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Until 1966, South Wales was actually quite isolated from the nearby parts of south-west England and, in fact, from London. To get there you had a number of options. You could take the train, which ran in a tunnel beneath the Severn estuary (and still does today); you could drive through Gloucester, which was the southernmost road crossing of the river; you could load your car onto a train at Bristol and have it taken through the tunnel; or, if you were really determined (and lived locally enough for none of the other choices to be worthwhile), you could take your car down to the shore and load it onto the ferry.
The old car ferry between Aust and Beachley was old and slow, carrying about six cars or light vans at any one time and connecting the isolated village of Beachley, on a hard-to-reach peninsula between the Wye and Severn, to Aust, a tiny gathering of houses some miles from civilisation along a narrow B-road.
The ferry closed in 1966 when the M4 Severn Bridge (now M48) opened to traffic, but is not forgotten — having featured on a Bob Dylan album cover among much else — and the remains of its two terminals can still be seen today.
The construction of the Severn Bridge was one of the biggest and most famous achievements of the 1960s motorway programme. Work on the bridge took several years; here the cables have been put in place awaiting the arrival of road deck sections.
Looking west from the top of the tower on the Beachley side, the section across the Beachley peninsula is visible, leading to a gap where the Wye Bridge now stands. The section in the foreground is still in England; Wales lies across the Wye in the distance.
This third archive picture, from the top of the Beachley tower again, shows the road deck mostly in place and the shore close to Aust is visible opposite.
Today the Severn Bridge is a local road, bypassed by an even larger bridge downstream. But it remains incredibly handsome and striking — and far more characterful and beloved than its replacement.
Here, at Beachley, it passes over the old ferry terminal, looking quite surreal where it appears to hang in mid-air over the new lifeboat building.
The cobbled slipway leads down into the river, still well-maintained and used for the coastguard and an occasional fishing trip.
A single mooring hook remains on the slipway. Over the river, the buildings at the former Severn View services are visible.
Looking upstream, the disused power plant on the eastern bank of the Severn is visible.
In case anybody was in doubt over the former importance of this site, a pub just next to the slipway is named the Old Ferry Inn. So that's clear, then.
From beneath the bridge, the rumbling sound of traffic overhead is occasionally broken by loud thuds and metallic chimes where lorries bounce across expansion joints. The road deck is hollow metal box sections, with a thin layer of surfacing on top, so traffic vibration is amplified down here.
It's clear when looking up that the bridge deck arrived in sections that were slotted together, one after the other, to form a roadway. Each section was towed in by barges on the river and lifted into place.
On the other side of the river at Aust, the terminal was not taken over by anybody else and has been slowly reclaimed by nature over the last 40-odd years.
We're definitely in the right place, though — here's the ticket barrier that foot passengers would have passed through.
The shore is separated from the river itself by marshy ground, and the ferry was reached by a lengthy wooden pier. Most of it has now collapsed.
The road deck on the left side was about wide enough for one car; a narrower section on the right formed a footpath. For whatever reason, the road deck is in a sorry state but the footpath has survived in much better condition.
The supports for the pier continue out into the water, and beyond it, the structure that killed off the ferry arches across the river.
To the left, the Aust ferry terminal has a second striking view — the newer M4 Second Severn Crossing, opened in 1996, and its lengthy approach viaducts.
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Mummy Mysteries Revealed
Liverpool's World Museum gets set to open the doors of its new Ancient Egypt gallery.
Liverpool's World Museum is readying itself to open the doors of its new Ancient Egypt: A journey through time gallery later this month (28 April), revealing one of the UK's most significant collections of ancient Egyptian and Nubian antiquities.
The gallery has trebled in size to create the biggest ever display area for its ancient Egypt collection. At 1,000 square metres, it is the UK's largest ancient Egypt gallery outside of the British Museum.
The new, enhanced gallery will see around 1,000 key objects displayed including many items that have never been on public display before such as a recently identified statue part of Nefertiti and two mummy masks, including one with a magnificent representation of the vulture goddess Nekhbet, her wings outstretched and patterned. Also new on display will be Djed-hor's Book of the Dead and a brightly painted coffin belonging to a man named Haty from 8th century BC Thebes. The coffin comes from the collection of Sir Robert Mond of Wigan, an industrial chemist whose chief hobby was Egyptian archaeology.
Also new on display, and displayed for the first time, is a reassembled Predynastic burial (3200 BC), discovered in the desert sand in 1906 by John Garstang of the University of Liverpool. This better reflects how approximately 90% of people relied on sand to bring decomposition to a halt, as mummification was a skilled and time-consuming process which most could not afford.
The larger gallery also gives space to redisplay objects that were damaged in 1941 when World Museum was bombed in the Blitz. A number of objects will be on display for the first time in 76 years, after the Second World War, including several mummies and artefacts from the royal city of Meroe in northern Sudan, borrowed by the Louvre Museum in 2010 for an exhibition about ancient Egypt's southern neighbours, the Kushites.
The extended gallery will also see the reopening of World Museum's Mummy Room for the first time in 150 years. With a total of ten mummies on display, this is the UK's largest display of mummies outside of the British Museum, and double the number of mummies on display at the Museum previously.
The atmospheric Mummy Room will house nine mummies, four of which are being displayed for the first time after the Museum Blitz of 1941 - a female temple musician called Ankh-es-en-aset; a woman called Ta-enty who was buried in her bedsheets; a teenage woman whose name remains unknown to us, and a priest from Abydos called Hor-wen-nefer.
There will be an additional mummy in the main gallery, the mummy of Nesmin, who served as a priest in the temple of the male fertility god Min 2,300 years ago. Recent CT scans revealed Nesmin died from a fall. The mummy and coffins were previously owned by Sir Rider Haggard, author of King Solomon's Mines.
Steve Judd, Director of World Museum, said:
"Our mummy collection is world-renowned and has always proved to be incredibly popular with visitors of all ages.
"Until now, space restrictions have limited us from showing the full scope of our collections. By expanding the gallery, we look forward to wowing visitors with never-before seen objects displayed in new and exciting ways."
World Museum's ancient Egypt collection has been amassed over more than 150 years. The gallery will take visitors on a journey spanning 5,000 years of history from the time of the first settlers in the Nile Valley through to the impact of the Roman Empire. The collections are presented in seven themes: 5,000 Years; Collection Highlights; River Nile; People of Egypt; African Kingdoms; Afterlife; and the Mummy Room. Visitors will find out about Liverpool's long connection to excavations in Egypt and Sudan, and how thousands of artefacts made their way into the Museum.
In Victorian times Liverpool's Egyptian collection was the largest after the British Museum and was displayed in the main hall of the Museum. In the May Blitz of 1941, more than 3,000 Egyptian objects were destroyed when the Museum was hit by an incendiary bomb. The collection increased in size over the following 40 years, with 10,000 new acquisitions. The dedicated gallery that opened in 1976 was modest, with just two mummies on display, and improvements to the gallery in 2008 allowed a further three mummies to be brought out of storage.
The Ancient Egypt gallery has been funded through the generous support of DCMS/ Wolfson Museums & Galleries Improvement Fund, the Garfield Weston Foundation, The Headley Trust and the Molly Tomlinson Bequests. The exhibition has been made possible as a result of the Government Indemnity Scheme, arranged by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Arts Council England.
As well as the gallery, visitors can delve deeper into this fascinating civilisation by attending the accompanying programme of events including talks, performances and hands-on activities for all the family to enjoy. Teachers can educate and inspire students by attending our specially-devised ancient Egypt education sessions for schools: www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/schoolsegypt
World Museum also has a brand new Shop and Cafe open daily, which has been transformed into a stunning new space that's also available to hire for corporate and private events. Visitors can explore a huge selection of unique toys and gifts in the shop, and enjoy freshly-made food in the Cafe from the in-house team of chefs. All profits are returned to National Museums Liverpool to support its work.
For more information see: www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ancientegypt
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From the sea to the stars, a visit to World Museum reveals millions of years of the Earth's history through thousands of exhibits and hands on activities. Find out how humans have created the world we inhabit, from Africa to the Americas, Asia and Europe. The Museum houses our Ancient Egypt gallery (containing a collection that is amongst the finest in Europe) that is currently undergoing an exciting refurbishment. You can discover the wonders of the natural world in the Clore Natural History Centre, packed full of mounted and preserved specimens of all types of animals, as well as rocks, minerals, fossils and plants (see website for Centre opening times). The Aquarium is home to fish from Australia to Anglesey, while an array of creepy crawlies live in the Bug House. Then, blast off on a spectacular journey through space and time as the universe unfolds around you in the Planetarium. Open daily, 10am-5pm. Free entry. www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/wml
World Museum's Ancient Egypt collection
Liverpool has been a leading centre for the study of ancient Egypt for over a century. Students from Egypt and around the world come to study Egyptology, and Egyptologists from the University of Liverpool continue to make new discoveries. The city's collection is one of the most important in Britain.
The story of Liverpool's Egyptology collection starts with goldsmith Joseph Mayer opening his Egyptian Museum in 1852. Mayer purchased his collection from Joseph Sams, Rev. Henry Stobart and Viscount Valentia, with many objects sharing the same early 19th century provenance as those now in the British Museum and the Louvre. In 1867 he donated his collection to 'The Liverpool Free Library and Museum' (now World Museum) which at the time positioned the Museum as the most important public collection outside London. As a port city supplying the Lancashire mills with cotton from Egypt, it was easy to bring Egyptian artefacts into Liverpool.
From 1884, the Museum began enhancing Mayer's founding collection by supporting fieldwork projects of the Egypt Exploration Society and Flinders Petrie's British School of Archaeology in Egypt. With the agreement of the Egyptian authorities, newly discovered antiquities were allowed to be exported to museums that sponsored the excavation. By this arrangement, 4,000 items were acquired between 1884 and 1939, in particular from the excavations of John Garstang who, in 1904, established the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Liverpool – the first of its kind in the UK. Garstang was one of the most prolific and peripatetic excavators of his day. His richest finds were in Egypt and Sudan, where he conducted the first systematic explorations of the site of Meroe, the inspiration for Verdi's opera Aida.
The Ancient Egypt gallery has been funded through the generous support of:
• DCMS/ Wolfson Museums & Galleries Improvement Fund
• The Garfield Weston Foundation
• The Headley Trust
• The Molly Tomlinson Bequests
The exhibition has been made possible as a result of the Government Indemnity Scheme, arranged by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Arts Council England.
About National Museums Liverpool
National Museums Liverpool comprises eight venues, including some of the most visited museums in England outside of London. Our collections are among the most important and varied in Europe and contain everything from Impressionist paintings and rare beetles to a lifejacket from the Titanic. We attract around 3 million visitors every year. Our venues are the Museum of Liverpool, World Museum, the Walker Art Gallery, Merseyside Maritime Museum, International Slavery Museum, Border Force National Museum, Sudley House and the Lady Lever Art Gallery. www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk
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Não consigo selecionar outra opção, diferente do Bootstrap que ao clicar fora do campo, ele sai automaticamente.
Alguém já passou por algo parecido?

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Pensions Bill to place transparency requirement on funds
Open-access content Monday 24th February 2014 — updated 5.13pm, Wednesday 29th April 2020
Pension funds will be forced by the government to disclose all hidden costs in defined contribution workplace schemes, pensions minister Steve Webb has revealed
In a written ministerial statement, published this morning, Webb said: 'The government will be introducing new measures to require transparency for transaction charges in pension schemes.'
He said the extra information would enable those running DC schemes to see exactly how much they were paying for asset management services 'to get the best value for scheme members, who will also benefit from greater transparency'.
The amendment to the Pensions Bill 2013 is the latest part of the government's drive to bring greater fairness and value for money to pension costs, Webb added.
'We're taking action to ensure consumers have access to good quality pension schemes so they have the confidence to plan for their futures,' he said.
'A lack of transparency around the true costs of trading can prevent schemes from securing value for money for their members. We will outline further details on our proposals shortly.'
Webb said the amendment would be introduced at the Report Stage of the Bill in the House of Lords this Wednesday.
Shadow pensions minister Gregg McClymont said the government appeared to have backed down following pressure from Labour on transparency.
'But ministers are only implementing half of Labour's reform agenda,' he added because they have postponed the introduction of the cap on pension charges. Webb confirmed in January that the charge cap for DC schemes would be delayed until at least April 2015.
'Ministers are failing to allow savers and employers to get the greatest benefit from the new workplace pensions and the government's headlong retreat on bringing in a pensions cap has left savers at real risk of rip-off charges,' McClymont said.
However, Tom McPhail, head of pensions research at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the government decision to delay introducing a charge cap was sensible.
'This would have been very disruptive at a time when employers are trying to make sure they comply with the complex auto-enrolment legislation,' he said.
'This has left unanswered the question of whether investors are actually getting a good deal, though in the main they are. Improved transparency will help to reassure investors and to drive better market competition.'
This article appeared in our February 2014 issue of The Actuary.


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Fluoroscopic Analysis of Tibial Translation in Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injured Knees With and Without Bracing During Forward Lunge
Maryam Jalali 1 , 2 , * , Farzam Farahmand 3 , 4 , Seyed Mohammad Ebrahim Mousavi 1 , Seyed Ali Golestanha 5 , Tahmineh Rezaeian 3 , Shahram Shirvani Broujeni 6 , Mehdi Rahgozar 7 , Fateme Esfandiarpour 8
1 Department of Orthotics and Prosthetics, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2 Iran Helal Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, Tehran, Iran
3 University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
4 Research Center of Biomedical Technologies and Robotics (RCBTR), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
5 Department of Radiology, Mostafa Khomeini Hospital, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran
6 Sports Medicine Federation, Tehran, Iran
7 Department of Biostatistics and Computer, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran
8 Department of Physical Therapy, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
* Corresponding author: Maryam Jalali, Department of Orthotics and Prosthetics, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Tel: +98-9125040255, E-mail: marjalali@gmail.com
How to Cite: Jalali M, Farahmand F, Mousavi S M E, Golestanha S A, Rezaeian T, et al. Fluoroscopic Analysis of Tibial Translation in Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injured Knees With and Without Bracing During Forward Lunge, Iran J Radiol. 2015 ; 12(3):e17832. doi: 10.5812/iranjradiol.17832v2.
Iranian Journal of Radiology: 12 (3); e17832
Published Online: July 22, 2015
Received: January 25, 2014
Revised: February 27, 2014
Accepted: March 15, 2014
DOI : 10.5812/iranjradiol.17832v2
Background: Despite several studies with different methods, the effect of functional knee braces on knee joint kinematics is not clear. Direct visualization of joint components through medical imaging modalities may provide the clinicians with more useful information.
Objectives: In this study, for the first time in the literature, video fluoroscopy was used to investigate the effect of knee bracing on the sagittal plane kinematics of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injured patients.
Patients and Methods: For twelve male unilateral ACL deficient subjects, the anterior tibial translation was measured during lunge exercise in non-braced and braced conditions. Fluoroscopic images were acquired from the subjects using a digital fluoroscopy system with a rate of 10 fps. The image of each frame was scaled using a calibration coin and analyzed in AutoCAD environment. The angle between the two lines, tangent to the posterior cortexes of the femoral and tibial shafts was measured as the flexion angle. For the fluoroscopic images associated with 0°, 15°, 30°, 45° and 60° knee flexion angles, the relative anterior-posterior configuration of the tibiofemoral joint was assessed by measuring the position of landmarks on the tibia and femur.
Results: Results indicated that the overall anterior translations of the tibia during the eccentric (down) and concentric (up) phases of lunge exercise were 10.4 ± 1.7 mm and 9.0 ± 2.2 mm for non-braced, and 10.1 ± 3.4 mm and 7.4 ± 2.5 mm, for braced conditions, respectively. The difference of the tibial anterior-posterior translation behaviors of the braced and non-braced knees was not statistically significant.
Conclusion: Fluoroscopic imaging provides an effective tool to measure the dynamic behavior of the knee joint in the sagittal plane and within the limitations of this study, the pure mechanical stabilizing effect of functional knee bracing is not sufficient to control the anterior tibial translation of the ACL deficient patients during lunge exercise.
Kinematics Brace Anterior Cruciate Ligament Fluoroscopy Knee Joint
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Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is renowned as a key stabilizer of the knee joint. A large prevalence rate of 80000 to 250000 per year, or even more, has been reported for ACL injury (1), which makes this ligament the most frequently traumatized structure of the knee (2). ACL injuries are often due to sport accidents (3) and can affect the normal life of injured population who are mostly young and active persons (4), including early retirement of sports persons (2).
The effect of ACL injury on the biomechanics of the knee joint has been extensively studied in the literature. It has been shown to alter the joint's normal kinematics (5-9), functional performance, proprioception (10), and stability (11). An important consequence of the joint's biomechanics alteration is the abnormal loading which has been suggested to be responsible, at least in part, for the degenerative changes in the articular cartilage and the progressive development of knee osteoarthritis (12, 13). Although reconstruction surgery has been reported to be cost effective (14), there is no adequate evidence that it reduces the overall rate of osteoarthritis in long-term (14-16). However, whether a surgical or conservative approach is employed, a rehabilitation program is an inevitable part of the treatment plan and wearing functional knee braces (FKBs) has been suggested as part of this program since 70s (17). These braces are often used for partially torn ACL patients and those who have undergone ACL graft reconstruction, immediately after surgery, to support the healing ACL, improve the joint's functional stability, and restore the normal kinematics.
The efficacy of FKBs has been assessed in previous studies using clinical and arthrometric evaluation (18-21), cadaveric examination (22, 23), and motion analysis using skin markers (24-27). The methodologies of these studies, however, might be reasonably criticized for being subjective, unrealistic and suffering from limited accuracy (28, 29). In a recent study, intracortical pins, inserted into the bones have been used to obtain the knee kinematics in braced and non-braced conditions (30). This methodology, although accurate, is invasive and might interfere and affect the normal behavior of the subjects.
As such, the most reliable methodology to investigate the kinematical efficacy of FKBs is to use medical imaging modalities that provide direct visualization of the position and hence the relative motion of the bones noninvasively. Imaging techniques have been employed for kinematics analysis of the ACL deficient knees in two (31) and three (9, 32-34) dimensions often during quasi-static activities. Also, video fluoroscopy has been recently used to measure the kinematic behavior of the normal and ACL injured knees during dynamic activities (8, 35).
In this study, for the first time in the literature, video fluoroscopy is used to investigate the in-vivo kinematical behavior of ACL deficient knees, before and after wearing FKBs, in order to examine the hypothesis that FKBs reduce the anterior tibial translation of ACL deficient patents.
3. Patients and Methods
Twelve male volunteers with unilateral ACL injury, selected by convenient sampling among patients referred to a medical imaging center participated in this study. The number of samples was determined by priori sample-size power analysis (β = 0.20, and α = 0.5) based on the results of a previous study that measured the effect of wearing FKB on the anterior tibial translation of 15 normal subjects (20). All subjects were diagnosed with complete isolated ACL tear via MRI and clinical examination performed by an expert orthopedic surgeon. The exclusion criteria were age above 45 and below 18, any sign of inflammation, joint effusion, injury in meniscus, collateral or posterior cruciate ligament, concomitant injuries in the lower limb, any abnormal limb characteristics, and pain during the lunge exercise. Prior to testing, all participants read and signed an informed consent form approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences.
A functional knee brace was fabricated for each participant by a professional orthotist. The brace consisted of an anterior shank shell, a posterior thigh shell (thermoformed plastic sheets), two fastening Velcro straps on each shell, and a pair of knee bars. The shank and thigh shells were made based on the tracings of the entire limb with precise measurements of the limb contours for each subject. The orthotic knee joint was a standard polycentric hyper-extension controlling joint (17K48, Otto Bock, Germany) with bars made from non-metallic materials. The metallic screws of the orthotic knee joint were also replaced by plastic ones to prevent masking of the fluoroscopic images.
The fluoroscopic images were acquired using a digital fluoroscopy system (Baccara, DMS-Apelem, France) with a detector image array of 1024 × 1024 pixels and 12 bit depth, capable of imaging at 10 frames per second. Imaging was performed by the trained staff of the radiology department of Mostafa Khomeini Hospital under the supervision of a specialized interventional radiologist (MD). Subjects wore a lead apron and thyroid shield all throughout the test session. During the test, the fluoroscopy table was positioned vertically and the subject stood on a 45cm height table, to position the knee joint as close to the intensifier as possible in a proper field of view (32 cm diameter). The subject was then asked to perform a slow lunge exercise with his injured leg positioned forward, stay stationary with the injured knee at maximum bent for a short time, and then go back to the initial standing position. The subject was asked to keep his trunk upright throughout the maneuver. Imaging started after making sure that the knee joint was in the proper position that was seen all through the test duration. A metal coin with a known radius securely attached to the subject's leg or thigh was used to calibrate the image of each frame. Two tests were performed by each subject in non-braced and braced conditions. After application of the knee brace, the subject was allowed to walk for a couple of minutes to get used to the brace, followed by a 3-5 minutes rest before performing the experiment.
The image of each frame was exported to the AutoCAD environment (ver 2013, Autodesk Inc., Montreal, Canada) for analysis (Figure 1). The angle between the two lines, tangent to the posterior cortexes of the femoral and tibial shafts, was measured as the flexion angle. The relative anterior-posterior configuration of the tibiofemoral joint was assessed by measuring the relative position of a fixed point on the femur with respect to a local coordinate system attached to the tibia. The femoral reference point (C in Figure 1) was considered to be the center of a circle fitted to the posterior edge of the femoral intercondylar notch (36). The tibial coordination system was defined with the y axis, along the long axis of the tibial shaft, i.e. the line tangent to the posterior cortex of the tibia. The line from the most anterior point of the tibial plateau (P in Figure 1) perpendicular to the y axis was defined as the x axis, and the intersection point of the y and x axes (O in Figure 1) as the origin of the tibial local coordination system. The difference between the x coordinates of the midpoint of OP, considered as the tibial reference point, and C in the tibial coordination system was used to indicate the relative anterior-posterior position of the tibia with respect to the femur (36, 37). For each subject, the fluoroscopic images associated with 0°, 15°, 30°, 45° and 60° knee flexion angles were analyzed in two braced and non-braced conditions. For each frame, the radius of the calibration coin was used to determine the scale factor that was applied to measurement results.
Figure 1. Landmarks on the tibia and femur that were used to measure the tibiofemoral joint configuration.
The normality of the variables' distributions was tested by 1-sample K-S test. Paired t-tests (α = 0.05) were used to compare the mean of anterior tibial translation in braced and non-braced conditions in different knee angles (5 levels: 0°, 15°, 30°, 45°, 60°) and phases of the lunge maneuver [eccentric (downward) phase and concentric (upward) phase]. The time duration of the maneuver and the peak knee flexion angle were also compared by paired t tests (α = 0.05). The reliability of the process was tested using intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC2, 2). Ten sample images were randomly chosen from the available data and two raters measured the anterior tibial translations using the methodology described above. The measurement process was repeated after a 2-week interval by each rater and the reliability was calculated by taking the average of the two measurements. All the statistical tests were performed using SPSS 17 for Windows (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA).
The subjects were between 19 and 44 years of age with the detailed data indicated in Table 1. All subjects completed the maneuver with no discomfort in both braced and non-braced conditions. The general characteristics of the maneuver in braced and non-braced conditions were similar. The mean time duration of the maneuver was 12.8 ± 3.4 seconds without brace in comparison with 12.9 ± 3.9 seconds when using brace (P = 0.75). The result was the same for means of the maximum knee flexion angles with 64.6 ± 11.6 and 67.3 ± 11.9 degrees in non-braced and braced conditions, respectively (P = 0.07).
Table 1. Detailed Data of the Participants of the Study a
Age, y 29.07 ± 7.58
Height, cm 176.90 ± 7.89
Weight, kg 74.9 ± 7.84
Injured limb
Interval from injury, month 11 ± 6
a Abbreviations: C, contact; L, left; NC, non-contact; R, right; L, left
The results obtained for the tibial anterior-posterior translations are illustrated in Figures 2 and 3. In general, an increasing tibial anterior translation was observed with progressive knee flexion in the eccentric (downward) phase of lunge maneuver, in both the non-braced and braced conditions. The overall anterior translation of the tibia during the eccentric phase was 10.4 ± 1.7 mm for non-braced and 10.1 ± 3.4 mm for braced knees, with no significant difference. Also, no significant difference was observed between the tibial anterior-posterior translation behaviors of the braced and non-braced knees at the flexion angles examined, except for 60° at which the anterior tibial translation (ATT) of the braced knee was larger than that of the non-braced (P = 0.033). A similar trend was observed for tibial posterior translation during the concentric (upward) phase of the lunge maneuver, when going back from bent knee to the initial standing position. The overall posterior translation of the tibia was 9.0 ± 2.2 mm for non-braced and 7.4 ± 2.5 mm for braced knees. No significant difference was observed between the tibial anterior-posterior translation behaviors of the braced and non-braced knees at any flexion angles examined. The ICC (2, 2) value (average measure) was 0.869 (P < 0.001).
Figure 2. Anterior tibial translation in the eccentric (downward) phase of lunge.
Figure 3. Anterior tibial translation in the concentric (upward) phase of lunge.
In this study, for the first time, fluoroscopic imaging was used to measure the effect of functional knee bracing on the tibiofemoral joint arthrokinematics to avoid uncertainties involved in the previous in-vivo investigations, e.g. skin marker artifacts and intracortical pin interferences with soft tissues. However, in spite of being non-invasive and providing direct visualization of the positions of the bones, there are concerns over limitations of this method that might give rise to inaccuracies. First of all, a single fluoroscope only provides kinematics information in two dimensions, i.e. only the movements of bones in the plane of radiography are visualized. For the ACL injured knees, one of the most important components of the joint movement is the anterior-posterior translation of the tibia relative to the femur that can be well observed in sagittal plane images. However, considering the fact that the knee joint movement is three dimensional in nature, there is a possibility that other components of movement, namely the internal-external rotations of the bones affect the sagittal plane measurements. In spite of the studies that have used single plane imaging techniques for measurement of the sagittal plane motion data of the knees (31, 35-37), the effect of such cross talk has not been studied before and we are not aware of the inaccuracies that it might have caused in our results. However, this effect is expected to be of lower importance in our comparative study of non-braced and braced knees. Further studies using accurate three dimensional measurement techniques, e.g. orthogonal fluoroscopy (6) are needed to evaluate this assumption.
Another difficulty in studying the human joint kinematics using fluoroscopy arises from technical limitations of this imaging modality. First of all, the resolution of the fluoroscopic images is limited. This can affect the accuracy of the bony landmark identification and the resultant spatial measurements. Considering the 32 cm diameter field of view and the 1024 × 1024 pixels resolution of our fluoroscopic images, the size of each pixel was about 0.3 × 0.3 mm. Thus the highest accuracy that could be expected for a linear measurement, e.g. anterior tibial translation, is 0.3 mm. Moreover, the fluoroscopic images are blurred, not only due to the spatial blurring factors that plague all x-ray imaging devices, but also due to the persistence of video signals between TV frames, a phenomenon known as image lag (38). The latter factor can lead to motion blurred images for moving objects, especially when the speed of motion is high in comparison with the system's imaging frequency. Considering the 10 fps frequency of our fluoroscope system, we asked the subjects to perform the lunge maneuver slowly to obtain improved results. However, our images were still affected by some blurring effects that made the accurate identification of bony landmarks difficult.
In spite of the above limitations, the results of the intraclass correlation coefficient tests indicate a high reliability for the measurement procedure employed. In addition, our results for the anterior-posterior translation behavior of the ACL injured knees are consistent with the literature. We found increasing tibial anterior translation with progressive knee flexion in both eccentric and concentric phases of the lunge maneuver (Figures 2 and 3). A similar trend has been well documented in the literature for ACL deficient knees (6, 35, 36). Also, the extent of the tibial anterior translation found in our study for ACL injured knees is within the range of the reports in previous publications. The overall anterior translation of the tibia in the non-braced condition were 10.4 ± 1.7 mm and 9.0 ± 2.2 mm, for eccentric and concentric knee flexion between full extension and 60 degrees, respectively, which is comparable with the 11.4 mm displacement reported by Vergis et al. (36) during step accenting (closed chain). Defrate et al. (6) reported a total of 14 mm tibial anterior translation when the knee was flexed from full extension to 90 degrees flexion in a lunge movement (closed chain).
The results of our study regarding the effect of using a FKB on the kinematics of the ACL injured knees indicated no significant difference. This result is consistent with the cadaveric studies of Wojtys et al. (23) that reported no significant difference in tibial translation in braced and non-braced conditions. However, they reported a significant change in tibial internal-external rotation behavior, which was not examined in our study. Besides, in the in-vivo study of Ramsey et al. (30), using intracortical pins, the changes in the kinematics of ACL deficient knees were minor following wearing braces with no consistent decrease in the anterior tibial translation.
Such insufficiency might seem contradicting with the clinical results suggesting improved stability and performance following wearing FKBs (18, 19). However, it is a fact that our results are limited to the type and speed of the functional task we examined. The brace might be more effective in high-speed and/or open chain tasks, particularly those involved with rotational instability. Also, no control group was examined in our study. It only tested the affected limbs of the subjects with and without a knee brace after a very short adaptation time. The performance of FKBs in restoring the normal kinematics of the tibiofemoral joint might improve over time after the patients get used to the brace proprioceptive feedback and learn to change their muscular contraction pattern towards a safer and closer to normal kinematics. With the above considerations in mind, much care must be taken in the generalization of our results. The authors suggest further investigations on large sample sizes of normal and ACL injured subjects, and after longer adaptation times with knee braces to examine the efficacy of the functional knee braces in more detail.
This research was conducted as part of the first authors Ph.D. program at the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences. The authors wish to thank Reza Vahab Kashani (orthotists), Amir Hosein Eskandari and Mohammad Akbar (software developers), Ali Shakouri Rad (Homaye Salamat Imaging Center), and the staff of the radiology department of Mostafa Khomeini Hospital and Sports Medicine Federation for providing help and facilities.
Author's Contributions: Study concept and design: Maryam Jalali, Farzam Farahmand and Fateme Esfandiarpour; acquisition of data: Maryam Jalali and Tahmineh Rezaeian; analysis and interpretation of data: Maryam Jalali and Tahmineh Rezaeian; drafting of the manuscript: Maryam Jalali; critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Farzam Farahmand, Mehdi Rahgozar, and Fateme Esfandiarpour; statistical analysis: Maryam Jalali and Mehdi Rahgozar; administrative, technical, and material support: Maryam Jalali, Farzam Farahmand, Seyed Mohammad Ebrahim Mousavi, Seyed Ali Golestanha, and Shahram Shirvani Broujeni; study supervision: Farzam Farahmand and Maryam Jalali.
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Republican National Convention : CNN : August 31, 2012 4:00am-5:00am EDT
. >> mitt romney's big speech the moment everyone is talking about is the legend clint eastwood talking to of all things, an empty chair. >> what do you want me to tell romney? i can't tell him to do that. can't do that to himself. you are absolutely crazy. you are getting as bad as biden. >> if you are wondering where clint eastwood got that crazy idea, it all looked a bit familiar to me. from piers morgan tonight. so if you want someone to blame, blame me. here now to talk about it, my colleagues, john king and glor gentleman borger. in honor of clint eastwood, we have an empty chair of our own. what a night. my goodness. >> i am not going to talk to that empty chair. i'm going to talk to you. >> we'll come to mitt romney in a moment. to me, what most people in there are talking about was clint eastwood. didn't self-implode, wasn't hilarious comedy. >> i think the fact that we are talking about it on mitt romney's big night tells you it was a distraction. inside the hall, a lot of people thought it was quite funny. if you are liking at home, if you don't like barack obama, you probabl
. >> mitt romney's big speech the moment everyone is talking about is the legend clint eastwood talking to of all things, an empty chair. >> what do you want me to tell romney? i can't tell him to do that. can't do that to himself. you are absolutely crazy. you are getting as bad as biden. >> if you are wondering where clint eastwood got that crazy idea, it all looked a bit familiar to me. from piers morgan tonight. so if you want someone to blame, blame me. here now to talk...
Piers Morgan Tonight : CNN : August 31, 2012 12:00am-1:00am EDT
no change. what did you think of clint eastwood's speech? >> i thought it was embarrassing. is he supporting gitmo or the wars and he was confusing and rambling and a big mistake. >> did he just throw out the w? >> he did. he had a speech. had he a script. he discarded it. >> really? >> i am not going to mess with clint eastwood. you can. >> that was a horrible blunder. i mean, the organizers -- everything else was corey jog graphed nearly perfectly from 9:00. >> didn't mitt romney go to harvard law school? >> yes, he did. >> it should have been maybe a minute or two minutes. it went on 12, 13, 14 minutes or whatever and i didn't understand what he was doing. and i was on the floor and i was looking at the folks and they were embarrassed. these were republicans. they didn't know what this was all -- was he joking? it was very -- >> i think that's true, wolf. but clint eastwood isn't going to be on the ballot. he did not give his best performance, let's say that. but he did make it socially acceptable to laugh at barack obama. and one of barack obama's weaknesses is because of his
no change. what did you think of clint eastwood's speech? >> i thought it was embarrassing. is he supporting gitmo or the wars and he was confusing and rambling and a big mistake. >> did he just throw out the w? >> he did. he had a speech. had he a script. he discarded it. >> really? >> i am not going to mess with clint eastwood. you can. >> that was a horrible blunder. i mean, the organizers -- everything else was corey jog graphed nearly perfectly from...
Republican National Convention : MSNBCW : August 30, 2012 10:00pm-2:00am PDT
on stage. >> marko rubio never addressed him. >> only clint eastwood saw him. >> with you there was more imagery there, too. the use of the f word. he's a family man, i've been around him, he doesn't talk like this to reporters or anybody that he interacts with. i thought that was a cheap shot. >> i think also one thing that has to be said is when mr. romney started talking about the president was supposed to bring us together and didn't and all of this division, he's completely given immunity to his party that met the very night of the inauguration, planning to oppose and obstruct everything this president did. he is really trying to act like the president failed in uniting the country, rather than the republicans failed even when he proposed things that the republicans agreed on and they refused to do it with him. i think that's going to come back to haunt him, including paul ryan. they voted against republican plans if it became from the obama administration. >> there was one line in paul ryan's speech which he said something implicitly about the george w. bush administration hav
on stage. >> marko rubio never addressed him. >> only clint eastwood saw him. >> with you there was more imagery there, too. the use of the f word. he's a family man, i've been around him, he doesn't talk like this to reporters or anybody that he interacts with. i thought that was a cheap shot. >> i think also one thing that has to be said is when mr. romney started talking about the president was supposed to bring us together and didn't and all of this division, he's...
The Daily Rundown : MSNBC : August 31, 2012 9:00am-10:00am EDT
. clint eastwood, ad libbed a routine called the invisible man that had the live crowd cheering, but many at home scratching their heads. we have got all of last night covered the good, the bad and the ugly and plus, the damage that a category 1 can do. the evacuations in the wake of hurricane isaac, and the storm left widespread damage and dumped more water in the area than katrina and pushing up gas prices this holiday weekend. we are live in louisiana. good morning from tampa, florida, and the last day of the republican national convention, and it is friday august 31st, 2012, and this is the "daily rundown" "aand i'm chuck todd. let's get to the first reads of the day. by all accounts, this convention would be judged by one speech. he needed to better introduce himself to the american public, and close the empathy gap and get closer to american voters to get more comfortable with him as president and more meat on the policy bone, and none of the goals was more important than giving america a chance to get to know him. and romney did that last night showing a personal side he just has n
. clint eastwood, ad libbed a routine called the invisible man that had the live crowd cheering, but many at home scratching their heads. we have got all of last night covered the good, the bad and the ugly and plus, the damage that a category 1 can do. the evacuations in the wake of hurricane isaac, and the storm left widespread damage and dumped more water in the area than katrina and pushing up gas prices this holiday weekend. we are live in louisiana. good morning from tampa, florida, and...
Way Too Early With Willie Geist : MSNBCW : August 31, 2012 2:30am-3:00am PDT
romney's big night be remembered as clint eastwood talked trash to an empty chair. >>> and isaac may be far removed from the hurricane status, the storm leaves vast portions of the state under water. the question is, where is the worst damage? we'll have a live report. >>> and the college season gets under way with the commodores, flirting with an upset. the question is, no call on that play, really? it is way too early for this. . >>> good morning, i'm willie geist, this is "way too early" the show that wants you to go ahead and make its day. i was not talking to you, i was talking to the chair. you're listening live on xm radio, or tweet me at willie geist, or you can do what dirty harry does, followed by a response to 662639. we'll have the best responses later in the show. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for friday, august 31st. can you believe it is the last day of august? and quite the final night at the republican national convention. many talked about clint eastwood's entitled show "the invisible man." and 41-year-old senator marco rubio, drawing big praise,
romney's big night be remembered as clint eastwood talked trash to an empty chair. >>> and isaac may be far removed from the hurricane status, the storm leaves vast portions of the state under water. the question is, where is the worst damage? we'll have a live report. >>> and the college season gets under way with the commodores, flirting with an upset. the question is, no call on that play, really? it is way too early for this. . >>> good morning, i'm willie geist,...
Martin Bashir : MSNBC : August 31, 2012 4:00pm-5:00pm EDT
from clint eastwood any which way they can. >> i will work with all my energy and soul to restore that america. >> what? what do you want me to tell romney? >> now is a time to restore the promise of america. >> i've got mr. obama sitting here. i was just going to ask him a couple of questions. >> when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an american. >> can't do that to himself. you're absolutely crazy. >> i didn't know it was coming. >> restore every father and mother's confidence that their children's future is brighter even in the past. and they are off. mitt romney and paul ryan have departed florida, hitting the road as official nominees of the republican party. they took off on their new rides, twin campaign planes, slapped with the words, believe in america, with ryan off to virginia and romney bound for new orleans to tour damage from hurricane isaac in the flooded suburb of lafitte. perfectly timed for romney to mock concerns about the oceans warming and its impact on our planet. >> president obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans. and
from clint eastwood any which way they can. >> i will work with all my energy and soul to restore that america. >> what? what do you want me to tell romney? >> now is a time to restore the promise of america. >> i've got mr. obama sitting here. i was just going to ask him a couple of questions. >> when the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an american. >> can't do that to himself. you're absolutely crazy. >> i didn't know it was...
Morning Joe : MSNBCW : August 31, 2012 3:00am-6:00am PDT
watching it on television but look at clint eastwood talking to that chair, played huge in the hall. we'll see what the gang in tampa has to say about it when "morning joe" starts right now. >>> if i'm elected president of the united states, i will work with all my energy and soul to restore that america, to lift our eyes to a better future. that future is our destiny, that feature is out there, it is waiting for us. our children deserve it. our nation depends on it. the peace and freedom of the world require it. and with your help, we will deliver it. let us begin that future for america tonight. >> good morning. it is friday, august 31st. we officially have a republican nominee for president. here again in tampa, florida, this morning after mitt romney accepted his party's nomination. welcome to "morning joe," everyone. with us on set, we have msnbc and "time" magazine senior political analyst mark halperin, we've got political editor and white house correspondent for "the huffington post" sam stein, msnbc political analyst and former chairman of the republican national committee
watching it on television but look at clint eastwood talking to that chair, played huge in the hall. we'll see what the gang in tampa has to say about it when "morning joe" starts right now. >>> if i'm elected president of the united states, i will work with all my energy and soul to restore that america, to lift our eyes to a better future. that future is our destiny, that feature is out there, it is waiting for us. our children deserve it. our nation depends on it. the...
CNN Newsroom : CNNW : September 1, 2012 4:30am-5:00am PDT
. >> reporter: clint eastwood's script with an empty chair that was supposed to be president obama had some cheering. the romney family was not laughing. >> we appreciated clint's support. he's a unique guy and did a unique thing. >> reporter: the campaign defended the actor saying judging an american icon like clint eastwood through a political lens doesn't work. the ad libbing was a break and the crowd enjoyed it. the president's twitter account took notice sending out this tweet at eastwood and romney saying this seat is taken. >> not a word about his record in massachusetts where job growth was 47th out of 50. >> reporter: signs of the tough fight to come, the obama campaign countered romney's speech and biden offered a rebuttal of his own in ohio. >> we do not think you grow the economy from the millionaires down. you build it from the middle class out. >> reporter: they are down playing a post convention bump in the polls. they did one up the president in one category, getting to louisiana first. president obama arrives here on monday. randi? >> jim, thank you. now to central
. >> reporter: clint eastwood's script with an empty chair that was supposed to be president obama had some cheering. the romney family was not laughing. >> we appreciated clint's support. he's a unique guy and did a unique thing. >> reporter: the campaign defended the actor saying judging an american icon like clint eastwood through a political lens doesn't work. the ad libbing was a break and the crowd enjoyed it. the president's twitter account took notice sending out this...
News Nation : MSNBCW : August 31, 2012 11:00am-12:00pm PDT
washington post," mitt romney promised his friends praised and clint eastwood putz it would convention. that's what everyone seems to be talking about today. some have gone as far as to say the star's primetime interview with an empty chair overshadowed romney's big moment. >> i've got mr. obama sitting here. and he's -- i just was going to ask him a couple of questions. what do you mean, shut up? >> let me bring in our "news nation" political panel for this friday, chip salzman, jimmy williams. i just got the two of you. i'm lucky. that means you have a lot to say here. chip, let me start off with a moment that happened on "morning joe." michael steele talking about marco rubio, chris christie and how he at least interpreted their speeches in regard to romney's chances of winning. let me play it. >> people aren't concentrated on 2012. they're looking to 2016. there's an inherent assumption that romney's going to lose and that's not what you want to walk away from this convention with, people talking about marco rubio in 2016 or chris christie in 2016. you want to talk about mitt romne
washington post," mitt romney promised his friends praised and clint eastwood putz it would convention. that's what everyone seems to be talking about today. some have gone as far as to say the star's primetime interview with an empty chair overshadowed romney's big moment. >> i've got mr. obama sitting here. and he's -- i just was going to ask him a couple of questions. what do you mean, shut up? >> let me bring in our "news nation" political panel for this friday,...
Jansing and Co. : MSNBC : August 31, 2012 10:00am-11:00am EDT
mystery guest. clint eastwood, the talk of tampa and most of the political world. he talked to an empty chair pretending president obama was there. let me bring in msnbc political analyst richard wolffe and michael sheerer. before we get to clint eastwood, richard, how did mitt romney do? >> i did think he was good for him. it may be a low bar to say he's a wooden speaker, but he showed emotion. he introduced his family story, his personal story very well. the clip you just played, the most powerful, most sustained theme of his message, the idea that we wanted obama to succeed, he just didn't. there's just one small problem with that -- is that paul ryan, his vp pick and the entire senior leadership of the republicans on inaugural day were plotting how to make this president a failure. so if his pitch is i can cure this country and heal it and bring an end to the division, you've got to wonder why he picked someone like paul ryan. >> yet, michael, if his pitch really was aimed mostly at that 10% of voters that are going to decide this election, the message is don't feel guilty abo
mystery guest. clint eastwood, the talk of tampa and most of the political world. he talked to an empty chair pretending president obama was there. let me bring in msnbc political analyst richard wolffe and michael sheerer. before we get to clint eastwood, richard, how did mitt romney do? >> i did think he was good for him. it may be a low bar to say he's a wooden speaker, but he showed emotion. he introduced his family story, his personal story very well. the clip you just played, the...
>> i think penn is auditioning for the role of clint eastwood. >> okay, penn jillette. >> i'll bring the empty chair. >> i don't care much about their biography. i want tow know what their plan is for the next four years. >> i think obama needs to lay out his agenda for a second term and we're still waiting on that. >> i think clint eastwood can come to both did i mentions. i'm sure he doesn't know where he is. >> i've got an idea. i suspect george clooney has been watching thinking, clinlt, you just blew it, i'm going to win the political oscar next week in charlotte. penn, tragically, we've run out of time. thank you all for a great panel, as always. i'll be back at our regular time tonight night on a special "piers morgan tonight ". candid conversations with chris christie and condoleezza rice. for now, from tampa, good night and god bless america. hristie a. for now, from tampa, good night and god bless america. >>> i accept your nomination for the presidency of the united states. >> this is america, a brilliant diversity, spread like stars, like a thousand points of light
>> i think penn is auditioning for the role of clint eastwood. >> okay, penn jillette. >> i'll bring the empty chair. >> i don't care much about their biography. i want tow know what their plan is for the next four years. >> i think obama needs to lay out his agenda for a second term and we're still waiting on that. >> i think clint eastwood can come to both did i mentions. i'm sure he doesn't know where he is. >> i've got an idea. i suspect george...
PoliticsNation : MSNBCW : August 31, 2012 3:00pm-4:00pm PDT
clint eastwood thing last night that maybe we'll talk more about later, but i would caution on being too snarky and making too many jokes in the convention about that moment. there's a danger of appearing condescending. >> no. they can leave the snarkyness to me. >> exactly. >> let me say this, melissa. when you look at one of the things and you said that it disturbed you when they talked about we're not as safe and i totally agree with you. another thing that i really don't agree with is when the statement was made that we felt good about voting for him and haven't felt good since. a lot of people have felt good since. i i felt good. we signed a health care bill. i felt good when he stood up and made his opinion. there was a lot of good feelings. >> i felt good about don't ask, don't tell. >> i tell you, that line if i'm obama for america 2012. i'm like thank you for that campaign commercial. all you got to do is take that line from romney's speech where he says if you felt good then, shouldn't you feel just as good now. and the commercial is just one after the other after the
clint eastwood thing last night that maybe we'll talk more about later, but i would caution on being too snarky and making too many jokes in the convention about that moment. there's a danger of appearing condescending. >> no. they can leave the snarkyness to me. >> exactly. >> let me say this, melissa. when you look at one of the things and you said that it disturbed you when they talked about we're not as safe and i totally agree with you. another thing that i really don't...
CNN Newsroom : CNNW : August 31, 2012 6:00am-8:00am PDT
lifetime. but a hollywood icon goes off script and steals the show. clint eastwood raises eyebrows and sets the internet ablaze when he talks to an empty chair representing invisible obama. you'll want to hear some of those lines. more on that in just a couple of minutes. >>> but first, let's focus on mitt romney and his primetime opportunity to win your vote. romney says he'll revitalize the nation and economy held hostage by a failed presidency. before we listen, a heads up. we're going to take a break from the short excerpts of sound you're used to hearing on television and run longer chunks of what mr. romney had to say. >> how many days have you woken up feeling that something really and was happening in america? many of you felt that way on election day four years ago. hope and change had a powerful appeal. but tonight i'd ask a simple question. if you felt that excitement when you voted for barack obama, shouldn't you feel that way now that he's president obama? [ applause ] >> you know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling
lifetime. but a hollywood icon goes off script and steals the show. clint eastwood raises eyebrows and sets the internet ablaze when he talks to an empty chair representing invisible obama. you'll want to hear some of those lines. more on that in just a couple of minutes. >>> but first, let's focus on mitt romney and his primetime opportunity to win your vote. romney says he'll revitalize the nation and economy held hostage by a failed presidency. before we listen, a heads up. we're...
CBS Morning News : WUSA : August 31, 2012 4:00am-4:30am EDT
speech by hollywood star clint eastwood is generating a lot of buzz. >> what do you want me to tell romney? i can't tell him that do that. can't do that to himself. i can't tell him that do that. can't do that to himself. [ laughter ] captioning funded by cbs >> this is the "cbs morning news" for friday august 31, 2012. >>> that is going to be the talk of today. good morning everybody. good to be with you on a friday. i'm terrell brown. the balloons have fallen, the lights are out at the republican national convention. now the race is on. after years of trying, mitt romney finally accepted his party's nomination last night. he talked about his life, his religion, his business background, then went after president obama. his speech was overshad woed by a surreal performance by dirty harry himself. clint eastwood. susan mcginnis? >> absolutely at clint eastwood's speech and then there's mitt romney, who talking to folks here, he definitely delivered last night. he promised no new taxes on the middle class and 12 million new jobs. mitt romney got a standing ovation as he entered the co
speech by hollywood star clint eastwood is generating a lot of buzz. >> what do you want me to tell romney? i can't tell him that do that. can't do that to himself. i can't tell him that do that. can't do that to himself. [ laughter ] captioning funded by cbs >> this is the "cbs morning news" for friday august 31, 2012. >>> that is going to be the talk of today. good morning everybody. good to be with you on a friday. i'm terrell brown. the balloons have fallen,...
Andrea Mitchell Reports : MSNBC : August 31, 2012 1:00pm-2:00pm EDT
think anyone can go the way clint eastwood wants it to go. frankly, i was thrilled for his support. >> eastwood's chair affair goes viral, complete with a new twitter handle,@invisibleobama. and a new trend, eastwooding has armchair copycats posting their own pictures, including one from the oval office. the obama campaign with this caption, this seat is taken. good day. i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. right now, republican presidential nominee mitt romney is in new orleans invited by louisiana governor bobby jindal to survey the damage caused by isaac during this convention week. thursday night was supposed to be romney's big night, his night to reintroduce himself, to warm it up, and he did. but on social media, his big speech is being overshadowed today by another performance. >> mr. president, how do you -- how do you handle -- how do you handle the promises that you've made when you were running for election and how do you handle -- how do you handle it? i mean, what do you say to people? do you just, you know, i know people -- people are wondering, you know -- okay. i
think anyone can go the way clint eastwood wants it to go. frankly, i was thrilled for his support. >> eastwood's chair affair goes viral, complete with a new twitter handle,@invisibleobama. and a new trend, eastwooding has armchair copycats posting their own pictures, including one from the oval office. the obama campaign with this caption, this seat is taken. good day. i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. right now, republican presidential nominee mitt romney is in new orleans...
Reliable Sources : CNNW : September 2, 2012 8:00am-9:00am PDT
tropical storm to, yes, clint eastwood. >>> plus, yahoo! firing a top executive for a crude anti-romney joke. was the punishment too harsh? >>> i'm howard kurtz, and this is a special convention edition of "reliable sources." >>> the challenge for journal t journalists here in north carolina is how to chronicle a convention that will never match the excitement of the one four years ago when barack obama was a brand new cultural phenomenon. the challenge in tampa was very different -- scrutinizing and analyzing a nominee the country doesn't know that well when other storylines kept overshowing mitt romney's moment. when romney finally gave his big address, he had the unenviewable task of trying to match the sky-high expectations set by the pundits. >> you know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him. >> this was not a speech that -- that was designed to move an audience, although romney himself was moved. this was a solid speech. a good speech. not a great speech. >> but there was stuff at the
tropical storm to, yes, clint eastwood. >>> plus, yahoo! firing a top executive for a crude anti-romney joke. was the punishment too harsh? >>> i'm howard kurtz, and this is a special convention edition of "reliable sources." >>> the challenge for journal t journalists here in north carolina is how to chronicle a convention that will never match the excitement of the one four years ago when barack obama was a brand new cultural phenomenon. the challenge in...
McLaughlin Group : WUSA : August 12, 2012 12:00pm-12:30pm EDT
. hollywood calling. >> clint eastwood, movie star and oscar winning director, has gone ahead and made mitt romney's day. eastwood is publicly backing a so said eastwood at a romney fund-raiser in california last week. six months ago eastwood was featured in a chrysler ad broadcast during the super bowl. >> people of detroit know there's something about this. they almost lost everything. but we all pulled together. now motor city is fighting again. >> mr. eastwood says the ad was about job growth, and the spirit of america, not an endorsement of president obama. >> question. is oprah's 2008 endorsement of obama the equivalent of clint eastwood's 2012 endorsement of romney? eleanor clift. >> i love clint eastwood but i just don't think he carries the same kind of constituency. >> you mean women. you mean a lot of women. >> well, even -- >> what's this again? >> oprah had a dedicated following. people would buy any book she told them to buy. few right. >> i tried to get her to endorse my book. didn't work. >> she has more -- >> by far, by far. and obama's got dirty harry reid on his side
. hollywood calling. >> clint eastwood, movie star and oscar winning director, has gone ahead and made mitt romney's day. eastwood is publicly backing a so said eastwood at a romney fund-raiser in california last week. six months ago eastwood was featured in a chrysler ad broadcast during the super bowl. >> people of detroit know there's something about this. they almost lost everything. but we all pulled together. now motor city is fighting again. >> mr. eastwood says the ad...
Politico's Wrap-Up : CSPAN : August 31, 2012 12:00am-12:30am EDT
and is good in politics. it is time to let him go. >> that was a clint eastwood line. >> that was awesome. >> thank you very much. >> asking about lines remembered. on twitter, a reaction -- the president promised to slow the rise of oceans line shows america that is -- shows america sarcasm is more important than serving. the next reaction is maryland, and obama supporter. your honor. caller: i have been listening to this for three days. so much bull. everybody in america knows the president does not have it all in their say. there is no way romney will change anything. the american people are not that stupid to now that republicans were in there for eight years and got us in this mass to start out with. how in the world will they get us out? president obama has the republican house. how does he get anything done? that is what we need to focus on, putting obama back in and letting him finish what he has started. >> next up is markey in a michigan, a supporter of governor romney. caller: >> yes, ma'am. for the other caller, the republican -- either way, i am sure the voting on at
and is good in politics. it is time to let him go. >> that was a clint eastwood line. >> that was awesome. >> thank you very much. >> asking about lines remembered. on twitter, a reaction -- the president promised to slow the rise of oceans line shows america that is -- shows america sarcasm is more important than serving. the next reaction is maryland, and obama supporter. your honor. caller: i have been listening to this for three days. so much bull. everybody in...
Full Court Press : CURRENT : August 31, 2012 3:00am-6:00am PDT
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remains down in tampa. last night unbelievably turning the stage over to geriatric clint eastwood then mitt romney got up to accept the nomination. he proved once and for all that mitt romney has nothing to say. mitt romney has nothing to offer. he just hates barack obama. oh man! we'll cover it. every which way here on the "full court press" this morning. but first, we start off as always getting the latest, today's current news update with lisa ferguson standing by in los angeles. hey, lisa, good morning. >> hi, bill. good morning everyone. well yep plenty to talk about after last night's convention wrap-up. so let's start out with one of the most popular trending topics this morning. the internet community is still reveling in clint eastwood's bizarre ramblings to an empty chair. in case you missed it, here's a look. >> so, mr. president, how do you handle -- how do you handle promises that you've made. what do you mean shut up? what do you want me to tell romney? i can't tell him to do that. he can't do that to himself. >> within literally minutes of the speech, someone had an invi
remains down in tampa. last night unbelievably turning the stage over to geriatric clint eastwood then mitt romney got up to accept the nomination. he proved once and for all that mitt romney has nothing to say. mitt romney has nothing to offer. he just hates barack obama. oh man! we'll cover it. every which way here on the "full court press" this morning. but first, we start off as always getting the latest, today's current news update with lisa ferguson standing by in los angeles....
The Colbert Report : COM : September 3, 2012 9:35am-10:10am PDT
, last night we finally got our answer. it was hollywood legend clint eastwood. carrying on a conversation with an invisible obama in an empty chair. and having watched last night's mystery speaker i can say with some confidence, the mystery remains. (laughter) jim? >> i have mr. obama sitting here. and es-- i just was going to ask him a couple questions. but-- you know, how do you handle promises that you have made when you were running for election? and how do you handle-- how do you handle it? i mean what do you say to people? do you just-- i thought, well, i think closing gitmo, why close that, we spent so much money on it. but-- i thought maybe it is an excuse-- oh, what do you mean shut up. what do you want me to tell romney? i can't tell him to do that, he can't do that to himself. >> stephen: folks, there has not been a political speech this powerful since the famous lincoln book shelf debate. (laughter) and it's not just me. it's not just me enjoying it, the praise was universal. >> you saw him begin with a very odd schtick by clint eastwood and i think you may have w
, last night we finally got our answer. it was hollywood legend clint eastwood. carrying on a conversation with an invisible obama in an empty chair. and having watched last night's mystery speaker i can say with some confidence, the mystery remains. (laughter) jim? >> i have mr. obama sitting here. and es-- i just was going to ask him a couple questions. but-- you know, how do you handle promises that you have made when you were running for election? and how do you handle-- how do you...
The Colbert Report : COM : September 14, 2012 1:15am-1:50am PDT
, the praise was universal. >> you saw him begin with a very odd schtick by clint eastwood and i think you may have wondered what was going on. >> let's talk a little bit about the elephant in the room or perhaps the empty chair. >> look, it didn't work. >> i do think that the time might have been better spent, you know, if they had it to do over they would probably leave it out. >> there is no way i'm going to touch clint eastwood's performance tonight. >> stephen: once again for fox news that is countries wallace, just shutting up and watching. (laughter) (cheers and applause) >> stephen: well, folks, well, folks, it's the day after. and everybody wants him on the show. but i got him to talk about last night's speech, please welcome clint eastwood's chair. (cheers and applause) chair, chair, thank you for joining us. oh no, no, the hon certificate all mine. now, whatever your political beliefs everybody loves clint. what was it like working with eastwood? what was he like? well, yes, at time, of course, he seemed a little, you know, we were worried. but-- what-- that's a terrib
, the praise was universal. >> you saw him begin with a very odd schtick by clint eastwood and i think you may have wondered what was going on. >> let's talk a little bit about the elephant in the room or perhaps the empty chair. >> look, it didn't work. >> i do think that the time might have been better spent, you know, if they had it to do over they would probably leave it out. >> there is no way i'm going to touch clint eastwood's performance tonight. >>...
The Ed Show : MSNBCW : February 7, 2012 12:00am-1:00am PST
, americans, welcome to "the ed show" live from minneapolis. clint eastwood stars in the best role yet, voice for the american worker. conservatives tried to kill the automobile industry, dying ain't much of a living, boy. this is "the ed show" let's get to work. >>> showing us it can be done. what is true about them is true about us. >> it's halftime america. >> american icon telling an american success story, conservatives aren't having it. >> i was offended. >> reaction to the halftime in america ad. with the united auto workers president, bob king and michigan congressman gary peters. >> i deserve a second term but we're not done. >> new poll numbers show the american people agree with that statement. e.j. dionne and joan walsh. >>> racism rears its head in a republican super bowl ad. the candidate behind the ad isn't backing down. >> the economy get very weak. ours get very good. we take your jobs, thank you debbie spend it now. >>> good to have you with us. thanks for watching, we come to you from minnesota where the caucus is tomorrow, this is the big story tonight. it basically
, americans, welcome to "the ed show" live from minneapolis. clint eastwood stars in the best role yet, voice for the american worker. conservatives tried to kill the automobile industry, dying ain't much of a living, boy. this is "the ed show" let's get to work. >>> showing us it can be done. what is true about them is true about us. >> it's halftime america. >> american icon telling an american success story, conservatives aren't having it. >> i...
Your World With Neil Cavuto : FOXNEWS : August 30, 2012 4:00pm-5:00pm EDT
news can confirm that clint eastwood will speak on his behalf at tonight's convention. we do not know when but he will be here. that could be a special moment. it stands to reason that it would fall between marco rubio announcing mitt romney and mitt romney himself coming up. i don't know whether mitt romney knows any "you may my day remarks," i have no idea. that does not seem to be romney's style. but jon voight, joining us last night, and like all powerful hollywood types knows that fox business is the network for political cross currents and is back. good to see you. what do you make of clint east wood? >>guest: fantastic. what do i make him? i'm telling you, i'm deeply moved by it, actually. i know clint. i have the greatest regard if him, and i'm so happy that he is here. this is thrilling, to me. >>neil: do you think he risks upstaging mitt romney? >>guest: no, i don't think, he will handle himself well and be gracious but it will be a wonderful moment. as you said, electrifying, it will be that kind of thing for the people in this arena. >>neil: now, hollywood typically tends
news can confirm that clint eastwood will speak on his behalf at tonight's convention. we do not know when but he will be here. that could be a special moment. it stands to reason that it would fall between marco rubio announcing mitt romney and mitt romney himself coming up. i don't know whether mitt romney knows any "you may my day remarks," i have no idea. that does not seem to be romney's style. but jon voight, joining us last night, and like all powerful hollywood types knows...
NOW With Alex Wagner : MSNBC : August 31, 2012 12:00pm-1:00pm EDT
, but -- >> over the next seven minutes, clint eastwood proceeded to have a conversation with an empty chair. >> mr. president, how do you -- how do you handle -- how do you handle promises that you've made when you were running for election and how do you handle -- how do you handle it? i mean, what do you say to people? do you just, you know, i know people are wondering, you know -- >> as the interview continued, things got a little testy. >> i thought maybe as an excuse -- what do you mean, shut up? >> and ultimately, even a little crude. >> what do you want me to tell romney? i can't tell him to do that. can't do that to himself. you're absolutely crazy. >> just to be clear, clint eastwood is calling the empty chair crazy. joining the table now is host of "inside the actor's studio" james lipton. always a pleasure to have you on set. >> thank you very much. great pleasure to be here. >> let's talk first about clint eastwood, which was -- i think in many ways, one of the stranger moments in any political convention in recent memory. what was your assessment of the empty chair
, but -- >> over the next seven minutes, clint eastwood proceeded to have a conversation with an empty chair. >> mr. president, how do you -- how do you handle -- how do you handle promises that you've made when you were running for election and how do you handle -- how do you handle it? i mean, what do you say to people? do you just, you know, i know people are wondering, you know -- >> as the interview continued, things got a little testy. >> i thought maybe as an...
NOW With Alex Wagner : MSNBCW : August 31, 2012 9:00am-10:00am PDT
it had to do with investments. we actually have to take a break. coming up, what can clint eastwood learn from james lipton? judging from lipton's analysis of governor romney when heast on our show, a lot. >> romney is trying something very different. he's playing a dual role. his laughter is hollow. it's empty. i advise freezing the frame, covering the bottom of his face when he's laughing, and look at the eyes. there's nothing there. >> we will go back inside the campaign studio and do eastwooding when james lipton joins the panel, ahead. on every one of our cards there's a date. a reminder... that before this date, we have to exceed expectations. we have to find new ways to help make life easier, more convenient and more rewarding. it's the reason why we don't have costumers. we have members. american express. welcome in. >>> a few years ago during a speech, i noticed the bartender behind a portable bar in the back of the ballroom. i remembered my father, who worked for many years as a banquet bartender. he was grateful for the work he had, but that's not the life he wanted for us. you
it had to do with investments. we actually have to take a break. coming up, what can clint eastwood learn from james lipton? judging from lipton's analysis of governor romney when heast on our show, a lot. >> romney is trying something very different. he's playing a dual role. his laughter is hollow. it's empty. i advise freezing the frame, covering the bottom of his face when he's laughing, and look at the eyes. there's nothing there. >> we will go back inside the campaign studio...
The Situation Room : CNN : August 31, 2012 4:00pm-7:00pm EDT
, buzzing, about clint eastwood's bizarre rambling attack on president obama. i'm wolf blitzer at the time warner cable center here at the democratic national convention. and you're in "the situation room." >>> well, let's begin with some shots of inside this arena. this is the arena where the democrats will be meeting next tuesday, wednesday and thursday, where president obama will accept his party's nomination for another four years in the white house. the vice president, joe biden, will be here as well. they're putting the finishing touches on this convention center here in charlotte. a lot of folks are very, very excited. and we're going to have much more on what the democrats are up to in charlotte, what they plan on doing next week. but let's begin right now with mitt romney's last-minute change in plans. instead of heading directly from his convention to a campaign rally in the swing state of virginia, the republican nominee decided to visit storm-ravaged louisiana. our national political correspondent, jim acosta, is joining us now from new orleans with the latest. how did thi
, buzzing, about clint eastwood's bizarre rambling attack on president obama. i'm wolf blitzer at the time warner cable center here at the democratic national convention. and you're in "the situation room." >>> well, let's begin with some shots of inside this arena. this is the arena where the democrats will be meeting next tuesday, wednesday and thursday, where president obama will accept his party's nomination for another four years in the white house. the vice president,...


June 10 (Bloomberg) -- India's cabinet didn't take a decision on the proposed sale of stakes in Hindustan Copper Ltd. and Coal India Ltd., Mines Minister B.K. Handique said in New Delhi today.
Hindustan Copper, the monopoly producer of the metal ore, expected to win cabinet approval, Chairman Shakeel Ahmed said yesterday. The government's stake in the Kolkata-based company would drop to about 81 percent after the offer from 99.59 percent, he said. A decision on Coal India, whose sale may be the nation's largest initial public offering, was also deferred.
Shares of Hindustan Copper fell as much as 3.3 percent in Mumbai, before trading 2 percent lower at 461.75 rupees as of 1:43 p.m. local time today. The benchmark Bombay Stock Exchange's Sensitive Index rose 0.6 percent, stemming its decline this year to 4 percent.
Coal India's sale, initially planned for next month, may take place by September when market conditions improve, Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal said on June 2.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee aims to raise 400 billion rupees ($8.5 billion) in the year ending March 31 from a record asset selloff of stakes in companies including Coal India and Steel Authority of India Ltd. to trim the fiscal deficit.