There are only eight contestants left on The Fashion Show and after this week's challenges, we are one step closer to having a winner. Last week, the designers had to channel their inner clique. This week it was all about team work when they were broken into teams of two for their Harper's Bazaar mini challenge.
The teams were Reco and Daniella; James Paul and Lidia; Haven and Anna; and Johnny and Merlin. The mini-challenge was just the tip of the iceberg and seemed to foretell what was to come in the elimination challenge because they would be working in the same teams throughout both challenges. Of the top, Reco and Daniella were having conflict. Meanwhile, Jonny and Merlin worked well together and won the mini-challenge. Their prize was a five minute consultation with Isaac Mizrahi during the elimination challenge.
In this week's elimination challenge the teams had to design a complete look for Isaac's upcoming collection. For inspiration, Isaac showed them his mood board and then let them run with it. Daniella and Reco were still not working well together. Reco wanted to design a ball gown and Daniella wanted pants. Ultimately, Reco gave in and their design included pants. Jonny and Merlin continued to work well together. They created a simple skirt and tank design with a jacket but the colors and fabrics were edgy and remained true to both Isaac and themselves. Anna and Haven also worked well together and came up with a cute short set. Lidia and James-Paul worked well together, but their ideas were not melding. Lidia is always having issues with being slow and her designs are often a little strange. This week was no exception. Her fish scaly dress was awful.
Lidia
At the fashion show, Lidia and James-Paul's outfit was the only one I wasn't feeling. Daniella and Reco's outfit wouldn't look good on me, so Jonny and Merlin's was my favorite. At elimination, the top two designs were Jonny and Merlin's and Haven and Anna's. Guest judge Veronica Webb said she'd be proud to walk Jonny and Merlin's look down the runway, but it was Haven and Anna's design that sold the judges.
James-Paul and Lidia's design was one of the bottom two. James-Paul explained his vision, but Lidia wasn't able to tell the judges what body type she was designing for. Reco and Daniella's outfit was also in the bottom two. Daniella's pants were referred to as granny pants and there wasn't enough "Wow" in the outfit to be a part of a Mizrahi collection. The saving grace was Reco's top. Isaac said it was "the best part of the outfit". When asked who was more responsible for the outfit Daniella stepped up and said she was more responsible. James-Paul and Reco were given safety first leaving Daniella and Lidia out on a limb. Daniella lucked out being up against Lidia. That design was so awful the judges didn't have any choice other than to send her home. Daniella was winning challenges, but she may be a little too comfortable now. Step up your game Daniella! With Lidia, gone there are only seven designers left.
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Saturday, June 20, 2009
Saturday, June 13, 2009
What a week with health care
For those of use who do not normally follow health care issues, it’s been an eye-opening experience, to say the least, to keep track of all the various plans leaking out of Capitol Hill at a record pace.
It’s clear that health care reform will live or die in the Senate, so it’s helpful to focus on that body only, for now.
Democrats are clearly wrestling with whether or not they can, indeed, keep a presidential campaign promise to provide a government-run health care option. Some Democrats are saying the votes are simply not there.
Anything difficult in the Senate needs 60 votes to overcome a filibuster, and a “public option” - or government-run plan - would certainly run headlong into one.
Moderate Democrats are not supportive of it, and Republicans hear nothing but “single payer health insurance” when anyone even mentions “public option.” They immediately start saying things like, “Democrats just want to put the government between you and your doctor.”
Since we have not seen actual language, it’s hard to know if that’s true. President Obama and Democratic leaders are insistent on one thing, “If you like the plan you have now, you get to keep it.” And they seem adamant that the cost of health care come down.
If longtime universal health care proponent Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-MA, venerable chairman of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee were here, this might be a different fight. Kennedy has just started another round of chemo, though, as he battles brain cancer, and though he participates by phone in much of the debate, Kennedy, in person, is a force. He is a liberal lion, but he has worked over the years with many Republicans, and he is trusted.
But for now, Democrats are working on a compromise that appears as if it will fall short of a government-run health plan —- though it might allow Dems to say the government has its nose under the tent, while Republicans can say the government is NOT running things.
Enter moderate Sen. Kent Conrad, D-ND.
He has a plan Fox has reported on that would create cooperatives. Those in urban and rural areas have heard of them. You city folk have them controlling apartment/condo buildings. You farm state/rural folk have them controlling all kinds of things – like your power and water.
Conrad envisions a similar thing for health insurance, with the government possibly setting up the program and infusing it, initially, with enough money to compete, but eventually bowing out. Conrad cites the government’s initial efforts to set up HMO’s.
The Conrad cooperative would be a nonprofit, funded and run by consumers. You would have it on a menu of options, just like many people get now through their employer.
Congress will likely create massive health care exchanges, kind of like the travel website Orvitz, where you type in what you want and a list of competing plans and prices pops up. Shopping at your fingertips.
To those on the left who feel this is a betrayal, a ditching of the public option, Conrad says this, “What is the whole purpose of public option? The purpose is to have a competing delivery model to go out and go up against for-profit insurance companies. This cooperative model provides that. Yes, is not government controlled, it is not government run, but if you try to get something that is government controlled, government run there are virtually no Republicans that will support it and some Democrats that won’t, which means you probably can’t get 60votes .”
Conrad says proponents of the public option cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good, essentially, asking, “Do you really want to jeopardize health care reform that is so urgently needed to cover 46 million people that don’t have coverage? “
And on Friday, one influential senior Senate Democrat, Jack Reed, D-RI, a member of Kennedy’s committee, introduced a proposal that could provide an infrastructure upon which a Conrad cooperatives plan could be built.
Reed would use “federally qualified community health centers” that now exist in eight states across the nation to provide “non-profit Community Health Plans” that would compete with private insurers. These could be cooperatives, according to a Reed spokesman.
Conrad said giving up the public option is what’s needed in difficult economic times, with the very solvency of the U.S. government at stake with a health care system that is dysfunctional. It remains to be seen if more liberal Democrats would sign on, though.
Still, Conrad asks, “Look what is at stake here is enormous for the country, and if we can accomplish the really good things about a public option without it being government controlled, why not?”
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
EU trade chief opposes a boycott of opening ceremony
London (AP): European Union trade chief Peter Mandelson said on Tuesday he opposes a boycott of the Olympic Games' opening ceremony, saying it would only harm the interests of ``ordinary Europeans and Chinese.''
Mandelson said it was inevitable that China's recent crackdown on independence-minded Tibetans would trigger calls for boycotts of one kind or another.
But, in a speech to the Britain-China Business Council, he said it was not possible or desirable ``to wall off trade from the rest of our ties with China, including the issue of human rights.''
While European Union governments have ruled out an overall boycott of the Beijing Games, there is still discussion about EU leaders saying away from the opening ceremony on Aug. 8. Such a boycott would be an embarrassing political snub for the Chinese government.
But Mandelson said if Europeans want to help shape the 21st century, ``we have to shape it with, not against, China. There is no getting away from that. And our policies, and our behavior, and China's too, need to be conditioned by that reality.''
He said Europeans must balance their concerns over Chinese policies with a recognition of the need to engage with a country grappling ``with a governance challenge on a scale that probably has no precedent in political history.''
The challenge is to keep China looking outward and transform its ``superheated growth model into something that is economically more balanced, and politically and environmentally more sustainable,'' Mandelson added.
``China is like a bridge being rebuilt beneath our feet,'' said Mandelson. ``We will not be able to dictate the solutions to China's problems ... We must also not lose sight of the fact that we are bound to work with China, to live alongside China, to help China succeed''.
Next week, the European Union and China will launch a new high-level group to discuss trade friction.
Mandelson said that could create new momentum in EU-China trade relations, particularly in areas such as improving the protection of intellectual property rights, securing a fair climate for investment and balancing the EU's trade deficit with China by increasing demand for EU imports in China.
Mandelson said it was inevitable that China's recent crackdown on independence-minded Tibetans would trigger calls for boycotts of one kind or another.
But, in a speech to the Britain-China Business Council, he said it was not possible or desirable ``to wall off trade from the rest of our ties with China, including the issue of human rights.''
While European Union governments have ruled out an overall boycott of the Beijing Games, there is still discussion about EU leaders saying away from the opening ceremony on Aug. 8. Such a boycott would be an embarrassing political snub for the Chinese government.
But Mandelson said if Europeans want to help shape the 21st century, ``we have to shape it with, not against, China. There is no getting away from that. And our policies, and our behavior, and China's too, need to be conditioned by that reality.''
He said Europeans must balance their concerns over Chinese policies with a recognition of the need to engage with a country grappling ``with a governance challenge on a scale that probably has no precedent in political history.''
The challenge is to keep China looking outward and transform its ``superheated growth model into something that is economically more balanced, and politically and environmentally more sustainable,'' Mandelson added.
``China is like a bridge being rebuilt beneath our feet,'' said Mandelson. ``We will not be able to dictate the solutions to China's problems ... We must also not lose sight of the fact that we are bound to work with China, to live alongside China, to help China succeed''.
Next week, the European Union and China will launch a new high-level group to discuss trade friction.
Mandelson said that could create new momentum in EU-China trade relations, particularly in areas such as improving the protection of intellectual property rights, securing a fair climate for investment and balancing the EU's trade deficit with China by increasing demand for EU imports in China.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
MP4 what?
MP4 what?
At present, there are still many consumer awareness of the MP4 rather vague on that simple MP4, MP3 is the next generation, can play MP4 Player, later, with the accumulation of knowledge, be more systematic understanding. MP4 on the precise concept of untold, as it was MP4 brand, market, product specifications, configuration standards, and other areas, can be used one word to describe - "chaos." I wonder if the trend is still speculation, in the eyes of businessmen now, as long as it can become video side of the players, all the MP4, which is simple and intuitive, and it seems that the author was vague understanding of the basic agreement.
MP4 on the concept of divergent The chart is the author sets 100 words summed up on the concept of the MP4 awareness MP4 both "soft" and "hard", the complex and complicated.
MP4 audio formats: AAC
MP4 is a first, and audio formats, and MPEG-4 there is no significant relationship, like MP3 and MPEG-3 to do the same. MP3 is the MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 initials, and the MP4 MPEG-2 AAC, is a completely audio compression format, such as increasing the perfect reproduction of sound, multimedia control, noise reduction, and other new features, the most important thing is , MP4 through special digital copyright protection technology, which is unmatched by the MP3 player.
MP4 video formats: MPEG-4
Most of the market is biased in favour of the MP4 multimedia player, can play AAC, can be said to be rare. MP4 even say that the media is the acronym for MPEG4, which in the past seemed to be a fallacy, but after businessmen constant speculation, this fallacy has become the truth. Now, if you hear MP4 City computer word is definitely capable of playing video format of the concept of multimedia players, and not capable of playing the MP4 AAC audio player. This strange phenomenon is not without reason, the above mentioned AAC copyright protection function, which is many record company support AAC reasons, to make their player supports AAC, support must pay certain royalties or patent charges addition, the AAC is the source of a problem, unlike MP3 so open, very few online sources, the current MP4 audio player development is not yet ripe, in the light of the above the status quo, the public simply businessmen "in a new guise," equivalent to MP4 MPEG-4 Abbreviations 1996, which also happens to the MP4 This is the next generation of MP3 law, in addition to the support of the MP3 music player, but also a powerful MPEG-4 video playback capability, and, just "4" in the "3 "From this starting point, equivalent to MP4 MPEG-4 is reasonable.
Capable of playing video MP3
In fact, this is not a player MP4, in essence, is MP3, video player is only the annex to function, and has been called MP4, and it is purely commercial speculation. Limitations of this great player small screen (0.8 to 1.8 inches), small memory capacity to support specific format (MTV, MP4, MPV and DMV), and most are used, such as OLED and low-end CSTN screen, So precise, it can only be called MP3 player video only. Representatives: DEC F12R, coloring WANG JIN Bang, 3 E E1000 and PISA, such as coloring airship.
Hard-MP4
Such MP4 is the mainstream of the current stage of development, product of the number of absolute advantage, the concept of the MP4 hard drive, put it in simple terms is hard for the media to look at the players. Tatu to accommodate the world, with no hard drive need not worry about a lack of space. Hard MP4 general also integrates many other functions, such as digital cameras, video cameras, voice recorder, digital partner ...... this Guangping, 11, was hard MP4.
MP4-type flash memory
Contrast MP4-drive, flash-memory MP4 is to make portable storage media, such MP4 general support internal flash memory card expansion, are generally SD card. The Guangping is that there are two types of MP4, respectively Govideo PMP-120 and-680 JXD. Relatively compact flash-light MP4 much cheaper prices several times.
Did not display the MP4
Some companies believe MP4 3.5-inch screen is too small, high-quality video playback is greetings, and the flash MP4-128 ~ 256 M, is also not appreciate the large, these companies did not screen design a drive MP4, This MP4 through AV-OUT output to output, such as television and other screen, and use the 2.5-inch drive on the excessive volume, but stressed that such is not the MP4 mobility, size than traditional DVD players To many small, the market only very few paragraphs, with dozens of Kyrgyzstan MP4 this capacity, but the price of flash memory and MP4 similar. For example, Bo visualization MP4.
MP4 called on the various
Although MP4 this concept of hard and soft points, but on the hardware MP4, according to the design standards used by different functions or different emphases have different names, such as MP4, PMP, PMC, PVP, PVR, such as PMA.
MP4
A general and there is no uniform definition of the concept here is that the concept of hardware MP4, MP4 can be portable, can be MP3 generation, it could be all the PMP, PMC, PVP, PVR ... so many The players collectively.
PMP (Portable Media Player)
There is no uniform standard, but in compliance with the requirements of their own production companies, such as iRiver PMP-120, PMP-120 system software based on Linux, PMP system are generally the development of Linux, has no fixed hardware and software requirements can be any combination of , but it is also causing MP4 product diversification reasons. In addition, the PMP format compatibility with the hardware and decoding capability, it is more difficult to upgrade.
PMC (Portable Media Center)
The platform of hardware and software by Microsoft unified regulations, hardware designated to Intel's XScale processor, and software system is Windows Portable Media Player, the platform of open architecture, software easily extended. PMC is Microsoft in the mobile digital entertainment field and the development of new standards. For example, the YH-999, PMC is entirely consistent with the standards.
PVR (Personal Video Recorder)
PVR features focusing on video, can be said to have a powerful PVR video function, generally with PVR AV-IN/AV-OUT or video functions. For example, Bodeli iTouch, Mustek PVR-H140.
PVP (Personal Video Player)
PMP and almost concept.
PMA (Pocket Media Assistant)
PDA is simple to say that with the hard drive MP4 Fitness, it is more trendy digital products, Archos PMA 4XX series, is the world's first collection is now only a personal entertainment, business applications and wireless Internet access in one of the PMA
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At present, there are still many consumer awareness of the MP4 rather vague on that simple MP4, MP3 is the next generation, can play MP4 Player, later, with the accumulation of knowledge, be more systematic understanding. MP4 on the precise concept of untold, as it was MP4 brand, market, product specifications, configuration standards, and other areas, can be used one word to describe - "chaos." I wonder if the trend is still speculation, in the eyes of businessmen now, as long as it can become video side of the players, all the MP4, which is simple and intuitive, and it seems that the author was vague understanding of the basic agreement.
MP4 on the concept of divergent The chart is the author sets 100 words summed up on the concept of the MP4 awareness MP4 both "soft" and "hard", the complex and complicated.
MP4 audio formats: AAC
MP4 is a first, and audio formats, and MPEG-4 there is no significant relationship, like MP3 and MPEG-3 to do the same. MP3 is the MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 initials, and the MP4 MPEG-2 AAC, is a completely audio compression format, such as increasing the perfect reproduction of sound, multimedia control, noise reduction, and other new features, the most important thing is , MP4 through special digital copyright protection technology, which is unmatched by the MP3 player.
MP4 video formats: MPEG-4
Most of the market is biased in favour of the MP4 multimedia player, can play AAC, can be said to be rare. MP4 even say that the media is the acronym for MPEG4, which in the past seemed to be a fallacy, but after businessmen constant speculation, this fallacy has become the truth. Now, if you hear MP4 City computer word is definitely capable of playing video format of the concept of multimedia players, and not capable of playing the MP4 AAC audio player. This strange phenomenon is not without reason, the above mentioned AAC copyright protection function, which is many record company support AAC reasons, to make their player supports AAC, support must pay certain royalties or patent charges addition, the AAC is the source of a problem, unlike MP3 so open, very few online sources, the current MP4 audio player development is not yet ripe, in the light of the above the status quo, the public simply businessmen "in a new guise," equivalent to MP4 MPEG-4 Abbreviations 1996, which also happens to the MP4 This is the next generation of MP3 law, in addition to the support of the MP3 music player, but also a powerful MPEG-4 video playback capability, and, just "4" in the "3 "From this starting point, equivalent to MP4 MPEG-4 is reasonable.
Capable of playing video MP3
In fact, this is not a player MP4, in essence, is MP3, video player is only the annex to function, and has been called MP4, and it is purely commercial speculation. Limitations of this great player small screen (0.8 to 1.8 inches), small memory capacity to support specific format (MTV, MP4, MPV and DMV), and most are used, such as OLED and low-end CSTN screen, So precise, it can only be called MP3 player video only. Representatives: DEC F12R, coloring WANG JIN Bang, 3 E E1000 and PISA, such as coloring airship.
Hard-MP4
Such MP4 is the mainstream of the current stage of development, product of the number of absolute advantage, the concept of the MP4 hard drive, put it in simple terms is hard for the media to look at the players. Tatu to accommodate the world, with no hard drive need not worry about a lack of space. Hard MP4 general also integrates many other functions, such as digital cameras, video cameras, voice recorder, digital partner ...... this Guangping, 11, was hard MP4.
MP4-type flash memory
Contrast MP4-drive, flash-memory MP4 is to make portable storage media, such MP4 general support internal flash memory card expansion, are generally SD card. The Guangping is that there are two types of MP4, respectively Govideo PMP-120 and-680 JXD. Relatively compact flash-light MP4 much cheaper prices several times.
Did not display the MP4
Some companies believe MP4 3.5-inch screen is too small, high-quality video playback is greetings, and the flash MP4-128 ~ 256 M, is also not appreciate the large, these companies did not screen design a drive MP4, This MP4 through AV-OUT output to output, such as television and other screen, and use the 2.5-inch drive on the excessive volume, but stressed that such is not the MP4 mobility, size than traditional DVD players To many small, the market only very few paragraphs, with dozens of Kyrgyzstan MP4 this capacity, but the price of flash memory and MP4 similar. For example, Bo visualization MP4.
MP4 called on the various
Although MP4 this concept of hard and soft points, but on the hardware MP4, according to the design standards used by different functions or different emphases have different names, such as MP4, PMP, PMC, PVP, PVR, such as PMA.
MP4
A general and there is no uniform definition of the concept here is that the concept of hardware MP4, MP4 can be portable, can be MP3 generation, it could be all the PMP, PMC, PVP, PVR ... so many The players collectively.
PMP (Portable Media Player)
There is no uniform standard, but in compliance with the requirements of their own production companies, such as iRiver PMP-120, PMP-120 system software based on Linux, PMP system are generally the development of Linux, has no fixed hardware and software requirements can be any combination of , but it is also causing MP4 product diversification reasons. In addition, the PMP format compatibility with the hardware and decoding capability, it is more difficult to upgrade.
PMC (Portable Media Center)
The platform of hardware and software by Microsoft unified regulations, hardware designated to Intel's XScale processor, and software system is Windows Portable Media Player, the platform of open architecture, software easily extended. PMC is Microsoft in the mobile digital entertainment field and the development of new standards. For example, the YH-999, PMC is entirely consistent with the standards.
PVR (Personal Video Recorder)
PVR features focusing on video, can be said to have a powerful PVR video function, generally with PVR AV-IN/AV-OUT or video functions. For example, Bodeli iTouch, Mustek PVR-H140.
PVP (Personal Video Player)
PMP and almost concept.
PMA (Pocket Media Assistant)
PDA is simple to say that with the hard drive MP4 Fitness, it is more trendy digital products, Archos PMA 4XX series, is the world's first collection is now only a personal entertainment, business applications and wireless Internet access in one of the PMA
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