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(Isaiah 9:1-5) The news has been a bit depressing lately hasn't it? New conflicts in Africa, a crisis in Middle East, and continued economic stress in our own country have filled the headlines of newspapers and the lead stories on the nightly news. In the midst of all these it would be easy to forget that they are the tip of the proverbial iceberg. That which is reported is easily eclipsed by that which is not. Like a world in crisis, individuals struggle with their own private wars and internal skirmishes.
You know, this introduction is depressing. You know what else, this introduction is life. It was into a world just as the one described above that God sent His prophet Isaiah. His was a day of wars, social ills, and private turmoil. Such being the case, the message God sent through the prophet to his people takes little effort or imagination to apply to us.
Take a moment and read Isaiah 9:1-7. As you do, hear the words of hope brought to a people living in hopelessness. This study will focus on verses 1-5, but to take in the entire picture of hope read through verse seven. It will also be helpful to read Isaiah 8 for it is the story to which the "nevertheless" of Isaiah 9:1 connects.
"Nevertheless," the prophet proclaims. He is reminding the people that despite God's coming judgment described in chapter eight, there is something to look forward to. His previous words drew a dark picture of their future. The sins of Judah necessitated the coming judgment of God. The Apostle Paul was led to say it this way, "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life" (Galatians 6:7-8). The Hebrew people were reminded that just because they were God's people did not exempt them from God's punishment.
God did not stop with a message of doom. He promised that the day of gloom would pass. As it does in our day so it did in Isaiah's, gloominess was a picture of discouragement brought on by circumstances. Such was the case when the prophet brought God's message of hope. He promised that the day of distress was passing.
Make no mistake these people knew distress. Isaiah speaks of the people living in the "land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali" (v.1b). These were two of the northernmost provinces in Israel. A highway passed through this territory connecting the regions north of Israel to Egypt. The problem was this highway was a favorite of invading armies advancing southward. So Zebulun and Naphtali lived in constant fear and uncertainty. They would be the first to feel the sting of conquest. Every spring when the season of war began, the people living in that region would wonder if they would see another fall. Sadly, what they felt and feared is what many today feel and fear. But there was hope on the horizon.
"The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned" (v.2). Not a hard analogy to understand is it. How many times, in the middle of a stormy night does a simple nightlight dispel the fear of the little one? How many times does the rising sun of a new day signal a fresh hope?
Isaiah spoke to people who were not just looking toward hard times, they walking through them. How scary it is to walk down an unfamiliar path in the middle of a moonless night with no light to illuminate the dangers ahead? Then a light drives away the darkness. This was God's promise. This is God's promise.
The prophet further explained the extent of God's promise. Listen to the hope described in verses 3-5. First God would "enlarge the nation" (v.3). In other words He would return and multiply that which the enemy had taken.
God would also "increase their joy." Just having a light in the darkness would be worth celebrating but God was going to give them more to celebrate. He said they would "rejoice as people rejoice at harvest" (v.3b). This one does not carry the wow effect in our area like it did then or does in other areas of the world. We can "harvest" 24-hours a day at our local all-night grocery store. But for those folks, another harvest meant another year of life and that gave them something to celebrate.
Isaiah continued by telling of the joy that came "when dividing the plunder." More than just acquiring more stuff, the one who plundered was the one who had survived and won the battle. The fear of death had passed. He then reminded them of one such day in their national history when he mentioned "the day of Midian's defeat" (v.4). This is a reference to the victory that God brought through Gideon against impossible odds (see Judges 6-8).
He concluded his illustration by telling how on the coming day of victory the things that once were used to make war would be used to warm people on a cold night or bake bread (v.5).
In this passage, God promised hope for those living in hopelessness. You might believe that there is nothing to move into tomorrow for. You may feel as though the stresses pressing against you are unbearable and insurmountable. Isaiah would say take courage the light has dawned. What light? Wrong question. Who is the light is better. Jesus called Himself the Light of life (John 8:12). He is the one that illumines your path, provides your harvest and brings victory into your life even when it appears impossible. Jesus is the hope for hopeless days. Jesus is your hope for today and all the days to come.


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German Chocolate Cake And Golf Theme
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Question, I have someone who wants a German Chocolate Cake, but wants it decorated in a golf theme for her sons birthday.
Can I do the german chocolate cake, and the german chocolate filling, then frost and decorate with buttercream?? Will that taste ok??
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
I would do the coconut pecan for the filling and just frost in chocolate buttercream. .
Mine with ganache on the outside and the filling inside is more liked than the traditional. So do what you want... that's the fun of baking.
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Even more expensive than live reads are what's called "endorsements," which are when a host describes, in ecstatically favorable terms, his own personal experience with a product or service. Examples here include Phil Hendrie's weight loss on Cortislim, Kobylt's "better than 20-20" laser-surgery outcome with Saddleback Eye Center, and Mr. Bill Handel's frustrations with dial-up ISPs before discovering DSL Extreme. These ads, which are KFI's most powerful device for exploiting the intimacy and trust of the listener-host relationship, also result in special "endorsement fees" paid directly to the host.
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Big kid Mat Henderson-Hau now wants a little one of his own.
Help! I think I'm getting clucky. Do men get clucky? Ever since my friends started popping out babies, which has been only in the past two years or so, I've found myself being the perennial "Uncle Mat". The guy who's good with kids and babies, the guy who knows how to hold them correctly without risking spinal damage, the guy who for some strange reason knows how to make them stop crying by simply pulling a few stupid faces and making coo-ing noises.
I've never professed to understand it myself. Like many twenty-somethings who have refused to grow up, I'm just good with babies.
I still get as excited over Diff'rent Strokes, Transformers and the Smurfs as I ever did. Why, only the other day I wrote a letter to the Infringement Processing Bureau describing one of their parking officers as "looking kinda like Gargamel". I hope it winds up in court because then I can produce my Papa Smurf and Gargamel figures to help illustrate my point to the magistrate.
However, none of this wanton immaturity can explain my current bizarre longing to sow my wild oats in one paddock and produce an heir. An heir to what? An impressive CD and DVD collection, some awesome books and a complete collection of Smurf figurines. Smurfette was worth a motza on eBay last time I looked.
I can see that part of this longing is so that my children can get right all the things that I stuffed up. I firmly believe that my old man had me so he'd have an opportunity to live out vicariously a successful sporting career. I'll never forget how deflated he looked when I spent my allowance on a Sydney Theatre Company season pass rather than new football boots.
When he uncovered my teenage porn stash, the main issue wasn't the girlie mags, it was the NIDA application he found buried among it all. At least he was glad I was looking at girls, I suppose.
I guess if I had any vicarious intent with my offspring it would be to see them given the opportunity to do whatever they wanted to do, without having to pander to parental whims and ill-directed prompting regarding their career and life choices. If my progeny show a proclivity for, and an interest in, the arts, that's where I'll help them go. Within reason of course. I'm not going to pose for nude life drawings as I emerge from the shower.
If they've inherited my natural aptitude for beating up people on the football field, I'll be there shivering on the touchline every Saturday morning without fail - so long as they show an inclination to run in the right direction and tackle hard, my daughters included.
Either way, I'll need private health insurance. Whether it's being cracked in the nuts on the cricket pitch or spraining an ankle performing the Nutcracker, it all costs. I might even have to sell Smurfette on eBay to pay for it all.
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Typically the focus is on taking first place, but there has never been as much interest in placing second as there is with the race between Search Engine giants Bing and Yahoo!. Like a great race horse, the two jockey positions for second place and like a great horse race, we the American consumers, have our favorite horse in the race for a variety of reasons. No matter who we place our bet on, we know that the "trifecta" will be some combination of Google, Yahoo!, Bing or Google Bing, Yahoo! – No matter what order, it is evident that these three are in the race to win (or place 2nd) and that success for businesses means being found prominently on all three Search Engines.
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>That says rule 8 in set 0 blocked the traffic. Which rule is 8?
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Ŕ 06:16 2001-01-15 -0800, Charles a écrit:
>Michael Everson wrote:
>"The pronuncuation ['juni:ko:d] with [i:] or [i] instead of schwa irritates
>me a lot. No one would pronounce "universe" with an [i]."
>I beg to differ; "universe" is commonly pronounced with a short [i] in the
>English Midlands.
[Alain] A "schwa" for an i and an English u to pronounce "Unicode" begins
to be extremely different from the pronunciation of "Unicode" in French (as
I can't write with the IPA on this list, I will add German "Ünicod" to
Marco's "ynicod" to make sure that most of you know how we pronounce it).
This word, in its written form, shocks nobody in French (« et ce n'est pas
peu dire ! »), even the most bigot and pious purists of the French language...
But if you insist that the French speakers pronounce those two letters,
it is the contrary, we will have to write the "mandated" IPA prononciation
as « Iouneucôde » in French (there is no real "scwha" in French, imho)...
Otherwise you create a strong issue in French.
Please do not play with pronunciation... Unicode is not a standard
about pronunciation, but rather -- and it is where it is an instrument of
civilization -- a standard about writing... Writing tends to unite people,
spoken languages tend to disunite them... An English speaker with a prefect
knowledge of written French who does not pronounce French correctly is
absolutely not understood, and the reverse is probably true too. I am a
watcher of some American TV programs (mainly sci-fi) on TV, but I have to
put subtitles to fully catch what I don't understand (unfortunately there
is no subtitle in a meeting where English is spoken, and it is *always* a
handicap to me).
Please, no official IPA transcription for "Unicode"...
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Monday, March 10, 2014
Is Face to Face Out of Style?
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- Anne Marie Becker said...
I hadn't thought of checking Craigslist. :)
I meet with a fellow writer a couple times a week, just to write, but we don't usually read each others' stuff. It's more for the energy boost. However, our local RWA chapter has one meeting a year where people can submit a few pages for a critique during the meeting, and that's always a very popular workshop.
- March 10, 2014 at 9:21 AM
- Rita said...
Pat this is something that eats at me constantly. When I first started, having those meetings was heaven to me. But, I found the chapter was geared to a certain genre and publisher and I didn't fit the mold. Plus the drive was an hour and twenty minutes each way. I gave it up in favor of online groups and private writer's loops. I occasionally speak with a peep on the phone. I've visited a couple of critique groups but I need to be challenged and pushed and these groups would not do that. My last book, no one read the whole thing but my agent and editor. I think about before we had the internet and writers organizations writers got along but it was a bitch. Sigh.
- March 10, 2014 at 1:01 PM
- Toni Anderson said...
I've never really pursued writers' groups. I should do. It's a shame you can't find someone closer, Pat. Have you searched for other writers in your genre who might live in your area? Maybe you could approach them and see if they know of any groups?
- March 10, 2014 at 2:25 PM
- J Wachowski said...
I read a book once called "Group Portrait" by Nick Delblanco. He talked about how clusters of writers can lift each other up--by reading each others work and by supporting and connecting each other to different aspects of the business. I think it's really true.
So I say, get out and find yourself a group! Check with your local library or junior college, maybe? I found my first group that way. Synchronicity will bring the people you need into your circle....
- March 10, 2014 at 3:15 PM
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More than 40 Liberty men's and women's athletes will head to Princeton, N.J., this weekend for the 2012 IC4A and ECAC Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships. The meets will be held Friday through Sunday at Weaver Track & Field Stadium.
Action will begin Friday at noon, when Christina Mitchell begins defense of her ECAC heptathlon title. Jacob DeValve will be the first Liberty men's athlete to compete, running the IC4A decathlon 100-meter dash at 1 p.m. Friday afternoon.
How to Follow the Action
Live results will be available for both the IC4A and ECAC championships, courtesy of Lancer Timing.
For the third year in a row, LibertyFlames.com will provide an interactive CoveritLive blog throughout the IC4A and ECAC Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships. Due to the lack of an enclosed press box at Weaver Track & Field Stadium, the blog may be halted in the event of inclement weather.
Periodic updates will be available on the Liberty Flames' official Twitter account (@libertyflames), especially if the CoveritLive blog is unavailable.
Weather Report
The weather forecast for Princeton looks quite promising for this weekend. The high temperature for Friday is projected at 69 degrees, before warming up to 76 on both Saturday and Sunday. Abundant sunshine is in the forecast for all three days of competition.
Liberty's IC4A Entrants
Tim Abbott – Discus
Paul Arslain – 4 x 400
Maxwell Asante – 100
Pedro Carela – Steeplechase
Taylor Courtney – 400 Hurdles, 4 x 400
Jacob DeValve – Javelin, Decathlon
Jon Drablos – Pole Vault
Caleb Edmonds – 5K
Lachaddrick Ellis – 200
Steve Feister – Javelin
Cody Fridgen – Pole Vault
Kyle Gill – 400
Ngetich Kipchirchir – 10K
Daniel Klase – Javelin
Josh MacDonald – Steeplechase
Kevin Reddington – Long Jump
David Ricksecker – 5K
Leonard Robbins – 400, 4 x 100, 4 x 400
David Scouten – Shot Put, Discus
Kolby Shepherd – Pole Vault
ConRoy Smith – 100, 200, 4 x 100
Ryan Smith – Shot Put, Discus, Hammer
Roderick Spruel – 100, 4 x 100
Andre Washington – 4 x 400
Kyle Wheeler – High Jump
Tarell Williams – 100, 4 x 100
Liberty's ECAC Entrants
Mia Aghaji – 4 x 400, Triple Jump, High Jump
Melinda Bendik – Hammer
Kiara Bridges – 4 x 400
Meghan Burggraf – 800, 4 x 400
Olivia Charnuski – 100 Hurdles, 4 x 100
Jacy Christiansen – 3K
Mychelle Cumings – Shot Put, Discus
Abigail Flower – 100, 200, 4 x 100
Rachel Houseknecht – 100 Hurdles, Pole Vault
Khristina Kanagy – 10K
Jennifer Klugh – 1,500, 3K
Meme Layne – 100, 4 x 100
Christina Mitchell – Javelin, Heptathlon
Jennifer Nicholson – Discus
Shelley Parker – Pole Vault
Melanie Sims – 4 x 400
Sherri Spruel – 4 x 100
Jocelyn Williams – Discus
What Do All of These Letters Stand For?
The acronym ECAC is short for Eastern College Athletic Conference. According to the ECAC website, it "is the nation's largest athletic conference and only multi-divisional conference, with approximately 300 member institutions ranging across 16 states from Maine to North Carolina and westerly to Illinois." This weekend's women's meet is officially titled the ECAC Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championship.
Meanwhile, the concurrent men's meet is called the IC4A Outdoor Track & Field Championship. IC4A stands for Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America, and the name is only applied to the ECAC's Division I men's championships in cross country, indoor track & field and outdoor track & field.
Abundant Entries
Liberty will boast its largest representation at the IC4A and ECAC Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships in recent years, with 26 men's athletes and 18 women's athletes entered in this weekend's competition.
Liberty will be represented in 17 of 22 IC4A events, highlighted by four athletes (Maxwell Asante, ConRoy Smith, Roderick Spruel and Tarell Williams) in the 100-meter dash. The Flames actually qualified six runners to the men's 100, but Kyle Gill will focus on other events and Anthony Settje will miss the meet due to injury.
On the women's side, the Lady Flames will enter 17 of 23 ECAC events, including a trio of entrants (Mychelle Cumings, Jennifer Nicholson and Jocelyn Williams) in the discus.
Fantastic Freshmen
Nearly a third of Liberty's IC4A and ECAC qualifiers are freshmen, including one redshirt freshman (Caleb Edmonds) and a dozen true freshmen (Jacy Christiansen, Mychelle Cumings, Jon Drablos, Lachaddrick Ellis, Steve Feister, Abigail Flower, Daniel Klase, Meme Layne, Jennifer Nicholson, Leonard Robbins, David Scouten and Kyle Wheeler).
High Hopes
With so many athletes entered in the meet, Liberty has a chance to place well in both the IC4A and ECAC team standings this weekend. The Flames have finished in the top two for four of the past five years at the IC4A outdoor championship, including titles in 2007 and 2008 and runner-up finishes in 2009 and 2010.
Meanwhile, the Lady Flames could post one of their highest ECAC finishes in program history. Liberty's best performance to date was a seventh-place effort at the 2007 ECAC Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships. The Lady Flames recorded their best-ever ECAC indoor finish in March, when they came in 11th.
Past Champions
Three of Liberty's athletes competing this weekend have captured IC4A and ECAC individual event titles during their career, including Taylor Courtney, Christina Mitchell and Jocelyn Williams.
Mitchell is the only one of the three Flames who has been victorious outdoors, after winning the 2011 ECAC heptathlon title. Indoors, Courtney took top honors in the 2011 IC4A men's 500-meter run and Williams claimed the 2012 ECAC women's weight throw crown.
Lofty Seeds
Liberty enters this weekend with three top-five seeds on the IC4A/ECAC performance list, all of which come in women's throwing events. Mychelle Cumings is listed No. 2 in the ECAC in the discus (167-0) and No. 5 in the shot put (51-3), while Melinda Bendik sits No. 3 in the ECAC hammer (197-10).
The Flames' top IC4A seeds (No. 6 in both cases) are owned by Josh MacDonald in the 3,000-meter steeplechase (8:56.65) and Kolby Shepherd in the pole vault (17-1).
Heptathlon Happenings
Christina Mitchell will attempt to win her second consecutive ECAC heptathlon title, beginning on Friday. If she is successful, Mitchell would become the first Lady Flame ever to win multiple ECAC heptathlon crowns. Danielle McNaney earned a single ECAC heptathlon championship, in 2005.
Earlier this season, Mitchell won her second Big South heptathlon championship in a row, coming from behind to win with 4,513 points. Mitchell has also broken the Liberty women's javelin record twice in 2012, including a 146-1 heave at Sunday's Winthrop Twilight.
Mitchell will compete in the heptathlon Friday and Saturday in Princeton, before throwing the javelin Saturday afternoon.
Tradition of Excellence
The decathlon has been Liberty's strongest event at the IC4A meet during the Flames' 20 years competing in the conference. Seven different competitors have combined to win 12 IC4A decathlon championships, including Geren Woodbridge in 2011.
Jacob DeValve figures to be a contender for this year's IC4A decathlon title, after scoring 6,904 points to win the Big South decathlon championship last month. Only one of his competitors has scored more points this season, as Connecticut's Ben Waruch recorded a score of 6,994 to place as the BIG EAST decathlon runner-up last weekend.
This will be DeValve's first appearance in the IC4A decathlon, but he did throw the shot put at the 2011 IC4A Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
NCAA Up Next
This weekend is athletes' final chance to qualify for the NCAA Preliminary Round meet, which is slated for May 24-26 in Jacksonville, Fla. The top 48 individuals in each event and the top 24 relay teams in the Eastern half of the country will earn the right to compete at the meet. Entering the IC4A and ECAC meets, here is how some of the Flames and Lady Flames stand.
Lock: Mia Aghaji (Women's High Jump), Melinda Bendik (Women's Hammer), Mychelle Cumings (Women's Shot Put & Discus), Josh MacDonald (Men's Steeplechase), Ryan Smith (Men's Shot Put & Hammer) and Kyle Wheeler (Men's High Jump)
Near Lock: Mia Aghaji (Women's Triple Jump), Taylor Courtney (Men's 400 Hurdles) and Christina Mitchell (Women's Javelin)
On the Bubble: Jennifer Klugh (Women's 1,500), Kolby Shepherd (Men's Pole Vault) and Ryan Smith (Men's Discus)
Work Left to Do: Steve Feister (Men's Javelin), Leonard Robbins (Men's 400) and David Scouten (Men's Discus)


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Sat. November 2, 2013 | Matt Baker and Mary Kenney
Times' super 7
1. Springstead (8-1, 4-0): The Eagles sealed their second straight district championship with a 34-21 win over Land O'Lakes. They'll host Citrus in the first round of the playoffs after facing Hernando next week.
2. Sunlake (8-1, 3-1): The Seahawks clinched the second playoff spot in Class 6A, District 6. They'll travel to Gainesville for the first round Nov. 15.
3. Pasco (6-3, 4-2): The Pirates are on their way to the playoffs for the seventh consecutive season despite a disappointing start. Pasco dominated the 9-Mile War, taking an early lead and never giving it up against a talented Zephyrhills offense.
4. Zephyrhills (7-2, 4-2): The Bulldogs' loss to Pasco keeps them out of the playoffs, but the season isn't over yet. Zephyrhills faces Sunlake next.
5. Land O'Lakes (7-2, 2-2): The Gators fell to the 6A-6 district champion, but they didn't fold in a second-half rally that ultimately fell short. The Gators end their season at Lecanto.
6. Anclote (6-3, 5-0): The Sharks clinched their first district title by beating 5A-7 foe Hudson. Anclote travels to state-ranked Clearwater Central Catholic next week, then will host Tarpon Springs in the region quarterfinals.
7. Hudson (6-3, 4-1): The Cobras lost to Anclote, but still earned their first playoff appearance since 2009. After playing rival Fivay, Hudson will travel to Lakewood for its first postseason game.
Winless no longer
With three, big playoff-deciding games, Gulf's 48-0 victory over Wesley Chapel was lost in the shuffle. Avery Welch threw for three touchdowns — all to James Grubb — and the Buccaneers never looked back.
The victory was the first for Gulf's first-year coach, Jason Messamore, and it ended the Bucs' 20-game losing streak. The 48-point offensive explosion is more than Gulf scored all of last season (29) but a decrease from the week before. The Bucs are averaging 23 points in their past four games.
Performances worth another mention
Gulf ATH Montavious Reed: The shifty senior returned an interception for a touchdown and took a punt for a score in the Buccaneers' first win of the season.
Land O'Lakes QB James Pensyl: The senior was 23-of-29 for 298 yards against Springstead, but he's been in the 1,000-plus passing club for a while. He doubled his rushing yards for the season, running for 101 against Springstead.
Springstead RB Latavious Hannah: The senior intercepted the ball in the third quarter against Land O'Lakes, quashing doubts that the Eagles would seal the district championship.
Wiregrass Ranch DB Devin Duckett: His two interceptions in a loss to Freedom boosted his total to eight picks this fall.
Sunlake RB Nathan Johnson: He averaged almost 14 yards per carry and made sure the Seahawks wouldn't slip up and lose their playoff spot. His 163-yard night was his eighth consecutive 100-yard game.
"The kid is just a warrior and a half." — Ridgewood coach Jay Fulmer on standout RB Glass Wilson. The sophomore rushed for 200 yards and scored three touchdowns — including the winner — during a 17-point fourth quarter against River Ridge. He finishes the season with more than 1,500 rushing yards and 15 TDs.
"We had a tough week of practice. The coaches kept us after a couple of times" — Springstead RB Daniel Wright. Eagles coaches stressed the importance of winning as opposed to settling for a tiebreaker
Times correspondents Darek Sharp and Alejandro Tamayo contributed to this report.


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Fall Trend Report 2011: Numero Dos
Here are a couple of hand picked trends for this season, featuring beautiful photography and a reinvention of classic looks. Magazines like Esquire show how it's possible to rework the fashion image of your favorite icon, like James Dean, and bring it into 2011. Also let's not forget the importance of accessories, in this case, ties and new shoes.
Man in Charge: Bring Back the Suit
Pair it with this set by Daniel Dolce:
Tips from Esquire: Get the Right Fit
If you're a member of the one-size-up, I-like-my-jacket-roomy club, the DB suit is not for you. The jacket should hug your sides, the sleeves should be cut slim, and the shoulders should have as little padding as possible. The close fit you get with most of today's double-breasted suits is essential for pulling it off.
Tips from Esquire: Give the DB Suit a Chance
Used to be that wearing a suit to work was an act of submission, of following a code. But today it's more like an act of aggression — that in a world in which suiting up is increasingly seen as optional, wearing a suit, much less one of the new breed of slim-cut double-breasted suits, brands you a maverick. The DB suit is swagger incarnate.
Style Icon: James Dean
How can I work plaid in with a tie?? Here's how:
Shirt and Tie (Plaid)
Get it from CLM: It is true that you can't have enough ties in your wardrobe. The important thing, however, is having classic, good quality ties that will not fall away (or out of style) due to the impetuous tides of fashion.
And where would we be without shoes? I'll tell you one thing, you wouldn't get very far. Don't be afraid of a little color in both the shoes and the pant. We personally love this bright-ish brown hue of these loafers with the blue pants:
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Button covers are more fashionable than you think
Chances are, you have a preconceived notion about button covers. You probably think they are boring, ugly and unnecessary. But that's a common misconception that needs to be unlearned. Button covers are actually quite fashionable, and they serve a unique purpose. If they didn't, then upscale men's accessory designers wouldn't waste any time on designing them. But they do — and for good reason.
When you have a tailored shirt with buttons on the cuffs, there's no room for cufflinks. However, there is plenty of room for button covers. When you are wearing an expensive tailored shirt with buttons on the sleeves, you have to wear button covers as well. Letting the buttons show only lessens the appeal of a high fashion shirt. But simply spicing it up with a pair of Button Covers will do the trick. Button covers don't have to be boring. In fact, we offer a variety of fun and fashionable button covers. For example, these Cross Bone Cufflinks are anything but boring. They can add a little excitement to any button-down shirt. And we have other fun designs as well. If you have a preconceived notion about button covers, then maybe it's time to expand your horizons a little bit. Why not purchase a pair and see how they look on your wrists? You might just discover that button covers are easy to put on, show off and take off — and you might just like them more than your cufflinks.


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A third accuser has emerged who claims that Michael Jackson abused him as a child, according to a statement issued Tuesday by the Los Angeles Police Department. "The victim alleges the acts took place in the City of Los Angeles in the late 1980s," the LAPD statement said. "The Department's Juvenile Division, Child Protection Section, is currently investigating the allegations."
Police didn't offer any details as to the new accuser's identity. The New York Post, however, cites sources as saying that the accuser is an 18-year-old who leveled the accusations only this year because he had repressed the memories of Jackson touching him inappropriately when he was between the ages of 3 and 5, and again between ages 11 and 14.
Jackson has denied such allegations before. He has called the current charges pending against him in Santa Barbara that he molested a cancer-stricken young Neverland visitor a "big lie." And he denied molesting the boy who accused him in 1993, though that case never went to court, as the boy declined to cooperate with prosecutors after Jackson paid him a reportedly multimillion-dollar settlement. The new accuser's charges are also false, Jackson attorney Mark Geragos told Reuters. "It appears to be nothing more than part of an ongoing campaign to smear Michael with unfounded, scurrilous and ridiculous accusations," Geragos said, "and we fully intend to find out who's behind it and take the appropriate actions." Another Jackson attorney, Benjamin Branfman, complained that the LAPD hadn't sought Jackson's side of the story. "We have never been informed by the LAPD of any investigation that they are conducting of Michael Jackson," Brafman told the Post. "I would point out that since I have been involved in this case, I have addressed literally dozens of completely baseless rumors on a daily basis, and this appears to be just another one of them."


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The 'American Hustle' actor and his girlfriend of one year make their first appearance together at a major award show this season at the 2014 Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Bradley Cooper brought his girlfriend Suki Waterhouse to the 2014 Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday, January 18, making their first appearance together at a major award show this season. Cooper brought his mother Gloria as his date at the Golden Globe Awards earlier this month.
Cooper and his girlfriend looked equally smitten at the annual event. The 22-year-old model, who donned a black-and-white Andrew Gn dress that night, was seen sitting in her boyfriend's lap at one point. The two were also caught looking at each other affectionately. The two shared the same table alongside Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Renner and director David O. Russell.
Cooper was not accompanied by his girlfriend when he hit the red carpet. Shortly after Cooper arrived at the Shrine Auditorium, he was surprised when prankster Vitalii Sediu kneeled, hugged him by the waist and put his face on his crotch. The 38-year-old star bent down to lift Sediu and he was helped by "American Hustle" co-star Michael Pena and actor Mandy Patinkin. Us Weekly reports that when a photographer asked if he was okay, Cooper replied with a nod and smile.
Back in June, Waterhouse joined Cooper at the 2013 Spike TV Guys' Choice Awards. At that time, they were seen chatting with Adams, Mark Wahlberg and Ben Affleck.


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