2011年11月30日 星期三

Siri is a girl's best friend

This holiday season, let me give you a little shopping advice.

Women don't want more slippers, bad perfume or scarves, and despite what the commercials say, no jewelry, please. We can't afford it anyhow. And we're not buying that the ginormous TV is for us.

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Women want her. They covet her. They've even told me they "lust after her."

"I would love to have her," Janet Vander Ley told me at an Apple store the other day. She looked at her sad, little iPhone 3, which will never house Siri. "My 16-year-old son has her. We got him the 4S. … He asks her questions all day long."

What would Janet do with Siri?

"Oh, I know you could ask her to make reservations, schedule appointments, get directions," she sighed. "She'd be so useful in my life."

And yes, the program is a she. That was made quite clear to me by another woman in the store when I asked her how she liked "it."

"Siri is a she," said the woman, a federal worker and mother of two teens. "She's my new best friend."

Of course. Who else but a best friend would tell you, when you ask about the meaning of life, that "all evidence to date suggests it's chocolate"?

A good deal of Siri's energy will be spent answering questions like that.

Mostly, by men.

Late-night host Conan O'Brien made that point just a few days after Siri made her appearance, in a sketch that spliced Apple's own scenes of women asking Siri to remind them to buy milk, or for directions to a hospital, with two recliner kings asking her to make "reservations for two at 7 p.m. between your breasts" and so forth.

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2011年11月29日 星期二

H.H. Brown Heralds Heritage

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To capitalize on consumer interest in retro looks, the group in 2009 launched Vintage Shoe Co., a men's and women's brand focused on reviving styles from H.H. Brown's 100-year-old archives. Heritage also has seen its iconic Kork-Ease and Walk-Over brands return to the spotlight.

As a result, Rowley said sales at the division are up 90 percent to date compared with a year ago, and that momentum is expected to continue into 2012.

The men's Walk-Over label, dating back to the mid-1700s, came under the H.H. Brown umbrella in 1991. Its nod to the past, particularly its offering of traditional bucks and saddles, is connecting with men across a wide age spectrum.

Rowley said younger, fashion-driven customers are buying styles such as the Derby 100, a classic buck from the 1970s with new, colorful outsoles that were introduced in spring '11. “We have the classics, and then can update or put a twist on [them],” he said.

It's not just U.S. consumers who have jumped on the Americana trend. Rowley said 60 percent of Walk-Over's business is done in Japan and Italy.

For Kork-Ease, which launched in the 1950s and was acquired in 2009, the Ava sandal remains a signature look. The crisscross banded style on a covered wedge debuted in the 1970s, and its recent popularity has spawned a series of companion shoes that now represent 25 percent of the brand's overall business. One of the updated versions features an exposed cork bottom.

“In all three brands, everyone wears [the shoes] differently,” said John Robbins, director of marketing. “[They] mean different things to [each one].”

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“The brands have their own rich heritage,” said Tom McClaskie, designer for Heritage Shoe Group. “Our job is to enhance that for the modern customer. We bring the real deal to life.”

Beyond period styling, the brands in the group promote American manufacturing, which is proving to be a strong selling point. All Walk-Over and Vintage product is made exclusively in H.H. Brown's factory in Pennsylvania. A collection of higher-end Kork-Ease products will also be produced there for spring '12. In all, about 20 percent of the group's footwear is made in the U.S., and that share is expected to double within the next two years.

“Heritage is important because it's a trend,” said Rowley, “but ‘made in the U.S.' is a selling feature. People are starting to care about [that]. It has added value.”

American-made product appeals to Eliza Perez, co-owner of Soles 384 in Mill Valley, Calif., who carries the Vintage line. She said the company's domestic sourcing is a key selling point on the floor. “Vintage ties in nicely with the artisan handmade look of the shoes [we carry],” she said. “We're also trying to feature brands made in the U.S., which is rare today.”

Gretchen Plummer, co-owner of Johnny Soles in Portland, Ore., agreed: “Customers ask for [domestically made footwear],” she said. “[Consumers] have seen the fallout of [goods] not being made in the U.S. And [H.H. Brown is] an old U.S. shoe company whose quality and styles are hard to beat.”

2011年11月28日 星期一

'100 Unforgettable Dresses': A century of glamour

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The problem with having a reputation is that once you've earned one, you are stuck with it. And if being the ultimate pulse raiser was what she was aiming for at the 2000 Grammys, then Jennifer Lopez shot straight through the heart with decimating accuracy with her Versace number (see page 58). So what do you do for an encore?

To her credit, she seemed to know that there's no winning when playing “can you top this?” against yourself, so Lopez tried to steer public perception from Jenny on the Block back to Jennifer Lopez, movie star. Blessed with skin so luminous that even face-to-face she seems to be lit from within, and with the fact that every designer wanted to dress her, her attempt should have been one smooth ride. But sometimes you don't see a pothole until it's too late.

For the 2001 Oscars, Lopez turned to Chanel couture, which clothed her in what initially appeared to be a classically sedate choice: a ball gown with a full dove-gray taffeta skirt and a greige chiffon top that fell from one shoulder, twisting and looping around to the other. With her hair slicked back, a nude lip, and tasteful diamonds on her ears, Lopez probably glanced in her hallway mirror and left swearing she had nailed it.

2011年11月27日 星期日

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The fourth annual fashion show, themed "Queen of Queens” and held in Jakarta, introduced a collection designed to make women feel as special, well-dressed and beautiful as royalty.

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"Our lingerie is so bejeweled that it almost looks like a piece of jewelry,” Santje said.

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The company's bridal line, "Sleeping Beauty,” featured prominently in the show's second set.

"They're not the plain and seamless lingerie you wear under your wedding gown," Santje said of the undergarments. "They're beautiful, showy pieces to show your husband on your first night together.”

All bridal collection pieces are in traditional white or nude and are adorned with frills, tassels and bows. Crystals and pearls are neatly arranged in intricate patterns that exude a classic elegance.

2011年11月24日 星期四

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2011年11月23日 星期三

Puss in Boots: Cats that got the cream

Saucy Spaniard Antonio Banderas and fiery Mexican Salma Hayek have appeared in five movies together - and now, in the animated Puss in Boots, they continue their convincing double act.

During the making of the film Banderas, 51, insisted they voiced their parts together, and recently they have been in cahoots promoting the Shrek spin-off at premieres around the world.

"Salma and I are old friends," says Banderas, who ignited international box office numbers, particularly in Spanish-speaking markets, when his Puss character came on board in Shrek 2. "We have such great chemistry.

We fight very well on camera, we dance well and we glare at each other romantically. We have a kind of rhythm and we can improvise. It was great to work with her again."

The pair are versatile performers who are at ease in both dramas and comedies. On a personal level they're also both outgoing and, as they reveal today at the film's launch in Cannes, they love to talk. Neither has lost their accent, even if they ham it up in the film. Banderas' Puss is a little big man, a deep-voiced ginger cat brandishing a sword, wearing boots and a feather in his hat and brings to mind his dashing hero in The Mask of Zorro.

"I get more attention as the pussycat than I ever did as Zorro. Everyone thinks he's so cute," Banderas coos.

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2011年11月22日 星期二

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2011年11月21日 星期一

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2011年11月20日 星期日

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2011年11月18日 星期五

Megan Fox tattoo regret by Marilyn Monroe

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Boys and Girls Club of Glassboro kicks off annual clothing drive

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"She asks, ‘How much do I have to pay for this?' I said, ‘It's 100% off.'" The slogan was then turned into a sign that was displayed on a piece of paper on the building's glass door entrance.

Stephanie Jacobs, a member of the fellowship, is glad the drive grew into more than a clothes drive and expressed the importance of reaching out to the community.

Flower Lily boutique for children opens on Madison Street in Clarksville

Business partners Betty Kay Hundley and Summer Jackson saw a need in Clarksville for children's clothing and tween gifts, and are hoping to fill that niche with their new Madison Street boutique.

The two have opened Flower Lily, a children's boutique that is the first shop to open in a new retail strip center at 1849 Madison.

Flower Lily occupies about 1,300 square feet, in Suite E.

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It was 7.24am on August 20, 2009. Polling day in Helmand. Hamid, 13, was decapitated by shrapnel and died instantly. His beige robes were drenched in blood, his sandals and skullcap strewn across the road, where the mangled remains of the rocket lay smouldering.wholesalejeans are hot, and the styles on this list are among the hottest. Najib, 15, just a few inches farther forward, was thrown off the bike and knocked unconscious, but miraculously he survived.

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By the time I had found the courage to sprint over from the polling station — tents in a football field 60 metres from the crossroads — Najib was just finding the breath to wail.

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Four men lifted Hamid's lifeless body into an ambulance and Najib stood there screaming, staggering, in shock. When he turned away from me I saw blood and bone on his back and in his hair.

That day was supposed to be a landmark moment on Afghanistan's path towards self-governance and democracy. It was, without doubt, the worst day of Najib's life.
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Najib spoke a handful of English words and, despite the pain of his injuries and the trauma of his loss, was eager to use them.

I would never have thought that barely two years later the two of us would be sitting side by side on an aeroplane bound for Heathrow. Najib has won a full-fees scholarship to Stowe, my old boarding school, and somewhere along the lines I have become his guardian. He is now studying physics, maths and biology (as well as doing acting and guitar classes), and wants to be a doctor.

Remarkably Najib has taken British boarding school in his stride. “Najib has drive, determination and a wonderful work ethic as well as a very calm and positive outlook,” said his first assessment. “Najib could not have made a better start.”

Yet back in 2009 there was more misery to come. There was no hospital in Afghanistan that could remove the metal from his eye. General Jim Dutton, the most senior British officer in Afghanistan at the time, asked the French Nato hospital in Kabul to help, but even its surgeons couldn't get it out — and this tiny shard of shrapnel was scratching his retina to death.

Soldiers with similar injuries are airlifted home, the surgeon Bernard Swalduz explained, because every hour counts when it comes to saving someone's sight.

Time for Najib was running out fast. It was another two weeks before an American charity, Solace, managed to get Najib to Carolina, where an expert ophthalmologist, Dr Nasrollah Samiy, removed the offending piece of metal. Najib stayed in America so the medics could monitor his recovery over a couple of months,Wearing marcjacobsshoes is an experience in fashion fun. Everyone will comment on your effortlessly hip Hardy shirt. but he never regained sight in the injured eye.

Instead, he gained an insatiable appetite for learning English and, despite my best efforts, an unshakeable American accent. Solace and Samiy have remained bulwarks of support.

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China Shock of 5% Growth Seen Deferred by Migrant Manufacturers

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2011年11月1日 星期二

Camporee honors legendary Scout leader

A legendary leader was honored Oct. 22 when Battleground District of Boy Scouts held the first Joe Ed Walker Memorial Camporee on a farm near Lattimore, not far from where Walker grew up.

While the smoke of campfires scented the crisp fall day, dozens of boys in khaki uniforms saluted the American flag as it was lowered near sundown while just as many former Scouts, leaders and family members saluted the memory of a man they revere as a mentor and friend. During his 10 years as Scoutmaster of Lattimore Troop #113, a record-setting 35 teenagers reached the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest award in scouting; hundreds of others learned the life lessons of a man remembered for always believing that the impossible is possible.

One of those Eagle Scouts, Wilson Brooks, played Taps as a hushed crowd watched from a green hillside while the honor guard lowered the flag, folded it precisely into a triangle and presented it to Donnis Walker, Joe Ed Walker’s widow, who held her husband’s red wool Boy Scout shirt with the troop number 113 embroidered on the sleeve. Their two sons, Michael and Braxton, both Eagle Scouts, stood nearby.

"If he (Joe Ed) were here," Mrs. Walker said, "he would say, ‘It wasn’t me. We all came together to grow these boys.’"

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"He loved it," Mrs. Walker said. "The cold, the rain. Troop 113 had a reputation that if they were going camping, it was going to rain."

They camped every month. When one of the boys was asked how that could happen since their Scoutmaster worked rotating shifts at Fiber Industries, he replied that Joe Ed was off one weekend a month and that’s when they went camping.

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One Friday night she remembers having almost more family than she could accommodate. "Joe and the boys had gone camping. I woke up at 2 a.m. to a loud banging," she says. "Joe came in the back door soaking wet and covered in mud. The troop had been camping at Cherry Mountain and were flooded out. All 20 boys trooped in their house, looking just as bedraggled as their leader.

"I said, ‘Joe, call their parents.’ He said that we would get them dry and let them spend the night. They stood in line to take showers and I found enough T-shirts and blankets and quilts and they all lay down on the floor and went to sleep. The next morning, I cooked everything they had bought for both Saturday’s and Sunday’s breakfasts plus a pound of bacon and a dozen eggs I had. They ate it all," she laughs.

It was that belief in going beyond what was required or expected that made Joe Ed Walker the leader that helped 35 young men become Eagle Scouts, the highest earned honor in Scouting. They were told that number set a record in the state.

If a boy wanted a badge in a particular area, Walker always found someone to help "his" boys as he liked to call them. For the aviation badge, he found a man who flew an airplane; for the waterskiing, he found a man with a boat; for photography, they spent hours in a photographer’s basement learning the techniques; and so it went. About 25 boys participated each year and many went on to earn all the awards available through scouting including the God and Church award and the Order of the Arrow.

Walker himself was awarded the Order of the Silver Beaver in 1979, the highest honor for a volunteer leader. He had come a long way from the day in 1971 when he argued that he had no experience while two neighbors visited his home to ask him to take over the troop so that all their sons would have a chance in Scouting.

It all started that year when Walker’s son Michael wanted to be a scout. A neighbor went over the scouting manual with him so he could earn his Tenderfoot rank. When Michael came home from that night’s meeting, his mother remembers his saying, "I can be an Eagle Scout, but I need somebody to help me."

Within a week, friends and neighbors, J.B. Williams and Jack Dover, called Walker and then visited him at home to ask him to become the Scoutmaster of Troop #113. "The Lord was in this," Mrs. Walker believes.

After attending his first training session, Walker came home to wonder, "I don’t know what I’ve got myself into." He dove in with a passion that made Scouting a priority. That winter, he took a week’s vacation and five-day break from Fiber Industries to train for the wood badge, a first step for leaders. The next year, the troop brought home the first of many blue ribbons from a camporee. "You’d have thought he won the lottery," Mrs. Walker remembers.

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"He loved them like his own," she says. "He kept up with them. When they got married, when they had babies. He never lost sight of them." They couldn’t lose sight of what he taught them either. They always knelt for prayer in church and when asked why, he replied, "These are young men who are going to need strength from God. If we can kneel and pray in the woods (a Scout tradition) why not kneel in God’s house?"

Walker retired from Scouting to help his wife when her mother became ill. In 1999, he fell on a loading dock in California on his job as a driver for Turner Trucking, which fulfilled a boyhood dream of driving a tractor-trailer. He retired after 33 years with Fiber and drove seven years for Turner. The explanation for the fall turned out to be a progressive, genetic illness that attacks the cerebellum, causing symptoms similar to Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s. Eventually, he was confined to a wheelchair. When he was buried June 5,Best Earrings Jewellery for sale 2010, his family walked out of the church through a corridor created by 28 of the 35 Eagle Scouts he had assisted.

"He got to do it all," his wife says. "He drove a big truck; he was an EMT for 25 years; but Scouting was closest to his heart. That’s where he made his difference."

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