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by Mike Masnick
Mon, Jan 17th 2011 9:36am
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airport search, canada, privacy, security
This isn't a TSA story, since it takes place up in Canada, but it involves the Canadian equivalent, who apparently had a bit of trouble dealing with an 82-year-old woman who had a (gel-filled) prosthetic breast to replace the one she lost in a mastectomy due to breast cancer. By failing to alert them to this "gel" on her body, she was later accused of lying to officials. She was also put through one of the lovely new full body scanner machines, in which passengers are required to lift their hands above their head. The problem? This woman is no longer able to do so. Rather than understanding this, security officials told her she had to. She then tried to lift her left arm with her right arm, and again security told her she was not allowed to do that. At this point she broke down and started crying. Eventually, security did let her get on the plane, but you have to ask what exactly they accomplished here in embarrassing this woman and making her cry.
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Chris Rhodes (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 9:34am
The Goal is Not SafetyThe goal is to make you obey.
Just because it's not physically possible for you to comply is no excuse. Obey or be punished.
Dark Helmet (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 9:53am
Re: The Goal is Not Safety"The goal is to make you obey.
Just because it's not physically possible for you to comply is no excuse. Obey or be punished."
Actually, that's EXACTLY the way it's SUPPOSED to work.
Trouble is, it's supposed to be US saying that to government, not the other way around....
The eejit (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 9:53am
Re: The Goal is Not SafetyShe should sue the TSA for sexual harassment.
weneedhelp (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 9:57am
Re: Re: The Goal is Not Safety"This isn't a TSA story"
Anonymous Coward, 17 Jan 2011 @ 5:00pm
Re: Re: Re: The Goal is Not SafetyIt -is- a TSA story, because without pressure from the U.S. TSA, the Canadians would not have put the procedures in place.
James Carmichael, 17 Jan 2011 @ 10:00am
Re: Re: The Goal is Not SafetyShe should sue cancer while she's at it.
DH's Love Child (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 10:04am
Re: Re: The Goal is Not SafetyNot to be an ass, but the article clearly stated this was in Canada, so the TSA isn't to blame.
weneedhelp (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 10:06am
Re: Re: Re: The Goal is Not SafetyDH's Love Child - Now thats funny.
Joe, 17 Jan 2011 @ 10:34am
Re: Re: Re: The Goal is Not Safety> 'so the TSA isn't to blame.'
Actually there may be some blame to throw around. American Homeland Security puts a lot of pressure on Canada to 'bring their security into compliance'. I've no doubt that they made security demands to increase security to match US standards.
Where I live (Vancouver), there was a wonderful restaurant down by the docks named the Cannery.
After 9/11, there was huge pressure on Canada to secure everything. After that, in order to go to this restaurant, you had to pass through a security checkpoint and have a photo of your drivers license taken. The Cannery survived due to being spectacular, but was eventually forced to close by the Harbour Commission. Point being, different country but don't be surprised to see the TSA's fingerprints in this.
Mr. LemurBoy (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 11:48am
Re: Re: Re: Re: The Goal is Not Safety
Actually there may be some blame to throw around. American Homeland Security puts a lot of pressure on Canada to 'bring their security into compliance'. I've no doubt that they made security demands to increase security to match US standards.
And yet they still have to re-check my bags every time I fly from Canuckistan to the states, and have stop-over in some American city. I just love sitting on my connecting flight and listening to people around me griping because they have to do a luggage check of the international luggage.
"Bring your security in line with ours, but we still aren't gonna trust you"
Don, 17 Jan 2011 @ 11:54am
Re: The Goal is Not SafetyWow, unfortunately you are right. It's an issue with someone asserting their authority on someone else.
pixelpusher220 (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 10:04am
Monty Pythonwhy am I seeing a Black Knight skit in this story?
slighty paraphrased:
"I've got no arms"
[TSA] "Yes you do! Raise them!"
"Look at me, I have no arms!"
[TSA] "Raise them anyway!"
Dark Helmet (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 10:23am
Re: Monty Python"T'is but a scratch!"
"You've got cancer!"
"No I haven't."
"Your tits off!"
"It's just a flesh wound..."
Chargone (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 2:48pm
Re: Re: Monty Pythoni... i can't decide if that's hilarious or just horribly insensitive.
good job... i think?
vivaelamor (profile), 18 Jan 2011 @ 6:27am
Re: Re: Re: Monty Python"i... i can't decide if that's hilarious or just horribly insensitive."
That answer is that the two aren't mutually exclusive.
Almost Anonymous (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 3:56pm
Re: Re: Monty PythonDude, that comment is wrong-er than usual!
Anonymous Coward, 17 Jan 2011 @ 10:05amIt all tracks back to "she failed to disclose...". All of this could have easily been avoided up front.
transparency: It isn't just for governments.
weneedhelp (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 10:11am
Re:"Rather than understanding this, security officials told her she had to." Appears she DID tell them.
A cancer survivor, Strecker had a mastectomy five years ago and now wears a prosthetic breast � which is made of gel.
When she pointed that out to security officers, Strecker said she was accused of lying when first asked about liquids and gels.
While in the full body scanner, Strecker said she was also told to raise her arms above her head, something she can no longer do.
�I told (the security officer) I can not do that (with her left arm) and she said I had to so I yanked it up with my right arm and she said �you can�t do that, you have to keep both arms up.�
�By then I started crying.�
Clear case of you didnt respect my authoritah!
AC she failed to disclose or did you fail to read? I know you were so anxious to try to pounce on TD. Better luck next time.
borg, 17 Jan 2011 @ 12:35pm
Re: Re:Resistance is futile... You will be assimilated
Jay (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 10:12am
Re:How airport security does it?
They enforce and become mini dictators of a situation. More than likely, no one asked her what was the problem. Usually, it's like programming
Do X
If X :=Y,
Do Z
If Z :=X
(No, it's not a serious program. It's to say that people can't go past what they do to control a situation. I bet if ONE person had asked, it may have given her time to tell her story.)
The entire environment of security theater is the problem here. I don't know how big the bureacracy of Canada is for airports but when you have people not beholden to the airport for their screwups, there's bound to be problems.
Kevin (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 10:17am
Re:I agree, she should have gone to her doctor and gotten an note and an X-ray of the prosthetic. Then she should have gotten a document about the prosthetic from the manufacturer which clearly stated the manner in which the prosthetic was built and the materials used during it construction. Finally she should have had a background check performed on all of the technicians, assemblers. testers, nurses, doctors, and anyone else who may have handled the prosthetic to ensure that none of them would have had a reason to plant an explosive device in said prosthetic on the off chance that this 82 year old woman was going to board a plane yesterday.
Anonymous Coward, 17 Jan 2011 @ 10:24am
Re: Re:But that does not address the more serious security threat of the 82 year old woman. The prosthetic is a mere decoy, what was she hiding with her arm so she could not raise it over her head?
Anonymous Coward, 17 Jan 2011 @ 10:32am
Re: Re:Or she could just carry a note from her doctor, explaining that she has a gel implant, that she cannot lift her arm over a certain level, etc.
The rest is just you off on a stupid rant.
After all, if disclosure didn't mean anything, why is it part of the story?
Anonymous Coward, 17 Jan 2011 @ 10:41am
Re: Re: Re:On the topic of disclosure, I'm asking that you upload a copy of the letter you received from the doctor which clearly states that you are a mentally retarded sociopath.
After all, I'd hate to think that you're just an idiot when you may have an excuse for being such a cold hearted a-hole.
Marcus Carab (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 10:45am
Re: Re: Re:I don't see why the first thing a cancer survivor would think when flying is "what about the gel in my body" - she did disclose it when it occurred to her, but can you honestly say you are sure that a breast implant would cross your mind when a guard asked you if you were carrying any liquids or gels? It's been part of her damn body for years. Do you ever stop and warn security that your bladder is full?
And why would an 82-year-old woman need a doctors note to tell everyone around her that she's fucking 82 years old and probably a little more frail and a little less flexible than the rest of us?
Hey, old man taking forever to cross the street! Show me your doctor's note for that cane or else I'm running you down!
harbingerofdoom (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 1:29pm
Re: Re: Re: Re:not only do i warn them that my bladder is full... but that im not afraid to use it too
Kevin (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 11:10am
Re: Re: Re:less rant, more sarcasm. Life is to short to take so seriously, you'll never get out alive.
Ben, 17 Jan 2011 @ 11:29am
Re:She's 82 dumbass! do you think that an 82 year old, a SICK 82 year old should be required to remember ANYTHING?
The Airport should apologize and the mouth breathers responsible should be fired!
Anonymous Coward, 17 Jan 2011 @ 12:32pm
Re: Re:Rules is rules! If I'm required to raise my hands, she is too. A previous poster has also given me the idea to let them know about the state of my bladder when going through security.
If old ladies don't raise their arms, they will turn them into suicide bombers. Just wait until the terrorists find out that their grandparents can be used for play destroying fodder. You'll be sorry.
vivaelamor (profile), 18 Jan 2011 @ 6:33am
Re: Re: Re:"Rules is rules! If I'm required to raise my hands, she is too. A previous poster has also given me the idea to let them know about the state of my bladder when going through security.
If old ladies don't raise their arms, they will turn them into suicide bombers. Just wait until the terrorists find out that their grandparents can be used for play destroying fodder. You'll be sorry."
If it weren't for the snowflake then I'd actually think you were the previous anonymous coward. Much better than sarc marks.
PandaMarketer (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 12:09pm
Re: up frontWell, where else would you put a gel breast implant?
The eejit (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 2:40pm
Re: Re: up front...in my Y-fronts. Where else would you put nice, sotthing gel?
Bob H., 18 Jan 2011 @ 6:24am
Re: anonymous cowardGood idea, now 300 people getting on a flight have to stand there and explain all their ailments before walking thru.
Joe, 17 Jan 2011 @ 10:24amThe Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CA-TSA? really?)have since offered a form of apology
We apologized for not having met her expectations and expressed our regrets for the unpleasant experience, and that doesn't change, regardless of the results of the review,
Which sounds like the bare minimum they can say and still get a headline of Airport Security Apologizes to Elderly Woman.
They are doing an investigation and have video of the incident. Interestingly, they say they will not be publicly releasing either the video or the results of their investigation.
Hopefully there will still be some public pressure on them to actually make changes and not just to damage control.
Dark Helmet (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 10:28am
Re:"Interestingly, they say they will not be publicly releasing either the video or the results of their investigation."
Well that sucks. If only there was a website some concerned CATSA employee could send that too....
Almost Anonymous (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 3:59pm
Re: Re:"""If only there was a website some concerned CATSA employee could send that too...."""
Oooh, oooh, I know one, I know one! I read about it in the news once!
vivaelamor (profile), 18 Jan 2011 @ 6:48am
Re: Re:"Well that sucks. If only there was a website some concerned CATSA employee could send that too...."
If it can be believed then they are more concerned with complaining in the article comments about the journalist not using the word "alledged" [sic] in the story. What's weirder is that I can't find anywhere to insert the word in the story. They don't make any libelous claims, but merely report what Ms Strecker said. Perhaps they wanted the title to say 'Cancer survivor demands investigation after alleged Calgary airport screening'?
The Groove Tiger (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 12:08pm
Re:"We apologized for not having met her expectations and expressed our regrets for the unpleasant experience"
Hilarious. They are sorry that she had the expectations for them to be perfect, and they apologize that her absurd expectations weren't met! Clearly she was expecting caviar and wine with her horrible screening.
aikiwolfie (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 10:31am
Water Is The Most Successful International Terrorist Ever!I would like to know what the authorities are doing about the terrorist threat from Water. In recent times it has flooded Brazil, Pakistan, eastern Sri Lanka and Australia. It has wrecked havoc with our economies and transport systems posing a fluffy harmless snow.
All year round water strikes across the planet. Some how it keeps slipping past those naked scanners and sexually arousing groping pat downs.
Just when will we have a war on water!?!
freak (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 11:49am
Re: Water Is The Most Successful International Terrorist Ever!Sign my petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide?
Cowardly Anon, 17 Jan 2011 @ 10:34amThis angers me. I can't even put into words how angry I am.
Anonymous Coward, 17 Jan 2011 @ 10:34am
Re: The Goal is Not SafetyConsidering she was allowed on board even though she didn't pass the tests, I tend to agree with you.
Bengie, 17 Jan 2011 @ 10:42am
...So where do they find these sadistic people who like to pick on young, infirmed, or elderly?
Jay (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 11:55am
Re: ...Well, Rent A Cop was hiring, but airport security pays more.
Charlie Potatoes, 17 Jan 2011 @ 10:46am
Where are we going? ...Where are we going? And what am I doing in this hand basket?
Stephen Straka, 17 Jan 2011 @ 10:48amHaving traveled by air numerous times in my native Canada as well as between Canada and the US, I feel confident in saying that this is an isolated incident. Every time I've gone through security on both domestic and international flights, the CATSA agents have been a lot nicer and practical than their American counterparts. This includes traveling into the US because airport security is still handled through CATSA, the DHS only handles customs. This has the odd effect of creating more security for me going back to Canada than there is to enter the US. That said, I think I've encountered TSA enough times that I can say I don't feel comfortable at all whenever I go through US airport security, whereas in Canada they've been as quick and noninvasive as they can. In several airports I haven't even had to take off my shoes!
Basically what I'm saying is that, with the TSA I felt that their invasive screening procedures are standard across the board and the staff are under-trained and incompetent whereas with CATSA that was most likely an isolated incident. We'll see if CATSA management rectifies this (even in Canada, I wouldn't hold my breath) but even if they don't, I still have confidence in the average CATSA agent, something that I cannot give to TSA.
Ben (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 11:21am
Why does gel matterand silicon boobs don't?
AG Wright (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 11:22amI can't help but think that a bit of profiling would have been relevant here.
How many octogenarians have blown up airliners?
Kevin (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 11:43am
Re:If you only knew.. We have all the proof that we need, but we cannot release it as it is a national security issue.
Laura, 17 Jan 2011 @ 11:46amSue the bastards! WTF!!!!!!
johnny canada, 17 Jan 2011 @ 12:00pmWe have another problem in Canada (Thank You TSA/HS)
Canadian domestic flights often fly over U.S. airspace. The U.S. demands full screening of passengers/cargo on these flights as if they where landing in the U.S.
theangryintern (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 12:35pmWow....last time I checked, 82 yr old grandmas were not very high on the "likely to be a terrorist" list.
Anonymous Coward, 17 Jan 2011 @ 1:08pm
If you can't comply...then you shouldn't fly.
Gabriel Tane (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 1:16pm
Re: If you can't comply...Man I hope you're being sarcastic.
Anonymous Coward, 17 Jan 2011 @ 1:16pm
Re: If you can't comply...Not sure if serious.
trench0r (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 1:39pm
thoughts...I can't help but feel like there is a conspiracy to limit travel of all forms, if you are fat, or old.. if you are a child, or have a brain in your head, they would simply rather you did not travel.. flying is a privilege, not a right.. but in this day and age, is it really feasible to sail to australia?
Chargone (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 3:11pm
Re: thoughts...oddly, yes. and New Zealand, for that matter... if you don't mind some combination of signing up as crew, spending far more than it would cost to fly, and/or taking three months... (the latter based on Amazon's shipping practices, admittedly :P)
i think the only real passenger ships that do that these days are cruise liners though...
btr1701 (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 8:41pm
Re: thoughts...> flying is a privilege, not a right
I love the way the government has managed to brainwash the totality of the American public into thinking that the routine and necessary activities of modern life are mere privileges that may revoked by some bureaucrat at their whim.
Pretty soon they'll be telling us that breathing is privilege not a right and if we want to continue doing it, we'd better shut up and get on board with whatever they're requiring of us.
Johnny, 17 Jan 2011 @ 2:44pm
Behaving just like...Comparisons to Nazis are always a bit over the top, but this total lack of empathy and barking out orders to innocent people who then no longer know what to do and just break down, just is a little Nazi-esque.
CJ (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 3:19pm
More to it than you realizeFirst she had a mastectomy. Some mastectomy's are more invasive than others. Apparently hers was. When you have the invasive mastectomy, You loose muscle, lots of skin, and breast, plus lymph nodes. This can include all the way to the arm pit, and up towards the neck. There is no way for some men and women, to gain back what they have lost muscle wise, because it is all gone. So they also loose certain abilities like being able to lift your arm(s) up, pick objects up over a certain weight, etc.
Second she should of only had told them she had a mastectomy. For which I am pretty sure she did, and anyone can see this for what it is in a body scan. Regardless of whom did her scan, or pat down, it does not matter most mastectomies are done one way or the other. Following picture outlines two versions of a mastectomy. Most are done to er on caution to be sure they get all the cancer.
This is just a drawing.
Anonymous Coward, 17 Jan 2011 @ 6:10pm
Re: More to it than you realizeSecond she should of only had told them she had a mastectomy.
I don't think she should have even had to tell them that much. Between the full-body x-rays, physical examinations, and interrogations, they may just as well be giving people medical examinations (except that real doctors at least change their gloves between patients, which these "agents" don't).
What's next, side-of-the road body cavity exams? I'm not kidding, that's exactly where it's heading. "Oh, but it's to catch terrorists, so don't complain, unless YOU'RE A TERRORIST!"
aikiwolfie (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 5:43pm
Apartide TravelI think we should have separate security checks for people travelling to America and travelling else where. We can indulge the Americans security demands. And make travelling everywhere else easier.
When it's easier to travel to China, Russia and Iran to do business I'm sure the Americans would start rethinking their policy.
btr1701 (profile), 17 Jan 2011 @ 8:33pm
TSAI read a similar story recently about a man who was paralyzed from the waist down and was told by the TSA screener that he was required to walk through the security screener. He explained to them that it was physically impossible for him to walk and that if he could walk, he wouldn't be in the damn chair to begin with.
None of this seemed to impress the mouth-breathing mongoloid running the screener, who insisted that TSA regulations said he had to walk through, therefore he just had to get over his paralysis.
Apparently the TSA is the modern-day equivalent to Jesus and can heal any malady with nothing bit a well-placed regulation.
Daniel J. Lavigne, 18 Jan 2011 @ 3:46am
Revenge . . .Someone should tell that lady about her lawful right and duty to refuse to support a society that commits mass murder.
However, that wouldn't stop such as the sheep that thought it was a wolf . . . until "it" has to pay more taxes to make up for what that new member of "The Tax Refusal" is no longer paying.
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CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – A Jerry Phanor (Boston, Mass.) goal with less than five minutes to play proved to the be the deciding score, as men's soccer managed to hold on to earn a 3-2 win over Newbury College in a rare Sunday afternoon contest at Hedley Field.
The win, which marks the second straight for the Beacons, improved their overall record to 5-2, as the Beacons continue produce one of the best starts in recent memory. For Newbury they fell to 2-4 following the one goal loss.
Phanor's deciding goal was huge for UMB especially since Newbury was able to score their second goal 27 seconds later. In total four of the game's five goals were scored in a 10 minute span. Newbury did break the scoreless draw in the 50th minute, but UMB would then respond with three straight goals to take a 3-1 lead.
Edmilson Barros (Boston, Mass.) was responsible for the first two Beacons goals, with Luis Alva also picking-up an assist. Assisting on the game-winner was Matheus Reis (Somerville, Mass.).
Between the goal posts Camilo Florez (Manizales, Colombia) combined for six saves and kept the Nighthawks scoreless for the first 49+ minutes of Sunday's non-conference match. Sunday's win also marked the second for UMB over Newbury in 2013, having defeated them on the second day of the Lasell College Kick Off Classic by the final of 3-1 on September 1.
On the day, the Beacons outshot their non-conference opponents 31-21 and held a 9-2 advantage in corner kicks. The two Newbury goalkeepers combined for saves respectively, with the loss going to Cody Nash-Gibney.
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Mumbai: TV actor Siddharth Shukla`s popularity saved him week after week on dance reality show `Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 6`, but just when his dancing skills saw some improvement, he was voted out Saturday.
Siddharth, who essays Shivraj Shekhar in `Balika Vadhu`, was mostly seen as a weak dancer on the celebrity dance show. His towering and charming personality only kept adding to his strong fan base, but that couldn`t sustain his presence for long enough.
His fans failed to provide him ample votes, leading to his exit from the dance reality show.
He was one of the bottom two contestants in the show along with Mukti Mohan. Mukti, who is seen as equivalent to professional dancer Lauren Gottlieb, another partipant on the show, defeated Siddharth in the dance face-off.
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Mumbai, Feb 26 : Singer Sonu Nigam, who was at a show at a college in Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad city Saturday night, is upset after the organiser, the college owner humiliated him post concert by not letting him leave to catch his flight from Delhi despite repeated requests.
"I was not supposed to go for the show as my mom was in a critical condition and despite that I went and performed for three hours as I had given a commitment but I was completely zapped with the behavior of Manish Jain who is the college owner," the singer told reporters here Monday.
"After the concert I had to leave for Delhi to catch the 4 a.m. flight and he (Jain) was just not letting us go as he was getting his friends and family to click the pictures with me.
"I patiently clicked the pictures and when I said my mom is unwell and I had to leave, he started saying he had spent Rs.50 lakh for the show and would not let him (Nigam) leave till he clicked pictures with everyone," he added.
Jain is the group vice chairman of Teerthanker Mahaveer University where Nigam performed.
Nigam, who patiently continued to click pictures with everyone till 1.25 a.m., said he was extremely upset. He said people from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar need to change their mind set and this is one of the reasons why artistes avoid concerts in these states.
"Police there were helpless and I could see 'sorry' in the eyes of policemen. I am from UP myself and I don't have anything against anybody but mindset of people over there needs to be changed. Why do you think there are no shows happening in Bihar," he said
Despite this entire incident, Nigam says he is no mood to lodge a case.
"I did not overreact that time but had things gone worse there, then I would have gone ahead. The idea is that I want people to know how artistes are treated at times. My intention is that artistes should be respected because we are here to entertain you," said the 39-year-old.


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My name is Justin and I live in Surrey, BC. I have a 8 month old female Collie/mix puppy named Bella. I know in know, what a common name....LOL I didn't choose it my girlfriend did.
When we picked up Bella at 10 weeks she immediately started to show signs of insecurities, specifically towards strangers. She was fine with us but when she meets someone new, that's it she wants to flight. Also, she started to develop fears towards skateboards,bikes, buses, carts, and pretty much anything which has similar sounds or movements.
We've tried several methods found online with little improvements. Then we hired a positive reinforcement trainer for a consultation. She provided some great information and details on how to work on those fears using only positive reinforcements.
Unfortunately, we tried our best to implement those positive reinforcement methods but did not notice much of a result besides an increased appetite for treats and a decreased appetite for food!
At this point we started to feel a bit overwhelmed and discouraged. We really care about Bella and want only the best for her.
We started to watch the dog Whisperer, PVR'd all the episodes and watched it over and over again. As we stated to apply Ceaser's methods slowly things started to change a bit. She's not as freaked out when someone new approaches her as long as they keep there distance and don't pay too much attention to her. Carts don't bother her much, however buses and skateboards still effect her negatively.
Recently, we got the opportunity to meet with a Canine Behaviour specialist named Michael Bylo. We were so lucky to have this opportunity because he really knows what he's talking about and his techniques are one with Ceaser Millans.
The very first time he saw Bella he simply assessed her situation and us. The next time he saw her he took her for a bike ride and I was BLOWN AWAY!!!!
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An hour later Bella came home with Michael Bylo and his Dogs. I just couldn't believe my eyes. Bella is getting comfortable with a complete stranger. WOW!
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She still has a lot to work on but for the most part there was an immediate improvement.
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The Orthodox Nationalist: The Russian Patriarchate
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Matt Johnson discusses:
- The last two patriarchs of old Russia: Joachim and Adrian (1674-1700);
- The political theory of the patriarchate;
- The relations between church and state in the patriarchate's writings;
- The revolt agaisnt Westernization;
- The fall of the Russian church under Peter I.
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The sleek, chic style of Hedi Slimane has revolutionized manhood itself. Lucy Kaylin goes backstage for an exclusive look at the Dior mystery man and his gritty, sexy worldview
June 29, 2003. On a warm Paris evening, a black Peugeot rolls up to Bercy, a slablike sports arena currently being transformed into a temple of postnuclear chic. The Peugeot stops at Porte 27 and leaves off Hedi Slimane, who enters the arena loose-limbed and relaxed.
Clothing racks, ironing stations and makeup tables with mirrors framed in lightbulbs now ll the vast acreage where hockey games are usually played. Trailed by his lieutenants Kris Van Assche and Sabisha Friedberg, Slimane moves through the passageways looking side to side, his translucent blue eyes the size of shooter marbles swiveling around sadly in their sockets. As he issues crisp greetings in French to the technical people hauling and checking equipment, he wears his considerable power lightly: The fine-boned melancholy coupled with ripped jeans and his signature hip haircut (long on top, buzzed on the sides and in back) creates an intriguing contrast—sort of Camus as club kid. Striding toward the staging area where the catwalk is located, Slimane parts some heavy curtains and goes through, allowing them to fall in the faces of Van Assche and Friedberg, who exchange a wordless glance as if to say, "That's our genius." Never rude intentionally—just very focused and always moving forward.
Given the thrills Slimane has managed to generate in a precinct of fashion not known for surprises, his Dior Homme show, which takes place tomorrow, looms like an event, a hot-ticket spectacle—hence the surgical preparation. Throughout the rehearsal, the space is engulfed in darkness, the keypads on the cell phones in use around the room emitting the only light in tiny squares. Off to the side, Slimane and several others are huddled by a techno campfire otherwise known as the lighting console. Here, he and the lighting designer, Thierry Dreyfus, refine the cues, coordinating them with the music and the pacing of a shirtless 16-year-old with a torso as hard and narrow as a ask, who trudges down the catwalk maybe fifteen times. Every aspect of the show, from the particular black hue of the catwalk to the design of the invitation to the commissioned soundtrack, has been conceived over the course of months by Slimane and executed to the letter by his team. "We're not last-minute people," Friedberg tells me.
Eventually, the models—or "the boys," as they're always called—straggle in to receive their instructions and also to walk through the show: There's Maximus, Christoffer, Adrian, Tristan, Mathias and forty others wearing army boots, Tevas, skull jewelry, jams, jeans with blown-out backsides, fatigues, nipple rings, headphones, bandolier belts, ripped T-shirts, tattoos and thick silver chains draped from belt loop to wallet. From Berlin, Paris, America, all are young and gaunt with jutting hip bones and snaking waists, stringy hair and ghostly pallors—"a nocturnal complexion and mood," as Slimane's hairstylist Jimmy Paul describes the look. "It's gotten more and more honed. You wouldn't say beefcake, but you wouldn't say feminine, either. It's not camp or effete. It's sharp, bony and very natural, not affected: guys who just happen to have been born looking that way."
Some were all but plucked from their skateboards. A master of "street casting," Slimane likes to find his boys in their natural habitats—on sidewalks, in clubs. He spotted one on a tram in Alexanderplatz, in Berlin. Slimane and his assistant chased the tram until the boy got off. Another he found playing soccer in the park. He spied Sebastien, his fit model, at a rock concert. Needless to say, he knows the look when he sees it.
"The way you wear clothes makes a difference," Slimane says. "That's such an important thing in fashion, almost an old-school-couture thing, but something that's never talked about. It's all about the person who wears it and how it's worn. The personality, the allure—it's all about that."
Along with their extreme slimness, the boys of Slimane's choosing bring an essential naïveté about their own fleeting, sepulchral beauty. In the tradition of Bruce Weber and Gus Van Zant, Slimane is a connoisseur of postpubescence—that slippery stage when a boy's physical development outpaces his self-awareness. "During casting, if there's a guy who's too vain, Hedi won't choose him, even if he's really beautiful. He doesn't like that vanity," says makeup artist James Kaliardos, whose job for Slimane is almost entirely about skin: making sure it has that clean, pale, easily bruised youthfulness. "Baby skin," as Slimane referred to it one season. For the most part, these boys aren't destined to be professionals, with all the ambition and guile that entails. "If they're too much like that, we send them away," says Friedberg. "We don't want that arrogance."
There's very little in the way of arrogance here as the sleepy, slouching boys are lined up and put through their paces—assistants snatching cans of soda from their hands as they're sent out to the catwalk where Slimane is waiting, crouching in the dark, compulsively snapping pictures as they come. His short sleeves pushed up over his shoulders, a long scarf looped several times around his neck, Slimane gets up in the face of a model walking by and shoots him lazily, one-handed. This is for the archives—his documentation of the mood and spirit of the show. (Along with designing clothes and furniture and every inch of every Dior Homme boutique around the world, Slimane is an accomplished photographer, with two published picture books to his credit.)
The rehearsal ends at a little past nine. In a striking goth-grunge tableau, the boys are clumped on the steps outside, hooked up to their iPods, as Slimane and his good friend Stephen Gan, creative director of Harper's Bazaar, slip into the black Peugeot. On the way home, Slimane, in the seat next to the chauffeur, laments the occasional phenomenon of a perfect boy somehow changing his look between the time he was discovered and the day of the show (capricious youth!). Christoffer, the current face of the Dior Homme campaign, actually showed up with a cast on his wrist because of a recent soccer injury. After some tense medical consultation, it was decreed that the cast could be removed just for the show and then replaced. "We always say, You have to come exactly as you are today—the skin, the hair, the length,' " Slimane says. "One time two boys showed up with tans." He shakes his head. "We had to tell them we can't use them."
"The drama! The drama!" Gan says with a laugh.
Slimane's precise aesthetic has served him well since he materialized on the fashion scene seven years ago, as chief designer of Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche Homme. At the time, the menswear situation wasn't pretty. Shoulders jutted and lapels apped on jackets that struggled to confer some sort of power on the luckless salarymen encased within. It seems everyone had discovered crepey Milanese tailoring and assumed that the projection of masculinity was a simple business of donning a big suit like so much gladiator gear—then slicking the hair, smoking cigars and generally blowing hard.
"I was not at all about this," Slimane says in his plummy, baroquely French accent. He is sitting at a lacquered ebony desk situated in his spare Dior Homme office on the second floor of a nineteenth-century building in Paris. "So I thought I should work more on the idea that you wear a suit or a jacket because of the fun it can provide, because it's a game, because it might even have a sexual quality. Not status, or an idea of power. I wanted to develop a collection that wouldn't be scary or like a duty—like you have to wear it."
The mission required nothing short of a radical rethinking of maleness itself and a wholesale dismissal of "the forced, archaic masculine clichés"—as Slimane describes it with visible distaste—that had given rise to such dreadful clothes: ill-fitting power suits, of course, as well as baggy, poorly made casual wear that Slimane almost can't bear to discuss. "This thing of, Is it comfortable?" he says. "It's what did so much damage to menswear in the '80s, I think. The whole idea of comfort was a great way to excuse a lack of technique in the atelier and the fact that they were doing the clothes really badly. They have to be well-made, and comfort is part of it, like in a very good car. You don't want to be in a bus, you know?"
And so Slimane set about reimagining the suit as something sculptural, sensual and Exacto-slim. It would have exquisitely fitted shoulders as well as high armholes and narrow sleeves that offered the subversive possibility of a garment that actually moved with the wearer rather than mugging him with fabric, that elicited mystique as opposed to blaring it like the horn of a Lincoln.
It's a rarefied aim, but that's couture. A mad art, to be sure—even more so in womenswear, which sometimes finds sylphs working the catwalk in ludicrous aureoles of marabou. But this theater is born of a high purpose: In a sense, couture is the mission statement of the house in all its emphatic, unfettered drama that then filters down to ready-to-wear. "The tailored pieces, trousers cut like a knife, the narrow silhouette, the thinness of the tie, the covered plackets on the shirt—there's a consistent language Hedi uses with design elements that look very Dior," says Tom Kalenderian, an executive vice president at Barneys. "It's extraordinarily modern and right for our time. Hedi has carved a following, and he continues to attract new customers as well." David Bowie, Mick Jagger and Tom Cruise are loyal fans, along with less prominent clients of Dior Homme's sur mesure, or made-to-measure, operation, wherein measurements and preferences are kept on file. Brad Pitt had Slimane create his wedding suit. Thanks in part to Slimane, Dior's couture business, which includes ready-to-wear and accessories, increased by 41 percent in 2002.
But how much does someone of his refined, conceptual leanings really care about anything as crass as sales? "Oh, I care a lot," Slimane quickly answers when I ask. "But I want to sell without having to do corny things. When you are a designer brand, you can do a fake product full of logos, you know what I mean? Cheesy things that I really would die rather than do."
It's a fair answer from someone who is trend immune, whose process is more about conjuring than designing. Slimane never bases collections on obvious things like recent trips to the subcontinent or period costume he's run across in books. Nor does he sketch, particularly. Things just come to him, springing naturally from an exhaustive, scrupulously observed aesthetic that somehow marries asceticism and decadence, in the manner of his adopted city, Berlin, where he has a place and frequently spends weekends. But even that description probably goes too far for Slimane. "People always want an explanation about everything, and I cannot give it to them," he says, "because I don't know myself. Why did you do a pair of pants like that?' I have no idea. I'm not going to have a twenty-minute political discussion about the necessity for slashed, painted leather jeans. Basically, I don't know more than you."
For that reason, he has surrounded himself with a team that understands the vagaries of his process. Kris Van Assche, his Slimane-skinny "first assistant," is always on hand to interpret and execute Slimane's ideas and scour Western Europe for materials and technical innovations in the treatment of fabric when necessary. Slimane also has two personal assistants, an atelier of roughly eight plus two supervisors whose job it is to render his vision in cloth, and a chicly Teutonic gatekeeper in Sabisha Friedberg, who handles the unchic realm of public relations. All in all, a pleasant group, if a bit high-strung, given the precision required by their entirely humorless mission.
Then there is the fit model, the 23-year-old musician Sebastien—amiable, ferociously tattooed and stashed in the salon for hours at a time, available to be draped at a moment's notice. Slimane always works with live models. To him the clothes are a meaningless arrangement of thread if he isn't able to see how they move. In his view, the clothes have a mood, a character, a pulse that only a live model can activate. "The way you wear clothes makes a difference," Slimane says. "That's such an important thing in fashion, almost an old-school-couture thing, but something that's never talked about. It's all about the person who wears it and how it's worn. The personality, the allure—it's all about that." Although it sounds absurd, I can imagine a Slimane show sometime in the future that features no clothes at all.
In their dark, ruined beauty, his designs exude sexuality—low-rise, hip-gripping jeans treated to look like leather, chain-mail belts that swing open and loose, sleeveless shirts in see-through metallic-looking mesh. But it's also a moody, ambiguous sexuality—a transgressive maleness you're not likely to see in beer and car commercials. "It's about keeping it for yourself and being really elusive about it," Slimane says of the erotic trompe l'oeil in which he traffics. "That's much more interesting. I don't like anything to be given away too fast." Betting the teasing nature of it all, he decided to name the current show Strip.
There's a slyness as well in his take on formalwear, that notoriously squareball ghetto in men's fashion. "The problem with black tie is, the way it is cut, you can't see the difference between the butlers and the guests," he says. "They dress the same, no? That's a nightmare." As for bow ties, "Most of the time they're not even straight. It's scary—it's bad. I mean, it's so bad it's fun." One of his jackets is elegantly sectioned by the satin stripes you'd normally see running up the sides of tux pants. It came to life after Slimane took a standard tight-fitting Dior suit jacket and literally drew lines on it, improvising patterns. Eventually, he made the patterns with satin ribbons, pinning them on. Then he instructed the atelier to cut up a suit jacket and piece in the ribbons. Earlier he'd found some shiny black stones that he liked for their ability to reflect and throw the light, and he decided to add them to the jacket as well. So he tracked down one of the best embroiderers in Paris to sew a beaded panel into the back of the jacket. An edgy garment like this, which would make fine wedding drag for Edward Scissorhands, takes months to conceive—each stage evolving from the one before, each requiring weeks of experimentation. "That's what we do," says Kris Van Assche. "The jacket you see there was not born in a drawing; it was born in live fittings." Even the standard Dior shoulder is the ornate result of trial and error involving several layers of material and horsehair and handwork that is done at a firm Slimane found in Italy. Incalculable labor, for a look that's supposed to be all about ease. "The way a jacket drapes, the way it falls, should have the quality of being effortless," Slimane says. "It might be a nightmare to make, but nobody should know."
Identied with a look so modern it's futuristic, Slimane burns the past like fuel; indeed, his disdain for historical allusion in fashion borders on contempt. "There's so much prejudgment in menswear," he says. "People have such difficulty thinking about it in a way that has no past reference. They always think, Okay, this is a very '70s concept.' Or they see a waistcoat and say, That's the new dandyism.' Dandies are from the nineteenth century—it was a different time, a different mind. It makes no sense today. That's a joke." Emphasizing the point with a degree of finality, Slimane says, "I have no reference to anything."
Even his concept for the Dior Homme offices, where he spends the better part of his days, conveys a clear fetish for fresh starts. His desk is long and narrow like a refectory table and free of scribbles, pictures and Post-its. Just some black pens and steel gray pencils—sans erasers and sleek to the touch with rows of tiny raised gripping dots on the barrel. (In Slimane's world, even the pencils must yield to his aesthetic.) In the large salon next to his office, where fittings take place, the panes of watery old glass set in hardware-heavy French doors are a strange backdrop to the mod mirror that pivots on a fulcrum in the center of the room. The clutter-allergic Slimane has made the room a blank slate, a sterile laboratory; were they a tad more fashionable, white coats and hairnets wouldn't seem out of place. The day I visit, an incessant techno-pulse flows from the Slimane-designed bank of recessed black speakers that runs the length of the salon overhead, as if no moment in life is too casual or mundane to be staged, lit and scored. An assistant emerges through a hidden panel to bring him his espresso in a small glass cup.
But then what of the strangely curvaceous, suspiciously dated white chair at the far end of the room? As it happens, it's Slimane's adaptation of a chair once owned by Monsieur Dior. Slimane keeps it in the salon as an homage. As he once said, "I like to think of him being here while I work." Similarly, the laminated salon walls are painted "Dior gray." Slimane is old-school perhaps only when it comes to the rigorous ethic of couture: Although the name Dior is suggestive of museum-grade tradition, his respect for the house that Dior built runs deep. Even the labels inside the clothes are that fabled shade of gray, tacked in the corners by an elegant stitch designed by Slimane. At the neck of some jackets is a tiny loop of tulle, a fabric of which Dior made legendary, billowing use. This too is an homage, albeit one so infinitesimal you wonder if Slimane isn't being a little ironic. Then again, with couture, the details are everything.
If there is something awe-inspiring about Slimane's current dominance in menswear, his rise is even more so. Only a decade ago, he didn't much care for fashion—in fact, he found it sort of shallow. "There are so many bad reasons why people go into fashion," Slimane says, "so many wrong ideas about glamour, about status." Although his mother was a dressmaker who brought him along to fabric stores when he was a boy, Slimane was more intrigued by things like journalism, international relations and art direction. And yet his aesthetic was already in place. "I remember when we were 20 or 21 on a beach holiday, and he would talk about the right cut for a pair of khaki shorts and why it was right," says Stephen Gan. "He was very, very, very specific about the way he saw everything. Anything he'd let into his home or put on his own back had to be just right."
In 1993, 24 years old and in need of work, Slimane took a job as an assistant to a designer and showed a air for casting, drawing the attention of Jean-Jacques Picart, a press agent and player in the Paris fashion scene. "Already he had a vision," says Picart—"not about clothes but about allure." Picart hired him to assist on a centennial project at Louis Vuitton in which the company's monogram would be reconceived by five outside designers. Slimane's job was to be the go-between, a task requiring great tact and taste. His success on that project led Picart to recommend him for a first-assistant position at Saint Laurent, where menswear had been faltering. And it was here that "all Hedi's talent blew up," as Picart puts it. "It was really obvious to Mr. Bergé [Pierre Bergé, Yves Saint Laurent's longtime business partner] that Hedi deserved more. It was his destiny." At 27, he was offered the top menswear job, in which he pioneered a sharp new silhouette that drew on the elegant essence of Saint Laurent, winning reviews that credited him with rejuvenating that legendary house.
Then some unlovely conglomerate intrigue: In 1999, Saint Laurent ready-to-wear was overtaken by the omnivorous Gucci Group, which would effectively install swaggering Tom Ford as Slimane's boss—an untenable prospect for a singular, very French talent like Slimane. (As Picart puts it, "In the sky, there are not two suns. There is space for only one.") Eventually, Slimane joined Dior, a soigné brand that has somehow maintained a boutiquey whiff of independence despite being owned by Gucci's nemesis, LVMH. Delicious fodder for the trades, but even better for Slimane, given that Dior was rich in tradition in every area except menswear, thus allowing him to benefit from the house's couture legacy and yet still build an atelier of his own. Dior came to value Slimane so highly, the company granted him nonexclusive status last summer: Now he can design what he wants, wherever he wants, in addition to his work at Dior—an unheard-of arrangement. But that's the way the industry feels about Hedi Slimane. Although Monsieur Saint Laurent himself didn't attend Tom Ford's first show at Saint Laurent, he came out for Slimane's debut at Dior, providing the most dramatic, hotly deconstructed fashion moment in recent memory when, at show's end, he led the standing ovation.
Because Slimane's shows aren't just shows. "They're performance art," says Barneys' Tom Kalenderian, "and the clothes are part of the act. In motion, sound, smell, light—in every one of your senses, you feel Dior by Hedi Slimane."
June 30, 2003. Showtime. I ask Slimane if perhaps I could ride with him to the venue and witness the excitement of the moments leading up. You'd think I'd suggested we go buy some clip-on ties at Wal-Mart. Of course Slimane is gracious in refusing me, if slightly nonplussed: He brings an impregnable and solitary purity to his rituals, caring not at all for posses and fanfare, never feeling anything as pitiably human as preshow jitters. I'm not even sure he experiences hunger; the only thing I ever saw pass his lips was some sort of Euro Chiclet. It's easy to picture him sleeping on a slab: According to friends, his Paris apartment is as sleek, clean and minimal as you'd imagine. But Slimane is mortal, Stephen Gan confirms—"a wonderful, caring person who has his escape route on the night train to Berlin because he needs to leave the fashion world to refill. So that makes me think he's real and like the rest of us." And yet he's very private, possessed of a lunar cool and a phlegmatic ability to walk away that only intensies his mystique and his worth. Letting me watch the rehearsal and be backstage during the show itself were unprecedented concessions on Slimane's part—indeed, it was a thrill to receive my Slimane-designed backstage bracelet, which looks like leather threads tied to a tiny cock ring.
Before the show, an army of gamines wearing infinite variations on black are sitting on the steps outside Porte 27, chatting in French and smoking cigarettes—the dressing assistants. Inside, various models are drifting past the catering tables laden with food for the skinny—green salads, cherries and liters of Vittel—toward the makeup area. One in a CBGB T-shirt is doing skateboard pirouettes in the middle of the room; another, wearing pants with the haunches ripped out, revealing black briefs underneath, sits down at a makeup table so Jimmy Paul can apply some goop to his hair, which happens to be blond with a skunk stripe up the back.
"It's so boring here!" the skateboarder says to Sabisha Friedberg, who's in a black Dior suit. "You should get a PlayStation and some sofas. It wouldn't cost that much.…"
"Poor models," Friedberg says with a smile and a slight roll of her ultralight, Vincent Gallo eyes. "You must suffer for beauty."
The area between makeup and the stage is the cabine, where seamstresses, pressers and dressers are waiting, as are racks of clothes and tall leather trainers with their laces loosened and their tongues stretched back. Photographs dangling from the hangers depict each look with its complement of curious accessories: shiny black hankies that hang from a belt loop in back, finger clips with long silver dangles, leather wallets meant to be worn around the biceps and, for the finale, long tangles of those black beads Slimane likes so much that will sling and clack and play havoc with the light. Some boys wander in and start peeling off their clothes.
As the dressing commences, the transformative power of fashion takes over: Suddenly, this former slacker convention has become a casting call for The Matrix, the clothes draping sleekly, fiercely, about all the lovely bones in the room. Then the boys are lined up in their proper order, and a woman with a lint roller walks through. James Kaliardos approaches a model with a tiny eyebrow brush. Two people rub lotion into another boy's arms. "Quelqu'un a besoin?" says a woman who's holding up a pair of trimming scissors, searching for stray threads.
Now it's Slimane's turn to check the troops. He approaches the boy with the skunk stripe and crunches his hair in his fist. Then he strategically untucks the shirt of another. Pushing up the knot of a third boy's necktie, he looks like he's readying his kid brother for the prom. As Slimane goes down the line, he smiles at the boys, brushing the hair from their shoulders and patting each reassuringly on the back before moving on to the next.
"Prêt à commencer?" he says softly to a few of them.
On the bleachers painted black lining the catwalk, the international fashion elite is starting to fidget, given that the show is almost an hour late. And in an instant, the room goes dark as the initial discordant, spidery strains of the soundtrack creep through the ten casket-size speakers suspended from the ceiling. At the same time, six bloodred U-shaped lasers that extend from catwalk to ceiling light up, spurring gasps and applause. Slimane always begins his show with some ash of red. It's his way of saying, "Here we go."
And then from the soundtrack: I wanna make love all over this room!—a louche cri de coeur that summons the first boy, who struts out in a Spencer jacket with a snakeskin lapel to a beat so loud it shakes the meat on your shins, out past twenty-one rectangular mirrors mounted to the back wall that swivel pneumatically as if to watch the model as he goes. Then, a mirthless parade of pulverized jeans, studded belts, metallic-looking fabrics and a calf-length white leather coat with narrow pleats molding the shoulders—an unlikely though heartfelt nod to Dior, who very much liked working with pleats.
Upon each model's return backstage, the sunken-cheek cool of the catwalk vanishes as belts are undone, neckties are pulled and aviator shades are grabbed from faces that are swiped midstride with a makeup sponge. Only Slimane is relaxed, allowing himself a subtle thrust and shimmy to the beat while glancing at the show on a monitor, occasionally retying a belt before sending out the next boy. Then Kris Van Assche appears, his face contorted in panic as he literally jumps in the air, issuing a silent scream while beckoning the boys with both arms. It is time for the finale, and yet a long beaded strand is caught on one model's jacket. Crisis! Luckily, the woman with the trimming scissors materializes just in time.
And then: The battalion of boys draped in beads flows out. And as it does, the rectangular mirrors on the wall suddenly flip to reveal their backsides, which have surfaces of mirrored tiles. Disco tombstones is what they look like, swiveling around, shooting silver light through the room like skeleton fingers raking the void, groping blindly for boys whose sparkling black beads bounce against their naked chests and swing and shine like wet webs as they come forth—two, now three, now five, now eight, now fifteen, now twenty boys coming through as applause erupts…boys just coming and coming and—o-o—oh—OHHHHHHHHH!
It's over in ten minutes. And then Slimane comes out—reluctantly, it seems—for a bow, head down, hands shoved in his pockets. No victory-lap promenade with the models for him before he is hurried off to a soft-lit black box of a room, where he'll be smothered in praise. "Bravo, Hedi! C'était magnique!" Shifting stiffly from side to side, he heaves a sigh between well-wishers, stealing himself for this awkward ritual. From the Americans—"Such a genius show!" Then the harsh light of a handheld TV camera floods Slimane's face as his great friend Karl Lagerfeld comes in for a hug. In his signature dark glasses, starchy pastor's collar and lacquered tweed Dior blazer—his silver mane pulled back in a black scrunchy—the regal Lagerfeld gives the cameras what they crave: images of the Old Guard embracing the new (he once said his recent dramatic weight loss was inspired by a desire to fit into Slimane's clothes). Encircled by microphones, Lagerfeld and Slimane talk for several minutes—a photo op, basically, given that they'll be dining together after the show.
Kris Van Assche smiles; his shirt is damp with sweat. Sabisha Friedberg enjoys a cigarette. Out by the catwalk, the lights are on in all their fantasy-crushing fluorescent gloom. Whistling workmen are taking apart the bleachers and rolling away sound equipment in large boxes on wheels.
The next day, over an espresso on Boulevard Saint-Germain, Slimane indulges my desire for a little postshow analysis. Basically, it amounts to a shrug. He has no complaints; "I liked the energy of the kids—they were so cool," he says, still and watchful as a gecko in the sunshine that streams through the window and catches on the little silver and gold crosses dangling on chains around his neck. "And I liked the lighting." The point is, it's over, and Slimane never looks back. That show was so yesterday—literally.
Even the clothes will be relegated to memory. "Keeping clothes is for people who like to collect things," Slimane says. "I don't collect anything. I don't get sentimental, generally speaking."
And so it goes in Hedi-land. Not the cuddliest place on the planet, but there will never be anywhere more fabulous.


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- SUN8:00 am, 10:00 am, 12:00 pm, 6:00 pm
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What's available for my children?
The Children's Ministry is available for infant through fifth grade children during all Sunday and Wednesday services. For information about the Children's Ministry program, contact our Children's Ministry.
Crux Jr. High Ministry is for sixth through eighth graders and meets Sunday mornings, Wednesday evenings, and Friday evenings. For more on Crux Jr. High, visit HarvestJrHigh.org.
Activate High School Ministry is for ninth through twelfth graders and meets Wednesday nights and Friday nights. For more about Activate, visit ActivateHighSchool.com.
In addition, there is a mother's room in the Sanctuary open to nursing mothers and their babies.
Where do I take my children for Sunday morning service?
The Children's Ministry is located in Topher's Place on the hill. Our staff will be blessed to help you find your child's classroom. Crux Jr. High ministry meets in the Loft.
What do I do if I have a child with special needs?
If you have a special-needs child, please check with the Children's Ministry Office to find out what options are available to you. Family seating is also available for Sunday morning services in the Ministry Resource Center (8:00 service) or The Court (10:00 and 12:00 services).
Where do I park?
The driveway to our parking lot can be found at the north end of Adams Avenue, and can also be accessed from Arlington Avenue. In addition, we have a parking lot to the west of the church which can be accessed from Neil Street or Weaver Street. This western parking lot provides closer access to our Children's Ministry buildings.


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|Former President & current President manning the CCCGS table at the Peddler's Faire in Aug 2012
It was a cool day and the crowds were not as large as in the past. This time we had the use of a nice canopy to keep the sun shaded but though it didn't shade our booth, it did define our booth space. We also had a nice new foam board sign which was a hit. Many stopped by and commented on it.
We had 47 people sign up for a complimentary issues of the newsletter. Let's hope that some will visit us at our meetings this fall.
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First Look At New SAILOR MOON Stage Musical, PETITE ETRANGERE
A flashy new stage musical based on the super-successful long-running Japanese anime series SAILOR MOON, titled SAILOR MOON PETITE ETRANGERE, is currently running in Tokyo and a first look at the production is now available to view via a series of production photos.
Of note, the new musical capitalizes on the warm reception and boffo box office afforded to the most recent SAILOR MOON musical, LA RECONQUISTA, which premiered last year.
The new SAILOR MOON musical is titled PETITE ETRANGERE for short, with the full title being PRETTY GUARDIAN SAILOR MOON PETITE ETRANGERE.
The confirmed cast for SAILOR MOON: PETITE ETRANGERE includes Satomi Okubo as Sailor Moon, Momoyo Koyama as Sailor Mercury, Kanon Nanaki as Sailor Mars, Yu Takhashi as Sailor Jupiter and Shiori Sakata as Sailor Venus.
Of note, the new SAILOR MOON musical will move to Osaka following an official debut in Tokyo this September.
The livestream of the final performance of SAILOR MOON PETITE ETRANGERE is set for September 7 on livestream channel NicoNico Douga.
According to recent reports, the new musical is set in Crystal Tokyo and spotlight the popular Black Moon Clan, also featuring the return of popular character Tuxedo Mask as well as the addition of Sailor Pluto and Chibiusa.
View the new production photos of SAILOR MOON PETITE ETRANGERE below.
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Restaurant Server, PM shift – Westin Galleria Houston (17002Q9O)
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Rainbow Unicorn
$275.00 Sold out
This listing is for a one of a kind Forest Creature Unicorn doll.
This unicorn's mane is a mix of various rainbow colored yarns, she is approximately 14" tall, and comes with a removable lace dress and fur collar. Her arms are button jointed and her metallic linen horn is hand sewn.
She is made up of pewter metallic linen and stuffed with recycled pollyfill. Her hair is a combination of wool, mohair, and acrylic yarn. Her arms are button jointed. Each doll is lovingly hand stitched in western North Carolina.
Our unicorn dolls are intended for display or very very gentle supervised play. Not intended for children under 5. If any FC doll suffers injury in the line of duty please email Joti and she'll be happy to fix them back up.
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When my fiancée and I were ready to have a solar hot water (SHW) system installed at our Washington, DC, townhouse, I figured our only choice was to buy an active system that required mechanical valves and electronic controllers, and electricity to operate them. Of the four SHW systems I have owned, two were "active" (electrically pumped) systems and two were "passive" (self-pumped) systems, the latter with no moving parts. I prefer the latter because moving parts are subject to failure.
Then I ran across a start-up company—Sunnovations—touting its "geyser pump," which also has no moving parts. Sunnovations drew on—and then improved upon—the simultaneously famous and infamous Copper Cricket design—a passively (self-)pumped collector that was produced several decades ago (I was a satisfied owner of two of them).
Like most SHW systems of that era, the Copper Cricket was far from perfect. Despite its main advantage of having no moving parts, the Copper Cricket had two major shortcomings: it operated under a vacuum that could fail and frequently did; and it could overheat and "cook" the antifreeze solution that served as the heat-transfer fluid (HTF) between the collector and the storage tank.
Sunnovations SHW systems are currently the only "self-pumped" systems certified by the industry-standard Solar Rating and Certification Corporation (SRCC). Sunnovations has obtained SRCC "OG-300" certifications for 41 system configurations, using combinations of five different collector brands, one- to three-collector arrays of varying-sized collectors, single and double storage tanks, and gas or electric backup heat.
The Sunnovations geyser pump depends upon a vacuum (negative pressure) to reduce the boiling point of the heat-transfer fluid to about 100°F. The "geyser pump," which relies on solar heat for its pumping action, is the heart of the system. It can be affixed to almost any collector. (The Copper Cricket was an all-in-one geyser pump and solar collector.) After an initial vacuum has been established, the pump circulates the HTF through the collectors. As the sun warms the geyser pump, pressure increases and the heated fluid flows.
Bright sun means higher operating temperatures and higher operating pressures. But even in full sun, the system operates at slightly below ambient (outside) atmospheric pressures. The maximum temperature the system may reach is 185°F, below the temperature at which the HTF breaks down. When the system pressure reaches the ambient pressure, a relief valve vents steam to a reservoir where it condenses back to liquid, and the geyser pump continues to operate. When the storage tank is fully heated, the return fluid to the collector will exceed 140°F, causing the pressure to rise rapidly. The temperature-limiting mechanism, which vents excess steam, cannot keep up, so fluid is vented out of the collector into the reservoir, thereby preventing the fluid from overheating. After the system cools, all the fluid expelled to the reservoir is drawn back into the system, which revitalizes the vacuum.
As the geyser pump system simply will not operate in extremely high temperatures, oxygen-barrier cross-linked high-density polyethylene (PEX) tubing can be used, rather than more expensive (materials and labor) copper pipe to carry the transfer fluid between the collector and the storage tank. PEX is flexible, so fewer joints are necessary and the joints are easier to make. While PEX piping can be problematic in traditional high-pressure and high-temperature active pumping SHW systems, as the Sunnovation system is self-limiting of both temperature and pressure, PEX is quite suitable.
While heated fluid flows without additional energy from electric pumps, for the passive Sunnovation system, the solar collector and geyser pump must be 33 feet or less above the storage tank. The geyser pump loses some heat to the outside air, especially on cold days. The unit must be warmed by the sun to 100°F to pump, so an active system set to come on at 90°F can be more productive on cold winter mornings. The relatively low flow rate (about 1 gallon per minute for two 4- by 8-foot collectors) will also result in some loss of heat delivered to the storage tank.


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NFL Analyst Vic Carucci has the Cowboys winning the division:
The case for the Cowboys: They should be even stronger than the team that won the division in 2009. Tony Romo continues to make strides as a top-notch quarterback. He's more mature and focused, and was able to blossom last season as the unquestioned leader of the team. Much of the offseason discussion has dealt with the expected game-breaking complement that first-round pick Dez Bryant will provide established receiving star Miles Austin and tight end Jason Witten. But the Cowboys have much more than an explosive passing attack. Their running game is among the best in the league and they have a championship-caliber defense.
Ex- Cowboy Flozell Adams worked out with the Steelers yesterday. The Steelers lost their starting right tackle Willie Colon after he suffered an Achilles injury on Monday. However there is no deal and according to NFL.com:
The Steelers got the impression Adams is not ready to make a decision, and money could be an issue as well. Adams, who was scheduled to earn over $7 million with Dallas prior to his release, is looking to earn $4 million for 2010, according to the source. The Steelers were hesitant to go that high.
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