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A Journal on Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation after Pathological Events
Official Journal of the Italian Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (SIMFER), European Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ESPRM), European Union of Medical Specialists - Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Section (UEMS-PRM), Mediterranean Forum of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (MFPRM), Hellenic Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (EEFIAP)
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European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine 2016 Aug 30
Copyright © 2016 EDIZIONI MINERVA MEDICA
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High-intensity treadmill training improves gait ability, VO2peak and cost of walking in stroke survivors: preliminary results of a pilot randomized controlled trial
Daniele MUNARI 1, Anna PEDRINOLLA 2, Nicola SMANIA 1, Alessandro PICELLI 1, Marialuisa GANDOLFI 1, Leopold SALTUARI 3, 4, Federico SCHENA 2 ✉
1 Neuromotor and Cognitive Rehabilitation Center, Department of Neurological, Biomedical and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy; 2 Department of Neurological, Biomedical and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy; 3 Research Department for Neurorehabilitation South Tyrol, Bolzano, Italy; 4 Department of Neurology, Hochzirl Hospital, Zirl, Austria
BACKGROUND: Stroke is a major cause of death and long-term disability across the globe. Previous studies have demonstrated the trainability of stroke survivors and documented beneficial effects of aerobic exercises on cardiovascular fitness and gait ability.
AIM: The main aim of this study was to compare the effects of a high-intensity treadmill training (HITT) against low-intensity treadmill training (LITT) on gait ability, quality of life, cardiorespiratory fitness and cost of walking in chronic stroke subjects.
DESIGN: Randomized, controlled pilot study.
SETTING: Patients were recruited among Neurorehabilitation Unit outpatient.
POPULATION: The sample was composed of 16 subjects suffering from chronic stroke.
METHODS: Subjects were enrolled and randomly allocated either in the HITT (n=8) or in the LITT (n=8). Both groups performed 3-month training, 3 times per week. Subjects were evaluated before starting the training and after the end of the training by mean of clinical scales (Six Minute Walk Test, Ten Meter Walk Test, Health Survey Questionnaire SF-36, Stroke Impact Scale) and instrumental tests (Gait analysis, V02peak and Walking Energy Cost).
RESULTS: Fifteen subjects completed the study and no dropouts were observed. One patient in the LITT refused to initiate the training. The HITT group produced greater improvements than LITT group on the Six Minute Walk Test (HITT: 644 meters, LITT: 6 meters; p=0.005) and Ten Meter Walk Test performances (HITT: -1,7 seconds, LITT: 0,6 seconds; p=0.007), stride length (HITT: 3,3 centimetres, LITT: 0,4 centimetres, p=0.003), step length non-paretic side (HITT: 0,5 centimetres, LITT: 2,4 centimetres, p=0.008), step length paretic side (HITT: 1,8 centimetres, LITT: 0,7 centimetres, p=0.004), cadence (HITT: 1,6 step/minute, LITT: 0,6 step/minute, p=0.021) and symmetry ratio (HITT: 0,04, LITT: 0,01, p=0.004), V02peak (HITT: 4,6 ml/kg/min, LITT: 0,87 ml/kg/min; p=0.015) and Walking Energy Cost at 100% of self-selected speed (HITT: -30,8 ml/kg*km, LITT: -20,5 ml/kg*km; p=0.021). Significant changes were found on Six Minute Walk Test (p=0.012) and Ten Meter Walk Test (p=0.042) performances, spatio-temporal gait parameters (stride length p=0.011, step length paretic side p=0.012, cadence p=0.037 and symmetry ratio p=0.012), VO2peak (p=0.025) and cost of walking at 100% of self-selected speed (p=0.018) in the HITT group. In the LITT no significant results were observed.
CONCLUSION: HITT could be considered a feasible training and led to improvement in gait ability and enhanced VO2peak and reduction in cost of walking compared to LITT.
CLINICAL REHABILITATION IMPACT: Chronic stroke survivors should be encouraged to engage regular aerobic treadmill training at medium/high intensity. HITT is safe and feasible and has positive effects on gait ability, cardiovascular fitness and cost of walking in subjects with stroke in chronic phase.


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Just happened on South African TV. He's just won Man of the Match and says:— Gary Al-Smith (@garyalsmith) March 17, 2017
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> I recently moved my wireless access point to a dedicated interface on my
> M0n0wall generic-pc 1.231 running on an 10 year old OptiPlex Gs+ P166.
> (Wow, I'd forgotten how *old* that box was! M0n0wall works great,
> though the GUI is a tad sluggish.)
> When the WRT54GL wireless AP was directly on the LAN, standard def MPEG2
> played over MythTV perfectly. Now that I've firewalled it (separate
> segment, non-bridged) and opened up TCP/3306 and TCP/6543-6544 (tried
> with and w/o 'frag'), playback is too choppy to watch. It will play for
> ~2 seconds, pause for ~2 seconds, etc.
> I'm only using 21% of memory and CPU load is in the 0-5% range even when
> attempting to watch MythTV. No VPNs, pretty small environment. FYI the
> LAN and W_LAN ports are on the same IntelDual (fxp driver) card (though
> I know the packets still have to leave the card to go through packet
> filtering). The LAN itself is a D-Link DLI-DGS-1224T "smart"
> 10/100/1000 switch, and as noted when everything was local to that it
> worked fine (since the limit there was wireless speed).
> While I admit the FW hardware is ancient (P166!), according to M0n0wall
> I'm still barely using it. Does anyone think throwing hardware at the
> firewall will fix this problem? If so, why, since CPU and RAM use are
> so low. What am I missing?
> Would the latest M0n0wall beta firmware help?
On the old system you were getting full wire speed. On this one you are
not. Try to copy a file to see what speed you are getting now. I bet
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General Overview of Superchargers
Superchargers are an external mechanism driven off the engine's auxiliary drive belt. The mechanism can work in many fashions, but all have the same basic effect: to increase the force on the incoming air to the engine. Since superchargers are belt-driven, they do create small amounts of parasitic drag on the engine, however the effects of the supercharger greatly outweigh the drag.
Generally, superchargers work with gear ratios to create the desired speed of the impeller (or other air-moving mechanism). If less boost is desired, a larger drive-pulley can be interchanged onto the supercharger. If greater boost is desired, a smaller pulley is used. However, boost levels can be controlled in other ways too. A wastegate or blow-off-valve can be used in conjunction with a correctly sized pulley to have great control over boost levels.
A centrifugal supercharger is the most basic, and most common type of supercharger seen on street cars today. A centrifugal supercharger works a lot like a fan. The supercharger consists of an inlet port, an impeller, a scroll, and a discharge port. The air comes in the inlet port, and is hit by an impeller. The impeller must spin at speeds of 40,000 - 60,000 rotations per minute in order to create boost. At idle speeds, the impeller does not have enough rotational speed to produce any boost. The impeller utilizes centrifugal forces in order to produce boost.
The impeller is the integral part of the centrifugal supercharger (depicted as black fins). As the air comes in at the center of the compressor blades, the impeller grabs the incoming air from the inlet port (1). Since the impeller is turning at tens-of-thousands of revolutions per minute, the air is naturally thrown back and towards the outskirts of the fins due to centrifugal forces created by its rotational inertia (2 & 3). "At the outside of the blades, a "scroll" is waiting to catch the air molecules. Just before entering the scroll, the air molecules are forced to travel through a venturi (depicted as the larger grey circle), which creates the internal compression. As the air travels around the scroll (4), the diameter of the scroll increases, which slows the velocity of the air, but further increases its pressure (5)."2
While a centrifugal supercharger is capable of very high levels of boost and high levels of horsepower increase, the boost doesn't occur until high RPMs are reached (normally the supercharger starts creating boost around 3000 RPMs).
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"Neighborhoods Go Green! Scaling up Sustainability" features LEED for Neighborhood Development projects
WASHINGTON D.C.—The U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) "Neighborhoods Go Green! Scaling up Sustainability" exhibit has officially opened in Washington, D.C. The exhibit uses LEED for Neighborhood Development, the first comprehensive benchmark for green neighborhood design, as a framework to explore the key elements of a sustainable community. Co-curated by USGBC, the Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) and Farr Associates, "Neighborhoods Go Green!" is on display at the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
"'Neighborhoods Go Green!' celebrates the projects around the world that are helping transform our neighborhoods into walkable, sustainable and economically thriving communities," says Rick Fedrizzi, president, CEO and founding chair, USGBC. "The exhibit highlights the link between the importance of sustainability and the places where we all live and work."
LEED for Neighborhood Development, launched in 2010, integrates the principles of smart growth, new urbanism and green building, while benefitting communities by reducing urban sprawl, increasing transportation choices and decreasing automobile dependence, encouraging healthy living and protecting threatened species. One hundred projects have completed at least one stage of certification in the pilot program and about 75 projects have registered under the recently launched program.
Featuring text, photographs and illustrations representing the features of a model green neighborhood, the exhibit showcases successful local and national LEED-certified projects, including Twinbrook Station in Rockville, Md., and Renaissance Place at Grand in St. Louis, Mo. Unique to the D.C. exhibit is the Region Challenge, designed to encourage dialogue amongst local stakeholders and potentially initiate neighborhood-specific policy.
The inaugural exhibit opened last November at the Chicago Architecture Foundation in conjunction with USGBC's Greenbuild International Conference & Expo, and will continue to tour the U.S. following its stop in the District. To learn more about the exhibit, on display until April 21, 2011, visit the USGBC website.


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Located in an Art Deco hotel recently converted for private condominium use, we designed a penthouse apartment for a filmmaker with a roof deck overlooking the center of downtown Omaha. This apartment reinterprets the use of poché to create a cinematic architecture of sequence and frame. For the L-shaped unit we created a set of nested spaces with a grand room that appears as an exterior within the confines of the dense walls. 15-foot ceilings allowed the construction of a cozy mezzanine along the vertical path to the private roof deck above. Primary wood veneered walls hide bedrooms, house utilitarian areas, service functions and bathrooms. The wood has been CNC milled to form railings and light shields embedded within the walls. Recycled wood flooring and Douglas Fir wood ties contrast with the smooth wood veneer walls.


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The robotic arm on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity delivered a sample of Martian soil to the rover's observation tray for the first time during the mission's 70th Martian day, or sol (Oct. 16, 2012). This image taken later that same sol by the rover's left Mast Camera shows how wind or vibration or both affected the sample after delivery, moving much of it off the tray to the left in this view.
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Directors on call: Stormy Winters, Jim Swift, CynDee Cooper, Vergil Holland, Amy Coapman, Gary Westbrook, Werner Reitboeck, Gill Dan, Beverly Lambert, Lena Bailey, Ricky Fletcher, Jeanne Weaver, Leo Woodbury, Don McCaig, Red Oliver, Sandra Milberg, Dal Kratzer, Joyce Geier, Barb Ross, Kent Kuykendall
Directors not on call: Scott Glen, Bill Evans, Amanda Milliken
ABCA representative not on call: Rusty Child
Officers on call: Mike Canaday, Dan Gill, Francis Raley
1. Meeting called to order at 7:05 PM, central time.
2. Motion to dispense with reading the minutes made by Dan Gill seconded by Gary Westbrook. Passed, unanimous
3. Discussion moved to the 2002 Sheepdog Finals. Mike Canaday said he knew that there were a lot of rumors flying around and he wanted to lay them to rest. Mike said that the best thing was to go back to the beginning . There should be about $12,000 from the ABCA and another $6000 from the HA. However, the finals have gotten to be pretty expensive. When the bid was first accepted one of the factors in accepting the TN bid was the desire of our members to have the finals in the east again and that costs a lot more money than a Finals in the west.
4. Mike said we knew that the sheep were going to be a major expense and we needed to work on that and the whole budget tonight. Carol originally budgeted $3,500 for fencing which was for professional people to put up the fence. Mike thought that we needed to be more proactive to control cost over runs. This time we will be putting up quite a bit of the money for the finals and we need to take a more proactive role in where that money gets spent. Mike said he had spoken to Bruce Smart, president of the ABCA, and he agreed that as expenses come in the HA or ABCA will write checks to cover them.
5. The rental on the fairgrounds for example was budgeted at $5000 was down to $1200 for a while and Mike said he had just gotten a lease agreement for $2600. This still does not appear to be a fixed amount. This includes the field where the sheep will be kept. There is no extra charge for that field but it will need to be fenced. Each camper is going to be charged $12.00 a night for hook up which includes electricity and a dumping station. They are also charging us for each vendor $110 and each concession, $35. The total user cost is still being negotiated as they are requiring additional money for EMTs and security. Mike was hoping that we could find some people attending the event that could fill that role. This would be for the use of the grounds from the 10th to the end of the finals. There is some negotiation possible with this contract but Mike said we are committed to having the finals in Lebanon and its a bit late to go somewhere else. He thought the total for the grounds with the camper fees will be around $8-$9,000 which is about what VA paid. Dan Gill mentioned that there was a man working down in TN who is optimistic about his chances of raising some money. Dan also said that several people are putting on benefit trials for the finals who will make their checks out directly to the HA to help off set the cost.
6. Larry Tomlinson, the fair ground supervisor, said that even small events at the field garner 4-5000 people. Mike said that he was reluctant to spend a large sum of money advertising since that worked so poorly in KY several years ago. If we do get spectators, however, these financial problems will be a lot less. Donald asked who gets the gate. Mike said the good thing is that we will get the gate, but we will have to cover all the expenses. Donald suggested that we have a lawyer look at the Fair grounds contract and mentioned that Eileen Stein did VAs. Sandra Milberg said she agreed with Donald that we should really have a cap on the final figure. Several people said that they thought that everything should be in the contract. Kent said we should get input from all of the directors in the negotiations. Donald said that Mike did need to move forward with this and we aren't going to be able to negotiate a contract with a committee. Donald said, we need to trust someone to make the contract. Kent suggested that the trials committee do it. Mike said that the guy already had a contract for $5000 that Carol signed.
7. Donald asked if Carol had the bodies to do the work necessary for putting on a finals? Kent said probably not. Dan said that he, Steven Clendenin, Kent and Dal will go and do the work to put up the fencing which the Blue Grass is going to loan us.
8. Sandra asked if there was going to be a problem with the contract getting in early to put up the fencing? Mike said he has been in contact with the people and this isn't a problem. Kent asked that we make sure. Barbara Ross said we should have a copy of the original contract. Joyce Geier said maybe we could compare the two. Donald said he felt badly about this but he wondered if Carol had the bodies to run the trial. Dan said they have six active members. Dan said that Larry Jones has taken on part of this and is working on lining up volunteer workers for the gate and that sort of thing.
9. Joyce asked what actions were going to come out of this discussion. Beverly Lambert said we needed to authorize someone to sign a contract. Joyce said that there were many other things that needed to be discussed. Beverly said that this was all stuff that the trials committee was going to need to handle. Barb asked who was going to be the liaison between the fair and us? Should Carol continue to do this? Donald said this was a good question. Who is in charge? Donald said it should probably be Dan since he is the chair of the Trials Committee. Ricky said that we should just give Dan the authority to make the contract. Sandra said we need to have a lawyer look at the contract. Kent asked if Mike was in agreement. Beverly moved that the Board authorize Dan to enter into a contract for use of the fair grounds. Donald seconded. Passed unanimously. Dan said he will enter into discussion with Mike and the Trial Committee and make an agreement. Beverly made a motion to authorize trials committee to run the finals under the leadership of Dan Gill. Amy seconded. Passed unanimously. Dan was thankful.
10. Mike reported that Leo Woodbury has been working on finding a sheep deal for us for quite a while. But with the price of sheep changing most of the early bids have disappeared. We have had five bids ranging from $18,000 to $25,000 plus feed. We should have $14,000 in the sheep fund this year. We are going to go with the lowest bid which is a very good bid from someone who will get us good sheep. Dan said that the sheep will be coming out of Texas into KY in the next three weeks which will give them plenty of time to acclimate. They will be within 3 hour haul of the trial. This was the low bid at $18,000 which includes all of the hauling but doesn't include death loss or feeding at the finals. Dan moved that we add an additional $4,000 to our livestock fund. Stormy Winters seconded. Joyce asked where it was going to come from. Mike said the general fund. These sheep would be the same quality as this years Bluegrass sheep. Mike said these are not all going to be all lambs each handler will get one ewe and three lambs. Mike said the lambs are going weigh a minimum of 80 lbs at the finals. The total should be about 550 lambs and 175 ewes. Motion passed, unanimous.
11. Mike gave the treasurers report as follows, checking account $ 2,123.23, livestock fund $4,052.84, savings acc. $43,145.03. Stormy moved and Gary seconded acceptance of treasurers report. Passed, unanimous.
12. Francis proposed that the minutes of HA Board meetings be posted on the website. She suggested that she have 21 days to post the minutes and they be posted as unapproved and then be dated when approved.. Donald asked that we also post the agenda. Gary moved, Ricky seconded the motion to post the minutes and B/D agenda. Passed unanimous.
13. Francis said she will put the previous meeting's minutes on the web site now. Francis will not mail the minutes to the members unless they request a hard copy be mailed to them.
14. After some discussion Beverly moved that we post the agenda of regular meetings at least 7 days prior to the meeting on the web site. Ricky seconded. Passed, unanimous.
15. Francis said that premiums for the sheepdog finals need to be approved before the entries go out. Mike said we haven't received the money from Royal Canin yet. Lena Bailey said that she would like the monies to be against the number of dogs running, so if 60 dogs run instead of 150 the premiums would be different in the nursery. After much discussion Stormy moved that we pay the top 20 combined dogs in the nursery, Beverly seconded. Passed, unanimous. Decision on premium monies were tabled till next B/D meeting.
16. Moved by Stormy and seconded by Donald that the HA pay the $598.50 to cover over runs at the 2001 finals. Unanimous vote.
17. Jeanne Weaver said according to Article II of our bylaws our purpose is to work for the improvement and preservation of the border collies as working dogs. Jeanne moved, due to the fact the trial to be held on Oct. 14 in Grey Summit, Mo. was sanctioned by the Border Collie Society of America and to be held in conjunction with a ABC conformation event for Border Collies which is in direct conflict with the By-laws Article II, I move to withdraw the sanctioning of said trial. Mike said that there were legal issues involved here and this motion should be run by an attorney. Donald said that any joint directors of the ABCA and USBCHA should abstain from this discussion and vote. Red moved to table the motion until Eileen Stein can come up with some legal language, seconded by Dal Kratzer. Mike appointed a committee to discuss USBCHA's response to AKC registration of working Border Collies. Jeannie Weaver, chair, Red Oliver and Barbara Ross were appointed to the committee. The committee will deal with requests of sanctioning for USBCHA trials.
18. Beverly moved that as a result of an error in the by-laws the rules do not limit handlers to two dogs at the National Finals and in as much as it has been a long standing tradition of the HA that no handler run more then two dogs in finals the board request that no handler enter more then two dogs in this year's finals. There is a by-laws amendment proposed for this year's annual meeting to limit handlers to run two dogs in the finals. Red seconded. Lena asked if this affects entering an alternate dog. Mike said that it didn't. Passed, unanimous.
19. Joyce asked if we wanted to broaden our sanctioning to cover people who were convicted of acts of cruelty. After some discussion it was decided to appoint a committee to come up with a recommended amendment to the by-laws after speaking with an attorney. Joyce Geier chairperson , Amy Coapman, Barb Ross and Gary Westbrook volunteered to help with the committee. Gary wanted to make sure we were just dealing with dogs. It was generally agreed that we should limit to the abuse of dogs.
20. Francis asked what the deadline was for entering the finals, should it remain August 1st. Dan moved that the entry deadline be August 15th, just for 2002, second by Amy Coapman. After some discussion motion passed, unanimous.
21. Mike proposed that every member get a copy of the program for the cattle and sheep finals. All the handlers would do is pay for the mailing if the host committee wished to provide the programs. This would help the host committee in selling advertising. Lena moved and Dal seconded the motion. Motion passed.. Joyce Geier opposed, Barbara Ross abstained.
22. Beverly moved adjournment and Donald seconded. Meeting adjourned at 9:40 PM.
Francis Raley, July 1, 2002


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The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
Special Edition
review by Adam Jahnke of
The Digital Bits
Film Rating: C+
Disc Ratings (Video/Audio/Extras): B+/B+/B-
Specs and Features
89 mins, PG, letterboxed widescreen (2.35:1), 16x9 enhanced, keepcase packaging, single-sided, dual-layered (no layer switch),
A Croc in Shot: The Making of Collision Course
documentary, 5 "behind the scenes" featurettes, 10
Lights! Camera! Animals!
featurettes, 5 deleted scenes,
Crocodile Rock
music video by Baha Men, optional
Croc Track
text commentary,
The Outback
(3 interactive games:
Australian Critters
Survival Trivia
Meet Steve and Terri
), original theatrical teaser and trailer, photo gallery, Easter eggs, animated film-themed menu screens with sound, scene access (28 chapters), languages: English (DD 5.1), French and Spanish (2.0 Stereo), subtitles: English, French & Spanish, Closed Captioned
This whole movies-based-on-TV-shows thing is now officially out of hand. Obviously they're here to stay and there's nothing anybody can do about it, but come on. A whole movie based on the most popular show on Animal Planet? At this rate, I fully expect to see a trailer for
Trading Spaces: The IMAX Experience
any day now.
If you've been doing without basic cable for the last few years, you may be unfamiliar with
The Crocodile Hunter
. Basically, Australian croc-tease Steve Irwin and his American wife Terri wander through such remote locations as the outback, unnecessarily provoking dangerous reptiles while exclaiming "Crikey!" a lot. There's plenty of that kind of thing in
Collision Course
, too, but in an effort to ratchet up the excitement, the filmmakers strand the Irwins in the middle of a direct-to-video spy plot. Seems a surveillance satellite has crashed and burned in Australia. Warring American government agencies are dispatched to retrieve a vital Black Box-type recording device, chock full of top secret info. But the high-tech gizmo has been swallowed by a giant croc that's been devouring cattle owned by Aussie rancher Brozzie (Magda Szubanski, better known as Mrs. Hoggett in the
movies). The Irwins are sent out to capture and relocate the croc. Naturally, they cross paths with the spies, whom the Irwins think are poachers. Crikey, indeed.
Somehow I can't picture Marlon Perkins taking part in such a bizarre project as
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom - Collision Course
but Irwin chomps into the challenge with his usual exuberance. Perhaps realizing that Steve and Terri aren't really ready for the big screen, the filmmakers keep them apart from the other unfolding stories for virtually the entire length of the film. This isn't a bad strategy but it does mean that nobody ever really collides in
Collision Course
. It's like there's two completely different movies going on at the same time, a feeling that's heightened by the fact that the film is shot in two different aspect ratios: 2.35:1 for the "movie" sequences and a smaller 1.66:1 frame for the "documentary" sequences. Ultimately, it feels like everyone involved with the project just gave up. The movie doesn't really end. It just kind of trails off and is capped by a stammering monologue in which Steve fills us in on what happened to all the other characters.
On the other hand, I'm the first to admit that I am not this movie's intended target audience. This is a family-friendly comedy adventure and as such, it's better than some. Compared to some other recent kids movies, this is perfectly innocuous fun and there's certainly nothing wrong with the Irwin's pro-conservation message. You do actually get to see some interesting animals along the way and learn a thing or two about them. And as far as I'm concerned, any modern kids movie that I can make it through without coming down with a splitting headache is aces in my book.
MGM's DVD looks and sounds just fine. It's not going to give your home theater system much of a workout but I don't foresee anyone being bitterly disappointed by the technical aspects of this disc. The disc is packed with extras and like many discs aimed at the younger set, they're kind of a mixed bag. The "making-of" documentary is a rah-rah bit of promotion narrated on-camera by Steve that reveals absolutely nothing about the making of the film. The Behind-The-Scenes featurettes focus mainly on effects and stunt work, while the
Lights! Camera! Animals!
featurettes divulge more information on the featured animal actors. Director John Stainton introduces five deleted scenes, most of which flesh out the spy plot and were obviously cut when Stainton realized that the spy plot needed no fleshing. You can play an optional
Croc Track
during the movie that gives more facts and figures about the animals and other, more tangential matters in
Pop Up Video
style. The interactive games and features in
The Outback
section are aimed squarely at kids. The games seemed pointless and unwinnable to me but other sections focus on educational features like animals of the outback, how to survive in the wilderness, and that kind of thing. The trailer and a teaser that's actually funnier than anything in the movie itself are also included, as is a music video featuring the film's awful cover of
Crocodile Rock
Who Let the Crocs Out!
) performed by Baha Men, unsuccessfully trying to avoid one-hit wonder status.
If you're in the market for a halfway decent kids movie, you could certainly do worse than
The Crocodile Hunter - Collision Course
. But you could also do a whole lot better. If you or your kids are fans of Steve and Terri, you'll likely be left wishing for a lot more animal adventure and a lot less espionage slapstick. If you're not... well, if you're not a fan, I can't imagine why you'd pick this disc up in the first place.
Collision Course
won't give you any new insight into the weird popularity of Steve and Terri Irwin. But it is a lot less painful way to see cute baby kangaroos than sitting through
Kangaroo Jack
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Baif Don Head by Baif Developments in pre-construction at yonge st & Major Mackenzie Dr W
Baif Don Head is a master-planned mixed-use residential & commercial development located by Yonge Street and Major Mackenzie Drive West in Richmond Hill, Ontario by Baif Developments Limited and designed by Hariri Pontarini Architects. This development site consists of four blocks with townhouses and buildings of 9 to 31 storeys in height with approximately 1,981 residential units, retail, commercial and office uses.
The Baif Don Head master-planned community will consist of four blocks with buildings up to a maximum height of 31 storeys. The proposal includes three residential towers of 20, 28 and 31 storeys and three additional towers with a maximum height of 10 storeys each with a total of 1,560 residential units and 5,292 square metres to "contain proposed uses such as apartment residential units, live-work residential units, townhouse units, retail, service commercial and office uses" in the (Yonge Street Block). The northwestern edge of the development (Major Mackenzie Block) will house the mid-rise buildings with sculpted terraces with a maximum height of 9 storeys and about 421 units including townhomes. The three southern blocks contain townhouses lining the side streets, a high-rise residential tower set back from Yonge and retail units. "The new retail component along Yonge reflects the scale of the existing small stores to maintain the street's character." There is a public square proposed at the southwest corner of Yonge Street and Major Mackenzie Drive.
"Public, semi-public, and private open spaces, interlinked with landscaped pedestrian corridors, will allow passage to and through this development, conceived as a densifying urban asset to surrounding residential neighbourhoods." The block directly located on the southwest corner of Yonge and Major Mackenzie is currently being occupied by the Richmond Hill Public Library; however, the design shows that the town hall will be relocated to this intersection in the future. Parcel A will have a proposed 20 storeys with 19 townhomes and 396 condo units with a total of 415 residential units. Parcel B will have a proposed 28 storeys with 26 townhomes and 488 condo units with a total of 514 residential units. Parcel C will have a proposed 31 storeys with 31 townhomes and 600 condos units with a total of 631 residential units. Parcel D will have a proposed 9 storeys with 32 townhomes and 389 condo units with a total of 421 residential units. Therefore, total residential units for all four parcels will be 1,981 of which 1,380 will be 1-bedrooms units and 493 will be 2-bedrooms units. There are a total of 2729 proposed parking spaces, 100,506 square feet of total outdoor amenity space proposed and 51,916 square feet of total indoor amenity space proposed.
A new revised development proposal for the (Yonge Street Block) now has the towers reduced from 20, 28 and 31 storeys to 18, 20 and 22 storeys. The 3-storey townhouses fronting Hopkins Street has been replaced with a 6 storey extension of the building podium. The residential units have been reduced from 1,560 to 1,435 with a total gross floor area of 137,175 square metres. There will be a total of 6 towers - 10, 10, 10, 18, 20 and 22 storeys. A new revised proposal for the (Major Mackenzie Block) now has a height of 15 storeys instead of 9 and residential units increased from 421 to 568 units with a total gross floor area of 55,671 square metres. There will also be another building of 10 storeys in height proposed. Total units in the new proposal for both blocks is 2,003 of which 103 are townhouses. 1,419 will be one-bedroom units and 481 will be two-bedroom units. Total parking spaces proposed is 2,728 of which 2,249 is in the Yonge Street Block and 479 in the Major Mackenzie Block.
Baif Developments Limited was the original developer as well as the major builder of the Don Head subdivision which comprised of 109 hectares and included an entire concession lot south of Major Mackenzie Drive West, between Yonge Street and Bathurst Street in Richmond Hill. They were responsible for several large projects in this area in the 1970's including a large community of dwellings comprising of a mix of single detached, semi-detached, townhouse and apartment/condominium dwellings and the Hillcrest Mall. The two Baif blocks in this development proposal are the last remaining lands of the Don Head subdivision to be developed. In 2010 Baif Developments Ltd. and M&R Holdings were the developers of a new retail development in Markham and had a competition in 2010 "inviting artists to submit proposals for an installation to define the southwest corner of Markham Road and Steeles Avenue". The winning design was a collaboration between Dean Martin at Cundari and Stephen Richards from Streamliner Design Fabrication. A video is attached below for your viewing.
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In an important judgment, the Bombay High Court has clarified that the judgment of the Supreme Court in BALCO is not entirely prospective: not the entire reasoning of the Supreme Court applies prospectively. In particular, there have been some recent occasions when questions have arisen as to what the proper court for filing of s.9 application is; and what is the effect of the observations in BALCO on the issue. The Division Bench has observed,
"In our view, it would not be appropriate, while applying the ratio of the judgment in BALCO to hold that the reasons which are contained in the judgment would operate with prospective effect. What the Supreme Court has essentially ordered, while moulding the reliefs is that the declaration of law to the effect that Part-I shall apply only to those arbitrations where the place of arbitration in India shall take prospective effect after the date of the judgment. But equally, it would be impermissible to hold that the interpretation which has been placed by the Supreme Court on the provisions of Section 2(1)(e) would apply only prospectively. The judgment of the Supreme Court is declaratory of the position of law that the Court having jurisdiction over the place of arbitration can entertain a proceeding in the exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction as indeed the Court where the cause of action arises.…"
The judgment, Konkola Copper Mines v. Stewarts & Lloyds of India in Appeal (Lodging) No 199 of 2013, delivered on July 9, 2013, is available here; and offers guidance on the application of BALCO.


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Mall Fight RP: (CLOSED) (FINISHED)
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Paddy the Second: 1/2 JIAN SWORD OF ERIC DRAVEN - BURN, ELECTRIC
Eric's not going to be happy about this. *chuckles*
Well at least it's one less deadly weapon to worry about. Yet somehow I'm certain it won't be the last. "Hey G-man, Are we gonna find out why we're here anytime soon? Because I'm getting pretty bored of watching it burn down."
I dismount the lightcycle, the vehicle derezzing as I do. "I be..." I start, advanceing on Paddy with a stotic expression, "...Friend." I finish, my expression softening as I hold out a hand. "Name's Knife, yours?"
"Paddy, pleased to meet you, please excuse me not shaking your hand, this sword's pretty heavy. Have you been here before?"
"Have I been here before?" I repeat, before laughing and throwing an arm around Paddy's shoulder. "My boy, I've been here before, yes. Heck, I even have my own Mall!" I point one of my tanto at the large window above the entrance of the mall, where outside, A mirror image of it sits, shimmering. "Look liked there was a bit of a party over here tho' so I decided to sticky beak around for a bit."
I leap down in front of the two. "Hey!" I exclaim. "Mind if I join your little group you got going?"
"This is evidently more complicated than I suspected. Some honky called G-Man appears to be running this one, I think someone's trying to rebel though, shit's been getting real in the food court, explosions and vehicle crashes and fiery chainsaws, someone could get hurt."
Zombie hits the floor and requests forming a trio. "The more the merrier, and maybe we could get somewhere we're not in constant danger of violent death."
"Well, sounds like that's the place to be then!" I say enthusiasticly to Paddy before turning to Miniman, "And sure, join the club." That taken care of, I toss both of them a light-batton, before drawing one of my own and pulling it in half at about waist height. As I to, the two halfs become the handlebars of my lightcycle, and as it finishes forming, I indicate to Miniman and Paddy to do the same.
"All I've seen of Tron is snippets from a Pixar featurette at the end of my Toy Story VHS." I rocket off towards the food court desperately hanging on, I leap off and hit the floor moments before the light cycle collides with the front of a McDonalds.
I decide to follow Knifes and Paddy's lead. "Where are we headed then?"
I sigh and shake my ead at the sight of Paddy crashing his cycle, before responding to Miniman. "Well, there was a guy around here riding an ATV with flaming chainsaws attatched to it, but I think he's buggered off deeper into the mall." I say.
"I'm fine guys, sorry for crashing it, but I suppose there's more." I grab a working replica of Ed's scooter from a store devoted to Cowboy Bebop merchandise.
"Flaming chainsaws, huh? Is it Grim? Because I think I saw him in the ATV. I could try and lure him out. I tricked and decapitated him earlier so he may still want revenge." I say to Knife.
"Won't you have a bit of trouble keeping up?" I say to Grim.
"Somebody evidently hasn't seen Mushroom Samba. Also you killed me as well remember? But I did kill you once, so I guess we're even."
"Yeah, I suppose so. Sorry about that by the way. So I guess we're set to go?"
I gaffer tape a boombox to the back of the scooter and plug in my mp3.
"I'll leave our destination up to Knife."
I shrug. "Eh, lets look around shall we?" I rev the lightcycle and speed off, traveling deeper into The Mall.
I take off, following in Knife's light trail. I start playing some electro to accompany our journey and drag my sword along the ground, leaving a trail of sparks and flames.
I ride behind Paddy, causing sparks to fly into my face. "Cut it out asshole!" I say as I speed up and ride in front of Paddy.
"Oh christ I'm sorry, but maybe next time don't ride directly behind the pimped firesword." I crouch forward and point the sword ahead of me.
I file 'Pimped Firesword' under 'Awesome names for a rock band' and continue to ride onwards, ramping off one of the escilators.
"A fire sword huh? That won't do you any good in an aquarium". I start to ride next to Paddy now.
"That's where the electrification comes into play." I bunny hop onto the bannister and ride up, carried by it's motion.
I try to ride up the stairs, but immediately face plant into the staircase. "Ow." I say. I ride up the disable access ramp instead.
I spark my electro-gauntlets to see just where I am in the mall, and spy a trio ascending the floors. They're the only alliance that I've seen so far, so it'd be wise to join them.
I rush over to their group, and offer my hand. "Care for one more?"
"I'd let you join. As long as you don't shock us to death." I reply.
(OOC: I'm gonna go away for a few minutes. Just pretend I'm here.)
"I'm not the betraying kind. I'm generally the betrayee."
I walk up the stairs alongside Zombie and his party.
OOC: Where is everyone now?
OOC: Our group is ascending some escalators. I wouldn't recommend taking on four guys, two of which have really f**king powerful weapons.
Doctor Com walks about for a fair bit. He had cleaned the Rancor pit earlier, and had repaired the walls. He continued to ride his segway with its homemade shotguns, filled with forks and homemade gunpowder. He had yet to fire it, though. Either way, he drove around, mop on back, Subtle Knife by side, and third cannon shotgun homemade in pocket. He continued cleaning up the mall.
OOC: Then what am I supposed to do with an ice-cream van made into a war machine?
"Listen, I think we should just ignore the Janitor guy. He seems to be intent on cleaning this mall up. And seeing how my 'f**k the system' plan isn't going so well, we need to find a way to win. Somehow..."
I spark my gauntlets to provide some better light, and spy a Japanese antique store. Seeing my prize, I rush in and grab a fairly-lengthy katana. I wrap some scrap metal around the handle and test it by sparking my gauntlets.
Say hello to the Blade of Saltarius.
OoC: Try to attack Doctor Com?
Doctor Com finishes up re-building the mall, and re-stocking the shops. He sits down, and tries to make a pistol for flaming CD's
I continue to add more armour to the Van, adding launchers for flaming projectiles.
OOC: I recommend joining us, because you aren't going to survive attacking us, ice cream death machine or no.
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Just what the title suggests. I need to sit down and start doing some research on my thesis. Recently moved to Yonge and Eglinton and have no idea where the good cafes are. And for me, a good cafe is one of those independent coffee shops that's cozy, has good coffee, and is never that hectic that makes reading/studying impossible. I hate going to the library, it's so boring and i end up falling asleep.
And it doesn't have to be exactly at Yonge and Eglinton. Anything between Bloor, Avenue, Lawrence, and Bayview is acceptable.
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Seeking parents of Daniel Burgess Fisher, 1816-1861 of Scotland and Hamilton, Ontario, Canada along with other family information.....
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Russia's Strong Partnership with the United States
Alexander Vershbow, Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Current U.S. Ambassador to South Korea
Videotaped Remarks
Washington, DC
October 18, 2007
Following are excerpts of an interview conducted by Mary B. Warlick of the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, April 25, 2007
Having worked on all the different Cold War issues it was very exciting to arrive in a Russia that was literally a different country than the one I worked on and studied during my academic years, a country that had achieved freedom and democracy and was developing a strong partnership with the United States. One of the first things that I had to deal with on my watch was the aftermath of 9/11 and the Russian reaction and the quick response by President Put in offering his support and helping to facilitate our military operations in Afghanistan, certainly added to the sense of optimism. A difficult issue that was on the agenda at that time was the U.S. decision that the ABM treaty had outlived its usefulness and that we were going to exercise our options to withdraw from the treaty. We were able to find a soft landing in that case and to move forward to negotiate the Moscow treaty, which is as everyone knows, the agreement that provides for the deepest reductions in history in strategic nuclear weapons.
The embassy worked very closely with the American Chamber of Commerce to try to promote business dialogues so that the growing opportunities in Russia for American businesses could be realized and of course President Putin himself launched a very positive series of economic reforms in his first years that began to give people real hope that a fully fleshed-out market economy was finally taking route in Russia. So those were very heavy days and I think we saw the solidarity between our two peoples grow even closer through sharing experiences such as the terrorist attacks that befell Russia.
But I think with the war in Iraq and the sharp disagreements over that, some of the fault lines that were still present in the relationship began to become more apparent...
One of my own personal priorities was the issue of HIV/AIDs, the evidence that was available to experts not only in the United States but in Russia itself, signaled that a potential pandemic was unfolding in Russia... The other big issue for the embassy and for the U.S. government under this administration has been trafficking in persons. Russia had a serious problem that they wouldn't initially fully acknowledge, both internally but also as a source country for trafficking to different parts of the world.
I think it's definitely true that we had a case of unrealistic expectations. That maybe that Americans are always a little bit too optimistic based on our own history and our ability to change rapidly over the years, that we were perhaps underestimating the tenacity, the durability of some of the underlying factors in Russian society and the Russian mentality that made the kind of broad-gauged partnerships based on shared values and shared interests a little bit unrealistic at least in the short-term.
I think we need to continue to do everything we can to expand exchanges, especially among younger people to get more Russians studying in the U.S. but also to get more Americans to study in Russia. I was very pleased to be able to open roughly 20 American corners in Russian regional capitals and I think that's an indispensable tool for the embassy and our consulates to be able to have a platform even if they can't have a permanent presence in these regions, to have a platform where people can come and learn about America, attend language workshops, or meet with visiting lectures and now they can do some of that through Digital Video Conferencing.
I think on these issues of democracy and human rights where the Russians feel that we have no right to hector them, we have to calmly say that these are permanent issues in the American-Russian relationship, whether they like it or not, because it goes to who Americans are as a nation, but it also goes to the question of public and congressional support for the cooperative relations that both of us want to build.
I regret that so much of the potential for the relationship still hasn't been realized. But if both sides are determined, then we can do it, but it starts with tying our peoples more closely together and then improving our ability to not only speak to each other but to understand each other.
And I think even with the negative trends that we have seen in recent years with respect to Russia's democratic institutions, it's still a free society, still an open society with people who can travel and stay connected with the outside world and I think that gives me some hope that the pendulum won't swing too far in the wrong direction and that it will begin to swing back as a younger generation begins to take charge.


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"Goofball weathermen, Climategate, conspiracy theories—these are all a distraction from what's really happening. Which, apparently, is what we're looking for."
18 Apr 2010
This quote from a recent New Yorker article, by the magazine's main environment reporter, captures America's mood well.
(In case you hadn't heard about these things, here are links for reading up: Goofball weathermen doubt that climate change is real, ClimateGate was a supposed conspiracy by scientists to hide climate data, and these feed into wider conspiracy theories about the whole idea of climate change being a hoax.)
The same feeling—that Americans are obsessed with the frivolous, while willfully ignoring the death and slow-grinding destruction that's eroding their way of life—is captured well in this comparison of CNN's homepage with Al Jazeera's, on an average recent day.
Why is it easier for people to believe in a worldwide conspiracy of scientists and governments, than it is to believe that a whole bunch of normal, relatively selfish people have screwed up the planet?
Why don't they think that oil companies—the largest corporations in the world—are engaged in conspiracies to keep us "addicted to oil," to use George W. Bush's speechwriters' words?
(Not that Bush blamed the oil companies. But there are good reasons to lay some of the blame for our situation at their feet since—as explained in several books including Ross Gelbspan's—oil companies have been instrumental in spreading doubt about climate change, as a way of preventing action to cut greenhouse gas emissions.)
I don't really understand what makes people glom on to one idea and not another. But it is comfortable to think that we're not causing a problem, or that if there is a problem, we're not to blame. And maybe that's all there is behind all this.


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Do left-leaning Americans have something against the Constitution? That's but one suggestion that conservative guest commentator Jennifer Rubin makes on this week's edition of "Left, Right & Center," and needless to say, it doesn't go over so well. Also, what will all the big changes brewing in Washington mean for those outside the elite political circles in our nation's capital?
The conversation is lively the whole way through this show, what with our divided government reconvening, another looming health care battle and the Pentagon's marching orders to trim the defense budget providing the easy, light subject matter for Rubin and regulars Robert Scheer, Tony Blankley and Matt Miller to tackle. —KA


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Be your own boss • Employed Utah women earn less compared with men than do other American women. That disparity could be part of the reason for a surge in the number of women who've gone into business for themselves. Utah is ranked seventh nationally in the number of woman-owned businesses added in the past 16 years, increasing by 157 percent and putting women-owned businesses fifth in the nation in growth. The healthy number of companies owned and run by women 72,800 at last count means jobs for 58,300 people and $13 billion in sales. Best of all, women who work for themselves have more control over their schedules and their working lives and are less at the mercy of employers and bosses.
Be more honest • It's unconscionable that the University of Utah and other universities conducted research on premature babies without disclosing to their parents the level of risk to the infants. The 1,300 babies were given varying amounts of oxygen, even though previous research had shown that low oxygen could cause death and higher levels could lead to eye damage. The watchdog Public Citizen rightly demanded an apology from the National Institutes of Health, which funded the study. The university researchers should also make amends for the lack of disclosure in getting parents' consent to have their infants subjected to the experiments. The U. researchers are reviewing the consent forms used. What a good idea.
Be on patrol • Some serious research might lead to the conclusion that the Utah Transit Authority should do away with its own police force and contract with another agency, probably the county's Unified Police Department, to serve the multi-county bus and train system. But we doubt it. Being a transit cop is different than being an officer for any other agency. A big part of the job involves customer service, helping people navigate the system, as well as arresting bad guys, quelling disturbances and checking to make sure passengers have paid their fares. The system crosses so many jurisdictions that outsourcing would be difficult. As to the question, asked by one UTA board member, of why a transit system is in the police business, one answer might be that it is commonplace. Transit systems from Boston to Dallas to San Francisco maintain their own constabularies. The UTA police system does not appear to be broken. Those who would fix it carry the burden of proof.


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I swore when I started doing this blog there would be, under no conditions, a posting of funny cat videos. Sadly, not one week later, I am posting my first funny cat video. I am too ashamed at this point to even try to rationalize to you (or myself) why I am doing this, other than the fact this video had me laughing in tears for about 5 minutes straight. I guess this is why people like this stuff, you can't help but think it is funny.
Please don't judge me too harshly.


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What I'm Wearing
*Eryn Brinie Blazer - fab twill blazer under $100
*Zara Blouse - no longer available but loving these dot blouses here and here
*ASOS Slim Crop Pant - similar petite sizing version (and seen on me here)
*Miu Miu pumps - similar, loooving the nude and navy ones too!
*Vintage Chanel bag - see my tips on buying vintage bags
*t+j Designs Sapphire Teardrop Earrings - on sale for $17!
This is an outfit from the fall, hence all the leaves around me but it never made it on the blog because I didn't like it much. I mean, I think it's a good outfit in concept but the pants didn't fit me so it just looks bad. BUT... I get a lot of questions on ASOS sizing (I know, it's a bit crazy!) so I thought I'd post these pants to give you guys an idea of the fit of their regular sizing pants as opposed to their Petite Sizing which you can see a pair on me in this lookbook. (Both are a size 2) They are much too big on me and throughout the day they seemed to stretch even more and by the end of the day were falling around my hips. I could belt it but then it bunched really weird so now these are relegated to the back of my closet and probably won't be worn unless I can convince my tailor to slim them down for me for not too crazy of a cost. It's a shame because I love the style and the color and I really wanted them to work. I didn't think that petite sizing would make much of a difference (my usual take on petite sizing is slightly smaller fit and shorter inseam but not a crazy difference) but I'd say it's at least a full size and a half bigger so be warned when ordering pants from ASOS. I got to meet up with Jean last night (more on that later!) who is the queen of petite sizing and fits and I was talking to her about how I don't tend to buy petite sizing in pants because the inseams are always too short for me but for ASOS, petite sizing is definitely the way to go! Just thought I'd share the tip with those of you that always wonder what size to order and if you should get the regular or petite size. :)
P.S. I'm on a flats kick and am loving cap toe flats, check out my top picks over on the Smarter blog!
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I'm glad you did post this one cause I happen to like it a lot! I think the pants don't look bad, skinny ones would've been perfect but I think this "casual" fit works for a more relax look and goes very good with the proportions, the combo is great!ReplyDelete
Cess O. <3 The Outfit Diaries
I love pink and navy together. Cute outfit!ReplyDelete
I totally understand and feel for you. I have the same issue because I'm "borderline plus" hahahaha. I think that it makes a huge diff. when the sizing is he same number but one is on the "plus" size. I hate that the fabric begins to give and by lunch I have these horrid bagginess around the knees.... sigh*ReplyDelete
Motivation to work out? Perhaps... hehehehe....
I love the color combination and I've been on the search for a polka dot shirt for YEARS. YEARS..... YEARS!!!
Just curious how tall are you without shoes?ReplyDelete
Loving your blouse! I should take advantage of the fact that Zara is so close to my office.ReplyDelete
I always love your color combinations. Too bad about these pants that became baggier and baggier. I have a pair like that too but don't want to go to the tailors..ReplyDelete
Just beautiful Jen! Polished and pretty!ReplyDelete
I really like the color of the pants. This is a beautiful outfit, can't even tell the pants are not fitting good. Another tip for ASOS, if I am ordering maxis I always get the petite size. The regular sizes maxis are so long.ReplyDelete
I've been wondering about ASOS sizing for quite some time. It's great to have the advice and experiences of other bloggers on these topics. Thank you!ReplyDelete
Wow, that bag is amazing ... love the size and shape.ReplyDelete
Why did I have to click on those nude Miu Miu shoes!!?? I love the curved heels.ReplyDelete
I find that pants are the absolute hardest/worst things to buy, even when you can try on a bunch in store - forget about online. I love Jean's in-depth reviews (though they really don't apply to me). P.S. Love the cute top!ReplyDelete
xx Vivian @ http://diamondsandtulle.blogspot.com
Such an uber fabulous look...Those pants are SO fun!ReplyDelete
Great to know about the pants sizing. I've avoided ordering pants and such from Asos for that inexperienced reason!ReplyDelete
I've never bought anything from Asos before. I have to check it out! I never noticed the bagginess of the pants until you pointed it out. Some people wear it like that so I just figured that was what you were going for.ReplyDelete
Besides the pants, looking fab as always :)
My gosh that is a huge difference between petite and regular! I know what you mean about being hesitant about petite sizing though...I feel like I can go both ways sometimes depending on the brand. It's tricky!ReplyDelete
Love the bright pants...they look so cute on you !!ReplyDelete
Love the outfit,super cute.ReplyDelete
I love how you have combined everything !! xxxReplyDelete


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Well, one way to look at the networks playing hardball and leaving YouTube is that there's that much attention left for the rest of us who are making small TV.
Posts about youtube
David Neeleman, CEO of JetBlue, takes to YouTube to apologize and promise better skies ahead. It's quite unpolished but that's part of the appeal. The guy has circles around his eyes; he's stressed; he's trying, and that's what comes across. He's using YouTube to speak directly to his customers and putting himself at their/our mercy.
TV's new ecosystem
Viacom just signed a deal with Joost to air lots of its shows and movies and the Wall Street Journal tries to draw a contrast between that and the company's demand that YouTube pull its clips offline. But they're completely different deals. Joost is the new cable MSO, airing full shows at full size. YouTube is the viral promotional and marketing engine of today — the, pardon me, buzzmachine of TV. Audience recommending clips via YouTube is what will drive viewers to Joost. Note that, apart from possibly supplying bandwidth, cable is cut out of this. See my post below. Good riddance.
YouTube: The new C-SPAN
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's blog — note how that rolls off the keyboard — has been putting up video of representatives floor speeches against the war. That's fascinating enough but get how they are posting the video: via YouTube. Here is Pelosi's own YouTube user page.
C-SPAN has been the place to get source information on video: watch and judge for yourself. Now YouTube can take over that role and not just for limited official events but for source video anywhere. [crossposted at PrezVid]
Guardian column: YouTube is good for TV
Here's my latest Guardian column (nonregistration page here). It's about Viacom pulling its clips off YouTube but what it's really about is the end of control as a media business strategy:
The days of doing business by telling customers what they cannot do are nearing an end. If your customers want to watch your shows, listen to your songs, read your news, or play your games, can you still get away with telling them they cannot unless they come to you and use your devices, pay your fees, and follow your rules? That could work in a scarcity economy in which you owned all the stuff and the means to get it. But no more. Business isn't about control any more.
The wise company today will go with the flow of the public's desires and try to figure out how to make money by helping them do what they want to do. That may sound obvious, but it's not how media work. In the age of consumption, control was what media were about. In the age of creation, they should be about enabling.
Take Viacom. The American media giant – owner of MTV, Comedy Central, iFilm, Paramount, and much more – followed the old rules this month when it demanded that YouTube take down 100,000 clips that viewers had put up there. Mind you, Viacom was quite within its rights, for it controls the copyright to that content. And as a content creator myself, I'm no foe of copyright. It's also clear that this is a negotiating move on Viacom's part.
Still, it wasn't a smart move. And here's why: the evening before Viacom's announcement, my teenage son and webmaster brought his laptop to the dinner table – yes, that is what life is like in the home of bloggers – and showed me a YouTube clip of his hero, Bill Gates, being interviewed by my hero, comic Jon Stewart, on Comedy Central's faux news, The Daily Show. My son had never watched Stewart. Nor does he ever channel-surf the TV. The only – only – way he is going to discover a new show is via the internet, and the best way for him to do that is via YouTube. Yet the next day, that clip disappeared from YouTube and thus Viacom cut itself off from its future audience.
Comedy Central has put clips on its own site and even allows them to be embedded, like YouTube players, on blogs. Fine. But the first problem with that is that the network is speaking to the audience it already has. To attract a new audience – to make up for the free YouTube promotion it has now cut off – Viacom will have to invest marketing money. Control can be expensive. The second problem is that the network, not the audience, is picking the good stuff now. If your audience wants to praise and recommend and pass around your best stuff, why wouldn't you let them, encourage them, enable them?
At the recent McGraw Hill Media Summit in New York, online mogul and conference keynote star Barry Diller said that "the issue is availability". The music industry, he said, "stuck its head in the dumb sand for way too long", but that won't happen to the video industry because "everybody's going to make everything available". The question is where and how. Diller said that producers won't want to find themselves at the mercy of a single powerful distributor, as they were in the early days of cable TV in the US. Fair enough, but they don't have to. Their videos can be on their sites and on YouTube; they should be everywhere. Diller argued that Viacom will make money from its clips with advertising, subscription fees and micropayments (the last long-promised and prayed-for but still not materialising). I say he left out the other business model: free promotion of their core business, their network shows.
Rather than cutting off new distributors and promoters, I say that producers should be finding the ways to take full advantage of the opportunities they present. How can you build new audience for free and grow larger than you ever could when you were limited by your own distribution and marketing? How can you enable that growing audience to recommend and share your best stuff? How can you find yourself in a larger conversation – not just in comments on your site, but in the response videos people make on YouTube and elsewhere? How can you use this new medium to find new talent and new ways to make content for less? And, yes, how can you make advertising revenue on the clips that are on YouTube and then on the countless blogs that embed its videos? If, in its negotiation with YouTube, Viacom manages to crack that nut – getting revenue plus promotion plus branding plus content while helping the audience do what it wants to do – then that would be wise, indeed. We'll see. My advice is simple: find the flow. Then go with it.
A British football team has done a deal with YouTube.
Well, if Sonny Bono could win….
Presidential candidates should take a lesson from Al Franken and his YouTube video announcing his run for the Senate. (Well, that radio thing didn't work out so well so it's time to get a job.) The video is a bit long but it has the right tone as Franken talks about his and his wife's poor families and how the government helped them get their starts in life; it is a fine illustration of his
liberal progressive outlook. Franken is not cracking jokes; he's not talking to a big audience on a big camera; he's talking to one person: whoever clicks below.
Comcast says that 4 percent of its bandwidth goes to YouTube and they say that's great news.
See also NewTeeVee's compilation of audience for the new television:
* YouTube: 41.1 percent market share, 86.8 million sessions, 29.7 million unique visitors
* MySpace: 19.3 percent share, 40.9 million sessions, 17.6 million visitors
* Google: 10.2 percent share, 21.6 million sessions, 12.1 million visitors
And so on.
Though it's comparing apples and kumquats (networks v. shows), note the latest big-TV ratings: 33.9 million for American Idol. But consider also that TV penetration is roughly double broadband penetration, still.


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JON SOPEL: The Conservative Health Spokesman, Andrew Lansley joins me now. Andrew, welcome to the Politics Show. What else did you find?
ANDREW LANSLEY: Yeah. It's good to be here Jon. It's astonishing here because this, this variation, what is actually at the heart of this or appears to be at the heart of this is the way in which government allocates money across the country because the way they do it is geared to deprivation, but then when you begin to look at what is it that leads to cancer, actually the largest single thing that leads to cancer is that we get older. And so of course you've got places all across the country which are relatively elderly, where the amounts of money that's been allocated by the government is relatively limited and they can't afford to provide services, so there's a kind of ageism in this a desperate ageism, where there are places where, as you can see, Nottingham and Manchester? large amounts of money being spent, erm, relative to other places. Other places with large numbers of relatively elderly, where the services are very limited.
JON SOPEL: It's an interesting point you make, but if you look at another correlation, which is where is life expectancy higher and where is life expectancy lowest, I suspect in the areas where the most money is being spent, the life expectancy is lower.
ANDREW LANSLEY: Well no, you see the very curious thing is it doesn't automatically follow. There are places like Manchester where life expectancy is very limited and there's a great amount being spent on cancer. But also, there are places like Tower Hamlets, where they're spending a lot, but they're not spending it on preventative work. You see I've got separate figures, which show that the amount being given to Tower Hamlets, is very high, but very little of it is being spent on preventative work. So only 51% of the women in Tower Hamlets are accessing breast cancer screening. So we've got a very skewed ineffective cancer service here. We've got too limited preventative work, health inequalities are actually widening, and yet we've got a skewed system, where the elderly, who are suffering from cancer, don't find the services available for them.
JON SOPEL: But you've been on this programme before, arguing against top-down targets, giving local people more power to decide where money is being spent and now you're coming on saying, well hang on, this this is terrible, they've got such wide discrepancies.
ANDREW LANSLEY: Yes.
JON SOPEL: It's the natural consequence of what you advocate.
ANDREW LANSLEY: Yeah, but if you're going to give the service greater freedom, which is absolutely what I want to do and you've got to be responding to patients, none the less, it's a taxpayer funded service, and the money that gets allocated across the country has got to be allocated fairly. Now you see in - just three days ago, (interjection)
JON SOPEL: So what's the solution, everyone spends the same.
ANDREW LANSLEY: No, not, not the same but it's got to actually bear a proper relationship to the burden of disease in different areas. Now, I've been arguing that for a long time and Patricia Hewitt in the end sent her committee away to go and look at this. But I've been arguing for nearly two years, this week Alan Johnson said, that the committee wasn't going to produce a report in time, it's not going to report till next summer. So we're going to have another year where this money is being allocated, but it's not being allocated related to the burden of disease. And I should, just one more point, there is a point about this public health thing because money is being allocated out across the country, but it's not getting spent on public health, on the preventative work and the screening work that is necessary. And cancer services, we are very, we can see from the EuroCare Survey, published in August, which compared across Europe, we're lagging behind the rest of Europe. If we had? (interjection)
JON SOPEL: But survival rates have improved substantially.
ANDREW LANSLEY: Ah, well they have improved, but they've improved across the world, but if our survival rate for five years in Britain was as good as that in Sweden, thirty four thousand more people would, would live, as a consequence of that. So that's a vast difference. (interjection)
JON SOPEL: Yes, but it's? but the government policy is heading in the right direction in that the survival rates are increasing substantially.
ANDREW LANSLEY: Well, policy is heading only in the right direction in the sense that we are investing more in cancer services. What we are clearly not doing by comparison with other countries, is investing sufficient in preventative work and in screening. So - because we tend to have relatively late diagnosis and we have a very poor take up of new drugs compared to other countries. I mean we are in fact, I've got in my own constituency, I've got a cancer research UK new facility, it's fantastic. The British public donate four hundred million pounds a year to Cancer Research UK, we are a country that probably, in Europe has the best Cancer Research. We also have amongst the slowest take-up of new cancer drugs, and that frankly is a scandal, it's something we have to tackle.
JON SOPEL: The Department of Health don't quibble over your statistics, but have you just produced them now because the government is about to announce its cancer strategy in a couple of weeks time and they're probably about to deal with this and you just thought you'd get in under the wire first.
ANDREW LANSLEY: No, actually, we produced them now because for the first time we could combine the material that the government has published on programme budgeting for the Health Select Committee, with the data that's coming out of cancer registries from the quality and outcomes framework for GPs. So actually, last year, you wouldn't have been able to calculate this data. This is the very first time that it's possible to calculate it, and we've done it. The government didn't do it. Interestingly, when the government looked at this, they tried to compare the amount of spend with the total population. We then said no, that's not relevant, you have to compare cancer spend with the proportion of the population who have cancer, which of course comes back to my first point. You end up then saying, there are places where the population is relatively elderly, therefore there is more cancer and the services actually are under funded by comparison with others.
JON SOPEL: Okay, Andrew Lansley, thank you very much for being with us.
ANDREW LANSLEY: Thank you.
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