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You button them up when it's cold, add a scarf when it's windy and thank God you have one when a dramatic Colorado cold front blows through.
Unless you're one of those people who trudge through snowdrifts in flip-flops and a T-shirt, you depend on your winter coat until May. So when you realize your coat has become raggedy and torn, there's pressure to find a functional, fashionable replacement.
What's in this season? Peacoats? Swing jackets? Car coats? Puffers? Trench coats? Should I try houndstooth? Can anyone really pull off lemon yellow or kelly green? And will it stay in fashion?
To start with the last question, coat designs are rarely faddish, so unless you go for something completely outrageous, expect it to remain in style.
Kyle Farmer, fashion-design instructor at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, says designers recycle old styles every year by adding modern twists. Burberry, for example, introduced intricate detail on military-style jackets, and Marc Jacobs married quilted fabrics and boxy swing coats.
"It's come down to a question of styling," Farmer says. "There's no specific trend happening, but the individual can buy into any of these things and make a fashion statement."
But if you're going to buy one jacket to last you the season and beyond, consider that what's hot isn't always what's practical. Swing jackets, with their three-quarter sleeves, often aren't warm enough for Colorado's cold weather.
Regardless, short boxy coats (paired with re-popularized skinny jeans) are a hot item at LuLu, a downtown Colorado Springs, Colo., boutique, says owner Tess Loo. Customers also have been quick to nab puffer jackets, which are filled with down or a down-synthetic, and car coats, which fall to the knee.
If you're looking for prints or bold colors, you can find nearly anything. Although many women are too cautious to drop a few hundred on a bright-blue jacket, Loo says it's worth the risk.
"Colors are always going to be around," she says. "There's always going to be a shade of green, there's always going to be a shade of blue, and it will vary just slightly.
"I think anybody can wear anything," she says. "It's just what you pair it with and how you work it."
Short women appear taller in short jackets and large women appear slimmer in tailored jackets. Almost every coat style is repeated each year. If you really love peacoats, there is probably a designer who has created an updated version — such as the navy jacket pictured. Houndstooth is back, and you shouldn't fear it. A...
Tony Kurdzuk/The Star-LedgerGreg Schiano, above, has picked a new assistant coach, Jeff Hafley, with deep recruiting ties in New Jersey.
Jeff Hafley is coming home — and hoping to keep some of New Jersey’s best talent here with him.
The 31-year-old Montvale native who has served as a coach at Pittsburgh for the last five seasons is joining Greg Schiano’s staff at Rutgers.
While at Pitt, Hafley was in charge of recruiting northern and central New Jersey. He is credited with bringing running backs Dion Lewis and Ray Graham and defensive ends T. J. Clemmings and Bryan Murphy to the Panthers.
Hafley thinks he’ll have an even easier time recruiting now that he’s convincing football players to stay home rather than travel six hours away. He also admitted that he already has well-established relationships with coaches at north Jersey powerhouses such as Don Bosco Prep, St. Peter’s and Bergen Catholic.
“People see that I chose to come home to New Jersey,” Hafley said in a teleconference with reporters this afternoon. “I think that says a lot. It’s such a great place and hopefully I can show them that.
Rutgers has five scholarships remaining for the coming season.
“If it’s guys that they want then I’ll do the best I can to show them that Rutgers is a good fit for them,” Hafley said.
A number of promising recruits in New Jersey remain unsigned, including Don Bosco quarterback Gary Nova, who de-committed from Pittsburgh in the wake of head coach Dave Wannstedt's dismissal.
It has not yet been determined who will be leaving Schiano’s staff, which was at capacity before Hafley's signing, to make room for Hafley.
Do straight men need Queer Eye?
This week, Netflix announced the renewal of Queer Eye for a second season, sending its five queer coaches into the lives of a new group of men to help guide them to be better partners and people.
While some have heralded the program as “the most empowering TV show for men right now,” others, including Northeastern assistant professor Moya Bailey, ask whether the reboot pushes the boundaries far enough.
Bailey, a scholar whose research includes an examination of how race, gender, and sexuality are represented in media, said that while it’s “exciting that men have a space to be emotional—particularly cis, straight men,” Queer Eye in many ways “reinforces the trope of queer men giving straight men access to those emotio...
Indeed, Bailey said the real problems go deeper than rumpled clothes, messy apartments, and poor grooming—according to her expert view, there are systemic issues that need to be addressed both in the presentation of straight men on the show and in the country at large.
“Frankly, many of these men could be better served if there were a licensed therapist among the Fab Five,” she said, referring to the nickname for hosts Antoni Porowski, Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Jonathan Van Ness, and Tan France, who are food, design, lifestyle, grooming, and wardrobe coaches, respectively.
In other words, it could be that the show is more about “making these men more palatable to modern women” without necessarily addressing “a deep change in behavior or outlook,” Bailey said.
Still, Queer Eye is not without benefit. In the fourth episode of the first season, the audience watches as the Fab Five help a semi-closeted man come out to his stepmother. Certain social issues are addressed in the midst of makeovers and cooking lessons.
Bailey noted the importance of seeing queer people of color in mainstream spaces—something that the show emphasizes. She cautioned, however, that the true goal should be to include people of color in order to change long-held stereotypes and not “simply to check off boxes.” She wondered aloud whether Queer Eye falls in...
Moving forward, Bailey looks for a “yes, and” approach to programming.
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The First Fenny Stratford Brownie Pack have celebrated their 90th birthday with a party at Knowles Primary School - where the pack meets every Wednesday evening.
Parents and granparents - many of whom had also been brownies - attended, and the children dressed up in an old traditional uniform.
The event was organised by Brown Owl Mrs Downing and the girls tucked into party food and held a beetle drive.
What a time to be alive….for Nike.
The Air Jordan Space Jam 11 released during last year’s holiday season and the numbers of how well the sneaker did are now in and let’s just say, the space jam made history. This should come to no surprise, due to the fact the space Jam 11 was one of the most highly anticipated Air Jordan releases of last year. The sho...
President of Nike, Trevor Edwards has confirmed the news in a recent Nike, Inc document simply crowning the Space Jam 11 as the highest grosser ever.
Each shoe released at a set price of $220 and featured patent leather with the ’45’ replacing the ’23’ branding on the heel, giving the shoe an updated look.
Driving instructor Newport Learning how to drive is an exciting time and your journey to success starts here. Navigator Driving School we will guide you every step of the way. See if we can help you save Time and Money on driving lessons and passing your Driving Tests.
Aug. 25,1635: The Great Colonial Hurricane was the first historical record of an intense hurricane in the region. Some refer to it as America's first recorded natural disaster. The storm's eye is believed to have passed between Boston and Plymouth causing at least 46 casualties.
Sept. 23, 1815: The Great September Gale was the first major hurricane to impact New England in 180 years. After crossing Long Island, N.Y., the storm came ashore at Saybrook, Conn., funneling an 11-foot storm surge up Narragansett Bay. There, it destroyed 500 houses, 35 ships and flooded Providence, R.I.
Sept. 21, 1938: The Great Hurricane. This Category 5 was the first major hurricane to strike New England since 1869. The Blue Hill Observatory, outside of Boston, measured sustained winds of 121 mph, with gusts of 183 mph. Providence, R.I., reported sustained winds of 100 mph, gusting to 125 mph. Rainfall of 10 to 17 i...
Sept. 14-15, 1944: The Great Atlantic Hurricane produced 140-mph winds and caused over $100 million in damage, as well as 390 deaths, mostly at sea.
Aug. 21, 1954: Hurricane Carol, a compact, but powerful, borderline Category 3 battered New England, killing 68. With 100 mph winds, gusting up to 135 mph, Carol caused over $460 million in damage, destroying 4,000 homes, 3,500 cars, and over 3,000 boats. This was arguably the most destructive storm to hit Southern New...
Aug. 17-19, 1955: Hurricane Diane dropped up to 20 inches of rain, setting flood records throughout the region. Diane was recognized as the wettest tropical cyclone to impact New England and was blamed for nearly 200 deaths.
Sept. 12, 1960: Hurricane Donna recorded 160 mph winds with gusts up to 200 mph. Donna hit New England in Southeast Connecticut with sustained winds of 100 mph, gusting to 125-130 mph, cutting diagonally through the region to Maine. The storm killed 364, and caused more than $500 million in damage.
Sept. 27, 1985: Hurricane Gloria hugged the coastline; as it made its way north, Gloria crossed Long Island, making landfall at Milford, Conn. The storm left more than 2 million people without power.
Aug. 19, 1991: Hurricane Bob made landfall in New England near New Bedford with 115 mph winds. The damage total for Southern New England was set at $1 billion, with $2.5 billion overall damage.
Sept. 16-17, 1999: Hurricane Floyd's worst impact was flooding, with mudslides in the Berkshires and road closures.
Aug. 28, 2011: Tropical Storm Irene slammed into the Northeast leaving badly damaged homes and roads in its wake. Federal aid in Berkshire County topped $30 million.
Source: Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security; Eagle archives.
A droplet of liquid and a few seconds are all that researchers need to produce neatly spaced ridges of molecules that cover a huge area--at least by the standards of nanotechnology. In a feat of so-called self-assembly, a group reports that disk-shaped molecules can stack themselves by the millions into lines of up to ...
The process might help ease the fabrication of sensors such as liquid crystal displays (LCDs) that register the presence of offending chemicals. "You just drop a droplet of the solution on a surface and the molecules arrange themselves," says group member Johannes Elemans, a nano researcher at Radboud University Nijmeg...
Elemans and his colleagues were looking for a solution of molecules that would cling together just enough to form useful patterns as the solution evaporated but would not clump in the process. They struck on a flat molecule that has three lobes projecting from a central core. The cores have chemically sticky parts that...
"We expected to get spaghetti all over the place," Elemans says. Instead, when they allowed a droplet to dry on mica, they found that the individual strings of molecules aligned themselves into regularly spaced parallel columns. These ridged domains grew as much as three square millimeters in area, and the spacing betw...
Prior experiments relied on long prefabricated polymers to make such arrays, but these domains tended to cover an area only 10 square micrometers or less, the researchers note in their report published online November 30 by Science.
"This is a pretty impressive piece of work," says materials chemist Jeffrey Moore of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "They've nicely demonstrated that they can get nearly defect-free organization over a few microns. This isn't just some highly localized, zoomed-in organization," he says.
Elemans says that the arrays might serve to grow LCDs. The researchers found they could align liquid crystal polymers over large areas by depositing their solution onto a glass slip and then adding the polymers. Currently LCDs are made by etching grooves into a polymer sheet and pouring liquid crystals on top, Elemans ...
According to physical chemist Mohan Srinivasarao of Georgia Tech, the new technique might work for small sensors, but it would have to be dramatically expanded for an LCD monitor.
A further-off idea, Moore says, would be to exploit the columns as wires for transmitting electricity or light, and then link the wires into circuits.
For now the procedure is a step toward the dream of plopping a liquid down and letting it form a predetermined pattern, Moore notes, which would make industrial fabrication of many devices much easier. "It's really simplification of fabrication," he says. "That's what it boils down to."
Sabotage attempts of the Armenians have been resolutely prevented in recent days due to vigilance of units of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces on the Azerbaijani-Armenian border and along the contact line of the Azerbaijani and Armenian troops in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan, the press service of the Azerbaijani ...
Escalation of tensions by the Armenians forced Azerbaijan to retaliate. During the day, as the result of fire strikes over the Armenian positions, the enemy suffered heavy losses, estimated by dozens of people, as well as several pieces of military equipment, the message said.
The Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan said that military and political leadership of Armenia is responsible for aggravation of the situation on the contact line of troops.
The two countries signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group, Russia, France and the US are currently holding peace negotiations.
Armenia has not yet implemented the UN Security Council's four resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding regions.
Four centuries ago, professional Shakespeare performances had all-male casts—no women allowed. This summer, the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production of Taming of the Shrew flips that history on its head.
Director Phyllida Lloyd with Taming of the Shrew co-stars Cush Jumbo and Janet McTeer, photographed in New York City.
Shakespeare’s witty “battle of the sexes” The Taming of the Shrew—an exciting and tumultuous play—gives most of the best lines to the tamer, Petruchio, a man who comes to “wive it wealthily in Padua.” If it is a battle of language, he has a Kalashnikov, and Katherina, the shrew, a peashooter. This summer the Public The...
For me, the center of the play is the last speech. Katherina, once tamed, holds us with an aria of freedom through deference to husbands: “Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper.” It suggests it’s better to be in a marriage than out in the cold … Beautiful but complex. Well, that was then! We will, no doubt, be...
"He worked the inside game very aggressively," said a Republican political strategist.
Four years ago, state Republican Party leaders tried to keep Scott Wagner from winning a state Senate seat. They failed.
On Tuesday, May 15, the York County businessman and state senator won the GOP nomination for governor. This time, he was the endorsed candidate of the party.
"He worked the inside game very aggressively," said Charlie Gerow, a Republican political strategist. "From the minute he got to Harrisburg, it was very clear he was running for governor."
Here's how he went from an outsider in 2014 to the party's nominee for governor in 2018.
1. Wagner ran as an outsider in 2014.
He challenged the establishment, emphasized his business background and withstood tough attacks to win a write-in campaign for a state Senate seat.
2. Wagner supported other Republicans statewide.
Wagner had plenty of criticism for then-Republican Gov. Tom Corbett, who was elected in 2010. Wagner called him "a weak CEO" at one point. But Wagner became a prominent supporter of Corbett's re-election bid in 2014.
"I am asking the voters of York County and the rest of Pennsylvania to trust me and vote for Governor Corbett," Wagner said in a mass email during that campaign.
Corbett didn't win. But, two years later, Wagner became a prominent supporter of another Republican on Pennsylvania ballots: Donald Trump.
Trump, of course, did win Pennsylvania and the presidency.
3. He helped elect Republicans across the state.
He gave money to campaigns and helped Republicans win senate Seats in southwestern Pennsylvania, Erie and other parts of Pennsylvania.
A YDR analysis of Department of State records found that Wagner personally gave more than $3.2 million in direct contributions or loans to elect state lawmakers, judges and other candidates in Pennsylvania from 2007 through much of 2016. The analysis was based on individual contributions of $1,000 or more.
He led efforts to oust the former majority leader, and in 2016, he told a York crowd that "we're purging Senate members out."
He also gained support from fellow senators.
5. No other elected Republicans ran against him for governor.
House Speaker Mike Turzai dropped out of the race, just before the state GOP made its endorsement in the governor's race. That left Wagner with two opponents from Allegheny County: former healthcare systems consultant Paul Mango and attorney Laura Ellsworth.
6. Wagner got the endorsement of the state GOP.
That happened in February. According to The Associated Press, "No GOP-endorsed candidate has lost Pennsylvania’s gubernatorial primary in 40 years."
In part, that's a reflection of the work and travel Wagner put in to make connections with committee members across the state.
7. He withstood tough attacks.
Political analysts G. Terry Madonna and Michael L. Young wrote that "the leading GOP gubernatorial candidates have now unleashed a bloody primary battle. ..."
Mango's campaign called Wagner a slumlord, a sleazy bail bondsman, a deadbeat dad and a failed politician. Plus, Mango's campaign has said Wagner is toxic, greedy and violent.
Wagner's campaign, meanwhile, called Mango an Obamacare advocate, outsourcer, Wolf contractor, a phony and a liberal. In one TV ad, Wagner's oldest daughter called Mango a disgrace.
The Pennsylvania Republican Party defended Wagner. Party Chairman Val DiGiorgio called for Mango to pull the ad that called Wagner violent and a deadbeat dad. Mango stood by the ad, however.

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