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Microsoft Corp.'s (
"Scroogled" campaign
-- a series of sarcastic ads
masterminded by Mark Penn
, best-known as a campaign strategist for Bill and Hillary Clinton's respective Presidential runs -- was greeted with mixed reactions. Some of the ads, which attacked
Microsoft's search arch-rival Google
Inc. (
) -- bordered on being mildly humorous. Others fell flat.
In the end Microsoft seemed to be
letting the campaign quietly die down
-- or so it seemed.
But while the broadcast ads tapered off, Microsoft has taken the campaign to the web. Its latest attack -- which is featured on
mugs, t-shirts, and other memorabilia
available from the Microsoft store carrying various anti-Google slogans, including the familiar "Scroogled" parody of Google's colorful log.
Perhaps most eye-catching, though, is a fresh attack proclaiming:
Keep calm while we steal your data.
The quote on that hot cup of sass alludes to the internet company's
snooping on citizens' open Wi-Fi networks via its StreetView cars
. Google claimed the data collection was "accidental" despite internal emails clearly stating that it was an attempt to collect informations on users to improve marketing.
So far Google has already been slapped with at least three fines internationally as officials declined to buy Google's excuses about "accidents". Most recently Google was ordered to pay a
$17M USD fine to U.S. federal regulators
. It paid a separate
$7M USD settlement to U.S. state regulators
and a
$189,000 USD settlement to regulators in Germany
. Google faces similar or potentially
even bigger fines in other European Union member nations
Google claimed it snooped on users on "accident" despite internal emails revealing it did so for profit. The company has been fined multiple times for the spying. [Image Source: Jacopast/Wikipedia]
In addition to mugs, the material is also printed on pre-washed T-shirts made from socially conscious fabrics. The shirts are the work of American Apparel, Inc. (
), the "fair-trade" espousing brand beloved by hipsters across the country.
The quote is surprisingly edgy and internet culture aware, as it seemingly hops on board the popular "
Keep calm and carry on
" meme, which was originally based on a humorous World War II propoganda poster from the UK.
It's also somewhat surprising as the memorabilia uses Google's trademarked Chrome logo with no indication that Google permitted Microsoft to use it, or even an acknowledgement that Google is the logo's owner via
a trademark or copyright symbol
(trademarks are generally more appropriate, although often a broad set of design features is copyrighted or even patented).
Google in fact appears to explicitly ban this,
Don't display a Google Brand Feature in a manner that is in Google's sole opinion misleading, unfair, defamatory, infringing, libelous, disparaging, obscene or otherwise objectionable to Google.
Further common sense tells you that appropriating a company's well-known logo for use in selling your products is probably intellectual property theft. And insulting the owner while using their logo to sell your products -- that's just adding insult to injury.
A Microsoft product description states:
A vintage line, reworked to reflect a modern problem. Printed on an American Apparel 50/50 t-shirt, pre-washed for minimal shrinkage.
Breathe in, breathe out. It won't be long before Google has attempted to make money off of every aspect of your digital life. This t-shirt lets them know that you know. It's 50% cotton, 50% polyester blend, and pre-laundered for minimal shrinkage.
Again, there's no sign of any trademarks/etc. on the store page.
Edgy? Trendy? Illegal? IP theft? Funny? It appears Microsoft's new campaign may be all the above. It wouldn't be surprising to see this one wind up in court... but Google faces a lose-lose scenario as if it does sue Microsoft it's bringing attention to its own privacy offenses and risks looking losing its "cool cred" by appearing litigious.
After his largely failed prior attempts, it appears Mike Penn has finally crafted a scenario in which Google just can't win. His new product line marks a significant improvement in Microsoft's efforts to troll Google, practically begging them in a legal sense -- "Come at me, bro."
It should be interesting to see if Google responds.
Google Logo/Trademark Policy
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Reports at the time suggested the deal could be worth about £50m.
Warnock left in April last year, and the club current sits bang in the middle of the Football Championship, one division below the English Premier League.
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More than a quarter-century after his death, Cuba's greatest artist is getting his due in the first large-scale solo exhibition. The beautifully encyclopedic show features more than 60 paintings and drawings spanning the breadth of Lam's prolific career. The exhibit is beefed up with nearly 30 additional works loaned by local collectors, many of them Cuban-Americans. Carlos Suarez De Jesus Through May 18. Miami Art Museum, 101 W. Flagler St., Miami; 305-375-3000, www.miamiartmuseum.org.
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Steering clear of her usual gooey weeping willows, the homegrown artist has tapped into the central nervous system of Sixties minimalist and junk art in her new show. Rodriguez deserves kudos for avoiding her comfort zone. New paintings and sculptures by British artist Paul Morrison are ripe with botanical roots and resonate with muffled gloom. They are gorgeous, immaculately executed works that tweak perception with a skull-humping finesse. Carlos Suarez De Jesus Through May 24. Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, 194 NW 30th St., Miami; 305-573-2130, www.galerieperrotin.com.
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Late in life, Lam incorporated sculptural media into his art. These statuesque, totemlike forms illustrate Lam's association with Picasso and friends, and prove to be the collection's novel elements. Nader is also showing Fernando Botero and Muñoz Vera, but "Frank Stella: Studio" on the second floor steals the spotlight. The work is beautifully organized chaos and the perfect exhibition to fill the high ceilings and vast white space. The garish Day-Glo colors and monumental streamlined forms are pure fun and funk. Steph Hurst Through May 31. Gary Nader Fine Art, 62 NE 27th St., Miami; 305-576-0256, www.garynader.com.
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EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Draymond Green had 20 points and 10 rebounds, Keith Appling scored 20 points and No. 7 Michigan State beat No. 15 Wisconsin 69-55 on Thursday night to move back into a first-place tie with No. 6 Ohio State.
The Spartans (21-5, 10-3 Big Ten) have won four straight — the longest active streak in the conference — and six of their last seven games.
The Badgers (19-7, 8-5) had won seven of their last eight, including their previous four road games, after opening the Big Ten season with three straight losses.
Appling's three-point play with 5:24 left in the first half capped a 14-0 run that gave Michigan State a 22-12 lead.
The Spartans led 31-19 at halftime and built a 53-33 lead midway through the second half. This was their sixth win over a ranked team this season, most in Division I.
Wisconsin's Jordan Taylor missed 10 of his 13 shots and was held to 13 points.
Michigan State, which snapped the Buckeyes' 39-game home winning streak Saturday night, improved to 16-0 at the Breslin Center.
The home of the Spartans was so loud late in the first half that official Mike Sanzere told ranting Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan that he couldn't hear him.
Ryan was often livid in the first half, screaming about calls that were made or that he thought were missed, but was much more subdued on the sideline after halftime as the Badgers headed toward a familiar fate on the road against a highly ranked team in the Big Ten.
Wisconsin has lost 40 straight games as visitors in the conference against top-10 teams since winning at No. 4 Ohio State on Nov. 26, 1980, according to STATS, LLC.
Taylor, who averaged 29 points in his previous two games against Michigan State, got his first field goal with 5 seconds left in the first half after missing his first six shots.
Ryan Evans scored 17 points for Wisconsin and Jared Berggren had 10.
Berggren spilled blood — literally — in the traditionally physical matchup and went to the bench to have his cut covered by several bandages. The game was later stopped briefly to clean up the court.
Michigan State's bruising center, Derrick Nix, had 12 points and a three-point play that pushed the lead to 20 points with 9:46 left in the game.
The Badgers pulled within nine points with 3:16 left, but the rout was restored and Tom Izzo put his seldom-used reserves in the game during the final minute.
Ryan, though, wanted to have one last word with his team and called a timeout with 21.4 seconds left down by 14 points.
Before tipoff, Izzo came out of his locker room and had a nervous grimace just before stepping on the court.
Michigan State boosted Izzo's confidence by scoring the first six points, but validated his nerves by falling behind 12-8 midway through the first half.
That's when the game was stopped to get Berggren's blood off the court and when the Green-led Spartans took control.
Green made two free throws, a go-ahead fastbreak layup and a 3-pointer in a 2-plus minute stretch that proved to be pivotal for the Big Ten's hottest team.
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I had the RE0s, which I loved. They have good soundstage and clarity for the price, but they do lack massively in bass. When my RE0s broke, I used the Samsung Galaxy SII stock earphones- and I thought they sounded better! The bass was larger of course, but I also felt like they had more 'energy', they really seemed better in many ways. Because of this I am unsure what to do now. The quality of the SII earphones must be lower, so I suppose they must just have the right sound signature for me?
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DISUK and Zycko link for distribution of encryption technology to fulfil the emerging need for data storage security
17th May 2005 - Northampton, UK - DISUK Limited and Zycko have signed an exclusive agreement for the distribution of DISUK's range of data encryption technology in the UK, Ireland, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. DISUK's product, Paranoia2TM, will be resold through Zycko's established sales network of integrators and resellers who specialise in data networking, electronic data storage and security.
DISUK's Paranoia2 is a fast, robust, 'on the fly' encryption technology that sits between the data path and the tape storage device. By using the strong encryption protocol 3DES2, it is a primary security tool for safeguarding backup tapes.
"Paranoia2 is a very neat product that meets an emerging business security need to protect data held on backup tapes. It can be sold as an infrastructure or a standalone solution, perfect for mid-market, departmental and SME sales", said Nigel Lambert, Channel Director for Zycko. "Having a two year deal gives us the confidence to invest, educate, and promote this market."
Compliance, governance and integrity issues have developed to a point where businesses have started to address all areas of data security. Recent high profile losses of backup tapes containing sensitive data, including those owned by Bank of America and Time Warner, have highlighted the security risks surrounding access to data. This is pushing the search for a storage security solution higher up the IT agenda.
"Encrypting data is the quickest and best way to ensure fail-safe security", says Paul Howard, Managing Director of DISUK. "Having invested in anti-virus, firewalls and front line security products, many companies' weakest security point is now data storage. By neglecting to encrypt their data they are effectively leaving a back door wide open to one of the fastest growing crimes - identity theft."
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The missing tapes contained data from Time Warner, including personal information on current and former employees. An outside data storage firm lost the container of its computer back-up tapes during shipment to one of that firm's storage facilities. Full press release at: www.timewarner.com/corp/newsroom/employee_data_tapes/press_release.html .


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Researchers from LSTM have called for more research to be carried out into HIV and schistosomiasis coinfection in children in sub-Saharan Africa. In a paper in The Lancet Infectious Diseases LSTM's Professor Russell Stothard, working with colleagues in the department of Parasitology and researchers from Cape Western Reserve University, in Cleveland Ohio, University of Cambridge and the Royal Veterinary College looked at previous research into the joint burden of HIV/AIDS and schistosomiasis of children, and found that while disease-specific control interventions are continuing, potential synergies in the control efforts for the two diseases have not been investigated.
The team focused on children with schistosomiasis and assessed the risk of increased HIV transmission and progression and impaired response to drugs when given alongside HIV interventions. The team concluded from their research that there needs to be more work carried out into understanding the interactions of the diseases within children to look at the potential for combined responses.
Schistosomiasis is a chronic inflammatory disease caused by a water-borne parasitic blood fluke, infecting 220 million people in sub-Saharan Africa, with even more people at risk, mainly children. While infection can happen in very early childhood depending on an infant's environmental exposure to parasite-infested water, until recently early exposures have been overlooked with treatment, mass drug administration of praziquantel, given to children of school age.
HIV, like schistosomiasis, is one of the most widespread infections in the world and there is a substantial geographical overlap between the two. Interventions against the disease have focussed on universal access to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), but many children in sub-Saharan Africa for care late in their HIV progression and there are nearly 1000 new cases of paediatric HIV infection every day.
First Author and Project Paediatrician, Dr Amaya Bustinduy, said: "While multidisease approaches are being promoted by WHO, such as those for HIV and Malaria, platforms for research and control of HIV and schistosomiasis do not exist. Both disease pose difficulties in terms of their diagnosis in early childhood, and all studies of coinfection so far have been limited to adults. It is thought that in adults schistosomiasis infection may precede that of HIV, but clearly as HIV infection in infants and young children is nearly always vertically transmitted (from mother to child) HIV infection precedes that of schistosomiasis."
The paper goes on to explore the effect that HIV has on the efficacy of the drugs taken to treat the parasitic infection, explores the lack of data available for the dosage of praziquatal in children and its interaction with HAART as well as the potential effect of HIV on the expanding childhood vaccination program across sub-Saharan Africa. "We hope that this review will underline the real need for further work into the effects of coinfection" added Professor Russell Stothard, Corresponding Author of the paper, "Failure to develop and implement a realistic research agenda for infected children will result in the neglect of the youngest children who might be at particular risk for increased HIV transmission, HIV progression, and impaired response to drugs."
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Battleship Bismarck: A Survivor's Story Originally published to much acclaim in 1980, this is the story of the legendary German battleship that sunk the pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, on May 24, 1941, and three days later was hunted down and sunk by the British during one of the most dramatic pursuits in naval history. Told by a German naval officer who witnessed both sinkings, the book chronicles the brief but sensational career of what was thought to be the grandest weapon of the Third Reich. Burkard Baron von M llenheim-Rechberg, the Bismarck's top-ranking survivor, tells the battleship's story from commissioning to the moment when the captain gave a final salute and went down with his ship.
The epic battle between the two great enemy ships captured the imagination of an entire generation and became a popular subject for movies and songs. With the discovery a few years ago of the Bismarck's sunken hull off the coast of France, worldwide attention has focused again on the famous ship. Reprinted now in paperback for the first time, the work presents the human dimensions of the event without neglecting the technical side and includes information on rudder damage and repair, overall ship damage, and code breaking. The book also provides insights into the author's life as a prisoner of war in England and Canada and the friction that existed between the Nazis and non-Nazis Germans in the camps. Such a personal look at one of the most famous sea encounters in the history of World War II makes absorbing reading.
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text: Andrew Lloyd Webber Is Making A Game And It Will Undoubtedly Embarrass YouKate Cox8/03/12 9:30pmFiled to: andrew lloyd webberAndrew Lloyd Webber Musicals: Sing & DanceMusicalsWiiNintendo57EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Being caught belting out the entirety of Phantom of the Opera in your living room can be pretty embarrassing. (In my defense, I was nine and I could, in fact, hit those notes. Mostly.) This fall, you can at least try to recapture some of your dignity (you won't succeed, but you can try) by claiming the Wii made you do it. Andrew Lloyd Webber Musicals: Sing & Dance, which has been in the works for several years, is now due on September 14, the Los Angeles Times reports. Ambitious players with Broadway dreams can play the career mode, singing and dancing their way to success, fame, and imaginary Tony awards. For those who have a more competitive musical streak, up to four players can compete against each other in singing and dancing routines, or solo players with high self-confidence can try "sing-offs" against well-known Broadway performers Elaine Paige, Sarah Brightman, Michael Crawford, and Donny Osmond. Advertisement Advertisement The game promises to feature 32 songs from 13 musicals, including Phantom, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Evita, and others. Including Cats. Of course Cats. And yet even the ghostly memory of my shameless nine-year-old self is not sure the competitive singing of Cats is a good idea. For the sake of my many neighbors, I don't think I'll try.Andrew Lloyd Webber sets score to new Nintendo Wii video game [LA Times](Original top photo: 2007-2008 Cats US tour | official site )Reply57 repliesLeave a reply


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NFL training camps are opening across the country, and team executives are hoping that all of their expensive draft picks, free agents and returning veterans will come together to pick up some wins on the field. But while many teams spend big in search of a trip to the postseason, some are decidedly better at turning their money into on-field success.
To find the best and worst teams for the money, we compared each team's player cost-to-win ratio to the league average over five seasons from 2007 through 2011; we are still crunching the numbers on last season's data, which will be released in a few weeks with our annual package on the business of the NFL (last year's package can be found here).
Player costs include salaries, benefits and bonuses, and we weigh playoff victories twice as heavily as regular season wins. Each team's final score represents how much better or worse it performed compared to the average team. A score of 120 means the team outperformed the league average by 20% in terms of games won per payroll dollar spent; a score of 80 represents cost efficiency 20% worse than the average team.
Unlike in hockey or baseball, where some teams break the bank while others spend the bare minimum on player expenses, the majority of NFL franchises spend around the same amount on roster costs. There are certainly exceptions - the Saints and Cowboys annually push or exceed $150 million, while the Buccaneers and Bengals have been particularly frugal in recent years - but 17 of the league's 32 teams have averaged between $130 million and $140 million in annual player costs.
The New England Patriots, the NFL's best team for the money, actually tied for the fifth-highest payroll from 2007 to 2011, averaging annual player expenses of $146 million. But in that time the Pats also led the league in regular-season victories with 65 and made two trips to the Super Bowl, though both ended in losses to the New York Giants. The next three teams on our list - the Giants, Packers and Steelers - have above-average player expenses but have each won at least one Super Bowl in recent seasons.
The bottom of our list, meanwhile, is a who's who of the league's more disappointing teams. The St. Louis Rams hold the title of the NFL's worst team for the buck thanks to winning just 15 games from 2007 through 2011 while maintaining league-average payroll costs. The Rams are followed by the Lions, Browns, Chiefs and Raiders, the last of which spent the third-most on player expenses but has averaged just six wins per season.
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Dekalb Market will be similar to this structure, also by Urban Space Management (© Magnus D)
Here at Inhabitat, we love shipping container construction. From disaster relief to health clinics and playgrounds to hotels, the stackable prefab boxes provide an endless amount of sustainable building opportunities. So you can imagine our delight when we learned that Downtown Brooklyn will be getting its very own shipping container market. The structure, named Dekalb Market, will be located at CityPoint, the in-construction, long-delayed mixed use development in Albee Square at Flatbush Avenue and Willoughby Street. Opening this summer, Dekalb Market is being developed by Urban Space Management, and it will house local artisans and food vendors.
Urban Space Management is working with City Point developers Acadia Realty Trust to build the market. Plans for CityPoint were unveiled way back in 2007, but the development only broke ground last July after receiving a controversial $20 million in stimulus funding. The first housing and upscale retail are on track to be completed by 2012, but in the meantime, the site will be home to the new shipping container market.
Dekalb Market will be occupied by local artists, small businesses, and local food vendors — many of which have already signed on. Grub Street reported that Robicelli's Cupcakes, cookie and dougnut maker Cuzin's Duzin, Nile Valley Juice and Vegan Food, Mazie's Health Soul Food, Joe the Art of Coffee, and Filipino food vendor Maharlika will all be taking up shop. The market will also host a local dairy purveyor and butcher, and the outdoor area will have a small education farm with six local farmers. There's still time to become a vendor, and they are giving preference to first time retailers.
When CityPoint was first planned, many locals (us included), unsurprisingly, were upset and worried about what it would do for small local businesses since the retail space in the development is for high-end stores. But the local purveyors in Dekalb Market will remain a permanent fixture even as CityPoint rises: the shipping containers are being equipped with heating so they can function year round. With its growing list of popular local retailers, Dekalb Market is shaping up to be a promising counter balance to the influx of chains.
Via Brooklyn Paper
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By Era Dabla-Norris, Vikram Haksar, and Kalpana Kochhar
Global growth remains anemic more than five years after the global financial crisis. If nothing is done, the prospect of settling into a "new mediocre" will become reality, especially in advanced economies.
In many advanced economies, accommodative monetary policies, growth-friendly fiscal frameworks, and efforts to tackle private debt overhang and improve tax revenues and compliance are essential to lift economic growth in the short term.
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As the credits roll and we fall stricken and tear-stained out onto the dark streets of Soho, it seems fitting that I am accompanied by the director of the second bleakest film ever made – Franny Armstrong, creator of the The Age of Stupid. The bleakest film ever made we have just endured together, over two relentless, harrowing hours, and are now so emotionally raw that we know not where we are going, nor do we much care. It doesn't seem to matter. "Oh my God," moans Franny, repeatedly, head in hands.
Remember, this is a woman who has just spent five years creating an on-screen warning about the impending apocalypse. But what we have just experienced takes place on a very different level. The Road is a brilliant, intensely moving piece of film-making, so powerful that it is almost a test of physical, as well as emotional, endurance. By comparison, the specific climate catastrophes that I portray in my book Six Degrees, of killer heatwaves, mega-droughts, spreading deserts and methane-driven runaway warming (the scenarios used in The Age of Stupid, for which I was co-writer), seem almost prosaic by comparison, with their leaden anchors of voluminous scientific referencing. Cormac McCarthy's apocalypse is unstated – he describes just "a long shear of light and then a series of low concussions" – and is all the more realistic for it.
As the Blair Witch Project showed, the unseen horror is always the most unnerving. McCarthy is not expounding any particular end-of-the-world scenario (though it sounds to me most like a nuclear holocaust), but tapping into our collective psyche, into a deep-seated, suppressed fear of what may lie beneath once the fragile veneer of civilisation is torn violently away. The precise nature of the catastrophe that starts the two protagonists' journey in The Road may be unclear, but what matters is that it is all of our worst nightmares added together. It is also a film that everyone needs to see.
The Road as a book is a strange work. It is, in my view, one of the best novels ever written. But it is also one of the most difficult. There is no ironic detachment, no playful cleverness, just page after page of sparse prose, so finely-honed that every word seems hewn out of stone, so perfect and immutable is the sentence that bears it. And its emotional power is indescribable. Perhaps, like A Clockwork Orange, the author would have been well within his rights to withdraw it on these grounds alone: who knows what it could do. Seldom can terror and beauty have been combined so forcefully, and so movingly. For, more than anything else, The Road is a love story, played out between a father and his son whose unbreakable bond is the only thing of value left in an otherwise devastated, lifeless world.
Moreover, anyone familiar with McCarthy's work will know that he cannot be trusted. As demonstrated in the film adaptation of another of his novels, No Country For Old Men, this is a writer who thinks nothing of spending half a film building up an audience's relationship with a character, only to kill them off suddenly in a way so shocking and pointless it is almost offensive – certainly to anyone who believes in natural justice and happy endings. There is no relaxation, no place of safety, no stolid, reliable Gandalf-type father-figure who can never die. The result is edgy and nerve-wracking. In The Road, as either reader or viewer, one tries desperately to emotionally disassociate – to not care what happens to the starving 11-year-old boy and his father as they trudge through the blasted, sunless landscape. But, of course, it is impossible.
"You have my whole heart," says the father to the son. No one but a loveless psychopath could not be moved by that. Knowing what is to happen, it is already an effort not to weep. The reason the story wields such emotional power is because it speaks to what we all share: loving relationships with those closest to us, ties which will one day be broken by death. As any bereaved parent will know, losing a child is quite simply the worst thing in the world. Which parent has not watched anxiously over a sleeping son or daughter, their small, fragile form tucked up in the bedclothes, and not fought to suppress the awful imagining of "what if?" Which child has not looked at a mother and father and imagined themselves as an orphan, alone and bereft in a world full of hostile strangers? McCarthy brings both of these suppressed terrors to the fore and then pushes the knife even deeper; for if the father dies, the boy really will be alone in a world of hostile strangers – robbers and killers who will destroy his innocence with unspeakable violence.
As the man's wife puts it bluntly in a flashback scene before she leaves them alone together: "Sooner or later they will catch us and they will kill us," she says. "They will rape me. They'll rape him. They are going to rape us and kill us and eat us and you won't face it. You'd rather wait for it to happen." The man knows she is right. As the father and son trudge on, they come across meat hooks and blood in the snow, hear deathly howls and gunfire in the night. The film spares no details: a severed head, burned ribs and a puddle of guts are cast under an abandoned car after a band of gun-toting, cannibal thieves have passed through in the night. In a half-destroyed house, the man levers open a cellar trapdoor only to be confronted with a room full of naked, zombie-like, human cattle, kept in chains until their turn for the cull. Under no illusions, the man must now show his son how to blast out his own brains with the last bullet they have left in their pistol, because anything would be better than what the killers have in store if they catch him.
With its relentlessly dystopian premise, McCarthy's world is truly Hobbesian – nasty, brutish and short, suggesting a view of man as in essence little more than base evil once freed from the shackles of sociallly organised moral restraint. Those who can survive are only those who deal death out to others; with all authority gone, only those whose violence is most abandoned and terrifying will triumph. Is this what people are really like deep down without the civilising influence of authority? This question – anxiety, perhaps – is a common theme in art and culture. In Lord of the Flies, after the murder of Piggy, Ralph weeps "for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart", whilst in Heart of Darkness itself, perhaps the archetypal examination of the theme, Kurtz sits at the centre of a madman's world of uncivilisation. In both books the severed head is the ultimate symbol of the essential capacity for evil that sits within us all.
And who can doubt that all humans have within us the potential – even the predisposition – to commit acts which are labelled "inhuman" but in fact are anything but? In Rwanda, erstwhile friends and neighbours butchered each other with machetes, as the Radio Milles Collines whispered fiendishly in the background about Tutsi "cockroaches" and the need to shed blood. (Think of the boys' chant in Lord of the Flies: "Kill the beast. Cut his throat. Spill his blood.") During that genocide, even the supposed guardians of good turned to evil: priests and nuns opened up their churches to Tutsi refugees, only to connive in their slaughter once the sun went down. All of us of course like to think of ourselves as moral people; evil is something committed by others. But deep down we all know that this is a self-serving fallacy. What we do depends on our social bonds; without civilisation we would all be uncivilised. The Road asks this same question: can good – personified by the boy, the only one who wants to give when everyone else is taking – survive in a world without rules?
In one scene, the boy and his father meet an old man on the road ahead of them. Against the father's suspicious scepticism, the boy insists on sharing his food with the elderly refugee. As they later sit around the fire – and the boy sleeps, wrapped in tattered blankets – the old man speaks to the father: "When I saw that boy I thought I'd died and he was an angel." Indeed the comparison is apt, because the boy possesses kindness, innocence and warmth in a world devoid of all three; he is as unfamiliar in these devastated surroundings as a real angel would be amongst the crowds in Oxford Circus. The man knows this, and once again McCarthy is exposing every parent's deepest fear – for what father as not looked at his son's sleeping form and wondered whether he is too good for this world? The man is a survivor, but the tenderness of his gestures betrays his vulnerability. He understands his role as parent and protector in the starkest possible terms. "My job is to take care of you. I will kill anyone who touches you," he tells his son evenly. The practicalities of parenting may be about education, food and shelter, but McCarthy has defined it in its rawest, animal form – parenting as an ape or a tiger would understand the role – to destroy anyone who threatens your young, even at the risk of your own life. When innocent children are murdered, whether by a Myra Hindley or a Fred West, it is sin in the purest form; the definition of unforgivable evil. Yet in The Road, it is would-be child-killers who rule the daytime and the open spaces. In such a world, even survival makes little rational sense. In this post-apocalyptic landscape, there is nothing to live for: no sun, no flowers, no food. So why survive? For man and boy, the answer is simple: for each other, and each other only.
Whilst it is built on an end-of-the-world premise, The Road is very different from conventional apocalypse movies. While the spectacular celluloid catastrophe of 2012 contrived to entertain and titillate more than to scare, this has more in common with Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow (all three of course being Roland Emmerich creations) than with deeper examinations of the human psyche like Mel Gibson's gruesome and deeply unsettling Apocalypto. It is perhaps relevant that the conventional narrative of the 'end times' – a pervasive theme in all Judeao-Christian thought and scripture which reaches its best exposition perhaps in the biblical Revelations – seems to have been discarded by modern Western culture: in 2012 it is the Mayan calendar (exotic and mysterious) which contains the unfolding prophecy of doom. Today the Christian meaning of Armageddon is of interest to only a few fringe US evangelists involved in a cultish movement that they call 'the rapture'. In comparison, real-world fears of the world's end – building on the threat of nuclear apocalypse during the Cold War, now replaced by worries of ecological overshoot and consequent social collapse – seem to be increasing all the time. Perhaps these film treatments of the theme, unrealistic as they may be, are simply plugging into these nagging 'end-times' worries.
And of course these current scenarios of apocalypse are scary precisely because they are not mythical but are based on a rational survey of the state of the planet. The Cold War was all too real, particularly after the near-catastrophe of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Today, global warming has come to occupy a similar niche. In The Age of Stupid, the opening panoramas survey a similarly wrecked planet to the one in The Road: we see the Sydney Opera House backed by an advancing wall of flames; a baked-brown Matterhorn devoid of snow; the garish neon lights of Las Vegas half-buried, forgotten, in the sands; a vulture tearing at a human corpse outside the Taj Mahal. The scenes were not invented outright but extrapolated from the scenarios predicted by climate-change computer models if carbon emissions continue to rise. The precise figures are arguable, but what seems beyond doubt is that the old order is breaking down; temperatures at the end of this century will probably be higher than they have been for tens of millions of years.
There is little to reassure us in a world where the future is going to be so unlike the past – indeed, we are now entering a new geological era, in which the major chemical cycles of carbon, water and nitrogen have all been altered immeasurably by human activity. How far will we have to push these planetary stresses for cracks to appear in our modern civilisation, and for the evil within us all to tear once more across the land?
The warning The Road is not of a specific outcome arising from a specific course of action which we need to change. Unlike The Age of Stupid, it is not about what might happen if we don't "seal the deal" in Copenhagen. The Road is about the human condition, and how humans might behave to each other if the worst does happen, in whatever way. If we ever do push the planet so far that the majority of the human race is left without food or water in uninhabitable areas, what will it feel like to be one of the starving millions? Initially we might all come together in adversity, in a kind of global blitz spirit. McCarthy admits this possibility: at first, others had "come to help" the survivors. But "within a year there were fires on the ridges and deranged chanting. The screams of the murdered. By day, the dead impaled on spikes along the road." We won't stay united for long.
How can anyone prepare for this kind of outcome? Over the years, I have received many emails from people asking where they might need to set up home if runaway global warming begins. New Zealand, perhaps? Norway? I'm sure all the questioners share the same survivalist fantasy, the one where they take their family into the hills and survive on a small farmstead, stockpiling rice and baked beans and keeping a loaded rifle by the well-guarded front door. The Road exposes even this limited comfort as being futile: sooner or later the ammunition will run out, the pounding on the door will begin to splinter away the hinges, and the ravening, faceless horde will pour in. If the worst happens the truth is that there is nowhere to hide, and the road itself will offer no comforts. Of that we can be certain.
"Are we still the good guys?" asks the boy plaintively after his father has had to resort to violence to protect him. If they are, it is not just because they refuse to sink into cannibalism and thievery, but because of the love they share for each other – father and son are "each the other's world entire", as McCarthy writes in the novel. This, and only this, gives their lives meaning. It is nothing short of the difference between life and death itself, and this is surely the essential message of The Road. For without love there is nothing – just smoke and ash and gunshots echoing in the lonely, freezing darkness. Love is the light; the delicate, stuttering candle that they – and we all – must hold against the all- consuming darkness of death.
Mark Lynas is a British environmentalist whose books include High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis (2004, Picador) and Six Degrees: Our Future On A Hotter Planet (2007, Fourth Estate)
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Ever wonder what your sleep would look like if it were replicated in art form? A new app claims to translate your every toss, turn, snore and sound into a work of digital art.
Developed by economy hotel chain Ibis, Sleep Art works with the iPhone's hyper-sensitive accelerometer and records users sounds, movements and vibrations during their slumber.
After setting the Sleep Art alarm and placing the phone by their bed, users wake up to an abstract painting created with digital brush strokes of their sleep which can then be shared with friends and family via email and Facebook.
The app is being launched on the heels of a unique marketing campaign at the chain's Paris, Berlin, London and Warsaw hotels in which a robot transcribed guests' sleep movements and sounds in real-time on a canvas painting.
The app also being promoted with the start of National Bed Month in the UK. Sleep Art app is available on iTunes and is free to download.
Meanwhile, another popular sleep app which has topped the iTunes charts in Japan, France, Russia, Sweden and Norway is the Sleep Cycle alarm clock, which analyzes users' sleep cycles and wakes them up during their lightest sleep phase. The aim is to rouse users from their slumber so they feel rested and relaxed. Sleep Cycle is available for $0.99.


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Monthly Basketball PC Team Box/Case Break
Going to blatantly emulate the other monthly box breaks and give basketball some much-needed love. Here are some of the particulars:
1) It will be $36.35 a month per team for a net investment of $35 a month from each participant. If the group decides on a higher-end box to be involved, such as NT, we can raise the monthly fee a bit to accommodate. 2) I will only be shipping the hits, unless specifically requested by individual members to ship base. If base is requested, a few extra dollars may be added to the total. 3) We'll keep it at 15 spots for the time being. We can then perform a draft or randomly assign the other 15 teams each month, whichever is preferred. 4) Teams are requested on a first come, first serve basis. 5) There is a 6-month commitment to this break. Please do not request a team unless you're absolutely positive you can stick to this break for that amount of time. Failure to do so will result in much ridicule from the other members 6) After 6-months, members have the right to renew ownership of teams. If they do so, they must commit another 6 months to that team. Dropped teams will be open to the public on a first come, first serve basis. 7) Boxes/cases will be cracked every last or Saturday or Sunday of the month unless extenuating circumstances are involved. This can be open to debate once the club fills its 15 spots. 7) The breaks will occur live on ustream and recorded for posterity's sake. 8) Players will go to the team most prominently displayed on the card. Multi-player cards will be randomed among the teams featured. I hope that covers all the basics. Of course, much of this can be tweaked once we have enough members in the club. Hope to get this off and running. I'll start things with my beloved (and until recently, largely ignored): 1. Clippers -----> messingaroundok 2. Lakers -----> armyatc22 3. Wizards -----> hester72598 4. Thunder/Sonics -----> Straw44 5. Bulls -----> Gohansmy 6. Nuggets (tentatively for Melo) -----> patchthr33 7. Celtics -----> Care4Card 8. Kings ------> canuhandle23 Back-up: Nuggets -----> RckyMtCollector Last edited by messingaroundok; 01-23-2011 at 05:18 PM. |
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And the rubes on here don't have a problem with it. Amazing. I can only imagine how much profit the breaker is going to make as well with all these breaks... |
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But thank you for your input. I hope we cn get this filled. I'll update after the Clippers game. |
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But I'll take your name off the list. Let me know if you change your mind or team. Thanks |
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tons of profit being made here Is your favorite movie 2012 or the Da Vinci Code? I think Scotland Yard has a Head Cynic/Conspiracy theorist position open you should definitely apply
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Updated, thanks.
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After I wrote this, a friend scrawled on this page, "Yes." And I said, merely to myself, "I wish it could be for a different seizure--as with Molly Bloom and her 'and yes I said yes I will Yes." It is not a turtle hiding in its little green shell. It is not a stone to pick up and put under your black wing. It is not a subway car that is obsolete. It is not a lump of coal that you could light. It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam. What it has cost me you can't imagine, shrinks, priests, lovers, children, husbands, friends and all the lot. An expensive thing it was to keep going. It gave back too. Don't deny it! I half wonder if April would bring it back to life? A tulip? The first bud? But those are just musings on my part, the pity one has when one looks at a cadaver. How did it die? I called it EVIL. I said to it, your poems stink like vomit. I didn't stay to hear the last sentence. It died on the word EVIL. It did it with my tongue. The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood.
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Willard Leroy Metcalf was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1 July 1858, the only child of working-class parents. His father, a carpenter, was also a violinist; his mother, a loom tender. He grew up in family surroundings that believed in and actively practised spiritualism; a medium predicted that the child would become a great painter. While apprenticed to a wood engraver, he attended drawing classes at the Massachusetts Normal Art School at night. Metcalf entered the studio of the landscape painter, George Loring Brown, painting with him in the White Mountains, New Hampshire, in 1875 and 1876. He attended life classes at Lowell Institute and was awarded a scholarship to the school of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he studied art under Otto Grundmann and anatomy under the direction of the eccentric American artist-physician, William Rimmer. Metcalf travelled to the Southwest in 1881 to sketch the Zuni tribe for Harper's Magazine and became friends with Frank Hamilton Cushing, ethnologist for the Smithsonian Institution.
In 1883 Metcalf went to France and enrolled in the Académie Julian under Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre. He was at Pont-Aven in 1884; from 1885-1888 he was often at Grèz-sur-Loing and Giverny, where he became a friend of Claude Monet's son. Metcalf and Theodore Robinson frequently painted together. In 1886-1887 he travelled to Biskra and Tunis in North Africa.
Metcalf returned to the United States in 1888 and the following year was given a one-man exhibition at the St. Botolph Club, Boston. He taught at the Women's Art School at Cooper Union and the Art Students League and did magazine illustrations for Scribner's and Century. During the summer of 1895, he painted at Gloucester, Massachusetts. He received the prestigious Webb Prize from the Society of American Artists in 1896, the following year he joined the Ten American Painters, a group of artists disenchanted with the Society. In 1899 he painted murals for the Appellate Court Building, New York.
Metcalf visited Havana, Cuba, in 1902, gathering materials for murals which he painted for the Havana Tobacco Company store in New York. In September 1903, he married Marguerite Beaufort Hailé, whom he had been living with since 1899. Ill, drinking heavily, and without money, he lived for a period of time with his parents in Maine. The artist began painting in a more Impressionist manner, the beginning of what he termed his "renaissance." He taught evening classes at the Rhode Island School of Design to supplement his income. In 1905 he spent the summer with his wife at Florence Griswold's Holy House at Old Lyme, Connecticut. A successful exhibition of his works was held in 1906 at the St Botolph Club. In 1907, he received Gold Medals from the Corcoran Gallery and from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. While at Old Lyme that year, his wife left him, running off with his former student, Robert Nisbet, which caused at great scandal at the artists' colony.
In 1911 Metcalf married Henriette Alice McCrea; they travelled together in Europe in 1913. He joined the Century Club in 1917. By the end of 1920, he was separated from his wife; their divorce was finalised four years later. The artist, in poor health, continued to drink heavily. In 1924 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Metcalf suffered a fatal heart attack, dying on 9 March 1925. His will, which instructed his executors to destroy any paintings that would lessen his reputation, was largely ignored.
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Fast Assessment of Sediment Toxicity Program™ Sediment toxins remain a significant and unmeasured component of the health of the ecosystem. In response, ORCA has developed the Fast Assessment of Sediment Toxicity (FAST) program. FAST is a "canary in a coal mine" method to assess relative toxicity of sediment samples using broad-spectrum toxicity tests. In essence, FAST quickly identifies pollution sinks in aquatic environments. On its own this information will identify regions of high toxicity, but will not indicate the source of the pollution. To meet that challenge, ORCA has developed a low-cost marine ecosystem monitoring network called the ORCA Kilroy, which uses state-of-the-art sensors to continuously measure an array of water quality parameters- speed, direction, temperature, salinity, depth, turbidity and prevalence of key micro-organisms- streaming that data via cellular signals and web-based interfaces twenty-four hours per day. Kilroy uses 21st century technology to provide instantaneous data, enabling conservation and enforcement managers with the critical information they need to achieve their mission of healthy coastal environments.
Combined, FAST identifies sinks and Kilroy identifies sources. ORCA's goal with FAST and Kilroy is to create a web-based pollution gradient map that uses data provided by FAST to provide a color illustration of toxic sediments along the coastal and freshwater habitats (similar to satellite images of sea surface temperature) and overlay that information with Kilroy data to indicate pollution sources. We believe this level of information, displayed on an easy-to-understand web-based map will empower local stakeholders to resolve the pollution issues in their backyard. Similar to an Adopt-A-Highway program, ORCA's FAST sampling sites and Kilroy networks can be set up along an entire watershed to collect data on every input source and, for the first time, provide the information needed for each community to enforce the Clean Water Act, provide a real-time measure of pollution, and measure the effectiveness of pollution mitigation.
Initial development of the FAST program was funded through a grant from the Springbank Foundation. With these funds ORCA was able to hire Dr. Beth Falls to direct the FAST Program. Springbank's vision and support has attracted additional program sponsors. St. Lucie County Mosquito Control District funded a proof of concept grant, the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties awarded ORCA a two year grant to develop a pollution gradient map of the Indian River Lagoon, and Strategic Diagnostics, the maker of one of the toxicity assays used in the FAST program, provided an in-kind donation of supplies to complete standardization and collection protocols.
Making Pollution Visible ORCA's vision is that if pollution can be made visible we can see where it is entering our water ways and how it is accumulating in our ecosystems and work together to stop it at its source. We can also see which measures are working and which aren't. A case in point is the map below, that resulted from our Map-A-Mile Project. It shows total nitrogen in parts per million. High nitrogen is shown in red and low nitrogen in blue. The amount of red in this map is disturbing because high nitrogen can lead to algae blooms, reduced transparency and diminished fish populations. The most striking thing about this map is the high nitrogen accumulation in all the finger canals except for those associated with the Vero Beach Country Club, in the upper left hand corner, where they have been using best practices for lawn maintenance. The take home message is that it is possible to have a beautiful green lawn without over-fertilizing the Indian River Lagoon. To learn more about what you can do to help stop water pollution at its source see ORCA's Land to Sea Initiative.
ORCA's Map-A-Mile Project Using ORCA's proven technology to identify polluted areas of our waters, ORCA has initiated a ground-breaking initiative to make pollution visible by mapping areas of pollution in an easy to understand, color gradient map, similar to a weather map. ORCA's pollution gradient map is a unique, visual conservation tool that will transform our ability to inform and educate communities about the condition of their local aquatic ecosystems and help the public, community leaders and elected officials make informed decisions on protecting and restoring critical water habitats.
In the Summer of 2011, ORCA Research Scientists and Field Technicians worked closely with interns to collect and process sediment and water samples in the Central Vero Beach portion of the Indian River Lagoon. Sediment samples were analyzed with ORCA's Fast Assessment of Sediment Toxicity (FAST) procedures, an analysis of total toxicity and sediment particle size, and included additional analysis for nitrogen, phosphorus and total organic carbon. Tissue samples from Eastern Oysters, Crassostrea virginica, were also collected at many of the sites and analyzed for total toxicity as well as a number of individual pollutants. Results of the sediment and tissue analyses bring us closer to visualizing the effects of non point source pollution on the lagoon. This pilot project was partially funded by Indian River Impact 100 and an anonymous donor.
Download ORCA's Campaign for a Clean Indian River Lagoon
"ORCA's Kilroy is brilliant. The whole concept of a low-cost monitoring network is critical for understanding the ocean so we can better protect it. - Sylvia Earle, Ph.D. National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence


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PARIS (AP) — Faced with a voter backlash at the polls, French President Francois Hollande is looking to revive his sputtering presidency with help from a surprising quarter: Segolene Royal, the mother of his four children.
Royal, a high-profile Socialist in her own right, was tapped Wednesday to take over as minister of environment and energy in the new government named by Prime Minister Manuel Valls and Hollande, following a crushing defeat for their Socialist Party in municipal voting Sunday.
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It was penny-pinching time last night as our All Stars took on a ready-to-wear challenge with budget constraints—and Nanette Lepore!
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Because there are three of us Project Runway lovers (well, two of us today—here's hoping Kenley's elimination cures your flu, Andi!), and because we're assuming you watched the show too, instead of straight recaps for this series we're picking and choosing the parts we want to talk about most each week. First though, the episode stats:
The Winner: Mondo, whose "tin can with a string" dress is already sold out at Nanette Lepore. So much for waiting for it to go on sale...
The Loser: Kenley, who should've known better than to try and beat the Prints Prince at his own game this late in the season. No one out-prints Mondo!
What a RELIEF! This episode had me so worried that Mondo was going to go and get himself kicked off right at the very end! And my concern was not without reason! Mondo pulled one of his familiar—and apparently controversial—self-tortured workroom moments. As pointed out by both the judges and Mondo himself, some of his best work this season appears to come from a place of seeming desperation. And why wouldn't it? I have always admired the fact that Mondo's "thing" of matching disparate colors and prints together creates practically a second challenge for himself. It would be a completely reasonable challenge on Project Runway if the designers had to pull random scraps of fabric out of a bag and make an outfit using whatever they drew. But our favorite little Coloradan puts himself to this test in EVERY challenge.
It was surprising for me to see how negatively this behavior was received amongst his cohort, since the idea of an ambitious creative being frustrated with himself sounds like nothing new. Kenley in particular gave Mondo a hard time for his demeanor while working, which pointed out a key difference between the two designers. Throughout this season, Kenley has been fond of declaring how she wasn't nervous or unsure of herself during the designing process (which makes sense when you consider the comfort zone she set up camp in)—she spent the season doing what she knew she was good at and not much more. Mondo, on the other hand, was consistently shown as pushing himself throughout the design process, either forcing wacky fabric combinations together or attempting an unconventional cut. It's impressive to watch someone set such a high bar for themselves and (usually) clear it with great success.
But more about Mondo. This week's challenge was a nail biter, for sure, but in retrospect it's unsurprising that Mondo walked away with the prize. His design was the only one that you could look at in any context (i.e., outside of an episode of Project Runway) and say with 99.99% certainty that it's a Mondo design. Michael and Kenley's dresses were way generic (like, I've seen more unique and interesting dresses at Forever 21 generic) and Austin's coat was just fine. However, Mondo's aforementioned signature of combining geometrics, colors, prints, and tailoring is identifiable from a mile away. Which is why Mondo is awesome, Kenley! DUH!
And no amount of daggers-staring will change that.
Let's agree to disagree (or just diss):
Whether it was the reality of the final three or the emphasis on potential commercial success setting in, this week's episode inspired some interesting declarations of what a designer's essential skills truly are. The designers and judges ripped on Michael for creating clothing fit for a model and only a model (clothing possibly NOT EVEN fit for a model, based on the boob-slippage pow-wow session he and his model had prior to the runway). Mondo criticized Kenley for not taking the time for line up her prints. And, in turn, Kenley complained about how a real designer should know how to sketch, a skill that Mondo admitted he doesn't put much time or stock in. These arguments are not new ground for Project Runway, since we have seen many a designer be bent out of shape by another contestant's perceived lack of skill or precision. I find it hard to belief that Kenley, who seemingly verbalizes any and all thoughts that come to mind, only just now noticed and complained about Mondo's lack of sketching. The timing of these remarks this episode was interesting, given the fact that the challenge was forcing the designers to think about the nuts and bolts of selling clothing.
Assorted thoughts:
The All Star judges really must not care at all if a designer recycles their work, since some of the looks tonight were just more instances of an All Star phoning it in. I'm glad to see Kenley go and I'm even gladder to see that Mondo's All Star trajectory continues to mirror his first attempt at Project Runway glory (like this season, Mondo won the challenge that gave him a spot in the season 8 finale). Also, I have to give props to Austin and his general attitude, because I was reminded during After the Runway that he never really argues with anyone, a feat so surprising for Project Runway that I almost didn't notice. A class act, that one.
Mondo's chances:
I WANT to think that he has the ultimate prize locked down, but I just don't know how much I can trust the judges (and producers) to make the right call. Of the final three, Mondo's the only one who has been in this situation before, since both Austin and Michael were kicked off right before their seasons' finales, so hopefully that means he has learned what to show in a final collection. And of the three, Mondo's guest editorship at Marie Claire would actually leave me wanting to read Marie Claire, and I have to imagine I'm not alone in this sentiment. Let's say Mondo has a 75% chance? Quickly, everyone! Knock on wood!
- Annalee
Reality bites.
Once again this week, the Ming-vase-fragile worlds of our designers were shattered by a Dose of Reality. This time, though, even I was shocked to learn that if you want to make a dress that retails for $380 you get $48 to spend on fabric. Does it really cost $332—per item—to manufacture and ship a Nanette Lepore garment? (That Lepore dress I got for 85% off at the Nordstrom Rack is looking better all the time...) Project Runway has always walked a fine line between the fantasyland of reality television (Make something out pet supplies! Design a dress for Miss Piggy!) and the slightly-less-of-a-fantasyland fashion industry (Make something that can be mass produced! Make something that a non-model can wear!) and this ready-to-wear challenge was no exception.
As someone who can often be heard shouting stuff at the TV like, "no one would buy that!" and "only a model would look good in that!" and "where's Michael Kors when you need him?!" I liked seeing the designers get taken down a peg by someone who works in commercial fashion. Guess what Michael? If your professional model could barely keep your (waaay too long) caftan dress on, the "average woman" shopper would be in a constant state of nip-slip panic if she tried to wear it.
A Farewell to Charms
Say what you will about the Tugboat Captain's Daughter and her cat-hurling ways, I've been harboring a soft spot for Kenley Collins. Hey, I like her designs, and I think there's something to the (OK, her) argument that the silhouettes she designs are more universally appealing and flattering than those of Austin or Mondo. With the exception of that hideous shorts romper, of course. Not only am I sad to see Kenley go home because I despise Michael C. and his bullshit jersey draping (which is THE SAME EVERY WEEK and you know will be the only thing he designs for his final runway show) but I was hoping that one of the female designers would make it to the final round, especially given the judges' preference for the guys this season.
Kenley lost this challenge for herself though with her snotty attitude. Refusing to accept Nanette Lepore's comments and getting rid of the only genuinely interesting part of her design—whilst shit-talking Mondo in Nanette's studio—was not only rude, it was foolish. With only four designers left (one of them being the ever-so-polite Austin Scarlett), in a challenge designed to kiss the ass of the guest judge, Kenley should have known better than to cop a 'tude. Then again, she should've known better than to throw that cat, so maybe my hopes that she'd make it to the final three were a tad misguided.
If only we could find a dramatic farewell photo of Kenley to include here.
Assorted thoughts: I loved Mondo's comment about his dress being like "those pit bull dogs that are so ugly, but they're so ugly they're cute." He's right! Also, on the Mondo tip, this is the second week in a row that I've watched All Stars with someone who's had a personal run-in with Mondo. When will this luck rub off on me?!?
Seeing Anthony on After the Runway only further convinced me that he needs his own talk show–STAT. His sharp new haircut makes this all the more feasible!
Mondo's chances:
I'm with Annalee in thinking Mondo has the final challenge in bag. However, we still don't know exactly what said challenge will look like—since there's no Fashion Week this season—so given the possibility of some wrenches being thrown at the designers, I'm putting his chances at 50%. Considering my total frustration with the judges this season (which continues—it's still impossible to know which looks they like and why) I wouldn't be surprised if Michael puts a jersey bedsheet on the runway and walks away with the prize. Grr.
- Kelsey
Previously: Electric Feelings, World Beatdown
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Anonymous replied on
Do you know who michael's model is? She looks so familiar but I could not find info on the interwebs. Was she on ANTM? Been loving your recaps! Go team mondo! And while I want to support Kenley in her stance as a strong woman and I do think she is the only one who designs for "real" women I can't do it because she is just too annoying!
Great write-up! I was hooked
Boytom replied on
Great write-up! I was hooked right on the first season of this great show. My GF is a fashion designer so she "made me" watched at first, but soon enough I was enjoying it.

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About Austin...
Mon replied on
Did anybody else notice the t-shirt he was wearing in the workroom the day before runway (I think)... It was like a dark purple-grey ... and it had a drawing of him and Santino! It was so great to see that little detail; I want that shirt!


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A Treadmill Training Program Augmented by Virtual Reality to Decrease Fall Risk in Older Adults (VTIME)
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The proposed randomized controlled trial will evaluate the effects of treadmill training augmented with virtual reality on fall risk.
300 older adults with a history of falls will be recruited to participate in this study. This will include older adults (n=100), patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) (n=100), and patients with Parkinson's disease (PD)(n=100). Subjects will be randomly assigned to the intervention group (treadmill training with virtual reality) or to the active-control group (treadmill training without virtual reality). Each person will participate in a training program set in an outpatient setting 3 times per week for 6 weeks. Assessments will take place before, after, and 1 month and 6 months after the completion of the training.
Condition | Intervention |
Elderly Adults Parkinson Mild Cognitive Disorder |
Other: TT+VR Other: TT alone |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor) Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | V-TIME: A Treadmill Training Program Augmented by Virtual Reality to Decrease Fall Risk in Older Adults, Patients With Parkinson's Disease and Individuals With Mild Cognitive Impairments |
- Falls rate [ Time Frame: 6 months post intervention ]The primary outcome measure of the study is fall rate. Participants will keep a falls calendar for 6 months post intervention. Each time the participant falls he/she will tick the date on the calendar. These calendars will be returned to the researchers once a month in a pre-addressed envelope.
- Gait [ Time Frame: 6 months post intervention ]Gait speed and gait variability under usual and dual task conditions and while negotiating physical obstacles will be measured. Participants will be asked to walk in a well-lit corridor under 3 conditions each of 1 minute: i) walking in a comfortable speed, ii) walking while subtracting 3s from a predefined number (dual task), iii) walking while negotiating two obstacles placed on the floor at specific locations. Spatial-temporal gait characteristics (e.g., gait speed (m/s), stride length (m), stride time (s), swing time (%), asymmetry, and step width (cm)) will be determined. Endurance will be assessed using the 2 Minute Walk Test.
- Cognitive function [ Time Frame: 6 months post intervention ]Cognitive function will be assessed using a computerized neuropsychological test battery (Mindstreams, NeuroTrax Corp., NJ). In addition, we will also include standardized neuropsychological tests such as the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA); The Trail Making Test (TMT) and the Verbal Fluency test.
- Balance and mobility [ Time Frame: 6 months post intervention ]The Four Square Step Test (FSST), The Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) and the mini-Balance Evaluation Systems Test (mini-BESTest) will be used to assess mobility. Community ambulation will be assessed using The Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly (PASE) and a tri-axial accelerometer (Axivity Ltd.) which will be worn by the participants for 7 days to quantify and monitor stepping and physical activity.
- Quality of life [ Time Frame: 6 months post intervention ]The SF-36 Health Survey, a generic self-report questionnaire designed to address health related quality of life will be used. Fear of Falling will be evaluated using the Falls Efficacy Scale-International.
Enrollment: | 302 |
Study Start Date: | November 2012 |
Study Completion Date: | December 2015 |
Primary Completion Date: | April 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: TT+VR
The training will consist of walking on the treadmill while negotiating obstacles in a virtual reality simulation.Training will be provided3 times a week for a duration of 6 weeks (total of 18 sessions).
Other: TT+VR
subjects will be walking on a treadmill while negotiating virtual obstacles provided by a computer simulation. The virtual environment will consist of obstacles, different pathways, narrow corridors and distracters, requiring modulations of step amplitude in two planes (i.e., height and width) coordinated with walking behaviour. The speed, orientation, size, frequency of appearance and shape of the targets will be manipulated according to individual needs following a standardized protocol.
Other Name: training on a treadmill with virtual reality
Active Comparator: TT alone
The training will consist of walking on the treadmill 3 times a week for a duration of 6 weeks (total of 18 sessions).
Other: TT alone
The participants will walk on the treadmill, their gait speed over-ground will be measured at the beginning of each week of training. Progression will include increasing the duration of each of the walking bouts and increasing walking speed.
Other Name: treadmill training
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A prospective, single blinded, parallel group, randomized controlled trial with 6 month follow-up will be employed to investigate the effects of treadmill training augmented with virtual reality on fall risk. The study will include 300 older participants who have experienced two or more falls in the previous 6 months. Participants will be randomized to either the intervention or control group. The intervention group will receive 18 sessions of Treadmill Training with Virtual Reality (TT+VR) and the active control comparison will receive 18 training sessions of treadmill training alone (TT) without the VR simulation All interventions will be delivered by therapists trained in the standard protocols. All subjects will be trained 3 times a week for 6 weeks, each session will last approximately 45 minutes.Training progression will be based on increasing both motor and cognitive challenges, individualized to the participant's level of performance.
Primary outcome measures:
The primary outcome measure of the study is fall rate for 6 months post intervention. Secondary outcome measures will include gait speed and gait variability under usual and dual task conditions and while negotiating physical obstacles will be measured. Endurance will be assessed using the 2 Minute Walk Test and mobility will be assessed using the Four Square Step Test (FSST), The Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) and the mini-Balance Evaluation Systems Test (mini-BESTest). Community ambulation will be assessed using a tri-axial accelerometer ('Axivity' Ltd.)which will be worn by the participants for 7 days. Cognitive function will be assessed using a computerized neuropsychological test battery (Mindstreams, 'NeuroTrax' Corp., NJ) as well as standardized neuropsychological tests (Montreal Cognitive Assessment,The Trail Making Test; Verbal Fluency). Quality of life will be evaluated using the SF-36 Health Survey
Ages Eligible for Study: | 60 Years to 85 Years (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- 2 or more falls within 6 months prior to the beginning of the study
- Aged 60-85 years
- Able to walk for 5 minutes unassisted
- Adequate hearing and vision capabilities.
- Stable medication for the past 1 month and anticipated over a period of 6 months
Exclusion Criteria:
- Psychiatric co-morbidity
- Clinical diagnosis of dementia or other severe cognitive impairment (MMSE<24)
- History of stroke, traumatic brain injury or other neurological disorders (other than PD and MCI, for those groups)
- Acute lower back or lower extremity pain, peripheral neuropathy, rheumatic and orthopaedic diseases
- Unstable medical condition in the past 6 months
- Unable to comply with the training
- Interfering therapy
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01732653
Belgium | |
Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | |
Leuven, Belgium | |
Israel | |
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center | |
Tel Aviv, Israel, 64239 | |
Italy | |
Department of Neurosciences Universita Degli Studi Di Genova, Italy | |
Genova, Italy | |
Netherlands | |
Department of Geriatric Medicine and Neurology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center The Netherlands | |
Nijmegen, Netherlands | |
United Kingdom | |
Institute for Aging and Health, University of Newcastle, UK | |
Newcastle, United Kingdom |
Principal Investigator: | Jeffrey M Hausdorff, PhD | Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center |
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01732653 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
Study First Received: | November 5, 2012 |
Last Updated: | April 17, 2016 |
Keywords provided by Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center:
virtual reality, falls, elderly, Parkinson's disease, MCI |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Parkinson Disease Cognition Disorders Mild Cognitive Impairment Parkinsonian Disorders Basal Ganglia Diseases Brain Diseases |
Central Nervous System Diseases Nervous System Diseases Movement Disorders Neurodegenerative Diseases Neurocognitive Disorders Mental Disorders |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 29, 2017


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