Pocahontas Disney
February 21, 2010
Pocahontas Disney:The last of 17 service members aboard a U.S. Navy helicopter that crashed Thursday in an extremely remote and heavily wooded area near the Randolph-Pocahontas county line were extricated late Friday morning, and a Navy spokesman said no one sustained any life-threatening injuries.
Speaking at a news conference at the helicopter’s base at Norfolk Naval Air Station in Virginia, Capt. Steve Schreiber said nine of the passengers were treated at Davis Memorial Hospital in Elkins and released. Another was inbound to Elkins Friday and three were admitted there for treatment. The remaining four were transported to the University of Virginia Trauma Center in Charlottesville.
Injuries ranged from minor bruises to fractures, but none of the injuries was considered life-threatening, he said.
The MH-60S Knighthawk went down about 1 p.m. Thursday in a location where heavy snowfall and freezing conditions slowed the rescue process, according to West Virginia National Guard Lt. Col. Mike Cadle.
Schreiber lauded the heroic efforts of the crew and passengers, as well as the rescuers first on the scene.
About 30 volunteers from fire departments in Bartow, Cass, Durbin, Frank and Greenbrier County assisted in the rescue, according to West Virginia Army National Guard Col. Ed Muth. Law enforcement and emergency personnel from Pocahontas and Randolph counties also assisted.
Muth, who participated in the rescue, said crews took precautions to guard against freezing temperatures overnight at the crash site.
“We were wearing cold-weather gear,” he said. “Two medics inserted started campfires and built shelters at the crash site.”
The medics were part of a West Virginia Army National Guard search and rescue crew hoisted down via a HH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, Muth said.
Shavers Fork Fire Rescue was the first to reach the crash site by ground, according to Chief Shannon Boehmer.
He said his 12-member crew followed a railroad grade from the south with two snow groomers, their operators and six snowmobiles — all borrowed from nearby Snowshoe Mountain Resort.
Muth said the only issue was getting to the site because they had to cut through 5 to 6 feet of snow drifts.
He added, “The equipment from Snowshoe came in handy.”
The majority of the service members were taken from the crash site to the Shavers Fork fire station on snow groomers for transport to the hospital, said Melvin Martin of the Pocahontas County Office of Emergency Services.
Martin said rescuers were unable to extract the injured by air due to a low cloud ceiling of less than 100 feet and freezing rain.
One of the West Virginia National Guard personnel on board the helicopter was Josh Flesher, an assistant wrestling coach at Williamstown High School in Wood County.
The Parkersburg News and Sentinel reported Flesher contacted his family and told them he was recovering at the Elkins hospital.
The paper reported Flesher said he and another soldier left the crash in search of help and found a rescue team searching on ATVs.
The helicopter was participating in Operation Southbound Trooper X and was en route from Fort Pickett, Va., to Camp Dawson near Kingwood when the crash occurred, officials said.
According to officials, the operation is an annual exercise that focuses on integrating joint U.S. and NATO tactics, procedures and inter-service coordination and capabilities.
Schreiber said those aboard the helicopter included 11 Navy, four National Guard personnel and two Marines.
The captain added, “I’d like to thank the West Virginia National Guard and the local responders for their heroic work. Their efforts were extraordinary and took place under the most difficult of situations. The rescuers had to traverse more than 3 miles from the nearest road through heavily wooded and mountainous terrain to reach the crash site.
“A special thanks to the Snowshoe Mountain Ski Resort for providing Snowcats that enabled first responders to reach the site.”
Boehmer said his crew, composed mainly of ski patrolmen, was prepared for the search and was familiar with the area.
“I feel we were trained and ready for this,” he said.
The Bachelor Allie
February 9, 2010
The Bachelor Allie:Why did Ali (aka Allie) leave the Bachelor tonight?
LALATE’s spoiler on Ali Fedotowsky several weeks ago turned out correct. On January 26, LALATE wrote: “Ali reportedly will bow out due to work issues. Jake then cuts contestant.
Tonight, that’s exactly what happened. Ali brings Jake home. But drama unfolds. Ali hears from her job she must either give up the reality show or loose her own job as an advertising account manager. Ali must decide and turns to Jake for help on her decision.
Ali tried to get Jake to confess if she will win. His response?
“Life is about minimizing your regrets. You just have to weigh which one is going to be a bigger regret.”
Ali’s response?
“It’s like the two loves of my life I feel like I have to choose between. If you were mine the choice would be easy. I feel like you’re slipping right through my fingers and I don’t know how to stop you.
Latest Fashion Of year
February 8, 2010
Latest Fashion Of year:Hannah MacGibbon, Chloé’s creative director, was seeking just that spirit with her patchwork jeans offering. “I was going for the anti-cocktail,” she said. “I thought it was right for the moment.” Indeed, the look has become a press favorite, and it’s easy to see why. Worn with tousled hair and a touch of lip gloss (or, as Ms. MacGibbon suggested, “a crocodile belt and an expensive bag”), it simply reads sexy.
Top left, Chloé denim patchwork shirt, $675, and denim patchwork jeans, $685, at Bergdorf Goodman. Middle left, jeans, $555, and denim jacket, $998, at Ralph Lauren.
Kate Moss Daughter Want To Design Handbags
February 4, 2010
Kate Moss Daughter Want To Design Handbags:LONDON – British supermodel Kate Moss’s seven-year-old daughter Lila wants to design her own range of handbags.
Moss creates clothes for British high street store Topshop and has her own fragrances as well. Recently she launched a collection of bags for French luxury label Longchamp and admits that young Lila is keen to follow in her footsteps.
Lila has got her ideas and she has got really good taste. She wants to do her own collection, said Moss.
Selena Gomez At Vanessa Hudgens’s Party
December 17, 2009
Selena Gomez At Vanessa Hudgens’s Party:Vanessa Hudgens’s surprise 21st birthday was thrown for her recently by Zac Efron. All the Disney crew were invited – including Selena Gomez. She chose to wear a turquoise vintage style dress with gladiator style brown sandals.
Her dress is chic – I like the style and cut, not to mention the gorgeous color which really suits her skin tone. However, I really dislike the brown tights brown shoe combination. It just doesn’t work with the dress.
Bare legs with similar shoes in black would have made this dress pop much more, but instead it is drowned in a mud-slide of brown color.
This outfit deserves about a 6/10. it’s a really elegant vintage style dress, but it went downhill from there!
Handmade Cowboy Boots,Custom Cowboy Boots
December 4, 2009
Handmade Cowboy Boots,Custom Cowboy Boots:sick of corporate Christmas? Try shopping local. Hair Balls presents a 12-part series highlighting ideas for holiday gifts made and sold in Texas. Cowboy boots are a Texas tradition,and not that Hair Balls cares, but they’re apparently a huge trend for this winter. Houston’s got dozens of awesome places to buy cowboy boots. Two of Hair Balls’ favorites are listed below. Texas Junk Co. boasts Houston’s largest collection of used cowboy boots and they really do have a huge selection, some with the dirt still on ‘em. The “boot room” is well organized (an oddity at any junk store) and kickers can be had for as low as $30. The Montrose 
institution is located at Taft and Welch streets and is so packed with other dusty odds and ends you’ll probably knock something over looking for that perfect pair. Only trouble is the Junk Co.’s got weird hours. This summer, cantankerous owner Bob Novotney changed the hours from three days a week to one, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays.if want to purcase this please click the image
Christian Lacroix That Will Reduce The House To A Licensing Operation
December 3, 2009
Christian Lacroix That Will Reduce The House To A Licensing Operation:This week, a French court approved a restructuring plan for bankrupt label Christian Lacroix that will reduce the house to a licensing operation. Only about a dozen of the roughly 100 employees will keep their jobs. The label’s problems culminated with the parties that expressed interest in buying the label but failed to produce financial guarantees in time to rescue it. But where did they begin? Experts say Lacroix focused too much on haute couture collections. Successful labels use couture nowadays as marketing efforts. No label sells enough couture clothes to justify it. But buzz surrounding couture shows can be harnessed to sell things the general public can afford, such as handbags, scarves, fragrances, etc.
Lacroix co-founder Jean-Jacques Picart, who is now a consultant to places like LVMH, notes, “Even if in 2009 Lacroix sold around 70 bridal dresses — an enormous number for couture — at an average of 35,000 euros a throw, it is obvious that it is not enough to run a couture house.
Victoria’S Secret Fashion Show,Victoria s Secret Fashion Show 2009
December 2, 2009
Victoria’S Secret Fashion Show,Victoria s Secret Fashion Show 2009:Tonight’s Victoria Secret Fashion Show will serve up more than enough eye candy for the men. But, per usual, there’s a little something for the ladies: the $3 million Harlequin Fantasy Bra. The luxurious piece of lingerie contains 2,300 diamonds crisscrossing the cups and, hanging at the crux of the décolletage, a 16-carat heart-shaped diamond pendant.
In a sign of the times, the bra is more modest than in years’ past. The Harlequin has one tenth the total carats of last year’s Black Diamond Fantasy Miracle Bra; less than a third the total diamonds of the 2007 Very Sexy Holiday Fantasy Bra; and costs one fourth of the 2005 Sexy Splendor Fantasy Bra.
Even so, every fantasy bra deserves its moment on the catwalk. The Harlequin will make its debut in tonight’s television airing of the fashion show (CBS, 10p.m. ET), worn by longtime Victoria’s Secret Angel Marisa Miller.
For the foundation of the garment, Victoria’s Secret opted not to use its new pad-a-palooza Miraculous bra, a spin-off of the now-famous Miracle Bra that claims to give wearers an additional two cup sizes. Rather, Victoria’s Secret had the Harlequin Fantasy Bra is made out of its Very Sexy Convertible bra, with straps that can be adjusted five different ways, in case you need to actually wear the fancy bra underneath something and hide the straps. (Were we in a position to purchase the bra, the last thing we’d want to do is cover it up. But that’s just us.)
The bling comes from the handiwork of Italian jeweler Damiani, namely family member Silvia Damiani. Damiani sat a few feet from the bra at the behind-the-scenes photo-op before the taping of the show last month. “We never did a bra before,” she gushed in a thick Italian accent.
Damiani compared the experience designing the bra to her work consulting on jewelry for the movie “Angels and Demons.” The religious pieces in the film, such as crosses for the priests had a specific purpose. “It makes you stronger because it’s something you touch and you rely on to feel better,” she said. The Victoria’s Secret bra had a much different end goal. “It’s really like a, how can jewelry can be even more sexy? Because at the end every woman likes to be sexy, in a nice way, in an elegant way,” she said.
Damiani said she and her female co-workers tried on the bra over their clothes to make sure it moved properly. Aside from Miller, Damiani had another celebrity in mind for the piece. “I have a dream of like Madonna wearing it on a stage for a concert,” she said.
Sadly, the fate of this bra is all but sealed. Rather than going on to live a long life as a dazzling brassiere, it will most likely go to the scrap yard. No one has ever purchased the Victoria’s Secret Fantasy Bra, the company said. Past bras—including the 2006 Hearts on Fire Diamond Fantasy Bra, worth $7 million—have all been dismantled.
Plastic For Moncler: Pharrell Spins
November 20, 2009
Plastic For Moncler: Pharrell Spins:I’ve never really been a puffy vest kind of girl, but after flipping through this month’s J.Crew catalog about a million times and reading about Pharrel’s Bionic vest for Moncler, I suddenly need one.
The musician’s designed a special collection for the luxury puffer brand. His vests and jackets come in black, all black and only black, including one vest in particular he’s billed as a bullet proof vest for pacifists. Inside, the jackets and vests are printed with images – mostly of nature after dark – by Japanese artist Keita Sugiura.
The range will drop in Fall 2010, no word on price points or stockists yet. But every piece uses fabric from Bionic, Pharrell’s three-year-old company that makes yarn from recycled plastic bottles.
If I’m venturing into puffer territory I’ll probably stick with something more like this, though between Pharrell and Giambattista Valli the idea of fancy down outerwear’s growing on me.
Oprah’s Talk Show In September 2011
November 20, 2009
Oprah’s Talk Show In September 2011:LOS ANGELES – Oprah Winfrey, one of the most influential and highly paid women on television, will announce on Friday she is ending her popular daytime talk show in 2011.
Winfrey’s production company, Harpo Inc, said on Thursday she would make the official announcement on Friday’s live program from Chicago and talk about the reasons behind the decision to end it after 25 years on the air.
She is expected to move to cable network OWN, or Oprah Winfrey Network, a Los Angeles-based joint venture she formed with Discovery Communications Inc, when her current syndication deal for “The Oprah Winfrey Show” runs out in 2011. OWN will be available in more than 70 million homes.
Harpo declined to comment on whether or when a revised form of the program might appear on OWN, whose launch has been delayed several times since its original 2009 start date. 
“The Oprah Winfrey Show,” broadcast from Chicago on ABC stations across the United States and in more than 140 countries overseas, is one of the TV industry’s biggest money-makers. It is the top-rated U.S. daytime talk show, averaging 7.1 million viewers this year.
Winfrey, 55, is considered a major opinion-maker in the United States and this year was No. 45 on Forbes magazine’s list of the world’s most powerful people.
She publicly promoted Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign and her program became a platform this week for Republican 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to launch her book, “Going Rogue.”
Actor Tom Cruise, the late Michael Jackson, and singer Whitney Houston are among the celebrities to have sat on, jumped on and poured out their hearts on her couch since the program began in 1986.
Winfrey used the show to launch her magazine, a book club that turned authors into best-sellers, and a cable TV channel, Oxygen, geared to female and lifestyle topics.
Her decision will affect CBS Corp’s CBS Television Distribution arm, which syndicates the show, and Walt Disney Co’s ABC-owned and operated TV stations that broadcast the show.
CBS TV Distribution said in a statement it wished Winfrey well. “We have the greatest respect for Oprah and wish her nothing but the best in her future endeavors. We know that anything she turns her hand to will be a great success. We look forward to working with her for the next several years, and hopefully afterward as well,” the statement said.
