Chrysler Unveils "Imported From Detroit" Workwear with Carhartt

The Chrysler brand and Carhartt this week launched a limited-edition "Imported From Detroit" work wear collection that pays homage to the spirit of the Motor City, and serves as yet another reminder of the effectiveness of Chrysler's turnaround branding campaign sparked by the 2011 Super Bowl commercial featuring Eminem.

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"The pairing of the Chrysler brand and Carhartt is another example of how we are continuing to champion the energy created from the 'Imported From Detroit' campaign," stated Saad Chehab, president and CEO of the Chrysler brand. "Carhartt shares Chrysler's respect and appreciation for hard-working Americans."

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Bethany Church coat drive under way

The Bethany Covenant Church is collecting men's winter coats for recently released prisoners, part of the church's outreach work with Christian Aftercare Ministry.

“Christian Aftercare Ministry ministers to offenders and ex-offenders just getting out of prison,” said Debbie Corriveau, who sits on the CAM board.Where to shop chanel bags online? “It meets their physical and spiritual needs by providing clothing, spiritual counseling, maybe housing, maybe helping them get IDs, helping them find jobs.”

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“Not so much in these months, but we have a great need for men's bicycles, we give those out like crazy,” Corriveau said.

Originally located in Manchester, Bethany Covenant is part of the Evangelical Covenant Church, a global denomination founded by Swedish immigrants in 1885. Corriveau, who's been a member of the church for 22 years, said outreach work is part of the church's mission.

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“I think it's just trying to reach as many people as possible in different areas of need,” Corriveau said.

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Up Close and Personal in Jerusalem

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Finally I approached a group of four kids, teenagers who had come for Friday prayers. I asked the first, "do you speak English"? He said no. His friend, however, looked at me as if I were an alien, wearing a white yarmulke given to me by a guard at the entry to the holy site,Massive range of Castelli Cycling clothing and Castelli clothing accessories available . my bright red wind-breaker open and flapping in the cool breeze, and he said "Hamas, boom, boom."

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But, still, some very American part of me stood still in the middle of the maelstrom. In retrospect, my flight instincts have been severely dulled by the relative placid existence of living in a country like the United States, a country for which for millions of people terrorism is but an abstraction.

And then the dam broke. The plaza before the Wailing Wall is divided by perpendicular barriers separating the men from the women. Suddenly the barrier was opened by Israeli soldiers, and a similar stampede of women, their heads covered with black, blue, white and many other colored scarfs, rushed forward. They ran in my direction, many with children in their arms or being pulled by their hands, towards the shelters.

A strangely calm line of Israeli soldiers, both men and women carrying automatic weapons and dressed in deep olive colored uniforms, encouraged the movement of everyone still standing in the open space by forming a fast moving line, sweeping across and urging us towards the shelters.

I joined the river of humanity that was now flowing away from the Wall and entered the bomb shelter under an arch that was the opening to a long tunnel, now filled with people. Having been one of the last people to reach the shelter, I stood at the entrance, not inside and not outside.

Finally a voice in English announced, "This is the Israeli Police. The siren you're hearing," and here I was sure the man speaking would say "has been a drill," like the voice that comes through your TV set when the emergency broadcasting system beep is piped through your television.

"This is the Israeli Police. The siren you're hearing is real. Take cover."

Immediately to my left, a young woman wearing a light-blue scarf on her head clutched a baby, a few months old judging by his little body, while she weeped and closed her eyes. Behind me, I could see people crowded into the shelter, standing close to each other like passengers in the New York subway at rush hour. Men and women rushing by me and pushing behind me into the shelter, would shout names, frantically looking for their spouse or child or friend that had been separated during the mass exodus from the plaza.

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A woman collapsed a few feet from me -- a panic attack perhaps -- and she was immediately surrounded by a group of strangers, picking her up and speaking to her, one woman put a bottle of water to her lips, even as they carried her into one of the shelters.

Israeli soldiers seemed to be everywhere, both watching the crowd and scanning the plaza for stragglers or perhaps some terrorist that would punctuate the night by detonating a suicide-bomb.

And then, as quickly as it all began, the siren stopped. For a moment all I could hear was the sound of both men and women crying, children who had been frightened into hysteria being comforted by their fathers and mothers, the singers sang louder and shook their fists at the sky. The men praying continued their rocking prayers, seemingly in a trance.

Soldiers started to wave at us to come out of the shelter. Speaking in Hebrew words I could not understand, calmly and gesturing with their hands for us to move back into the open plaza. Within a few minutes, the area immediately in from of the Wailing Wall was full of men praying, some covered with shawls and wearing 19th century style long black coats,The Whole Specialized Cycling Team is a non-profit Junior and U-23 development program. others in modern clothes, their kipa and Bibles as the symbols of reverence.

Like the moment when the siren started, I stood motionless as thousands of people flowed across the plaza, the voices of thousands merging together, sharing shock, fear, relief with their companions.

My last memory of that night was the moment a friend found me -- I was standing on a step near the arch of the bomb shelter. He had frantically been searching for me among the thousands of people at the Wall after we got separated during the attack.

Fortified by a stiff whiskey, or two, he later told me that he only saw me in the chaotic crowd of thousands because I was wearing a red jacket, my protection from the crisp air of the early Jerusalem winter night.

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Newswomen now make statements with colorful attire, not power suits

Dresses dangled on the racks at Neiman's and Saks and all Norah O'Donnell needed was a suit.

Earlier this year, when the veteran news anchor was scouring stores for a suit jacket to wear for her "CBS This Morning" publicity photo, she discovered what her viewers have known for years: The women's blazer is disappearing — from department stores and network news broadcasts.

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"Ten years ago, professional dress meant a Talbots suit for women," said Dave Smith, president of SmithGeiger, a market research firm that consults with news networks. "What's appropriate for female talent on television has evolved because of familiarity. The audience has equal regard for female and male anchors. It's given women far more liberty to be feminine."

O'Donnell agrees: "There has been an evolution of women's wear on television. Part of that is the changing times, but it's also because there are more women in media who feel comfortable about what they want to wear."

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But skeptics find ulterior motives in the modern newswoman image, one that's celebrated in men's magazines and YouTube tributes to the legs of NBC's "Today." Skin sells, and media are more competitive than ever: Are networks encouraging lower necklines and higher hemlines to boost ratings?

Some morning show hosts have commented on network edicts regarding dress. Before her departure from "Today," Ann Curry told Ladies' Home Journal that executives encouraged her to wear "ridiculously high-heel shoes." Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," found that executives tried to control her wardrobe when she transitioned into morning television.

"When 'Morning Joe' started, I was a hostage to fashion by network executives and stylists, who thought they knew what I should wear," Brzezinski said, calling the clothes "short, skimpy, tight. They were not me and not Washington."

It was only when she went on the road with the show during the 2008 primary season that she began choosing her own clothing, which then included J.Crew blouses and casual separates.

"Joe [Scarborough] said, 'That's the look you want to hit with this show. You want to be you,' which is kind of Washington, comfortable, not very showy. My style's evolved over the years, but it came from shedding the culture of TV news that I used to try and compete in."

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Tagore said she had read Sarna's book before coming to the event and liked the short stories that were written during his many postings all over the world, from Bhutan to Poland.

She said the characters were "incredibly interesting and there were crucial moments when the characters get moulded through the vicissitudes of their everyday existence".

Tagore, besides being an avid patron of arts, is known for her love of reading.

Khurshid praised the simplicity of the writing and the way it reflected everyday slices of life. He wondered "provocatively" if diplomatic jargon could not be simplified in a way that it appealed to the common man.

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YouTube HOF: Holiday Commercial-ism

Michael Weinreb: I do not know how many tri-state area children turned to a life of street-corner violence and petty crime because of the trauma brought on by Crazy Eddie commercials. All I know is that I was 5 years old when my parents moved me away from New York (presumably for this very reason), and these ads are so deeply burrowed into my subconscious that I cannot dissociate Santa Claus from the skeeviest parts of Breaking Bad.

Andy Greenwald: Growing up, no East Coast Christmas was complete without being hollered at by Crazy Eddie. (Actually, no summer was complete either, as Eddie was instrumental in introducing the controversial "Christmas in August" sale event, too.) In a golden era of local advertising, Eddie Antar was both the king and the jester, the sort of manic capitalist who could make you feel guilty for not buying a digital watch for that special someone, even if you were only in second grade.The Canada Goose Chilliwack Parka are bright and very easy to spot in the snow or anywhere you might be! In real life, Eddie wasn't crazy, but he wasn't all there, either: From the moment the company was founded in the pre-artisanal Brooklyn of 1971, it was rife with fraud. At one point, Eddie was funneling millions of dollars into Israeli banks, which promptly wired the bills to Panama. In the end, the craziest thing Eddie ever did wasn't the deep discount on the reel-to-reel player. It was cheating on Debbie, his high school–sweetheart wife,This is my review of my Canada Goose Trillium Parka and how it . with another woman named Debbie. (They were caught, in flagrante digital licto, by OG Debbie on New Year's Eve. Let's hope no one was wearing the Santa hat.) Anyway, Eddie was eventually convicted, fled to Tel Aviv under a fake passport, was arrested and extradited, and spent most of the '90s behind bars. My favorite thing about Eddie Antar — huckster, con man, over-rater of calculators — was that despite his unstoppable, vaguely terrifying love of Christmas, he probably never had a Crazy Christmas Tree in his Crazy Condo. Crazy Eddie was Jewish.

Mark Lisanti: The 1980s were a simpler time. Back then, a prodigal, letterman-jacket-clad son could slip quietly into the house, arms laden with presents for his loving family, and crack open a can of delicious Folgers with an adoring sister, and the only suspicions aroused were those of the slumbering parents, who thought Santa might have arrived early to fill their house with the smell of classic roasted holiday joy.

But we now live in a more complicated world. When "Peter" arrives home from his adventures in the ostensibly java-bereft lands of West Africa, his backpack bursting with exotic gifts from "far away" (we never see what's in that box, but it's almost certainly opium-based; when you can't get supermarket-quality canned coffee, you have to take refuge in whatever gets you through the day), the exchanged smiles and coy bow-play inspire different, queasier feelings. Ones that make people describe this updated ad in far more sinister terms and then compose disturbing fanfic about the relationship. So thank you, Folgers Incest Claus, for squatting atop our chimneys and dropping this new holiday tradition into our living rooms every year since 2009. It wouldn't feel like the holidays without it.

Emily Yoshida: This ad is not only fantastic, it was a formative part of my creative education. I was in a video production class in fifth grade, and our final project was to create a television commercial. (My group ended up making an ad for a service that put together and executed garage sales in exchange for a cut of the profit. This is a terrible idea for a business, and it ended with a group dance to James Brown's "I Got You," which is an idea I think we stole from a Senokot commercial.) Anyway, in order to learn how to plan our shoots, the teacher had us draw storyboards off preexisting commercials. I knew whatever ad I picked should reflect my personality and also include imagery that I would be excited to draw over and over again in 30-plus frames. So of course, I taped this Klingon-language Hallmark ad off an airing of Deep Space Nine and proceeded to get really good at drawing Birds of Prey. Never got that ornament, though — Mom thought the Klingon were too violent a people to be represented on the Christmas tree. I dunno, maybe she wasn't reading the subtitles — they seemed to be way more diligent about writing thank-you notes than I ever was.

Charles P. Pierce: The Budweiser commercial gets more hype, but this one, with the lovely piano music and one-horse sleigh, is the one that most means Christmas to me. (Also, I prefer High Life to that St. Louie Kool-Aid anyway.) In fact, very often, the two get confused. On an episode of Designing Women, Charlene once referred to how sentimental she got when she saw "the Budweiser ad playing 'I'll Be Home for Christmas.'" That, of course, is the theme to this ad. (The Bud Christmas commercial plays the Budweiser theme.) And, yes, I watched Designing Women and remember specific dialogue from it. What's it to you?

Brian Phillips: Look,The Canada Goose Montebello tend to be more leisure, thus opening a broad space on the fashion area. children! A 6-foot-3 clown in yellow slaughterhouse coveralls is performing lyrical pirouettes across the middle distance of our neighborhood skating pond! His face looks like a chemical accident! Let's conga!

This commercial essentially played on repeat on every channel during the entire 1980s, which explains why — to this day — the sight of Battle Cat makes me long to accept a milkshake from a pedophile. I love Christmas.

Super-sized "Dancing" freestyles leads to smaller-than-normal blog entry

Like numerous Our Pros, certain stars, and especially Maria Menounos (oh how I thought I would never have to misspell your name again) who have performed while afflicted with various injuries, I too am more than prepared to put forth my best work when I am less than 100%. Yes, right now as I write this, I am battling a cold (and a broken heart), but as the consummate professional that I am, you can expect nothing less than the best as I recap the finals of Dancing with the Stars. Ha, who I am kidding! I'll be lucky to even make it to the end of this post after mistaking a bottle of Advil PM for a bottle of the non-drowsy version! Which is a feeling, I'm sure, shared by anyone who accidentally comes across my blog! Even if they weren't sleepy from some nighttime medicine! Last night's finale, pitting for the first time ever, three women stars, saw each couple dance two dances, a "favorite dance" of theirs from this past season, along with a "supersized" freestyle routine where anything goes. And went. So here's the breakdown of the three remaining couples, in order of appearance (with judge's scores in parentheses):

Kelly Monaco & Valentin Chmerkovskiy (29.5/29.5/59): For this couple's "favorite dance,Canada Goose Chateau Parka" they went with their big-red-curtain-flying-over-Val paso doble, which I guess is more note-worthy now for Val actually putting on a bolero jacket at the beginning of the dance, then his stripping down to his tighty-black'ys, as he did during last week's "Surfer Flamenco, "a "favorite dance" of every woman watching I'm sure. And just like all those disappointed women, I too was a little disappointed by this dance, and really all of the "favorite dances," just because it was a little "been there, done that." Plus, they completely messed up one move, which threw off the dance a bit. And to be honest, their freestyle was totally a "been there, done that" routine, a Dirty Dancing-inspired freestyle set to "(I've Had) The Time of My Life." Sure, the opening was pretty stellar, with Val on the violin, and Kelly doing some aerial fabric tricks like it was no big thang, but by dance's end, the routine was just a watered-down remake of the movie with the requisite lifting-you-up-in-the-air move.Men's HyBridge Jacket Whereas that move was expected, I actually loved that they added in the "upper arm finger graze" of the movie, an under-appreciated move that shows true chemistry when just the slightest touch (like a finger squeeze) can send electricity shooting through your body. The judges all basically agreed with me, that the dance was superb, but lacking originality, with Carrie Ann noting that the couple gave the crowd a happy ending. And who doesn't like a happy ending?

Melissa Rycroft & Tony Dovolani (30/30/60): Thankfully, I'm sick, so it's unlikely that I'll be getting too worked up when Melissa and Tony aren't hoisting the Mirror Ball Trophy tonight (though I would certainly accept a volunteer to nurse me back to full-strength), as they have been the consistently best couple throughout this All-Stars run. They are so much fun to watch, and I would say that they matched Shawn & Derek, trick-for-trick, throughout the season. Plus who doesn't love Tony?!? I mean if you don't think Tony is the greatest male Dancing pro dancer ever, I will fight you. That's no lie. And just think of the endorsement opportunities these two could have after being crowned Dancing with the Stars champions: "Some might say that it was our exuberance for dance, some might say that it was my rock-hard abs, and some might say that we were just so fun that not even asinine questions from Brooke Burke could bring us down. But the truth of the matter was that Crest White Strips propelled us to victory. And spray tans. Lots and lots of spray tans. I'm talking layers here." But even after turning all "8's" from their early season "favorite," a samba, into all "10's," I just don't think it'll give them enough "judge's scores combined with viewer votes" to finally give Tony a well-deserved victory. After bombing in the final's freestyle the first time they were paired up, a tepid hip hop freestyle, with even Melissa admitting that "it bombed," the two looked to a "high risk" contemporary dance that was truly beautiful, showcasing Melissa's incredible lines and Tony's super-human strength (my guess is that he just held that initial pose all the way through the commercial break and rehearsal package). Whereas Kelly & Val employed a gospel choir and the Dance Troupe (shudder) in their super-sized freestyle, Melissa & Tony kept the attention focused on themselves, having only a few Cirque du Soleil cube-stretcher-people suspended (most likely without harnesses) high above the dance floor. For me, a contemporary dance is the most sexual of dances, with even Len wanting to get it on, telling the couple he wish he could get an "11." As someone who is used to getting an "11" for his own style of contemporary dance, I can understand what a compliment that is.

Shawn Johnson & Derek Hough (27/30/57): After being scolded earlier in the season by all of the judges for their rule-breaking "Hey Pachuko" quickstep, the couple trotted it out there again, for more judge's scorn, and more crowd-pleasing trickery, leading to another standing "o" (which is always accepted when you're doing your best work). Of course, then all the judges told the couple that they would have to score the routine according to the OFFICIAL RULES of the show - no breaking hold, no lifts – and then giving them a "9" (Carrie Ann), "8.5" (Len, of course) and "9.5" (Bruno, of course) for the dance. "Rules? We don't need your stinking rules," said everyone other than me, who really wants to see the "Official Rulebook of Dancing with the Stars." Which I imagine is a gem-encrusted Trapper Keeper. Luckily for them, the rulebook was thrown out (leading to some possible dumpster diving by me) for the super-sized freestyle, where the couple super-sized their dance by incorporating the pint-sized Fierce Five (most annoying moniker of 2012, you decide (as I already have... and it is) into a routine full of lifts, flips and unbelievable dances moves, including one with Shawn falling face-first from standing on Derek's shoulders into a front somersault. I mean,Canada Goose Manitoba Jacket that's a position that even I wouldn't try! As good as the dance was, Kevin Kawa was not impressed (most annoying phrase of 2012, without a doubt), as Shawn & Derek got a little lost in the shuffle with so many gymnasts performing tricks around them, especially when compared to the stripped-down routine from Melissa & Tony (and I love me some stripped-down routines!).

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Violence in Syria has escalated. Tens of thousands more refugees have fled across the border, and the loss of life is reflected in the destruction of the country's historic patrimony – as when fire partially destroyed Aleppo's historic souk in October.

Such uncertain times can inspire more than literal representations of violence.

Though Syrian artist Guilain Safadi does not seek to depict contemporary events in his country directly, the work in “Ashes,” a series of black-and-white acrylic-on-canvas paintings and ink-on-paper sketches, does captures some of the horror of these events.

These monochrome images, now up at Artlab in Gemmayzeh, are a stark departure from the range of bright colors employed in Safadi's earlier works: “All I see is black and white. Everything is burned – the cities, our memories.”

With the exception of two sketches, all the works on show in “Ashes” were completed in 2012, a year after the outbreak of violence in Safadi's country. Though his work clearly references recent events, these are symbolic rather than literal.

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“I think when you have a hard situation you're trying to go back to the past because it gives you a break,” he says. “I see my cities burning, my memories with them. I try to catch a moment to remind me that we are [still] alive.”

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The high point of the exhibition is a series of sketches that Safadi has titled “Nightmare Series.” These surreal works capture scenes from the artist's dreams. In spite of their complexity and detail, the sketches were completed in a matter of hours, he explains, while the memory of the dream was still fresh.

One sketch shows Safadi himself sitting at a long table, his hair falling around his shoulders, a halo around his head, a glass of wine in hand. Two swathes of cloth to either side suggest the scene might be taking place on stage.

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She recalls being followed as she walked toward the dorm at SW 10th and Market. She was struck over the head and knocked unconscious. When she woke up, she was in an alley behind the women's dorm and had been sexually assaulted, Marshman said.

The woman, described as being in her 20s, was taken to a hospital for treatment.

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Please be vigilant and aware of your surroundings on and off campus, and call 911 or the Campus Public Safety Office at 503-725-4404 if you observe suspicious behavior or if you have any concerns about your personal safety.

Support services from the PSU Women's Resource Center and Student Health and Counseling Services are available for anyone impacted by violence.

The school has also scheduled a 5:30 p.m. audience interactive theater performance on sexual assault and safety.

PSU spokesman Scott Gallagher said school police work closely with Portland police because of the transparent geographic lines between the campus and downtown Portland. He said PSU was prepared to reach out to any student with safety concerns.

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Students were on edge Monday and concerned this happened at their campus.

"It's really concerning and really pretty scary actually, just because, I mean, I usually feel pretty comfortable here and now that makes me kind of nervous. I'm going to pay even more attention to where I am and who is around me... and carry my pepper spray all the time," said student Olivia Wyatt.

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Clothingline is rounding out its European offerings for the week by also hosting a Furla leather goods sample sale in the other half its sales floor. We spotted a vast variety of bags in a rainbow of colors starting at $99 and capping off at $249 for the larger sizes. There was also a small accessories section that was totally mobbed.

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“This will be the first time in four years I've been out,” the 24-year-old Boonsboro woman said Tuesday. “I've finally gotten out of school and I've got the time … or I'm making the time.”

Elliott said she has been hunting since she was 13 and is looking forward to some time in the woods.

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“We're getting more of them each year,” Tim Stahl said of women hunters. “That's probably the fastest growing part of hunting.”

For 19 years, Stahl and his wife, Belinda, have owned Keystone Sporting Goods Inc. at 13611 Pennsylvania Ave. in Hagerstown. Early Tuesday afternoon cars, vans and pickup trucks were coming and going from the business's parking lot.

Christmas is still the most important time of the year for their business, Stahl said, but business looked pretty good on this day.

In the back of one truck was the head of 10-point buck bagged by Calvin Staubs of Hagerstown. He got it and another large buck in Illinois where, he said, the deer are considerably larger than those in the East.

“He's my best ever,” Staubs said of the buck.

“The most memorable thing about my hunt is I went with my father … and he got a bigger one than me,” bringing down a 13-point buck, Staubs said.

Of the deer he brings in, much of the meat is given away, Staubs said.

“I donate four or five a year to Farmers and Hunters Feeding the hungry,” he said.

Staubs hunted during the archery and muzzleloader seasons, but did not bring anything home. Staubs said he generally hunts bucks — six points or better — and did not get a shot at any.

Staubs, 40, has been hunting since the age of 9, but Dick Knight of Hagerstown has that beat.

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Hancock is in Region A where the bag limits on whitetail are more restrictive. Still, the herd is more plentiful now than in the 1940s and 1950s, he said.

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In 2008, Palin, running as my party's vice-presidential candidate, was widely supposed to have cost John McCain the election. But that wasn't so. A national exit poll conducted by CNN asked voters whether Palin was a factor in their voting. Of those who said yes, 56 per cent voted for McCain versus 43 per cent for Barack Obama.

Furthermore, Mitt Romney, the GOP's anointed contender this year, got almost a million fewer votes than McCain did in 2008. (Meanwhile, President Barack Obama, although winning re-election, lost far more voters than the Republicans, with nearly 7 million fewer voters checking his name on their ballots than they did in 2008).

Millions of Americans didn't much care for Obama and his Obamacare spending blowout, but they didn't feel like voting for Romney either. Some said that Romney didn't resonate with recession-hit blue-collar folks in swing states because he “looked like the boss who outsourced their jobs,” as one blog commenter quipped.

Gabriel Malor, writing for the New York Daily News' blog, pinpointed another reason: by focusing his campaign mostly on serious economic and political issues such as the national debt and tax incentives, Romney failed to take into account the fact that large segments of the electorate neither know nor care much about serious economic and political issues. What they – a group sometimes euphemistically called “uninformed voters” – do know and care about are the tugs on their emotions, fears, revulsions and heart strings provided by hours and hours of uninterrupted television watching.

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Same-sex marriage? Palin opposes it. But she is also a strong advocate of states' rights, and I'm betting she'd be fine with letting states and their voters grapple with the issue on their own. Remember that all of America didn't swing towards approval of same-sex marriage on Nov. 6. Three reliably blue states and their voters did.

Palin's son Track is an Iraq war veteran, so she can be proudly patriotic without being labelled another George W. Bush, looking to do aggressive nation-building. She seems aware there is only one nation in need of building right now: America.

Furthermore, looks count in politics, and Palin at age 48, has it all over her possible competition, including Hillary Rodham Clinton, who will be 69 by Election Day 2016 and who let someone talk her into adopting the flowing blond locks of a college student.

Men love Sarah Palin, and she loves men. She's tough as nails too. After Election 2008, she was supposed to have been through. This year eight of the 14 GOP candidates Palin endorsed for Congress won election or re-election, including tea party favourite Ted Cruz for a Senate seat in Texas.

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Veronica did nothing about it, and told no one. But Liam as he grew older went off the rails, became an alcoholic, and eventually committed suicide, thoughtfully wearing a yellow jacket that would make it easier for searchers to find his body. Delayed in this way, the revelation-to-be becomes something of a tease.

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There's a happy ending of sorts. It turns out Liam has a little son called Rowan, and Veronica appears to be getting her life in order again. But two hundred plus pages of rambling memories that don't always add up is perhaps too high a price for the reader to pay.

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With ABBA's Dancing Queen blaring, the 14 senior women, and six men, joined another 20 models, ages 17 down to 6.

Skye Gladstone, 70, who's about to be a grandmother for the first time, slid across the stage in a slinky black outfit with an ever-so-short skirt.

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Would she? “Oh absolutely,” Skye said.

Dawn DiPaola, who'd been Miss United States in 2006 and who runs a Delray Beach modeling firm, had taught everyone how to walk the runway.

The oldest model: Dawn's grandmother, Ida Christian, 90.

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Barbara allowed as how she modeled as a teenager.

Barbara had a message for the cynics who say people reach a certain age and stop being beautiful: “I think you can look great at any age.”

Before Diane's husband died two years ago, “he told me to get out there and enjoy life,” she said. Then, a bit wistfully, “my husband thought I was beautiful.”

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Fashionable Life: Wardrobe Oxygen

In our November issue, we featured a hand-picked guide to the runway’s top 10 trends (p. 54-57), including black and white, studs, peplum, metallic brocade, capes, leather accents, herringbone, ankle boots, motorcycle jackets and military-inspired ware. Now,The Men's HyBridge Jacket Hooded Parka is one of the newest models from the Lightweight Series. we have sought out the area’s top fashion bloggers to showcase their takes on the trends. Tune in each Tuesday for the next several weeks to see trendy outfits created by Washington’s finest-dressed and exclusive interviews with the women behind the blogs.

In 2005, Alison Gary was traveling often for work, visiting clients every few weeks. But when a client she had only seen once a month greeted her as “the lady in the cream suit,” she realized she had worn the same outfit to the same client twice, and needed a system to keep track of what she was wearing. Enter Wardrobe Oxygen, Gary’s popular Washington style blog that helps women of all sizes and ages learn what works for their bodies.What started as a personal project grew into a tool to show that personal style can always be achieved. Now Gary sees her blog as a voice for women over 30, who still care about fashion but need to balance that passion with family responsibilities and work.

“I realized there were a few basics every woman should have in her wardrobe, no matter her style or size, and I wanted to share what I had learned through personal experience,” said Gary.

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WL: Trend you fully embrace:
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Olivia Newton-John shares survival story with Hamilton

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By 6:30 p.m., attendees filled the lobby of Carmen's, standing shoulder to shoulder, dressed in sequins and suits and, in one case, a pink satin jacket with the words “Pink Lady” in black script across the back. Hits from the movie Grease played over the speakers. Signed posters were among the silent auction items everyone browsed while they waited to be let into the dining room for a meal, followed by a speech from Newton-John. Some were music and movie fans; others were people whose lives have been affected by breast cancer.

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Being in love, she continued, "makes you go places you probably wouldn't ever go, had it not been for love. But I think everybody still has their limits."