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The $500,000 is needed for maintenance and other costs while the organization finds developers to redesign the ship into a retail, hotel, and museum complex. Discussions with developers from Philadelphia and New York have been encouraging, Basile said, but no deals have been reached. A full redevelopment of the ship has been estimated to cost as much as $300 million. While funds raised during the S.O.S. campaign will buy precious time, without additional infusions a decision will be made within the coming weeks whether to sell the vessel for scrap metal, Basile said. The conservancy has established a fund-raising website, . The conservancy is calling out the troops. Tennis hall of famer Billie Jean King, the author David Macaulay, and Olympic gold medalist Donna de Varona have joined the fight to save the ship. Susan Gibbs, the SS United States Conservancy's executive director and granddaughter of the vessel's designer, William Francis Gibbs, said King's commitment to the ship comes at a critical time. "We are grateful for her willingness to be a champion for the United States once again," said Gibbs. Contact Melissa Chea-Annan at 215-854-2771 or . Because, weirdly, this unofficial blog appendage of Bravo's Project Runway, arguably the most New York show on television and certainly one of the ***est, is actually the creation of two guys from Philadelphia. LOLOLOLOL. As their many commenters might say. For many, Project Run*** (Projectrun***. blogspot.com) has become as much an obsession as the show itself, getting as many as 70,000 hits some days as it creates a sweetly bitchy parallel universe of running commentary ("from a VERY *** perspective") and witty criticism. In truth, this blog rules the runway. "Every single model knew who we were and they all reacted the same way: Uh-oh! You better say nice things about me," they wrote after Bryant Park, adding that from the third row, the judges were "thinner than you realize." In New York, Tom and Lorenzo hobnobbed with their favorite designers, helped Season 3 designer Laura Bennett choose her widely praised sparkly nude plunging-neckline dress, then passed on a Project Runway lunch to "follow the yellow brick road home" to Philly. That train ride home after the Bryant Park show, in which they offered a single stalling post via BlackBerry, was possibly the longest 90-minute Amtrak ride simultaneously endured by tens of thousands of people *******ing at their computer. An hour into the train ride, commenter Tami S. wrote: "We're all clutching our pearls