London Fashion

There is never a dull moment beneath the grey sulky skies of London. As autumn reins, fashion designer's order books for spring summer 2008 are already closed. In January, the heart of winter fashion designer order books will be open for autumn winter 2008, cycle after cycle. No matter the weather, behind closed doors creative minds are hard at work to stay seasons ahead of demand. In a flurry, pattern cutters and needle crafters construct to designers? specifications, always offering something different and exciting, drawing from the past and present, sometimes futuristic, naturally.

The crossroads of fashion, style infusion, cultures collide as styles are born and sold to world, north, south, east and west. Style; one of Britain's most enduring exports, comedic, music, and clothing merge and emerge from the streets and pubs and make their way to designers drawing boards. An example, Charlie Chaplin, clothing, comedic and music style emerged. It all began in the music halls of Spitalfield, which grew out of music rooms at the back of pubs. Charlie Chaplin made his first stage appearance in the now demolished Royal Cambridge Music Hall in Commercial Street. The latest trend is for galleries to spring up in cafes and bars, style evolves. Chaplin long gone but his clownish silhouette etched into the minds of millions.

If you want to get an idea of what styles are heading your way, just lurk late night on the streets in Spitalfield, Chelsea etc and watch as people spill out of pubs and clubs at closing time. Take note of what they are wearing. You're at the source of style creation; it starts on the streets, an opportune time for any designer to gather ideas

The impressionable Beatles did the same in 1964, with Tommy Nutter of Savile Row the military look, skinny silk ties, fat ties, phycadelic ties, flairs, stove pipe pants, rockers and mods, style fanatics clashed. Glam rock and Roxy music with Brian Ferry and his dream world of visionary escapism from the dank pit village he was born to escape, Dandyism and then came the sex pistols. Vivienne Westwood emerged from the pile to become one of the most influential designers in British fashion history.

The influences of style and fashion accessories: class system, immigration, wealth, poverty, anarchy, rebellion, sport, climate and agriculture. Thomas Burberry noticing how local shepherds and farmers wore linen smocks, which were cool in summer and warm in the winter, he attempted to apply the same principles to other clothing. In 1879 he developed a fabric which was weatherproofed in the yarn before weaving, using a secret process and then proofed again in the piece, using the same undisclosed formula. The new material was untearable and weatherproof, whilst cool and breathable. He called the cloth ?gabardine? and registered the word as a trademark. Thomas Burberry opened his own business in 1856 in Basingstoake, Hampshire. Ask anyone in London where is Basingstoake and they will look at you strangely with a frown, ask them who is Thomas Burberry, different story. Basingstoake was a backwater, but it's on the map and only one and a half hours from London. And how many times since the Beatles demise has the military look been repeated, one more thing, ?The Trench Coat"

Never heard of Savile Row? Go to the back of the class.

Designer jeans/dress jeans originated there, thanks to Katherine Hepburn one of many famous advocates. Katherine Hepburn, whose long-term lover Spencer Tracey was a customer of Huntsman, took the extraordinary step of ordering bespoke denim jeans from her late lover's Savile Row tailor. Hepburn's commission foreshadowed bespoke denim collections launched in 2006 by Timothy Everest and Evisu. Katherine was also one of the first to embrace cufflinks

Now what about Jaeger? A migration story: Jaegers roots are planted firmly in the mid nineteenth century when a theory expounded by a professor of zoology at the Stuttgart University suggested that humans would be healthier if they dressed in clothes mode only from animal hair, principally wool and avoiding vegetable fibres like cotton and linen. The author of the work was Dr Gustav Jaeger.

Dr Jaeger's book inspired a British accountant called Lewis Tomalin who translated the work into English and published it, convinced that British society should benefit from the Doctor's theories. His theories were then furthered by the opening of a shop in Fore Street London.

Even the London underground is style; a safe haven during the Second World War and the subject of popular song, if you can write about, then sing about it.

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Health and Fitness ? Preventing My Grandmother From Falling ...

When my grandmother fell for the first time, we were concerned, but unsure of what to do. She lived with my mother in a split level raised ranch home. This required my grandma to have to go up and down a set of stairs several times every day. As time passed this became increasingly difficult for her. My mom eventually moved into a home where the stair climbing would be reduced by as much as possible. Since then, my grandmother?s condition has worsened a bit and even walking around the house has gotten difficult for her. She has fallen several more times and my mom has decided to begin in home care for her.

The caretaker now comes two or three times per week, depending upon my grandma?s request. Receiving care hurt her pride at first, but the benefits soon far outweighed what few negatives there were. The biggest thing that my grandmother has gained is confidence. She no longer needs to worry about walking around the house and falling. If she feels weak, there is someone there to help her. If she feels good, she can do the things she wants to do without the fear of hurting herself and being alone and out of touch with anyone.

For the times that she is alone, my mother has signed her up for a life line service. You?ve probably seen the commercials on television for products similar to this. It is an emergency service connected to your phone line; if you fall or need help, you simply push the button you are wearing and an operator is alerted to the fact that you need help. They can then dispatch an ambulance or police car to your home within moments. This allows my grandma to move about the house without worrying about being left alone all day. If an emergency does arise, she can get the help she needs with minimal effort.

Preventing falls is an essential part of elder care, but you don?t necessarily need to move like my family did to prevent them. If your loved one is unsteady on their feet, consider getting an in home care service to help them reduce the amount of walking they need to do around the house. While they will probably want to stay out of a wheelchair for as long as possible, this is also another solution. When my mom takes my grandma out shopping, they usually use one of the public wheelchairs that the grocery store supplies. This saves on the cost of buying their own wheelchair, yet still gives my grandma the mobility she desires. Around the house, this is not necessary since the distances she walks are much shorter and she can always sit down in her chair if she tires.

Matthew G. Young is a freelance writer who specializes in financial, sports, and health-related topics. To learn more about in home health care visit?Paradise In Home Care

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An angry bird in the sky: Lambda Centauri Nebula

ScienceDaily (Sep. 21, 2011) ? In the nebula, which lies around 6500 light-years from Earth, hot newborn stars that formed from clouds of hydrogen gas shine brightly with ultraviolet light. This intense radiation in turn excites the surrounding hydrogen cloud, making it glow a distinctive shade of red. This red shade is typical of star-forming regions, another famous example being the Lagoon Nebula (eso0936 -- http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0936/).

Some people see a chicken shape in pictures of this red star-forming region, giving the nebula its nickname -- though there is some disagreement over exactly which part of the nebula is chicken shaped, with various bird-like features in evidence across the picture [1].

Aside from the glowing gas, another sign of star formation in IC 2944 is the series of opaque black clumps silhouetted against the red background in part of this image. These are examples of a type of object called Bok globules. They appear dark as they absorb the light from the luminous background. However, observations of these dark clouds using infrared telescopes, which are able to see through the dust that normally blocks visible light, have revealed that stars are forming within many of them.

The most prominent collection of Bok globules in this image is known as Thackeray's Globules, after the South African astronomer who discovered them in the 1950s. Visible among a group of bright stars in the upper right part of the image, these globules feature in a famous image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

While Hubble offers greater detail in its image of this small area, the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory captures a much larger panorama in its images, covering an area of sky roughly the size of the full Moon [2]. Much like a zoom lens on a camera lets a photographer choose the most appropriate field of view when taking a picture, the dramatically different viewpoints offered by different telescopes can offer complementary data to scientists studying astronomical objects which cover an extended area of the sky.

If the stars cocooned in Thackeray's Globules are still gestating, then the stars of cluster IC 2948, embedded within the nebula, are their older siblings. Still young in stellar terms, at just a few million years old, these stars shine brightly, and their ultraviolet radiation provides much of the energy that lights up the nebula. These glowing nebulae are relatively short-lived in astronomical terms (typically a few million years), meaning that the Lambda Centauri Nebula will eventually fade away as it loses both its gas and its supply of ultraviolet radiation.

Notes

[1] Ideas for where the chicken outline lies on the picture can be submitted through the Your ESO Pictures Flickr group for a chance to win some interesting prizes.

[2] This image was produced as part of the ESO Cosmic Gems programme. This is a new initiative to produce images of interesting, intriguing or visually attractive objects using ESO telescopes, for the purposes of education and public outreach. The programme makes use of small amounts of observing time, combined with otherwise unused time on the telescopes' schedules so as to minimise the impact on science observations. All data collected are also made available to astronomers through ESO's science archive.

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Game over: Telstra won't be Gingerbreading the HTC Desire after all

If you're on Australia's Telstra network and you're still clinging to hope of an OTA Gingerbread update for your beloved HTC Desire, then now it's officially time to let go. For a while it looked like Telstra might opt for a smart workaround to the old handset's lack of memory, but now the operator's update page makes it clear that it has fallen in line with the wider HTC stance: Android 2.3 just isn't viable on this device, unless you're prepared to go off-piste with the developer build or an unofficial ROM.

[Thanks, Jack]

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Asphalt roofing shingles are the most popular type of roofing for homes in the United States, used on an estimated 80% of all houses. The life expectancy of asphalt roofing shingles depends on things such as regional weather and the slope of the roof. Three basic types of asphalt roofing shingles are laminated shingles, single piece shigles, and interlocking shingles. Remember that any warranties on shingles usually don?t cover the cost of labor if you ever have to replace the shingles, many warranties don?t cover events caused by mother nature. So, be sure to check each manufacture?s warranty for wind speeds if you live in areas prone to high wind or hurricanes.

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Empowerment, with a tail and ears

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The rabbit test: New bunny Maureen (Amber Heard) has a job at "The Playboy Club."

Did you know that the Playboy Clubs were ground zero for the feminist movement in the early 1960s? You didn't? Well, then, tune into NBC's new drama "The Playboy Club"?(10 p.m./9 Central); you'll learn that and many other things, courtesy of the clubs' founder Hugh?Hefner. The Playboy magazine mogul narrates the pilot and is featured on-screen as a shadowy but benevolent power-broker character -- a godlike force who's always glimpsed from behind or in silhouette, rather like a Doonesbury caricature of a real-life politician. "The world was changing,"?Hef says at one point in the pilot episode, "and we were the ones changing it, one bunny at a time."?Another gem:?"It was the early '60s, and the bunnies were some of the only women in the world who could be anyone they wanted to be."

Objectively speaking, Hef-the-narrator isn't wrong. Getting a job at one of the magazine's spinoff "gentleman's clubs" could indeed support a young woman and validate her longing for autonomy.?But then, so could becoming an advertising copywriter like Peggy Olson on "Mad Men," the show that "The Playboy Club" desperately wants to be. Or a law clerk. Or an actress. Etc.

And there were serious downsides, as Gloria Steinem found out when she went undercover in the clubs -- downsides that the series seems oddly inclined to downgrade even when it's putting them front-and-center. The pilot's darkest moments have everything to do with the sort of environment that Hefner created at the clubs -- an environment in which women were servants, hostesses and fantasy playthings -- yet the show itself treats them ahistorically, as stuff that for whatever reason just happened. In the first few minutes of tonight's pilot, a young blond bunny named Maureen (Amber Heard), who just started at the club's inaugural Chicago branch, makes the mistake of rebuffing a gangster who wants to dance with her, then gets stalked into a storeroom and nearly raped. She resists with help from a dreamboat lawyer named Nick?Dalton (Eddie Cibrian of "CSI?Miami" and "Ugly?Betty") and puts a spike heel into the goon's neck, killing him and splattering her outfit with blood.

I humbly submit that if a lavishly budgeted period drama wants to convince us that its milieu is 1) wonderfully liberating rather than faintly sordid and 2) catnip to female viewers, this is not the way to kick things off.

The rest of the hour is bland soap-opera nonsense with contrarian political readings glommed onto it like adhesive-backed bunny tails. Cibrian's Nick Dalton is the Don Draper figure, only much sweeter -- a crusading civil rights attorney and Kennedy-esque womanizing hunk who's entangled with the Chicago mob. After the storeroom killing, he invites Maureen to stay at his place -- for safety, of course! -- and helps her unzip her blood-soiled bunny costume. Later on, a mobster spots Nick escorting Maureen out of a back entrance of the club, and they have to kiss to sell the illusion that they're a couple. So romantic!?

Maureen's fellow employees include Brenda (Natura Naughton -- now that's a centerfold name!), the club's lone African-American bunny and Maureen's saucy confidante; Laura Benanti (of Broadway's "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown") as Carol-Lynne, an aging bunny who sings at the club, sleeps with Nick, and fancies herself a backstage voice of authority and wisdom; and Alice (Leah Renee), who keeps her marriage a secret because the club only employs single women. (Alice's marriage, by the way, contains secrets of its own; they're easily the most surprising elements on the show.) David Krumholtz brings a welcome touch of 1940s character actor steeliness to the role of club manager Billy Rosen; but except for a couple of good, tense, authority-testing scenes opposite Benanti, he's on hand mainly to get exasperated with Nick, who half-smirks as if he's perpetually on the verge of breaking into a?Sean Connery impression. (And man, I wish he would; this show needs pep.)

Can anybody remember the last time NBC aired a historical drama -- or a miniseries or movie -- that wasn't fatally compromised in some way??The only one that comes to mind is "I'll Fly Away", and that aired 20 years ago.?For some inexplicable reason, the network's big-ticket period pieces -- I'm thinking specifically of its hit miniseries "The '60s" and "The '70s" and its perpetually promising but inconsistent "American Dreams"?--? are hobbled by the same conceptual flaws as "The Playboy Club."?They want to be both fun and edifying and end up being neither, and style-wise, they feel too much like Wikipedia entries with actors.

The series might have managed to overcome these problems (partly, at least) if it had a a strong point-of-view, however conflicted, toward what it's showing us. But it doesn't. The let's-all-revel-in-sexual-fantasy tone doesn't sit well with the opening scene of extreme violence and the many casual reminders of the bunnies' institutional subservience. When the club features then-abused R&B diva Tina Turner and her brutal husband/manager Ike as musical guests, it's impossible to tell if it's a comment on the club, Playboy and the era's gender dynamics, or just an ironic coincidence that the writers were too distracted or overwhelmed to do anything with. And the show's constant reminders of Hef's kindhearted, visionary optimism feel rote, as if they were written into a contract somewhere. (Maybe they were.)

"Hef doesn't care what color people are as long as they're interesting," Brenda says, explaining the clubs' hospitality toward black entertainers. That's undoubtedly true -- Hefner was a pioneering civil rights supporter at a time when it wasn't cool to be one, and he was also a great patron of the arts who almost single-handedly kept a lot of working musicians, black and white, in the middle class in the '70s and '80s by employing them at his clubs. But I can think of more elegant ways of getting these points across. A plot twist that finds Hef reversing the club manager's firing of a bunny who was once Hef's lover (weren't they all?) should remind us that Hefner the fictional character, like Hefner the real-life media mogul, had an unfortunate tendency to let Little Hef do the thinking for him; instead it feels like a deus ex machina, a Great-White-Father-to-the-Rescue moment.? The man loosened up a tight-assed country, revolutionized publishing, subsidized great fiction and journalism through his magazines, amassed a fortune and probably got laid more times than I've gotten up in the morning. Shouldn't that be enough for this series? Does he have to be Mr. Chips, Martin Luther King and the Wizard of Oz, too?

I've been assured that although "The Playboy Club"?is a joint venture between NBC and Playboy Inc., Hefner himself had no creative involvement in the show beyond narrating it, supplying background information, and giving permission to write him into the scripts as a Charlie on "Charlie's Angels"-type character. (TV?Guide says he won't narrate any other installment, but will continue to appear as a character.) Yet this opening episode still feels like a multimillion-dollar exercise in image maintainence. Given the show's status as a codependent branding venture, this was probably unavoidable. The show's producers could have done a tougher, more complex, honest series if they'd set it at a club that was somewhat like Hefner's but not actually Hefner's, and placed it on a pay cable channel with no content restrictions; but then it wouldn't have gotten a network-level P.R. sendoff and cross-promotion in Playboy, whose October cover features guess which new NBC?drama. The instant the program's masterminds decided to target a broadcast network and put the word "Playboy" in the title, the series stopped being a creative work and became an infomercial -- an ad for a declining media empire that wants to be titillating but not dirty, adult but not mature; PG-rated porn, with a fig leaf of social responsibility.

Source: http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/feature/2011/09/19/playboy_club/index.html

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