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Former All-Star first baseman Wally Joyner has been hired by the Phillies as the assistant hitting coach to Steve Henderson, Manager Charlie Manuel and Senior Vice President & General Manager Ruben Amaro Jr. jointly announced today.
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Captain's Log, Supplemental: A Final Word
And, of course, to contemplate how my life has changed in those years. Deaths, divorce, new beginnings -- the rovers have been there to anchor me through ups and downs. No matter how bad things got, I'd go to work, reach across a hundred million miles of emptiness, and move something on the surface of another world. It was always magic. I can't imagine what it would have been like without my twin girls, and I'm deeply grateful that I haven't had to find out.
I'll try to write another blog like this one for MSL, though of course you might have to wait five years to read it. (Discussions with JPL's media folks will begin soon.) In the meantime, whatever happens with that, you can always follow along with MER at the MER home page, and of course I'll continue spouting off from time to time at my Twitter and Google+ accounts.
As I always say, it's one thing to drive a rover around on Mars -- that would be cool, but the real fun for me is that I get to take everyone in the world along in the back seat. This blog has been another way to do that, and I'll miss it now that it's gone.
Thank you for sharing this adventure with me. Thanks for reading.
20 comments:
It's been a blast! I've been an enthusiastic reader of this blog for years. I'm sad to see it end.
I'll keep my fingers crossed for an MSL journal!
- April 6, 2012 at 5:52 PM
I haven't missed a post since day one, and I'm gonna miss them sorely now. It's been an incredible adventure following those daring rovers around, thank you so much for sharing!
Can't wait for the new chapter to begin next August ;)
- April 6, 2012 at 6:42 PM
- Bill said...
And I'm just discovering this today. I'm looking forward to starting from the beginning. Thank you so much for letting us ride along. The results will ripple out further than we probably even imagine.
- April 6, 2012 at 10:01 PM
- Greg said...
I've been following since the day you posted that you were going to start this on slashdot. It has been _really_ interesting to hear your personal account of working on a project like this. It lets us share in the feelings of working on something that has been this exciting.
Thank you.
- April 7, 2012 at 12:25 AM
- Ed Davies said...
Scott, many thanks for letting us all look over your shoulder. I doubt I'm alone in looking forward to hearing from MSL via you and lots of the other good people at JPL.
- April 7, 2012 at 1:25 AM
I appreciate the time you took share this information, though hopefully this is more an intermission and less an ending. I can't understand why they would make you delay this or the MSL story as it is both free and extremely awesome advertising. Take it from the next generation if they want to inspire us this is an excellent start as it is both amazing but also shows the ups and downs of the process. Not to mention lessons learned from one of the guys doing the learning. This cannot be replaced by a poster or video clip or a movie really. Seriously thank you.
- April 7, 2012 at 8:43 AM
Thank you Scott! Please let us know how we can influence
the JPL media people. We need blogs like Mars and Me
so that children and adults can continue to dream.
Robert R.
- April 7, 2012 at 10:07 AM
- kevinwparker said...
It's been fantastic. I've really enjoyed it and am sorry to see it end.
- April 7, 2012 at 5:18 PM
- Buck said...
Thank you for taking the time to do this. I sure hope you can find the time to do it for MSL too, but I certainly understand if that doesn't happen.
Incredible job.
- April 9, 2012 at 9:57 AM
Thank you for sharing this with us! =)
- April 10, 2012 at 12:59 AM
- Dave said...
Thanks. I've enjoyed driving a rover on Mars with you.
- April 11, 2012 at 9:06 PM
Thanks a lot, Scott, for these insights in this fascinating project.
And still have good luck with Oppy and MSQL
- April 16, 2012 at 1:46 PM
Your work is greatly appreciated! Thank you. I'll be sure to follow Opportunity.
- April 22, 2012 at 2:20 PM
- Unknown said...
Scott, This has been a really fun blog. I enjoyed reading about Spirit and Oppy, almost like I was part of the team. I hope you can keep it up with Curiosity! Thanks for taking the time to do share this with everyone.
- April 29, 2012 at 7:46 AM
- Joffan said...
Thanks for this terrific narrative Scott. It has been much appreciated, even in the times when I only managed to drop in once a month.
- May 13, 2012 at 1:40 PM
- Sandy said...
Thanks so much for posting this journal. It's really peaked my interest in the MER and MSL missions and I look forward to seeing your updates from MSL, even if they do end up coming out five years later. (though hopefully we won't have to wait that long)
- May 30, 2012 at 5:16 AM
- DBC said...
Thank you from France, where I enjoyed every passage on you site for the past few years. It is awesome science, and you're an awesome scientist, spreading news and much more : actual confidence on what lies ahead for us.
Kudos to you and your pals. Hope you'll continue somehow, sometime.
- June 12, 2012 at 2:55 AM
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Great blog that you had here. Our interest in Mars is never ending and your blog has been here to inspire curiosity and interest in this great planet. Please feel free to check out my blog if you like.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – After eight seasons as Yale's heavyweight crew coach, John Pescatore has announced that he is resigning from his post. A national search is underway to find his successor.
"It has been an honor and inspiration to have coached at Yale, and athletes I've been lucky enough to work with here have given me a gift of their best efforts. I am completely behind this team in their quest to go faster and further," said Pescatore.
The Bulldogs had some significant accomplishments during Pescatore's tenure. That included an undefeated dual racing season in 2006-07, when Yale earned a silver medal at the Eastern Sprints Championship, a bronze medal at the Head of the Charles in the Championship Eight (the U.S. National Team finished first) and a gold medal at the Princeton Chase Regatta. That same year, Yale defeated Harvard in their annual four-mile contest in what newspapers have called "the greatest comeback in the history of the regatta." Four oarsmen from the 2007 Yale crew, all recruited by Pescatore, were invited to compete for seats on the U.S. National Team for the Under-23 World Championships.
"We thank John Pescatore for his efforts in leading the Yale heavyweight crew program over the past eight seasons," said Tom Beckett, Yale's Director of Athletics. "John has influenced the lives of many fine young men during his tenure as our coach, and there have been many notable achievements during his career. We all wish him the very best."
The Bulldogs went 5-2 in the 2010 dual race season, successfully defending the Olympic Axe against Dartmouth for the seventh consecutive season and winning both the Blackwell Cup against Columbia and Penn and the Carnegie Cup against Cornell and Princeton for the first time since 2007.
Six of the eight rowers in Yale's varsity boat, including two U.S. Under-23 team selections, return next season.
A 1986 Penn graduate, Pescatore won a Bronze Medal in the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea, as stroke for the American heavyweight eight. He was also the stroke for the heavyweight pair without coxswain which placed sixth in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain. In 2000, Pescatore served as assistant coach for the United States Olympic Team and coached the men's coxless pair to a Silver Medal at the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. The men's pair was the top performing American crew in Sydney, and for his efforts, Pescatore was named the 2000 U.S. Rowing Coach of the Year.


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The adaptable raccoon has learned to prosper—even in our capital.
Raccoon Facts and Habitats
It would be stretching things to say that raccoons are taking over Washington, D.C. But not by all that much. Dr. John Hadidian, an urban wildlife specialist at the National Park Service's Center for Urban Ecology in Washington, estimates that more than 600 of the ring-tailed creatures make their home in the capital city's 1,700-acre Rock Creek Park alone. And though the city's roving raccoons won't hold still for a head count, their total D.C. population may top 8,000. That's a lot of scurrying things to go bump in the night.
It's not so much that raccoons are enamored of the Reagan administration, Congress, or the masses of humanity D.C. has to offer. It's just that the intrepid little beasts are so remarkably adaptable that they don't know when, or where, to quit. In fact, the raccoon is possibly the most adaptable wild mammal in North America, having firmly established itself from southern Canada to Central America, and in all 48 contiguous states between.
The name raccoon comes from the Algonquian arakun, meaning "scratcher." And scratchers coons most certainly are. Equipped with five long, nimble, unwebbed fingers on each forepaw, they're extremely touch-oriented creatures. But the German name for the animal is even more descriptive: wasberen, or "wash bear." Not only does the raccoon resemble a small bear in appearance, habit, appetite, and the human-like tracks it leaves behind, but it can claim at least a tenuous genetic relationship to the bears in that it belongs to the same family (Procyonidae) as the lesser panda (genus Ailurus) of eastern Asia.
The raccoon's scientific title is Procyonlotor. Procyon is Latin for something like "before the dogs." Scientific or no, the term procyon is a bit misleading, since coons evolved, not before, but more or less in parallel with, the canine, with the two species sharing the same early ancestors. The second part of the raccoon's scientific name, lotor, means "washer." That's more apropos, for, as the German wasberen also indicates, the creature has a distinctive habit of dunking its food before eating it.
Which brings us to the Great Coon Quandary.
For many years biologists assumed that raccoons wash their food in the true sense-tidy it up before tossing it down. But during the early twentieth century, that idea was pushed aside in favor of the theory that raccoons wet their food because their salivary glands don't produce enough saliva to meet their digestive needs. By the early 1960s, though, researchers had decided that raccoons do produce sufficient saliva, and another explanation was called for. The third theory postulated that, since the coon so enjoys handling its food before eating it, it wets both its paws and the item being pawed in order to heighten the sense of touch.
Nowadays, the Great Coon Quandary seems to have wandered full circle, for the latest edition of Hall and Kelson's Mammals of North America—a zoological reference many biologists consider the final word—re-asserts the idea of washing as cleansing: "Washing the food caught along a stream removes sand and grit, as well as perhaps certain skin secretions of the prey."
Still, there's no solid academic agreement on the subject, leaving the true reason the raccoon washes its food a mystery. But there's no doubt about what the coon washes and then gobbles down—just about anything it can get its paws on. In the natural state (that is, beyond the bounds of D. C. and other garbage-rich cities), a raccoon's diet is dictated primarily by the seasons.
The back country coon's most important food source in spring is offspring-that is, the young of other wild creatures. A competent swimmer and superb climber, P. lotor excels at stealing eggs and chicks from birds' nests, snatching muskrat kits from their island-like, mud-and-stick houses, bagging baby bunnies, and generally raising Cain among the wild and young.
In summer, the raccoon's diet could be described as a Cajun salad: wild greens supplemented with all the crayfish, frogs, and other riparian (streamside) meat items the talented little angler can catch.
Come fall, like a miniature bear, the raccoon goes on an all-out fattening spree, trying to store up enough calories during this annual time of plenty to see it through the coming months of cold, hunger, and reproduction. Autumn staples for raccoons are berries and mast (nuts). Before the blight that wiped out the once-abundant American chestnut, the prickly-hulled harvest of this magnificent tree was the raccoon's favored fall food. Nowadays acorns are the coon's primary fall fare, fleshed out with insects and the ever-popular crayfish.
Autumn is also when the coon works hardest to sustain its reputation as a masked bandit. If you've ever had a garden crop of milk-ripe sweet corn wiped out in just a few nights, you know how destructive a few for-aging raccoons can be—and that most attempts to protect coon-targeted corn generally come to naught.
But failure doesn't keep farmers and gardeners from trying to protect their crops. Over the years, a number of raccoon repellants have become part of North America's collective agricultural folk wisdom. One of these is newspaper—wadded, shredded, or simply spread flat and placed on the ground around the cornstalks. The idea here is that raccoons so dislike getting ink on their paws that they'll avoid the paper-carpeted portions of your garden. Apparently, this trick sometimes works—for a while. Trouble is, wind and water soon destroy the newspaper, or the coons eventually get over their ink phobia.
A second folk preventive is to sprinkle stove ashes on the ground around each cornstalk, and onto each ear. This reportedly helps to keep honest coons honest—at least until it rains. (However, John Hadidian reports that a favored denning place for urban raccoons is inside chimneys, a fact that seems to indicate a generous tolerance for ashes and soot.)
Fine-ground cayenne pepper sprinkled onto the silks of ripening corn is a third folk talisman that sometimes works, again, for a while—until the raiders become accustomed to spicier fare. A fourth holistic coon preventive is to ring your corn patch with soybeans in hopes that the beans will fill the raiders' bellies before they make it to your com.
To bring a scientific perspective to the problem, Dr. Hadidian passes along a couple of somewhat more active deterrents: "I've been told of some success using the old radio-in-the-cornfield trick. This requires an all-night talk show, but if you have a small enough area to treat, the raccoons may be either frightened or bored enough to avoid it. Of course, the old dog-in-the-cornfield caper is still the best." [EDITOR'S NOTE: As reported in MOTHER EARTH NEWS NO. 99's Seasons of the Garden column, recent research suggests that baby powder sprinkled on ears is a useful alternative.]
If you have neither a portable radio nor an alert dog (coons could cart my oid black fatty away and he'd never wake), the only really effective deterrents seem to be electrical fencing, corn cages (sturdy chicken-wire pens with roofs), guns, and traps. If you opt for live-trapping marauding coons, be sure to transport your captives a long way away for release, since they'll return if possible, and a once-trapped coon isn't likely to let itself be taken again.
Raccoons are also adept hen house raiders, taking eggs, chicks, and layers. If your coop gets hit, how can you tell if a coon is the culprit? You can't, unless you catch one in the act. But here are some indicators: A weasel in a hen house will attempt to destroy every last bird (as will a feral dog), killing with a distinctive bite to the base of the skull and eating very little of its plunder. By contrast, a raccoon will generally kill only one bird per visit, carrying it off when possible and eating just about everything but the feathers - then return the very next night for another fowl feast, and so on until the larder is depleted. Coyotes and foxes, being thriftier by nature, usually space out their raids.
Since an adult raccoon has a rather bulky bod, you'd think that a coop tight enough to keep adult hens in would keep coons out. Not necessarily so. John Hadidian's testimony proves otherwise: "I've had a couple of experiences with raccoons that suggest the need to pay attention to detail. I released a large male from a live trap last winter, expecting him to run along the fenceline where I let him go. To my surprise, he ran headlong at the fence, squirted under it, and disappeared into the distance. On examination, I found that he'd squeezed through a four-inch gap between the fence and ground—if it's accurate to say 'squeezed' when he hit it at a dead run. If I were raising chickens, I'd mend even the smallest holes in my coop."
And even then you might have to contend with the occasional clever varmint that learns to reach through chicken wire, snatch a hen, rip it to bite-sized bits, and pull the morsels through the wire one at a time.
It's easy to tell when a raccoon has been dining on eggs. Instead of making a mess of it, as most other egg-rustlers do, the crafty creature cleanly bites the top off each egg and slurps out the contents, leaving neatly decapitated shells strewn about like empty bowls.
Whether fattened on your poultry and produce or not, a raccoon that's well into its average 10-year life span can grow to be a virtual walking tub of lard, with adults averaging 12 to 20 pounds and sometimes porking up to nearly 50. The largest raccoon on record was killed in Wisconsin in 1955, measured 55 inches tongue to tail, and weighed a whopping 62 pounds, 6 ounces. The smallest subspecies inhabits the Florida Keys and averages a mere 3.3 pounds fully grown.
With the onset of winter, north-country wash bears retire to comfy dens in standing' dead trees, hollow logs, or rocky crevices to coon-nap through the cold months. While raccoons don't actually hibernate, they do keep to their dens and doze for extended periods when temperatures are well below freezing. But on ,days when a bright sun warms the air to above freezing and the snow isn't so deep that walking (and running) is difficult, they're likely to venture out in search of food and excitement. Southern sunbelt coons remain active year-round, as do big-city raccoons everywhere.
Between naps, raccoons manage to find the time to breed during winter. Males will mate with as many receptive females as they can find, frequently trekking great distances in their pursuit of love. (Wildlife photographer Leonard Lee Rue III reports snow-tracking one particularly energetic coon Casanova eight miles in a single night.) The ladies of the species are more civilized in their affairs, keeping near home and generally accepting only one mate per season.
Gestation requires around 63 days, with litters averaging three or four 2.5-ounce kits. Within three weeks of birth the wee coons have their eyes open; after about 50 days they're able to scamper in and out of the den under their own power, and by 10 weeks are accompanying their mother on her nightly rounds.
By the following winter, most young coons will have left home to pursue their own adventurous lives in the North American back. country . . . or in some of our biggest cities, where they grow fat and sassy on human handouts (occasionally biting the very fingers that feed them), raid and scatter garbage, startle light sleepers with their infernal nocturnal racket, invade basements, chimneys, and sewers, and spread rabies.
So what's being done to halt the raccoon invasion of D.C. and other eastern cities? The question should probably be, What can be done? The answer so far is, not much. Dr. Hadidian and his colleagues are literally working night and day to keep tabs on the furry immigrants while experimenting with methods for mass-vaccinating raccoons against rabies, using smelly baits placed in strategic locations. But metropolitan coon management is a relatively new science which so far offers no immediate reprieve from the current trends of more raccoons and more rabies.
Eventually, of course, humanity—being even more adaptable and occasionally more clever than the raccoon—will get the upper hand. But before passing too harsh a sentence on the fate of urban raccoons, it would be well for us to remember that, for almost 500 years now, we've been gnawing away at the natural domain of the raccoon; appropriating, displacing, or destroying many of the animal's traditional foods; clear-cutting the old-growth forests that provide its favored housing; and polluting the waterways near which the creature lives and on which it depends for a major portion of its sustenance.
After all of that, it's understandable why the wash bear is moving to Washington in such numbers. He's undoubtedly decided that—what the heck?—if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate's final vote of the year may be on Friday to confirm President Barack Obama's nomination of Janet Yellen to head the Federal Reserve, a senior Democratic aide said on Wednesday.
The Democratic-led Senate is expected to turn to Yellen, currently the Fed's vice chair, and nine other Obama nominees after wrapping up action on a major defense bill, likely on Thursday.
Up to 30 hours of debate have been set aside for both the defense bill and the Yellen nomination. But with senators anxious to go home for the holidays, Democrats and Republicans may agree to yield back time.
If they do not surrender time, senators may end up working this weekend.
In addition to Yellen, Obama's Democrats want to confirm nine other mostly lower-level nominees before adjourning for the year, or reach agreements with Republicans to carry them over to 2014.
Unless such agreements are reached, any pending nominee not approved would have to start over the confirmation process, with Obama re-nominating them.
Senate Democrats will not go home without first getting Yellen confirmed, aides said. She enjoys broad support and appears certain to be approved.
"We may get to her by Thursday, but more likely on Friday," a senior aide said. "She may be the last Senate vote of the year."
Before the Senate votes on Yellen, it is set to consider three other Obama nominees, including John Koskinen to head the Internal Revenue Service.
Reporting by Thomas Ferraro; Editing by Vicki Allen


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Jaiden James and Rasharn Agymang
Mar 19 2010
Ghostly shapes, darting lasers and another manifestation of fashion's fascination with the future, this fashion film offers a neon-hued vision - utopia...
Rei Nadal
Rei, I Don't Exist
Apr 3 2012
Artist Rei Nadal offers a unique take on 'Fashion Fetish' by curating the SHOWstudio Tumblr for a one-week period from 2-8 April 2012 inclusive. Her wo...
Simon Foxton and Alasdair McLellan
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Nick Knight, Rick Owens and Panos Yiapanis
Rick Owens Portrait
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An intimate portrait of Rick Owens in his own words and his own clothing, this filmic diptych explores Nick Knight's monograph of an American fashion l...
Nick Knight and Paul Hunwick
Safer Steps
Feb 9 2001
Why you should 'always give your new leather soles a bit of a rubdown with sandpaper before venturing out for a night on the town'. A cautionary story ...
Ruth Hogben and Saloni Lodha
Saloni S/S 13
Feb 15 2013
London-based Indian designer Saloni Lodha commissioned star filmmaker Ruth Hogben to capture her Spring/Summer 2013 collection in a fashion film starri...
Jane Audas, Elisabeth Arkhipoff, Eley Kishimoto and Adam Mufti
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Nick Knight, Katy England, SHOWstudio and Raquel Couceiro
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Atsuko Kudo and Simon Walter Hoare
Selling Sex: Atsuko Kudo
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Coinciding with the display of her 'Armour for Prostitutes' in SHOWstudio's 'Selling Sex' exhibition, latex doyenne Atsuko Kudo provides a lesson in dr...
Slow Knights, Edward Quist and Derek Gruen
Apr 4 2013
Musician Derek Gruen (or Del Marquis to Scissor Sisters fans) and director Edward Paul Quist exclusively release the video for 'Shame', a dark track ta...
Craig McDean
Sep 23 2002
Model, jewellery designer and musician Jo Reynolds takes to the spotlight in Craig McDean's atmospheric performance film. Watch as Reynolds gives Nick ...
Nick Knight, Jonathan Kaye and Akufen
Jun 5 2003
Contextualising the Spring/Summer 2003 haute couture collections as photographed for W magazine, 'SHOOT' proves that couture is far more than just dres...
Nick Knight, Parsons School of Design, Panisa Busayanont, Chenghui Zhang, Jihyun Myung and Georgina Evans
SHOWstudio x Parsons
May 24 2017
Combining a mutual passion in the championing of fashion film as a medium, SHOWstudio and New York's Parsons School of Design collaborate on a competit...
Nick Knight
Mar 7 2008
Filmed amidst the nuts-and-bolts of the photographic shoot, Showtime is a sneak preview of Nick Knight's editorial for the April 2008 edition of Britis...
Simon Foxton, Penny Martin, Michael Bracewell and Charlotte Cotton
Sittings: Thirty Men
Apr 1 2005
Over April 2005, Simon Foxton styled 30 models as 'living magazine pages', seated in front of a webcam. Via telephone, the 'Sittings' models could take...
Simon Foxton and Nick Griffiths
May 1 2007
&Son, the creative consultancy of stylists Simon Foxton and Nick Griffiths, undertook 'Skin' as a way of rethinking traditional motion image advertisin...
Zac Posen, Erin O'Connor and Craig McDean
Skin Wear
Feb 17 2004
In this fashion film with a difference, New York designer Zac Posen constructed a 'dress' for model Erin O'Connor from the lithe limbs and bodies of th...
Nick Knight, Simon Foxton and Jonathan Kaye
Dec 13 2001
On 10 and 11 December 2001, nine top models arrived at The Metropolitan Hotel to participate in the first ever global, live fashion shoot. The girls we...
Nick Knight, Peter Saville, Mariacarla Boscono, Gideon Ponte, Francesca Burns, Alana Zimmer, Raquel Couceiro and Lou Stoppard
Soft Furnishings
Apr 20 2009
As backdrop to an editorial story for July 2009 Wallpaper* magazine, Peter Saville's febrile imagination constructs an imaginary 'Erotic House' of Pop ...
Nick Knight and Massive Attack
Special Cases
Feb 25 2003
Nick Knight exploded the beauty myth in this exclusive film related to his motion image campaign for Massive Attack's 2003 album '100th Window'
Penny Martin and Jason Evans
Stormtrooper In Drag
Nov 5 2001
This is not a love song: Jason Evans dressed up in a combination of Stormtrooper and polka-dot Comme des Garçons to test the parameters of identity and...
Nick Knight, Simon Foxton, Bea Sweet, Lou Stoppard and Younji Ku
Jul 27 2012
Nick Knight's ground-breaking 2012 fashion film 'Studs', pushes gender boundaries. As defined by one of the subjects of the film, a 'stud' is 'a mascul...
Brooke Taylor
Dec 20 2000
It's sunset and Anders Edstrom and Peter Taylor chance upon an elderly Japanese man singing Bruce Springsteen's 'Born In The USA' in this slightly surr...
Nick Knight and Jane How
Nov 10 2000
Here's something we made earlier: stylist Jane How recreated her favourite looks of Spring/Summer 2000 from sweet papers, cupcake wrappers and doilies,...
Jul 23 2004
The Burberry Boys battled it out with the Kim Jones gang in this Autumn/Winter 2004 West Side Story. The Doi provided the soundtrack to Toyin's gracefu...
Kukula and Jennifer Massaux
The Chase
Mar 27 2015
Fashion's eternal obsession, the muse, is explored whimsically in Kukula's film. The artist collaborates with stylist and producer Aline Pimentel and d...
Nick Knight, Sam McKnight, Amanda Harlech, Kev Stenning, Alexia Wight, Ciaran Linden Beale, Tom Wandrag, Jess Hallett, Younji Ku and Marian Newman
The Elegant Universe
Jan 30 2014
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The Fashion Body
Jul 16 2010
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Aitor Throup and Jez Tozer
The Funeral Of New Orleans - Part One
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Alice Hawkins
The Good Life
Nov 24 2010
Proper doesn't have to mean prim - Alice Hawkins gives the bourgeoisie mood of the Autumn/Winter 2010 collections a terribly British spin in a tongue-i...
Nick Knight, Kat Marks and Alexander Fury
The Karass
Feb 1 2011
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Marie Schuller, Ciaran Linden Beale, Studio Private and Selfridges
The Masters
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Lodger Footwear, Hannah Martin and E. Tautz
The Modern Gentry
Dec 4 2009
An exploration into contemporary gentlemen's luxury, The Modern Gentry is a one-off video collaboration between E. Tautz, Hannah Martin and Lodger foot...
Daphne Guinness, Joseph Lally and Tom Guinness
The Murder of Jean Seberg
Jun 12 2011
Inspired by the controversial and shocking death of the all-American actress Jean Seberg in 1979, Daphne Guinness collaborates with filmmaker and photo...
Dean Chalkley
The New Faces
Mar 9 2012
Focusing on the sartorial passion and commitment of young British Mods in the twenty-first century, 'The New Faces' is a documentary showcasing the con...
Jez Tozer
The Raven
Dec 14 2010
Taking inspiration from Negredo - a 'black blacker than the blackest black' and first element of the mythological process of alchemy - Jez Tozer's fash...
Derek Michael and Tom Zambaz
The Seasons
Apr 20 2006
See how Derek Michael's leaf changes through spring, summer, autumn and winter. See how it changes again when you stretch it with your mouse, then pick...
Nick Knight, Zora Star, Ross Phillips, Penny Martin, Paul Hetherington, Laura Bradley and Dorian Moore
The Sound Of Clothes: Anechoic
Apr 20 2006
Anechoic is a 'collections story' that uses sound instead of visuals to interpret the essence of key garments from the Autumn/Winter 2006 collections b...
Nick Knight, Matthew Williams, Andrew Tomlinson, ALYX, 032c and Raquel Couceiro
The Sound Of Light's Own Destruction
Jul 4 2016
Commissioned by Matthew Williams, creative director of fashion label Alyx, for his exhibition at 032c's space in Berlin, Nick Knight's film takes the f...
Erica Schreiner
The Tale of the Bravest Warrior
Mar 28 2013
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Nick Knight, Björk, Alexander McQueen, Ruth Hogben and Edward Enninful
To Lee, With Love, Nick
Dec 7 2010
'This film is my way of speaking about a very unique and important person who changed my life. My desire was to speak in some way about the dark and th...
Nick Knight, Alexander McQueen, Liberty Ross, Sam McKnight, Michelle Duguid, Bobby Gillespie, Erin O'Connor, Katy England, Shaun Cole and Tom Zambaz
Sep 19 2002
In July 2002 Nick Knight extended an invitation to friends and colleagues including Alexander McQueen, Erin O'Connor, Juergen Teller, Katy England and ...
Ruth Hogben and Francesca Burns
Nov 3 2009
Ruth Hogben collaborated with stylist Francesca Burns to create this film, exploring the impressionistic qualities of the Autumn/Winter 2009 collection...
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An ongoing collaboration with scent artist Sissel Tolaas, SHOWstudio investigates the concept of creating a fragrance on the Internet. Based on a provo...
Nick Knight, Daphne Guinness, Marie Schuller, Kev Stenning, Daniel Brown, Andrew Tomlinson and Alexander Fury
Visions Couture
Dec 21 2011
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White Wedding
Apr 28 2008
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Jez Tozer, Millie Brown and Omer Asim
Oct 13 2014
Filmmaker Jez Tozer teams up with Omir Asim for the second time to showcase the designer's S/S 15 collection. Inspired by Asim's long standing fascinat...
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This past Sunday my wife, Deborah, and I put on our cross-country skis for the first time of the new calendar year. Cross-country skiing is one of our favorite outdoor activities — one of the reasons we love winter in Vermont, and are often praying for snow.
But, although we did manage to get out on our skis over the Christmas break to wrap up 2010, not long after New Year's Day along came the thaw and heavy rains, and all the lovely snow was washed way.


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Black and white portraits of the lovely Miss Kelsey back from our trip out to the desert terrain of Kamloops together. This girl is an absolute doll and I could take photos of her all day long - she's seriously a photographer's dream and I adore how these photos turned out - introspective, creative, a little moody, with a splash of drama, and all in all beautiful.
For the full post, visit my photography page and see some splashes of colour and glory of Kelsey's mustard and chambray outfit.


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Attorney General Says Fatal SFPD Shooting Justified
A Sioux Falls standoff that ended in a fatal shooting was justified says the entities involved with the investigation.
Attorney General Marty Jackley and the Division of Criminal Investigation were requested on behalf of the Sioux Falls Police Department to look into the shooting of 22 year-old Jacob Daniel Westberg on October 14, 2013. In a quick recap, Sioux Falls police were summoned to the 6600 block of West 15th Place on an initial suicide call, which escalated to a standoff with law enforcement.
After the incident, Police Chief Doug Barthel was quoted, "After making contact a few times, the subject then came out of the residence, pointed a long rifle at the officers that were on the scene. As soon as that happened one of our SWAT officers shot him at least a couple of times."
In a news release issued Thursday, Jackley statement was as follows. "It is the conclusion of this investigation and the Attorney General that the officer was justified in firing his weapon and using lethal force. I would like to thank the Sioux Falls Police Department, the officers involved and the witnesses for their complete cooperation in this investigation."


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hey i'm on the search for new people to hit with. i'm about a 4.0 level player, maybe 4.5 on a good day.
i can travel as far as the MIT, northeastern university, or ruggles courts, but prefer to keep it near brookline or brighton.
my schedule is pretty flexible, so let me know if you're interested, thanks!
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Do you want to play at MIT this week? Brighton would also be possible.
sure, are you free wednesday?
Yes, when?
any time, preferably earlier in the day like 1pm?
It seems it's going to rain on Wednesday...
Generally I prefer 11:00 am or 6:30 pm. But 1pm is also fine if you are busy in the morning or afternoon.
So, maybe 6:30pm tomorrow?
i'm actually playing with a friend tomorrow night, sorry. i can do 11am on thursday if you're available?
Sorry Thursday morning is bad for me. I can play after 6:30 though.
available this evening by any chance?
It is going to be very windy, and thunderstorm is coming...
How about Monday or Tuesday, 11am or after 6pm, at MIT?
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All it can take is a few TV images of Black Friday deal-chasing — the unruly crowds, packed parking lots and frigid midnight lines— to drive many shoppers straight to the Web for their holiday shopping.
That is why this year, many malls around the country are promising Black Friday bargaineers a more white-glove experience.
Shopping malls are testing new services and promotions such as reserved parking spots, free refreshments and stations that hold people's packages. "It's their way of telling shoppers, 'We feel your pain,' " says John D. Morris, a senior retail analyst with financial-services firm BMO Capital Markets.
Malls are feeling the pressure to step up their services as fewer holiday shoppers are braving brick-and-mortar stores with their gift lists. And many stores are offering the same types of Black Friday deals online that they're offering in stores, giving shoppers less incentive to drive to the mall. Only 2% of Black Friday shoppers say they plan to shop only in stores, versus 28% who say they will shop only online, according to a recent survey of 884 consumers by bargain website DealNews.com.
The strategy involves taking a page from the playbook of high-end retailers like Bloomingdale's and Saks Fifth Avenue, which offer such concierge services and perks year round.
As those companies have learned, mainstream mall shoppers who are drawn to these types of conveniences are likely to be bigger spenders in general. And they make attractive targets, says Kit Yarrow, a professor of psychology and marketing at Golden Gate University. "People tend to make more impulse and inspired purchases in person," she says, "especially if they've been made to feel like a first-class shopper."
Shoppers at some malls will be able to lighten their loads. Simon Property Group says its 160 regional malls nationwide will have security officers who will carry shoppers' bags to their car on Black Friday and during weekends throughout the holiday season. At Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., the tailor shop will double as a $1 coat check on Black Friday, with proceeds donated to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and the Salvation Army.
High-end Simon properties like Sawgrass Mills in Sunrise, Fla., will also have free package-holding services. "You'll be able to shop and drop off bags at our concierge service, and those bags will be delivered to your car," says Mikael Thygesen, Simon's chief marketing officer.
Or the car, in turn, may be delivered to you. Last year, mall developer Westfield Group began testing text-message valet parking in several of its 47 U.S. malls; now, six centers offer it for $7 to $14. General Growth Properties has expanded valet service to more properties for the holiday season, as well. Mall developer Cafaro Company's South Hill Mall in Pullayup, Wash., is offering a free shuttle service to take shoppers from their cars to the mall, and back again.
While many such parking perks are being offered for nominal fees, some properties are dangling them as freebies. Most of the 18 malls owned by Forest City Enterprises, for example, are running raffles for VIP parking, which isn't regularly available as a paid service.
By some accounts, the new perks are working. Last year, when Sidra Trajcevska arrived at the Orange County, Calif., Brea Mall at 10 a.m. on the busiest shopping day of the year— some six hours after the mall opened— the 26-year-old marketer pulled right into a reserved parking space. "I didn't have to worry about the usual things," she says.
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In between purchases, she relaxed in the mall's VIP lounge with free hot coffee and a turkey sandwich, sampled the copious free candy and left with a goody bag that included, among other items, a granola bar and hand sanitizer. "That was really nice. With so many people in the mall, your hands feel gross," she says.
Over the next few hours, she spent roughly $600, checking off every item on her holiday shopping list. The cost of all these perks? Only $10 through a promotion that Brea Mall owner Simon Property Group offered at 85 of its 160 properties with daily deal site LivingSocial.
Simon won't be repeating that specific deal this year at its malls, but visitors will have access to many of the same amenities through free "rejuvenation stations" supplying coffee, snacks and a comfortable place to sit, says Mr. Thygesen. Some malls will add embellishments like massages and gift-wrapping.
Such lounges are the most widespread of malls' new conveniences, and the most likely to be offered free. "You just see people so desperate to sit down, they're leaning on walls," says Jane Lisy, senior vice president of marketing at mall developer Forest City Enterprises, which will respond this year with seating areas that include free Wi-Fi hot spots, free coffee, store coupons and device-charging stations.
To help shoppers wait out long lines, 15 of Forest City's properties will arm the earliest arrivals (at midnight or 6 a.m., depending on location) with "survival kits" of bottled water, energy bars, coffee gift cards and other perker-uppers. A few, including Promenade Bolingbrook outside Chicago, have kid-specific kits that include a juice box, snack, activity sheets and a toy. "A happy child shopping with a parent makes for a happy shopping parent," Ms. Lisy says.
Malls still run the risk that shoppers' Black Friday worries will prevail, leaving them with higher operational costs and little payoff, Mr. Morris, the retail analyst, says. "Is VIP treatment going to pull all of those people back in the malls who wouldn't have planned to go?" he says. "Not necessarily."
Plus, they haven't figured out how to solve all the holiday shopping hassles — in particular, how to buy children's gifts on an overnight shopping trip with the little ones tagging along. Only a handful of malls have day-care options, and most of those aren't available until regular daytime mall hours. One independent child care chain, Children's Lighthouse, will offer 4 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Black Friday coverage at nine of its Texas sites. Cost starts at $25 per child.
The alternative, an overnight sitter, can eat into shoppers' budgets by as much as $100 or $150. "With kids in tow, that slows you down to where you can't hit as many sales," says Melissa Marchwick, a senior vice president for care referral site SitterCity.com. "It's spending money to save money."


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Sponsored by ONR's Warfighter Performance Department, the meeting, slated to coincide with Better Hearing and Speech Month, will include academic and military health professionals dedicated to finding solutions to the most common disability among veterans.
"Hearing preservation is not just about ear plugs," said Kurt Yankaskas, who manages ONR's Noise-Induced Hearing Loss program. "We're looking at everything from making stuff quieter to better operational hearing protection as we go forward in understanding this complex issue."
Every day, Sailors and Marines work on aircraft carriers or in cockpits, engine rooms and other locations where noise levels outstrip the effectiveness of current hearing protection devices. Similar situations have contributed to an increase in auditory problems across the military.
In its most recent report, the Veterans Administration (VA) estimated that more than 1.5 million veterans--almost double the number from 2006--were receiving compensation for hearing loss and tinnitus, typified by ringing in the ears. The VA reported nearly 150,000 new cases of hearing loss and tinnitus for 2011, more than three times the number for post-traumatic stress disorder.
ONR and its research partners are attacking the problem from different angles with a focus on:
-Tailoring hearing protection devices to individual users
-Measuring noise exposure in real time
-Developing pharmaceuticals to maintain and restore hearing
Extensive modeling and simulation can provide researchers today with a better understanding of how to measure noise and determine the susceptibility of individuals to hearing loss and tinnitus.
Researchers ultimately want to find a way to regenerate damaged hair cells in the cochlea, a spiral-shaped part of the inner ear essential for hearing. One of the main challenges is to link these sensors of the ear to auditory nerves that carry messages to the central hearing processing center in the brain.
"Early investment from ONR proved that timely delivery of antioxidant compounds helps to mitigate the effect of noise exposure," said Dr. Rick Rogers, a scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health. Rogers has worked with ONR to investigate the potential for inhaled antioxidants to protect against noise-induced hearing loss in theater. "We are hopeful that we may be able to reduce or reverse these symptoms in the near future."
Studies by ONR and other entities indicate that medicine already approved by the Food and Drug Administration could reverse the effects of both noise-induced hearing loss and mild traumatic brain injury symptoms--such as dizziness and memory loss--suffered after a blast incident.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert's Sailing Directions speak of harnessing teamwork, talent and imagination to uphold "a moral covenant" with service members and their families. This message, Yankaskas said, is embodied in ONR's collaborations with other government agencies, universities and medical facilities on hearing preservation for military personnel.
"Researchers across the Navy and other services are making significant strides in gaining a better understanding of these critical issues," Yankaskas said. "It only makes sense that we work together more closely to accomplish our goal, which ultimately is the welfare of our warfighters."
By Eric Beidel, Office of Naval Research
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© 2013 Targeted News Service


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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — How quickly we forget Scottie Pippen (as shown here on CSNChicago.com) … and so many others.
This notion that "superteams" or "megateams" being some new phenomenon in the NBA is convenient, but wholly inaccurate. It sounds good, what with new conglomerations of stars popping up seemingly every season from Los Angeles to Brooklyn. But it's actually a tried-and-true method to winning NBA championships and, like almost everything else from two decades ago, it is being rebranded for this new digital age.
(Hey Lady Gaga, meet Madonna … and high-top fades … and skinny jeans again — really?)
In the NBA universe, anyone upset with the Miami Heat or Los Angeles Lakers for assembling elite talent on their rosters needs to stop hating the players and hate the game. Just because they were built through the free agent/trade lab and not grown organically — like revisionist historians will tell you those championship outfits of yesteryear were built — doesn't diminish the end result in our eyes.
If the end game is winning championships by any means necessary, why wouldn't you want a superteam playing in your backyard?
Who cares how they got there?
Fans in San Antonio have never complained about the serendipity that smothered the franchise when David Robinson got injured in 1996-97, just in time for the Spurs to luck into the No. 1 pick in 1997 and pick Tim Duncan.
There are any number of recipes for cooking up a superteam. We have no problem with a franchise stumbling into one (and to their credit, the Spurs had to build on that Duncan-Robinson foundation with shrewd moves and by nailing their draft picks consistently) or making the calculated steps necessary to create your own fortune.
Boston did it with the Kevin Garnett-Paul Pierce-Ray Allen Big 3. Miami did it with the LeBron James-Dwyane Wade-Chris Bosh Big 3. And the Lakers are attempting to do it with the Kobe Bryant-Steve Nash-Dwight Howard-Pau Gasol Big 4.
There's no shame in that. No shame whatsoever.
Small-market fans who cry foul over this and claim that the superteam movement doesn't allow them to compete with their big-market brethren must remember that this is equal parts rub-your-lucky-rabbit's-foot luck and well-crafted planning by the franchise's front-office brass.
Oklahoma City has a superteam of their own brewing in the lab at Thunder headquarters. They struck gold with Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, James Harden and Serge Ibaka in the Draft. Yet no one (outside of Seattle) ever accuses the Thunder of being evil for amassing such an explosive and versatile wealth of talent.
The Celtics, Lakers, Pistons, Bulls and Spurs — the franchises with the biggest piles of Larry O'Brien trophies over the past 42 years — won the majority of their titles with some form of a megateam (or whatever passed for such at the time).
The Celtics of the 1980s, with All-Stars Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, Robert Parish and Dennis Johnson as headliners, was a superteam. The Showtime Lakers of Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Worthy and others … superteam. Same goes for the Isiah Thomas, Joe Dumars and the loaded Bad Boys Pistons. Go ahead and check the roster of that Sixers team that interrupted the party in 1983 … Dr. J, Moses Malone and All-Stars Maurice Cheeks and Andrew Toney = superteam. The list goes on and on.
The only teams of the modern era that might not qualify as superteams are the Hakeem Olajuwon-led Houston Rockets and the Dirk Nowitzki-led Dallas Mavericks. Pistons fans want to throw their 2004 team on this blue-collar list, but history will show that a group that included Chauncey Billups, Rip Hamilton, Ben Wallace at his zenith and Rasheed Wallace (all four made the All-Star team one year during their time together) was much closer to the megateam end of the spectrum than they were to the other side.
We're not saying all of this to discourage the perceived "have-nots." There are plenty of teams that haven't been afraid to challenge the conventional wisdom that superstars, and superstars alone, win titles.
Just know that breaking into the mix without one of the league's true superstars headlining a mini-gathering of All-Stars is going to be tough to do. And even when you do have that mix, it doesn't guarantee anything (sorry, Knicks fans). You don't always get what you pay for in this league.
So the next time you hear someone bellyaching about the game being taken over by superteams and how unfair it is, remind them that there have been only nine franchises that have won titles in the NBA since 1980. Almost every one was a superteam, or at least a megateam. It's nothing new.
Pippen knows this better than anyone.


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Yale senior James Kirchick has written many outstanding columns for the Yale Daily News in the past four years, several of which we have noted here. Yesterday's column is his last for the YDN, and Mr. Kirchick goes out with both barrels blazing under the cover of a bland headline: "Under media glare, politics can quickly become public." The subject of the column is Rhodes scholar Chesa Boudin, Yale '03, child of terrorists grown up to be a bootlicker of tyrants. Kirchick is unsparing on Boudin's work for Hugo Chavez:
Like his parents, Chesa sees no moral relationship between means and ends. About Venezuela, he told the Times that, "The fact that we have a country that's trying to create an alternative model is bold and ambitious and unique, and that's why people are wondering, 'Is it possible?'" The horrors of the 20th century ought to have erased any doubt in the mind of a Yale-educated Rhodes scholar about attempts to yet again create Heaven on Earth and Socialist Man.
It is incorrect to label Boudin a useful idiot. Idiots do not become Rhodes scholars. His obvious intelligence makes his embrace of undemocratic tactics all the more troubling. Chesa calls Venezeula's democracy "protagonistic." People without hard-headed, Marxist political illusions call it "authoritarian."
In addition to the tracts on the Venezuelan New Jerusalem, Chesa recently edited "Letters from Young Activists: Today's Rebels Speak Out," a book that includes the epistles of some 40 precocious radicals. In a letter written to his incarcerated father, Chesa demonstrates his terrifying ethical calculus. He tells Dad that his life sentence as an accomplice in three homicides is "largely a product of your own commitment to progressive political change and to the inherent value and equality of human life." Apparently this "commitment" does not extend to the pigs.
Reading Kirchick's column, I wondered if Boudin might not have been better served by four years of listening to Pete Townshend's "Won't Get Fooled Again" than to his teachers at Yale. "Won't Get Fooled Again" is of course the politically cynical high point of the Who's 1971 masterpiece "Who's Next."
Upon the release of "Who's Next" in 1971, Rolling Stone magazine judged "Who's Next" to be "dangerously close to sterile," a judgment that Jay Cost usefully recalls in his column on Princeton historian Sean Wilentz's recent article on George Bush for the magazine. Based on its misjudgment of "Who's Next," Cost has long viewed Rolling Stone as "a magazine not to be taken seriously." In his column Cost provides the evidence of Wilentz's current article to sustain his estimation of the magazine.


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The UC Santa
Barbara women's basketball team limited visiting St. Mary's to just
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the Gauchos fell, 49-39, in the Thunderdome.
The loss marks UCSB's third straight as it falls to 2-5 on the young season. St. Mary's, meanwhile, improves to 5-2.
The Gauchos were led by senior Sweets Underwood, who tallied 14 points to go along with nine rebounds – including five offensive boards. Senior Angelei Aguirre had eight points and contributed a career-best nine rebounds. Madeline Campbell had a career-high six rebounds while Melissa Zornig was second on the squad with nine points.
"I'm disappointed. I am always disappointed when we lose," head coach Carlene Mitchell said. "But sometimes it's not the loss; it's how you lose. We have to find more consistency within the team. The two beside me (Angelei Aguirre and Sweets Underwood) are brining it every night.
"We have to find the right combination. That is my responsibility as the head coach, to make sure we have the right combination and that we are all on the same page. Because I just want a team that competes every night and the wins will take care of themselves somewhere down the road."
The early goings were tightly contested as neither team led by more than three points in the opening 15 minutes. Trailing, 17-15 with just under five minutes to go in the half, St. Mary's went on a 7-0 run to take its biggest lead of the game into the locker rooms at 22-17.
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The Gaucho lead was short lived though as Jackie Nared was able to get to the charity stripe and sink two to tie the game. Mia Greco followed suit shortly thereafter to regain the lead for the Gaels, 35-33. In the final five minutes, St. Mary's outscored UCSB, 13-6, with 11 of their points coming from the free-throw line.
Though they shot just 30% from the field, the Gaels shot 84.6% from the free throw line, making 22-of-26. Nared, who led the team with 17 points, scored 10 of those points from the charity stripe.
"In general, we did a decent job on the defensive end," Mitchell said. "I mean you give up 49 points, you can't really complain a lot about that. But sometimes the timing of it at the free throw line – the fouling of jump shooters – we can't do that."
UCSB shot just 32.7% during the game and struggled from beyond the arc, going just 1-for-11 from the three-point range. The Gauchos shot 80% from the free-throw line, but made just five visits.
In addition to Nared's team-leading performance, the Gaels also got a double-double from Danielle Mauldin, who had 12 points and a game-high 13 rebounds. Mia Greco had 12 points.
"We can find ways to win," Mitchell said. "We have all the elements. We just have to put it all together. It's on us."
UCSB will open a three-game road swing on Wednesday, Dec. 5 when it travels to Loyola Marymount for a 7 p.m. game against the Lions. The game can be heard live in Santa Barbara on KZSB AM 1290 and online here.
The Gauchos will return home on Friday, Dec. 21 to host Kentucky at 3 p.m. in the Thunderdome. Season tickets and single game tickets for women's basketball are available at the Ticket Office in the Intercollegiate Athletics Building on campus, by calling 805-893-UCSB (8272) or online by clicking here.


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Study of XL147 (SAR245408) in Combination With Trastuzumab or Paclitaxel and Trastuzumab in Subjects With Metastatic Breast Cancer Who Have Progressed on a Previous Trastuzumab-based Regimen
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01042925
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : January 6, 2010
Last Update Posted : June 3, 2016
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Phase 1 of this study will evaluate the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of XL147 when given in combination with trastuzumab (Herceptin) and in combination with trastuzumab and paclitaxel. After the MTD is established for each combination (Phase 2), subjects will be enrolled to evaluate the preliminary efficacy and safety of these combinations in metastatic HER2 positive breast cancer. Both trastuzumab and paclitaxel are used in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer (MBC), but patients can develop resistance.
The link between PI3K mutations and trastuzumab resistance has been seen in breast cancer patients. This suggests that inhibitors of the PI3K/PTEN pathway may have the potential to restore sensitivity to trastuzumab. Similarly, introduction of activated mutant forms of PI3K has been shown to transform and confer paclitaxel resistance to immortalized breast epithelial cells. XL147 is a potent and selective inhibitor of PI3K and inhibits phosphorylation of multiple downstream components of PI3K/PTEN signaling. Therefore, XL147 may have utility in the treatment of trastuzumab resistant/refractory and HER2-positive MBC when administered in combination with trastuzumab alone or with trastuzumab and paclitaxel.
|Condition or disease
|Breast Cancer Breast Neoplasms
|Drug: XL147 (SAR245408) Biological: trastuzumab Drug: paclitaxel
|Phase 1 Phase 2
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|42 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Phase 1/2 Study of XL147 (SAR245408) Administered in Combination With Trastuzumab or Paclitaxel and Trastuzumab in Subjects With Metastatic Breast Cancer Who Have Progressed on a Previous Trastuzumab-Based Regimen
|Study Start Date :
|February 2010
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|December 2012
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|December 2012
Experimental: Arm 1
XL147 in combination with trastuzumab
Drug: XL147 (SAR245408)
administered orally once daily as tablet(s)
Biological: trastuzumab
administered by IV once every 3 weeks
Other Name: Herceptin
Experimental: Arm 2
XL147 in combination with trastuzumab and paclitaxel
Drug: XL147 (SAR245408)
administered orally once daily as tablet(s)
Biological: trastuzumab
administered by IV once every 3 weeks
Other Name: Herceptin
Drug: paclitaxel
administered by IV once every week
- Safety and tolerability of XL147 in combination with trastuzumab and in combination with trastuzumab and paclitaxel [ Time Frame: safety assessments at weekly study visits ]
- In Phase 1, the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of XL147 when administered in combination with trastuzumab and in combination with trastuzumab and paclitaxel [ Time Frame: assessed by weekly study visits ]
- In Phase 2, objective tumor response [ Time Frame: every 6 weeks ]
- Duration of response and progression-free survival (Phase 2) [ Time Frame: every 6 weeks ]
- Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of XL147 and trastuzumab when given in combination, and of XL147, trastuzumab, and paclitaxel when given in combination [ Time Frame: assessed weekly, then every 3 weeks ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- The subject has pathologically and radiologically confirmed metastatic HER2 positive breast cancer (Stage IV disease). Subjects must have received and progressed on at least one prior trastuzumab-containing regimen for metastatic disease. For subjects in Arm 2, they must also have received at least one prior taxane-containing regimen.
- The subject has at least one lesion that is not within a previously radiated field and measurable on computerized tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging scan (MRI)
- The subjects enrolled in Phase 2 must be willing to undergo a biopsy of the primary tumor or a tumor metastasis at baseline, if tumor tissue is amenable to biopsy
- The subject's primary tumor and/or metastatic lesion must overexpress HER2
- For subjects enrolled in Phase 2: samples from archival or fresh tissue, or a tissue block of the subject's tumor.
- The subject has an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of ≤ 2
- The subject has adequate organ and marrow function
- The subject is capable of understanding the informed consent and complying with the protocol and has signed the informed consent document prior to any study-specific screening procedures or evaluations being performed.
- Sexually active subjects must agree to use a medically-accepted barrier method of contraception during the course of the study and for 3 months following discontinuation of study treatments. For subjects using oral contraceptives, a barrier method must be used in addition to the oral contraceptive
- Subjects of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test at screening and enrollment
Exclusion Criteria:
- The subject has previously been treated with a selective inhibitor of PI3K and / or AKT
- Certain restrictions on prior therapies apply
- The subject has not recovered from toxicity due to prior therapy to Grade ≤ 1 or to pre-therapy baseline
- The subject has untreated, symptomatic, or progressive brain metastases. Any corticosteroid use for brain metastases must have been discontinued without the subsequent appearance of symptoms for ≥4 weeks prior to first study treatment
- The subject has prothrombin time/International Normalized Ratio (PT/INR) or partial thromboplastin time (PTT) test results at screening that are ≥ 1.3 times above the laboratory upper limit of normal
- The subject has a diagnosis of uncontrolled diabetes mellitus
- The subject has uncontrolled significant intercurrent illness
- The subject has uncontrolled hypertension or other clinically significant cardiovascular disease
- The subject has left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) ≤ 50%
- The subject has a baseline corrected QT interval ≥ 460 ms
- The subject is currently receiving anticoagulation with therapeutic doses of warfarin (low-dose warfarin ≤ 1mg/day is permitted)
- The subject is pregnant or breastfeeding
- The subject is known to be positive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (a test for HIV at screening is not required)
- The subject has any other diagnosis of malignancy or evidence of malignancy (except non-melanoma skin cancer, in situ carcinoma of the cervix) within 2 years prior to screening for this study
- The subject has a previously identified allergy or hypersensitivity or is intolerant to components of any of the study treatment formulations
- The subject is unable or unwilling to abide by the study protocol or cooperate fully with the investigator or designee
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01042925
|United States, California
|Investigational Site Number 1537
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90033
|United States, Florida
|Investigational Site Number 1238
|Fort Meyers, Florida, United States, 33901
|United States, Massachusetts
|Investigational Site Number 1138
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
|United States, Michigan
|Investigational Site Number 1330
|Detroit, Michigan, United States, 48201
|United States, New York
|Investigational Site Number 1151
|Bronx, New York, United States, 10467
|Investigational Site Number 1150
|New York, New York, United States, 10032
|United States, Tennessee
|Investigational Site Number 1214
|Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37203
|Investigational Site Number 1246
|Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37232
|Investigational Site Number 3413
|Madrid, Spain, 28041
|Study Director:
|Clinical Sciences & Operations
|Responsible Party:
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01042925 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
XL147-203 ( Other Identifier: (other study code) )
|First Posted:
|January 6, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|June 3, 2016
|Last Verified:
|May 2016
Keywords provided by Sanofi:
HER2 positive breast cancer
breast cancer
breast tumors
human mammary carcinoma
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Breast Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Breast Diseases
Skin Diseases
Albumin-Bound Paclitaxel
Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic
Antineoplastic Agents
Tubulin Modulators
Antimitotic Agents
Mitosis Modulators
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological


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