats using this method can be done using one hand and in less than 10 seconds, which was brilliant for me at times when I was carrying two screaming babies to and from the car in the rain!
I was very impressed with the overall design of the Maxi-Cosi Cabrio. It looks very padded and secure without being overly bulky. The padding also makes this look like a very comfortable option for your baby as the back and sides of the seat are heavily padded. The Maxi-Cosi Cabrio comes with a head hugger inside which gives more support for a small baby and makes sure their head doesn't move around when you are travelling. The head huggers for us were an essential in the early days, especially as we used the car seats to bring home from hospital two 4lb babies. Now thinking back to this time the boys looked lost in their car seats but were adequately supported. We removed the head huggers at around 7 months and there was still enough padding and support once removed.
The safety harness inside of the seat is very easy to use and adjust. Two straps go over your child's arms and there is a harness which goes between your child's legs with the main clip on. The two shoulder straps lock into this and easily click into place. You simply release the harness by pressing a big red button on this clip. This is covered by the crotch strap so your child can't release themself. Obviously this isn't an issue when you have a newborn and actually you do need to push quite hard on this button to release, but in our case because we have two 12 month olds who get up to mischief constantly, anything is possible!
The size of the harness is very easy to adjust by pressing a small button on the seat and then pulling the harness to make it bigger or smaller. This takes less than 30 seconds to do and is worth doing regularly to make sure your child is held in quite securely as you often find if they have been wearing a bulky jacket one day, then a light jacket the next day, the harness will be very slack around them and does need adjusting.
The Cabrio has a carry handle which is attached to the centre of the seat. In order to adjust the position of the handle there are two buttons on either side that need to be pressed. You do need two hands available to do this. There are three main positions that the handle can sit in. Forward, to use for carrying and when your baby is travelling in the car, pushed back so it sits flush around the top of the seat, so you are able to get your child in and out of the seat and also pushed back and locked so the handle sits at the base of the seat. This means you can use the Cabrio as a chair for your baby, as the carry handle gives sturdy base, which is handy if you need to feed your child at a friend's house say and don't want to take a baby bouncer with you.
The Cabrio also has a sunshade which is a piece of black stretchy material fixed into the top of car seat which can be pulled over the top of the seat and fixed onto the carry handle with two small hooks. As a sunshade this is very handy and keeps the sun off your child. It also is helpful to pull this over if it is raining and you want to quickly run from the car to the house to stop the rain from getting on your child. For a longer period the sunshade would not give adequate protection from the rain in my opinion.
Up until about the ages of 6 months old (when the boys started weighing nearer 12lb) I could actually manage to carry two car seats at once for short distances to and from the car. The design of the carry handle makes the car seat very easy to carry and because the seat is reasonably light this was not a problem. I did find however as the boys got heavy it was important to carry the seats using two hands for the sake of my back!
The Cabrio is a quality product and is very durable, ideal for babies. I think the black reflection colour I purchased my car seats in helps as if there are any marks on the seat the material has wiped clean and not stained and even after 12 months of being used daily the seats look as new.
A benefit of the Maxi-Cosi Cabrio is that it is compatible to use as part of a travel system with a wide range of manufacturers and models. This includes iCandy, Quinny, Bugaboo and Mothercare travel systems. I purchased car seat adapters when I purchased my pushchair ( iCandy pear) to make this possible. Most travel systems state which infant carriers are compatible to use with them so it is worth checking before purchasing. Maxi-Cosi also recommends that you do not put young babies in the Cabrio for periods of over 2 hours if you are using the infant carrier in this way.
The car seat states that the car seat is suitable from 0kg to 13kg (as a guide 0-12months) however it is worth noting the guidelines for moving children up to the next stage car seat is based upon weight not age. My boys are 12 months old and will be in this stage car seat for a while because they are small (not quite 8kg).
This has been a brilliant purchase for us and I would definitely recommend the Maxi Cosi Cabrio to other parents. For your child the car seat is an extremely safe choice and has so many features to ensure your child is carried securely and comfortably. For parents this is a very simple and easy car seat to use.
This is a more expensive choice if you consider that there are a lot of cheaper alternatives on the market, however in my opinion you can't put a price on child safety and comfort and I feel the Cabrio has been worth every penny of the £110 (x2) .
I personally would recommend for those parents who have travel systems to purchase a Maxi-Cosi Easy-Fix or Family-Fix base to use the car seat with. Although the Maxi-Cosi Cabrio is very easy to fit using the seat belt, the base saves so much time and you have the instant peace of mind that once you hear the base click and beep, you can be assured the car seat is fitted safely and your child is secure. An excellent product for keeping your child safe!
When it came to picking a car seat for our little one the choice was overwhelming but because we had a Bugaboo stroller we decided to go for the Maxi Cosi CabrioFix Infant carrier as this was adaptable to be able to fix onto our stroller wheels. This Maxi Cosi also won the CabrioFix and EasyFix Base: Winners of Best Infant Carrier - Practical Parenting Awards 2009/10 so we knew it was a good quality product too.
The car seat is a rear facing car seat which is the way you need to put babies until a certain age and is suitable from birth to about 13kg (about 12 months) of age. We first had to attach the easy fix base unit into our car which is fixed and does not move from the car. We attached it using an Isofix which is a sort of built in metal bar in our car. I believe most new cars have this but you would need to check your car manual. The base attaches to this and then there is a bar which goes down to the floor of your car. There are green indicators on the base to let you know that you have fitted it correctly. If you have not then these will be red, telling you you have fixed it incorrectly. The Maxi Cosi car seat then clips into this cradle and sits securely in it. Again, if you have clipped it in correctly you will get green indicators on the side and red if you have not fitted it correctly. It is easy to lift in and out though and very secure and stable which to me is absolutely vital in a car seat. There is a level that you pull to release the seat and this is quite easy to do whilst you have the car seat handle in the other hand, and if you're like me, bags of shopping, bottles of milk, bananas etc so ease of use is vital and this seat is very easy. What I also like though is if you are using this car seat in another car there is a way in which you can secure it with just the seat belt in the back of the car by threading the seatbelt through hooks on the back of the seat and on the side so if you switch cars often then this is a good benefit.
The seat itself to me looks very cosy. The sides comes with side impact protection so god forbid if you were in a crash you have a bit of extra protection int he seat there. There is a safety harness for you to clip baby in once they are in the seat. There are two straps that go over the arms and then then a bit that goes between the legs. The side harnesses clip together and lock into a big button in the middle. It will click when the straps are in properly and then there is a big red button that you push to release the harness. What I like is that this big red button is hidden underneath a bit of fabric so babies cannot play with it or release it by accident although you need quite a hard push in order to release the button.
There is a head hugger which is padded that does come off the seat once your baby gets a bit bigger but this is great for newborns as it really cradles their heads and stops theirs heads from moving around. There is a carry handle that is located in the middle of the seat but there are buttons on either side of it that allow you to put the handle back to the top of the seat to allow you to get the baby out of the seat easier or if there are sitting in it and you are out I like that you can move the handle back and fed them without a bar getting in the way or kiss them etc. When you are driving it is essential that you have this handle in the middle position though as I have heard from car seat professionals that this actually acts as a roll bar if you should crash and provides extra protection for your little one whilst driving. The handle has two little hooks on the side which allow you to attach the sunshade to by pulling it over from the back of the seat. THis shade is made of a black thin fabric but I think it protects their eyes from the sun quite well.
Like I said this car seat fits onto the Bugaboo Chameleon wheels. You must make sure though that it has the two adaptors which fit on either side of the car seat to fix it onto the wheels as otherwise it will not fit. I just keep these adaptors in the back of the car and if my little girl is asleep and I don't want to put her in the full pushchair I just use this. It's nice to be able to not have to move her and that I can just leave her in the car seat.
Overall I have been very pleased with this car seat. It's expensive yes, about £100 but then there are all pretty much this price and an essential baby product but in terms of safety and style this is one I definitely recommend. Just a word of advice, apparently, according to an article I read about 70% of car seats are fitted incorrectly in cars or used incorrectly so if you are at all worried there are people who will come and check that you have installed it correctly and when it comes to the safety of your baby you don't really want to take any chances.
I bought this exact car seat over two years ago. This was the time I was about to have my second child. I already had a red pram and a red car at the time. My husband wanted me to use the same car seat I had used for my first child, firstly it was a cheap carseat and did not look very comfortable, I was on a tighter bugget at that time and was very young so did not have much experience, I went for price rather than quality. This time around I knew I wanted a good quality comfortable car seat that would also match with my car and pushchair. (Yes I'm a typical woman).
I resisted buying the Quinny pushchair as ideally it would have been perfect as then the Maxi Cosi carrier could easily fit into it without having to take the baby out. I realised I did have a perfect working condition pushchair that would be pointless and expensive replacing.
I bought this Maxi Cosi Cabrio red carrier from Amazon for £99, it was the cheapest deal I could find with a one year warranty. The item arrived within 5 working days and I just had to wait for my baby to arrive to test it out.
The car seat carrier was exactly how I thought it would be, it looked very comfortable. This was a major factor in deciding to go for this, it has an extra padded headrest which is good to prevent the flat head problems some small babies get from staying in a hard car seat for too long. The hole car seat felt soft and comfortable. When my baby arrived he slept very well in this car seat and I was glad he was comfortable if I was going on long drives.
I will have to admit another reason I chose this car seat was that it was very presentable and looked stylish. Also Maxi Cosi was very fashionable around that time and I thought if I was buying a new car seat I did not want to make the same mistakes I did last time. With my first child I did not realise how much I would use the car seat, I would take her to the baby clinic in the car seat, and when going out to resturants, out with friends etc, I use to feel slightly embarassed about my old one. This time round I wanted a car seat to look good in my car and to feel proud taking him out in it whether I went out to eat to to a friends house.
This car seat also comes with extra seat fixtures to help adjust easily and quickly in cars. It is a payable extra and I did fine without purchasing it. The carrier easily fitted in the front passenger seat (I didn't have airbags), also of course it was to be a rear fited car seat to begin with. I did find it a tight squeeze to fit in the back seats so I preferred to keep him in the front with me.
This car seat is very easy to handle and pick up, the handles easily clip into place by pressing the two buttons down. I love the bright colour and the stylish look.
The car seat is suitable until the child is one year of age. However I found it did not last as long, even as a baby my son was a chubby wide baby and I felt it was cramped at times especially around his arms.
Buying a carseat can be a nightmare as the choice is astounding and the options can be very confusing, however I have no regrets in choosing the Maxi Cosi Cabrio Carrier.
I use it in connection with the Quinny Buzz pushchair, and for me the major selling point was that it simply lifts out of the car and onto the pushchair, meaning there is no need to wake a little sleeping baby.
It is a great, comfy seat and is one of the most secure and sturdy I have seen, particularly when used with Isofix connectors.
It comes with a head support for tiny babies which can be removed as they get bigger and gain more head control.
The straps are very easy to adjust and the whole unit looks very neat and compact when used with a buggy.
Ive had many comments about how good it looks and my daughter has always enjoyed being in it.
The only downside Ive noticed as been a recent revelation and that is that it becomes increasingly difficult to slot into the pushchair as the baby gets bigger and heavier!
This is primarily due to the fact that the seat is clipped in and out with just two little buttons which are not easy to click, while also lifting the seat and baby in and out.
But like I said its probably a sign my baby is ready for the next stage up.
Well when its your first baby and you have that shopping list of things to buy a car seat is always top of the list, in fact our local hospital wont let you take your baby home unless you have one to take your precious bundle home in.
But there are so many to chose from and each one is a little bit different.
We chose this one after some careful research, mainly because of its safety rating, at the time we bought it, it had been rated as the safest infant rear facing car seat on the market.
Its available in lots of different colours and is compatible as a travel system with a few different pushchairs, we used our car seat with the Quinny Buzz.
It comes with the infant support, it has a head support and bottom wedge of foam so your babies neck is supported, and the foam wedge acts like a cushion under the babies bottom so it fits snug in the car seat harness.
The car seat does not come with additional covers and we found it very hard to take off the cover and wash it. Many of the universal car seat covers are for 5 point harnesses, this however is a 3 point harness, but I'm sure that if you were desperate there would be an internet baby company somewhere that sell covers for it, I just never got round to looking very hard.
We used the car seat with the isofix base, which was an additional expense, but made getting baby in and out of the car simple as you just click baby onto the base, which stays in your car. The easy base is great because its fairly simple to install, and being isofix it means it attaches to your cars chassis which is even safer than securing with a seatbelt.
My son is now 6 months old and still fits very comfortably in the car seat, I agree with the manufacturers that he will be safe and comfortable in it until he is 9 months old, and would definitely buy another maxi cosi car seat.
The world of car seat buying is a bit of a minefield - Obviously you want to go for safety, but what else do you go for? Ease of Use? Good value for money? Looks nice and comes in lots of colours? Whatever it is that you are looking for, there is probably a car seat out there for you!
We narrowed our choice down fairly quickly to two options - the Maxi-Cosi Cabrio car seat or the Silver Cross Ventura car seat, which partnered our pushchair. Both were similar in price, but we decided to go for the Maxi-Cosi as this was lighter in weight.
The Maxi-Cosi weighs in at 3.5kg, which appears to be one of the lightest on the market. This was important to us, as we live in an upstairs flat, so had to have an easily portable seat. The car seat is suitable from birth to approximately 12 months or when the baby reaches 13kg in weight.
It is a very safe car seat, with side impact protection and a three-point safety harness and also appears to be very comfortable for our little one. It can be fitted in the normal way with a seatbelt (ie the car seat is rear facing) or if you prefer you can also use it with the Maxi Cosi Easy base or Easyfix base for added ease of use. We don't have Isofix in our car, so we bought the Easy base and I think it's wonderful. Although it is sold seperately it really is worth the extra money as you just have to slot the car seat in and the green indicator on the base shows that it's been put in correctly. The base stays in the car and means that there is no messing about with seatbelts and no worry that you've installed it incorrectly by accident.
This car seat comes in a vast array of colours now including Black Reflection, Cappuccino Reflection, Lily Pink and Penguin. There is an inbuilt sun canopy which folds away when not in use, but also acts a bit of a rain barrier between baby and our lovely British weather! There is a carry handle which clicks into place and can be moved to get baby out easily. The car seat can also act as a rocking chair when not in the car, which can be handy for getting your baby off to sleep (although it is not recommended that babies stay in car seats for longer than 2 hours at a time). The car seat is compatible with the Quinny Zapp and Buzz pram systems to make a travel system.
Overall I really like this car seat and am glad that we decided to get this particular one. Like all car seats it is heavy when it has your baby in it, but at least you are starting off with a lighter seat to begin with. The one thing that is a bit annoying is moving the carry handle out of the way, as you need both hands to click the buttons in and move the handle at the same time. This can sometimes be difficult if you don't really have two hands spare, but is a small niggle and I suppose that it is safer the way that it is. It is a bit more expensive than some of the other car seats in the same category, but I think that it is also one of the safest and is worth spending that bit more money on if possible.
We hope to use it for our next baby too and this will make it more cost effective for us.
It can be purchased from Mothercare, Kiddicare and Babyworld and retails at around £110 (without the base).
I bought this car seat from Halfords almost 3 years ago and paid about £90 for it, although you can buy them cheaper if you shop around online. It fits both the Bugaboo pushchair and my Quinny Zapp, you just need to buy the adapters. I really like the sun canopy which reminds me of a web. Its very easy to use and has some storage in the back, although I always forget about this! The harness is padded and can be moved upwards to grow with your child, it can also be adjusted easily by pushing the button at the bottom and pulling gently on the straps.
The whole cover comes off and can be washed, which is often if you have a sicky baby. It comes with a headhugger for infants and the maximum weight it can hold is 13kg. It is suitable from birth to 12 months but I used this with my first for 9 months as my daughter grew out of it quite quickly.
It is available in red, blue and black in various tones, and can also be used with isofix where you clip the seat into a sepeate section rather then thread the seatbelt through it, but its so easy to use I didnt find it necessary to buy this at an additional cost.
Overall a good looking, functional, easy to use peice of equipment.
My Maxi cosi seat has now been a car seat for three children and as a first car seat i wouldn't have any other. I have encountered lots of mums, particulary new ones who complain about theirs either being too clumpy or hard to fit but I don't have a complaint about mine.
Originally bought as a present for me but they are widely available at most baby shop and cost between £ 60 and £90. This seat is universal so fits most cars (always check for buckle crunch though) and is sutiable for up to 13 kg or when your childs head peeks over the top. My boy was 9 pound 2 at birth and it lasted him until 7 months (about 23 pounds). His legs did stretch over but that doesn't matter.
It comes with a removable head hugger to support new babies head which is removable. The straps have two positions to support smaller babies. The handle moves backwards and will go all the way back to make the seat stable. I used it as a feeding chair at times as well. Easy to fasten with a two point harness that tightens. It has a sun shade that you can attach. There is a little compartment at the back to store you rain cover.
Easy to fit in the car and not too bulky to carry. I attach a toy to the handle bars to keep them amused. Mine all felt really comfy in it and would always fall asleep on journeys.
The best bit is it attaches to many different prams (mine is a bugaboo with their adaptors)
My Brother bought this for us when we were expecting our first child as we had splashed out on the matching Quinny 3 wheeler travel system. It cost him around £65 which I think was money well spent. It fitted onto the travel system easily and looked good. It had a sun canopy tucked away at the back so it was handy when it was needed and didn't take up any space. It came with a head support for new borns and the straps had little pads on them for comfort. The carrier was very easily installed to our car using the car seat belt and was very secure. You can buy a Maxi cosy Easy Base, which you install in the car and then you can just clip the carrier in and out even easier however these are quite expensive and I rather using a seat belt.
I used this for both of my girls for the first 6 or so months of their lives, the weight limit up to 28.66 lbs. But I didn't see the point in using it when the girls got heavier as I couldn't carry it anymore, so got a bigger car seat that I could get the girls in and out of easily from the car.
We bought this car seat for around £90 as it fit onto our Bugaboo wheels with the adaptors and was apparently one of the safest on the market.
The maxi cosi comes in a wide variety of colours and all have a material sun cover which tucks nicely into the back of the car seat.
Our little boy was 7lb 8oz when he was born and was buried by the seat, however, 2 months on I have had to move the new baby cushion up to the next setting and will soon have to remove it all together as he is getting too big for it. The only problem with removing the cushion is that there is then no neck support for him so I will have to look into getting a support pillow for his neck. Ethan is not a big baby, in fact he is following average weight and length measurements. I am not sure what other car seats are like but I really don't think this one is goin to last much longer! I was under the impression that it should last him around a year!
Having said that the car seat is very easy to fit into the car using a seat belt or you can but either an iso fix base or a base that fits into the car using a seatbelt. We could not get the iso fix base as our car would not support it, however, we bought the ordinary base for around £60. Although this is not a necessity it makes it a lot easier to get the seat in and out of the car because you just plonk it on the base to put it in, making sure the markers go green and just pull a lever to get it out again. This makes it much easier when you go shopping and someone parks too close to you!!! The only problem with the base is that it is only useable with this car seat so when we have to move onto a bigger one it will be redundant.
The straps are easy to use and there are two material bits that you can slide up to make the straps comfier around baby's neck.
Overall this is a good car seat as long as you don't expect it to last too long!!
We have found the Maxi Cosi Cabriofix Infant Carrier to be a excellent car seat. Our little boy was born 4 weeks early so he was very tiny still when he came home from hospital. He looked lost in the Maxi Cosi seat but with the Newborn support and with the car seat being a fairly laid back he was very comfortable.
Compared to some infant carriers I found it fairly light weight. I was avaible to buy in a wide variety of colours from black to red and pink or blue and green.
It is easy to fit into your car, either using a 3 point seat belt or there are 2 bases available to buy, either the the Easybase which is for cars without Isofix or the Isofix base. With the base it is very simple to put in and out of the car literally with the release of a button.
The car seat is compatable with a wide range of pushchairs on the market we have the Quinny Buzz and it fits so easily onto our pushchair frame.
The seat also has a hidden suncanopy, which can be found at the back of the seat and is easy to get out and fold away again.
When our little boy reached around 4 months the Headseat is removable to give him more room in the seat.
We also chose the Maxi Cosi as after researching various seats Maxi Cosi seem to have excellent safety reports.
We were going to buy this infant carrier, but ended up being given it by a friend, bargain!
It is a well known brand of car seat and when used with the Isofix fittings it is one of the safest. It can be used in the car either strapped in by the seatbelt, or with one of 2 different bases. The Easybase is for cars without Isofix, and fits in using the seatbelt, meaning the carrier can then be simply clicked in and out. The Isofix base clicks into the car Isofix fittings requiring no seatbelt at all. We have one of each of the bases for our cars as only one has Isofix.
We have the carrier in the black reflection colourway which is fine, although dribble and sick do tend to show up on it easily. It comes with a newborn insert which is like a wedge cushion in the bottom with a head hugger, making a newborn look fairly snug.
The RRP is around £110 but you can get hold of one new for around £85, especially if you are happy to have 'last seeaons' colours.
Another bonus for us is that it fits onto our pram chassis (iCandy Cherry), hand for when you are nipping out of the car into a shop for example.
The car seat seems very safe to us, and I'd definitely recommend using it with one of the bases. They make it so much easier getting it into the car as well as seeming more safe.
Like all infant carriers, it isn't that light, but is lighter than many. I can't see myself wanting to lift it too often once my daughter gets near the maximum weight limit though!
I can't comment on how long it will last, as my daughter is only 3 months old. However, the friends who have lent it to us used it for their daughter until she was a year old with no problem.
It has a sun canopy incorporated into the top of the seat which attaches to the handle which is useful. There is also a pocket at the back of the seat, but I haven't ever needed to use it.
Overall, we have so far found it to be a great infant carrier, and will buy another one if we have more children and the loan is no longer an option!
I chose this particular baby carrier as it fitted onto our Quinny travel system. I also found that this was quite a popular choice as well as being aesthetically pleasing and surprisingly lightweight. I chose the bright and colourful skydive design from the many colour options available.
My son is a relatively small baby, being just 7lb at birth. Yet at 4.5 moths he had almost outgrown this seat. His legs overhung at the back and as this was rear facing his knees were often bent up against the back seat.
I spoke to the store where we purchased this item and was told that it was fine for my baby's legs to overhang, despite the uncomfortable position. However around a week later whilst on a car journey, as my son's legs were bent against the seat, he managed to tip the infant carrier forward and his neck dropped down. My husband and I did not notice this had occurred until we heard a coughing sound and pulled over. We were shocked to see our baby leaning forward with his neck bent at such an unnatural position and quickly changed to a different brand of car seat.


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One of my best friends got two kittens a little while back. Their names are Finn and Bonnie.
All together now: AWWWWWWW!
As I love cats, but can't have my own in our flat, I am now officially their godmother. So it was only right to make them a little welcome gift:
I used some fabric scraps I had left over and sewed a couple of little mice. The ultimate gimmick: I put one of those little balls with a bell inside into each of the mice. So now when you play with them, they jingle! So much fun for little kittens!
They've grown quite a bit already by now but are still very cute
I feel like it might be time for another present from their godmother. Something furry this time I think, they seem to love that!
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They're really cute! I think I might make one little mouse too, and attatch a string to it. But I don't know if my lazy cats will like it so much!ReplyDelete
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H&M is the latest of the bargain clothing retailers to play the 'limited edition' game. A recent collection by Stella McCartney sold out at H&M hours after its debut—with no plans for restocking. It's not the first time H&M has played the game: A collection last year by Karl Lagerfeld was also snapped up in hours.
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Part 4 includes mention of Fannie Mae (ticker: FNM), The Walt Disney Company (ticker: DIS), The Coca-Cola Company (ticker: KO) and See's Candy which is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.(ticker: BRK-A BRK-B). There is also a brief mention of SunTrust Banks, Inc (ticker: STI)
It is highly recommended that the reader start with part 1 of this series.
Part: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
This video begins in the middle of Warren answering question number 5. The discussion on question 5 exists entirely in this part of the 6 part series.
Question 5: Could you discuss one of your investment non-successes?
Answer: Let's just call it a failure. Buffett makes more mistakes when he has to much cash around. There is a compulsion to do something with it. He admits that he likes to blame cash, but it might be pure stupidity that has caused those errors.
Regarding the non-successes though, there is rarely a large loss relative to capital. The largest loss Berkshire or his partnership has ever had was probably 2%. The nature of not doing very many things and being careful will probably prevent you from making errors of commission (doing something). But being careful will not protect you from errors of omission. In 1988, Buffett began buying Fannie Mae. Berkshire made $500 million on it but should have made over $1 billion on it. It's the mistakes you don't see that are the failures. Those failures are way bigger than the mistakes you do see. Conventional accounting does not pick up mistakes like this.
In 1966, Buffett Partnership, Ltd owned 5% of Disney. It had a market cap of $80 million at the time. They spent $17 million to build the pirates ride. Buffett laughingly states that Disney was trading at 5 times rides. The kicker though was that Mary Poppins was showing that year in theaters and nothing was lined up for theaters the next year. So, Wall Street was down on the stock even though this year it was going to have good earnings. The good news is that the Buffett Partnership bought 5% of Disney for $4 million and sold that 5% for $6 million the next year. Had they held on, that $4 million would be worth $1 billion in 1996 if he held on. Conventional accounting does not pick up that mistake.
Question 6: What prompted him to make an investment in US Air?
Answer: The best answer is temporary insanity. The guy that runs US Air is a wonderful guy but it is a tough business. If you go back to Kitty Hawk, the airline industry in the United States has made no money (net earnings). But if you were at Kitty Hawk and realized the potential, of course you would want in. Despite all the capital investment, the net return to date (1996) for the entire industry is less than zero. So, along comes 1989 and Buffett has a lot of cash. Buying US Air was 100% Buffett's idea. He is the only one to blame. US Air is run by a bright guy. The root problem according to Buffet is that US Air operates on revenues that are driven by market factors and by costs that are not driven by market factors. That is a formula for disaster.
Kitty Hawk is Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. This is where the first Wright Brothers' flights occurred.
Question 7: Freely talking, no question
Answer: Warren Buffett never thinks about what the stock market is going to do. If Walt Disney came to him and asked Warren to buy 5% of the company in 1966 and it was a private company, he would not care about what the stock market was going to do. He'd care about what the company is going to do. He says the same exact thing about Coca-Cola. He'd only consider the Coca-Cola company.
If Alan Greenspan whispered in his ear about what he thinks interest rates or bonds are going to do, it wouldn't matter. He isn't going to take something he knows how to do and start doing something he doesn't know how to do just because someone whispers in his ear. He doesn't know how to predict interest rates or the stock market. He only knows that if he buys the right kind of business run by the right people at the right price, he will do well over time. With stocks, it is very hard to know when something will happen but very easy to determine what will happen.
Buffett bought See's Candy under the Berkshire Hathaway umbrella in 1971 or 1972. He didn't care about the stock market when he bought See's. He cared about what the risk from Russel Stover, if prices can be increased over time and how strong their hold is on chocolate consumers. If that's the proper attitude for buying 100% of a company like See's, why should it be different for 6% of a company like Coca-Cola?
He also briefly talks about how SunTrust Banks, Inc (ticker: STI) came to hold Coca-Cola. It's interesting to see that their investment in Coca-Cola of just over $100,000 is now worth over $1,000,000,000. That is a 10,000% gain. That's the power of buy and hold.
You can't tell what the stock market is going to be like 2 years out. If you see an intelligent investment, you invest in it.
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Resolve V9 was first showcased at NAB 2012, with a projected July release. In May I started to put together a package of ICA classes, Resolve 101, 201 and Warren's Looks to be rolled out in the second half of 2012.
The world tour kicked off in London in July, although you wouldn't have known it was summer, as it never stopped raining! The ICA has a new base for Resolve training at Soho Editors, Berwick Street. This is my old stomping ground, where it all began for me 30 years ago. My favourite café, Bar Bruno, was still there and hadn't changed a bit. That was where I calmed the Beastie Boys down, only to go back to work to find out they were my clients!
Soho Editors have a typical Soho set up, a thin room up a tight stairwell. The eight iMacs were set up against one wall, meaning I could face all eight students, something I really like. Having line of sight with the students makes communication far easier. The students look at two large Plasma TVs showing the Resolve GUI. Resolve V9 was very new. I hadn't had long to learn it myself and was still making the Power points for the classes on the plane over from Australia.
My eight students were from a mixture of backgrounds, a DP, DIT, long form editor, stereorgrapher, TVC director and an agency producer. They came from the UK, USA, Italy and the Netherlands. Soho is joint top with NY for lunchtime and evening activities, just walking around makes you feel you are in a real industry hub. Everybody seems to be talking production, films, VFX etc. The rain seemed relentless, even one of my favourite pastimes of standing outside a Soho bar watching the world go by proved difficult. I started recording a podcast with Dan Moran, Colorist from Smoke and Mirrors, outside a traditional Soho bar, only to be driven inside by wind and rain.
"Node-tastic on today's DaVinci Resolve 9 training with Warren- you're gonna love version 9- this class rocks" Den Lennie, F-Stop Academy
The tour moved to Singapore in August after an Olympic break. I know the guys at Media Asylum very well, having collaborated with them on big DaVinci sales and installation projects before Blackmagic acquired DaVinci. MA always pick me up from the airport and always have everything ready to go when I walk in; machines on, media loaded and coffee on the table.
The V9 software was now in public beta so had come on since the London class, both in terms of a new features and added stability. MA have a main Mac Pro station with BMD panels, 4 x 17" 2012 Laptops with external monitors and either Element or Wave control surfaces. The grading monitors are Flanders FSI and a Dolby. The GUI goes out on a large projector and a Panasonic plasma. This is the biggest and best training room I visit. The crowd here came from all over South East Asia. Singapore is a great hub, easy to get to and a great place to visit. It's good for me as I normally visit Peter Chamberlain and Rohit Gupta from BMD. These guys were part of the old DaVinci set up and have been very influential in the evolution of the Resolve product.
"An excellent course for both seasoned colorists and anyone interested in learning DaVinci Resolve from an experienced teacher. Warren is patient and easy to follow during his lessons. A great experience.
Sean Ashley Lecturer Lasalle College of the Arts Singapore
A week later I was on my way to Sydney. The Australian Film and Television school (AFTRS) had wanted me to visit for over 2 years. One thing or another had always got in the way, making it difficult to get a class off the ground. They have a fantastic building at Fox Studios, equipped with a great Mac Lab. The Resolve GUI from the projector nearly filled the whole side of the room. AFTRS wanted a customised weekend class, so I condensed the 101, this meant for a busy couple of days.
The 10 students sat at 2 rows of iMacs so everybody got their own machine. Those who wanted a control surface could move to the stations equipped with either a Wave, Element or Avid panels. My students were DPs, editors, VFX artists, directors, DITs and producers and came from all over Australia.
I boarded a plane to NY straight after the Sydney class. The Manhattan Edit Workshop shop is on 14th Street and Broadway so in a fantastic Manhattan location. Their room is the smallest I work in but this means you are never far from the Dolby monitor. Lunchtime is a real bonus in NY, fantastic choices.
Classes finished at 1800 so evenings are fun too. My students consisted of a 2 x DPs, a DIT, 2 x Editors, an advertising agency producer and an experienced Colorist. Normally the NYC classes have more overseas guests due more I think to the attraction of visiting the city rather than attending my class. I had never been to NY before in September, but late summer during fashion week was a great time to be in the big apple.
Fantastic quote from Dennis Dillon DP for the CBS show 60 Minutes.
"I turned down a shoot with President Obama to take your class"
I flew out of NY Sunday night getting to LA around 2am luckily I had a day off on Monday it was well needed as I had been teaching for 9 days straight.
The ICA LA training center is based at Roush Media in Burbank. It is a working Post House so great for students to see a real house in operation. The room is the old grading theatre so we use a large projector for the GUI, Dolby for the grading monitor and MacPro towers for the students. The control surfaces are BMD, Avid, Wave and Element, students are encouraged to move around the stations trying the different panel options.
Both the R101 and R201 classes were sold out with students coming from China, Germany, Chicago, St Louis and Los Angeles. A special thanks goes to student Mary Kay Miller, a V8 user and film colorist veteran like myself. She printed and shared her own V9 keyboard shortcuts and was a real help to myself and the other students.
The lunchtime options in Burbank don't hit the heights of NYC but I usually drag everybody to my favourite Mexican restaurant just around the corner.
The bonus for me on this trip was the chance to hang out at E-Film. A great bunch of guys doing some very cool work.
The Resolve world tour wound up on Sunday 16th September with "Warren's Looks". This is my favourite class as students often bring in their own footage for us to play with, it is all about experimenting, creating and having fun.
Class done I packed and headed to LAX for a 10pm flight to Australia. It had been a great few months, going to fantastic cities and meeting like mined people with a passion for grading.
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Hearing on Tejpal's Anticipatory Bail Plea Resumes
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The hearing on Tarun Tejpal's anticipatory bail petition Saturday resumed in a District and Sessions court in Panaji.
Tejpal's lawyer Geeta Luthra continued her arguments before judge Anuja Prabhudesai, who had yesterday given the Tehelka editor interim protection till this morning against arrest in the case of alleged sexual assault on a woman journalist in the magazine.
Tejpal was present in the court today. The public prosecutor will later submit arguments.
Ahead of hearing on his bail petition, Tejpal visited the Crime Branch office here this morning and said he was cooperating in the investigation.
Police sources said Tejpal was not quizzed and stayed for 10 minutes.
"We have joined the investigation started by the Crime Branch yesterday. We will join today also," Tejpal told reporters after coming out of the office.
Tejpal had yesterday appeared before the Crime Branch after dodging a combined team of Goa and Delhi police that visited his house in Delhi at the crack of dawn to arrest him.
During arguments yesterday, Luthra had contended that Tejpal was a man of high integrity and reputation and that the CCTV footage of the hotel will exonerate him.
The complaint from the victim, who was seen normal even after the alleged incident, came 10 days after the said episode, she had argued.
Wrapping up her arguments, Luthra said false allegation of rape can bring distress to the accused and cause equal damage to him as to the complainant.
She said as the rape law has become more stringent, so it it all the more required for the accused to defend himself for which "his liberty may be preserved".
Public Prosecutor (PP) Saresh Lotlikar argued that prima facie a case is established against Tejpal and so the police want his custodial interrogation.
"The accused has been changing colours like a chameleon through different statements," he said.
The PP noted that the victim has been consistent in her statements.
The PP argued that the accused should be in police custody so that he can be properly interrogated.
He said Tejpal has been changing his version and is now saying that he has not been heard.
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Strictly Come Dancing serves up a surprise exit and some vintage Robbie
TV review: With Goldie's surprise exit and a Robbie Williams' appearance lacking the weirdness of last year's
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Strictly results show made for great Sunday night viewing.
Countryfile's Matt Baker already looks odds on to follow in the series-winning footsteps of his BBC colleague Chris Hollins and his superb tango on Saturday meant he could relax on results night.
The same couldn't be said for Peter Shilton , who'd have had a very short England career if he was as shaky in the penalty box as when donning fake tan and a satin shirt for Strictly.
Strictly Come Dancing: Gavin Henson's mind and body 'not in sync'
By the terrified look in his eyes, you'd think the ex-goalkeeper was facing a firing squad rather than competing on a light entertainment show and the marriage of Shilton and Strictly still looks likely to end in divorce.
Luckily for Shilton, the Strictly viewers' lack of familiarity with Goldie meant the likeable drum 'n' bass legend was the first to leave the dancefloor.
The musician seemed touchingly gutted to get the boot and viewers might have to get used to seeing their favourites leave early if tonight's result is anything to go by.
The show's presenting team had an unfamiliar look, with Claudia Winkleman standing in for the resting Bruce Forsyth, but Winkleman's wit was a refreshing change from the sad sight of Brucie's increasingly poor performances.
Meanwhile, 'this year's John Sergeant' Anne Widdecombe had performed a salsa that was more lukewarm than Latin but with the Tory minister providing hugely entertaining television, a measly judges' score of 12 never looked likely to have sealed her exit from Strictly.


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William Ding, founder of Netease, one of China's top Internet portals, was uneasy. As he talked to a friend in a Beijing restaurant last summer, something was irritating him. The air-conditioning. It was too cold. Without interrupting the conversation, the self-taught techie took out his Palm Pilot electronic organizer, pointed the infrared port at the aircon unit and adjusted the temperature from across the room. His friend's jaw dropped.
Ding is still uneasy--but this time he is on the verge of making 1.2 billion jaws drop. He and Charles Zhang of Sohu, another of China's major portals--or broad-based content providers--are vying to be the first mainland Internet entrepreneur to list his company on the tech-heavy U.S. stock exchange NASDAQ, which has become nirvana for online start-ups. The payoff will be crazy, 10-digit money.The opportunities for growth are almost unlimited. So what makes Ding--and other Chinese Netrepreneurs--uneasy? The bureaucrats in Beijing, whose treatment of the Internet is even more erratic than the movement of the markets.
The Internet has hit the Chinese government with all the force of an electromagnetic burst. Net users, now 10 million strong, are doubling every six months--the fastest growth in Asia. Money is pouring in from American venture capitalists. Some 50,000 Chinese domain names--those Internet monikers like and --have already been registered. , an Internet consultancy in Beijing, calculates that by 2005 China will have the largest population of Web surfers in the world after the U.S. Such a frenetic buildup would delight most governments. It terrifies the leaders in Beijing, who fear the Internet will vaporize their power over the masses. It is not like anything they have ever experienced before, says Ding.
Suddenly China has become the cyberworld's hottest battlefield. On one side are the control freaks of the Communist Party, who believe anyone who challenges them belongs in a labor camp for 10 years. On the other are tech-savvy entrepreneurs who expect anyone who challenges them to set up a competing website within the next 10 minutes. The outcome of the conflict will not just determine whether Ding or Zhang become billionaires. It will also point the way toward China's future. Dotcoms are bringing into focus the central contradiction of China today: the drive to modernize without giving up one-party rule. The government would like to get in on the economic boom the Internet has brought to the U.S., but without any of the subversive ideas that Net surfers seem to come up with. The information revolution, minus the revolution.
From the beginning, bureaucrats have desperately sought ways to manage this contradiction. In 1997 they set up an intranet with China-only access. It was quietly abandoned. In January they announced strict regulations on Internet content and enforced rules on encryption technology, electronic encoding used to protect data from being read by anyone but the intended recipient. The cyber �lite in China yawned and went about business as usual. But after trailing behind the e-curve for so long, Beijing's bureaucrats have finally figured out where the Net is most vulnerable: in its voracious appetite for capital.
The question is not whether China will pull the plug on the Internet, says Ted Dean of BDA. It is whether China will regulate it in a way that will make it commercially unviable. After the phenomenal success last July of Hong Kong-based 's initial public offering (IPO) of shares, which valued the company at $1.5 billion, mainland firms have been keen to follow suit. Netease and Sohu both want to list on nasdaq this spring--Sohu has even made a preliminary filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. According to bankers and industry sources, however, Beijing has blocked the ipo of a third contender, , China's largest Internet company. Sina was seen to have bragged too openly about its ipo plans at the end of last year, and the government apparently decided to make an example of the company to reaffirm its own power.
And yet, foreign investors are clamoring to put money into Chinese online plays. The risks of investing in China's Internet are just this side of ridiculous, says Johnny Chan, partner in , one of the growing number of venture capital firms set up in Hong Kong to do just that--invest in China's Internet. But the potential rewards are enormous.
It was this potential that persuaded Ding to set up Netease in 1997 in Ningbo province. Shy, bespectacled and an admirer of Yahoo! cofounder Jerry Yang, Ding was born in Ningbo and went to university in Chengdu before making his way south to Guangzhou. Working as a software programmer, he saved $60,000 to enroll at Stanford University but decided instead to set up his own Internet company in China. Ding chose an especially risky business model: he started by offering customers free e-mail and their own free websites. His friends kept asking him how he could make any money. I told them we could increase traffic and get advertising. They said I was crazy. But Ding believes free is the way of the future, since few people can afford to pay for e-mail or Internet content in a country where urban per capita disposable income was only $655 in 1998. Certain that the Chinese market would keep growing, Ding persevered: his site now claims to get a healthy 6 million page views a day, and he has attracted investment from Goldman Sachs, ING Baring, Softbank and Techpacific.com. Will Beijing allow him to continue expanding with financing from overseas? Yes, says Ding: China needs to embrace high-tech in the 21st century, so it won't slow down the development of the Internet.
The conviction that China is riding the back of the technology tiger and cannot get off is widely shared in the industry. It is a dilemma for bureaucrats, says Duncan Clark, a partner in BDA. If they don't open up to the Net, they lose the economy. If they do open up, they lose control over society.
Actually they have already lost much of that control. Twenty years ago phone numbers were state secrets, jobs and housing were provided by the government and it was virtually impossible to relocate to another city. Log on to netease.com today: on the flea market page, mobile phones are on sale for $25 to $400. On the job site, Legend and Motorola are offering positions in Shanghai; elsewhere, a Ms. Liang is looking for a two-bedroom apartment near the main road in Guangzhou's Tianhe district for as much as $160 a month, and the fashion site has a swimsuit page. In a chat room called Sleepless Beijing nights, two Web surfers with the user names coolguy and angle are flirting with egirl. Another chat room is available for those wanting to know how to get a visa to study in the U.S. There is news of the American presidential primaries, the sentencing of two Chinese who hijacked a plane to Taiwan and a major drug bust in Australia. And on the sports page is the story of Gao Feng, a temperamental top scorer in the Chinese Soccer League who has been transferred to the Shenyang Sea Lions and denies he is hard to manage.
William Ding comes from a new class of Chinese Net entrepreneurs who are, by any definition, hard to manage. Many are self-taught, come from poor families with no special connections and have relied on their brainpower to crack the Internet and set up their own companies. People used to think you could get rich only with stocks or smuggling, says Wang Zhidong, chief executive of Sina. Now with the Internet they know they can get rich using their intelligence. As recently as a year ago top graduates of China's best universities applied for further study in the U.S. as a matter of course. No longer. Now the smartest of the smart are converging on the Haidian district in northwest Beijing, home of Qinghua and Peking universities, as well as lots of computer hardware and software stores. In this scrappy, post-industrial precinct of neon-lit shopfronts, abandoned building sites and empty factories, an entrepreneur can rent a room or two, buy or borrow a few computers and several crates of instant noodles, and become a dotcom overnight.
Haidian is a dreamworld for Chinese with ambition and tech-savvy. Salaries are spiraling--the going rate for a university graduate with elementary computer skills is about $1,000 a month (Beijing's average wage: $200). Returnees from U.S. high-tech and consulting firms command $100,000 a year, plus stock options. The interesting thing the Internet has brought to China is role models, says Clark of BDA. In the '80s the winners were corrupt party cadres. Today people can look up to William Ding, Jerry Yang or Wang Zhidong. Now there is a reason to stay in China--or come back from a lucrative career in the U.S. Says Jack Ma, head of , a business-to-business electronic commerce site based in Hangzhou: This is the first time we Chinese see a way we can catch up. It's a new industry defining the new century. Just like the auto industry defined the Japanese economy--if you catch the wave, you can move the whole country forward.
The sense of empowerment and pride in modernizing China through the Internet is spurring a new sense of nationalism--one for which the government doesn't hold the franchise. Many Chinese see the Internet as a way of leapfrogging technology to draw level with the West. This feeling is even spreading overseas. China Eastern's twice-weekly Flight 581 linking Beijing with San Francisco is full of Chinese Internet whizzes commuting between Haidian and Silicon Valley. Chinese in the Valley are talking all the time about going back to China now, says Charles Chao, who is based in Sunnyvale, California and recently joined Sina's U.S. office as vice president of finance. The incentive is there. The only holdup is the policy issue.
The policy issue is what makes the Chinese Internet market so risky. The government in Beijing is still playing catch-up with an industry that changes faster than bureaucrats can prepare briefing papers for ministers to read, so investors need steady nerves. To be sure, there are still restrictions on what Internet content providers can put on their news sites. The latest content regulations, which have caused consternation in the foreign media, ban the dissemination of state secrets on the Web--bringing the Internet into line with rules governing print media. Of course, the definition of state secrets remains vague. Still, no Chinese Internet company is interested in a political challenge to Beijing, and the three main portals--Sina, Netease and Sohu--maintain staffs of monitors to delete anti-government material from their message boards and chat rooms. We saw this coming. I think people are overreacting to the announcements, says Victor Koo, senior vice president of Sohu. The government's drawing up of regulations, he believes, is an ongoing process that people in the business know is evolving. We have to find a way to work around it.
In fact, limits on content are increasingly meaningless, as surfers can easily reach foreign news sites. Even those that are banned, like and the , are routinely browsed through proxy servers, which allow users to access banned sites without being identified to the government-run servers. These rules may be currently difficult to enforce, conceded a spokesman for the State Secrets Bureau. But it's important that we set up regulations before the Internet becomes uncontrollable.
Beijing's demand that companies register their encryption technology--the coding that protects websites and Internet traffic from unauthorized use--is also being treated as less serious than it first appeared. Many companies have declined to register, saying it would compromise commercial secrets and limit e-commerce: Who would use the Internet for purchases if it weren't secure? U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky has taken up the matter with the Chinese government. She argues it contravenes the trade agreement China signed with the U.S. last November.
The most serious hurdle is the uncertainty over foreign funding and IPOs, which has brought out the worst instincts of the government. All these bureaucrats say to the entrepreneurs, 'You young guys, you have some American friends and loads of money, where do we get our share?' says Xie Wen, executive vice-president of CIS, a Beijing company that runs an online games site. Asks Clark of BDA: When you get private entrepreneurs in China who are billionaires, is that acceptable? How will that go down? This is Chinese culture mixing with New York capitalism. You are going to have some pretty bizarre side effects.
Beijing is heaving with government agencies that want to get involved in approving Internet IPOs--the Ministry of Information Industries, the China Securities Regulatory Commission, the State Council's Information Office and even the Xinhua News Agency. Many of China's official media outlets feel left behind by the Internet craze and are lobbying the government to hold back Web companies so they can catch up.
But despite the regulatory headaches, Internet firms continue to expand and multiply. The enthusiasm is infectious. A Beijing Daily story in December carried the headline, The Internet Economy: the Bubble That Cannot Burst. Online job listings for Internet start-ups receive thousands of responses. Nearly every bus in Shanghai and Beijing has dotcom advertisements on its sides. The print media are full of Internet promotional material.
China is now in the midst of a titanic battle over the flow of information. The freedom of the Internet will inevitably win out over totalitarian control in the long run, and China will be refashioned in some as yet unimaginable way. The Internet will bring major political change to China, says Charles Zhang of Sohu. But it will be gradual, as people have more information at their fingertips. It is the beginning of the endgame for the Communist Party, and some of the younger bureaucrats already sense that, even as their conservative colleagues reach for the old levers of control. But the Internet has no printing presses to shut down, no party structure to infiltrate. It is vapor, everywhere and nowhere, indispensable and unstoppable. The real battle is not over letting it in, but about who will benefit, and how quickly, from a wired China.


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MARTINEZ — Martinez seeks a jack-of-all-trades to help the city take advantage of the improving economy.
The deputy director of strategic planning and community development will work on economic development, housing, parking and quality-of-life issues. The employee also will write grants, act as the liaison with county government and the courts and work with the business community and residents.
Finally, the deputy director will set up and oversee Martinez's economic development corporation, a nonprofit lender the council created last year to help property owners get the capital to seismically retrofit their buildings.
Councilman Mark Ross called the job description — which runs more than two pages — "a tall order."
City Manager Phil Vince seeks a candidate who has policy experience and analytical skill. He also wants someone who can crunch data and is fluent in social media. As projects in Martinez have tended to drag on for years without coming to fruition, Vince wants to hire someone who will get things done.
"I want somebody who can take, execute and finish. So this is going to be a 'closer' position," Vince said.
The pay range for the full-time position is $110,000 to $132,000. With medical and retirement benefits, the annual compensation will rise to about $170,000. For the first two years, the city will use building permit and plan-check fees to cover the salary and benefits. Vince is confident that increases in the city's property and sales tax revenue will be enough to fund the position in the future.
He hopes to have someone on board by July 1, the start of the fiscal year.
"Clearly, it's a gamble, and it's a leap of faith," Councilman Mike Menesini said. "But if the person we hire can do half these things, as Mark points out, it's going to be very fantastic and will be a big benefit to the community."
Mayor Rob Schroder pointed to the stock market's resurgence, falling unemployment and the housing sector's rebound as evidence that the economy is turning around. Martinez, he said, should be positioned to take advantage of the improving conditions.
Schroder acknowledged the financial risk involved with using one-time moneys to cover ongoing personnel expenses, but he said the potential payoff is worth it.
"I really believe that if we find the right person that has the skills that we're looking for, and they stay on task, that after two years, I think this will pay for itself and hopefully exponentially help the city," Schroder said.
During a February retreat, council members agreed to focus on economic development, opportunities at the waterfront, infrastructure, fiscal fitness and community wellness.
Before the deputy director is hired, Councilwoman Anamarie Avila Farias suggested the council revisit the goals it identified at the retreat to ensure they are clear, concise and measurable.
Lisa P. White covers Martinez and Pleasant Hill. Contact her at 925-943-8011. Follow her at Twitter.com/lisa_p_white.


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Today Microsoft have released service pack 1 for Office 2004 Mac Edition. The service pack addresses potential security issues and the normal removal of several bugs. Scott Erickson, group product manager for the Mac BU at Microsoft commented on the update saying "We strive to deliver the best possible product experience through extensive testing and by gathering customer feedback. This helps us determine issues to address within a service pack and prioritize which improvements will make the most difference."
Microsoft introduced a new error reporting tool to enable greater feedback in Office 2004. Microsoft Error Reporting Protocol (MERP) allows customers to communicate bug data anonymously to Microsoft, enabling efficient fixes and helping increase the overall stability of Office 2004.
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With less than two weeks to go I've reached the $25,000 mark and my stretch goal is now within reach. If I reach $30,000, I'll be able to print a second collection of my work – a 125 page black and white book with all the material that doesn't fit into the specific chapters in Life Begins At Incorporation. I will also be able to do something else: focus entirely on my comics in 2013, turning down freelance work in order to draw three cartoons a week, every week.
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Lady Parts Special – I clumsily limited the Avenging Uterus shirts so as to not get more than what I was ordering. That was the wrong route, so I've gone ahead and added the Lady Parts Special for anyone that wants it and ordered enough that I got a price break to add a new color – note the nice blue egg fists!
The One Percenter – I've lowered my top level to $850 for a speech and presentation on editorial cartoons and/or comics journalism. Cheap! If you work at a college or non-profit that might be into this, tell them to save some minds and some money by not inviting Tom Friedman this year and get me on board instead.


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We have a 50% 3pt shooter on the floor, so let's let Ron replace Reggie Miller.
Welp, that's it, folks. 10-6, what a disappointment. Championship-caliber team, my ***.
WTF? Where was the foul?
4 rebs for JO is inexcusable. seriously 4 rebs from your c/pf. that is a joke.
Thanks, soooo much, Rick.
Jesus, just to make it worse, we start hitting.
But it doesn't matter.
Super Bowl XLI Champions
2000 Eastern Conference Champions
*****ing stupid
You, Never? Did the Kenosha Kid?
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JO with 4 rebs jasas had 7 and played much less **** rick
JO is playing with torn ligaments in his fingers
So Long And Thanks For All The Fish.
If you've done 6 impossible things today?
Then why not have Breakfast at Milliways!
And, next we get Dallas.
Super Bowl XLI Champions
2000 Eastern Conference Champions
Well guys, at least it was not a blowout, and we had some very nice moments.
Yup so this game he gets the "Im not that mad because you've got your pinky wrapped with your ring finger" treatment but when theyre off and he clears em as 100% , then there will be absolutely no excuse.JO is playing with torn ligaments in his fingers
This loss sucks..of course they all do but I hate LOSING WINNABLE GAMES!
I loved how Rick finally put Runi in the game at the end and saw us start coming back oh yeah Runi has hit 18-of-28 from the 3-point line (64.3 percent) in the last seven games. .....
I'm starting to get quite a few revenge dates already:
Jan 2nd vs Sonics
Jan 11th vs Bucks
March 30th vs Suns
well atleast we're back home tuesday


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Boeing announced three significant new defense partnerships here yesterday, although one partner was not identified. The American group signed a memorandum of understanding with Elbit Systems to promote the Hermes 450 and 900 UAVs in the U.S. and some international countries; it extended collaboration with Embraer on the A-29 Super Tucano; and it revealed discussions with the maker of a super midsize business jet that would serve as the platform for a medium-sized maritime surveillance aircraft (MSA), with mission systems derived from the P-8 Poseidon, E-3 AWACS and Wedgetail AEW aircraft (based on the 737 airframe).
Tim Peters, Boeing vice president surveillance and engagement, said the company hoped to announce the selected MSA aircraft by the end of the year. Boeing's research indicates that the maritime surveillance market will be worth more than $10 billion over the next 10 years. Chris Chadwick, Boeing Military Aircraft president, told AIN that the company is aiming to provide a lower-cost option "by removing some bells and whistles" from the larger, Boeing-designed aircraft.
Debbie Rub, Boeing vice president missiles and unmanned airborne systems, explained that Elbit's Hermes product line "complements the Boeing unmanned portfolio while addressing and important need for U.S. warfighters and allies." Boeing is developing a high-altitude long endurance (HALE) unmanned vehicle: the Phantom Eye. It offers small UAVs via the Insitu subsidiary. The Hermes 450 and 900 are medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) vehicles.
Interestingly, a triangular relationship between Boeing, Elbit and Embraer has been established in Brazil, where Boeing is pitching the F-18 Super Hornet fighter. AEL Sistemas, the Brazilian subsidiary of Elbit, was chosen earlier this year by Boeing to provide large cockpit displays for the F-15 and the F-18 fighters. It would therefore come as no surprise to learn that the Embraer Legacy 600 is Boeing's preferred business jet for the MSA.


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|Home BancShares Founder and Chairman, John W. Allison
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- John Allison, the founder and chairman of Home BancShares ( HOMB) of Conway, Ark., says "there will be more deals coming in Florida" for the company. Home BancShares is one of only seven publicly traded bank or thrift holding companies currently assigned an A-plus (Excellent) rating by TheStreet Ratings, based on a very conservative emphasis on long-term total returns as well as revenue trends and capital strength and dividends. The ratings also consider short-term performance, financial stability and volatility.
Home BancShares had $4.1 billion in total assets as of March 31, with 84 branches in Arkansas, Alabama and Florida, having expanded beyond its original Arkansas market footprint with the purchase of six failed Florida banks from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in 2010. In February, the company's main subsidiary Centennial Bank purchased Vision Bank of Panama City, Fla., from Park National Corp. ( PRK) of Newark, Ohio. Centennial Bank paid $27.9 million for Vision Bank, picking up 10 branches in Florida and seven branches in Alabama, along with $520 million in deposits and $354 million in performing loans, while not taking on any of Vision Bank's nonperforming loans or repossessed real estate. Home BancShares has posted consistently strong earnings, with operating returns on average assets ranging from 1.38% to 1.58% over the past five quarters, according to Thomson Reuters Bank Insight. The company focuses on commercial real estate lending, and its 's first-quarter net interest margin -- the difference between a bank's average yield on loans and investments and its average cost for deposits and wholesale borrowings -- was a very strong tax-adjusted 4.65%, declining slightly from 4.73% the previous quarter, but increasing from 4.61% a year earlier. The margin has "been boosted minimally" by the better-than-expected performance of loan pools acquired from failed institutions, according to Allison. In an interview with TheStreet on Thursday, Allison said "there's more opportunity" in Florida for failed or whole-bank acquisitions, because "a lot of these guys aren't recognizing their problems." TheStreet: What is your approach to community banking? John Allison: We focus on the touch and the feel of the customers. We bank to win in our markets. In our markets in Arkansas, we give to the community, bank with cities, counties, hospitals and schools. We bank with these people because we give to these communities. We run an efficient shop, but we give away lots of money too.


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I Love Egg
This series of cartoons is undeniably cute and inventive!
The Little Buzzers
A cute cartoon, inspired by unadulterated rage and hatred.
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Fun, straightforward game. However, I expected different weapons for each character, rather than just different skins.
Entertaining to start with.
Again, like reviews before, the same points. Very easy to get the best weapon and armour. Too much money perhaps? Or simply increase the purchase price. Gets repetitive after the 2nd level. I bought all the weapons simply to have something to spend it on after getting everything else.
It`s really fun, besides i like pixels. But just that i like them, i can`t give you more than 8. It was funny at start, because it was fun characters and easy controls. But then it comes boring. And what i mean with then? After 4-5 levels. The fun comes when the boss comes, cause its fun and he shoops da whoops from his mouth. But when you kill him, the game starts to be more and more boring. I agree with deathgodinthemaking - its not a challenge and it need upgrades (really old and almost in every game, but that`s what people like) and more weapons. Really. But it was fun. So better luck next time and keep pixeling! Pixels = fun everywhere!
Good, but easy
I enjoyed the gameplay, graphics, and music, but it needed some added difficulty. The enemies needed more AI to make them less predictable, especially the bosses. Overall, I enjoyed it beginning to end.
Its an epic game.


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Joseph Stiglitz has discovered that inequality makes the economy sluggish. Well, duh. What can I say?
Yes, but inequality is the desired goal.
A hierarchical society in which some rule and the majority are ruled is by definition unequal. Superiority presumes inequality. Exceptionalism presumes inequality. Inequality is not a happenstance. It takes a lot of effort to deprive the majority of three hundred million people of the necessities of life without them even noticing that it's happened until they expire in the prime of life.
That people who survive infancy no longer live as long as they used to do is a tell, but we have to pay attention.
Why are the proponents of the right to life so avid? Because they want people born so they can kill them off. Human husbandry has evolved out of animal husbandry and animal husbandry has evolved out of predation. Instead of killing the prey as soon as it's spotted, it's captured and secured to be fattened for slaughter later. How much later depends to a large extent on the compliance of the prey. Those who obey, get to live longer and, very probably, get to experience more torture at the hands of their sadistic owners.
How does it happen that this pattern of behavior goes on almost unnoticed? Money and the law serve as very effective shields, making it relatively easy to convince the victims that everything is arranged via the magic of the market. Of course, the market is where the slaughter is arranged.
"To market, to market to buy a fat pig." We're not taking it home to breed.
Equality is the American myth. It glosses over the fact that it is possible for everyone to be equally deprived — long before judgement day, when we are all equally dead.
In the beginning and at the end we are all equal. In the middle, where it counts, equality doesn't matter to predators taking their pick, some to eat now and others to save for later.
I suspect our mistake is in thinking humans are by nature predatory creatures and the behavior has to be moderated, since it can't be bred out. This led to a wholesale effort to socialize a population that either didn't need it, or couldn't be changed–i.e. almost a total waste. What we should realize is that predatory humans are the result of cognitive deficits, which are probably present at birth, and that these deficits require compensation not very different from what we'd provide for deficits (blindness, deafness, speech impediments) which are less common but easier to notice. Sensory Awareness Deficits (SAD) are what we need to address — on an individual, not a wholesale basis.


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Researchers have discovered a serious vulnerability in TLS v1.0 and SSL v3.0 that allows attackers to silently decrypt data that's passing between a webserver and an end-user browser. This vulnerability can be exploited using a new cookie-based technique called "BEAST" ("Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS") that takes advantage of block-oriented cipher implementation such as AES and TripleDES.
Which file transfer protocols are affected?
Any interactive HTTPS-based web-based transfer application that relies on SSL/TLS will probably be affected. Web-based "file send" applications will almost certainly be affected. Web services that use cookies to maintain an authenticated session after sign on will also be affected.
At the moment it appears that only protocols that make use of browser cookies are affected. That means that the FTPS and AS2 protocols are safe for now, even if they use TLS v1.0 or SSL v3.0.
SFTP and other protocols that use encryption not based on SSL/TLS are of course not affected by BEAST.
Which vendors are affected?
Just about ALL of them. Any on-premise product or cloud-based product that:
- allows end users to upload, download or send files through a web browser
- AND uses an SSL/TLS-secured channel (i.e., uses HTTPS)
- AND uses cookies (even memory-only cookies) to maintain user sessions after the initial sign on
…will probably be affected by this vulnerability.
What should I do now?
Our current recommendation is to:
- DISABLE TLS v1.0 support on your file transfer web interfaces
- DISABLE SSL v.3.0 support
- (as per this article, SSL v3.0 is also affected)
- ENABLE TLS v.1.1 and TLS v.1.2 support
- DISABLE AES and TripleDES encryption support on your file transfer web interfaces
- (as per this article, both AES and TripleDES are affected)
- ENABLE RC4 encryption support
- DISABLE AES and TripleDES encryption support on your file transfer web interfaces
- Keep SSL v.2.0 disabled
- (you should have already done this years ago)
- If you are using a managed file transfer gateway or proxy to terminate SSL/TLS sessions, remember to check those configurations too
- Keep SSL v.2.0 disabled
Microsoft offers a similar recommendation here.
What will this mean for my end users?
If you apply our "CHOICE #1" recommended configuration you will likely encounter some compatibility problems with end users whose web browsers do not support TLS v1.1 or v1.2. To get around this issue you will need to have your users upgrade their browsers to editions that support TLS v1.1 (see partial list below) or have your end users use a different web browser. (The latest version of Opera and IE both support TLS v1.1.)
If you apply our "CHOICE #2" recommended configuration you will not be able to use your FIPS-valided AES or TripleDES algorithms on your SSL/TLS connections. Rc4 is an older, secure but not FIPS-validated algorithm that is often used by browsers and servers by default. (R6, R4's successor, was a runner-up to become the new AES algorithm during the open competition about a decade ago.)
Can you help us configure our file transfer software to mitigate against this threat?
Yes – please contact us for more information.
Where can I get more information about the vulnerability?
The Register has a good article on the vulnerability and BEAST here:
"BEAST requires about two seconds to decrypt each byte of an encrypted cookie. That means authentication cookies of 1,000 to 2,000 characters long will still take a minimum of a half hour for their PayPal attack to work. Nonetheless, the technique poses a threat to millions of websites that use earlier versions of TLS, particularly in light of (the researchers') claim that this time can be drastically shortened."
ThreatPost's article also has additional detail:
"The decryption process is fast enough that it's likely imperceptible users, and the researchers said that in a targeted attack, they likely could steal the cookie from a specific site within five minutes of loading the tool. Rizzo and Duong said that their attack exploits a vulnerability in the TLS 1.0 protocol that has been known for quite some time, but was thought to be unexploitable."
What web browsers have been patched against this?
Opera is now patched! (article) It also supports TLS v1.1 – another fine choice!
IE is now patched! (article)
- Google Chrome will soon have a BEAST patch ready (article)
- Firefox has NOT yet promised a BEAST patch (article)
- However, Oracle provided a Java plug-in patch for Firefox to make the most common exploit harder (article)
- CANNOT FIND any information about Safari/Webkit recognizing BEAST (please send me links!)
A relatively fresh list of browsers that support more recent versions of TLS v1.1 is maintained here:
Currently only Opera (version 10 or higher) and IE (version 8 or higher on Windows 2008 R2 or Windows 7) are listed with TLS v1.1 support. Firefox does not currently support TLS v1.1, nor does Chrome or Safari. However pressure to add TLS v1.1 support to those browsers has increased substantially since BEAST was announced.
What are some of the servers that support TLS v.1.1?
Microsoft IIS 7 (on Windows 2008 R2) supports TLS v.1.1 but it must be specially enabled. (This affects web transfer applications that rely on IIS such as Ipswitch's WS_FTP Server Web Transfer Module, WS_FTP Server Ad Hoc Module and MOVEit DMZ.)
Many other file transfer vendors ship their own web servers with their products – check with your vendor for specific guidance.


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Spider-Man vs. The Lizard!
The new trailer for "The Amazing Spider-Man" debuted and the latest reboot – starring Andrew Garfield in the title role and Emma Stone playing his love interest, Gwen Stacy – is sure to make fans' spider senses tingle!
The story takes fans back to high school to see Peter Parker's origins as a bullied kid and how he's transformed into the iconic superhero.
Rhys Ifans will play Spidey's foe, The Lizard/Curt Connors, in a battle – judging from the new trailer – that will be nothing short of epic.
The Marc Webb-directed movie also stars Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, Martin Sheen and Sally Field.
"The Amazing Spider-Man" swings into theaters on July 3.