2012年9月28日 星期五

Alternate uniforms make bold statement

When Mark Daniels and his team of designers at Adidas America laid out a number of alternate uniform options for Nebraska Athletic Director Tom Osborne, they discovered something that seems fitting after Osborne’s retirement announcement.

“He can very quickly assess what he likes and doesn’t,” said Daniels, the director of football for Adidas. “And he gets his point across. He can yell in a whisper.”

They discovered something else: Osborne didn’t opt for the safest choice. Not the boldest one, either — the design of which Daniels, with a chuckle, declined to disclose. But considering the black helmet, black accents and all-red uniform, Osborne’s pick went far beyond vanilla.

“If 10 was phenomenally aggressive and one was phenomenally conservative, this was a seven,Panerai replica watches,cheaprolexwatches,replica omega,” Daniels said. “It’s a bold use of color and a bold use of the logo.”

And it’ll be on national TV — along with Wisconsin’s all-white alternate look in the new Adidas “Unrivaled” uniform game. NU-UW — dubbed “The Quick and The Red” — is the first in the series, and Adidas will be bringing a number of reps from its Portland, Ore.-based headquarters for the game.

If Nike grabbed the early alternate uniform spotlight with its guinea pig at Oregon, Adidas — which outfits NU, Michigan, Notre Dame, Texas A&M and UCLA, among other schools — has taken some of the attention with its own spin on the alternate look. The Adidas “Techfit” uniforms — which Daniels said are 30 percent lighter than regular uniforms and offer 17 percent better range of motion — provide the substance behind the style.

The design emphasis: Building on traditional school logos and concepts with bold color, accents and special accessories,Official Chanel store with full collection of Men's and ladies'paneraireplicas. like the new Smoke gloves and shoes that Nebraska and Wisconsin players will wear Saturday. Daniels said a specific department with more than 50 designers, marketing experts and administrators manages the handful of alternate looks each year.

“It’s an all-hands-on-deck effort,” Daniels said.

When the Wolverines showed off their futuristic throwbacks vs. Notre Dame last September — the first night game in Michigan history — Daniels thought Adidas had “nailed it” in concept and design. The centered school logo. The number on the shoulder pad. Bright. Identifiable on TV.

Daniels said that not long after that game Adidas America pinpointed the Nebraska-Wisconsin matchup as an opportunity to build on Michigan’s look. The plan solidified by the end of the last season,supply many cheap nike airmax2009 shoes for you, and Adidas started showing Osborne design concepts. Nebraska coach Bo Pelini, Daniels said, wanted to make sure players and high school prospects would like it.

“Bo asked a lot about athlete feedback,” Daniels said.

Although Adidas didn’t specifically survey Husker players, Adidas reps occasionally attend practice and pose questions about look and fit in that environment.The Design Museum presents iconic French shoe designer guccimenshoes, Osborne rejected a few ideas, approved the current look and the final version was uploaded to YouTube in late July, while Nebraska attended Big Ten media days.

Of all the 2012 YouTube videos featuring alternate uniforms — by Adidas, Nike, any brand — Nebraska’s look remains No. 1 in viewers, Daniels said. Maryland, outfitted by Under Armour, is No. 2. Notre Dame, which is ditching its classic all-gold helmet for a two-tone look in its “Shamrock Series” game vs. Miami, is No. 3. Oregon is fourth.

Wilson is usually assigned the slot receiver

It's never easy to replace a player like Darrelle Revis, a man widely considered the best cornerback in the NFL, and one who gave the Jets a measure of confidence every time he laced up his cleats. Kyle Wilson may technically be the one asked to do it, but the Jets' starting nickel isn't some wide-eyed unknown facing a new challenge.

"It's not that much more than what I've been doing," Wilson said.

And that's true. Wilson started for Revis in the second game of the season, a loss to the Steelers, but he has also played more snaps than Revis in games they both appeared in this season. Wilson has been in 77 percent of the defensive snaps.

So Wilson can play, but that doesn't mean he can fill Revis' shoes. The third-year player out of Boise State was a first-round draft pick but hasn't yet lived up to the expectations that accompany the tag. Is this the week he does?

Turns out that's not what the Jets are expecting from him.

"Kyle Wilson is going to give us his best and we're also going to put (him) in situations where he can succeed," defensive coordinator Mike Pettine said. "We have a lot of confidence in him. He had a great offseason, he's off to a good start this year. But we're not going to ask him to be Darrelle and put him out there on one side of the field all by himself with out any help anywhere nearby.Find shoes and dsquared shoes men from a vast selection of Clothing, We wouldn't do that. Kyle is going to continue to be him(self) and we're not going to ask him to be anything more than that."

Wilson has turned to Revis as a mentor. The two have trained together in the offseason for a few years in Arizona. Their lockers are right next to each other.

"I've been studying with him and taking notes ever since I got here," Wilson said.

Despite the fact that Revis is one of his close friends and the two trained together during the lockout, Wilson said he didn't have an emotional reaction to hearing the cornerback would be out for a prolonged period with an ACL tear.

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That may sound unbelievably cold, but perhaps Wilson is trying to sidestep what will be a pretty intense spotlight as the Jets take on San Francisco a week after losing Revis.

Wilson is usually assigned the slot receiver, but could be taking on some receivers one-on-one. And Wilson could be called on to cover a player Revis had some competition, and words,Madden Girl Black Patent Mary Jane Court christianlouboutinshoe. with in Randy Moss. Asked about him, Wilson was demure.

"He's still Randy Moss," Wilson said.

And although WIlson appears to be a person who keeps it close to the vest, when he is playing, he can be very competitive, talking smack at the line of scrimmage if it helps.

"If you played against me you'll know," Wilson said. "That's the best way I can describe it.Buy aionkinah direct from the USA at low prices."

So Wilson will continue to play the way he normally does and not get thrown by the weight of expectations.

"Obviously it's a nice opportunity and I'm definitely going to do everything I can," Wilson said, "but I'm not going to change up something that's been working well for me."

Nike caught out as China slows

Nike reported a fall in new orders in China and said it would revamp its strategy in the country as investor concern over its performance sent its shares down.

The US sportswear company said on Thursday that new orders from its greater China region, which includes Taiwan and Hong Kong, were 5 per cent below their level a year ago, confirming a slowdown in a crucial market.

Charlie Denson, president of the Nike brand, said all retailers in China were grappling with a combination of slowing economic growth,Any of our wintert-shirts can be customized with your school excess inventory, and more discerning consumers.

"This is a natural evolution that we've seen in many markets, so it's not a surprise. What is a surprise, like everything in China, is how fast it got here," he told analysts.

Nike shares initially fell more than 4 per cent in after market trading when its results were released, but later recovered slightly to be down 3.2 per cent at $92.90.

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Nike executives said they would "reset" the market in China by working with retailers to clear excess inventory, improving distribution through Nike-branded stores and tailoring merchandise better to what Chinese consumers want.

Mr Denson said: "So everybody wants to know, how long will it take? I can't answer that with a specific date, what I can tell is you I'm confident we're taking the right actions."

Globally, new orders, a key measure of the company's future revenues, were up 6 per cent from a year ago, but fell short of Wall Street expectations. The orders are due for delivery through January.

Overall the group posted a 12 per cent fall in net income to $567m in the three months to the end of August, although the decline was not as sharp as Wall Street had forecast.

Nike's profitability has been eroding due to higher production costs and marketing spending.

Revenues rose 10 per cent to $6.7bn, ahead of expectations, helped by sales linked to the Euro 2012 football tournament and the London Olympics, where Nike's neon yellow Volt shoes were ubiquitous in athletics.

Several western consumer groups have already reported that they are being hit by reduced economic growth in China.

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Former child prostitute testifies at murder trial

After more than a decade of rotating through children's shelters and bad foster homes in Houston, a 14-year-old runaway decided she would rather sell herself on the street than stay in the system, she told jurors here Thursday.

But she never wanted a pimp, she said, testifying in the trial of Kwaku Agyin, who could face up to 13 life sentences on charges of murder, child sex trafficking, sexual assault of a child and compelling prostitution.

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The girl told jurors she was 15 and had recently fled a juvenile lockdown facility in San Antonio when she met Agyin and asked him to rent her a motel room to turn tricks.

“I had said ... I needed a business partner,” the teen said, explaining that she couldn't rent rooms on her own because of her age and lack of ID. “I don't agree with pimps.”

But very quickly she realized — as Agyin demanded sex, presented her with a pricing scheme and began calling her his “ho” — that it wasn't going to be much of a partnership, she said.

She ran away from Agyin after he beat her up and met drug dealer Marcus Anderson, 35,Low prices on kinds of the louisvuittonshoes, a short while later while working on her own, she said. As she had with Agyin, the 5-foot-4 teen told Anderson she was an adult and the two began having sex, but not for money, she said.

“Marcus was somebody I felt I could be me with. I could open up my guard with him,” she said. “He told me her would prefer me to sell drugs than sell my body.”

During the week she knew him, however, the teen said she decided to sell both.

Trouble occurred less than a week later, when she said Agyin found her at the Skyline Motel and strip searched her at gunpoint — taking her phone, shoes and $40 in drug earnings that she owed Anderson.

Agyin started devising a plan with friends to lure Anderson to the motel and rob him, she said.

“I said I didn't want to do that. They said they didn't give a flying (expletive),” she said. “They said if I didn't do it, I would be the one taking the bullet.”

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2012年9月27日 星期四

students shape businesses to fill social needs

A competition being held this week by North Carolina's public university system pits 31 student-led teams who are presenting business plans for enterprises that would both generate profits and help the needy.

The first North Carolina Social Business Conference on Thursday promises to boost, if only a little, a hybrid of business and charity getting more attention since the Great Recession highlighted that free markets can't provide all society needs. The competition at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro is also a platform for the university system to show off its 17-campus emphasis on pulling concepts out of classrooms and into commerce.

The teams will be asked to explain how they would build a profit-making enterprise generating cash for purposes such as helping retrain the unemployed or feeding the hungry.

"We know that students get excited about solving big problems, dreaming big dreams, imagining a world that's different from the one they grew up in. This is blended in this competition with a reality check — how are you going to pay for it?" said Leslie Boney, a University of North Carolina system vice president whose job involves finding ways to employ college brainpower outside of campus boundaries. "It's chocolate and peanut butter."

Social businesses already operate worldwide, from chocolate production in Africa that funds pediatric medicine to California-based Tom's Shoes, a company that donates a pair of shoes to children for every pair sold. They're part of the spread of the business values of innovation and financial discipline into government and charities.

Venture philanthropists emphasize getting measurable results for their investment. In Great Britain, the conservative government this spring launched the Big Society Bank to invest in charities and social enterprises as spending on social issues is slashed.

Universities from Kyushu in Japan to Columbia in New York are increasingly spreading the idea of the socially conscious enterprise.

Muhammad Yunus, who pioneered the concept of social businesses more than 30 years ago, is a speaker at the conference in Greensboro.

The winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize showed that smart lending to the very poor in Bangladesh could help them break the cycle of poverty by starting small businesses — and that almost all of the money is repaid. The microcredit movement has since been replicated in poor communities in dozens of countries,Panerai replica watches,cheaprolexwatches,replica omega, including the United States.

Yunus spoke last year at a similar forum hosted by the University of Georgia that featured a competition that helped inspire the one in North Carolina.

Yunus also headlines similar social business conferences planned at the University of the District of Columbia on Friday and the University of Oregon on Monday. President Bill Clinton's Clinton Global Initiative University program highlights university-level ideas for social enterprises that could spark global change.

College students are interested in social businesses because their generation is uniquely steeped in the self-branding and freelance culture of today's business world and also possesses the can-do optimism of youth, said Prof. James Johnson Jr., who teaches social entrepreneurship at the UNC-Chapel Hill business school but is not involved in the competition.

"The millenials are the innovation generation. They think in entrepreneurial terms," Johnson said. "They really think they can change the world. And they will have to in this economy and this downturn. These kids want to hang out a shingle and do it on their own."

The top three finishers in the UNC social business conference have been promised help from venture capitalists and others among the panel of judges to get their business ideas off the ground.

For two guys focused on starting a company since they were freshmen at Appalachian State University, the competition is a chance to win funding for a business that would provide benefits for the surrounding community.

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The Human Cost of the Second Amendment

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With the hope of presenting the issue of guns in America in a novel way, I’m going to look at it from an unusual vantage point: the eyes of a nurse. By that I mean looking at guns in America in terms of the suffering they cause, because to really understand the human cost of guns in the United States we need to focus on gun-related pain and death.

Every day 80 Americans die from gunshots and an additional 120 are wounded, according to a 2006 article in The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Those 80 Americans left their homes in the morning and went to work, or to school, or to a movie, or for a walk in their own neighborhood, and never returned. Whether they were dead on arrival or died later on in the hospital,Provides enterprise data solutionshublotreplica, real-time data distribution, 80 people’s normal day ended on a slab in the morgue, and there’s nothing any of us can do to get those people back.

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Of course, in hospitals, death and suffering are what nurses and doctors struggle against. Our job is to restore people to health and wholeness, or at the very least, to keep them alive. That’s an obvious aim on the oncology floor where I work, but nowhere is the medical goal of maintaining life more immediately urgent than in trauma centers and intensive-care units. In those wards, patients often arrive teetering on the border between life and death, and the medical teams that receive them have fleeting moments in which to act.

The focus on preserving life and alleviating suffering, so evident in the hospital, contrasts strikingly with its stubborn disregard when applied to lives ended by Americans lawfully armed as if going into combat. The deaths from guns are as disturbing, and as final, as the cadavers I studied in anatomy lab, but the talk we hear from the gun lobby is about freedom and rights, not life and death.

Gun advocates say that guns don’t kill people, people kill people. The truth, though, is that people with guns kill people, often very efficiently, as we saw so clearly and so often this summer. And while there can be no argument that the right to bear arms is written into the Constitution, we cannot keep pretending that this right is somehow without limit, even as we place reasonable limits on arguably more valuable rights like the freedom of speech and due process.

No one argues that it should be legal to shout “fire” in a crowded theater; we accept this limit on our right to speak freely because of its obvious real-world consequences. Likewise, we need to stop talking about gun rights in America as if they have no wrenching real-world effects when every day 80 Americans, their friends, families and loved ones, learn they obviously and tragically do.

Many victims never stand a chance against a dangerously armed assailant, and there’s scant evidence that being armed themselves would help. Those bodies skip the hospital and go straight to the morgue. The lucky ones, the survivors — the 120 wounded per day — get hustled to trauma centers and then intensive care units to, if possible, be healed. Many of them never fully recover.

A trauma nurse I know told me she always looked at people’s shoes when they lay on gurneys in the emergency department. It struck her that life had still been normal when that patient put them on in the morning. Whether they laced up Nikes, pulled on snow boots or slid feet into stiletto heels, the shoes became a relic of the ordinariness of the patient’s life, before it turned savage.

So I have a request for proponents of unlimited access to guns. Spend some time in a trauma center and see the victims of gun violence — the lucky survivors — as they come in bloody and terrified. Understand that our country’s blind embrace of gun rights made this violent tableau possible, and that it’s playing out each day in hospitals and morgues all over the country.

Before leaving, make sure to look at the patients’ shoes. Remember that at the start of the day, before being attacked by a person with a gun, that patient lying on a stretcher writhing helplessly in pain was still whole.

2012年9月25日 星期二

The day Auntie Rosie got me back to school in style

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Adults are guilty of it too, judging someone without a clue of who they really are.

My friends and I could only gaze fondly at the girls with their seemingly constant parade of sweater sets, matching barrettes and shoes of every colour.

I was OK with being poor and brown. But I was not OK with not having the bare essentials, like new shoes. The teasing and judgmental sneering I anticipated made me shudder internally.

That's when my Auntie Rosie came to the rescue.

"Don't worry, Chich," she said, calling my mom by her nickname, "I'll get her shoes."

My mom was relieved by the offer, but mentioned something about "no funny stuff."

Rosie is my mom's oldest sister. She was always cooking, cleaning and sewing back then -- and she has great taste in clothes. I was all for it.

The next day, my Auntie Rosie and I took a bus to a mall that no longer exists. We went into a big retail store and perused the aisles casually until we found the kids shoes section.

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They were burgundy red, suede-like, with some silvery grey material and piping. I'd never seen anything like them before.

I was smitten, so my auntie found me a pair that fit and swiftly tied up the laces. She got me to walk up and down the aisle a few times to see if they felt right.

I loved them, but felt bad about the price. They were double what my mom would usually pay.

Auntie Rosie didn't care. She casually slipped my old runners under a shelf and said I could wear the new ones home. I was so proud of my new shoes that I barely noticed as we sailed out the door without paying for them.

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Rosie learned to steal food to feed herself, my mom and all the younger kids. She taught herself to cook for them too. One winter, she even pilfered some used skates so they could skate up and down their back lane.

She became the caretaker of the family. Sometimes old habits are hard to break, I guess.

But she retired those skills decades ago, working hard for many years at everything from cleaning rooms to making bannock.

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Witnesses in Kilpatrick trial tell of lavish lifestyle

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Jurors heard from an IRS agent who said that while Kilpatrick was mayor, he made more than $530,000 in cash expenditures – none of which was covered by his $170,000 mayoral salary. At the same time, his co-defendant and longtime contractor friend Bobby Ferguson made $2 million in cash withdrawals, the agent testified -- admitting on cross examination that he could find no correlation between the two.

Kilpatrick’s bodyguards testified they never saw Ferguson give Kilpatrick any money.

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Love, who went on the trip, testified he had to pay $500 out of his own pocket for the Bermuda getaway, but he didn’t know what the money went for.

Love also testified that Soave used his private jet to fly Kilpatrick and Kilpatrick’s ex-mistress and former aide Christine Beatty to New York City for a one-day shopping spree over the Christmas holiday in 2006.

“We flew there and came back the same day,” Love testified.

In court documents, Kilpatrick’s co-defendant, ex-city water boss Victor Mercado, has claimed Soave -- in an effort to win millions in contracts -- lavished Kilpatrick with private jet flights, $10,Authorised swisswatches Stockists. Large Mens Breitling Watch range.000 worth of courtside Pistons tickets, New York City shopping sprees and a $6,000 watch for his dad. Soave also helped Beatty lease a Land Rover by “buying down Beatty’s bad credit,” per the court filing.

Soave has denied bribing Kilpatrick and said he was extorted by the ex-mayor.

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In court today, an IRS agent offered a detailed look at the money trail the government followed in investigating the ex-mayor's alleged bribes and kickbacks. IRS investigator Ron Sauer testified that while Kilpatrick was mayor, he regularly deposited large amounts of cash into his bank accounts, but there was no identifiable cash source to pull that money from. In total, Kilpatrick deposited more than $531,000 cash into his bank accounts while he was mayor, he testified. None of that could be traced to his $172,000 annual mayoral salary, Sauer said.

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Darryl Kent Clark, a guest choreographer, set a piece on the dance company last week. Clark is a native of Michigan and began his dance career in 1981 in Chicago.

“My experience at Henderson has been nothing but wonderful,” Clark said. “I can’t think of a group of people that could be more welcoming to a stranger. I have felt so welcome and so part of the community here. Where I’m staying [Captain Henderson House] is wonderful, and the studio is so beautiful. It’s been an inspiration to be here and to create inside this environment.”

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“I like being in other environments,” Clark said. “It helps me get a new perspective for my own students, and I also need to re-invigorate myself by seeing something new; seeing a new town, seeing a new set of faces. So I take great store in having the new, instead of getting to a point where it’s like,We provide top quality hublotwatchand IWC Replica Watches. roll out of bed, go teach there, go back home and let that process repeat over and over for years. That would feel like a sort of death,We Specialize In Selling royaloak, and I don’t want to feel that. Not yet.”

He stayed busy all week, offering free master classes for anyone who wanted to take them from 3 to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and then went on to set choreography on the company from 6 to 10 p.m.

“Darryl has been able to pull dance and theater together through a silent film era style piece,” Jennifer Maddox, dance company director, said. “It is an original work pulling from the dancers’ strengths, incorporating tap, ballet, character movement and jazz. I think he is a very multi-talented and gracious choreographer and teacher.”

Clark had four rehearsals to set a 16-minute piece on the company, and then they performed it last Friday for a small audience. But the crunch of time isn’t a new experience for him.

“I have had to do much more intense stuff,” he said. “Speed was not a challenge. It has been a very liberating experience to be here and to be able to create this piece in a week. I knew the music, and I knew the piece’s history. I don’t think I’ve ever had to stop and go, ‘I don’t think I can do that. It’s going to be too challenging.’”

Both students from Henderson and Ouachita were able to experience Clark’s teaching. Ali Brown, junior biology major, has been dancing for most of her life and was still able to gain a new perspective on the art form.

“Theatrical dance is not what I thought it was,” Brown said. “It’s not just interpretation of Broadway musicals. It can be much more than that. Darryl is a visionary, and he has a large imagination.”

“This week I’ve grown by learning a different style,” Ungela James, senior psychology major, said. “I’ve become more comfortable with acting while dancing. I’m always interested in what Darryl has to teach.”

“My favorite style to teach is a toss-up between modern and musical theater reparatory,” Clark said. “Modern because it’s what I love, it’s my baby, it’s what I came to when I first started dancing in college. But in musical theater reparatory I get to create my stuff, I get to interpolate styles of vernacular dance from other eras.”

Grave fears for missing ABC staffer

An Irish woman phoned her brother shortly before she vanished but police now aren't sure if she made the call from inside a Melbourne bar or as she made the late-night walk home.

Homicide detectives fear 29-year-old Jill Meagher may have met with foul play, saying her disappearance is uncharacteristic and worrying.

Ms Meagher was initially believed to have left Bar Etiquette in Brunswick about 1.30am (AEST) on Saturday, intending to make the short walk home and refusing a colleague's offer to accompany her.

But she then made a brief phone call to her brother Michael at the family's Perth home about 2am and police now say she may have stayed in the bar on busy Sydney Road.

Edith McKeon said her daughter had rushed home from holidaying in her native Ireland several weeks earlier after her father had a stroke.

"She rang Michael at about 2am on Saturday morning and she sounded worried and there were people in the background, and that's the last we've heard from her," Mrs McKeon told Fairfax Media.

Michael told his sister he didn't want to wake their father.

"She just went `I'm worried, I'm worried' and that really was the last bit of (contact)," Mrs McKeon said.

Ms Meagher then hung up, and Michael's repeated efforts to call her back failed, Mrs McKeon said.

Homicide squad head Detective Inspector John Potter said Ms Meagher and her brother had talked about their father's health.

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Police are trying to establish the timeline of what happened after Ms Meagher said goodbye to her colleagues, rejecting a workmate's offer to walk her to her home less than a kilometre away.

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Ms Meagher's handbag was found near a car in a lane off nearby Hope Street early on Monday but Det Insp Potter said police aren't sure how it came to be there and hope the results of forensic tests may deliver an answer.

He said the bag held Ms Meagher's personal identification, but he couldn't say whether it contained her mobile phone.

"We haven't found anything physical (to suggest violence) but the very circumstances of the case are worrying," Det Insp Potter told reporters.

"We're hopeful for the best obviously, but we have some concerns that she may have met with foul play."

Homicide detectives took over the case on Monday after Ms Meagher failed to respond to repeated phone calls and widespread media reports of her disappearance over the weekend.

Police say her bank card has not been used and her mobile phone has been turned off.

Detectives are seeking CCTV footage to help them find Ms Meagher, but the bar where she was last seen did not have any cameras.

Ms Meagher's husband, Thomas, has led a social media campaign to help find her.

"I spoke to her before I left work and she was in great spirits," he told reporters.

"Everyone who was there that night said she was in really good spirits."
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Willie Jones, a 17-year-old student, is the first audition of the day. His family is a big part of his life and he is glad they came with him on the 14-hour drive to the audition. Willie shocks everyone when the country song comes on. Demi Lovato said that he looks like Fresh Prince and now he comes out singing country.Find Short Length Wigs, authenticbreitlingwatches Boy Cut Wigs along with a wide selection of other brand-name wigs, He is good and can hit those real low notes, but he struggles more with the higher notes, so who knows. L.A. said he is an absolute original. Britney said she was very surprised and very original of him. Demi said he is really likable and to stay that person. Simon said this is why he wanted to come to Greensboro and his voice is a sensational recording voice. The judges all say yes and he is moving on.

We are sticking with the country theme in Greensboro as Kalvin McManigle, a 47 year old Lawn Mower Factory Worker, hits the stage looking like a hot mess. He might have four teeth in his mouth and can't remember the song he is going to sing. He may even be drunk and everyone in the audience just watches in shock. Simon said he couldn't understand a word he said and Britney said she is scared she might be related to him!

Julia Bullock now takes the stage and she seems to have her stuff together, but then we find out she is actually part of a band but she came her by herself. They said the band is broken up because she is doing this. Her ex-boyfriend is part of the band and he clearly has some issues with this all. I like her and she is very comfortable on stage and she has the crazy hair, but she sounds really good and her ex-boyfriend looks sad backstage. Simon said he thinks she is really, really good and he loves her image. Simon said she is exactly what he has been looking for and loved her song choice. Four yeses and a goodbye to her band!

Krysten Colon gets her chance on the stage and she said she has finally gotten the confidence to do what she enjoys doing in the shower. She takes on an Adele song, even though Simon said before he doesn't want to hear another Adele song. I think he may want to hear this one, as she does really good, but Simon cuts her off kind of early.The performance and comfort of Nike Shox are only matched by the attractiveness of the christianlouboutinshoes. Simon said it is kind of sound-alike and we are not hearing her. He wants to hear her make a twist on an old classic and come back later to sing for them again, so she gets a break.

Jeffrey Gutt, who is a 36-year-old musician, is a single father and he said this is his last chance to make it big. His son is adorable! He sings "Hallelujah," which is a huge song to take on and he does well and with a little rocker edge to it. I am liking it. The crowd loves it as well, as they keep screaming long after for him. Britney said she loved how mysterious his voice was. L.A. said he is a fan. Thunder comes in during Demi's critique and she said that God is even rocking out right now (I love her)! Simon said it is one of the greatest auditions he has ever heard. It is four yes votes for Jeffrey and out runs his son, which was such a cute moment.

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Richard help Padres edge Diamondbacks 6-5

Jesus Guzman homered and Clayton Richard was effective enough as the San Diego Padres held on to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-5 on Thursday.

Richard (14-12) allowed four runs and eight hits in six innings to raise his career record against Arizona to 6-0 - including three wins in three starts at Chase Field over the past 10 weeks. He struck out three and walked one.

Anthony Bass, the last of five Padres pitchers in the ninth, struck out Aaron Hill on a checked swing for his first career save.

Adam Eaton hit his first career home run, Hill also homered and Justin Upton was a home run short of the cycle for the Diamondbacks, who had their three-game willing streak snapped.

Arizona fell 5 1/2 games behind St. Louis in the NL wild-card race with 13 games to play.

Diamondbacks starter Tyler Skaggs (1-3) pitched in and out of trouble and allowed four runs on seven hits over five innings. Skaggs, who reached the fifth inning for only the second time in his past three outings, walked three and struck out two.

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Joe Thatcher came on and walked pinch-hitter Jason Kubel to load the bases. Nick Vincent came on to retire Mike Jacobs on a soft foul popup to third and then gave way to Tommy Layne.

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Hill homered with one out in the bottom of the first to make it 3-1 but the Padres came right back in the second when Forsythe doubled home Richard, who had reached on a fielder's choice.

Johnson pulled Arizona to 4-2 with an RBI single in the fourth to score Upton, who had led off the inning with a double.

Chris Denorfia and Headley hit run-scoring doubles off Brad Bergesen in the sixth to extend San Diego's load to 6-2.

Upton tripled leading off the sixth and scored on a Paul Goldschmidt single to right. Goldschmidt went to second on a wild pitch and scored on a single to left by Johnson to make it 6-4.

Shoes are key to telling Kasson-Mantorville soccer players apart

Dave Bahr can be excused for looking at the ground frequently while he’s coaching the Kasson-Mantorville boys soccer team.

It’s not that he’s concentrating on the path of the ball, or that he is uncomfortable making eye contact with his players.

Bahr is just making sure that he knows who he’s looking at.

It’s not easy to do, considering there are a full house of familiar faces on Bahr’s K-M varsity team, the Pathoulas triplets over an identical pair of ReMine’s.

“My secret is they all wear different shoes,” Bahr explained. “Otherwise, I can’t tell the brothers apart. It’s confusing for our opponents and for the coach (Bahr) as well.”

Bahr just pays attention to the color-coding: Senior Ed ReMine wears silver shoes and his brother Sam wears black; sophomore Joe Pathoulas sports white shoes, and his brothers Chris and Nick wear orange and blue, respectively.

“We didn’t get different colored shoes so Coach Bahr could tell us apart; those were just the shoes we all liked,” Chris Pathoulas said. “But if it helps our coach, that’s a bonus.”

Bahr has been decoding the 6-foot-tall ReMine brothers for three seasons, after bringing them up to the varsity as sophomores in his first year as coach at K-M.

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Now, Joe is an assistant captain and Nick also starts, while Chris gets lot of playing time as a reserve. The Pathoulas brothers are all about 5-foot-6 and slightly built, still growing into their teen-age bodies.

The ReMine brothers and the Pathoulas brothers all agreed that having an identical sibling or two is fun and, at times, frustrating.

“I’d say it’s a mixture of all of it,” Ed Remine said. “We get to play a lot of tricks on friends and family. But sometimes I get annoyed when people come up and ask us if we’re twins, as if it’s not obvious. We like to tell people ‘no’ sometimes, just to see their reaction and if they believe it.”

Sam ReMine said that he and Ed are “just normal brothers” who do most of the same things, including playing basketball in the winter and track in the spring. They are both National Honor Society students and Knowledge Bowl participants.

“We’ve been looking at different colleges, but we’re probably going to go to the same school,” Sam said, noting they haven’t decided yet.

The Pathoulas triplets also describe a close-knit sibling relationship while growing up.

“It has always been very fun to have a lot of kids to play with in our house, but there has also been a lot of competition between us,” Chris offered.

“They tried to split us up a lot early on (at school), but then we always wanted to be in the same classes,” Nick explained.

“We have always played the same sports together, and on the same team,” said Joe. All three play baseball, but oddly enough they aren’t identical on the diamond: Chris is an outfielder who throws left-handed and bats left-handed; Joe is an outfielder who throws left and bats right; and Nick is a shortstop/pitcher who throws right and bats right.

“I believe we have been pretty good friends as brothers go,” Nick said. “We will always stay close.”

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“I think they’re pretty hard to tell apart, except for the different shoes on the field,” Chris Pathoulas said of the ReMine brothers.

“No, we can’t tell each other apart,”Ed ReMine admitted. “If we see each other in the halls at school, they will guess my name and will usually be wrong, and I’ll guess theirs and I’ll usually be wrong.”

Lexi Thompson back on top in Alabama

Lexi Thompson made a little more history Thursday in the Navistar LPGA Classic, opening her title defense with a career-best 9-under 63 to match the tournament record.

Last year, Thompson became the youngest champion in LPGA Tour history at age 16, winning by five strokes. Fifteen-year-old amateur Lydia Ko broke the record last month in the Canadian Women's Open.

Thompson had nine birdies in her bogey-free round on the links-style Senator course at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail's Capitol Hill complex. She missed only one green in regulation and had 26 putts.

"It feels really good getting a first round of 63 under my belt, but you just have to take it one shot at a time," Thompson said. "Can't get ahead of yourself in this game, so just going to hope to play like I did today for the next three rounds."

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She missed a birdie putt on the 18th hole by about 6 inches.

"I wasn't thinking about the course record, I was just trying to put a good stroke on it like every other putt," she said.

Lizette Salas and Hee Young Park were tied for second at 65 in the final full-field event of the year.

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"I love being here in Alabama," Thompson said. "I'm really comfortable out here. ... (The course) definitely rewards good shots, and that's what I like."

Thompson averaged more than 266 yards on the two measured driving holes.

"She really hits it far," said top-ranked Yani Tseng, Thompson's playing partner for the first two rounds. "On the par 3s, she's hitting a 9-iron and I'm hitting an easy 7. It was a lot of fun watching her."

Salas, 61st on the money list in her rookie season, had nine birdies and two bogeys in her best tour round.

"I started seeing camera guys coming up and I'm like, 'Uh, oh, here we go,'" Salas said. "The nerves always kick in. I just wanted to stay calm and do my thing. I got up and down on 18, and it was a good, solid day."

Hall of Famer Nancy Lopez has mentored Salas.

"It's just great to have the support from a Hall of Famer who you've looked up to not only on the golf side but outside of the golf course," Salas said. "She's just a great role model not just for me but for all the young players out here."

2012年9月19日 星期三

Turning Vegas into a hot spot for work

By the time he's through, he hopes to help create the world's largest co-working space -- where fledgling companies, independent entrepreneurs and angel investors toil in an informal cooperative setting -- and a thriving tech ecosystem of young start-ups while burnishing downtown's downtrodden reputation.

"It is the revitalization of the city's core," says Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman. "We're seeing the fruits of a dream that started with my husband."

Like so many entrepreneurs, Hsieh and his team of advisers are pursuing tech companies to jump-start the regional economy. An influx of tech start-ups has proved to be a driver for local businesses and an impetus for cultural enrichment. In San Francisco,Buyjacketswonderat Great Prices.A fashionreplicawatches is an item which is used to contribute, there are some 36,600 people who work in tech, up 13% from the dot-com peak in 2001, says real estate services firm CBRE. More than 500 start-ups have set up shop in Los Angeles and its environs.

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By the end of 2013, Zappos plans to relocate more than 1,500 employees from its suburban Henderson, Nev., headquarters, where it has been based since 2004, to Las Vegas' City Hall building downtown. The 300,000-square-foot campus, which broke ground in July and is under construction, can accommodate 2,000 workers.

"The idea went from 'let's build a campus' to 'let's build a city,'" Hsieh says in his soft voice.

Naturally, Hsieh wants as many Zappos employees to move downtown as possible, so one of the first uses of all that money was to snap up about 50 units in the 25-story The Ogden, one of the neighborhood's only luxury high-rise condo buildings.

Think of The Ogden as tech's version of New York's legendary Chelsea Hotel, known for its celebrity residents. But at The Ogden, engineers and technicians -- not artists and poets -- live and work side by side in a building that is equal parts dormitory and office complex.

One tenant, Romotive, wants to create the world's first affordable personal robot, for $150. Perched on the 21st floor, covering some 22,000 square feet, the transplanted Seattle start-up has sweeping vistas of the Strip. But the company's 18 employees aren't tempted by gambling, bars and other diversions. They typically work 18-hour days, eating and socializing with one another at the Ogden.

"We're building the strongest.culture here," says Romotive CEO Keller Rinaudo.

Online marketer Digital Royalty and Ticket Cake, a ticketing agency, are among The Ogden's other occupants.

A block away, Las Vegas Fashion Lab, a 5,600-square-foot co-working space, is about to open. "There's so much momentum and excitement," says owner Meghan Boyd. "Things are popping up on the grid."

The immediate neighborhood is dotted with several new businesses -- Le Thai restaurant, Tech Cocktail video production, the Coterie boutique, and the forthcoming Eat and Commonwealth restaurants. The crown jewel is the city-funded Smith Center, a $150 million theater currently home to a production of Wicked. Switch Communications opened a co-working space for midsize tech businesses in the southwest part of town.

To be sure, plenty of work needs to be done. There are pockets of vacant buildings, plenty of homeless people, and sirens from emergency vehicles puncture the night.

Still, longtime local businessman Michael Cornthwaite contends that "people go where the jobs and vibrant new businesses are."

Mother sentenced to 10 years for child neglect

Ebonee Bowers bent over in tears as she was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years behind bars for neglecting to take her child to get treatment after then-17-month-old Imani had been nearly fatally injured.

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Because of the deadlock, Judge Lawton McIntosh called a mistrial on the abuse charge but sentenced Bowers for the lesser neglect offense. He told jurors that another trial on the abuse charge was likely.

"It is but for the grace of God that you're not up here on murder charges," McIntosh told Bowers as he sentenced her.

Imani's skull was crushed in August 2010. The 3-year-old is now recovering with grandparents in Georgia and is being treated by several therapists.

Doctors testified that the numerous fractures were not accidental and Imani had some of the most severe and life-threatening injuries they had ever seen, worse than children who had fallen from rooftops or been run over by truck tires.

Bowers told sheriff's deputies that she had slammed Imani's head into the floor and stepped on her head while wearing white Crocs after becoming frustrated, but she made those statements in a confession she recanted shortly after signing it nearly two years ago.

No physical evidence was presented at the trial, which largely hinged on the disputed confession and an earlier statement in which Bowers said her child fell from counters or mattresses. Forensic tests of Bowers' shoes came back negative and doctors could not say exactly what had caused the injuries but they said stomping and slamming would be consistent with the skull fractures.

"I want to keep making positive changes in my life," said Bowers, a certified nursing assistant seeking to become a registered nurse. "I do apologize for my wrongs. At this time I know I was wrong."

Bowers said she wished she had taken Imani to the hospital immediately and acknowledged that she should have while strongly denying to the jury that she had ever harmed her daughter.

Bowers said she took Imani to AnMed Health's Minor Care offices, two days after first seeing a significant knot on the child's head and at least half a day after seeing the child's face swollen with bruises.

Imani could only groan and moan when she arrived at the minor care offices, where workers immediately sent the child to the emergency room and then she was flown to Greenville for treatment by a pediatric neurosurgeon.

Bowers' defense attorney, Bruce Byrholdt, contested the abuse charges. Byrholdt agreed that failing to treat Imani quickly was "unpardonable" but he said that Bowers was scared.

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Sue had cancer in 1996. The chemotherapy and radiation ended up damaging her heart and lungs, and she had trouble breathing, particularly when she was climbing stairs or walking any distance. She ended up in the hospital with congestive heart failure in 2004. "Although I could do pretty much what I wanted to do," she wrote, "I had to stop frequently to let my lungs catch up to my mind."

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When she first got sick, the borough approved a reserved parking spot in front of her home. "I have seen them all over," she wrote. "I would never think of parking in other people's spaces, even though I have a [handicap] placard and it is on a public street. It is still in front of someone's home, and I would guess someone there needs that spot.

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"Anyway, I thought maybe you might do a sort of 'public service' about handicapped spots if you think it is worth mentioning. it just upsets me that basically, people just don't care or just don't think."

I do think it's worth mentioning. I drove out there the other day to talk to Sue and saw the Reserved Parking sign, blue curbing and warnings of fines ranging from $50 to $200. It's not like you're going to miss it or the fact that it's right in front of her house.

It should go without saying that if you don't have a handicap placard or license plate, you shouldn't park in a handicap space anywhere or park in such a way that you restrict access to a handicap space. If you have any empathy at all, you'll recognize that Sacks — or, in the case of a public parking lot, anyone with a disability —needs that space way more than you do. Are you so self-centered that you think your convenience is more important than their health?

While I'm on the subject, I'll note that some disabilities are less obvious than others. Someone in a wheelchair or pushing a walker doesn't "deserve" a handicap spot any more than someone who has another condition that isn't immediately visible but still restricts his or her activities. So don't be quick to judge.Latested Styles of Nike authenticguccishoes, "You walk in my shoes," Sacks advised people, "and you'll have a whole different feeling about it."

Amy Beck, who uses a wheelchair and is executive director of the Lehigh Valley Center for Independent Living, has witnessed plenty of ignorant behavior, and she agreed that people without visible disabilities sometimes are misjudged. She said, "Disabilities come in every shape, size and impact on the individual, and it is not a constant state." For many of them, some days are much better than others, she said.

As for people who do have a handicap placard but aren't entitled to that particular space, I prefer to think ignorance is as much a problem as thoughtlessness. When you see one of those Reserved signs along a residential street, it's not for just anyone. I've attended health board hearings where they're debated and approved. It's designed to make sure this one person can park there.

For some people, Amy Beck pointed out, access to that space can be the difference between living independently in the community and being forced from their home.

2012年9月17日 星期一

Falling for the perfect apartment

This probably isn't news to anyone living in San Francisco, but our City by the Bay has the highest rent in the country, and the competition out there for an apartment is fierce. San Francisco rents have gone up about 15.8 percent from a year ago while rents in other parts of the country are rising with a rate of inflation of about 2.7 percent. While some argue that owners are taking advantage of the tech bubble to hike up the market value of their properties, but there are owners who resist the urge to cash in on the rental wars.

Darlene Carportillo is the owner of a Noe Valley building in San Francisco. She’s just had a tenant move out, and that means she can offer the apartment at market price, which works out in her favor. In this three-story building with sixteen units, all but three are rent controlled; tenants there pay between $400 to $700 per month. But Darlene's apartment is going for $1300, which she says is very reasonable.

If today's rental market were a war zone, the frontline is most certainly the open house. Darlene's preparing for her open house today and she's confident she'll get about 50 applicants in the one hour she's allotted.

"It's going to be utter mayhem," she says, "with applications, credit reports… It will definitely get rented today."

The open house has officially begun and a crowd of people is gathered at the front door. Many are dressed as they would be for a job interview – women wearing colorful silk skirts, and pumps; the men wearing clean t-shirts and tennis shoes instead of flip-flops.

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"If you know you want it, be prepared. Competition is so crazy,” says a young woman waiting for a chance to meet Darlene. “There’s an open house and a decision is made the next day."

One by one, applicants file into the tiny apartment unit, cramming into the bathroom to inspect the drawers, and pointing out how they would arrange their furniture.

I squeeze into the kitchen with the building owner, Darlene. A line has formed in front of her that wraps along the wall, out the kitchen door and down the hallway to the front door of the apartment. Applicants wait for a chance to shake her hand -– to make some sort of impression or even offer more money.

I asked Darlene how many people have asked to pay over what she was asking for the apartment.

"Eight people," she answers. "In addition to two people they asked to pre-pay it for a year and I said no."

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At $1300, most of the applicants left thinking this was a great deal. The city doesn't regulate how much a property owner can charge, just how much they can raise the rent each year once a lease is signed; the market value really is left up to comparing prices on Craigslist postings.

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Even so they still get comments from outsiders, such as “Where’s your mum?” “Why have you got two dads?” They are all cool with it, though, and I hope it doesn’t become a problem as they get older.

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2012年9月14日 星期五

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Fires at two accouterment factories in Pakistan larboard 283 humans asleep — abounding trapped abaft bound doors and barred windows — tragedies that highlight abode perils in a country area abounding barrio abridgement basal assurance accessories and owners generally allurement admiral to avoid the violations.

The blazes bankrupt out Tuesday night at a apparel branch in the southern anchorage city-limits of Karachi and a shoe architect in the eastern city-limits of Lahore. At atomic 258 humans died in the bonfire in Karachi, area accomplishment workers were still analytic Wednesday for bodies in the broiled building. Another 25 asleep in Lahore.

Panicked workers in Karachi had alone one way out back the factory's buyer had bound all the added avenue doors in acknowledgment to a contempo theft, admiral said. Abounding victims suffocated in the smoke-filled basement.

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Police were analytic for the factory's managers and placed the buyer on a account of humans who are not accustomed to leave the country, said Roshan Ali Sheikh, a top government official in Karachi.

"It is a bent act to lock the emergency avenue doors, and we are aggravating to apperceive who did it, and why," Sheikh said.

The bonfire started if a boiler exploded and the bonfire afire chemicals that were stored in the factory, which bogus jeans and added clothes for export. Between 300 and 400 workers were central if the bonfire erupted.

Many of the deaths were acquired by suffocation as humans trapped in the basement were clumsy to escape if it abounding with smoke, said Karachi bonfire arch Ehtisham-ud-Din.

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Others austere to afterlife as they approved to convulse through the barred windows.

"There were no assurance measures taken in the architecture design," said chief badge official Amir Farooqi. "There was no emergency exit. These humans were trapped."

Firefighters were still aggressive the bonfire Wednesday. The afterlife assessment acicular as they entered ahead aloof locations of the branch and begin array added bodies. The afterlife assessment stood at 258 by Wednesday evening, including a 10-year-old boy, said Sheikh. Another 31 humans were injured.

Rani Bibi said her two sons-in-law alleged Tuesday night to say they were trapped in the branch and asked her to acquaint their wives to yield acceptable affliction of their children. She hasn't heard from them since, and couldn't acquisition their bodies in any of the hospitals in the city.

"We don't apperceive area they are," said Bibi, tears abounding down her face. "I achievement to apprehend their voices. My two daughters' lives are ruined."

The bonfire that swept through the four-story shoe branch in Lahore larboard 25 humans dead, some from burns and others from suffocation, said chief badge administrator Multan Khan.

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Raza Rumi, an analyst at the Islamabad-based Jinnah Institute, said the bonfire in Karachi was one of the deadliest automated accidents in the country's history.

"It is cogitating of the absolute collapse of adjustment and the administration of activity laws in the country," he said.

The botheration has gotten worse in contempo years as the federal government handed over branch blank to bigoted authorities, but bounded governments bootless to advance legislation administration activity laws or basal assurance regulations, Rumi said. Abounding Pakistani factories abridgement even basal assurance equipment, such as alarms and sprinklers.

In Punjab province, area Lahore is the capital, authorities abolished activity inspections altogether in 2003 to advance a added "business-friendly environment," Rumi said.

It was cryptic whether acrimony over the fires in Karachi and Lahore will alert bigoted governments to focus on casual new activity regulations.

Abbot appear from Islamabad. Associated Press writers Zaheer Babar in Lahore and Rebecca Santana, Asif Shahzad and Munir Ahmed in Islamabad contributed to this report.

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It’s not surprising, given the timeframe of this recipe for making a diamond, that all the cliches relating to the gemstone are to do with timelessness, eternity, foreverness. Something of the sense of this immense expanse of time, in the creation of the stone we see, gives it its power and certainly its mystery.

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It might seem odd, therefore, to talk of current trends in relation to gemstones that have been millennia in the making. But there is an appetite for novelty even within the purlieu of timeless values, and one strong trend this year takes us well away from the classic single translucent sparkler and into exuberant, multicoloured pieces that might mix precious and semi-precious stones in floral or animal or even fishy patterns.

Another recent trend, which concentrates on association pieces, on nostalgia and references to the past, is hardly new at all. A previous owner or wearer, or the sense that a gem or a piece of jewellery has had a long and busy life, has always been an important part of its allure, as if its history lives inside it. Yet now designers seem to be embracing this aspect with unusual vigour. To celebrate the 80th anniversary of Coco Chanel’s first jewellery collection,We are a professional Jimmy Choo replicashoes. Chanel, for instance, is recreating pieces in the spirit of 1932 – or rather, in the spirit of Coco – and will be putting them on show during the Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris this week.

How complex the layering of associations can become was shown when in New York last year a famous pearl, La Peregrina, set records when it was sold as part of the collection belonging to Elizabeth Taylor. Its $11.8m price-tag was attributed to the Liz-effect that sent all her prices rocketing – but there is more to the story. The pearl’s biography goes back to the 16th century, when it was given to Mary Tudor on her engagement to Spain’s Phillip II. Later, Velazquez painted the pearl twice – around the necks of different Spanish queens.

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Famous gems often have a life story that is more interesting than those of its owners. No one would remember much about the American heiress Evalyn Walsh McLean if she had not for a time owned the great steel-blue Hope diamond, which she reportedly used to display at her Jazz Age parties hung around the neck of a Great Dane called Mike. She had been persuaded to buy it despite the fact that the Hope is reputed to carry a curse, and certainly Mrs McLean’s subsequent life was filled with tragedy – although she sensibly didn’t blame the diamond.

Perhaps the reputation came from the stone’s strange ability to absorb and then emit a red glow (a stain of blood?); or it may originate in the fact that, although it is still a mighty 45 carats, roughly the size of a bird’s egg, it was cut from a much bigger stone known as the the Tavernier Blue or the French Blue as it belonged to the French royal family,hublotreplica are full of unique and elegance. who famously lost their heads. But if every jewel Marie-Antoinette had ever worn was “cursed”, owners of beautiful gems would have been dropping like flies ever since. And the Hope’s story has a happy ending: in 1958 it was donated to the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC in an act of great generosity by the jeweller Harry Winston, who sent it to the museum in a brown-paper parcel via the US mail.