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MDG-Based Planning workshop Integrating Capacity Development Strategies into MDG based PRSP's Terence Jones Director CDG/BDP Ndey-Isatou Njie CDA Africa Dar Es Salam, Tanzania February 27th to March 3rd 2006 Core capacity issues for the implementation of MDG based PRSP's Title Representative (but not Exhaustive) List of Capacities Vision and Leadership Capacity to develop, communicate and give direction on vision, mission and values; ability to develop and implement a system for overall management; ability to motivate and support individuals; and ability to manage relationships with key external stakeholders Accountability Mechanisms This category pertains to the capacity to ensure accountability through prevention and enforcement; strengthening of national integrity institutions; increasing public participation; and building coalitions; and working with the international community Public Engagement 1) Capacity for inclusion, participation, equity and empowerment of individuals; and 2) mobilization, access and use of information and knowledge Human Resources Capacity for development of recruitment and promotion policies; performance assessment and management mechanisms; incentives (monetary and non-monetary); monitoring and evaluation mechanisms; and training Financial Resources National and local capacities to negotiate, manage, utilize and monitor internal financial resources as well as DBS in ways that best support the human development agenda and achieve the MDGs, including capacities for the management of development finance and development cooperation Physical Resources Capacity to build, maintain and manage physical resources; does not include accounting of the number of bridges but the capacity to construct and provide continuing services necessary to keep them operational Environmental Resources Capacity to manage environment and natural resource and energy sectors, to integrate environmental and energy dimensions into poverty reduction strategies and national development frameworks, and to strengthen the role of communities in promoting sustainable development Globalization / International Capacity to manage international trade, including country's level of market competitiveness, the strength of their institutional and regulatory structures, and their negotiating capacity. Also includes leadership and institutional capacities to create, maintain and leverage international Relations partnerships and networks Crisis Prevention and Capacities to manage three areas: conflict prevention; economic crisis prevention and management; and natural disaster prevention and management Recovery Gender and Development Capacities in two complementary approaches to achieving gender equality: mainstreaming gender and promoting women's empowerment Human Rights Capacities regarding advocacy, sensitization of all stakeholders in the broadest sense of the word; institutional development, creation of sustainable institutional systems; implementation, the application of human rights in law and reality; monitoring, effective systems for societal monitoring of human rights enforcement; redress, transparent mechanisms to correct human rights violations; and specific measures for affirmative action for addressing structural issues that perpetuate inequality and discrimination Functional Capacities Functional capacities are cross cutting in nature, are relevant to systems, sectors and institutions, Title Description To Assess and Analyze Abilities to effectively access, gather, analyze and synthesize data and information, and translate it into knowledge To Formulate Policy and Abilities to analyze a range of development parameters that may affect needs and Strategy performance in a given area; explore different perspectives; conduct long-term strategizing; and set objectives To Manage and Process management capacities essential in the implementation of any type of policy, Implement Programmes legislation, strategy and programme and Services To Monitor and Evaluate Abilities to monitor progress, measure results and codify lessons, for learning and feedback to ensure accountability to partners and the ultimate beneficiaries of development UNDP Capacity Assessment Framework for MDG Based PRSP's Functional Capacities To Assess & To Formulate To Manage & To Monitor & Analyze Policy & Implement Evaluate Strategy Programmes & Services Vision & Leadership Accountability Mechanisms Public Engagement Human Resources Core Issues Financial Resources Physical Resources Environmental Qs in each Resources cross section Globalization / Internat'l Relations Crisis Prevention & Recovery Gender & Development Human Rights Application of Capacity assessment in MDG Based PRSP's Integration of Capacity Assessment and Planning & Programming Define Capacity Process Steps Cost Capacity Assess Capacity Development Development Actions Strategies/Actions Linkages between Capacity Assessment and Development Strategies and UNDP Planning Frameworks Millennium Development Poverty Reduction Goal-Based Development CCA and UNDAF Strategies Strategies Application of Capacity Development Strategies to MDG based PRSP's in Africa - Focus Areas • Strengthening capacities of tertiary, training and research institutions • Supporting local administration and community service delivery mechanisms • Strengthening public sector capacity for policy development and service delivery • Deepening reforms in the public sector Application of Capacity Development Strategies to MDG based PRSP's in Africa - Core capacities • Policy analysis and formulation • Leadership and change management • Planning, absorption, and utilization of resources • Accessing, sharing and managing knowledge, learning and information management • Statistical and database management, and monitoring capacities • Managing accountability mechanisms • Participatory and integrated approaches Local Level Capacity Development Capacity 2015 Objectives • Empowering local communities through participatory policy dialogue and strategy options on the MDGs - Participatory planning, budgeting M and E, toolkits, training • Strengthening local capacities for integrated planning and MDG strategies for local development – Capacity 2015 committees, district development plans, district databases and information systems • Facilitating capacity investments in institutions of service delivery – Community action plans, partnerships • Codifying local knowledge, promoting learning and experience sharing at local levels – The information and learning network (ILN) and the Local level information systems (LIIS), accountability mechanisms IPS REGIONAL PROGRAMMES Local Level Capacity - Capacity 2015 and the IPS MDG-Based Needs Widening Access to Policy Strengthening National Assessments and Options Capacities for Service Diagnostics Delivery Empowering - Review of local - Participatory budgeting - Training of trainers (ToTs) local participatory - Support to buy-in by for engaging communities Communities planning processes neighbourhood associations in service delivery - Engaging in local plans - Capacity of local leaders communities in -Local-local dialogue to contribute to local needs implementation assessments - Community Report Cards Strengthening - "Balanced - Development of medium- - Support to the local Scorecards" term municipal plans implementation of local capacities for -Capacity and - Capacity for Local Action plans, i.e. quality integrated needs assessments Integrated Planning (urban control, procurement, planning on all levels environment, HIV/AIDS, partnering and networking - Municipal urban poverty and urban skills assessments governance integration) Facilitating - Organisational - Legal and institutional - Local governance and capacity capacity development (harmonisation decentralisation training development assessments of norms, auditing) - Increased reviews of local investments in - Systematic - Incentives for inter- service delivery service application of jurisdictional cooperation mechanisms delivery diagnostics approach to CD strategies Codifying - Toolkit with - Dissemination of Toolkit for - Leadership skills toolkit local methodologies for Localizing the MDGs - Electronic dissemination knowledge local needs - Adaptation of existing of consultants' roster and and learning assessments databases and toolkits i.e. companies to support - "Trunk and UN-HABITAT "Best implementation Branch" model for Practices" - Local level integrated info engaging CSOs in - Accessing global expertise systems for implementation e-network on local policy issues Innovation and Creating enabling policy SACI TRANSFORMATIONAL FRAMEWORK Reorganization of environments and Developing Service Delivery adequate leadership and management capacity Transformatio n of Mindset and development paradigm Values & Innovative development Attitudes Capacity stabilisation, of training programs and maintenance and institutions for meeting utilisation new demands for Skills Effective and Efficient Private sector & Civil delivery of Public Society involvement in Service in all key sectors service delivery Achievement of MDGs National Development Plans, National Vision Eradicate Promote Develop a Achieve Combat Ensure extreme gender global Reduce Improve HIV/AIDS, environ- Achieving the Millennium Development Goals poverty and universal primary equality and child mortality maternal health malaria and other mental Sustaina- Partner- ship for education empower developm hunger diseases bility women ent THE ENABLING ENVIRONMENT Policy framework Accountability framework Legal/Regulatory framework Leadership & ownership System Alignment EFFECTIVE SERVICE Health DELIVERY Education In terms of: Agriculture Availability Finance Accessibility Acceptability Public Administration Quality of Contact Other sectors… STRUCTURE STRATEGY HUMAN I NFRA- PROCESSES RESOURCES and CULTURE and MISSION CAPABILITY STRUCTURE Effective Work Appropriate values Clear defined Proper Knowledge, Sufficient and Material flow processes? and standards? Vision, Mission Skills, Values and appropriate requirements Planning and Effectively and mandate? Attitudes among all deployed human allocated and execution? structured and Adequate strategy staff, at all levels? resources? managed organized? and objectives? Adequate and effectively? Effective Coherence Management Clearly defined Defined product/ between mindset/ effectively (Buildings, systems & responsibilities? service/ client worldview and managed financial offices, vehicles, practices? outputs? mission/Vision? resources? computers..) Proper incentives Proper M & E? in place? THE ENTITY LEVEL Scaling up of the Southern Africa Capacity Initiative (SACI) and the IPS • Expanding SACI to More African Countries • Capacity development • Working within the Framework of the IPS • Initiation of Consultations with the identified countries Next Steps • Support for national and local programme implementation – support in the implementation of CD strategies at national and local level as integral parts of MDG based PRSP's – Consultations with country office on local level capacity development and preparation of action plans – Regional consultations and guidance on key issues • Learning and knowledge management, including peer review – The launch of an information and learning network including local level information systems – Peer learning and review amongst African Institutions • Support in capacity diagnostics – Launch of the capacity assessment tool – Training
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Behind landslide, a generation divide in Egypt
CAIRO (AP) — "El-Sissi will leave no one wanting!" the 50-year-old shopkeeper in a Cairo slum barked when a younger man criticized the landslide victor of Egypt's presidential election, former army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.
Their heated argument — even though both voted for el-Sissi — shows the stormy public sentiment the retired field marshal will confront, even after winning nearly 93 percent of the vote in this week's election. El-Sissi faces not only opposition from Islamists, but also a generational divide.
Many older voters embrace him. But among the young, ambitions for change have been unleashed since the 2011 ouster of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, and their expectations are low that another military man in power will fulfill them.
El-Sissi's Islamist foes, furious over his removal last summer of President Mohammed Morsi, boycotted the election, as did more secular revolutionary youth groups. Many balked at voting when the outcome seemed certain. The government managed to boost turnout to 46 percent by threatening fines for non-voters and by abruptly extending the vote to a third day.
Some young voters backed el-Sissi, but with a sense of resignation and gloom over the future that could quickly turn to opposition.
In Abdel-Hakim Fathi's tiny fishing supply shop in Cairo's impoverished Dar el-Salam slum, this reality was on display. Ahmed el-Nabawi, 36, argued that while el-Sissi may be able to restore some stability, it will be at the cost of increased police abuses, corruption and injustice, all under the mantle of "fighting terrorism."
"It may look OK at the start, but once the ball gets rolling, it will be back to good old days!" he said, referring to the Mubarak era. "The police will be worse than they used to be."
Despite his skepticism, el-Nabawi voted for el-Sissi, hoping the career officer — backed by Egypt's military and rich Gulf Arab states — can improve the economy enough so that he can pay off his taxi, sell it and buy a newer one. If that doesn't happen, he said, he'll oppose the president.
"You are being selfish," Fathi shouted. "The army never said a word without delivering."
"If you do nothing wrong and mind your business, no one will come after you," he added, dismissing concerns over a police state. "I have been around 50 years and nothing happened to me."
More than 1 million people live in Dar el-Salam and the adjoining Hadaiq el-Maadi neighborhood, crammed into an area smaller than Manhattan's Lower East Side. Here, narrow, broken streets are lined with squalid apartment buildings. Rickety buses maneuver through mounds of garbage and construction work. The area is emblematic of the poverty most of Egypt's 90 million people live in — and which has only worsened in the three years since Mubarak's ouster.
The argument in Fathi's shop, which pitted the shopkeeper and a man in his 60s against the younger el-Nabawi, illustrated the old world vs. new world attitudes among Egypt's electorate.
An older generation, which brags about fighting in past wars and remembers a time of political repression but less chaos, is more welcoming of a new president from the military. A younger generation — the 32 million voters between the ages of 18 and 40 out of an electorate of 54 million — is no longer patient with restrictions on human rights, social mobility and basic freedoms.


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Beautiful, bright spacious loft-feel 1 bedroom apartment with leafy balcony overlooking a green square and nice cafe. Right next to the Tempelhof airport park entry and surrounded by cafes, little bars and places to grab a bite. Very well connected.
Space where guests can cook their own meals
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Space where guests can cook their own meals
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Breakfast is provided.
The listing can accommodate a gathering of 25 or more attendees
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The Space
The Flat:
Ideal for couples or small groups of up to 4 people, this very spacious 72 square meter flat is located on the 2nd floor of a nice period)building. It consists of a bright, lofty lounge which acts as the entertainment room and can accomodate 2 people sleeping, a good sized double bedroom with private balcony overlooking the green square and disused Tempelhof airport (now a park), as well as a separate bathroom and kitchen. All rooms have big windows and allow for plenty of light. The East/West constellation of the rooms as well as the elevation on the 2nd floor allow for a constant stream of sunshine throughout the day. You will be able to shower, eat breakfast and get ready with natural daylight and enjoy the sunset from your covered-in green balcony. All details in the apartment are original. Wooden floors, beautiful detailed doors, coving on the high ceilings as well as charming large wooden windows in the living as well as bedroom. It has a certain sense of loft feeling to it. The decor is kept mid-century with design pieces ranging from 50s to 70s.
Kitchen: High quality solid wood kitchen. Fridge/ freezer, oven & cooker as well as Siemens washing machine. Plus kitchen utensils such as pots, pans, coffee machine etc.
Bathroom: Modern, Fully tiled. Large full length mirror.
Bedroom: High quality bedroom set consisting of double bed with 2 matrasses, 2 bed stands, 1 wardrobe, 1 dressing table and mirror.
Living room: High quality Danish design sofa set for 6 people, sofa table, dining table & chairs for 6 as well as large sideboard. All solid wood.
Balcony: Wooden table & 2 chairs.
The Building:
Consists of really nice mix of neighbours from all over the world. It's a residential building with families & kids as well as young professional types. Green yard which houses a bike rack.
The Area:
The apartment is in a top location in one of Neukoellns hip & most desirable areas - the Schillerkiez. Cobbled and leafy streets centered around a local church give this area a residential but city feel. Since the closing of historic Berlin Tempelhof airport in 2008, the area has enjoyed an influx of families and young creative types from all over the world. More bars, cafes, galleries and shops are sprouting up weekly and the atmosphere on the streets is relaxed and multi-cultural. On your door step you will find a weekly organic food market with the large Oriental Market by beautiful Landwehr canal only a quick 5 min tube ride away. Plenty of flea markets in the area too. The airport has been turned into Europe's largest urban park - you can jog, kite surf, hire bikes/ segways, build a vegetable plot in the community garden, BBQ or even enjoy year round exhibitions or festivals. There are baseball and basketball courts, beer gardens and history centers. It also doubles up as the site for biannual Berlin Fashion Week and its Bread & Butter trade show. Walk down the runway & catch the sunset over the city landscape. Aside from being 100m away from the park, the location also delivers on all other aspects of great city living. The vibrant high streets of Hermannstrasse as well as Karl Marx Strasse are only a short 5 min walk away and offer a range of shopping, dining and other cultural opportunities. The closest tube station is Boddinstrasse (5 min walk) which has great links to all other central areas of Berlin as well as Berlin International airport (35 min). Additionally, Hasenheide Park, a natural woodland park adjacent to the airport park offers another great outdoors experience with various summer activities like festivals and open air cinema screenings. The open air Columbia swimming pool (5 min walk) has, after extensive renovation just been re-opened and is the perfect place to cool of during Berlins summer heat. All you need is WALKING DISTANCE and to top it off, we are two floors above a really nice bar/ cafe!
We also have lots of books and DVDs as well as board games in the flat in case you want to spend the odd rainy day lounging at home and immersing yourself into a Berlin history lesson.
I love to host and will make sure that you have a comfortable and welcoming stay!
Look forward to hearing from you.
Guest Access
You will have the flat all to yourself ... whilst I am not there, my home is your home.
Interaction with Guests
I will meet you to check you in, give you the keys and explain anything of importance regarding the apartment. If you do need my help during your stay, you can always call me or contact me via email or Air BNB message. I am more than happy to help you out with recommendations etc whilst you are here.
The Neighborhood
The beauty about this neighborhood is the eclectic mix of people ... students, young families, grandmothers, creatives, tourists and people from other cultures. The cobbled streets lined with beautiful trees and night time gas lamps and its many random cafes and shops make this a real Berlin gem. The fact that this neighborhood is not perfectly polished gives it a real local experience and adds a whole lot of charm. One of the main attractions of course is the huge derelict Tempelhof Airport which has been turned into Europe's biggest city adventure park... you won't find a place like this anywhere else in this world. Nature & history combined into one make this an incredible urban space. Hasenheide woodland park, a large outdoor swimming pool and the proximity to Kreuzbergs bars & clubs make this a perfect city getaway spot.
Getting around
You will be very well connected here as you have close access to the S-Bahn ring which circles the city. It's only a 5 min walk to the underground station which takes you through Kreuzberg and into Mitte. Also airport access is easy and quick from here. About 35 min to get to Schoenefeld.
Other Things to Note
Since the 1st of January 2014 all private Berlin visitors have to pay the so called City Tax. This 5% tax has to be paid on top of the price you pay on Airbnb and will be collected during the check in. This legislation affects all guests staying in hotels or private accommodation, except for guests staying longer than 21 days, or are business travellers who have proof that they are in Berlin professionally.
For more information please refer to the federal state of Berlin website: (website hidden)(phone number hidden)-city-tax-in-berlin-who-is-to-pay-how-muc.en.html
Please remember that you are living in somebody's flat and that there are local, working people in the building that go about their usual lives. Please respect that and keep noise & disruption at night to a minimum. There has been a lot of negative press lately, especially regarding Air BnB and tourists that stay in local people's homes and treat it like a party ground so please be a nice, discrete tourist and respect our home.
Some other points to note:
• If you're a smoker, please keep it to the balcony.
• Switch off all electrical appliances and lights when you leave the flat. It's good for the environment, prevents fire incidents and keeps costs low which allows us to offer an even cheaper stay ☺
• Please make an effort to recycle.
Absprache und Beschreibung hat super gepasst- Wir haben das Frühstück auf dem Balkon genossen- auch wenn es super kalt war. Die Wohnung ist echt riesig und hat schöne kleine Details und alles war sauber. Lage ist auch sehr schön- also es sehr zu empfehlen
Dre was a very communicative and welcoming host. He kept in touch regularly and left lots of helpful info about the local area. The apartment is fantastic, very spacious and in a friendly neighbourhood. We enjoyed being next to Tempelhof Park, a great way to spend a Sunday. Lots of great places to eat close by and easy to get transport. Highly recommended!
The apartment is an ideal Berliner experience. The best way to enjoy a surreal visit to a historical city
Excellent apartment with everything you need for a comfotable stay provided, even a hair dryer! Aileen, one of Dre's friends greeted us on arrival and was very welcoming and helpfull. Quiet area with easy access to transport links for the city centre and other parts of Belin :)
Dre's place was amazing! Huge, beautiful, comfortable, well decorated :) it was easy to get to and from, and the neighborhood is full of cool bars, venues, etc. Lots of local flavor, and right next to a huge park. We loved it!
My stay at Dre's flat in Neukölln was wonderful. It's right next to Tempelhof and there are several great restaurants & cafes nearby. The neighborhood was quiet at night. The flat itself had everything I needed.
Amazing flat and an amazing host. Thank you so much Dre for all your help and tips for making our trip to Berlin so wonderful. The flat was beautiful and in the perfect location. Even though it was cold outside, we were always warm in your place... and had the best sleeps ever in your incredible bed! Hope to return in the summer if you'll have us again.
Thanks so much,
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When CBS announced the cast for the 21st season of The Amazing Race in August, fans of snowboarding, skateboarding, and adaptive sports recognized two prominent names in the mix: Amy Purdy and Daniel Gale, co-founders of Adaptive Action Sports.
Their organization has helped bring adaptive sports -- including Adaptive Snowboarder X, Adaptive Skier X, Mono X, Adaptive Skateboarding, and Adaptive Moto X to the X Games and now to the Paralympics. Xavier Gonzalez, CEO of the International Paralympic Committee, announced in May that Para-Snowboarding will make its Paralympic debut with the addition of men's and women's Adaptive Boardercross as a medal sport at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, with qualifiers beginning in January, 2013.
The Amazing Race premieres at 8 p.m. ET Sunday, and while CBS executives wouldn't let any secrets out about how the race shakes out, we were able to catch up with Purdy, a double beneath-the-knee amputee and the top-ranked female adaptive snowboarder in the United States, and Gale, who has served as sports organizer for all of the adaptive events at X Games over the past seven years, for a sneak preview of their race around the world and the even more exciting races ahead. Purdy and dozens of other athletes working with Adaptive Action Sports will train for qualifying events on the road to the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
Amy Purdy: The Amazing Race is everything that you would expect it to be and more. I think it's going to be a great platform for my message, which is that it's not really about me trying to show how able or how capable I am so much as that we're all able, we're all capable. We all have challenges and we all face adversities. We all have to adapt. The Amazing Race is perfect for me because it's all about adventure and travel and taking risks and throwing yourself out there and challenging yourself. That's what I've been doing with my life anyways, so it's a beautiful platform to be able to take that to a bigger audience. I really do feel blessed.
|Snowboarders Dan Gale and Amy Purdy will join the cast of the upcoming season of 'The Amazing Race' on CBS.
Daniel Gale: Well, first of all, co-founding an organization like Adaptive Action Sports is a huge undertaking, especially for such a deserving community of people, and setting out to run an organization like that heightens your drive to achieve and set goals and really strive to meet those goals. Translating that into an adventure like The Amazing Race, I think the biggest thing we've learned from our experiences together is that whatever comes along, you have to adapt quickly! That's something we say to our new athletes who are just coming on board with Adaptive Action Sports and it's something we've learned from a lot of the athletes we work with: If there's a will there's a way. That's sort of a cliche, but it's so true. People adapt to make things happen if they really want them to. We took that mentality into The Amazing Race and we really try to live that way.
Purdy: Running the organization has been a challenge for us all along because Daniel and I are also a couple and we work together as business partners. We wear lots of different hats in our relationship, and I think because of that we know where we can push buttons and we know how to communicate with each other under different circumstances and different challenges. We don't always communicate awesomely, but going onto the race we felt really confident because of knowing each other as well as we do.Last year I caught up with snowboarders Andy Finch and Tommy Czeschin as they were getting ready to premiere in Season 19 of the race. They ended up doing pretty well, ultimately finishing in fourth place. Did you get a chance to chat with them to get any tips before your race?
Gale: We know those guys but we never really had a chance to powwow because everything happened pretty quickly once we found out we were racing. But we're huge fans of those two and we loved the way they ran their race. We took whatever notes we could from watching them in Season 19.
Purdy: We were really inspired by their attitudes going into the race and how well they worked together. We definitely took that with us and kept them in the back of our mind as role models. I think it's good to see racers on the show who aren't always super dramatic, who are just entertaining because of who they are.What was your reaction after the Paralympic announcement was made in May? This would have been right around the time you were first preparing for The Amazing Race, right?
Purdy: It's so exciting it's crazy. Everything in my life has just been getting more and more amazing. When I did the TED speech for TEDxOrangeCoast in 2011 and it went viral, I thought, "Oh my gosh, this is just incredible." This is what I set out to do: I wanted to speak, I wanted to have a platform, and I got that opportunity and thought, "I just don't know if it gets any more amazing than this." And then we get offered the opportunity to go on The Amazing Race and I'm thinking, "This is insane!" We're huge fans of the show and we knew it would be another incredible platform. And then literally just before going on the race we find out that the Paralympics have accepted snowboarding! We'd originally been denied last summer and had given up on it for 2014 and gone back to our normal lives, and then, suddenly, it was on. Now we're working so much on what's to come that we've barely even had time to process it all. We just moved to Summit County in Colorado and I'll be training out here probably six days a week for the next two years.What do you think turned the International Paralympic Committee around and got snowboarding fast-tracked for Sochi?
Purdy: Honestly, I think it was seeing it at the X Games. The X Games opened their arms to us and gave us the opportunity to showcase our sport in a world-class venue, and that was a huge help because it allowed us to show the rest of the world -- and the Paralympic Committee -- what we're capable of.What does the qualification process for the Paralympics look like over the next two years?
Purdy: This year I have to do four qualifiers. I'm the top-ranked rider in the U.S. and last year I was the top-ranked in the world, but even though I have those credentials they're pretty much wiping the slate clean and everybody has to qualify. I am working harder than ever to qualify for the team because this is really a dream come true. I was 19 when I lost my legs. I'd dreamt of this adventurous life that I wanted to live, and I refused to let it get out of reach. I remember thinking, early on, after I realized that I could still snowboard, "If snowboarding is ever in the Paralympics, I'm absolutely going to be there." It's just so cool that we were able to help get it there and that my dream has made a lot of amazing things happen. Now that I actually get to try to qualify for the team, the next two years are going to be incredibly busy. I've never been so excited to be so busy.The Adaptive Action Sports motto is "Live Beyond Limits." What do you hope people take away from seeing you compete on The Amazing Race?
Purdy: I think the thing people love about the show and the reason it's so popular for fans is that it's real, everyday people racing. I hope people see us and see that we're real people with real challenges who have worked really hard to get to where we are, to live beyond limits. I hope the take-away is that if you work hard, anything's possible. We try to live every day of our lives as a great adventure, and we're just really excited that we get to share that experience with everybody else who's watching.
Gale: Amy is an amazing person and it's an honor to be on the race and be her teammate, on the show and in everything else we do. Hopefully she'll crush it at the Paralympics -- I know she will -- and if people want to support our Paralympic efforts they can visit AdaptiveActionSports.org to learn more about our work and to make a donation to help her train and to help the many other athletes we're working with.


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Will HCV affect HIV seroconvertion, part 2Dear Doctor McGovern,Thank you for your answer to my question. It helped me tocalm down. I am aware the the non sexual Chlamydia Pneumoniae does not affect possible seroconversion. I am just curious to know about the possible coinfection of HCV and...
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Chlamydia and HIVI would like to know if a person contracted chlamydia, is there a good chance of contracting HIV?I am asking this question because the number of people with chlamydia is much higher than the people with HIV? Why is that?
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HIV/AIDS and Lipodystrophy Treatments Part II: Treatments for Fat Loss...has been proven to get rid of all them. This info sheet looks at treatments for fat loss. See also Lipodystrophy Treatments Part I: Treatments for Fat Gain and Lipodystrophy Treatments Part III: Treatments for Metabolic Changes . ... Read more »
HIV/AIDS and Lipodystrophy Treatments Part III: Treatments for Metabolic Changes...to get rid of all them. This info sheet looks at treatments for metabolic complications. See also Lipodystrophy Treatments Part I: Treatments for Fat Gain and Lipodystrophy Treatments Part II: Treatments for Fat Loss . Metabolic Problems... Read more »
Gonorrhea...diagnosed? Several laboratory tests are available to diagnose gonorrhea. A doctor or nurse can obtain a sample for testing from the parts of the body likely to be infected (cervix, urethra, rectum, or throat) and send the sample to a laboratory... Read more »
Lipodystrophy, Body Changes and HIV/AIDS...two categories: Body shape changes -- Includes fat loss (lipoatrophy) and fat gain(lipohypertrophy) or redistribution in particular areas of the body Metabolic complications -- Includes increases in fats and sugars in theblood HIV+... Read more »
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Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies...help me with this question, i have been with my boyfriend for 3 years and as far as I am aware neither of us has had any other partner in that time. about 3 months ago he got tested and he showed up positive with chlamydia so a few weeks ago I... Read more »
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St. Christopher Catholic Church on Christmas Eve celebrated the diverse backgrounds of its parishioners.
During its midnight Mass, the church on South Wilson Road in Radcliff included a singing of "Silent Night" using the six languages most widely spoken among those who attend.
The rendition opened with the first verse sung in English, followed by that verse sung in German, the language in which the song was written.
The same verse then was performed in Spanish, Korean, Tagalog and Chamorro. The final two verses were offered in English.
Weather forecasts show possibilities for snow and ice in the days following Christmas, making roads difficult to navigate during a peak time for travel.
Officials encourage drivers headed out into winter weather to take extra caution and to ensure their vehicles are prepared for the cold.
Drivers should check air pressure in their tires and have them inspected to ensure an appropriate amount of tread is available on each wheel, according to a news release from the Kentucky Farm Bureau.
Hardin Memorial Health has partnered with a wellness program that denounces diets in favor of common sense and practical solutions to weight loss and health.
The program is called Diet Free, created by registered dietitian Zonya Foco. It details eight life-changing habits through 10 weekly seminars sent to a user's email, said Lisa Murphy, a registered dietitian and wellness coordinator at HMH.
A former local lawmaker is helping to restore the community's past and his own.
An Elizabethtown man faces 10 counts of first-degree wanton endangerment after a seven-car wreck Monday on North Dixie Avenue.
Police said James J. Duke, 36, was southbound in the left lane of North Dixie Avenue at Nalls Road near Target shortly after noon when his 2002 Ford Expedition crossed the median into northbound lanes and sideswiped six vehicles before stopping.
There were no visible injuries to the 10 passengers and drivers of the other vehicles.
LOUISVILLE — A federal judge has ruled that a man cannot immediately be sent to back China because he wasn't told of the risk of being deported when he pleaded guilty to illegally harboring immigrants.
The ruling from U.S. District Judge John G. Heyburn II in Louisville means Jian Tian Lin, 39,will be allowed to fight the guilty plea to charges that he knowingly hired at least 10 illegal immigrants at The Golden China Buffet in Radcliff.
Elizabethtown residents Martin and Martha Moreman and their son, Matthew, 18, made a last-minute stop Sunday at Kohl's to find a final Christmas gift.
The gift was for the couple's 8-year-old great-nephew.
Though Martin Moreman said they didn't have a specific toy in mind, the couple brought their son along to make sure the right present was chosen.
Ultimately, the family picked out a remote control-operated truck.
"We know him; we know what he likes," Martin Moreman said.
With Christmas fast approaching, this week also marks another important date in the history of Hardin County.
This week is the 150th anniversary of Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan's Christmas raid on Elizabethtown that launched 100 cannonballs into the city.
The raid has been called his most successful of the several raids he launched against Kentucky during the Civil War, said Christopher Kolakowski, director of the General George Patton Museum of Leadership at Fort Knox.
Three people found inside a parked school bus were charged with possession of a weapon on school property as well as marijuana possession by Radcliff police.
Acting on a tip, police visited Potomac Court earlier this month where a Hardin County Schools bus was parked down the street from the driver's residence. The caller said three people entered the bus without permission.
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If you're young, blonde and white, consider yourself lucky: you've won the trifecta of sexiness. If you're none of those things, give up already.
At least that seems to be the message in Victoria's Secret's annual "What Is Sexy?" list, which features a bevy of slinky blonde Hollywood up-and-comers — and almost no one else.
According to the lingerie retailer's definition, sexiness today covers the vast human spectrum that ranges from Blake all the way to Britney, from Amber to Stacy, from Ashley to Annalynne. Let's face it, if you're on Leonardo DiCaprio's speed-dial, you're probably on this list too.
Think I'm exaggerating? Here are the facts:
Of the 17 individuals on the 2012 "What Is Sexy?" list, 15 are either full-time or sometime blondes. (Only redhead Jessica Chastain and brunette Olivia Wilde offset the monochrome parade.)
Only one person in the homogenous group is non-white: the mixed-race icon Beyoncé. There are no African-American women, no Latinas, no Rihanna.
Thus, you won't find Eva Longoria, Jennifer Lopez or Selena Gomez in this lineup. Same goes for Jennifer Hudson, Paula Patton, Kerry Washington, Gabrielle Union or anyone else from America's nearly 20-million-strong community of black women. Instead, ethnic diversity is represented by such figures as German ice-blonde Diane Kruger and platinum-blonde Swedish blogger Elin Kling.
With a couple of exceptions, the women on the list are all single and without children. There are no gay women, only one person shorter than 5'4″ (Kristen Bell) and no full-figured, plus-sized or even genuinely buxom women. The "sexiest curves", according to Victoria's Secret, this year belong to svelte actress Amber Heard.
The average age of women on the list is 28, although that figure drops if you include the cast members of Pretty Little Liars (who were named "Sexiest TV Cast"). Only five women on the 2012 list are over 30 years old, the eldest being Charlize Theron at 36.
That may explain why Eva Mendes, Penelope Cruz, Kate Beckinsale, Jennifer Aniston, Denise Richards or Aishwarya Rai didn't make the cut this year — ALL of those celebrated beauties are older than EVERYONE in the Victoria's Secret universe of sexiness.
To be sure, all of the women on the 2012 "What Is Sexy?" list are physically attractive, and many are genuinely accomplished. But it's hard not to see this as a shallow — and woefully unimaginative — lineup that exposes a kind of bigotry at the heart of Victoria's Secret's cynical marketing.
The razor-thin demographic segment represented by the women on this list is conveniently similar to the one occupied by the leggy blonde Angels who model for Victoria's Secret (there's an eerie moment in the video below when Candice Swanepoel holds up a photo of lookalike Jennifer Lawrence), but it bears no resemblance to the remaining 99.99% of the female population.
When Victoria's Secret asks the rhetorical question "what is sexy?", the answer is obvious — and outrageous. It's: "People like us. Not people like you."
The "What Is Sexy?" campaign has changed drastically since Victoria's Secret introduced it seven years ago.
When the company announced its first "What Is Sexy?" list in 2006, they seemed to take the question seriously. It wasn't enough to merely declare the "sexiest man alive" (as People did), or the "sexiest woman alive" (as Esquire did), or list the world's top 100 hotties (as Maxim and all the other lads' mags did).
Instead, Victoria's Secret set out to define "sexy" for the modern age by providing a set of familiar cultural reference points. After all, sexiness may be a timeless quality, but it's also fluid, subjective and heavily influenced by changes in both fashion trends and celebrity popularity.
Thus, in its broad first campaign, the company covered a lot of bases. It bestowed the "sexy" crown on both male and female winners in four categories (music, acting, sports, TV), identified the sexiest U.S. and foreign cities, and chose the sexiest food (chocolate), music video, movie (Unfaithful) and even car.
It was an odd list (where else could you find both Shakira and Jay Leno as co-winners in the same contest?), but you could tell they put some thought into it. Back then, "sexiness" wasn't just a collection of smooth body parts; it was a reflection of character, style, humor, presentation and self-confidence.
The list was also a strategic marketing coup for Victoria's Secret. People talked about it, debated the choices, secretly compared themselves to those who made the list. More than any other corporate brand in America, Victoria's Secret — which, it should be remembered, sells underwear — became the presumptive authority on the subject of "sexy".
Since the first "What Is Sexy?" list appeared, that question has been at the core of all of the company's relentless marketing, to the point where the brand and the question gradually morphed into one self-referencing, self-promoting concept. What is sexy? Victoria's Secret is sexy.
In its first few years, Victoria's Secret had fun with the question and its annual list. Plenty of men were included, along with sexy athletes, couples and parents. David Beckham was named sexiest dad in 2007, a year before wife Victoria was chosen sexiest mom.
And there were some off-the-wall selections that showed the company was being creative with its choices: Matthew McConaughey was named "best beach body" in 2007, Stephen Colbert earned "sexiest funny guy" in 2009 and Padma Lakshmi was named sexiest chef in 2010. Even Ellen De Generes made the list in the same year as Christina Hendricks and ScarJo.
The most ambitious attempt to create a lasting blueprint that would define sexiness for the ages came in 2009, when Victoria's Secret presented twin lists that matched current celebrities with icons from the past. Brigitte Bardot and Angelina Jolie were twin winners in the "sexiest lips" category, while Kate Winslet was paired with Marilyn Monroe for "sexiest actress". Most fun were the oddball pairings that triggered countless debates: Cary Grant/Kelly Ripa for "sexiest smile" and Jim Morrison/Beyoncé for "sexiest musician".
Since 2009, however, the "What Is Sexy?" list has become little more than a scorecard of who's-hot-now among the red carpet crowd.
The company no longer includes men on the list, or athletes or anyone who doesn't appeal directly to the 90210 audience. Instead, "what's sexy today" are established, currently popular female stars who validate the mainstream tastes of Victoria's Secret's youthful customer base — role models whose generic looks can be achieved with a bottle of hair color and some lacey underthings.
But not every Hollywood bombshell passes that test, which is why you won't find Nicki Minaj or anyone like her here. She's too short, she's the wrong color and, let's face it, she doesn't need a push-up bra.
Victoria's Secret is all about one thing: giving you the goods to show off your assets to optimal effect. And when we say assets we mean, of course, asses.
Wait a minute. What the hell? VS is boosting butts now?
Yes, after exhausting every possible way to amplify frontal cleavage, the lingerie retailer has turned its attention to your bottom line.
You can see the results in a daring new video to promote the VS 2012 swimwear collection. Called "Beach Bums", the saucy spot offers an extended look at the derrières of Candice Swanepeol, Behati Prinsloo, Elyse Taylor and Magdalena Frackowiack, who can now add "butt model" to their resumés and portfolios.
It's part of a mega-marketing push for the company's extensive "Teeny Bikini" bathing suit line, ostensibly produced to encourage customers to mix-and-match bikini bottoms. But it's also one of the most pervy, hyper-sexualized bits of female objectification that Victoria's Secret has ever produced.
Beach Bums is meant to be "cute, cheeky fun" (their words), although this time VS comes closer than usual to testing the patience of censors and Republicans (you almost certainly will never see this used as TV commercial).
It also risks sparking a backlash from women's groups and feminist advocates. The video's explicit, fetishistic fascination with bums is undeniably sophomoric, and would probably be deemed highly offensive if VS took the same drooling, spring-break approach to female breasts. (Whatever you think of Victoria's Secret marketing, their bra promotions are rarely this crass, typically focusing on the models and the products while leaving the leering to the imaginations of their viewers.)
One other thing stands out in the Beach Bums video: all the butts on display look absolutely identical. In fact, in the numerous shots that DON'T show the model's faces, it's impossible to identify the models or tell one from another. Isn't that one of the main complaints about porn?
The most talked-about new lingerie collection of 2012 didn't come from a precocious design school grad or a wannabe Gaga stylist, though there's plenty of both around these days.
It's the new Victoria's Secret Designer Collection, which caught consumers and the industry itself by surprise with its sudden appearance in late January — when the powerhouse retailer is usually busy boggling our minds with new swimwear collections and a pink blizzard of Valentine's Day offerings.
The new Designer Collection was released only online and in a handful of stores after months of secretive planning that included the unannounced debut of some pieces during last fall's Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. Numerous media reports stated that the collection sold out in one day.
And although that's not quite true, the collection is sufficiently different from the company's other products that it could be a game-changer — for Victoria's Secret and the North American lingerie industry in general. Here's a Q&A guide to the new collection, and why it's worth paying attention to.
What's so special about this collection?
First, it's gorgeous. Gone are the style signatures that often undercut Victoria's Secret's aspirations as a fashion label: there are no logos, no cheesy digital prints, no Sexy Little™ branding and, best of all, none of the bright candy pink you'll find throughout the VS catalog.
Colorways are mostly soft and understated (with the exception of the summery lemonade hue above) and there are plenty of genteel embellishments like silk straps, sparkly bows and elegant embroidery.
It's a small collection and pieces are meant to be worn in sets, which is another deviation from the company's typical mix-and-match approach. Those ubiquitous VS T-shirt bras are, for the most part, replaced with stylish underwire demis and balconets and a few tastefully embellished push-ups.
Of course, it's also a lot more expensive than almost everything else in the Victoria's Secret catalog. Bras go up to $158, which is more than three times the cost of a typical VS bra. Some people have complained about the price tag, but Victoria's Secret would rather you thought of it this way: it's still less than you'll pay at La Perla.
Why is it called a "designer collection"?
That's a good question, since a "designer" fashion label usually carries the name of its designer — which this one doesn't. The collection was produced by longtime VS supplier Bennett & Company (which also produces their popular erotic costumes line), but VS doesn't showcase or even identify its designer or design team members.
This is essentially a generic, upscale capsule collection that could have been called the "premium" or "luxury" collection. Internally, where the collection was shrouded in secrecy befitting the Manhattan Project last summer, it was known to employees as the "red label" collection.
Branding it the "designer collection" appears to be a way of piggybacking on the company's earlier designer series (see below) and, oddly, giving Victoria's Secret some couture cred by positioning it alongside other fashion lingerie "designers".
It also capitalizes on the snobbish appeal of the word "designer", which usually means "better and more expensive" in a consumer culture besotted with designer dogs, designer cocktails and even designer diapers.
Of course that approach could backfire, since it begs the question: If this is "designer" lingerie, what's all that other stuff they sell?
Is it really sold out — and if so, why?
It's hard to know whether this collection sold truckloads or if VS simply ordered a small test run — regardless, there's not much left. The collection went on sale online and in fewer than 10 stores in the last week of January. To make matters worse, most styles were offered in a very limited range of sizes. The pretty powder-blue sheer lace corset above, for example, only comes in four sizes — and only the 34C is still available.
This has all the hallmarks of a market test which, given its eager reception, will almost certainly come roaring back later with much wider distribution and selection. Think of it as the lingerie world's equivalent to the McRib.
Why was there so much secrecy around this collection?
There's a lot riding on this for Victoria's Secret: they're not just trying to sell a new line, they're ultimately hoping to redefine the lingerie shopping experience for North American women. By testing this market, VS wants to learn whether there's a broader public appetite for the kind of luxury and status-symbol appeal offered by the dozens of tiny brands nipping at their heels and, more importantly, by sexy (and more costly) European imports like La Perla, Agent Provocateur and others.
In other words, are North American women ready to start spending more for better intimates?
If they've guessed right (and we think they have), it's a timely move. Just as Victoria's Secret continues to expand into other countries (its UK flagship store is set to open this summer in London), so too are offshore competitors — especially Agent Provocateur — looking to expand stateside and take a bite out of their North American market share. Expect a long, hot summer ahead.
How does this affect independent lingerie designers?
To make room for the Designer Collection, Victoria's Secret axed a long-time tradition of showcasing the work of hand-picked independent labels by buying their goods and giving them display space in select retail outlets. Among those featured brands were The Lake and Stars, Yes Master, La Fée Verte, Bordelle, and Ell & Cee. The program also gave established international labels such as Pleasure State, Chantal Thomass and Lascivious an introduction to the North American market.
Numerous young labels benefited from the program, which put VS in the unusual position of promoting (and profiting from) its competitors. Even so, that program allowed VS to market-test some fashion-forward styles that didn't fit its own catalog, and it created a lot of industry goodwill. Indie labels appreciated the outreach and coveted a spot in the VS designer series, knowing it could provide brand exposure and much-needed revenue during their startup phase.
"They were wonderful to work with," Laura Mehlinger of the young fashion label Lola Haze told Lingerie Talk. "Their buyer was talented and made elevated and interesting buys. I was initially surprised at how daring some of her choices were for a mass market store."
The Turkish label Else had some of its distinctive Chevron collection picked up by Victoria's Secret last fall, just before the program was discontinued. "We were happy they picked us and wish that business was continuous rather than just a one-time opportunity," Else designer Ela Onur told us. "I think having a high-end designer mix was a good strategy to raise VS's consumer profile."
Alas, that highly sought-after market entry point is now closed to a new generation of up-and-coming designers.
Is there anything original about the new collection?
The promotional material for the Designer Collection calls it "lingerie only Victoria's Secret could create" — an odd bit of hyperbole that is both untrue and kind of a rude jab at the hundreds of other designer brands that are in the same business.
VS creative chief Ed Razek offered the same kind of silliness when he told Women's Wear Daily: "We took it in-house because we have a design team that has such a passion for lingerie and they differentiate Victoria's Secret from any other brand."
In fact, the opposite is true here. However lovely the VS Designer Collection is, much of it is boilerplate French lingerie design — nothing wrong with that! — and the kind of thing produced by innumerable other couture labels and department store brands alike. It's only "new" to Victoria's Secret.
The company admits as much in its own promo material, which says the collection is "inspired by iconic Parisian fashion and crafted with a nod to European couturiers."
How will North American indie designers survive now?
The move by Victoria's Secret into "fancy" undies isn't so much a threat to independent designers as it is a recognition of the tremendous growth in the number and creativity of new labels over the past few years.
These days, creative designers can pitch their wares to a growing assortment of distribution channels such as high-end fashion retailers like Barney's, online stores like Net-A-Porter and aggressive boutiques with robust web operations.
Treacle from The Lingerie Addict told us about bumping into a couple of lingerie designers in Seattle who were on their way to a meeting with Nordstrom which, she said, "is swooping in and beginning to carry a lot of designer lines after years of sticking to the same old brands."
Fashion retailers are scrambling to offer exclusive labels and boutique collections to differentiate themselves and incentivize customers. A big, creative independent lingerie industry fits that model very well.
What's the long-term impact of all this?
The Designer Collection opens Victoria's Secret up to a whole new market segment — women willing to spend hundreds of dollars at once on lingerie shopping sprees. That usually means a more mature customer with more discretionary income and more glamorous tastes than they are used to serving.
But it's not just the older market up for grabs here. Assuming VS decides to expand this collection, it could have a long-lasting impact on their typical, younger clientele as well.
Countless women (and men) in North America under the age of 40 learned about lingerie and developed their own style preferences primarily through their exposure to Victoria's Secret and its relentless marketing. Many are either unaware of, disinterested in, or don't have access to luxury import labels or arty designer offerings.
The Designer Collection is poised to change all that by introducing a higher standard of lingerie fashion to millions who now think splurging on a $30 three-pack of lacy briefs is the height of self-indulgence.
If Victoria's Secret succeeds in stimulating people's appetite for finer, more stylish lingerie, everyone will benefit and all those small labels currently on the outside looking in will be glad they did.
Victoria's Secret has produced dozens of video promos this year but none is as charming as this one, which shows their Angels making a mess out of 'Jingle Bells'.
Erin croaks, Doutzen forgets the words, Candice is tuneless, and rocker wife Lily can give up any ambitions she might have about singing backup for the Kings of Leon.
But no one can top Adriana's reference to "laughing all the way … in an open horse's leg." Sofia Vergara couldn't have said it better.
Full marks to VS for releasing this little ditty, which shows the models at their least glamorous, making fun of themselves, and having a ball doing so.
It's a welcome antidote to the bombardment of Michael Bay-directed commercial assaults we get all year long. And the best part? They're not selling bras this time.
Tonight's 16th annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show will be such a blinding blur of light, sound and skin it will be over before your brain has time to click into gear and make sense of it all. Which is partly the point of it all: just sit back, let the blizzard engulf you, then reach for your credit card.
But there's a lot going on under the lights at the Lexington Armory besides just those gleaming, glittering, gorgeous costumed amazons. To help put the whole VS extravaganza into context, we've put together this little viewers' guide.
This Year, It's All About The Kids
Who can forget the highlight of last year's VSFS, when junior Angel Chanel Iman got her wings and the offstage announcer could be heard gushing, "Go, baby Chanel!"? Well, this year at least eight of the 37 models will be younger than baby Chanel (who turns 21 on Thursday). Victoria's Secret has been anxiously counting down the months on the calendar till they could enlist some of the current youth brigade of supermodels, including Karlie Kloss (19), Bregje Heinen (18) and Caroline Brasch Nielsen (18).
It's a deliberate, and smart, move to fill in some of the conspicuous recent gaps in the Angel lineup after popular luminaries such as Heidi Klum and Marisa Miller — and now Rosie H-W — moved on. This year's lineup skews younger (average age is 23.5), which fits nicely with the VS target market of youngsters with disposable cash.
Of course, the VSFS can also make you feel really old. Miranda is already 28 and Adriana and Ale, the grannies of the group, are the big 3-0.
This Year, It's All About The Body
Hard to imagine, but there have been a few bumps in Victoria's Secret's gold-paved road to global domination this year. The company came under fire repeatedly (including here) for promoting unhealthy body types after several models (notably Candice Swanepoel and Lily Aldridge) appeared to lose weight dramatically. That perception wasn't helped by occasional interviews in which Angels discussed their meager pre-show diets, and two (Miranda and Doutzen) bounced back from recent pregnancies to reveal to-die-for figures in record time.
A weak PR pushback tried to argue that these were simply healthy girls who spend a lot of time in the gym — not poster girls for eating disorders and compulsive weight loss. The launch this summer of a new sportswear collection gave VS the chance to show off its girls in a gym setting, but that didn't silence the skeptics.
But this year's Fashion Show gave Victoria's Secret the final word after the company released a series of pre-show promotional videos showing Candice, Doutzen, Ale and Lily in workout sessions with personal trainers. Bottom line? These girls are astonishingly fit, flexible, toned and obviously very hard-working. Now that's good PR.
As a result, tonight's show will be a kind of vindication for the Angels after a year of whispers and finger-pointing. Their version of body and weight management is still beyond the reach of most people, and the company still prefers models who are much, much slimmer than its average customer, but the Angels deserve credit for weathering the storm and projecting a kind of healthy, positive energy that radiates throughout the brand.
This Year, It's All About The Boys
We tend to forget that Victoria's Secret's target demographic isn't just sexy young women. It's also horny guys.
Tonight's Fashion Show acknowledges that reality by enlisting support from some of pop culture's most notorious horndogs, Adam Levine and Kanye West, plus the superbly well-married Jay-Z. The VSFS is all about creating fantasies, and employing these stand-in stud doubles will give male viewers something to relate to … or at least aspire toward. And afterward, you know where they'll do their shopping.
Yes, You Can Buy Those Outfits … Sort Of
The VS Fashion Show isn't a typical runway show in that the brand isn't strictly promoting a new collection (its holiday collection has been in stores and online for several weeks already). But that doesn't mean you shouldn't be making a shopping list while viewing tonight.
The extravagant costumes are all one-offs, so you won't be buying them. Nevertheless, each costume has as its foundation (pardon the pun) key pieces from the VS catalogue — usually one of the newer push-up bras and lacey briefs.
And you can buy the zillion-dollar Fantasy Bra that Miranda will be wearing in tonight's Aquatic segment. But no one will.
They're Not Just Bodies, They're People Too
One of our annual gripes about what is otherwise the best show on TV is Victoria's Secret's refusal to credit the models who walk its runway. Of course, most viewers will recognize the core group of Angels, who have almost ubiquitous media exposure in North America, but many of the remaining 30 models will be unknown to everyone except diehard fashionistas.
If prior years are an indication, tonight's show will pass without the models being identified individually. There's a logic to this — fashion catwalks are meant to focus on the wardrobe, not the models — but we still don't like it. Don't be surprised if you find yourself racing for your laptop after the show to try to put a name to some of those gorgeous
bodies faces.
Here's a tip: the fan site VSholic.com has a gallery showing every one of tonight's models — and their names.
The Diversity Scorecard
The VS Fashion Show is fast becoming the Olympics of the fashion world: this year, models from 19 countries will be walk the runway. And here's the big news: we have a new gold medal nation. The U.S. has reclaimed top spot, with 8 models appearing, beating Brazil (6), the hotbed of hotties that topped the field last year with 9 models.
There's a strong turnout from Eastern European models, a pair from China and newcomers from Puerto Rico and New Zealand. What's missing in this mix? India, Mexico, Japan and — wouldn't this have been timely? — no one from the Middle East (although Shanina Shaik from Australia has some Saudi Arabian lineage). And get ready for a border skirmish when Canadian viewers realize that Jessica Stam and Coco Rocha didn't make the cut this year. Whatever happened to free trade!?
A more serious issue relates to Victoria's Secret sparing use of women of color in their shows and overall marketing. This issue has nagged the retailer for years, but this year's show suggests the company is paying attention. You'll see at least five women of color from four countries: Chanel Iman (U.S.), Anais Mali (France), Joan Smalls (Puerto Rico), Lais Ribeiro and Emanuela de Paula (Brazil).
Perhaps the best indication of the changing face of modeling can be seen in the young latte-skinned beauty Shanina: she counts Australia, Lithuania, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia in her heritage.
Like Junk Food for Fashion Snobs
Some of the most unlikely, but amusing, parts of the VS Fashion Show are the fleeting glimpses of celebrity audience members. Not the Angels' rock star boyfriends and wannabe boyfriends, but the fashion industry heavyweights who always seem slightly out of place.
Keep an eye out for Anna Wintour, Carine Roitfeld, Alexander Wang, Donna Karan and others in the background and ask yourself: when was the last time they were in a Victoria's Secret?
And tonight's best stargazing moment? Beyonce!
Does It All Add Up?
Because it's a paid-for package, the VS Fashion Show provides a revealing glimpse into the economics of broadcast television. With a budget this year of nearly $13-million, the show costs about six times as much to produce as a typical night on American Idol, or an entire season of Walking Dead.
And what returns does that investment create? Last year's TV audience was about 9 million, putting the per-viewer cost above $1 — way too high to support most forms of ad-dependent programming.
Only VS knows, however, how much oomph the show delivers to its bottom line — and parent company Limited Brands has enjoyed consistently stellar results even throughout the recession. Of course, the company doesn't need to be the biggest show on television, just so long as those who do watch spend afterwards.
Does This Show Have a Future?
Hard thought it may be to contemplate, the VS Fashion Show won't be around forever … and possibly not for much longer. At least not in its current format, wedged into the late-night, post-family-viewing-hour slot by the FCC and network censors.
It's not that the show isn't a huge success — it is — but that technology might push it in new, more cost-effective directions. In short, you don't need to pay CBS for an hour of prime-time real estate to win a big audience these days.
We saw a glimpse of the future of big-audience fashion shows last spring when French lingerie label Etam streamed its catwalk show live on the internet — and turned it into a slick, star-studded production. Fashion labels everywhere are looking at various live broadcast options that bypass television altogether and expand their reach.
And VS is already way ahead of the curve when it comes to cross-platform marketing. Tonight, they'll stream a live "pre-show" at 9 p.m. on their Facebook page and website, the main event will be available through the VS iPad app, and there'll be a constant blow-by-blow on Twitter.
Will all of this bring an end to the annual holiday tradition of watching the VS Fashion Show at home in the dark while your parents are out Christmas shopping? Possibly not for a while, but one thing's certain: changing formats and a much bigger, broadly dispersed audience will turn the VSFS into an enduring "event", not just a single hour of television.
This Year, It's All About Timing
Sometimes, you just get lucky. When singer Cee Lo Green dropped out of the cast days before its taping, it left producers with a big hole in the schedule. They asked rapidly rising superstar Nicki Minaj to take the thankless job of stepping into Cee Lo's oversized clown shoes.
Good move. A few days later, Nicki rocketed to the top of the hip-hop world by capturing the top prizes at the American Music Awards. It doesn't hurt that the pink-haired rapper's breakthrough album, Pink Friday, shares a name with Victoria's Secret's junior Pink line. Think that'll make for a good music-fashion fit?
Oh, and Cee Lo's late exit also solved another production problem: trying to get the Angels to agree to a lip-synch version of "F*** You".
Finally, A Reality Show for Nerds
Let's face it, the concept of "reality" is a bit elastic in the dungeon world of technology geeks (of whom we are one). But the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show is nothing if not a reality show for the reality-challenged.
The only problem is that, well, with all this damned media coverage those Angels can be just a little too real, and depressingly so. If only they were game avatars, we'd could relate to them as equals.
Mercifully, other geeks out there have addressed this problem. In addition to a handful of massive (and fanatical) VS fan sites, there's a tiny community of gameboys and girls who have turned the VS Fashion Show into a fake version of itself in Sims land. Do a YouTube search on "victoria+secret+sims" and prepare to be both horrified and amazed. (If you don't know what Sims is, stop reading and go back to your book.)
Here's part 1 of the entire 2010 VS Fashion Show, converted into a Sims version by the heroic (female) Euro-blogger TechnoMicky. Believe me, it takes MONTHS to do this.
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