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Becoming a Shire Brewmaster
Category Quest
One of the features that make The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar similar to City of Heroes is the use of titles (or in CoH parlance, “Badges”). If you’re a newcomer to LOTRO, then you may have noticed fellow adventurers having suffixes attached to their first names. Some may be called Leeroy Jenkins of Mirkwood, or Grunewald of Gondor.
Gameplay-wise, titles have no impact on how your character (if you’re looking for enhancements, you should look into Traits). Titles are merely bragging rights that you place beside your name, but that doesn’t stop the people of Middle-earth from pursing quests that will give them a name different from the next.
All characters start out with one title, but you’ll have to “assign” it first. The first you get is from your Nationality. If you decided that your Elf came from Lindon, then you get “of Lindon” after the Elf’s name. As you travel Middle-earth and gain more experience, you will earn a whole gamut of titles. You’ll get titles from slaying enemies, crafting, and even Monster Play.
Shire Brewmaster
The focus of this guide is in getting the Shire Brewmaster title. This makes you an expert in the beers and ales of the Shire. After all, any self-respecting Hobbit washes down his food with good ale. This title isn’t common as say, The Wary, so getting it would be a great idea. If you’re bored of pursuing Bane of the Barrows and killing Wights for a living, what are you waiting for? This uncommon title comes at a price—you’ll have to scour the Shire because it’s not that easy to get.
And how do you get this “kinda” rare title? You have to complete the five bartender quests that are available in the Shire’s five taverns.
The Bird and Baby
This pub is located in Michel Delving, one of the Shire’s subzones. Michel Delving is located in the southwest corner of the Shire. Just enter the pub and look for Carlo Blagrove the innkeeper. Blagrove will ask you to look for a recipe in the Great Smials, the ancestral home of the Took family in Tuckborough. Just where is Tuckborough? It’s on the east of Michel Delving.
The recipe you’re looking for is placed on a shelf in the library of the Great Smials. Once you’ve found the recipe, run back to Michel Delving and talk to Carlo Blagrove once more. You’ll get 90cp and Blagrove’s Brown, a type of beer. Get used to the liquor—you’ll get more as you finish the rest of the quests. After all, you are working towards the Shire Brewmaster title.
The Green Dragon
If you’re pursuing the Shire Brewmaster title seriously, then you should also run to The Green Dragon pub in Bywater. To get to Bywater, just go down the road that heads south in Hobbiton. Head inside the watering hole and look for Barmy Rootknot, the assistant innkeeper. Rootknot will send you on a quest to look for a lost brandy barrel (they call it the Dwarf-Barrel).
Where can it be found? It’s quite a trip, so begin traveling north through Hobbiton. The barrel is found in Lob’s Grove, which is northwest of Overhill and beyond Bindbole Wood. Yes, it’s that far. Just be careful of arachnids (like Bindbole Spinners and Weavers) and bears (like Big Black Bear and Foraging Wood Bear) that you’ll likely run into in Bindbole Wood. Enemy levels in this area range from 8-10.
The barrel is at the base of a pillar in Lob’s Grove, so keep your eyes peeled. After getting the barrel, head back to Bywater and end the quest by speaking to Barmy Rootknot. You’ll get 90cp and Green Dragon’s Breath Ale for your time.
The Floating Log
Frogmorton is a town located between Bywater and Budgeford. If you want to find The Floating Log, you have to travel to Frogmorton. When you do end up in Frogmorton, enter The Floating Log and look for Ponto Hopsbloom, its innkeeper. You see, Hopsbloom is entering the Four Farthings Brewing-moot, that contest that every innkeeper in the Shire seems to be joining. Hopsbloom will ask you to pick a dozen Frog Hops for his brew.
What are Frog Hops? They’re white flowers that grow in the marsh just north of Frogmorton. The travel involved is very light compared to the other quests, but beware of some level 9 Angry Hill Toads that could make life more difficult for you as you pick flowers. Run back to Hopsbloom when you have all 12 Frog Hops and you’ll be rewarded with 90cp and Toad’s Tongue Ale.
The Plough and Stars
So you’re more than halfway through the finished quests necessary to get the Brewmaster title. It’s time to run to Brockenborings, the town north of Frogmorton and west of Scary, an oddly-named town. Brockenborings is home to The Plough and Stars, one of the five taverns in the Shire. Your contact? Halson Tubwort, the innkeeper behind the bar.
Tubwort uses powdered gypsum as the secret ingredient of his ale, but his order hasn’t arrived. He wants you to run to Scary and look for Wilcome Tunnely to find out what happened. When you do get to Scary and find Tunnely, you’ll discover that the gypsum shipment was ambushed by goblins from north of Brockenborings.
So run to the north you must, and all the way into Greenfields. You’ll eventually find a goblin camp that you can choose to fight individually, or you can just look for the cart and get the gypsum. Either way, run back to Brockenborings when you’re done. You’ll be rewarded with 90cp and Wooly-Foot Stout, a strange type of beer that you can eat with a knife and fork.
The Golden Perch
Finally, the last of the five quests. You’ll have to visit Stock and find The Lotro gold Perch to earn the Brewmaster title. Stock is at the southeastern part of the Shire. Enter the last tavern and look for Gunderic Grubb. The quest is perhaps the toughest of the five, so make sure you’re well above level 10 when you attempt to finish it.
Grubb is waiting for a package of yeast being transported via a wagon, but it never arrived. Brigands from west of the Marish hijacked the wagon and you have to get it back. The brigand camp is named Narrowcleeve, and it’s in the hills south of Woodhall. To get a better idea of where it’s located, look at the Shire map and find the name “Green Hill Country.” The yeast package is somewhere under the letters “UN” in the word “Country.”
Narrowcleeve is the second brigand camp, and it’s up by the waterfall. You’ll probably run into Half-Orc Trappers so be careful. Things won’t be so easy because spawning is pretty fast within the camp—you must move fast. The Old Yeast is next to a level-11 brigand boss, so unless you’re a Burglar who can hide from foes, you’ll be in for a fight.
When you’ve taken the package, head back to Grubb for your reward. You’ll receive 90cp and Old Withywindle, another type of ale. Once you’ve finished all the quests, you gain the Shire Brewmaster title! Take note that you can finish the quests in any order. I just listed them out from west to east of the Shire. Enjoy your beer.
Aussie made products vanishing from shops
Aussie made products vanishing from shops
"THIS is Australian," says the salesgirl. "See here on the label? It says 'Designed in Australia'."
She is holding a leather handbag and letting me see only the top half of the label. The bottom half is obscured by her red-nail-polished thumbnail.
I look at her. Her thumb moves.
"Made in China, says the label.
She laughs. I can't tell if it's a guilty or an embarrassed laugh.
"All our stuff's made in Australia, to an extent, she says. "I mean, most of it's made in China - but we're a wholly Australian company.
"It's all designed here.
We're in Pitt St Mall in Sydney at 2.45pm and I'm conducting a little experiment: If I wanted to spend my $900 stimulus payment locally, could I find Australian-made goods worth buying?
Will I end up with nine pairs of ugg boots? I hate uggs.
In every shop, I ask if there are any Australian-made goods.
On every occasion I'm greeted with some degree of awkward throat-clearing or defensiveness.
"Oh, yeah, I know what you're saying, says one saleswoman. "I like to spend my money here too.
Staff tell me there's no Australian content in Hype, Witchery, Nine West, Esprit, Just Jeans, Oroton, Emporio and Strandbags. At Surf Dive 'n' Ski, they're selling green-and-gold thongs bearing the names Surfers Paradise, Bondi, Cottesloe, Maroubra.
All made in Brazil.
How about the flower stall?
"Ah, these ones are Singapore orchids - from Thailand, says the florist, holding up flowers so blue they're almost neon.
Laughing with an apologetic air, she adds: "Some of the others are from Africa.
In the 19 stores I visit, only seven have any Australian-made content - that's 36 per cent. Only one, Jurlique, is all-Australian.
A shop named Glue has an Australian-made Backstage dress for $119.99.
Portmans has a healthy stack of local clothes and at Soul Pattinson pharmacy, there's Le Tan, Sukin skin care and Nude by Nature makeup.
At Sussan, everything's made in Asia except the nail polish and the lip gloss.
Then I get to Borders and it seems a gleaming ray of hope.
Of 28 books on the new-release shelves by the door, only five are printed overseas.
It's an array of Australian-made words. Even the latest books by British authors Jeffrey Archer and Alexander McCall Smith are printed here. I'm delighted to discover such a beacon of localism, right here in the American chain store that locals love to revile.
Borders can't be that bad, if even the foreign books are Australian-made, can it?
But that situation exists only because of protectionism: a long-enduring ban on the parallel importing of books, which the Government is now considering axing because it keeps prices artificially high.
So in this little shopping strip we have a perfect encapsulation of the Australian economy.
There's a bit of manufacturing, a bit of protectionism, a fair amount of free trade - and an awful lot of embarrassment.
"We used to make it here but it's just too expensive now, one young salesman informs me. "It's all Australian ideas, though.
And that's the crux. It's just the reality of our modern economy, right? Australia is no longer really about making things. Manufacturing is 9.2 per cent of our gross domestic product. Mining is 10 per cent.
Agriculture is 2.6 per cent.
We're a services-dominated nation: retail, finance, law, tourism, education, transport, construction, hospitality.
The Pitt St shop girls are the economy, even when selling Singapore orchids from Thailand.
So why all the bashfulness?
Well, here's one reason: The shop girls know as well as I do that it's very hard to be sure about the conditions in those Chinese factories or Thai hot-houses. Are they as good as in Australian factories?
Do the workers get holidays? Are they paid fairly?
AussieBum underwear founder Sean Ashby is still horrified to recall the time he visited a Chinese manufacturer who wanted his business.
The showcase factory was clean, brightly lit and staffed by apple-cheeked employees taking regular tea-breaks.
Then he saw the real factory out the back: dirty, dark and stacked with bunk-beds.
That's one of the reasons it's cheaper to manufacture offshore. That's why Ashby keeps his production in Sydney.
And that should be the issue that concerns us. I don't care if products are made in Bangladesh or Bankstown as long as they're made by people treated decently.
We can't make everything here, or stand alone against the tide of globalisation. Protectionism won't protect us forever.
But we can be inquisitive about what we're importing. We can look beyond the embarrassment and think about how things are made.
We can read labels and ask questions in shops.
I haven't spent my $900 handout yet. Turns out half the ugg boots are made in China anyway. What a relief.
Best Man Wanted. Must Be Rush Fan
A man without a woman is like a pistol without a hammer, wrote Victor Hugo. But a romantic comedy without a female lead, well, that’s just a fine bromance and now Hollywood business as usual, as most recently demonstrated by “I Love You, Man,” a fitfully funny comedy that owes much to Judd Apatow, the king of such sublimated man-on-man affairs. Though Mr. Apatow isn’t officially credited, his DNA is all over this bromance, which stars Paul Rudd as a wuss who mans up by befriending a guy’s guy (Jason Segel) whose masculinity is so secure he wears ugg boots and shorts to walk his wee dog.
Though he shares the soft-body profile of the typical Apatow hero — a gentle belly swell, the suggestion of an A-cup — Mr. Segel has butched up somewhat to play Sydney Fife, a surprising object of platonic affection for Peter Klaven (Mr. Rudd). The last time Mr. Segel appeared on the big screen was in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” in which he played the feminized hero, a man who cries over his broken heart.
In that film he’s so coded female that his new (female) love interest jokes, “I can see your vagina” when he balks at jumping off a cliff into the ocean. Here, though, it’s Mr. Segel who plays gender police and deploys the requisite gyno-joke by affectionately telling Peter to take his tampon out, guy-speak for chill.
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staying at Washington hotel
WASHINGTON — With all the warnings about traffic restrictions and human congestion surrounding inauguration activities, shoppers could be scared off from venturing out to the stores to buy that new evening bag for a ball or commemorative baby bib to bring back home.
Guests at the St. Regis Hotel, however, have no excuse. A miniature version of a Neiman Marcus department store has been set up in the lobby since Thursday and it will remain open until the last ballgoers have their Manolos shined and their bow ties tied.
And what if you can't make that perfect bow? Young women in gowns are on hand in the evening to do it for you on your way out the door.
Female party attendees - or those happy to watch festivities on one of the many TVs set up at every turn in the hotel, including the lobby, bar and restaurant - can sidle up to the Eye Bar for eyelash application or a makeup touchup, for free.
"The makeup artist has been very, very busy," said St. Regis general manager Laura Schofield.
It's sort of like the Hollywood suites set up for celebrities during awards season - but these people are paying.
There have been brisk sales of cold-weather gear like cashmere scarves and ugg boots. Schofield predicts commemorative gear will become the focus once Barack Obama takes the oath of office, and Neiman Marcus' Bonnie Mann, normally the women's coat and sport shop at the store in Mazza Gallerie, notes that backless bras and hosiery - last-minute ball essentials - are stocked.
She also has sold a fur cape and expects to ring up a draped red Vicky Tiel Couture gown for $4,830. The potential customer had taken it up to her room to try it on.
"When you're in a hurry to get somewhere and get packed, you're going to forget something," Schofield said. "If Neiman Marcus doesn't have it here, they will hop on the Metro and get it for you from the store."
This is the first pairing between the retailer and hotel, but Schofield plans to do it again for other big events. The in-hotel shop has also attracted locals who didn't want to go farther than they had to in this unusually chilly snap of weather, she said.
Saks Fifth Avenue is offering similar in-hotel boutiques in the two Washington Ritz Carlton Hotels and a makeover service at the Fairmont Hotel.
with cunning: Phillip Morris
The Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez once wrote that, "one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them."
The 81-year-old Nobel Laureate has a wife and two sons. If Marquez had had a daughter, I'm not so sure he would have written such a clinical assessment. A daughter's love is different from a son's.
Men often form close friendships with their sons, friendships that in some ways resemble the loving relationship they might have with a family pet or a remote control. The relationship is simple and transparent.
But daughters present a different set of challenges. The father-daughter friendship is more one-sided and complicated. The clever daughter quickly learns to reduce the disparity in age and experience of the father to level the playing field in her favor.
She does this by constantly testing and winning her father's heart. She hones her conspiracy by becoming a perpetual flirt. From the time she comes to understand the power of the word, "Daddy," she uses the expression to her advantage and stealthily takes control of the friendship.
She uses the word and all that it implies to constantly reassure her "Daddy" that she loves him and, more importantly, needs him. She uses it when she prepares to spring surprises. She uses it lyrically and softly whenever she wants something.
The most highly skilled and manipulative daughter can magically turn the word into a gentle command.
This sort of "friendship" maneuvering does not work on mothers, unless perfected by a son. Women understand the cunning that courses through a young girl's veins. Where fathers see innocence, mothers recognize trickery. Mothers are immune to the traps girls set for fathers but are sometimes willing to assist them in their deceit.
I learned this lesson in "friendship" again this past Christmas. This time the lesson came with a boot.
I had never heard of ugg boots before Friday, Dec. 19. I had seen the boots on women and teenage girls, but I had no idea what they were or how much they cost.
I was mostly struck by the boots' ugliness and the willingness of some women to wear them in the summertime with shorts or pajamas.
But when I heard Faith's mother tell her, in no uncertain terms, that there would be no ugg boot for Christmas, I should have recognized the fix was in.
Faith, who rounds her age up to 10, shot me a glance that was both pensive and authoritative. But she said nothing.
"Your feet are still growing and I will not pay that much for boots. Maybe you'll get a knock-off brand, if they're not already sold out," she continued.
I'm now convinced they were ugg co-conspirators. The child silently played me like the viola she tucks under her chin whenever she conspires to soften my resistance. Her mother assisted.
The next day, I bought Faith her $160 pair of uggs.
I knew it represented conspicuous consumption. But I rationalized. It's winter in Cleveland. She needs these overpriced, ugly boots, I thought.
No, she didn't.
But that's what daughters do:
They carefully raise their daddies.
Amend the Bylaws
I thought my legacy as a Sun columnist would be about something big. I thought it would be about God.
I eschewed the notion that there is order in the universe. I dismissed the idea that we have a larger purpose on this earth. I said I didn’t believe in God. And people were OK with it.
Two weeks later, I said I didn’t “believe” in sororities. Shit hit the fan.
If I was dreaming of apocalyptic fallout before, I found it here, in response to a column that, if anything, I feared was too trite and too insignificant to publish.
The very next day, a guest columnist wrote of my alleged “implication that sorority women sit around like perfect China dolls waiting for a potential husband to smack [them] around.”
Another columnist commended me, but misinterpreted my article to be an attack on sorority girls — on their supposed “dress-code” and penchant for “Ugg boots” — on their behavior as “a bunch of rich, catty girls counting calories and competing for husbands.”
Friends asked if these responses upset me. Not their presence in the paper, certainly. But what I found troubling was the absence of fruitful discussion.
Aha, I thought, when I heard that the Interfraternity and Panhellenic Councils were preparing responses. Here was where the real debate would happen. Here — on center stage, in front of the Cornell community — our Greek leaders would step out and take charge.
Examines Love and Bromance
Never has “bromance” seemed so sweet. “I Love You, Man” brings the love of two heterosexual men together… in a totally platonic way. And, no, it’s not just another Judd Apatow movie.
The film’s humor came mostly from witty little comments and the awkward nature of Rudd’s character. It’s quite entertaining to watch him squirm having the hardest time leaving a phone message to Sydney and saying things like, “Call me when you get a mo.” He makes up horrible nicknames like Jobin and continues to do imitations despite the fact that they all sound strangely similar to a leprechaun. Rudd pulled off the awkwardness well and really held up the starring role of the film. It’s about time, Hollywood. He should have had a part like this sooner.
Segel’s character was also a pleasant surprise. I didn’t expect much from him since I wasn’t all that impressed with “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” as so many seem to be. The film’s marketing made Sydney look a lot crazier than he actually turned out to be. He was eccentric, but believable. Crude, though less obvious than Segel’s role in “Marshall.”
Fife spews opinions on everything, wears Ugg boots on the beach and even has a puggle named Anwar Sadat- because he looks like him. According to IMDb.com, the dog is actually named Anwar Sadat. His motto of sorts also brought a bit of humor and a sort of explanation for why he is the way he is: “I’m a man; I have an ocean of testosterone flowing through my veins.”
The film really was, to me, a character movie. There are a lot of great small parts that really provide a lot of the film’s comedy. Some of my favorites were Jaime Pressly and Jon Favreau, who played Zooey’s best friend and her husband. Their little bickering and obviously miserable marriage (outside the bedroom) was actually really entertaining to watch.
Robbie Savage back in shop window as Nigel Clough picks him to face Manchester United
Less than three months ago, Robbie Savage was spending time during his loan period at League One side Brighton and Hove Albion mulling over the possibility of a move to Lebanese club Al-Ansar in an attempt to prolong his career.
Fast forward to the present, and the midfielder is back at Derby County, with the opportunity of assisting the club to the Carling Cup final at Old Trafford on Tuesday night, after their astonishing 1-0 win at Pride Park nearly a fortnight ago.
But for the arrival of Nigel Clough as new manager of Derby County two weeks ago, Savage would probably have been shopping for a new pair of ugg boots in Manchester rather than making it into the stadium. As it is, Clough's arrival has brought Savage back in from the cold, an experience he has likened to being pardoned from enforced exile in Siberia. It has saved him some money in the process, he jokes.
"The gaffer has saved me a lot of dough because I am usually in Manchester shopping, spending my money," Savage said on Monday. "Under the previous manager I knew no matter how hard I trained I wasn't going to play.
"I thought I would never play for Derby again and I wouldn't have if [Paul] Jewell was still the manager – no matter how well I trained.
"I would be going out in the street and people were saying, 'Who are you playing for now?' I was made to feel that low on confidence and that bad a player that I was looking an any option possible. I went from Siberia to Beirut."
What better opportunity for Savage to prove his worth this evening than against the club where he was a trainee, and against former team-mates Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes, who he describes as the "best two Premier League players ever".
However, while the 34-year-old is restoring his own confidence under Clough, the rest of his team-mates seem to have stalled in their attempts to rebuild their own self-belief.
Their 2-0 defeat at home to Queens Park Rangers on Saturday was their third in a row in the league, and revealed "the deep-rooted" structural flaws that have caused the side to fall to fifth from bottom in the table, leaving their manager to accept his former side would have performed the basics better.
"The lads at Burton were better at doing certain things," Clough confessed. "No player in the lower leagues would have made those basic mistakes on Saturday. I have been in a state of shock for the last 48 hours."
Yet while he accepts that his side's confidence is low, he does believe the fact that they have little pressure or expectations on them to win tonight will only help them.
"We were expected to beat QPR at home, and in the home match here [against United] we weren't expected to get anything," he said. "With the way the players are at the moment, that almost suits them. I think they would rather be going to Old Trafford than Blackpool or Barnsley." Buy cheap ugg boots.
The art of planning
As a student, you may find yourself spending more time planning than doing anything else. A typical day may involve devising a study timetable; thinking that you really ought to ring your parents; emailing friends about where to go for a night out; writing an essay plan; deciding what to do with the rest of your life; going through the TV schedules; and planning to get out of bed.
One useful way to start is to buy a diary. Creative types worried that planning is for squares might like to buy different coloured pens for different activities. But resist the temptation to buy different diaries for different facets of your life. You will waste too much time trying to decide which bit of your life goes where and remembering where you put the right diary to note it down.
Then you need to think about goals.
If you make these too vague, such as wanting to be rich, or too ambitious, such as wanting to be prime minister, you will need to break them down into smaller, more precise goals, such as getting a part-time job or completing a politics assignment. Visualise yourself achieving the goal and then work backwards, visualising each likely step. Think about problems you might face and how to tackle them. Don't be tempted to give up in favour of the TV schedules.
The next step is to draw up a to-do list. Actually, you may need several. One should focus on long-term goals - a list of things you need to do before you reach No 10, such as joining a political party, delivering leaflets, getting elected. Another could look at what you need to do that term, such as paying the electricity bill, finding out where the library is and cleaning the bathroom.
Then you should make daily to-do lists. Don't make the list too detailed because the longer it is, the less likely you are to do it, and the more likely you are to feel a failure, and the bigger the chance of descending into despondent chaos.
Do put the most important things at the top, as you will need to tackle those first. And plan to do the bits first that you really don't want to do.
Any kind of planning demands a similar approach. When it comes to drawing up a study programme, essay plan or night out, the first thing to do is define what you want to achieve, then think about how you are going to get there, then set yourself precise tasks.
For example: goal - attend night out in pub without spending entire termly budget, trashing new ugg boots, texting your ex. Route - eat beforehand, avoid drinking spirits, decline offers to dance on tables. Precise task - put on pasta water, delete ex's number from phone.
Keep reminding yourself of your plans. Don't worry too much if you find yourself veering off course - it is important to be flexible, and your goals may change as your research, or evening, progresses. But do keep track of your achievements. The problem with planning is that it isn't half as difficult as carrying out what you've planned.
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I love eBay.
Despite Craigslist and a soft global economy, the Internet's wonderful, perpetual yard sale and auction house still is going strong.
Apparently, there always will be a market for used Iphones, slightly worn Ugg boots, a potato chip shaped like Jay Leno's head or a jar of wind captured during Tropical Storm Fay.
In a move as creative and "outside-the-box" as it comes, the Martin County Artificial Reef Foundation — a 501c(3) organization — is hoping the cyberspace trading post will be an avenue to raise funds for the deployment of another artificial reef project this summer.
If the final details of the bidding contract can be worked out — possibly this week — eBay window shoppers will be able to place bids on having a reef named for their choosing.
The reef builders will need a bid upward of $20,000 to get the job done. That would buy a lot of waffles displaying the shape of the Virgin Mary.
Kim Sterin hosts Research Symposium at University of Maryland
Kim Sterin, a graduate of Archmere Academy, The Independence School and longtime Delaware resident, recently produced the Honors Humanities’ 2nd annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at the University of Maryland, College Park. The daylong conference was centered on the theme of “Re-imagining the Political Sphere: Critical Thought and Social Justice in Everyday Life” which aimed to engage participants in open dialogue about new approaches to politics with an investment in creating a more socially just world. The research presented reached beyond the traditional notion of politics by recognizing the political issues present in all facets of life from identity construction to popular culture. It featured 14 panel discussions and a keynote speaker, Dr. Diana Owen of Georgetown University. Kim also participated as a panelist and presented her two year long Keystone project, a requirement as a President’s scholar in the Honors Humanities program at Maryland. This subset of the Honors program is regarded as the premier program at the University and is limited to talented undergraduates with interests in the humanities and creative arts. The rigorous and specialized curriculum explores the dynamic history of the humanities, practical applications in the arts, and foundational issues in the disciplines of the humanities. Kimberly’s deans list performance in this program culminated with the book she published of original poetry along with critical essays about contemporary American culture. Entitled, “Busting through the Billboards with my Ugg boots” it creatively directs transformational thinking about American consumer culture and its effects on everyday life. She is the daughter of Jay and Maryann Sterin and will earn undergraduate degrees in both English and Spanish in 2011, along with a citation in Honors Humanities and the Jimenez-Porter Writer’s House.
Huntsville's Monday crime report
• Police who stopped a vehicle at University and Meadow drives confiscated a bag of marijuana and a .45-caliber Taurus handgun. • A Remington .12-gauge shotgun and ugg boots valued at $250 were stolen from a Chevrolet Sierra parked outside Shogun Japanese Steak & Sushi, 3991 University Drive. • A convenience store customer in the 5000 block of N. Memorial Parkway tried to pass a counterfeit $50 bill. • Three bowling machines valued at $4,500 were stolen from a business at 2000 Country Club Ave. • Police confiscated a bag of marijuana and a partially smoked marijuana cigarette from a vehicle outside a Sparkman Drive business. • One of two drivers involved in a wreck at Jordan and Shields roads left the scene. The accident damaged the bumper of a Ford Ranger driven by a 16-year-old boy. The report says the other driver may have been drinking. • A 1995 Lexus was stolen outside a Pulaski Pike convenience store. • A purse was stolen from a vehicle in a Jordan Lane parking lot; police later recovered it, along with $47.29. • A 1995 Ford valued at $7,000 was stolen from an Argyle Road home. • Someone was cited for misdemeanor marijuana possession after police found a bag of pot and a partly-smoked marijuana cigarette on Meridian Street. • Police investigated the death of a 76-year-old black female at a home at 503 Eastbrook Drive. • During a stop at Garvin Road and Green Hill Drive, officers searched a vehicle and found eight rocks of crack cocaine and a set of scales. The owner was charged with felony cocaine possession. • Two Sony digital cameras, $50 and miscellaneous clothes were stolen from a home in the 500 block of Bob Wade Lane. • Police who stopped a pickup truck at Alabama 53 and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard confiscated a Cobra .380-caliber handgun, seven .380-caliber bullets and 26 bullets for a 9mm handgun. The driver was charged with carrying a pistol without a permit. • A 40-year-old black male was reported missing from his home on Forsythe Drive.
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'Ladyboys' roused to devour the gods of our imaginations
In an ideal world, you'd think Saturday would mark the decommissioning of cliche. You'd hope it would deposit a stark, bailiff's squiggle under the little, satirical jibes we so enjoy at Leinster's expense.
After all, they roughed up just about everything we mistook for knowledge in Croke Park. It was like seeing Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen cut loose with a chainsaw.
See, we still can't really help ourselves.
As evening bled into night across Dublin, it was quite something to sweep down towards O'Connell Street, this strange blue army tramping in a blur of Chinos and dockers and Ugg boots.
Odd, plummy voices pierced the air with cries of revolution, people who wouldn't ordinarily get vexed in the presence of a burglar now marching with chests expanded like great bay windows.
"I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams," says Andy Dufresne in 'The Shawshank Redemption'. Now Leinster know it is, Andy. First time you see it, it's bluer than a field of cornflowers.
What did Saturday tell us? Maybe that even the most lampooned and put-upon creature eventually locates a temper. The much derided 'ladyboys' devoured a side we had, in our imaginations, put up somewhere with the gods.
In our understanding, Munster, you see, stood for everything that was real and identifiably heroic in rugby. Leinster amounted to a grandiose conceit. We just gathered to watch nature do its cull.
Virginia man charged in scheme to cheat broker-dealers
Scott Matasar, a partner in Calfee, Halter & Griswold’s litigation department who represented McDonald Investments in its arbitration to retrieve the money, said he turned over his findings to the government in November 2006 after realizing that Mr. Daly had a pattern of bilking brokers of their funds.
“He’s a con artist,” Mr. Matasar said. “He’s done the exact same thing to other firms. This guy is a bad apple, and he shook down a lot of financial institutions.”
Mr. Matasar said he was “delighted” to learn that charges were filed. He said Mr. Daly had had a good relationship with the firm for several years, having positioned himself as an investment advisor to high net-worth individuals who wanted to remain anonymous, before the problem with Decker Outdoor Corp., the maker of Ugg boots.
No contact information for Mr. Daly in Orange, Va. — his home, according to the government charges — could be found.
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NEW YORK It's probably safe to retire - or at least put to rest for a long winter snooze - your skinny-leg pants. Once the first signs of spring start to stir, the favored silhouette will be loose.
"Wide pants - if you invested in the dramatic floppy-leg pant that just skims the ankle, you are in luck. These are still a big trend," said Avril Graham, executive fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar.
That's the thing about fashion: Almost every look comes back, even if it's slightly tweaked.
Take uggs, for example. Constance White, eBay style director, said the cozy, furry boot is already a must-have item again for many women - and it's a trend driven by consumers.
"The fashion gods forgive me: I will not throw out a pair of ugg boots. . . . They dipped - came off the radar and weren't 'it' anymore - but they've had the huge rise in popularity again, White said.
Some other likely top (and not) looks of 2009:
· Sandy neutrals and tropical colors are likely to make a splash, but there might be a changing of the guard for regal purple, which has reigned for a few years. Painterly prints had a shorter run, but Graham said they too are on their way out. "Best to look for sweet florals," she advised.
· Safari styles, whether they're vintage Yves Saint Laurent or new Banana Republic, are enjoying a high point on their arc of popularity. That's good news, said Graham, because it's an easy look for most women to wear.
· The 1980s continue to inspire and haunt fashion, but if you ever wore harem pants and highlighter colors the first time, you might consider giving only a wink to the decade with a bangle bracelet or fluorescent accessories.
· A low-platform heel is a shoe that takes you through every season and most occasions, said eBay's White. Extreme platforms can get tossed, but hold on to all your peep-toe shoes, she advised. The popular gladiator-style sandal will triumph again this summer, but it'll be even more aggressive looking with higher heels.
· The big-statement necklace popular last year is still a trend, but it's one you can cut back on. "If you've accumulated three or four, part with two of them," White said. "Instead hold on to any bracelets - cuffs or stacking bracelets, especially. They're fresher, new and they're going to be hot right through spring and summer."
· Logos are out and subtlety is in. "It's not the right time for flash," Graham said. cheap ugg boots .
Student hurt during bad weather
In spite of hourly checks last week of the campus status information page as well as my eden mail for a possible note from my professor, I realized there was, in fact, class. I decided, in spite of my better judgment, to head out to my 7:40 p.m. “Sociology of Deviant Behavior” class in Murray 221. I had my trusty snow boots with the all-terrain grip soles and I thought nothing could possibly happen in the two blocks between my close apartment and Murray. The University had surely cleared the paths.
“Maybe when I get there, it’ll be canceled. I just can’t imagine the University not canceling class in this weather, as there is more than 6 inches of fresh snow.” These were the thoughts in my head as I crossed George Street and headed toward Murray across Vorhees Quad. The ground was deceptively slick, as the earlier snow had frozen to a sheet of ice topped by seemingly innocent fresh powder. As I rounded the corner after passing Scott Hall I slipped for the first time, a victim of the slight downgrade. Mostly just embarrassed, I thanked the good Samaritans who had stopped to check that I was OK and brushed myself off.
Another 20 feet or so down the central path that leads right up to Murray Hall, I was feeling good. Slippery, yes, but I was walking slowly and carefully. All of a sudden, the uneven pavement got me again. Boom! Busted my butt again... this time less gracefully, and I landed rather hard on my left wrist. One of the same good Samaritans asked, “Where are you going? Do you need help?” I assured him I would be fine to make it to Murray — which I was, as it was only about ten feet away.
Finally reaching the inside of the building, I shook off the cold and realized, holy mother of God, my wrist hurt! Looking down, I noticed my wrist was about the size of a baseball and rather lumpy. Having come this far, I walked upstairs and told my professor that I was afraid I had hurt myself and would like to go get checked out. He, very graciously, let me leave class. I crossed the quad without incident this time, noticing that the University had finally decided to do something about the snow; there was a pickup truck plowing the walk. No salt, just plow. I then walked to the hospital in a great deal of pain.
It is now two hours later and I have just arrived home from Robert Wood Johnson ER, where the nice orthopedic doctors took my x-rays and were kind enough to diagnose me with a fractured wrist — all because the University was too cavalier with their weather preparations. Who needs salt when you can plow? Sand? Pfft! We laugh at your amateur desire for traction. I cannot fathom that I am the only person who had an issue with this Wednesday, given the predilection of the female student body for fashionable yet wholly unsafe ugg boots.
So thank you, Rutgers. I got a whole slew of new experiences today. I fell trying to go to class. I became an ER patient. I broke my first bone! Just thought I’d share how much your preparation meant to me!
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Mary O’Rourke rode to the defence of her Fianna Fáil sister
In an ideal world, you'd think Saturday would mark the decommissioning of cliche. You'd hope it would deposit a stark, bailiff's squiggle under the little, satirical jibes we so enjoy at Leinster's expense.
After all, they roughed up just about everything we mistook for knowledge in Croke Park. It was like seeing Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen cut loose with a chainsaw.
See, we still can't really help ourselves.
As evening bled into night across Dublin, it was quite something to sweep down towards O'Connell Street, this strange blue army tramping in a blur of Chinos and dockers and Ugg boots.
Odd, plummy voices pierced the air with cries of revolution, people who wouldn't ordinarily get vexed in the presence of a burglar now marching with chests expanded like great bay windows.
"I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams," says Andy Dufresne in 'The Shawshank Redemption'. Now Leinster know it is, Andy. First time you see it, it's bluer than a field of cornflowers.
What did Saturday tell us? Maybe that even the most lampooned and put-upon creature eventually locates a temper. The much derided 'ladyboys' devoured a side we had, in our imaginations, put up somewhere with the gods.
In our understanding, Munster, you see, stood for everything that was real and identifiably heroic in rugby. Leinster amounted to a grandiose conceit. We just gathered to watch nature do its cull.
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Virginia man charged in scheme to cheat broker-dealers
Scott Matasar, a partner in Calfee, Halter & Griswold’s litigation department who represented McDonald Investments in its arbitration to retrieve the money, said he turned over his findings to the government in November 2006 after realizing that Mr. Daly had a pattern of bilking brokers of their funds.
“He’s a con artist,” Mr. Matasar said. “He’s done the exact same thing to other firms. This guy is a bad apple, and he shook down a lot of financial institutions.”
Mr. Matasar said he was “delighted” to learn that charges were filed. He said Mr. Daly had had a good relationship with the firm for several years, having positioned himself as an investment advisor to high net-worth individuals who wanted to remain anonymous, before the problem with Decker Outdoor Corp., the maker of Ugg boots.
No contact information for Mr. Daly in Orange, Va. — his home, according to the government charges — could be found.
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"Wide pants - if you invested in the dramatic floppy-leg pant that just skims the ankle, you are in luck. These are still a big trend," said Avril Graham, executive fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar.
That's the thing about fashion: Almost every look comes back, even if it's slightly tweaked.
Take uggs, for example. Constance White, eBay style director, said the cozy, furry boot is already a must-have item again for many women - and it's a trend driven by consumers.
"The fashion gods forgive me: I will not throw out a pair of ugg boots. . . . They dipped - came off the radar and weren't 'it' anymore - but they've had the huge rise in popularity again, White said.
Some other likely top (and not) looks of 2009:
· Sandy neutrals and tropical colors are likely to make a splash, but there might be a changing of the guard for regal purple, which has reigned for a few years. Painterly prints had a shorter run, but Graham said they too are on their way out. "Best to look for sweet florals," she advised.
· Safari styles, whether they're vintage Yves Saint Laurent or new Banana Republic, are enjoying a high point on their arc of popularity. That's good news, said Graham, because it's an easy look for most women to wear.
· The 1980s continue to inspire and haunt fashion, but if you ever wore harem pants and highlighter colors the first time, you might consider giving only a wink to the decade with a bangle bracelet or fluorescent accessories.
· A low-platform heel is a shoe that takes you through every season and most occasions, said eBay's White. Extreme platforms can get tossed, but hold on to all your peep-toe shoes, she advised. The popular gladiator-style sandal will triumph again this summer, but it'll be even more aggressive looking with higher heels.
· The big-statement necklace popular last year is still a trend, but it's one you can cut back on. "If you've accumulated three or four, part with two of them," White said. "Instead hold on to any bracelets - cuffs or stacking bracelets, especially. They're fresher, new and they're going to be hot right through spring and summer."
· Logos are out and subtlety is in. "It's not the right time for flash," Graham said. cheap ugg boots .
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In spite of hourly checks last week of the campus status information page as well as my eden mail for a possible note from my professor, I realized there was, in fact, class. I decided, in spite of my better judgment, to head out to my 7:40 p.m. “Sociology of Deviant Behavior” class in Murray 221. I had my trusty snow boots with the all-terrain grip soles and I thought nothing could possibly happen in the two blocks between my close apartment and Murray. The University had surely cleared the paths.
“Maybe when I get there, it’ll be canceled. I just can’t imagine the University not canceling class in this weather, as there is more than 6 inches of fresh snow.” These were the thoughts in my head as I crossed George Street and headed toward Murray across Vorhees Quad. The ground was deceptively slick, as the earlier snow had frozen to a sheet of ice topped by seemingly innocent fresh powder. As I rounded the corner after passing Scott Hall I slipped for the first time, a victim of the slight downgrade. Mostly just embarrassed, I thanked the good Samaritans who had stopped to check that I was OK and brushed myself off.
Another 20 feet or so down the central path that leads right up to Murray Hall, I was feeling good. Slippery, yes, but I was walking slowly and carefully. All of a sudden, the uneven pavement got me again. Boom! Busted my butt again... this time less gracefully, and I landed rather hard on my left wrist. One of the same good Samaritans asked, “Where are you going? Do you need help?” I assured him I would be fine to make it to Murray — which I was, as it was only about ten feet away.
Finally reaching the inside of the building, I shook off the cold and realized, holy mother of God, my wrist hurt! Looking down, I noticed my wrist was about the size of a baseball and rather lumpy. Having come this far, I walked upstairs and told my professor that I was afraid I had hurt myself and would like to go get checked out. He, very graciously, let me leave class. I crossed the quad without incident this time, noticing that the University had finally decided to do something about the snow; there was a pickup truck plowing the walk. No salt, just plow. I then walked to the hospital in a great deal of pain.
It is now two hours later and I have just arrived home from Robert Wood Johnson ER, where the nice orthopedic doctors took my x-rays and were kind enough to diagnose me with a fractured wrist — all because the University was too cavalier with their weather preparations. Who needs salt when you can plow? Sand? Pfft! We laugh at your amateur desire for traction. I cannot fathom that I am the only person who had an issue with this Wednesday, given the predilection of the female student body for fashionable yet wholly unsafe ugg boots.
So thank you, Rutgers. I got a whole slew of new experiences today. I fell trying to go to class. I became an ER patient. I broke my first bone! Just thought I’d share how much your preparation meant to me!
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GOOD OLD DAYS:A business model that survives time
GOOD OLD DAYS:A business model that survives time
Driving by the worn, wood-paneled Old West-style facade of the Grant Boys gun, outdoor supply and clothing shop on Newport Boulevard, it’s hard to imagine that the family-owned business — which has become a Costa Mesa icon — has not gone away by now.
When Edward “Buddy” Grant came down from Los Angeles to start the business 60 years ago, Costa Mesa was a one-horse town with less than 4,000 people — far from the upper-middle class suburb of more than 100,000 that it is today. The business started as Grant’s War Surplus in 1949, selling a motley assortment of goods that the military would get rid of at rock-bottom prices (World War II had just ended and there was a lot of excess stuff).
“The original store has very little in common with what the store sells today,” recalls Mike Grant, Buddy’s oldest son, in a short retrospective he recently started to write. “People would buy surplus parachutes to cover their cars. We would cut the lines off them and sell them as nylon rope. We sold a lot of paint, garden hose, work boots, but no Levi’s.”
It’s precisely the store’s ability to change with the times, while staying solidly grounded in its identity, that has allowed the business to survive and prosper in a market filled with chain camping and outdoor sports stores. Over the years, the Grant family has capitalized on countless opportunities.
Buddy didn’t care for guns or hunting at all, according to Randy Garell, who took over the store in the ’70s with his wife, Alexa, Buddy’s daughter. Before opening the Grant Boys, Buddy had a ladies dress shop in Los Angeles in the 1930s.
Since then, the store has gone through countless phases. In the early 1950s, men working on the construction of the 5 Freeway and Disneyland all wore jeans and Georgia steel-toed boots, so Grant’s started carrying them and business boomed. At one point the shop was among the top 10 Levi’s dealers in the country, according to Mike.
Then in the early ’60s, when surf culture blew up in the area, Grant’s started carrying Hang Ten T-shirts, which, in the height of their popularity, were often plucked straight off the delivery truck before they ever made it into the store.
“We carved out a niche business for ourselves, and we can turn on a dime,” Randy said.
Even in the last decade, Alexa saw the ugg boots craze coming. The store stocked up in 2000 and this past December, the shop sold one pair of the fur-lined, leather shoes every 12 minutes. Exceedingly popular in ladies fashion, the boots are not exactly what you would expect to find in a store specializing in guns and hunting equipment, yet they have become a staple of the company’s business.
“The average Newport Beach housewife is not ordinarily going to walk into what she thinks is a gun store,” Randy said, but now they are part of Grants’ demographic.
Randy says gun sales have also increased because of fears brought about by the Y2K scare, the crashing economy and the election of President Obama, who some gun enthusiasts fear will crack down on the industry.
“Business is better than ever,” Alexa said.
Even as the store morphs to meet the demands of an ever-changing population, it retains its homely character. Randy and Alexa have worked there since they were teenagers, and they’re not the only ones who have stuck with the store for decades.
Jack Carver, who joined the staff in his teens emptying garbage cans more than 40 years ago, is now in charge of buying the store’s guns and hunting and fishing equipment.
So while the Grant Boys might look odd among square-framed strip malls and impeccably clean mega chains of Costa Mesa, it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to imagine the store still being around 60 years from now, with its hokey Western-themed building that will be just as out of place as it was the day it went up.
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Kate Middleton: man-pleaser
Kate Middleton: man-pleaser
We all know it is wrong — however tempting — to speculate on whether Kate Middleton is the right woman for Prince William. How can any of us guess how they are as a couple when all we have to go on is photographs? Clearly it’s unfair to have misgivings about the heir to the throne’s girlfriend when she is the very model of appropriateness — and the fact that we do makes us feel a bit guilty. Which is why Kate’s comments, at a recent polo match, have come as a huge relief. What Kate said, to the writer Kathy Lette, is: “I have to pay attention to every second. I’ll be discussing the game in minute detail later on.” And there you have it. The throwaway line that sums up the problem we knew existed, but couldn’t quite put our finger on: KM is a professional man-pleaser.
It’s obvious now the cat is out of the bag — the carefully chosen outfits (a little flattering, a little demure, never an ugg boots or man-scaring bit of fashion in sight). The diligent study of the prince’s hobbies (remember the shooting lessons), including careful observation of the nuances of polo, although she is allergic to horses. The girlie part-time job that evaporated altogether because Kate needs to be ready to leap into an Issa dress at a moment’s notice and scurry to HRH’s side.
All this would be fine, were it not for the fact that Prince William is surely a bloke looking for a woman to live up to (Laura Linney in John Adams, only younger and good at skiing). And it’s no good for any of us subjects to have a wannabe royal clone in the royal family whose idea of ringing the changes is wearing Spanish riding boots instead of Hunters. We want bright and feisty, a fresh perspective, a sense of humour. Instead, in KM, we have the girl that Country Casuals might hire for its pastel cashmere campaign. A young woman on a mission, who takes her responsibilities too seriously and who has undoubtedly contributed to making William seem ever so slightly short on surprises.
This explains why some of us have been mysteriously despondent since Chelsy and Harry’s break-up. Honestly, I am going to miss Chelsy. That cheeky gap-toothed laugh. Those incongruous blonde locks and bling striding out in the driving Leeds rain. I don’t care if she’s orange. At least she has a personality and sex appeal and her own life and — most important — she was never in any doubt about who was pleasing who in that relationship. Harry had to stay on his toes, and when he fell short of her standards (when he failed to meet her off a flight and left her beating off paparazzi, for example), she let him have it. You wouldn’t catch Chelsy getting shooting lessons to impress her man on the range — she didn’t need to.
Harry may be sad now, but at least he knows he had a girlfriend who cared about him, not playing the good princess. Can William really say the same?
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Columbia Sportswear , Deckers Drop; Sector Gains
Columbia Sportswear , Deckers Drop; Sector Gains
NEW YORK - Retail shares opened higher Friday while Columbia Sportswear Co. and Deckers Outdoor Corp. both declined after their outlooks fell short of Wall Street expectations. The S&P Retail Index rose 0.6% to 331.17. Columbia Sportswear shares declined 9.2%. Deckers, which sells Ugg boots, fell 3.8%.
Spring forward and fashion back
A few tips ont he new spring chic
Spring is finally here, girls. That means time for a rejuvenation of the mind, spirit and beauty icon inside us all.
DON'T buy jeans that are too small for you. It looks uncomfortable, it feels uncomfortable and nobody wants to see your underwear every time you sit down.
DON'T wear your UGG boots with shorts. This is tacky. If it's warm enough to wear shorts, it's time to break away from the Uggs and get with the spring season.
DO opt for strappy sandals. These are flat shoes but are incredibly elongating to the legs. Right now, golden and black strappy sandals are the top style, some with a cute flower embroidery near the toe strap. Chunky wedges are also big right now, and can be found in every style and color.
DON'T wear a choker, what are you a dog? This look can work wonderfully at times during the cold winter months, but it's too confining for spring.
DO try a bold necklace, an over-sized ring or a funky bracelet to pop out of any outfit making it fun and unique.
These are just a few pointers and tips about the fashion world right now. As college students our main focus is our education, but it doesn't hurt to look cute while we work toward our degrees!
Oxnard College offers free English classes for workers
Oxnard College offers free English classes for workers
Oxnard College is offering free English classes for workers at local businesses.The idea is to teach employees the English they need to do their jobs, said Christopher Jones, project director. So a hotel might request a class focusing on housekeeping terms. Or a hospital could offer a class on medical terms.
The college received a $399,000, two-year grant from the chancellor of the California Community College System to start the pilot program, which has 400 spaces available.
So far, two companies have signed up — Catalytic Solutions Inc. in Oxnard, which makes catalytic converters, and Deckers Outdoor Corp. in Camarillo and Ventura.
Deckers, which markets UGG boots and Teva sandals as well as other products, has about 30 people in the classes, said Lou Flores, human resources manager.
The company signed up for the program because it wanted to improve communication between workers and managers, he said.
“Our manager likes to go out on the floor and talk to people directly,” Flores said. “We also wanted to give employees opportunities to take new positions. We look at it as an opportunity for both the employees and for us.”
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Four inch heels and liquor, fall down quicker
Four inch heels and liquor, fall down quicker The recent sorority and fraternity rush seasons have led to a marked escalation in social events, which inevitably leads to a dramatic increase in the number of dressed up girls heading in the direction of Zimple street. We, the onlookers who have chosen not to be involved in Greek life, have been privy to the gaggles of girls leaving for their themed formals, rainbow parties or what have you.
Don't get me wrong, this happens all year long, but it has been more noticeable as of late. Whether it be cowgirls, mermaids or wooly mammoths, there seems to be one thing that most have in common - the total lack of ability to walk in high-heeled shoes.
There is something very important to realize here: If you wear Rainbows, Havaianas or ugg boots every single day of your life, and you think that you can slip on your $20 pair of stilettos and survive an entire night of drunken revelry, well, then you are totally, sadly, devastatingly wrong.
How do I know that you are incapable of walking in shoes that aren't as flat as your chest (circa 1996)? Well, there are a few telltale signs: Your upper body weight is pitched forward at a precarious angle; your eyes are roving maniacally on the ground to watch for any upcoming hazards; you seem unable to straighten your legs all the way and are making movements similar to that of a burglar pussyfooting around a sleeping house.
Now let's assume that somehow you've made it to your destination in one piece. What's next? Drinks and dancing, of course. Here's where another crucial factor comes into play: Things aren't going to get any easier after you've had a few drinks. The general consensus among inexperienced heel wearers seems to be that if you get drunk, you will forget how much those shoes hurt you and the night will go perfectly. Sorry to burst your bubble: You're wrong!
Drunkenly dancing and flailing around in your $20 heels will result in the development of agonizing blisters. Even if by some miracle of baby Jesus you manage to survive the night, you will have hell to pay for the next two weeks.
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UGGs Will Make You Say Ugh
Thought uggs were comfy? Turns out a pair of ugg boots can be as bad for your feet as a pair of torturous stilettos. And they don’t even elongate your legs or look cute! Dr. Ed Chairman, a Philadelphia podiatrist, said the popular boots lack foot or ankle supports, which turns UGG-wearers into pain-havers. If treated early, the pain can be resolved with an orthotic, but if the ugg-lover waits too long to seek treatment, surgery could be required. Wouldn’t it be easier to ditch ‘em altogether?
Podiatrist: Ugg Boots Do Uggly Things To Your Feet
Podiatrist: Ugg Boots Do Uggly Things To Your Feet
ugg boots have become something of a phenomenon lately. Hollywood made them trendy and the Midwest made them mainstream.
At more than $100, they're not cheap but they've become a must have -- especially for teenage girls. What many [url=http://www.inugg.com]Uggs[/url] lovers don't realize though is, according to one podiatrist, the flat, shear ling lined boots are actually bad for your feet.
"They keep your feet warm in the winter and summer. You don't have to wear socks with them, that's the main reason I bought them," said Crystal resident Angie Peterson.
"They're comfortable," said Minneapolis resident Amanda Weinkauf.
They're a major fashion trend that hasn't gone out of style yet in Minnesota.
"I think they're ugly," said Weinkauf.
That doesn't stop thousands of women and girls from wearing and loving the Ugg boots.
"Very comfortable, they feel like pillows on your feet," said Peterson.
However, podiatrists warn the shear ling boots are actually hard on your feet.
"The biggest problem with them is the fact that they have no support. They're completely flat on the bottom," podiatrist Dr. Kari Prescott.
Doctors say that lack of arch support can lead to foot and leg problems.
"If you don't have external support, all the muscles in your legs, really from the knee down, can become achy, sore. Some people refer to that as shin splints," said Prescott.
A foot condition called plantar fasciitis, or heel spurs, may also happen. Slipping in an arch support can help.
"This provides some curvature and it's not ideal," said Prescott.
And even forewarned about potential problems, Ugg wearers still love their boots.
"No, I'd probably still wear them," said Peterson.
"I'd still wear them," said Weinkauf.
"It's always fashion over practicality, isn't it?" said Prescott.
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Republicans Will Fight the Next Cycle“Who are these kids?”
Republicans Will Fight the Next Cycle“Who are these kids?”
That was the buzz in Northeastern Pennsylvania during the first week of November last year. It was high noon in what would become the most contentious election of our lifetime.
Yet, a group of relentless students screaming themselves hoarse in the town square, daring the disapproval of former President Clinton by showing up uninvited to his rally, and storming the streets armed with literature, captivated the locals. Newspapers and television crews seemed to follow our every move, asking with a detectable degree of incredulity: why did a group of young students come all the way from D.C. to help Congressional candidate Lou Barletta?
We think, with all due respect to our liberal friends, that they were duped. His face was on t-shirts at Urban Outfitters, he had an application for your iPhone, and the DNC looked more like MTV with all of those Obama-crazed stars slinking around the place. Obama was cool, but has he earned our generation’s vote?
To give you some perspective here, Republicans view President Obama and his policies roughly the same way guys look at [url=http://www.inugg.com]UGG boots[/url]: attractive in the short-run, but ultimately too costly and impractical to sustain.
Admittedly, our Party failed. It neither communicated our message in a modern way nor nominated a candidate to represent those ideals. For this, we are sorry, but before you pick up an Obama pin for your backpack, we ask that you join us, one of the most active College Republicans chapters in the nation, and help us to build a new face for the Party of Lincoln.
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Sarah Jessica Parker: Bundled Up in the Big Apple
Braving the cold winter weather, Sarah Jessica Parker was spotted out in New York City earlier today (February 6).
Dressed for the chilliness, the actress bundled up to stay warm in a knitted hat, navy blue parka, jeans, and some cozy ugg boots as she exited her Big Apple abode.
In related news, New Line Cinema spokeswoman, Candice McDonough, has confirmed that SJP’s “Sex and the City” will have a sequel – due out in summer 2010.
The movie will again include her three co-stars, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon, along with writer-director Michael Patrick King.
Talking about the movie, King is keeping fans guessing, stating, “I’m very excited to work with these amazing actresses again and would love to give everyone more information about this sequel..but I’m busy with my ‘Sex’ life.”
Ugg boots destroy cold weather fashion
Ugg boots destroy cold weather fashion The chill of winter weather has made its presence known to the University's campus and many a student has obtained some sort of sickness.
But one winter problem that plagues the college campus is not biological at all. It is material in nature and a visual nuisance in need of extermination: the ugg boots.
This sickness begins when the Georgia temperature starts flirting with the 50s. And at the turn of the millennium, someone, the Antichrist perhaps, decided to bring the Ugg boot to Hollywood.
From there, madness spread.
I'm more perplexed by the "fashion" status of the ugg boot than I am Scientology. Honestly.
A few years back, the disease hit Georgia and spread more fiercely than kudzu. These horrible boot/suede/fur fusion footings have become a mainstay, it seems, on the University campus.
But I ask you today to quarantine the afflicted parties and cleanse the campus of these God-forsaken shoes.
Originally invented to warm the feet and calves of the Australian surfer, the uggboots is composed of a soft sheepskin suede outer and a shearling lining. Its roominess and lightweight design are very popular comfort features.
And I understand how nice a lightweight and warm shoe must be for winter weather. But God, they are so ugly. Find something else. Please!
Ladies, I know they may be comfortable, but you must stop. As soothing as they must be to the soles, they are far more unattractive.
If you just don't care how you look or you're not trying to attract the opposite sex, then wear them out. But Valentine's Day is coming up, and if you aim to have someone to share it with, I would donate or burn whatever Uggs you have.
I have yet to meet a fellow male who has even thought about saying, "Ya know, I kinda like 'em." It just won't happen. More power to the Australians for their sheepskin ingenuity, but leave it for the Aussies and the swimmers, and only them.
I admit, I've seen a few outfits that incorporate Uggs and actually work.
But in my time here, I can count those instances on one hand. What's more, you girls can't arrange a decent outfit to go to class in! Sweatpants, leggings, or the bare leg are not appropriate parings for your Ugg-ly outfit.
And the Uggs and exercise shorts ensemble? Honestly? Do you own a mirror? Is it full length? And for those of you who reach for your uggs when it's 75 out, I have no advice for you because you're simply too far gone.
Now, technically, the ugg is a unisex shoe. So to you ladies and you few brave gentlemen, please wear your horrid shoes with caution. Or better yet, don't wear them at all.
I need to love life and find confidence in my generation. You girls are making me doubt our future as a society.
So, please, keep the campus out of attire agony and opt for a better boot.
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U.S. pop singer Michael Jackson (Everybody know he like the <a href="http://www.ugg-bag.com/">ugg</a> brand than any other singers) have been diagnosed skin cancer symptoms appear, is receiving treatment at the moment, but it will not affect him in July this year in London's "curtain call" concert will.
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After he recovered, he has to lay down their hearts. "
Reported that this condition will not affect the concert. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jackson</st1:place></st1:city> can not adhere to treatment time will be arranged for the conflict with the concert, all must be the main concert. Concert will be held as scheduled, he was very much looking forward to this performance.
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Jackson, 50-year-old this year on July 8 concert in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city>. This will be the first time in 12 years, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Jackson</st1:city></st1:place> organized a concert series as well as his own in <st1:chmetcnv w:st="on" unitname="in" sourcevalue="2005" hasspace="True" negative="False" numbertype="1" tcsc="0">2005 in</st1:chmetcnv> the "obscene child" after he is acquitted in the case of the first to return to the stage.
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Bruno Fashion: Sacha Baron Cohen's Best Outfit Yet
We're accustomed to his outrageous stunts, but Sacha Baron Cohen really pulled out all the stops (sort of literally) for the German premiere of Bruno.<o:p></o:p>
If you thought the <a href="http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2009/06/sacha-baron-cohen-bruno-nude-gq-cover-photos/">Bruno nude</a> spread in GQ was provocative, well, this may top it, despite the lack of nudity from Cohen's faux gay Austrian fashionista.<o:p></o:p>
Bruno wowed crowds in Berlin, Germany, with what can only be described as the most ... um, interesting use of pink material in history. Plus<a href="http://www.ugg-bag.com/"> UGG Boots</a>.<o:p></o:p>
We don't even know what to say at this point.<o:p></o:p>
Due to the potentially offensive nature of this photo, and the fact that it may cause fashion (and regular) nightmares, we have posted it after the jump.<o:p></o:p>
Nike shoes case
22-year-old students of Changchun University of Science and Zhang Siping weekend back home to visit relatives, do not want to be with the grandmother died the night of the hands of thieves. Siping police within 38 hours in less than a murder suspect arrested.
Siping newspaper (Reporter FAN Liang) from Siping reporters yesterday the police was informed that the upgrade from burglary to robbery and burglary suspects murder Wang Jun explain the fact that more crimes. He has worked in Cangzhou, Hebei, Liaoning and other places many times liaoyang burglary and robbery, and homeowners in Cangzhou was blocked inside the house and was sentenced to imprisonment for 5 years.
At 11:30 p.m. on March 28 Xu, the victim's mother, Zhang Liu students to Siping City of West Branch of the Public Security Bureau police brigade report, calling it out for two days, returned home and found mother and son were killed in the house. Liu also recalled the loss of a home video camera, a cell phone, a gold necklace. In addition, Zhang's also missing a pair of <a href="http://www.nikempire.com/">Nike Shoes</a>.
After the case, according to Wang Jun explained that he was the house barefoot, their shoes off on the window. Robbery and murder, he fled wearing shoes Zhang. In fact Zhang Jun Wang shoes than the shoes on the 3rd largest.
According to Wang Jun accountable early in March, he <st1:city w:st="on">Liaoyang</st1:city> in <st1:state w:st="on">Liaoning</st1:state> burglary of a residential area of 1,000 yuan in cash and fled to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Siping</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">City</st1:placetype></st1:place>. At 19:20 on March 27, he fled to <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Siping Yan Hing Street</st1:address></st1:street>, a residential area, to climb up 4 floor. When he forced open the safe enter the room when the aluminum alloy windows, the bedroom of the old lady (Liu) found that the old lady was screaming. Wang elderly bar military dagger fell to the bed, when Zhang voices heard come out from another room.
Wang Jun is not the direct use of dagger and stabbed him, but come up with coercion of its valuables. When Wang Jun robbery to cameras, mobile phones and gold necklaces ready to escape from the south side of the bedroom window when all of a sudden Zhang Wang approached from behind and hold the military's thigh. The move to force the radical Shi-jun, and he leaping from windows, anti-body leaves itself Zhang, who will be rolling the knife to kill a few.
Subsequently, Wang Jun to the toilet and wash hands and face, and then put Zhang on the living room of <a href="http://www.nikempire.com/">Nike shoes</a> and T-shirt, opening the door to escape.
After committing the crime, robbery with Wang Jun to the cell phones and DV cameras Siping station to return to the apartment rental, re-entered the bathroom and wash hands and face. Here, living with his two young knock on the door, he has been reluctant to open. He took out after the robbery of mobile phones and cameras before while playing with a good sleep.
In the apartment when the police arrested him, he admitted that he had chances, Siping thought to leave because he felt that the police capture him. He also explained that if not caught, when the show continues to burglaries.
At present, Wang Jun had been detained for further review in this case also.
Nike LunarGlide
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"Traditionally, runners running according to their position must be to protect the stability of moderate earthquake has made these two choices," Nike global vice president and category general manager running, said Leslie Lane. "Now, just a pair of shoes runners can meet all their needs, these shoes can even run adjustment process."
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LunarLite system
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When under attack, LunarGlide + by LunarLite system is based on the use of the bubble by the hard shell wrapped with soft foam core structure, have a similar "trampoline" effect of the same cushioning.
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Ugg boots Identification I
The first one: a very important move, and that is smell taste. Authenticity of pure wool, sub-straight hair and curly-haired, look smooth feel good, very soft and comfortable, made with sheep's clothing surface, the surface looked a bit plush feeling swept to one side, then there will be a different hair feeling, and then grasping points wool burned down, without the kind of taste like burning hair, it is certainly false wool.
The second measure: is also very important move, <a href="http://www.ugg-bag.com/">UGG Boots</a>, all of the yardage marked on both the security lines embedded in the inside, using ultraviolet light detectors can be according to the out, and if not, as the yuan as embedded inside the a line, it is false. (The number of selling fake UGG's Shop dispensers do not know, oh, do not believe you ask to see)
The third measure: the official website of UGG investigation and comparison with the store's shoes photo, we can go to the official web site availability to see where there are sections of the shoes in detail.
Fourth strokes: From the price point of view, a good pure wool is very expensive to do so a pair of boots to use more than four feet of wool, off shoes materials should add up to more than 300 pieces, if less than this price, I personally considered to be impossible to get it.
5th strokes: look at this store is a variety of <a href="http://www.ugg-bag.com/">UGGS</a>, if the style and more, then it is impossible to counterfeit so many think of imitation of the cost of a pair of shoes how high, and do not imitate the kind of marketing the amount of bad shoes. So, of course, is the production of hot-selling styles and colors, will profitable. Therefore, the general store selling imitation version of UGG's only several of the models. I know the U.S. UGG imitation version of the classic styles are currently CLASSIC SHORT short, CLASSIC TALL Classic high, UPTOWN, CARGO, ULTRA SHORT, ULTRA TALL, SUNDANCE, SUNBURST TALL so. Imitation version of the color of a color, maroon, black and other colors of this classic.
Sixth strokes: tried, really wearing the wool into the wool is very slippery, there will be no Sese feel very warm to wear into the fast, thermal insulation performance, good special!
7th strokes: If you are boots, then it should be printed genuine UGG useful words and code number of dedicated molded cardboard supports, so in order to ensure that the appearance of shoes (sometimes up yards plug boots) and false accounts, will not do shoes stays the mold, but with Zhituan plug.
8th strokes: from the origin point of view, <a href="http://www.ugg-bag.com/">UGG</a> China is still no counter, so shoes are for export, those origin is Made in Newzealand, as we think about those shoes are from New Zealand's plants get out, but also smuggling to China, that the cost can imagine, so how can this be possible? Have this ability, is not it more profitable smuggling and other!
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The 17-year-old, who prefers to work with <a href="http://www.nk4u.com/">Nike Shoes</a>, started buying his own materials and sewing "fabric reconstructions" of existing sneakers when he was an eighth-grader at Springer Middle School.
Persak, who carries a 3.50 grade point average, also plays sports at Brandywine. He started the past two years for the Bulldogs' varsity soccer team. Persak also played junior varsity tennis for two years and hopes to play varsity his final year.
"I like to design and just taught myself," said Persak, the son of Paul and Maria Persak of Green Acres. "I plan to major in graphic design in college. My business is a combination of both work and fun. I take the base shoes and started out with a very small quantity. People are starting to notice my designs and <a href="http://www.nk4u.com/">Nike Shoes</a>.
'her girls' graduate
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Amy Berkley will be emotional as any proud parent when her two graduates pick up their <st1:placename w:st="on">Cumberland</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Valley</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">High School</st1:placetype> diplomas during Friday's commencement at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Giant</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place> in Hershey.
There are plenty of happy tears as <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Berkley</st1:place></st1:city> describes the highlights of being with "her girls" from the first day of classes last August to May's senior prom.
<a name="more"></a>And the girls -- Denise Lammers, of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region>, and Debora Macedo, of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Brazil</st1:country-region>, two of <st1:placename w:st="on">Cumberland</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Valley</st1:placetype>'s 20 exchange students -- will be sorry, too, when it's time to give their <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Hampden</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Township</st1:placetype></st1:place> host mother a last hug and kiss.
"No one will truly understand the depth of our relationship," <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Berkley</st1:place></st1:city> said.
<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Berkley</st1:place></st1:city> grew up in Shippensburg and went to college there, too. She slaked her thirst for travel and adventure with a post-high-school cross-country drive that filled her own mother with dread.
Now, she hosts exchange students who are making their own life's trek. Two students stayed with <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Berkley</st1:place></st1:city> and her husband, Mark, last summer. In the fall, two more will arrive.
The couple have two dogs but no children. Yet, their house has room for young visitors and Amy Berkley has time -- working part-time as a nurse -- to mother them.
Lammers and Macedo, both 17 and schooled in English, needed her after their first day at a big school filled with fast-talking strangers.
"The first week was really hard with understanding the different accents," Lammers said.
She and Macedo used <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Berkley</st1:place></st1:city> as a sounding board during refrigerator raids after school and sports practice.
"Denise is my little athlete. Debbie is my social butterfly," <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Berkley</st1:place></st1:city> said.
She let them paint and decorate their bedrooms and took them on trips to <st1:state w:st="on">Colorado</st1:state> and <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:state>. She supplied them with cell phones, laptop computers and fashion advice. Macedo needed coaxing to try <a href="http://www.uggsky.co.uk/">UGG Boots</a> and both initially shunned jeans with artfully-placed rips, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Berkley</st1:place></st1:city> said.
The girls answered her generosity with school success. Both are honor roll students and Macedo was voted on to prom court. Both girls say <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Berkley</st1:place></st1:city> has become family to them and they'll stay in touch online after returning home.
"That's not even a question for us," Macedo said.
"I've seen the strength it's taken them to get through this program," <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Berkley</st1:place></st1:city> said. As adults, we forget there's millions of possibilities. There's a small window in their lives and I tell them to live it big."
