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From Yahoo! (thnx to DADUM )

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Knockout Punches: Models Puttin' Up Dukes in Droves at Downtown Gym--'Lifts the ***!'

For the last month or so, supermodels Karolina Kurkova , Adriana Lima and Doutzen Kroes have all been paying daily visits to the Aerospace Gym in the meatpacking district, according to Michael Olajide Jr., the gym’s co-founder and a former champion boxer-cum-fitness expert, who was been giving them special one-on-one boxing instruction.

Mr. Olajide, 45, was born in Liverpool, and came up in the ring in Vancouver, until his contract was purchased by Madison Square Garden in 1986. In a title fight against Tommy Hearns in 1990, he suffered irreparable damage to his right eye, and now wears a stylish custom-made silver patch over it. He has become the go-to guy for getting stars a nice boxer’s physique in record time. He worked with Will Smith for Ali, and Josh Hartnett and Aaron Eckhart for The Black Dahlia.

But recently, models and their agents have also zeroed in on Mr. Olajide’s workout regimen to “sleek-ify” their bods before a big cover shoot. “Adriana started coming in for the GQ cover, Karolina is doing some magazines and had a G.I. Joe movie, and Doutzen has a Calvin campaign coming up, I think,” Mr. Olajide said.

The boxer and his partner, former ballet dancer, Leila Fazel, are just about to release a new workout video called CTBS, which stands for Cut the Bull****. On a recent Monday, the Transom tried to make it through one of their hourlong Aero-3 classes, also a favorite of the models; it involves a lot of punching, jumping rope, squatting, push-ups and weights.

“I think they like it because it doesn’t bulk the body,” Mr. Olajide said. “It definitely lifts the *** and narrows the waist.

“Karolina hits hard,” he shared. “Doutzen loves the jump rope, she used to speed-skate. Adriana loves the mitts and the speed bag.”

Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is also a client of the gym, Mr. Olajide said. “He’s not a ropes guy … but put it this way, you don’t want to get hit by him.”

Reps for the models and Mr. Weinstein did not return calls.

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Hi! If you can spare it, I'd appreciate a quick moment of your time! I've finished a new layout for AdrianaLimaFan.net. The general look of it is still very similar to what I had before, just with new images in the header, and a few other things tightened up graphically.

The big changes are in the coding itself, and not as readily visible. Where the old layout was a fixed static 750px wide layout, this new one is fluid and elastic. The main content area will grow and shrink as you resize your browser window (check the header image with the polaroids - it repeats seamlessly :D ). This makes the site much more pleasant to browse on bigger monitors (I'm on 1680x1050 now myself, and nearly 40% of my visitors have a resolution of 1280px width or higher), while not affecting the display on smaller monitors much. I also recoded the way the thumbnails are displayed in the galleries. After all, what is the point of having a fluid layout if you lay out the thumbnails in tables, which are fixed? :p So now if you go to any page with thumbnails, the number of images displayed in one row grows and shrinks just like the rest of the site, taking full advantage of a bigger screen if you have one.

Lastly, I recoded the navigation bar. When I opened the site 2 years ago, it was meant to be just a gallery. But it kept growing and growing, and I now have way more on there than just a gallery, and frankly, my navigation was a mess. :p With the new dropdown menus, I hope the site will be easier to navigate.

Now - what I need a tiny bit of help for lol! :) I want the layout to work as well as possible in as many browsers, screensizes, and operating systems as possible. So, if you have a moment, I'd really appreciate it if you could check out the site in your normal browser, and let me know if it resembles the screenshot below?

post-5998-1214233606_thumb.jpg

I have already tested it in:

1680x1050

Mac Safari, Mac Firefox 3, Mac Firefox 2, Mac Camino, Mac Opera

Windows XP IE7, Windows XP Firefox 2, Windows XP Firefox 3

Windows XP IE6 -> it's not pretty, but the site is fully functional. IE7 has been out for ages now, so I am not gonna spend hours trying to make it perfect in an outdated browser.

And it looked perfect in all of the above (except IE6). But things can be so different on different systems! So if you see anything wrong, please let me know so I can fix it! :) Thank you in advance! :blush:

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