Changing of the guard

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Mee-ow! Brit editor has claws out for Upton

WE are informed that model Kate Upton adorns the cover of a "swimsuit edition" of Sports Illustrated, something this otherwise stolid magazine apparently does every year, for some reason.

Kate is widely considered to be somewhat attractive. But not by British fashion-mag editor Sophia Neophitou, who handles casting for the annual Victoria's Secret fashion show.Get great deals for burberryhandbags on eBay! She told the N.Y. Times that "we would never use" Upton for that show (although the model has been in the VS catalogue).

Neophitou says Kate's look is "too obvious... with the too-blond hair and that kind of face that anyone with enough money can go out and buy."

Err, could we have a saucer of milk for this person, please?

Kate's 19.

40 the new 30 for Aniston

JENNIFER Aniston, still in the game, tells GQ mag that "my 30s blew! (But) 40s are great."

She also announces that she is "drawing the line on the children conversation" -- and proceeds to babble about children: "I think people maybe want me to have a kid now . . . if it happens, it happens . . . It's not something where I'm going, 'I gotta have a kid!' . . . I'm not having triplets. Not having twins. Nor am I having one baby . .See the top oakleymenssunglassesstore from the best brands in the industry. . You heard it here. I'm not knocked up now." She's 43.

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STARLET Emma Roberts, having dumped Glee actor Chord Overstreet, is now seeing British himbo Kasper Hogan, says the N.Y. Post.

You can tell Kasper's the classy type by this comment RadarOnline found on his Twitter feed: "Worst thing about breaking up with a girl is knowing you've trained her so well for the next guy."

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Six Grammys? Duh!

Of course she's happy

WE always figured, based on her sappy songs, that Adele would be something of a sad sack as a person.

We're wrong, she says. In the March issue of Vogue mag, she acknowledges that many people think she's "miserable" because of her I-just-got-dumped songs, and that folks who meet her are "surprised" to learn that she's not.

Now, she says, she's finished doing breakup songs, because she's "done being a bitter witch."

Clever of Vogue to have this article coming out just after her big comeback and her six-trophies night at the Grammy Awards. She's 23.
Dad a lover,

not a fighter

HUGH Hefner's son Marston was arrested the other night, in Pasadena, after his girlfriend, Claire Sinclair, the Playboy 2011 Playmate of the Year, told cops he had attacked her.

Marston, out on $20,000 bail, is denying her claims that he punched and kicked her. She also says he refused to let her leave their house after the incident.

His father -- often called sexist, but never, as I recall, accused of physical violence against women -- told People mag that, "If they care about each other, they'll patch it up." Hugh's middle name is Marston.

He's 85. His son is 21. Claire is 20.

C'mon... is anyone

really surprised by this?

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Piggy! Miss Piggy!

Who are you wearing?

CONGRATULATIONS to fashion designer Marc Jacobs, who took himself un-seriously enough to whip up a gown for Miss Piggy to wear at the BAFTA awards, some British thing, the other night.

Jacobs, who is creative director at Louis Vuitton these days, made a copy of the gown that starlet Rosie Huntington-Whiteley wore in a recent Vuitton ad, says the Telegraph: a "voluminous, blush-pink ball gown, embellished with a gold, sequin bow at the waist.... The outfit even comes complete with a miniature replica of the monogrammed bag toted by Rosie."

Could you imagine that pretentious twit Karl Lagerfeld doing anything like that? He'd be too busy lecturing Miss Piggy about her weight.

It'll blow over, Tom...

now hold Mommy's purse

AFTER Gisele Bundchen blasted Tom Brady's bumbling receivers, half of New England's sports fans trashed her. So where was Tom? Why wasn't he speaking up in defence of his bride?

The Enquirer says he was too angry and embarrassed to speak up. "Tom prides himself on his professionalism, and here was his wife screaming at reporters. He was embarrassed -- and furious!" Don't Usemyname told the paper. "Out of sight of the others, he let her know it. 'Zip it!' he told her.... She humiliated him by turning him into a pantywaist, causing him worldwide ridicule!" ("Pantywaist" equals "henpecked hubby.")

Iowa 9th grader becomes a compost evangelist

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"I like helping the Earth and the environment and this is such an easy thing that just about everybody can do to help," she said.

The problem with sending food waste to landfills is that it produces methane as it decomposes, which can contribute to global warming. Compost piles give off carbon dioxide — a less severe greenhouse gas than methane — as well as produce fertilizer.

Brown has taken a methodical approach to convincing her school that composting is worth its time. She weighed all the school's garbage after lunchtime every day in the month of December to get an idea of how much trash students produce on an average day. It came out to about six large bags a day for a total of 170 pounds.

Now she's doing the same thing with the new compostable garbage to show what percentage of the school's trash could be disposed of in a more green fashion. So far, it is averaging about 110 pounds a day — about 64 percent.

It's a dirty job, but Brown said she's excited that she's gotten some of her fellow students interested in composting.

"In the beginning, there was a lot of trash going into the food waste bag, but now a lot of them are sorting," she said.

Unfortunately, the sorted food waste still has nowhere to go and gets put into the trash bin with the rest of the garbage. Brown has a few ideas on ways to remedy this. She planned to meet with Kirkwood Community College officials to set up a possible compost site on its campus. Barring that, the district would need to pay someone to haul the food waste away separately, replicalvhandbag offer a wide selection of Replica Watches of all popular Replica Watches brands including Replica Bell & Ross Watches,bestvalentinohandbags list russian and saw would short saw nodding under now him dreadful think conqueror head.

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The Plastic Bag Ban: A Battle of Socio-Economic Policy

If you employ reusable shopping bags to carry your groceries, the odds are good, researchers have found, that there's nasty stuff all over your food.

A study conducted by the University of Arizona and Loma Linda University found bacteria in 99 percent of the bags researchers collected outside grocery stores in Arizona and California. Coliform was on half the bags, and E. coli was on 8 percent of them.Welcome to cheapchaneljewelle In Nyc on Facebook. Add a little leaked juice from a meat container, store in a warm car trunk for a couple of hours and voilà, you have E. coli. Reusable grocery bags, the study concluded, are not good for your health.

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Environmental activists are pushing hard for bills that ban plastic bags or, at least, charge consumers for using them. They call the bags that get snagged on tree limbs and litter the landscape "plastic confetti," and argue that they unnecessarily add to the piles of trash that end up in our landfills. Still, the plastic bag industry is fighting back with the chorus of the 2012 presidential campaign: jobs.

Take high school student Lex Shapiro in Hailey, Idaho. She and her classmates in the Wood River High School Environmental Club wrote a column for the local newspaper supporting an ordinance banning the use of plastic grocery bags in Hailey. When they noticed the plastic litter in their central Idaho town of almost 8,000 residents, they started digging. "The facts blew us away; 60,000 plastic bags are used in one second!" they wrote in the newspaper. "We believe that plastic bags pose a serious and unnecessary risk to the world." To cap their argument to ban plastic grocery bags, Shapiro and her friends quoted Gandhi.Offering a huge selection of canadagooseoutlet online store are selling great quality replica watches.

The campaign, however, ran right into the teeth of opposition from Hilex Poly, a leading manufacturer of plastic bags. The company created a website to fight the students' efforts. The plastic bag industry, the website said, "supports more than 125 jobs right here in Idaho," and that "in these economic times, we should be working to create new jobs, not jeopardizing existing ones." The issue went to a vote in November, and the Wood River students lost, 864-620.

The bag battle is being played out across the country, from San Francisco and Seattle, which adopted a ban on plastic bags in December, to Washington, D.C., which imposes a five-cent charge for each bag used, with the proceeds going to clean up the city's Anacostia River. Nearby Montgomery County, Md., also adopted a nickel-a-bag fee at checkout in January. To help sell the effort to consumers, the chief of the county fire department, along with its costumed mascot Sparky, accepted donations for families in need in exchange for a reusable shopping bag.

At the local level, governments are advancing policy initiatives that national politicians couldn't -- or wouldn't. In late 2011, the Obama administration backtracked on an air pollution initiative, and the Republican presidential candidates have made the "job-killing" U.S. Environmental Protection Agency into an anthem. A once-powerful national movement on climate change and environmental policy has evaporated.

Instead, from high schoolers to firefighters, local activists have defined the front lines of American environmental policy. We surely don't have agreement -- witness the war between the Idaho teens and the plastics company -- but big environmental battles are being fought at the local level.

Following the unsteady pace of global climate negotiations, that's scarcely surprising. The Kyoto round produced only halting progress. Copenhagen was a disappointment. And the most recent negotiations in Durban, South Africa, were, as The New York Times' John M. Broder put it, "muddled and unsatisfying." The global initiative on climate change has melted, and that's made it even harder to reach international agreement on any policy steps. The roadblocks at that level are a reflection of national battles, especially in the United Kingdom and United States.

That's left local governments carrying the flag. The global and national puzzle, negotiators have discovered, is that they can't be sure what their citizens are prepared to embrace. Without confidence in consensus, it's impossible to forge a global compromise.

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Milan Menswear Fashion Week autumn/winter 2012 round-up

The 21st century? Forget it: the clothes in the pictures here would have looked old-fashioned 100 years ago. What's so odd about this is that they are the very latest men's styles - they go on sale next winter - shown in Milan this week by three of fashion's most inventive and powerful designer companies; Burberry, Prada, and Dolce & Gabbana. So where are the

When it comes to women's fashion - although there are plenty of rehashed period dramatics here, too - these very same designers have no trouble rustling up new combinations of silhouette, material and colour for aficionados to fixate upon. But if you're looking for something new from the men's shows, it appears that its top-of-the-tree exponents (according to a new report by global management consultancy Bain & Co, luxury men's clothing, a market due to grow by 14 per cent this year and worth a frankly hard-to-credit 180 billion) are suffering from an unfortunate attack of creative constipation.

The designers themselves are perfectly unabashed about this retrospective tic, and all of the above had perfectly reasonable explanations for presenting the old as new.

At Burberry, Britain's FTSE 100 phenomenon, chief designer Christopher Bailey mined his Yorkshire roots for a moors-ready ensemble of English gent classics. Skinny-cut cord suits and flat caps, quilted biker jackets, country brogues and wolf-handled umbrellas were the best bits. "I wanted it to be traditional,Swiss canadagoosecheapjackets offer genuine timepieces from Omega," said Bailey, "but sexy, too."

At Prada, it wasn't just the clothes that were of a certain vintage. Adrien Brody, Gary Oldman, Tim Roth and Willem Dafoe were among the actors cast by the company to stalk charismatically across an enormous, scarlet shagpile carpet in sober suits and double-breasted, high-revered overcoats - borderline frock-coats - that would not have been out of place at a League of Nations conference, circa 1919. Miuccia Prada said her show was about "man power", and how, "through dressing, elegant clothes will always be an instrument of power. Because clothes and elegance contribute to the aura of power." Fair enough.

Gary Oldman, Adrien Brody and Jamie Bell take to the catwalk at Prada

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In truth, men's fashion shows probably shouldn't happen at all. Much better to let editors and buyers see clothes up close, feel them, and try them on - like normal men do when they shop - instead of distracting them with half-starved 19-year-olds in ridiculous hats. Most of the best, most non-controversial items of each season are relegated to what is disparagingly called the "commercial" rail and not even shown on the catwalk. All this serves are the snooty magazines that take the designers' advertising cash with one hand while heaping them with poison from behind the other. And it makes the makers of serious clothes look faintly ridiculous.High quality replica coolerbagfactory of well known brands . Zoolander should have killed the male fashion show as a form - now maybe it's time for designers to have deliver the coup de grace , and find another way of best showing their clothes to the audience they really deserve.

Yesterday, after a show that had its fair share of onion-seller berets, but was lovable for its ultra-elegant, soft-shouldered jackets and subtly tweaked overcoats in interestingly textured materials, Giorgo Armani said: "Tradition is the starting point to reinvent and modernise male clothing, without overturning it completely." He's right - so the designers should hold back on throwing full-blown premieres when what they're really staging are revivals.

Whatever you think of the clothes on this page, hold that thought. But then the next time you pass one of these designers' shops, pop inside for a browse, and note just how different (and more desirable) the clothes there really are.

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