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Ladies searching for a chance to win a Designer Relica Handbags for a not so designer price joined Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida at the 4th Annual Young Chicks, Replica Bags fundraiser. The savvy shopping event at Saks Fifth Avenue began with a silent auction of fabulous designer purses, some new and other people previously loved, included celebrity-owned bags. Festivities continued with raffle prizes, food, wine courtesy of The Naked Grape and free of charge goodies. Proceeds from the event benefited Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida, to assist teach young people today the economics of life.

Two weeks ago, Julie Esse, about nine months pregnant, looked as if she could turn into a further tragic footnote in Ivory Coast’s bloody conflict.

Instead, her story — with its twist ending — turned out to be some thing O. Henry could possibly have written, with a title about two bags of Sort O negative blood and details about scary guys brandishing Kalashnikovs and machetes.

Esse, 35, a hat and accessories designer, began having what she thought were contractions on April 6, the morning immediately after a mortar blast tore a hole in her family’s Abidjan apartment throughout the siege to capture Laurent Gbagbo, who refused to give up his presidency immediately after Alassane Ouattara was elected.

Esse, who has sickle cell anemia, was caught in a nightmare of airstrikes and sniper fire that turned Abidjan, 1 of Africa’s most modern and prosperous cities, into a war zone practically overnight.

“One day we had been living a peaceful, pleased life as well as the next day people had been becoming shot and killed outside our door,” Esse told AOL News at the time.

• Two males robbed a local motel Friday night, police said.

• Satinder Singh, 23, was working at Relax Inn on Mariposa Street when he saw a large-built black male standing in front of the motel’s front door.

• After Singh pushed the button to let the him in, the man rushed into the building while pointing a silver handgun at him, police said.

• The man pulled out a white plastic grocery bag and demanded Singh to put the motel’s cash in it, police said.

• Singh then saw a thin-built black male standing outside as a lookout. Both suspects ran on foot as soon as the first suspect had grabbed the cash-filled bag, police said.

• The first suspect was described as an 18-year-old black male, 5 feet 9 inches, large build, and wearing a black hoodie and black jeans.

• The second suspect was described as an 18-year-old black male, 6 feet 1 inch, thin build, and wearing a black sweater and blue jeans.

• No further information was available.

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• Jeans are the most universally beloved fashion item on the planet. From grade school slackers to Wall Street venture capitalists, when people can wear anything they want, they usually choose denim.

• However, not all denim is created equal or for the same purpose. The proletariat staple you’d wear to the farmer’s market is probably not the same pair that you’d wear to the symphony. And, yes, jeans are ubiquitous but not without detractors.

• There are still critics who object to the renaissance of denim. To them, jeans are for laboring, not socializing. These critics are probably the same population pulling out their hair over the misuse of the word, “literally”; they don’t realize that the battle is lost.

• If there’s an event where you can wear pants, there is a pair of jeans you can wear. Men have worn jeans to weddings — even grooms. Women have worn jeans to galas and, now … exercise classes.

• Yes, scoff all you want, but there is a jean for every occasion — skinny, bootcut, trouser, straight leg, boyfriend, flared, wide leg, tapered, jegging, zip ankle, faded, distressed, destroyed, raw. This year, the St. Louis-based Kellwood Co. announced yet another new line of denim aptly (although not euphoniously) christened Democracy Declaration of Jean Dependence.

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• A man was killed after being hit by a speeding train on Saturday at a railway crossing near the Military Dairy Farm. SS Jadhav, a constable attached to the railway police, Pimpri chowky, said, “The person is around 40 years old and was wearing a black jeans and a black shirt. He was five feet four inches tall.”

• In another incident, the body of a man was found lying near Kasarwadi railway station around 8.30 am on Saturday. The Railway police suspect that he might have died after falling off a running train.

• Railway police said he was around 30 years old and was wearing a blue shirt and black jeans.

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• Brett Favre returns to Green Bay as his Minnesota Vikings face his old team the Packers tonight on Sunday Night Football. And with controversy hanging over Favre this month to the point that Saturday Night Live took him to task last night in a sketch which blatantly mocked accusations of him exposing himself by portraying Favre promoting “open-fly jeans” for the sake of making it easier to expose himself.

• The question now is whether the open-fly joke will make it onto the Sunday Night Football broadcast. SNL and SNF (how’s that for acronyms?) are both on NBC, which means tonight’s football broadcast has the option to feature the sketch if it wants. In fact it did just that last week, when SNL had mocked Sunday Night Football’s opening segment featuring an overlong musical introduction. But tonight may be a trickier call, as it’s a far trickier subject – particularly when the entire Favre mess is still under investigation.

• CHILDREN at Ysgol Pen Coch in Flint have dressed down for charity.

• The school was awash with denim as everyone marked Jeans for Genes Day.

• It collected £100 for the national, event which raises funds for research into genetic disorders affecting thousands of children.

• Deputy headteacher Andrea Edwards said: “All the pupils did lessons, put together a display and took part in a special assembly so that they knew what the day was about.

• “We were so proud of all the children and staff who wore their jeans. It was a good, fun day to raise money for a worth while cause.

• “We are a new school and will be making Jeans for Genes Day an annual event.”

One of the oldest denim brands in the world, Lee Cooper, is launching a competition for its die-hard fans who love it when their clothes have an exclusive touch. The global 102-year old brand, which now is selling its lines in 85 countries, is encouraging consumers to wear-down their pair of jeans until it acquires exclusive pattern, and then show it to public for a chance to receive nice money. This October, Lee Cooper Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand divisions have teamed up to launch a limited edition Lee Cooper Dry Denim collection, which will be the ‘platform’ for the contest.

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The pants made of so-called raw denim can adjust to the body of the person who wears then and over some time gets the color and mold which is truly unique with all the fading, whiskering and creases, which can’t be repeated. The constants are encouraged to buy a pair of Lee Cooper Dry Denim and make photos of the new jeans, register at the www.leecooperchallenge.com website until January 31 to submit the “before” stills. After that they are expected to wear the jeans without washing (if possible) or using any artificial methods that may speed up the natural process of aging for about half a year. Every month they should submit three photos (side, front, back) of their ‘customized’ item plus information on how they treated the item. The visitors to the website can discuss the entries and also read articles about the raw denim.

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• It’s late October, and my children have finally stopped wearing shorts to school.  It’s chilly enough that their legs are cold in the mornings, and they want long pants.

• My kids are unusual, because most boys I see keep wearing their shorts well into December, unless there’s early snow.

• There is a benefit to this, because shorts miraculously fit no matter how long the kid has had them.  Pants, however, are outgrown in six months.

• I took all the hand-me-downs and last year’s pants down from the attic. I wasn’t quite sure what size the boys have grown to be, and after two weeks of trying on pants and one shopping trip to Sears, I still have no idea.

• My younger son can still fit into one pair of his size 10 jeans, but another size 12 was too small. He has a nice pair of sweat pants, size 8, that fit great. Most of his other pants are a 12, except for the occasional pair of tens. Getting him dressed in the morning is Russian roulette. I keep a bag in his room in which to toss the ones that don’t fit.  It’s almost full.

• My older son should be about a size 18, but some 16s are still long enough. Other size 16s are way too short, but that doesn’t bother him at all, so he flies off cheerfully to eighth grade, ankles flashing in the sunlight.

• I took him shopping at Sears and we tried on different styles of jeans in sizes 16, 18, and 20. We ended up with one in each size, all of which fit him nicely.

• There is an eight-inch height difference between my boys, yet they wear the same size Boy Scout pants and the length seems fine on both of them. I can’t explain the physics that allows this to occur.

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• LOS ANGELES, CA, Oct 20, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Lyric Jeans, Inc., (pinksheets:LYJN) today announced that its premium lifestyle brand Lyric Culture has shipped an exclusive John Lennon apparel and jewelry collection to Bloomingdale’s to coincide with EMI Record’s October re-release of the re-mastered John Lennon catalogue, an international initiative overseen by Yoko Ono called John Lennon’s Gimme Some Truth campaign. Commemorating the music legend’s seventieth birthday and the 30th anniversary re-release of his Grammy award winning album “Double Fantasy,” Los Angeles lifestyle brand Lyric Culture will simultaneously launch a limited edition John Lennon collection created by Lyric Culture founder Hanna Rochelle with Yoko Ono personally approving each of the designs. Lyric Culture’s limited edition John Lennon collection includes vintage screen print tees, scarves, cufflinks, necklaces and bracelets.
• Available exclusively at Bloomingdale’s, the John Lennon Collection will be housed in custom designed Lyric Culture shop in shops with a retail price range of $45-$75. The designs are inspired by legendary Lennon song lyrics including Imagine, Help Me Help Myself, Beautiful Boy, Instant Karma, Working Class Hero, Happy Xmas (War is Over) and Mind Games. Many pieces feature Lennon imagery integrated with lyrics through a special collaboration with Live Nation.

• About Lyric Culture Lyric Culture is a music inspired lifestyle brand driven by the song lyrics of legendary artists including Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Joan Jett, David Bowie, Michael Jackson and many others. By securing licensing rights from virtually all the major music publishing companies, this fashion brand creates new revenue streams for songwriters who penned the lyrics now into a range of apparel and lifestyle products. Follow Lyric Culture at www.facebook.com/lyricculture and www.twitter.com/lyricculture and www.lyricculture.com

• About John Lennon’s Gimme Some Truth campaign Overseen by Yoko Ono, John Lennon’s “Gimme Some Truth” campaign will launch on October 4th (October 5th in North America) with the worldwide release of eight re-mastered studio albums and several newly-compiled titles. The campaign’s other new collections include a hits compilation in two editions titled Power To The People: The Hits, a 4CD set of themed discs titled Gimme Some Truth, and a deluxe 11CD collectors box with the re-mastered albums, rarities, and non-album singles, titled the John Lennon Signature Box.

• Double Fantasy, 1980′s GRAMMY Award winner for Album of the Year, will be presented in a newly remixed ‘Stripped Down’ version remixed and produced by Yoko Ono and Jack Douglas, co-producers of the original mix with John Lennon. The new stripped down version of the album comes in an expanded 2CD and digital edition pairing the new version with Lennon’s original mix, re-mastered.

• All of the re-mastered albums and collections will be available on CD and for download purchase from all major digital service providers.

• One of the world’s most celebrated songwriters and performers of all time, John Lennon was killed at the age of 40 on December 8, 1980. Lennon has been posthumously honored with a Lifetime Achievement GRAMMY Award and two special BRIT Awards for Outstanding Contribution to Music, and he has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him in the Top 5 of the magazine’s “100 Greatest Singers Of All Time” list.

• From Abilene Police Officer Gary Heslep:

• At about 12:55 p.m. yesterday, Officer McGrew was dispatched to a theft call at a store in the Mall of Abilene. A store employee observed a woman conceal a pair of jeans in her baby stroller and the woman left the store without paying for the jeans. A 20-year-old female was arrested for Class “B” Theft.

• At about 6:43 p.m., Officer Woods was dispatched to a Theft of a Motor Vehicle call in the 1000 block of E Overland Tr. A man reported that he left his White ’97 Ford PU at the location while he was at work, and when he returned the PU was gone. The PU had an automotive engine in the bed at the time it was stolen. A report was taken for Theft of a Motor Vehicle. Total loss was estimated at $6,000.00.

• Finally, at about 10 p.m., Officer Allen was dispatched to an alarm call at a car lot located in the 4600 block of N. First St. Upon arrival, Officers observed a man inside the office, attempting to break into a coin operated machine. A 51-year-old male was arrested and charged with Burglary of a Building.