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Claudia Schiffer and Karl Lagerfeld Are Attacked by Fashion Editor of Black Lifestyle Magazine for Photo of Schiffer, Blacked-Up

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Claudia Schiffer has been attacked for offending black people after posing on a magazine cover made up as a black woman. The 39-year-old German supermodel wore black foundation and an afro-style wig in the photograph taken by fashion designer and photographer Karl Lagerfeld.

Lagerfeld had Schiffer made up as a black women in one of six photographs he took while putting together an advertising campaign for the vintage champagne Dom Perignon. The photos were published by German fashion magazine Stern Fotografie when it celebrated its 60th anniversary.

Accusations against Schiffer and Lagerfeld followed from Shevelle Rhule, the fashion editor of a London black lifestyle magazine, Pride. Ms Rhule said:

“It shows poor taste and it's offensive. There are not enough women of colour featured in mainstream magazines. This just suggests you can counteract the problem by using white models. I don't believe they deliberately set out to offend. They obviously see it as being arty and feel that they are pushing boundaries. But clearly no thought has been given to the history behind what they have done and the comparisons it draws with minstrel shows.”

To which I would reply: 'Shevelle, lighten up'. Her comment is the kind that perpetuates raw nerves about race and creates a path of spikey eggshells for people, black and white, to walk on. Society doesn't need race relations zealots, quangocrats or Pride fashion editors lecturing designers (or filmmakers or writers or rap singers…) on what they can or can't do. It's small-minded. Already an online magazine has responded to the photos with conformist knee-jerk political correctness by saying one of the other photos, of Schiffer as an Asian, is “just wrong”, scolding that Lagerfeld should have used more than one model in the interests of racial diversity.

Fashion, like fiction and film and other creative industries, should be free to play with any images it chooses. Did Ms Rhule also take offence at white French actor Gerard Depardieu recently playing mixed-race Alexander Dumas (using black make-up)? Or Eddie Murphy impersonating a white (jewish) person? Or black British actor Adrian Lester who played the white Danish prince, Hamlet? Or the black actor, David Oyelowo, who played white English king Henry VI?

Would she criticise images of Bob Dylan or the Rolling Stones dressed up as women? How about pantomime dames, women actors dressed as men, Eddie Izzard in frock and lipstick, comedians pretending to be children…?

As soon as you get into determining whether blacks can play whites and women can play men but not the other way round, you're proscribing the creative process and engaging in censorship. Clamping down on the arts in that way (even commercial arts like advertising) is as restricting as squashing free speech.

As for Rhule's comment that Lagerfeld and Schiffer were suggesting the photograph of a 'black' Schiffer would substitute for using black models in mainstream magazines – that's just plain foolish. Rhule then seems to have chucked minstrels into the discussion just for shock value.

In fact the photo was one of a series of six in which Lagerfeld was playing with Schiffer's image. Another showed her as a secretary, a third as an Asian woman. In a fourth she was dressed and made up as eighteenth century French queen, Marie Antoinette and in a fifth she was androgynous. The fashion shoot theme was fantasy and imagination. Lagerfeld wanted to play with Schiffer's face and Shiffer's image. He didn't want to use other models. He wasn't trying to portraying racial diversity – he was portraying imaginary Claudia Schiffers. And has every right to.

A spokesman for Lagerfeld responded to Rhule's criticism, saying she was taking them out of context: “The images were designed to reflect different men's fantasies. The pictures were not intended to offend, they were done very creatively and are some of Karl Lagerfeld's favourite images of Claudia. People should not jump to conclusions.”

Yet there are many people with vested interests in Britain and other liberal democracies who make a good living from jumping to conclusions and playing the race card in cases which can only trivialise genuine instances of racism. Political correctness about race and ethnicity has battened onto society like a barnacle on a boat. It would be a democratic step forward if those who have a professional interest in taking offence at 'racism' and other -isms would pick their battles more wisely.

It would also be good if the race relations industry ditched the term “people of colour”. What is it supposed to indicate?! What colour? Black? Dark brown? Sienna? All those and more? Does it imply that white people – with their variously pink, peachy, creamy, olive-toned, ugly red, bluey-white, brown or orangey skin – have no colour? Why aren't whites called “people of non-colour” then? Or “people of no-colour”?

Black and white are just words. They're quick and easy terms to use for those who want or need to indicate skin colour and they're neutral. People (like Ms Rhule perhaps) who want to take offence at one (and not the other) always will. But they're misguided. Countering racism is always worth doing. But cranking up and maintaining raw nerves unnecessarily does no-one any good. It just increases division between black and white and injects a zealous, scolding tone into debate which would benefit from more freedom, less 'sensitivity' and – in a case like the Schiffer/Lagerfeld photos – a bit of playfulness.

What a day! The first day of the Food and Light workshop was fantastic, although it started off a bit rocky. I set my alarm last night and, exhausted, fell asleep around 9h30. I must have turned off my 7h00 alarm in my sleep, because I awoke at 7h46 in a panic – the workshop begins at 8h00. I ran around like an idiot getting ready, shoving my contacts in, grabbing my camera and laptop, etc. and – to my utter amazement – appeared, presentable, on time at the gallery across the street! But oh man, what a way to start the day!

The first part of the workshop covered the pretty basic fundamentals of photography and the camera, etc. and spent a lot of time doing hands-on work with different props and other things. Grabbed an unbelievable lunch at The Kitchen – “Boulder’s Community Kitchen” – which stocks locally sourced ingredients (including Udi’s gluten-free bread!!) and is generally eco-friendly (the kitchen runs on wind-powered electricity and the used oil is recycled to run the owner’s car). I had their amazing fire-grilled lamb burger with pepper, tomato and mango chutney on Udi’s bread, with french fries and a green salad with a big, refreshing glass of iced tea – delicious, filling, and perfect in the heat!

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Je ne me lasse pas d'admirer ces geais du
Nouveau Monde ! Les geais européens si beaux
soient-ils ont du mal à rivaliser avec cette
splendide livrée bleu cobalt !
… et il fait toujours chaud, chaud
chaud… l'orage qui était censé faire tomber
les températures n'est toujours pas entré en
action. Il tourne autour de nous et demain
doit être reparti mais là on piétine ! )
On espère qu'il ne vire pas à la
catastrophe. A Bruxelles en Belgique il y a
eu des dégâts et des grosses inondations. ici
on attend de voir ce que le ciel va nous
faire tomber sur la tête !!! ^-^
Caresses à la belle Camille

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Démoli en 1910.

HERRESHOFF AND GLORIANA

The changes in the form of yachts have been so varied and contradictory that it is almost impossible to ascribe them to any sound technical foundation on the accepted principles of naval architecture ; and it would appear that, from the first, builders and even designers have followed very largely their own ideas, influenced by tradition, measurement rules, and local conditions. The leading characteristic of the first yachts was the “cod’s head and mackerel’s tail” form, with blunt bows and fine run, — a model which had no scientific basis and which was entirely wrong. The revolution brought about by George Steers, Scott Russell, and the designers of Mosquito produced a model in every way adapted for speed and for seagoing work, the yachts of the early fifties standing to-day as brilliant marks in the history of yacht designing. It was not long, however, before these models were cast aside, in England for the narrow cutter, and in America for the wide sloop, — flat, unshapely things whose bulging middles made necessary the most extreme form of hollow bow. Such forms were dangerous in smooth water from their lack of stability, and they were far worse in a seaway, the hollow bows lacking buoyancy and going under as soon as the vessel heeled and immersed her full, heavy quarter.

Under the guiding hands of Gary Smith and Burgess, yacht designing was placed upon a new and higher plane and a great revolution was accomplished in form, in both the keel and centre-board types, as shown in Intrepid, Fortuna, Papoose, Babboon, Puritan, Iroquois, Banshee, and Nymph. In all of these and many sister boats the general form, while modified in proportions and details according to size and intended use, possessed the same characteristics as that of the America, being based, like all of Steers’ work, upon thoroughly sound principles of design. In accordance with American ideas the proportion of breadth to length was high, and the proportion of depth to breadth was in some cases low, but taken together the fleet was characterized by seaworthy form and a stanch and strong construction. The general characteristics of these yachts were a liberal amount of displacement disposed according to the wave form theory of John Hyslop ; a fairly full midship section with round bilge (in the keel and the deeper centre-board boats this section being of S form) ; an outside keel into which was built most of the ballast ; and a rather fine bow, with a moderate amount of hollow in the forward water-lines of the wider boats, this hollow decreasing in the narrower yachts. In the British yachts of the same period, owing to the extremely limited breadth, designers had, almost as a matter of course, resorted to a full, convex water-line forward.

While the straight, plumb stem was seen on some of the yachts of the sloop era, the fashion of the day through the seventies was for the “clipper stem,” — a small amount of forward overhang, made up almost entirely of false work, deadwood, and ornamentation, and in no essential particular different in effect from the plumb stem. With the advent of the first cutters the plumb stem, either perfectly straight or with a very slight round, came into fashion in this country, being a distinguishing feature of Mischief, Priscilla, Puritan, Mayflower, Papoose, and their contemporaries, as well as of Genesta and Galatea.

The “clipper stem,” or “fiddle bow,” was generally used on schooner yachts in England ; but the plumb stem was so nearly universal for all cutters that something of a sensation was created when, in 1880, Robert Hewett, an amateur, brought out the 10-tonner Buttercup with a clipper stem, which was soon known as the “Buttercup bow.” In making his radical departure from the conventional cutter lines in designing Thistle, in 1886, Mr. Watson gave her a clipper stem which was more than a mere ornament, actually carrying out the deck line and the upper portion of the stem. Volunteer, designed a little later, had also what was called a clipper stem, but it gave practically no added length on deck. The centre-board cutter Titania, designed by Burgess in 1887, had a plumb stem ; but her classmate Katrina, designed by Gary Smith, in 1888, had the same bow as Thistle.

After the lead of Thistle the clipper stem became common on British cutters, but the Burgess boats were divided between the plumb and the clipper stem, the latter when used being very short and little more than an ornament.

All the new 46-footers designed in the winter of 1890-1891 had this short clipper stem, with a slightly hollow water-line forward and a decided forefoot, though the fore end of the keel was well rockered up.

About the close of the Civil War a small boatshop was started at Bristol, Rhode Island, by John B. Herreshoff, one of a large family of boys and girls, grandchildren of Frederick Herreshoff, a Prussian engineer, who settled in Rhode Island in 1790. A blindness, apparently hereditary, afflicted several members of the family, and when still a young boy John B. Herreshoff by degrees lost his sight. Living on the beautiful waters at the head of Narragansett Bay, he was already a skilful boat sailor, and in spite of his affliction he continued sailing and racing, his younger brother Nathaniel Greene Herreshoff, born in 1848, going with him and acting as lookout. The loss of sight merely served to develop to a most remarkable degree the other senses, and as a young man John Herreshoff was accustomed to work at the bench, making repairs on his boats ; and in time, while his brother was a student of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he started to model and build yachts as a regular business.

While following the centre-board type, the Herreshoff models were deeper and abler than the New York boats, and of better form throughout ; and they soon became famous between Bristol and Boston. Most of the yachtsmen who have been prominent in recent years in Boston yachting were practically cradled in small sloops and cat-boats modelled and built by John B. Herreshoff at this time. After graduation Nathaniel spent several years with the Corliss Engine Works in Providence, having charge of the erection of the large Corliss engine which was a notable feature of the Centennial Exhibition of 1876. About this time the two brothers became interested in steam, and under the name of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company they turned out the fastest launches of the day and some of the first torpedo-boats, by degrees working into larger steam yachts. Occasionally a small sailing yacht was built to order, and “Na ” Herreshoff always had a yacht for his own use, but the main effort was concentrated on steam craft. In 1887 the Herreshoff catamaran made its appearance in New York Harbor, showing a wonderful speed, and making the type popular for a few years.

In 1883 Mr. Herreshoff built for himself a sturdy little cruising cutter, Consuelo, of 28 feet 6 inches water-line, 8 feet 8 inches breadth, and 5 feet 6 inches draft, with lead keel, rigged as a “cat yawl,” and fitted with many curious contrivances of his own invention. Other small experimental keel boats followed from time to time, until in 1890 he produced two that were notable departures from all existing practice. Both of them were derived from a very close study of Minerva, but she was only the starting-point for Mr. Herreshoff’s original ideas. When the formation of the 46-foot class became a certainty, he submitted to E. D. Morgan, the owner of one of the experimental boats, a design from which was built the noted Gloriana.

To the eye, the most notable feature of this yacht, which jumped at once to the top of the class and held the first place through the season, was the great over-all length and the peculiar forward overhang ; but these details were largely superficial. In the furor created by the press over the “Gloriana bow,” no one took the trouble to study, as it deserved, this most remarkable design.

Gloriana was built to race under the “length-and-sail-area” rule then in general use, with a classification by water-line length, and an allowance of time for measurement by water-line and the square root of the sail area, — conditions which induced a large hull on a short measured water-line, with a large sail plan carried by virtue of breadth, draft, and ballast. With a moderate breadth, 13 feet, and a draft of 10 feet 2 inches, the midship section was of the S form, but with more hollow, giving less area, and consequently less displacement for the dimensions, than in such a yacht as Minerva. The fine fore end of the water-line and the forefoot just beneath it that characterized the yachts of the time were boldly cut away, with several good results. The actual measured length was reduced by several feet, the area of wetted surface was also reduced, and the area of water-line plane was increased in proportion to its length, giving great stability whether upright or heeled.

All the early yachts were built with straight keels, from which the stem rose at almost a right angle, the draft at the fore end of the keel being almost as great as at the after end. This ” forefoot,” as it was called, was considered essential at first, but by degrees it was cut away. It was in evidence in a degree in Genesta and Galatea, but in Thistle and Minerva it was inconspicuous, the outline approaching a triangle rather than a rectangle. Mr. Herreshoff decided that this suppression of the forefoot, and the fine wedge-like end of the water-line, could be carried to a much greater extreme with a marked advantage in reducing the measured length, and no disadvantage in the blunter form of entrance, provided the work was skilfully executed. As an accidental feature of this cutting away, rather than as an essential point of design, the forward overhang was for the time of extraordinary length.

Apart from its special features, the whole form of the boat betrayed the skill of which additional evidence has since been given in abundance. All the fore-and-aft lines, the diagonals and dividing lines, were fair and true, with no hollows, following the practice of George Steers ; and the whole form was so moulded that when heeling in smooth water or pitching and scending in a sea, its general character remained unchanged. The different level lines of the bow, below and above water, had approximately the same angle of entrance, in place of being exceedingly fine below, and very full at the deck.

An important factor in Gloriana’s success was her construction. The new Burgess 46-footers, intended to be much lighter in proportion than the 40-footers, proved failures in the matter of construction, being heavy and not over strong, with a single skin of yellow pine, caulked, and steel frames. Gloriana was built after a semi-composite system perfected in the Herreshoff steam yachts years before, with steel frames and planking in two thicknesses, with no caulking, each outer strake being carefully fitted and laid in white lead, making a surface almost without seams. The sail plan was large, measuring 4100 square feet, or 100 feet more than Mischief, of 61 feet water-line ; and it was cleverly planned, while the mechanical points of the rig were care- fully worked out.

From keel to truck Gloriana was a masterpiece of original thought, careful selection of elements, and attention to minute detail ; and the wisdom and perspicacity of both practical yachtsmen and of expert yachting writers was never better exemplified than when they one and all refused to see anything to her but the over-all length and the point of the fore overhang. Just as British yachtsmen forty years before had servilely imitated the hollow bow of the America and the absurd rake of her masts, the yachtsmen of 1892 set to work to increase the speed of their yachts by means of added length on deck and long pointed bows, overlooking the true essentials.

So far from being exhausted by the production of Gloriana, the busy brain of her designer was at work through the summer following ; and in the fall of 1891 he launched a small experimental yacht for his own use. Dilemma, as she was aptly named, was practically a wide canoe with long overhangs, her length over all being 38 feet on a water-line of but 26 feet ; her breadth was 7 feet, and the draft of the hull a little over a foot. On these dimensions it was possible to obtain the same long, easy lines that characterized Gloriana.

The most remarkable feature, however, was the keel, — a rectangular plate of steel, to the lower edge of which were bolted the two halves of a cigar-shaped bulb of lead weighing two tons. This “fin keel,” as it was called, was secured to the oak keel of the boat by means of two angle irons and bolts. This new craft carried to a much greater extreme one of the essential features of Gloriana, — breadth as an element of power, depth as another element of power in the length of lever through which the lead keel acted, and with these a small area of midship section. The little craft showed exceptional speed on trial, and from her sprang yachts of all sizes, cruisers and racers, whose number it would be impossible to estimate.

The advent of Gloriana created as great an excitement as that of Puritan, and her influence on design was ultimately as widespread, affecting both sides of the Atlantic. Before the season’s racing was well under way Mr. Burgess was attacked by typhoid fever, the result of continued application to his profession, and he died on July 12, at the age of forty-three. Through his illness he was spared the knowledge of the failure of his new boats, and the advent of Mr. Herreshoff in the field of sailing yachts.

In 1892 a new Herreshoff 46-footer, Wasp, was launched for Archibald Rogers, former owner of Bedouin, with Captain Charles Barr in command. She was larger and more powerful, with some changes of form, but the same essentials ; carefully designed to the limit of existing rules, she not only won in her first seasons, but held a prominent place in racing for a number of years.

In the fall of the same year an order was placed with the Herreshoffs for Navahoe, a steel racing cutter of 84 feet water-line, by Royal Phelps Carroll. Following the general plan of Gloriana, the fore-and-aft lines were carried out into long overhangs, the length on deck being 123 feet, with a breadth of 23 feet 6 inches and a draft of a little over 12 feet. The hull was of steel, with a steel trunk for the centre-board, and the ballast was all cast in the keel trough. After the first trials of the yacht in the early spring, she was placed on a dry-dock at Providence, and at a heavy expense to her owner this lead was cut out and transferred to the outside of the keel, increasing the draft by over a foot. Later in the season she crossed the Atlantic and raced against the new Britannia, Valkyrie II, Satania, and Calluna with rather poor success.

STEPHEN (W. P.). American Yachting. Londres, The Macmillan Company. Avril 1904.

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Alysha Castonguay Topless Photos Ignite Controversy

I made some shots in the last weeks – please tell me what you think:

According to the Star Tribune, thirteen Eden Prairie High School students in Minnesota were disciplined after school authorities found internet photos of the students drinking on Facebook. Was the school justified in punishing these students? My opinion is yes.

All of the students being punished for drinking had signed a contract, along with their parents, agreeing to abstain from alcohol and other drugs while participating in a league-sanctioned activity.

I'm sure the students signed this contract believing the school would never find out about their drinking. Obviously they had no intention of honoring their agreement, so they should have never signed the contract in the first place. They signed the contract, they broke that contract, so there should be consequences.

Also, in the State of Minnesota it is illegal for anyone under the age of twenty-one to drink alcohol. All of the students being punished are under the age of twenty-one. They are lucky that school officials were pulling them out of classes instead of police officers.

Punishment includes suspension from sports and other activities. Students at Eden Prairie High School report that students are receiving a two game punishment per incident. Any student who appears in multiple photos, with different outfits and surroundings, will have their punishment increased by two games per incident.

Some of the parents of these students are considering legal action against the school because they believe the school's punishment is too harsh. According to Chuck Samuelson, the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota, a 2002 court case deemed that after school activities are considered privileges, not rights. Therefore it doesn't appear that the parents would have a case.

The fact that some parents are taking the side of their children, and not of the school, proves that these parents have forgotten that the role of a parent is to protect children from things such as underage drinking. These parents must stop being their child's best friend and start being a responsible parent.

The big concern of many parents is that their child will miss out on scholarship opportunities because of the suspension. But does a college really want to dish out thousands of dollars to someone who breaks contracts and the law? And then is cocky enough to brag about it by posting photos on Facebook? Call it a valuable lesson learned.

My only concern about punishing these students is the possibility that students could have been wrongly accused of drinking. Did the school administration investigate the photos thoroughly? Just because a student is holding a red cup doesn't mean there is alcohol in the cup. And how old are the photos? What if someone signed the contract after the photo was taken? Perhaps that's why school officials called forty-two students in to be questioned and only punished thirteen of them.

Here's a tip for all members of social networking sites: If you don't want your teachers, parents, boss, minister, college recruiter, or jealous teammates to see your personal information, stick to a good old-fashioned locked diary hidden under your bed. If you don't, be prepared to face the consequences.

Miley Cyrus may be 17 years old — older than Britney Spears was when she released “…Baby One More Time” — but we still can't help but think of her as an 11-year-old on the Disney Channel in a goofy blonde wig. It's no wonder that her new sexed-up image for “Can't Be Tamed” is stirring up a little bit of controversy.

In 2008, Cyrus was criticized for baring her back on the cover of Vanity
Fair. Now, she's wearing cleavage-baring corsets and grinding with
dancers in videos, pretending to make out with girls on stage, and she
was even busted dirty-dancing with her “The Last Song” director Adam
Shankman. Her back should have been the least of anyone's worries.

On May 14, Cyrus wrapped filming on the final season of “Hannah Montana.” The season will air starting on July 11.

Perhaps Miley should've waited until after her Disney reign was over before busting out songs with lyrics like “I go through guys like money flying out their hands.”

Miley tells
the AP that she doesn't intend to push the envelope too far. “I'm not
trying to be slutty,” she says. “I'm not trying to be like, go to the
club and get a bunch of guys.” Miley is still dating her “The Last Song”
co-star, 20-year-old Liam Hemsworth.

“What I'm trying to do is to make a point with my record and look
consistent, in the way my record sounds and the way I dress,” Miley
says. “When you're 11, the word you would use to describe someone is
definitely
not sexy, and as you get older I think you grow into that. And I think
I've done that but that's not my schtick.”

Her new image may have
caused a few people to forget that she is still under age. Gossip
blogger Perez Hilton recently tweeted a photograph shot up
Miley's dress, taken while she was climbing out of a car. Hilton insists
that she was wearing underwear.

It's definitely arguable that
MIley has been forgoing wearing pants in videos and performances, so a
photo of her underwear-clad crotch didn't show us any more than we've
seen before. The key difference is the intent. Taking a photo up a
woman's dress is a violation — especially if the woman is a girl
of 17 years. It was clearly intended to incite scandal and embarrass
her.

The photographer and Perez Hilton were both crossing a
line, despite a recently released video in which a playful Perez says
“The reason I linked to that photo is because I thought she was exiting
that car in a very unladylike fashion, and you know I like to encourage
Miley to be ladylike.”

Don't expect Miley to put on pants any
time soon. “I'm really comfortable with my body,” she says. “I feel more

comfortable dressing with a little less, which is just how I've always
been. Now I'm able to do that a little more freely and, also, I've
just grown up to be this way too.”

It's great that you're
comfortable with your body, Miley… just give the world a little time
to catch up, please!

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You know, several years ago a father was taking pictures of his daughters at the beach when they decided they were going to moon the camera. Right there, in front of hundreds of witnesses, the girls pulled down their bathing suit bottoms just as dad snapped the picture. When WalMart developed said picture they reported it to the police as child porn and the man was arrested. Though I believe the charges were dismissed.

The point of this story is I’m now wondering how many people have reported this man as a pedophile because of this picture.

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