2011年8月22日星期一

Robbie Myers is spotted wearing Bottega Veneta to celebrate Elle’s 25th



Elle Magazine celebrated their 25th anniversary last night at the ELLE 25 Summer Cocktail Celebration held in Wainscott, New York. Editor in Chief of Elle Magazine Robbie Myers hosted the event and was spotted carrying a classic and highly coveted Love Knot clutch by Bottega Veneta. The famous fashion editor paired her classic black Love Knot clutch by Bottega Veneta with an on-trend lace cocktail dress which was flattering and perfect for the event.

Robbie Myers carried the Bottega Veneta Love Knot clutch in black. The Love Knot clutch is one of the famous Italian design house’s most iconic handbags. Bottega Veneta offers the Love Knot clutch in several woven fabrications including satin, leather and suede. The clasp on the top of the hard box frame has a “knot” shape which is instantly recognizable and Bottega Veneta’s signature clasp.

$2,000 for Korean hunk's cardboard body


JUST eight months ago, one was auctioned off for $6,686, another for $6,500.

They are not luxury handbags or diamond jewellery, but life-size cardboard standees of Korean heart-throb Kim Hyun Joong.

His fans had gone into a bidding frenzy last December when the items were put up for auction.

Proceeds went to international charity World Vision to help children suffering from Aids.

Yesterday, another Kim standee went under the hammer.

This time, though, response from the close to 2,000 fans was muted.

Most of them were more interested in snapping photos of the star.

The auction opened at $150 and closed at $2,000 after a mere five bids.

The money raised will go to One Life Fund, started by World Vision Singapore to provide education bursaries to young people here who have HIV or whose parents are HIV-positive.

Despite the weak bidding, the singer-actor, who is in town as the brand ambassador of beauty label The Face Shop, was surprised at the amounts offered.

2011年8月16日星期二

Despite a variety of musical and artistic offerings



Despite a variety of musical and artistic offerings, the crowd sizes throughout BAAM Fest were oftentimes lacking.
There were certainly bigger names on the schedule who brought out good-sized crowds, such as The Magic Math, The 911 Reporters and Jasper Coal. A few of the venues, such as Rogue Tavern and Speakeasy, held consistent numbers throughout the weekend as well.

But with many of the BAAMfest events, the crowds ranged from small to a mere handful; and even then, many of the bodies populating the venues were staff members or other musicians and artists rather than ticket buyers.

Underwhelming crowd sizes throughout the weekend were evidence that BAAMfest—still a festival that is learning and growing—has yet to overcome its biggest obstacle: marketing a conglomeration of musical/artistic products in a three-day package that Birmingham natives have separate access to throughout the year.

Based on the logistics of the first two BAAMfests, the festival organizers appear to be less concerned with showcasing a festival that will attract out-of-town ticket buyers and more focused on hosting an annual celebration of Birmingham’s musical and artistic purveyors where local entertainers can come together and support each other.

This leaves many questions about the future of the festival. BAAMfest has staked its claim as a festival that intends to return year after year; however, based simply on observation, an expanded festival platform in 2011 yielded a head count similar to —and perhaps even smaller than—its debut in 2010.

On the positive side, though, BAAMfest certainly has a product worthy of being showcased, and one that’s only getting better. Regardless of ticket sales, crowd sizes or other measured expectations, the second annual BAAMfest provided strong evidence that Birmingham has a thriving music and arts scene that is worth celebrating.

For all of these sofa revolutionaries



For all of these sofa revolutionaries the current class war rhetoric of Cameron and his ilk should sound like a trumpet blast that lets the cat out of the bag and removes the gloves. This is no inadvertent slip of revelation; Cameron’s ongoing tirade asserts a self-assured, authoritarian belligerence that must surely be comparable to Charles I.

The truth is that the Western Aristocracies have known for a long time that this kind of social eruption was the inevitable outcome of the activities they have engaged in (violent resource wars, plunder of pension funds, tax evasion and avoidance and other forms of extreme wealth concentration). They have been preparing for this for a long time; disarming the communities, dismantling the protections of rights in the legal system, militarising the police forces and filling their ranks with violent, corrupt thugs, equipping and preparing the military for social disorder, technologizing the systems of surveillance and social control and so on. What Cameron reveals is that they now feel primed and ready and they are up for a fight.

How thoroughly obscene it is that Britain’s ruling class, having committed a decade-long trail of violent crimes of destruction and theft on a vast scale abroad and all the while corrupting every social institution, plundering every social resource and desecrating every principle of social integrity at home in the service of insatiable, wanton greed these Eton educated, polished criminals in suits should denigrate the moral integrity of a deprived  and disadvantaged class who daily experience a world of psychological despair that their “betters” could never comprehend.

How thoroughly cynical and outrageous it is that this provocation to a confrontation they have long been stealthily preparing for should be an attempt to berate a class for its material deprivation and alleged moral inferiority.

As often happened in the age of wild capitalism

As often happened in the age of wild capitalism


As often happened in the age of wild capitalism, our house even survived a raider attack. A firm which used to sell “horilka” (vodka) and rent an apartment on the first floor for an office put its own lock on the door and decided not to let owners in.

If the residents of our house, including a parliamentary member, were not united in their actions, the bandits would not have given the apartments back to their legal owners.

In two decades, one young woman has died in our house, and two girls were born. Only one bride wearing a white wedding dress went out the building, leaving the staircase splashed with coins and candies. It was a daughter of the lawmaker who helped to kick out raiders.

Over the last 20 years, many neighbors undertook European-style renovations in their apartments and installed plastic windows. Many bought a car, and plenty of them occupy our yard now. Someone got a thoroughbred dog. Someone took advantage of high real estate prices before the 2008 financial crisis and sold an apartment.

Many in our house have broadband Internet and wi-fi service. Fewer people use landline phones, and the Ukrtelecom monopoly cut those from time to time for non-payment of the bills, no matter how small the overdue sum.

Not long ago containers to separate garbage collecting, for dry and organic wastes, appeared in our yard. That’s an environmental step that should have taken place years ago. One of the announcements near the entrance door informed recently that meters for hot and cold water would be installed in our apartments soon. That’s something that also should happen earlier.

Another announcement on the building says that each resident should come to Khreshchatyk, a housing and utilities enterprise, and sign new agreements to receive utility services despite the fact we had been receiving them for the last 20 years. It looks like a beginning of a housing war.

But let’s think about it tomorrow, after having a housewarming party and celebrating the 20th anniversary of our life in a new place.

2011年8月11日星期四

Cross-dressing Serial Thief Hits ClayCo Gas Station.


  The last two weeks have not been good for the BP station in the 51-hundred block of state Highway 85 in Clayton County.

   According to store personnel, over a recent ten day period nine customers had their wallets, handbags, and other possessions stolen from their cars at pump six.  At one point, they say, there were eight robberies in eight straight days.

   "Someone just ripped everything from me," sighed Nidra Dillon.  "My ID is gone; my social security cards; my children's social security cards.  It's just a big mess."

   Dillon says she had no clue she was being robbed... and she was there.  So were her kids.

   "I paid at the pump.  I never left my vehicle," she recalled.  "This guy was just that quick that he just reached his hand in there, and nobody ever even saw it. He was just that clever.  My children were in the car.  There's no telling what could have happened."

   The store's surveillance cameras were rolling, but the manager says the computer took a hit during a recent thunderstorm, and the video has been hard to retrieve.

    "He was passing the car, and he saw the window and the bag lying around, and he just jumped on the opportunity; and he got away with it," said store manager Talha Bin Mumtaz.  "I guess he had another urge the next day to do it again, and he's been doing it since then. And everyday there's a victim of that."

   Mumtaz says he thinks he recognized the suspect  as a local man who dresses in drag.

   And that would corroborate what Dillon's husband said he saw when he came back to the store looking for her wallet.

   "He said he wasn't sure if it was a male or female," she said.  "Now we know it was a male posing as a female who walked up to the car and crawled over to this lady's vehicle and was sticking his hand into the vehicle.  And (my husband) said that he started flashing his lights at him, and he took off running."

   Clayton County police say they have stepped up patrols and assigned a detective to the case but note that the majority of the victims did not file a police report.  The manager believes that's likely because the store is right off the interstate and that many of the victims were out-of-town travelers who simply wrote off the loss.

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2011年8月5日星期五

Minnesota duck hunters will see lots of changes

Minnesota duck hunters will see lots of changes in their season this fall, including an earlier opening day, earlier opening-day shooting hours and an earlier youth waterfowl hunt.

Bag limits for wood ducks and hen mallards will be higher than last year, according to the Department of Natural Resources. And north and south hunting zones have been added to provide additional hunting opportunity.

“We needed a change,” Tom Landwehr, DNR commissioner, said in a statement. “We heard from waterfowl hunters that they supported these changes, and with waterfowl hunter numbers at record lows, we don’t expect season changes to negatively affect breeding populations.”

The 60-day, six-duck-limit waterfowl season will open Sept. 24. Opening day shooting will start one-half hour before sunrise, as opposed to 9 a.m. in the past. And youth waterfowl day will be Sept. 10. Duck bag limits are consistent with most other states in the Mississippi Flyway.

“The changes are designed to maintain Minnesota’s waterfowl hunting tradition by increasing opportunity and better utilizing the federal regulatory framework set by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under which we operate,” Landwehr said.

The changes reflect input from a recently formed citizen waterfowl hunting focus group, according to the DNR.

This year’s earlier-than-usual opener will allow hunting when greater numbers of migrating wood ducks and blue-winged teal are around, yet maintains late-season opportunities.

Hunting north of Minnesota Highway 210 – the North Duck Zone – will be allowed continuously through Nov. 22. Hunters in the South Duck Zone – anywhere south of Highway 210 – will have a split season. Hunting in the South Zone will be allowed Sept. 24-25 to take advantage of early migrations, then close for five days. The season in the south
will resume on Oct. 1 and continue through Nov. 27, which is the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

Petaluma receptive to plastic-bag ban

Petaluma's City Council expressed support this week for a possible countywide ordinance regulating disposable carry-out bags, both plastic and paper, to reduce waste, pollution and environmental damage.

Representatives from the county waste management agency are seeking feedback from all Sonoma County cities to determine whether a unified county ordinance would gain support. The agency would fund an analysis of the proposal and defend any legal challenges if all county agencies unanimously support it.

Mendocino County supervisors voted in April to start an environmental impact report in a move toward banning plastic carry-out bags. Marin County, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Monica and Los Angeles County already have plastic bag prohibitions and impose small fees on paper bags.

The fees are intended to encourage consumers to use reusable shopping bags because of the environmental toll plastic and paper bags take on the environment.

Some retailers are preempting the trend, including Wal-Mart, which has discontinued the use of disposable bags at several stores, including the one in Ukiah.

County waste agency representatives told the Petaluma council that a unified county ordinance could be written in several ways, but likely would include a ban on plastic bags given by merchants and a fee on paper bags.

They said bans on plastic only have given rise to legal challenges.
The plastics industry opposes bans and has sued in several jurisdictions. Preparing environmental impact reports, rather than less formal analyses by government agencies, is an effort to ward off such challenges.

2011年8月2日星期二

Inflation then was higher

Inflation then was higher, 4.5 per cent also, and at that point the RBA was cutting aggressively. And so - but you are still saying that there's no case for them to cut aggressively this time?

No, I think we need to be careful about saying what would get them over - what we'd need to see in order to get them to cut rates. And I think a lot more would need to be seen in order to get to that conclusion.

In fact, we still think a rate hike will invariably occur, but in the early part of 2012. Now, I think you - as you rightly point out, what we've seen is a pretty marked deceleration, we think, in terms of both confidence indicators, tightening up of financial conditions more broadly - of course the currency's a large part of that; wealth indicators falling away as well. They're three very important dynamics that tend to drive economic cycles. And all those are flashing red.

Now, in terms of the deterioration in growth that we've seen - and of course we haven't got the June quarter data yet, but if it does come in something in the order of around about 0.8 per cent, because let's face it, the export re-acceleration due to the anticipated pick-up in coal exports out of Queensland just hasn't materialised.

We can see that very clearly in terms of the port data. You're looking at a number that may be in the order of about 0.8, 0.9, which would take the headline GDP number to a level that is very similar to where we got to in year-on-year run rate during the depth of 2009.
So, of course we can say there's distortions that are doing that, and there are, but the baseline is a little bit worse than trend.

A RISING star in the fashion world

A RISING star in the fashion world yesterday hailed tragic Alexander McQueen as her lost mentor.

But Judy Clark, 26, also paid tribute to her Uncle Donald for weaving the tweed that has helped her make her name.
Judy, from Fort William, started working for McQueen, who died last year, after graduating in fashion from Edinburgh's Heriot Watt University and writing to him asking for a chance to show off her design talent.

McQueen's skill in tailoring as well as his love of Scottish heritage and fabrics made it the perfect learning platform for Judy, who would run up samples for him, dye fabrics, make prints and sew outfits.

She was involved in the green dress McQueen designed for Sarah Jessica Parker to wear to the Sex And The City premiere.
She also met other high-profile industry names such as hat-maker Philip Treacy, who created Princess Beatrice's controversial headpiece for Prince William's wedding, and socialite Daphne Guinness, who was a close friend of McQueen's and had her own rail of outfits at the design studio.

Judy said: "I was a huge fan of Alexander McQueen. He was in and out of the studio but he was quite a private person.

"He had a big office with a pile of Nike trainers and he'd work with a cigarette in one hand while eating strawberries, his favourite things. It was amazing to be in his space.

"I got to see the archive collection he had in storage and see the true vintage McQueen as well. I learnt so much there, not just design but also how to run a business. He used some of the textile pieces that I used and I was delighted.

"I kept a diary of everything that I did and even the floorplan of how it all worked. I noted down everyone who came in and how a successful business like that works, it's great to look back on." For her interview with the designer she made a Harris Tweed jacket which she now calls her Miss McQueen piece.

It's so precious, because it got her the placement, that she says she'll never sell it.