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Classic White Fan Dance by Jo Boobs
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Angel Fan Dance
-(3:22)- It's another Easter surprise, a special performance of a classic burlesque act. Miss Jo Boobs shows us how its done: A classic fan dance with white angel wings. Presented to get our theater audience in the mood for more fun.
Part of our pre-show for the Easter Special.
Your host: the Great Fredini and Julie Atlas Muz.
Performed with a egg-cited audience at the Belt theater, in New York City, on March 25, 2005.
Categories: JoBoobs , Performance , Striptease
Duration : 3 min 31 sec
read comments (0)What is a good song for a senior for a dance team video?
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she is a senior on a dance team. and at the end of every year the parents make a video for all the seniors. and it my turn this year and i dont know what song to put on my daughters part of the video.
"We run this' by missy elliot. Just make sure you get the clean version. We did this on our video this year and it was great.
Do you know of some high quality videos with well-known instructors in them for either one of these dances. These are for experienced dancers who can pick up quickly.
I like the ones by Kultur with Vicki Regan and Ron De Vito
http://www.kultur.com/page/Kultur/CTGY/dvd_dance
Bruce Springsteen – Dancing In The Dark
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Bruce Springsteen Dancing In The Dark from the album Dancing In The Dark (C) 1984 Bruce Springsteen …
Duration : 0:3:57
The Original Gratitude Dance! (www.TheGratiDudes.com)
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http://www.TheGratiDudes.com We started the Gratitude Dance out of moment of celebration at a coffee shop in Victoria, BC while writing our book on Manifesting Awesomeness. Out of this little jig came the idea to film it and put it on Youtube. Little did we know that it was just the beginning of our journey of understanding the power of gratitude and the power it has had on our lives. http://www.theGratiDudes.com We are Matthew Ashdown and Brad Morris, known globally as "The GratiDudes" (www …
Duration : 0:3:24
Dance Dance Revolution: Hottest Dance Party 2 Wii Game KONAMI
Class of 1963 45th Reunion Video
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Youve previewed the YouTube trailer; now own the entire 45 minute version as filmed live by Ann Willis at the Myers Park High Class of 1963 45th Reunion. November 1, 2008 is one night youll want to relive and remember. Myers Park Country Club echoed and the crowd cheered as Smitty Flynn and the Rivieras rocked the house. Then, the highlight of the evening, a seven-song oldies dance and show by the one, the only, The Original Rivieras! See and hear Sixty Minute Man, Searchin, Come Go With Me, I Believe To My Soul, Dont You Just Know It, Its All Right and Whatd I Say. Play it, have a glass of wine and dance at home!!! This limited edition 45 minute video shows all our classmates having a great time at the dinner dance, the full performance by the Original Rivieras and the spotlight shag dance by Fred Willis and our own Shag Hall of Famer Patty Howey McIlroy. Whos that you spot as the camera scans the dance floor? Is that your old flame? Best old friend? Is that you looking so very fine? The $20.00 cost billed to your credit card covers the duplication expenses, shipping and handling and a small contribution toward our current shortfall. If you want to help cover more of the reunion shortfall, just contribute what ever you feel comfortable above the $20 for your DVD purchase. Special thanks to Dan Smith for editing all the video and creating the trailer you saw on YouTube. If you have not seen the trailer -Click Here!
Introduction
Everybody who is in the business of New Product Development knows what a complex process it is. This is a multidisciplinary activity requiring coherence between almost all the functions of manufacturing firms.
Until recently though those who were called âproduct designersâ played in this process a role of rather a secondary importance. They were briefed by marketing, engineering departments, ad agencies with an only task: âWe want this look niceâ…
Then something went wrong. And those days are over. Today, Design Council Chairman prepares reports to the UK Prime-minister on how âUK businesses can stay ahead of their global rivals by drawing on the country’s world-leading design capabilities’. And at Davos, during the World Economic Forum held under the theme âThe Creative Imperative’, world leaders discuss how to apply design thinking to survive in the uncertainty and complexity global economy brings.
Approach to design in Russia is still at the level of aesthetics and, at best, ergonomics. In the meantime, design can be applied as a strategic business tool at least in the two directions. Inside the company design can become a strong management tool for aligning – and, thus, optimization – all the processes of NPD through focusing on the needs of all stakeholders for whom the product is developed, through creating consumer-based innovation culture. Outside the company designers have proved to be excellent observers researching into people’s unmet needs and, thus, discovering new niches and even new markets.
Developing innovative product: Seven reasons to think about the future is searching into the ways which made design shift from aesthetics towards strategy and discussing how to make most out of design thinking when developing really innovative new products, – both tangible and intangible.
«Only one company can be the cheapest, the others have to use design.»
Rodney Fitch, Chairman Fitch & Co
Reason #1. Fundamental Changes in the World Design Industry
The industry of design is undergoing deep transformation: from now on design is not only for appearance and style. Design is dramatically changing its role from being simply a tactical device to becoming a strategic business tool.
How does it have to do with NPD?
Design today is playing a much more important role during the first, probably, the most critical phase in the whole process of developing new product. This is a stage of strategic planning when you need to understand what to do, what target audience will be involved, what brand values will be pronounced, what new value to your customer this product will bring. It will not be an overstatement to say that it is from this stage success and failure of the new product depends. After all, it is not by accident that this â0â phase is called the Fuzzy Front End of Innovation…
What happens with designers today?
They expand their capabilities into new to them areas until then being âoccupied’ by marketers, brand specialists and management consultants. They obtain degrees in business and anthropology, psychology and ethnography. And more and more they become âhuman factors’ specialists.
«We investigated into fourteen large companies with an annual sales volume from $500 million to $10 billion. We discovered that only four of them had managed to meet plan in terms of timing, functionality of new products and market share. In five cases companies designed new generation’s products which were positively evaluated by experts, but at the end these products failed. As it turned out, every time when in an NPD process difficulties occurred, the roots of problems could easily be found at the stage of early planning, when the company had to decide what design the new product will have.»
«In search for new generation’s product», Harvard Business Review, 2007
Reason #2. Transformation of Consumption Culture
What are the reasons for the changes in the role design plays in NPD?
Technological revolution provides customers with real power in the market. Today, the question of the utmost importance for brands is how to satisfy people who have an almost endless choice reinforced by instant access to global market.
Thus, the main issue of NPD has dramatically changed:
Until recently it was: âWhat technical/organization/financial/manufacturing possibilities for designing new product we have’ (Technology-Driven Strategy);
Now: âWhat else does our customer want?/How can we emphasize with him?/What should we design to make our new brand/product experience as interesting, amazing, exciting as possible’(Consumer-Driven Strategy).
«It’s About Wants, Not Needs.
Consumers are saying they have enough stuff, want more experiences – 59% of them say they have all the material things they need.»
Fitch, 2005
Moreover, fusion of virtual and mobile cultures give people the power to manage their own ‘marketing environment’ regardless of companies business aims:
«3000: Number of advertising messages people are exposed to per day;
90%: Proportion of people who can skip TV ads who do skip TV ads;
80%: Market share of video recorders with ad skipping technology in 2008;
69%: Proportion of people interested in technology that enable them to skip of block advertising.»
Justin Kirby & Paul Marsden (2006). Connected thinking, Oxford, UK
Reason #3. Marketing Research vs. Design Research
Who meets new challenges?
Traditional marketing tools are good to shape already existed in the market ideas, understand whether these ideas have huge market and potential. All anything, but the larger demand for innovation, the more problems with identifying new product opportunities marketing has. Thus, companies have huge difficulties with identifying unmet customer needs since these are largely latent and not easy to formulate by the customers themselves.
By this, intuitive thinking, qualitative approach used by designers is very good for imagining new possibilities. Designers proved to be those folks who have managed to accomplish traditional marketing research with its design research methods based on approaching to human life in all its complexity and versatility.
This was the reason the whole NPD chain turned upside down and today it is not marketers and so called creative agencies tell designers what to do, but design consultancies identify new product opportunities, create design briefs, conduct research, develop a platform for further innovations and even brief ad companies on how to promote the new product.
«Eìery year brings 30,000 new products.
About 90% of the fail despite thorough and expensive market research…»
Harvard Business Review, 2005
«If I’d asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a better horse…»
Henry Ford
Reason #4. From ‘Consumer’ to ‘Human’ Experience
What philosophy is behind design research?
Unlike artificial situations of focus group discussions, designers prefer conducting in-context observations looking at the world through their customers’ eyes, empathizing with the soul, mind and body of customer. Philosophy of Zen Buddhism with its total immersion in reality, attention to ordinary life and day-to-day experiences is possibly the best way to describe how they like approaching to work.
Those who combine design thinking with interest in user research are called human fa?tors specialists. They research into total human – not merely customer – experience, investigate how people approach the world, what nuances of interaction with the product, brand, environment is of the most importance for them, what they expect from usage. That’s why in development divisions of many companies we can find such new positions as cognitive psychologists, social anthropologists, cross-cultural specialists who adapt products of global brands to markets with different values and mentality, as well as ethnographers. For example, Intel has more than twenty ethnographers among its employees. Microsoft, British Telecom, AT&T, HP, IBM – these and many other companies hire ethnographers who are excellent at watching people during design research.
If in a focus group you ask your potential user what characteristics should product of the future possess, high chances the answer will be in an area of the already known. At best, you will be said how to improve already existed aspects of using, say, a drill. The point is that the customer comes to a shop not to buy the drill. He is looking for a hole in the wall and you can endlessly redesign drill until some day somebody solves the issue of ‘a hole in the wall’ in some different way. And this will be the innovation.
It is not by accident that design thinking is often called ‘out-of-the-box thinking’: it is this way of thinking which helps come out beyond ‘consumer’ experience approach and see a human who has home and in this home he or she wants harmony and cosiness and to reach these one requires a means of mounting the picture they like to the wall. After all, should it be a drill or something else, for this human is not that important…
Reason #5. Design Thinking – Best Tool to Tackle Tacit Knowledge
But why design??
As a real power in the market goes to the customer, and knowledge worker accumulates critical for companies survival knowledge in his/her head, the problem of efficient dealing with tacit knowledge is becoming a real challenge within businesses and organizations. In other words, New Economy requires new way of thinking to tackle âill-defined’ tacit knowledge – call it synthetic, lateral, innovative, right-brain, divergent and, of course, design thinking.
In fact, to go from a business concept of a new product to its actual realization, from the world of idea to its materialization, means to be able to combine together controversial, on the one hand and underdetermined, on the other, demands:
1. Consumer’s need in the product or service;
2. Viability of new product development for business;
3. Feasibility from the point of view of the required technologies.
«In poems, in novels, in painting the brain seems to find itself able to work very well with material that any computer would have rejected as formless.»
Norbert Wiener
«Today perceptiveness is more important than analysis.»
Peter Drucker
Reason #6. From Product Design to Experience Design
What does all this mean for “new designers”?
An ability to create diverse human experiences, not just physical shapes. Content, not simply form. Workplaces not merely furniture. This is a gift of co-creation, of holistic approach to life and ability to fill it with meaning, emotions and lifestyle drivers.
Today, leading design consultancies position themselves as talents in creating a “complete product, brand, customer experience”. They regard this as their main competitive advantage. And it is well explained: âindustrial design’ as a creation of the product appearance has moved to the Chinese – the chances you outperform them in therms of speed, price and even quality are neat to zero.
It is quite interesting, that the word “experience” is one of the most difficult for translating into the Russian language…
«Truth cannot be defined, although it can certainly be experienced.
But experience is not a definition. Definition is done by the mind, experience is done by participating. If somebody asks, «What is a dance?» how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it.»
Osho
Reason #7. From the Knowledge Economy to the Creativity Economy
What does all this mean for businesses?
A new stage in the evolution and, first of all, an urgent search for new type of employees who are able to work with fuzzy, âstickyâ and vague information – the stuff inside employees’ and customers’ heads so critical for companies survival.
That’s why we hear about âThe Creative Imperative’ and observe deep interest of businesses in design, its methods and tools. For apply of such unique design tools, as design iconography, prototyping, scenario planning, storytelling, storyboards, videos have proved themselves as highly efficient in compressing and transferring multiple and complex concepts in the form which is easy to comprehend by a variety of audiences.
Moreover, design thinking being intrinsically synthetic type of thinking – read, leading to innovation – can be highly appropriate to co-create tacit knowledge of the network by:
1. Tapping tacit knowledge
2. Processing it into tangibles
3. Transferring it both inside and outside the company.
‘The Knowledge Economy is being eclipsed by the Creativity Economy…
What was once central to corporations — price, quality, and much of the left-brain, digitized analytical work associated with knowledge – is fast being shipped off to lower-paid, highly trained Chinese and Indians, as well as Hungarians, Czechs, and Russians. Increasingly, the new core competence is creativity – the right-brain stuff that smart companies are now harnessing to generate top-line growth. The game is changing. It isn’t just about math and science anymore. It’s about creativity, imagination, and, above all, innovation.’
Business Week, 2005
Questions and more information
Ekaterina Khramkova
CEO, Founding director, Lumiknows
MA: Design & Branding Strategy (Brunel University, UK); PhD (Russian Academy of Sciences); MSc (Moscow State University);
Member of the Design Committee by the Russian Ministry of Economic Development;
Lecturer at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow on Design Research, Foresight and Trends Forecasting;
Coordinator for reddot Design Concept in Russia.
In 2005, Ekaterina was awarded a Chevening scholarship from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the British government to enable her to undertake the Masters course in Design and Branding Strategy at Brunel University – one of the first programs in the world designed to bring
benefits of design thinking to the needs of business and society. For the first time in Russia, this prestigious scholarship was given in the area of New Product Development.
Contacts
www.designresearch.ru
Lumiknows RUSSIA: Moscow, St.-Petersburg
New Product Development
+7 495 585 7289
info@designresearch.ru
Speaking Engagement & Coaching
coaching@lumiknows.com
Dr Ekaterina Khramkova
http://www.articlesbase.com/management-articles/new-product-design-and-development-the-seven-reasons-to-think-about-the-future-593741.html
Autism, Probiotics And An Ideal World
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In an ideal world my son would be voicing his opinions, making decisions, going out with his friends, learning to drive, furthering his education, managing his finances and hopefully turning into a well adjusted, sociable young adult. However, this is not an ideal world.
My son has autism.
He is almost eighteen years old and I wonder, like all mothers, what the future holds for him.
We’re certainly not going to have long debates about anything because my son rarely speaks. When he does it’s just the odd word or phrase and you have to be a good detective to appreciate his “clues”. He does try hard though and also mimes, gestures and occasionally writes or shows you what he wants.
His language has deteriorated since he started to have seizures. We’re not sure if it’s the medication affecting his speech or the seizures themselves but either way his language is not as clear as it used to be. It means his audience has to try harder to understand.
Of course, as his mother I often know what he wants without him doing anything more than just glance in a particular direction or look at me. Other mothers will know what I mean. It’s sort of a sixth sense, a special bond.
Jodi is settled in a wonderful school where he has been for almost fifteen years. The staff all know him and he knows them. It’s comfortable but he can’t stay there for ever.
He doesn’t really have friends although he does have various groups of people whom he sees regularly. He’s happy to spend time with them and the feeling is reciprocated.
One such group is Lantern Dance where he goes for weekly dance sessions. Jodi is made to feel very welcome amongst the integrated group consisting of mums, dads, fit young teenagers, supple adults, professional dancers and other special needs people. Music and dance seem to fit with his autism somehow as his whole life appears to be set to rhythm.
He also attends two special needs youth groups where he has the opportunity to do “normal” things like karaoke, pool, badminton, dancing, cinema trips, bowling, restaurants, trampolining, swimming, etc.
It’s wonderful for him but he’s still considered a child. At least he is until he’s nineteen and then it all changes. Overnight he will be transferred into the hands of “adult” services and it’s scary.
It’s difficult enough to get the appropriate help as a child but it’s much worse for adults. We’ve been lucky with Jodi so far but there are many parents who feel the needs of their child have not been properly met. With autism on the rise and a lack of resources things are unlikely to improve. Professionals, teachers, social workers all agree.
Unfortunately, autism isn’t something people just grow out of. There are, of course, many interventions you can try to improve the quality of life for your child and we’ve tried many. Today I was told he’s a “lovely young man” and a “credit” to me so obviously some, if not all of them worked.
Certainly we saw changes almost immediately with some things, others took much longer and you get to the stage where you are not sure if it’s doing any good at all but you daren’t stop it “just incase”.
Our most recent and significant improvement for Jodi has been his diet. After years of eating a very self restricted, nutritionally useless, diet we introduced him to an amazing Probiotic formula called In-Liven and now he eats just about anything including fruit and vegetables. Best of all we don’t have to concern ourselves with the gluten problem which has plagued him for years. This is common for people with autism and is the inability to break down the proteins found in wheat.
Jodi’s diet used to consist entirely of acid forming foods which provided a wonderful breeding ground for pathogenic (bad) bacteria as they cannot live in a medium of less than pH 4.2.
The probiotic we use contains the full thirteen lactobacilli family found in nature and which have found to be beneficial against pathogenic bacteria, parasites and Candida, another big problem for most people with autism.
Lactobacilli are rapid and effective colonisers and such prolific lactic acid producers they are soon able to lower the pH of the intestine making it inhospitable to pathogenic bacteria.
The body should have a bacteria ratio of 85% good bacteria to 15% bad bacteria. For most people it is the other way round. Only when the good bacteria have been re-established will intolerances go away and good health be restored.
Certainly Jodi is incredibly healthy now and hasn’t suffered from the spots and acne associated with most teenagers. He’s changed in many other ways too. Many people have made positive comments. They can’t put their finger on exactly what it is just that he’s different somehow. If you believe, as I do, that the gut is the second brain, then I’m sure the probiotic superfood he uses has much to do with it.
Complete with 26 certified organic living wholefoods and 18 amino acids, it has been pre-digested for three weeks prior to bottling so gives up its nutrients as soon as it enters the body. That’s one of the biggest problems getting nutrients from food – time.
Although food takes about 72 hours to pass from your mouth to your anus it is only actually in your gut for about 12 hours so a lot of work needs to take place in a short amount of time.
Bacteria cover every available square inch of your intestinal tract and break down the food. I always envisaged them as having teeth and acting like a sort of mini Pac Man as in the very old video games. However, that’s not the case.
Instead they produce enzymes and these are responsible for every metabolic process in your body, all the building and all the repair. They are the molecules that digest food and deliver nutrients. Unfortunately the body cannot produce them and they have to be replenished.
You can find enzymes in raw food like fruit and vegetables but they get killed off at 116 degrees. Since my son never ate raw food and wouldn’t touch fruit and vegetables he didn’t get any natural enzymes. It’s no wonder he struggled.
Now, however, he gets the enzymes from the probiotics and the nutrients from the wholefood culture they are grown in, as well as all the other vitamins, anti-oxidants and immune stimulators. It shows.
Next week we go to look at a possible semi residential placement for him. I don’t want him to go but he has a need and a right to grow up and to make his own way in the world without having me with him all the time. I feel happier now his seizures are under control with medication and his diet has improved so much.
My biggest fear whenever we went anywhere was that he would go hungry because he couldn’t get the type of food he would eat. Invariably I took food with me and always our suitcases were much lighter on the return journey.
As for him going to a residential home I tell myself it will be like my “normal” son going off to university. He needs to have fun, to learn new skills and mix with people his own age. More importantly he needs to become more independent. After all I won’t be around for ever. I know it doesn’t always work out that way but in the normal scheme of things I should die long before he does. Then what? The earlier he learns to live without me the better.
I know it’s for the best. It just doesn’t feel that way. As I said, this is not an ideal world.
Jean Shaw
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/autism-probiotics-and-an-ideal-world-119135.html
where can i find the full Hamster Dance video?
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i wanna know where can i find the full Hamster Dance video. I looked on the internet but every video i saw was missing some frames during the video. i looked only for Hamster Dance song, and the song was perfect! So does anybody know where i can find Hamster dance video that is perfect!
Any answer is welcome! Whoever tells me the exact web address of the perfect Hamster Dance video, will get 10 pts. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76HcLEunsws
is this it?
