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The 8th annual International Society for Equitation Science (ISES) conference, hosted by the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, from July 18-20, 2012, provided an international forum in which scientists and professional practitioners communicated and discussed the results of research relating to training, management, and the performance of the horse. The successful conference was attended by more than 250 delegates from over 15 countries and was sponsored by Redwings Horse Sanctuary and the World Dressage Masters foundation.
Fittingly held prior to the 2012 Olympic games in London, the annual equine training, behavior, and welfare conference attracted international scientists and practitioners speaking on themes including the sustainable equine athlete from both physical and psychological aspects, the science and measurement of rider inputs, and horse welfare, among others. The three day conference with more than 35 spoken presentations and 140 poster presentations discussed current and future use of technological advances for enabling better measurement of the ways in which horse and rider interact during equestrian activities and so improve methods used for coaching riders and training horses. (Editor's Note: Keep an eye on TheHorse.com for coverage of selected presentations from ISES 2012.)
Highlights included a plenary lecture from U.K.-based veterinarian Sue Dyson, MA, VetMB, PhD, DEO, FRCVS, who spoke on physical aspects of the sustainable athlete by discussing the conformation of the sport horse, in particular looking at the nitty-gritty such as coronary band shapes and hock angles. Other lectures were provided by:
- Andy Hemmings, MSc, from the Royal Agricultural College who discussed research goals for the next decade and beyond;
- Lesley Hawson, BSc., BVSc, from Australia and Inga Wolframm, PhD, from Germany, who both spoke on rider aspects of the horse-human relationship;
- Lars Roepstorff, DVM, PhD, from Sweden who spoke about the latest technology kit available for measuring variables in equitation;
- International dressage rider Wayne Channon, who gave a very interesting plenary on the future of equestrian sports; and
- Andrew McLean, PhD, BSc, from the Australian Equine Behavior Centre, who gave a plenary from a historical perspective, looking in particular at the roles of objectivity vs. subjectivity in equine training and solving behavioral problems in equine behavior modification.
The final practical day was held at the Scottish National Equestrian Centre in West Lothian and allowed for scientific work to be put into practice. The audience members were given demonstrations of the use of rein tension meters, saddle pressure mats, bio measures of horse and rider and even eye tracking equipment for carriage horse drivers. Three time Olympian and Olympic dressage team member for the London Olympics Richard Davison was on hand as the chairperson for what was an excellent opportunity for equine scientists and practitioners to discuss the road ahead for the use of the horse in sport and leisure.
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Pionen-White Mountain
- Project Name: Pionen-White Mountain
- Construction year: 2008
- Architect(s): Albert France-Lanord Architects
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The project takes place in a former 1200 square meter anti-atomic shelter. An amazing location 30 meters down under the granite rocks of the Vita Berg Park in Stockholm. The client is an internet provider and the rock shelter hosts server halls and offices. The starting point of the project was to consider the rock as a living organism. The humans try to acclimate themselves to this foreign world and bring the 'best' elements from earth: light, plants, water and technology. We created strong contrasts between rooms where the rock dominates and where the human being is a stranger against rooms where the human being took over totally.
The choice of lightning has been very challenging. We tried to bring as much variation as possible. Otherwise it is very easy to loose the feeling of time in an enclosed space.Our references come straight from science fiction films, mostly 'Silent Running' and a bunch of Bond films with Ken Adams set design.One can describe the process in five different phases:
-destruction of the former office and blowing up the rock to create extra space.
-reinforce the cave. concrete work.
-technical installations. electrical.
-glass and steel work. paint and furnishing.The client had a strong vision from the first brief and the result is only possible because of their persistence, the absence of compromise and great communication/ understanding between all parts under the process.It has been very exciting to work with a space which at first didn't offer one square angle: the rock. The main room is not a traditional space limited by surfaces but defined by the emptiness inside a mass.
Program: Datacenter
Collaborators: Frida Öster and Jonatan Blomgren
Geology Consultant: Geosigma AB
Construction: Albert France-Lanord Architects
Client: Bahnhof AB
Construction Area: 1,200 sqm
Photos: Åke E:son Lindman
Facts about the data center:
* Originally a nuclear bunker: The data center is housed in what was originally a military bunker and nuclear shelter during the Cold War era. The facility still has the code name from its military days: Pionen White Mountains.
* Located in central Stockholm below 30 meters (almost 100 ft) of bedrock: The facility has 1110 sqm (11950 sq ft) of space and is located below 30 meters of solid bedrock (granite) right inside the city.
* Fully redesigned in 2007-2008: Pionen was completely redesigned in 2007-2008 to become the data center that it is today. More than 4,000 cubic meters (141,300 cubic ft) of solid rock was blasted away to make more room.
* Can withstand a hydrogen bomb: The bunker was designed to be able to withstand a near hit by a hydrogen bomb.
* Houses the Network Operations Center for one of Sweden's largest ISPs: The bunker houses the NOC for all of Bahnhof's operations. They have five data centers in Sweden, Pionen being the largest. The facility also acts as a co-location hosting center, so you can actually put your own servers here.
* German submarine engines for backup power: Backup power is handled by two Maybach MTU diesel engines producing 1.5 Megawatt of power. The engines were originally designed for submarines, and just for fun the people at Pionen have also installed the warning system (sound horns) from the original German submarine.
* 1.5 megawatt of cooling for the servers: Cooling is handled by Baltimore Aircoil fans producing a cooling effect of 1.5 megawatt, enough for several hundred rack-mounted units.
* Triple redundancy Internet backbone access: The network has full redundancy with both fiber optics and extra copper lines with three different physical ways into the mountain. Pionen is one the best-connected places in northern Europe.
* Work environment with simulated daylight and greenhouses: For a pleasant working environment the data center has simulated daylight, greenhouses, waterfalls and a huge 2600-liter salt water fish tank.
* Staff: 15 employees, only senior technical staff, work full time in Pionen.
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Brisbin, Christopher A. (Ed.) (2008) Review 2008: Architecture projects. QUT: School of Design Publications, Brisbane, Australia..
This year the transition into the new course continues with concurrent teaching of the first three years of study of DE40, Bachelor of Design (Architectural Studies), and fourth, fifth and sixth years of AR48, Bachelor of Architecture. The School of Design recognises the challenges that the DE40 third year are experiencing, as the trail blazers of the new course, experiencing the introduction of new approaches to architectural education at QUT. At the same time, our 4th years have been observing the final rites of AR48 units as they progress through the course, we are also advancing new ideas as we continue to plan the course transition.
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With a stay at Clifton Hotel, you'll be centrally located in Bristol, steps from Victoria Rooms and minutes from BBC Bristol. This hotel is within close proximity of Royal West of England Academy and Clifton Cathedral.
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A California assemblyman continues his effort to get a water bond on the November ballot.
Democrat Anthony Rendon initially introduced a bill last Feburary to put an $11 billion water bond before voters.
After almost a year of reworking the bill, Rendon says it's cleaner, more affordable and tailored to meet the needs of every region in the state.
"This bond includes funding for improving drinking water quality, protecting rivers and watersheds, improving the reliability of clean water delivery, protecting the state's delta water system, and funding storage projects that will protect us from future droughts," he said.
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Welcome to our latest Foolish feature, the Daily Double. Each market day, we'll be presenting a stock that has doubled in the past six months. For more information on this column, please read "What is the Daily Double."
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Consolidated Graphics discovered the secret of printing money, or something like that. The stock swooned last February when the company announced charges to clean up a large acquisition that didn't fit Consolidated's standard modus operandi. But after dipping to $8, the shares roared back to the mid-teens before getting caught in the summer market correction. Since late September, however, Consolidated Graphics has gone nearly straight up, doubling on the Nasdaq before jumping to the NYSE in late January.
And for good reason. For the second quarter ending September 30, 1996, the company reported that sales rose 78%, to $34.5 million versus $19.3 million for the same quarter last year. Earnings per share jumped 60% to $0.20 per share from $0.13 in last year's second quarter. Recently announced third quarter numbers confirmed the trend, as Consolidated's sales and earnings came in 10% above even the stellar second quarter numbers.
Like the name says, the company is taking advantage of an industry ripe for consolidation by buying privately owned printing companies generating between $2 and $15 million in annual revenues. Consolidated purchased nine printing operations in fiscal 1996, with recent acquisitions in Richmond, Virginia; Long Beach, California; and Raleigh, North Carolina. The company's annual run-rate now stands at $155 million.
With corporate offices in Houston, Texas, Consolidated Graphics provides general commercial printing throughout the U.S. Formed in 1985, the company has expanded in recent years through acquisitions and now operates 18 printing companies in 14 markets, with three shops in Denver and three in Houston. Consolidated typically leaves existing management in place when it buys a printer, thus maintaining business relationships and quality service.
Each print shop operates as an independently managed subsidiary with its own sales, estimating, customer service, prepress, production, and postpress operations. Each offers general multicolor commercial printing services related to annual reports, brochures, training manuals, direct mail pieces, catalogs, and promotional material. These jobs tend to be recurring.
Corporate headquarters provides the subsidiaries with centralized cash management, financial reporting, and certain administrative services. Consolidated aims to improve overall operating efficiencies through master purchasing arrangements and the management support and technological advantages of a larger organization.
Founder, CEO, and Chairman Joe Davis owns about a third of the company.
Income Statement 12-month sales: $125 million 12-month income: $8.1 million 12-month EPS: $0.67 Profit Margin: 6.48% Market Cap: $391 million Balance Sheet Cash: $2.11 million Working Capital: $20.14 million Long-term Debt: $34.7 million Ratios Price-to-earnings: 47.6 Price-to-sales: 3.1
Analysts estimate that Consolidated will earn $0.78 a share for fiscal 1997, which ends March 30th, and $1.02 a share for 1998. At the current levels, the stock is trading at about 47 times trailing earnings, with year-over-year growth promising to top 100% if the company just hits the ever-rising estimates.
Still, this year-over-year growth is misleading due to the one-time charges in 4Q 1996. The '98 numbers point to 40% annualized growth over the next five quarters and a not-so-appealing PEG ratio of 1.05. The high-side estimate for annualized growth over the next five years is 33%.
Consolidated, however, has so far mastered the art of printing more money without printing a lot of stock (shares outstanding increased by just 12% last year). Dean Witter Reynolds' analyst James Dougherty has estimated that there are 7,000 U.S. printers in the company's target range, and CEO Davis seems to have quite an appetite for acquisition. So even though Consolidated Graphics looks pricey at the moment, this is one to keep an eye on.
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For the ninth consecutive year, in conjunction with the WRWD Hudson Valley Baseball Classic, a free baseball clinic for boys and girls ages 8 to 18 will be conducted by players and coaches from both Army and Marist on the Dutchess Stadium playing field prior to the game from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. The first 150 individuals to pre-register for the clinic will receive a T-shirt commemorating the event, while all those participating in the clinic will receive a voucher for a free ticket to a Renegades game later this summer. Admission to the game is free, but a ticket is required for entry.
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Marist is 12-24 overall and 5-7 in Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference. The Red Foxes had a season-high four-game winning streak snapped on Tuesday with an 8-5 home loss against UMass Lowell. Junior first baseman Steve Laurino leads Marist in batting average (.312), hits (39) and RBIs (21). Junior right-hander Evan Davis (1-4, 4.76 ERA) is the Red Foxes' scheduled starting pitcher.
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Coool. Seen all manner of cars on the forecourt there!
yeah mostly ours, from 200sx's to bmw's to the holden estate (3.8 v6? or somthing)
Yeah, it was the silvia that caught my attention to begin with. Used to have a 14a, think it was a 13 on the forecourt that made me look...
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According to E! Online, the 24-year-old beauty partied at Trousdale last Tuesday night, March 24 after dining at Boa. It was detailed that at the club, she was spotted spending time together with the "Captain America: The First Avenger" star at the table of "The Hills" star Frankie Delgado.
On how the "LOL: Laughing Out Loud" actress was behaving toward the Hollywood hunk, an eyewitness shared, "Ashley was all over [Chris], and he certainly didn't mind." The fellow partygoer went on to spill, "They were dancing together very closely. It looked like they had a lot of sexual chemistry."
While the two got up close and personal during the outing, inside sources have noted that the pair are still single. "Ashley is newly single. She's hot, of course she's going to be out having fun," one of her friends insisted, while Chris' pal said, "Chris is a really fun guy and loves girls, just because he 'gets flirty' with one doesn't mean he is all of a sudden dating her."
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Hollywood studios and the maker and licensing authority of the High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection standard were scrambling Wednesday to determine whether a so-called "master key" to the anti-piracy encryption technology has leaked onto the internet.
HDCP is a copy-protection technology that encrypts high-definition video traveling between set-top boxes and televisions. The technology, built by Intel, was approved by the Federal Communications Commission in 2004, and is a standard feature in televisions, cable boxes, satellite receivers and Blu-ray players in much of the modern world.
A purported master crypto key for HDCP appeared Monday on the clipboard site Pastebin, and has since been mirrored on hundreds of other websites, in a scene reminiscent of the 1999 crack of the CSS Content Scrambling System that once protected DVDs from copying.
"We are investigating whether this is real or a rumor," said Howard Gantman, a Motion Picture Association of America vice president, in a telephone interview Wednesday.
That sentiment was echoed by an Intel spokesman. "We are still investigating the facts behind the stories on this. Until we've completed that, we don't have more to say than this," wrote Tom Waldrop in an e-mail.
But even if the code is real, it might not immediately foster piracy as the cracking of CSS on DVDs did more than a decade ago. Unlike CSS, which could be implemented in software, HDCP requires custom hardware. The threat model for Hollywood, then, isn't that a hacker could use the master key to generate a DeCSS-like program for HD, but that shady hardware makers, perhaps in China, might eventually create and sell black-market HDCP cards that would allow the free copying of protected high-def content.
"You could make a device that would impersonate a TV, that would receive the bits and save them to a hard drive," said Paul Kocher, chief scientist at Cryptography Research in San Francisco. "I don't think it is going to have an impact on Hollywood's bottom line anytime soon."
Kocher suspected somebody in the business of making HDCP-compatible devices, who had access to at least 50 individual keys, was able to reconstruct the master key — if it turns out to be real.
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Nathan Brown likes a punt and he's taken one by picking disgraced centre Mark Gasnier for tonight's clash against Brisbane, writes Brad Walter.
Ask St George Illawarra coach Nathan Brown how he knew that Perth product Daniel Holdsworth was ready to make his NRL debut after just 40 minutes of premier league and he candidly admits: "I didn't."
Brown, part-owner of champion racehorse Private Steer, loves a punt and he revealed yesterday that the selection of Holdsworth - identified as a potential star in 1995 as a 12-year-old by the now defunct Western Reds - to play five-eighth against Parramatta last week had been one of the most successful gambles of his short coaching career.
With 13 regular first-graders unavailable due to injuries and Origin duty, Brown decided to give the 20-year-old rookie his chance.
Having been rewarded with a two-try haul by Holdsworth in the Dragons' 37-6 thrashing of the Eels, Brown is tonight loading up the dice again for the clash with Brisbane and increasing the risk through the recall of Mark Gasnier just two days after the club imposed a $50,000 fine on him for the lewd phone message that led to his sacking from the NSW Origin side.
Brown, however, views Gasnier's selection as a relatively safe bet.
Despite concerns about Gasnier's emotional state after earlier this season taking time off to consider whether he wanted to continue playing, Brown said the 22-year-old former Kangaroos centre was more than ready to resume his place in the St George Illawarra line-up.
"That's the first thing I spoke to him about," Brown said. "I told him I'd rather he not play if he wasn't right but he said he's nothing like that.
"You can just tell by his demeanour and his actions that he's fine, and obviously by him saying earlier this year that he wasn't sure if he wanted to play he is not a bullshit artist. And his attitude at training has been great.
"I think he's actually been sad when training is over because he's had to go away and think about the past week."
What happened in the early hours of last Wednesday after a Blues bonding session is now well documented, and Gasnier has paid a hefty price for his 16- second phone call to a woman he did not know.
According to Brown, missing NSW's golden-point victory on the back of St George Illawarra teammate Shaun Timmins's 40-metre field goal probably hurt Gasnier more than the record fine dished out by the club.
Then there was the public humiliation.
"It's been a hard time for Gaz but he's a big boy and I think he's keen to show the public what he's good at, which is playing footy - that's probably one of the things in this world he was put down here to do and he's keen to go out there and show everyone that," Brown said.
"He's made a mistake, as we all do. I guess that some people make bigger mistakes than others, but if you've never done anything wrong then you haven't lived. I don't condone what Gaz did but if he was to do it again then I'd be disappointed.
"He's made his error and he's paid a very, very hefty price for it, not so much in the money side of it but more from the view that he should have been out there last night and maybe he could have been the player at eight-all that made the break and scored the try. They're the things that guys like Gaz and Timmo play for."
After the euphoria of Origin I, Brown admitted that Timmins and Blues teammates Ben Hornby and Brent Kite were still on a high when the team arrived in Brisbane late yesterday.
The three were not required to train but Brown said they would not have any problems shifting their focus to tonight's match against the Broncos.
"What Timmo did was one of those things that will be talked about in 100 years' time," he said. "It's one of those things that as a player everyone dreams of but very few actually get to do it, and for Brent Kite and Ben Hornby it was their first Origin, so they were excited just to be there.
"When one of the guys you coach plays rep footy the main thing you hope for is that they have a good game and to do something like Timmo did just makes you feel very happy for them.
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Movie Review: Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro
- Mayank Shekhar
- Nov 02, 2012, 20:10 PM IST
There are certain cultures in India, and I have observed them rather closely, where people constantly speak like Commissioner D'Mello when they're trying to be funny: "Main jaata. Main kaarta. Ulloo ka pilloo. Mazaa aayi?" These are perfectly normal adults otherwise. They were merely struck by an adorable epidemic called Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, which got unleashed into India in 1983. Since then, these weird gents (and they're mostly men) haven't stopped laughing with a film.
It's a mystery why a certain movie, or any work of art, survives public memory while others don't: why's Sholay the greatest film ever made, but Shaan or Shakti are not; why did Andaz Apna Apna, despite starring Salman and Aamir Khan stay practically unnoticed when it opened in 1994, but became a quotable cult within a decade. Publicity or marketing can at best determine how well a film is known, when it releases. It can never quite dictate how it will be received or worshipped years later.
Like many others, I associate my favourite movies with the memory of how they hit me first when I watched them on the big screen (Satya remains right on top). The young, upper middle-class generation that actually championed Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro had never really seen the film in the theatre. It's just re-released now, 30 years after. They'd watched the movie, over and over again, sometimes in parts on VHS tapes, and then on DVD, many a time on Doordarshan's several re-runs.
Over years, they broke the script down into best sequences, or even best scenes from within those sequences: the "Mahabharat" episode, the "telephone" madness, the cake throwing scene.... They sought their new favourite characters with each fresh viewing: builder Tarneja (Pankaj Kapur), his rival Ahuja (Om Puri), his moronic minions Ashok Namboodiripad (Satish Kaushik), Priya (Neena Gupta).... And they began to separately relate with one loved dialogue after another: "See Aiye", "Shant Gadadhari Bheem, shant," or , "Toda khao, toda pheko," gradually building a monumental aura around a film that now has no rivals from the '80s decade. There was obviously enough material in the cake to constantly splice into smaller pieces, and savour each for its own worth, though none of it individually is supposed to make any sense. I guess this is easier to do this with comedy. Some gags age well.
What separates Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro from hundreds of similar farces that fly is that the film still has very strong legs to stand on. It was one of the most serious comments on corruption in the media and real estate, both of which haunt urban India much more now. Two buffoons Sudhir (Ravi Baswani) and Vinod (Naseeruddin Shah) are photo-journalists who stumble upon a construction scam and dead-body during the course of their freelance magazine assignment. Shobha (Bhakti Bharve; named after Shobha Kilachand, popular gossip mag editor then) is the cunning owner of the news magazine. It's called Khabardar.
A media outlet, similarly titled Tehelka, carried out similar sting operations that rocked the nation in the early 2000s. D'Mello (Satish Shah) in the film is named after one Rebello, who used to be the municipal commissioner at the time. The commissioner green-lights a flyover for a major cut, or commission, as it were. The bridge eventually collapses. So do several other bridges and roads and flyovers in this country. You read about them in the newsmedia, some of which you don't even trust anymore; the builder mafia control the terribly planned ugliness that pass off as cities. The story of unethical, incredible India continues. Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro rings truer still.
This intensely dark satire on the Indian state was funded by the Indian government, made at a budget of Rs 7 lakh, of which Rs 15,000 went to the only legitimate star in the cast – Naseer. The other bright talents, all of whom became popular faces and names thereafter, were still on the fringes of fame and success. These actors and filmmakers had nothing to lose, beyond 45 days of a film shoot. Nobody could've been setting out to make a classic.
Public memory is a strange mystery. Decades after that madness, what survives isn't Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, the film, anymore. That film is what people saw (or did not see) when it opened to a rather lukewarm response in theatres in 1983. It's now turned into a secretly coded society that only genuine fans can decipher or penetrate. These devotees like to mix their Mahabharat with Mughal history. They talk in Punjabi-Hindi like the drunk Ahuja, and don't mind driving a coffin around. Kundan Shah is God in these circles. Well, he never quite made anything like Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro after. But then, nobody else did. And no one else can either. And we will never know why. Or maybe we do know why, and so we keep going back to the same film.


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Hey guys, I just picked up a 2006-2007 ITG Ray Bourque/Rick Middleton Dual Jersey Gold Version /10 from my LCS for pretty cheap. I can't find any obviously. I'm not too much into hockey, so can anyone help out with a value?
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Michael Conforto went 3-for-4 with two homers and four RBI in the Mets' 9-3 victory over the Padres on Tuesday.
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|Kevin Garnett: 'Fatigue's not an option'
|04.09.11 at 12:16 am ET
On the second night of a back-to-back, following a letdown loss against the Bulls, in the 79th installment of an 82-game season, the Celtics had plenty of excuses to pack it in against the sub-.300 Wizards — a routine they've fallen prey to countless times in the past two seasons.
But Kevin Garnett wasn't making any excuses. Paul Pierce made it clear the Celtics want the No. 2 seed, and their win over the Wizards brought them one step closer to capturing it against the Heat.
"At the end of the day, it's competitive, and both sides are going to have competitive players who want to win," said Garnett, who totaled 15 points and 11 rebounds against the Wizards. "It doesn't matter who we play. You take the court, you suit up, and that's what you're expecting. Whether you're playing lesser teams or below .500 teams or above .500 teams, you've got to anticipate that a team is trying to beat you."
Thursday night, an above .500 team not only tried to beat the Celtics but succeeded with flying colors. And while Pierce quickly downplayed a question about the blowout loss to the Bulls — issuing a curt "We're past that" response — the defeat has clearly stuck with Garnett.
"We want to keep that fresh in our mind," said Garnett. "It's motivating. We played like trash, and they played great. You want that to motivate you. We've got a really good Heat team coming up, and we'll be tested again."
The Celtics face the Heat on Sunday in a game that could decide the Eastern Conference's No. 2 seed, as a C's win would put them one game up on the Heat with the tiebreaker in hand and two games left.
"We're just trying to gather some momentum with these games that we have left and be aggressive," added Garnett. "[Friday], after the performance of [Thursday], it was probably more of an emphasis on being aggressive and for the most part we did that. I think we're looking for that consistency. We'll see. If we decide as a team to come into that, then that's what we'll be. If not, we'll have problems."
The injuries have placed a greater burden on this year's stars than Celtics coach Doc Rivers had anticipated, and the team's three aging stars will all have played more minutes this season than they did during the 2009-10 regular season. Still, Garnett isn't using that as an excuse to explain the team's lackluster performance since the All-Star break.
"Fatigue's not an option right now," he said. "It's not an option. But we are trying to get better, and we're doing it with hard work and effort, as usual. … A lot of [fatigue] is mental."
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|04.08.11 at 10:00 pm ET
The Celtics allowed the Wizards to hang around for much of the night, until the starters returned in the fourth quarter and mercifully put their stamp on a 104-88 victory.
Rajon Rondo (20 points, 14 assists), Kevin Garnett (15 points, 11 rebounds) and Paul Pierce (22 points, 12 rebounds) all recorded double-doubles, and Ray Allen (13 points) showed signs of coming out of his recent slump, making 5-of-10 shots (but only 1-of-6 3-pointers). The Celtics (55-24) did their part in the race against the Heat for the Eastern Conference's No. 2 seed.
Andray Blatche led the Wizards (21-58) with 20 points and 10 rebounds.
Rajon Rondo's fast start: One night after reportedly asking coach Doc Rivers for a 1-on-1 meeting, the Celtics point guard came out of the gates with a full head of steam, recording more assists in the first quarter against the Wizards (7) than he did all night against the Bulls (6). By the third quarter, he had already recorded a double-double. As a side note, Rondo continued to incite concerns about his aggressiveness around the basket, passing up easy shots to create more difficult ones.
Kevin Garnett came to play: It's no surprise that a showdown with Blatche brought out the best in Garnett, as the two have a long history of back-and-forth bickering. Knocking down six of his first eight shots, the Celtics forward registered his 28th double-double of the season by the third quarter. Of course, Blatche wasn't so bad himself, producing a double-double of his own.
Back to the basics: Of course, it helped that they were playing the Wizards. The Celtics totaled only 22 points in the paint and 14 assists (on 28 field goals) against the Bulls. Against Washington, they nearly doubled their output from the previous night in both areas (48 points in the paint and 25 assists), as all five starters reached double figures and each of the Big Four had at least three assists.
Just when you think they're out of it … the Celtics let them back in. After building a lead as big as 12 points and appearing to be in total command during the first 6:39 of the game, the C's predictably — as they have all season — let the Wizards close the gap to 59-56 at the half. As the season nears a close, Rivers would love to be able to rest his stars, but the bench hasn't been productive enough and the starters haven't been aggressive enough to put bad teams away.
Will Troy Murphy ever contribute consistently? The C's waiver wire acquisition saw some rare early playing time against the Wizards. Offensively, he committed a turnover and seemed lost for many of his 14 minutes on the floor, although he made a couple layups. Defensively, he got burned by unstoppable force JaVale McGee and immovable object Andray Blatche. All in all, not a great showing by Murphy, who's in desperate need of good showings if he wants to see playoff minutes.
Delonte West gets the heave ho: The team's best point guard against the Bulls Thursday night, Delonte West didn't even make it through the second quarter Friday. Playing tough defense but scoring just two points in less than six minutes of play, West picked up Washington point guard John Wall on full-court pressure, only to be whistled for a cheap foul. He didn't complain. Instead, he picked up Wall again, defending all the way up the court until another, worse whistle 14 seconds later.
After two separate verbal exchanges between West and referee Josh Tiven, the Celtics backup point guard picked up two technical fouls and, as a result, the ejection. West quietly walked off the court, leaving the C's with Carlos Arroyo and Avery Bradley as their options off the bench.
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1. Chicago (58-20): The good news: With their 16-point victory against the Celtics on Thursday night, the Bulls emphatically proved they have the best player in the NBA, the best coach in the NBA and, most importantly, the best team in the NBA. The bad news: They also ensured that Chicago fans will be forced to awkwardly walk past a weird half-bust/half-statue thing of Scottie Pippen.
2. LA Lakers (55-23): In a fantastic profile of Lakers coach Phil Jackson, we learned three important facts: 1) He really is retiring at season's end; 2) Upon meeting Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant told his idol, "I can take you 1-on-1"; and 3) A full-bearded man should never wear shorts this short. If two three-peats with Kobe and the Lakers to go along with the six titles with Jordan and the Bulls would be a perfect symmetry to Jackson's career, how much sweeter would a Celtics title be for Boston fans?
3. Boston (54-24): The Bulls embarrassed the Celtics Thursday night, but the C's are still 8-3 against the top-five NBA teams, 6-1 against their potential first-round opponents (76ers and Knicks) and 3-0 against their probable second-round opponent (Heat). As Paul Flannery noted, the Celtics also lost to the Cavaliers by 29 in the home stretch of the 2009-10 regular season. If that's not cause for optimism, then maybe Rick Pitino was right about the negativity in this town.
4. San Antonio (60-19): Are the Spurs the team that started the season 57-13 or the squad that lost six straight from March 25 to Arpil 1? Does anybody still have confidence that San Antonio can knock off the Lakers in the Western Conference finals? Will Eva Longoria get a cut of Tony Parker's playoff share as part of their divorce? So many questions still for this team.
5. Miami (54-24): After Derrick Rose and the Bulls obliterated the Celtics for their 17th victory in 19 games and the Heat lost to the Cavaliers and Bucks in a span of eight days, don't hold your breath for a response from anyone who believed LeBron James deserved this season's MVP honor.
|Irish Coffee: The Rajon Rondo roller coaster
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Make no mistake: The Celtics' 97-81 loss to the Bulls falls on Rajon Rondo's shoulders.
To say he got outplayed by Derrick Rose is like saying the seas got a little choppy during "The Perfect Storm." Rose obliterated Rondo, tying a neat little bow around his NBA Most Valuable Player trophy and effectively clinching the Eastern Conference's No. 1 seed in the process.
The box score tells you plenty. Rose outscored Rondo by 23 points on just six more shots. He got to the free-throw line seven more times (making nine more foul shots). He knocked down as many 3-pointers on Thursday night as Rondo has totaled in his last 33 games. He recorded more steals than the league's second-best theft. He produced more assists than a guy who had averaged 3.3 more dimes per game. And the most damning statistic: In terms of plus/minus, Rose (+24) owned a 38-point edge over Rondo (-14).
But the box score doesn't tell the entire story. Offensively, Rose blew by Rondo at will, wreaking havoc on the league's best defense. Kevin Garnett and another Celtics defender constantly provided help, leaving Carlos Boozer, Joakim Noah and just about every other Bulls big wide open on the weakside to put back rare Rose misses.
Remember when Rose stormed by Rondo and lost the ball underneath the basket, only to fire the ball out to Luol Deng for a wide open 3-pointer to put the Bulls up, 44-37? Those are the kinds of things that happen when a point guard walks into the lane as easily as my mother walks along Bay Lane. And those are the kinds of things that Rondo failed to do for the Celtics all night.
You wonder why Keith friggin' Bogans played Ray Allen to a standstill, and then you realize that Rondo failed to create open shots for the game's greatest shooter. When's the last time the Big Three were all held to 15 points or fewer? Oh, that's right, it was an awful 93-77 loss to the Rockets on March 18, when Rondo (4 points, 6 assists) got torched by Kyle Lowry (20 points, 9 assists).
It's fairly simple: When the Celtics have more assists than their opponent, they're 50-11; when they don't, they're 4-13. And who's "the head of the monster" who steers the C's ship, as Allen said on Mut & Merloni? That's right, Rondo.
If Rondo succeeds, the Celtics succeed. When he produces 10 or more assists, the Celtics are 35-6, and that .854 winning percentage only climbs higher as his assist totals sore. When Rondo gets to 13 assists, the Celtics are 13-2 (an .867 winning percentage). In the 10 games he's reached 16 assists, the C's are a perfect 10-0.
|Irish Coffee: Celtics vs. Bulls tale of the tape
|04.07.11 at 2:42 pm ET
In a potential Eastern Conference finals preview on Thursday night, little separates the Celtics and Bulls — head-to-head, offensively or defensively. Chicago (57-20) owns a three-game lead over the C's (54-23) for the No. 1 seed, but Doc Rivers & Co. have won two of their three head-to-head matchups against their old assistant Tom Thibodeau. In order to determine where the advantages lie, let's go straight to the tape …
Celtics vs. Bulls
97.7 … points … 95.7
11.0 … fast break points … 9.3
44.7 … points in the paint … 40.0
34.0 … rebounds … 41.7
5.0 … o-rebounds … 9.0
29.0 … d-rebounds … 32.7
22.7 … assists … 19.7
10.0 … steals … 5.3
4.0 … blocks … 4.3
10.3 … turnovers … 17.3
22.7 … personal fouls … 20.0
Considering the Celtics were missing Shaquille O'Neal in Game 1, Jermaine O'Neal in Game 2 and Kevin Garnett in Game 3, while the Bulls missed Carlos Boozer in Game 1 and Joakim Noah in Game 3, injuries didn't play a huge role in the overall production. So, the Celtics' shooting (points & FG%), passing (assists) and defensive (points/percentages allowed, steals and turnovers) are legitimate, as is the Bulls' across-the-board rebounding edge.
Now, let's examine how well the Celtics and Bulls have produced throughout the season:
|Irish Coffee: Kevin Garnett frustrated but confident
|04.06.11 at 1:10 pm ET
Wake up with the Celtics and your daily dose of Irish Coffee '¦
It's been almost two weeks since Celtics forward Kevin Garnett posted on his Anta blog, and he's just as disheartened about the team's performance in back-to-back games as he has been all season. It's roughly the 10,000th time he's raised the concern, and the C's have two more back-to-backs over the next five days. The highlights:
- On the Celtics: "Frustration is definitely setting in for some of the guys, but we'll meet and get it together."
- On Jermaine O'Neal: I "so was pumped to have him back with us."
- On Shaquille O'Neal: "The BIG Diesel was back! It was great to have him back and seeing him ball. He was killin it, then he pulled up! Damn, hurt again! That sucks! Keep rooting for him to get right!!!"
- On the Spurs: It "was like a playoff game. We 'hit' each other back and forth, and both teams took the shots. Rondo was super intense and brought it! Great TEAM effort and body feeling good. The guys got me in the right spot to make shots, so I had to knock them down. Great energy in the locker room."
- On the Hawks: The "bad part was the back-to-back in Atlanta. We started out Ok, but then started to get out of what we do. We weren't getting stops and taking early shots."
- On the stretch run: "This time of year we are trying to get ready for the playoffs, but it's tough to get rest when we have seven games in the next 10 days! We gotta finish strong, so we can get right for the playoffs."
As coach Doc Rivers has reiterated another 10,001 times, the Celtics won't be playing any back-to-backs in the playoffs — where the team has pulled ahead of the Heat for the East's No. 2 seed and within a game of the Lakers for homecourt in the NBA Finals.
It took nearly 20 minutes after the final buzzer of the Celtics' 99-82 win over the Sixers Tuesday night for Doc Rivers to show up for his postgame news conference in the small media room at TD Garden.
Turns out, he was being showered with praise by Sixers coach Doug Collins.
'We ran up against a team that played probably as well as they've played in a long time," Collins said. "I talked to Doc after the game, 29 assists, they executed brilliantly, they had two or three really great defensive spurts. To start the third quarter, we fought to get back in, and we cut it to four again, and then they had another defensive spurt."
Then came the really sugar-coated stuff.
"I told our guys how that's really what championship teams do, they might not play it for 48 minutes, but they're going to lock you down for stretches, and win those what I call five minute skirmishes. And I thought they won two five-minute skirmishes in the second half which I really thought gave them separation."
As for the message sent and received business that was in vogue after the game should this be a playoff preview, Rivers said he was really only concerned about the final score, nothing less, nothing more.
'No. No. Not at all," Rivers said, downplaying the mere suggestion. "I just think we won today, and they lost today, and they're going to watch film and we're going to watch film. But it's good to win.'
That doesn't mean everyone was buying it. Rondo admitted he thought the Celtics made a 'little statement' about just how hard it's going to be for the Sixers to knock off the Celtics in a seven-game series.
But back to Collins. Without mentioning him by name, the Sixers coach also had praise for the way C's GM Danny Ainge has rebuilt the depth of the bench to support his starting guards.
"Delonte West really helps them, Jeff Green has played very well against us, and they played a very very good game," Collins said. "Rondo once again leading their team, Ray Allen shooting a high percentage. So when they play like that, it should make Doc smile because they're one of the best teams in the league.'
Collins has been around long enough to know that trash-talking a superior opponent, especially one you might see in the first round of the playoffs in 10 days, almost never does any good.
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Samsung launches Galaxy NX camera
Samsung has launched a new device in its Galaxy Camera line-up. Dubbed the Galaxy NX, the camera not only has Wi-Fi connectivity, it is also capable of connecting to 3G and LTE networks. The Galaxy NX runs on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean with a layer of Samsung's TouchWiz Nature UX on top.
The Galaxy NX is aimed at serious photographers
The Galaxy NX has features such as Photo Suggest, which provides location based recommendations of popular photography spots, sourced from a huge library of images taken by photographers across the world. Other features like the Story Album lets users display special moments on one timeline, reframing and resizing them to create digital photo books which can be viewed and shared on other devices.
Runs on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean
One of the strongest points of the Galxay NX is its interchangeable lenses. The camera is compatible with any lens from Samsung's NX line-up. It has a 20.3 megapixel APS-C sensor and a DRIMe IV Image Signal Processor for performance. The camera's Advanced Hybrid Auto Focus gives better phase and contrast detection, claims Samsung. It also boasts of a 1/6000 second shutter speed and 8.6fps video shooting. The camera is capable of taking RAW photos.
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Since the camera runs on Android, users will have full access to all the apps from the Play Store, including image-related social networks like Instagram, photo editing apps like Snapseed and even games for when you don't have any photographs to click. It has 16GB of internal memory, which can be expanded up to 64GB through a microSD card slot. There is no word from Samsung about the availablity and princing of the Galaxy NX Camera yet.


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Bespoke shoemaker George Cleverley is known for making hand-stitched shoes out of exotic hides such as Russian reindeer leather from a ship that sank in 1786. In the West, the British brand has won the likes of Sir Winston Churchill, Dwight Eisenhower and Ralph Lauren. Now, Cleverley is hoping to woo top names in Asia, too.
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So we started displaying ads for a few search terms in order to block search partners. I have been looking at our logs daily (every day we displayed ads) to block search partners of yahoo. These sites in the past have never sent us profitable traffic. We did this for about 1-2 months until mysteriously instead of getting the sites that displayed our ads we started just getting more blank referrers.
I define blank referrers as entries from our logs that contain the parameters we have put in the destination URL (the parameters that tell us what campaign/keyword the traffic is coming from and that its from yahoo PPC), but don't tell us the website that the traffic came from (basically the website that displayed the ad).
I have been going through our logs and determining what was causing these blank referrers. On average about 30-40% comes from yahoo, 30-40% comes from blank referrers, and 20-40% comes from Search Partners. This was huge jump from the previous 0-10% blank referrers, 30-40% yahoo, and 50-60% Search Partners.
I guess my questions are three fold.
Do other people have the same problem with blank referrers when displaying with Yahoo?
Is there any way to fix this as we are confident our servers are querying the data correctly?
What are people's overall numbers for blank referrers over all their traffic and/or conversions?
We spend significant sums on Google, and used to spend a significant sum on Yahoo, but dropped them more than a year ago due to negative ROI.
When they announced the ability to block selected search partners, we decided to come back to test again. We ramped up, blocking search partners as we went, only to end up with a majority of traffic with blank referrers.
It's obvious that Yahoo has search partners that block their referrer, so that you can't block them from running your ads, since you can't identify the offending site.
Repeated conversations with tech support in an attempt to identify the sites sending blank referrers so that we could block them was to no avail.
I'm shocked that they allow this; it seems like another click fraud lawsuit waiting to happen. To allow partners to actively block their referrer--that's incredible.
They need to finally allow people to turn off search partners--it will be better in the long run--otherwise they'll keep having customers like us and dr1zz and many others just drop them altogether.
To allow partners to actively block their referrer--that's incredible.
They need to finally allow people to turn off search partners--it will be better in the long run--otherwise they'll keep having customers like us and dr1zz and many others just drop them altogether.
I couldn't agree more.
As they get whooped in the battle for search engine turf (market share), why isn't there someone at Yahoo who is willing to try to deliver value to their advertisers instead of aiming for volume. You attract and retain and maximize advertiser spend with value, not by allowing clandestine syndication (blank referral headers) and monetization (click fraud).
We've just implemented a log file reader and started banning the worst 3rd party sites. How long does it take for others to take their place? We are planning to have someone check weekly.
I'm closing in on the max. 250 domains, and I have to be able to identify them before I can block them. Plus I am gettin charged for the clicks just so I can identify them.
Now if we could block selected search partners in addition to domains it would be a much more workable situation.


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Filed under: Democrat Corruption, Economy, Health Care, Law | Tags: Affordable Care Act Law, Obamacare, President Barack Obama
A short piece by Bob Krumm caught my eye this morning. titled "IT'S NOT BUSINESS; IT'S STRICTLY PERSONAL"
Republicans want a delay in Obamacare. Because of the many significant problems with the rollout of Obamacare, and because he has delayed parts of the law himself some 19 times, President Obama should want a delay in Obamacare too. One year gives Democrats an opportunity to fix systemic errors in the software, the regulations, and the law. One year gives nothing at all to the Republicans–nothing–except the opportunity to crow a little bit.
That the President can't compromise in a way that gives him everything he wants, plus the extra time he needs, is not about business. It's strictly personal.
I love it when someone sums up all the arguments of the past few weeks, wraps it up in a brief package and sums it up in a quotable manner. Nice going.
Filed under: Capitalism, Democrat Corruption, Economy, Freedom, Health Care, Law, Progressivism | Tags: Empty Promises, Obamacare, Smoke and Mirrors
Back in 2008, three eminent Harvard economists who were advising the Obama campaign on matters economic — David Cutler, David Blumenthal, and Jeffrey Liebman — wrote a memo claiming that Senator Obama's health-care plan could reduce national health spending by $200 billion a year.
Candidate Obama had already claimed that health care costs were spiraling out of control, were going to destroy the economy, wreck the budget, so reducing the out-of-control cost of health care was a very big deal indeed. The advisers took that figure and divided [it] by the country's population, multiplied by four—for a family of four, and using economist math, rounded it down a little to a nice round number: $2,500. Mr. Obama, delighted, then took that number out on the campaign trail:
And he said he'd lower premiums by $2,500 in his first term as President of the United States. Avik Roy writes the Apothecary blog at Forbes magazine about health care, so with new numbers from the experts working for Medicare's actuary, he used the same economist math. He took the latest year-by-year projections, divided by the projected U.S. population to determine the added amount per person and multiplied by four—for a family of four. With the best economist math Obamacare will increase health spending by $7,450 for a typical family of four. He even included a dandy graph:
Health care costs have been going down since 2006. New diagnostic tools are in place and paid for. Important new drugs like Statins are saving lives and a lot of heart surgery. It was the president's claim of $2,500 savings that was completely wrong, but that was the basis on which ObamaCare was sold.
"I can make a firm pledge under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."
This is a touchy point among progressives. But you might remember that George W. Bush's Medicare Drug plan is the only government program known to have come in under estimates and under budget. That is because it had a built-in incentive to encourage seniors to select generics when they had the opportunity to, in order to avoid the "donut hole" where they wouldn't get a subsidy unless they really needed it. Democrats, of course, thought that was mean, (they don't do incentives) and eliminated the "donut hole."
On the other hand, Andy and Amy Mangione of Louisville, Kentucky and their two boys are just the family of four that should be helped by ObamaCare. They recently got a surprise in the mail.
The insurance charges for the Mangione's policy was going to almost triple — from $333 a month to $965 a month.
The notice from their insurance company carried this paragraph:
If your policy premium increased, you should know this isn't unique to Humana — premium increases generally will occur industry-wide.
"Increases aren't based on your individual claims or changes in health status," it continued. "Many other factors go in to your premium including: ACA compliance, including the addition of new essential health benefits."
People who currently choose to purchase a high deductible, low premium policy that's more affordable for them, are now being required to add all these new benefits to their policy. (Even if they don't want them).
This tells you how government bureaucrats do economic estimates, and why everything always doubles and triples in cost. (or more) And why you should never believe their numbers.
Filed under: Democrat Corruption, Domestic Policy, Health Care, Law, Liberalism, Progressivism | Tags: Coming Train Wreck, Obamacare, ObamaCare Failure
Further reports on the coming train wreck: Health Insurance rated in Georgia are rising by up to 198 percent under ObamaCare the Georgia Insurance Commissioner said in a letter to HHS on Monday.
Commissioner Ralph Hudgens asked for more time to investigate and approve the new higher rates. Georgia consumers cannot afford these massive rate increases, he wrote to Secretary Sebelius.
For a 25 year-old male, premiums will rise 65 to 198 percent within the exchanges, and for a 45 year-old male premiums will rise 40 to 100 percent. It seems to involve "age rating" which requires that insurance companies charge no more than three times what they charge younger people. This means that the restriction will lower prices for the elderly and raise them for younger people.
Indiana has announced that insurance rates are rising 72 percent for an individual plan and 8 percent or a group plan.
The Treasury Department Union is up in arms because they are being forced into the exchanges — and these are the people who are supposed to manage it.
Filed under: Capitalism, Democrat Corruption, Freedom, Health Care, Law, Politics | Tags: Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, Rising Cost - Rising Premiums
Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of the House, once famously said that "We would have to pass the bill to find out what's in it." They passed it, but she apparently still hasn't read it. It is long and confusing, but she clearly still doesn't know what is in it. She can't get past her extreme partisanship and speak about it honestly. One doesn't know whether to laugh or cry.
She doesn't remember, but here she is in 2012, asserting that she did too say everyone's premiums would be lower. You Tube is so darned inconvenient. Politicians just haven't caught up with the fact that their words are preserved for eternity.
Premiums are scheduled to double for most people. Premiums for a family are expected to be around $20,000 a year. With a vast shortage of doctors, wait times will increase to match the horrors of Canada and Britain. How to fix it? Well, just turn it into single payer, which is what the Democrats intended all the time. We were talking about trust and truth telling, weren't we?
ADDENDUM: The Ohio Department of Insurance announced that based on the rates submitted by insurers, the average individual market health insurance premium in 2014 will come in around $420, representing an increase of 88% relative to 2013. Lt. Governor Mary Taylor said in a statement: "We have warned of these increases. Consumers will have fewer choices and pay much higher premiums for their health insurance starting in 2014."
A total of 14 companies proposed rates for 214 plans to the Department. Projected costs from the companies for providing coverage for the required (by ObamaCare) essential health benefits ranged from $282.51 to $577.40 for individual health plans. They have not yet been approved by the Department of Insurance. The biggest drivers are 1) risk pool composition charges — forcing the young to subsidize the old, and the healthy to subsidize the sick. And 2) ObamaCare's required expansion of insurance benefits. Some have the impression that rates are rising because of the law's requirement or covering pre-existing conditions, but that represents only a very small part of the rise.


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Of course Pippa is one-of-a-spectacular-kind but you can channel her via this dress, slyly named by Kate as "Pippa." Fittingly, she sports flirty poppies, an exposed zipper and flare skirt to spare. Spring forward indeed.
Peter Pilotto's otherworldly prints take are made all the more surreal by his liberal use of neon. Even better, this design is a 360, not stopping until reaching flesh. He's got you coming, going and center stage.
Worth every penny of uptown cuteness, this is just one of the DVF-designed frocks available at The Gap as of Thursday (March 15, 2012.)Tags: green, white, limited edition, diane von furstenberg, pinstripe, spring, shift dress, dvf, SleevelessAdded 5 Years Ago from Gap
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Black and white may not be synonymous with spring, but Karl Lagerfeld's new line offers a fresh take on the little black dress, the white collar and versatility. The collar is optional, the back is va-va-va-voom yet the short-sle... Black and white may not be synonymous with spring, but Karl Lagerfeld's new line offers a fresh take on the little black dress, the white collar and versatility. The collar is optional, the back is va-va-va-voom yet the short-sleeved sheath has a most modest mien. Summary: this dress knows how to work hard AND play hard.Tags: white, black, spring, women's dresses, spring dresses, poplin, knee-length, boatneck, short-sleevedAdded 5 Years Ago from Net-a-Porter
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This one is a bit off on there pricing , but a great Idea for building your own table,,,They have bought industrail legs, the a piece of counter top with no back splash,,, if you blow up the photo, you can see they cut the top out of a standard type cabinet ,,,, and inset that into the counter top...
quick and easy, takes the standard home owner tooling..
but you can buy this type WITH a clucth motor brand new @ 250
one of a kind!
I wonder what holds it on the ceiling like that?
Not buying but is this the cutest machine or what?!