Recognised as leaders in the field, Nike developed an open source app to help designers assess their environmental impact and has been running a reuse a-shoe scheme since the 1990s, greuse a-shoetrainerscheme pelletsincethere used to surface running tracks.
Misguided messiahs and their T-shirt donation and Shoe donation schemes, money-grabbing consultants, corrupt practices, high-profile-nil-value baby adoptions, etc etc.
Not once has anybody considered the possibility that, after the shoe-bombing scheme worked to perfection, Khalid the Droll announced to his cell, "When they've had a few years of taking off their shoes, I bet I can make them expose their private parts to full-body scanners".
The Nigerian-American author Teju Cole updated the phrase the "white man's burden" to the "white savior industrial complex," an accurate descriptor for philanthropic cluelessness and waste, like ineffectual condom-distribution drives in India or "buy-one-give-one" schemeslling schemes.
On the news that Apple and Nike were going to expand their iPod partnership, Adidas is giving a bit of a "me too", introducing a shoe + phone scheme, using wireless biometrics in the show to display information on an Adidas -branded Samsung phone.
The final shoe was the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme.
The Hives dress identically: in black suits and white shoes, a natty sartorial scheme well represented on the band's three videos (which have been included on the "Veni Vidi Vicious" CD in MPEG format).
Both happen to star the Austrian actor Anton Walbrook ("The Red Shoes") as a schemer who seduces a naïve young woman in his drive to realize uncontrollable obsessions: the possession of a set of rubies in "Gaslight" (Wednesday and March 23, also starring Diana Wynyard, above) and of the Devil's own method of winning at cards in "Spades" (March 21 and March 22).
Both happen to star the Austrian actor Anton Walbrook ("The Red Shoes") as a schemer who seduces a na? young woman in his drive to realize uncontrollable obsessions: the possession of a set of rubies in "Gaslight" (Wednesday and March 23, also starring Diana Wynyard, above) and of the Devil's own method of winning at cards in "Spades" (March 21 and March 22).
But even though I felt no real surprise at that or anything else I eventually returned home to -- flying shoes, collapsing Ponzi schemes, a federal report documenting waste and ineffectiveness in the reconstruction of Iraq (who would have guessed?) -- I was nevertheless blindsided by the cumulative effect of the week's news.
The podiatrist will order shoes directly from two companies participating in the Healthy Footwear Guide (HFG) scheme 30; DB shoes (Rushden, UK) or Hotter company (Skelmersdale, UK).
