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The shoe’s brief revival in the ’80s and ‘90s, fuelled by grunge culture, with Kurt Cobain as its poster boy, marked a cultural shift in the brand’s destiny. With affordability and great design on its side, Converse sneakers, now available in a variety of materials and hues, and even in knee-high versions, had been bubbling up through the baby boomer generation as a casual footwear staple ever since James Dean was pictured in his Jack Purcell Converse kicks in the 1950s. These kids were uninterested in the shoe’s basketball roots. Among the Converse-sporting rockers, Tommy Ramone, drummer of The Ramones, when asked who Chuck Taylor was replied: “He was maybe a basketball coach or something. I don't know. He made cheap shoes 急救產品.”

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As big a part as non-slip rubber played in the Chuck Taylors’ early history, canvas, its other main ingredient, was to lead Converse into the future. After several management changes, the beleaguered brand crashed and burned in the early ’00s, filing for bankruptcy in 2001. But its rescuer, Nike Inc, has steered Converse away from its performance message towards creative expression, working with a range of big-impact collaborators, including fashion brands like Givenchy, Missoni, and Maison Martin Margiela. (A new capsule collection released in May saw the brand’s iconic Jack Purcell and Chuck Taylor All Star styles daubed in the latter fashion house’s signature white paint). Recent artistic dalliances, meanwhile, include a limited edition capsule of Chuck Taylor All Stars honed from two of Nate Lowman’s slashed up canvases, with each pair selling for $25,000. The formula seems to have worked, with Converse raking in a reported $1.4bn in sales in 2012, versus a reported $205m in 2002

Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha, the nation's new military ruler, had warned coup opponents Monday  warned coup opponents Monday   saying the nation could revert to the "old days" of turmoil and street violence if they did.

Still, small numbers of protesters have gathered on Bangkok streets in defiance of martial law. Several hundred people gathered Monday at Victory Monument and eventually dispersed on their own, vowing to return some time Tuesday headphone amp.

Monday's protest was tense but nonviolent, as others have been since last week, when the army first declared martial law and then announced it was taking over the government.

Through a loudspeaker, a soldier taunted the protesters, saying they had been paid to come out. "Can you still call yourselves patriots?" he said

The soldier also accused international journalists at the scene of inciting conflict. "Do you think they are good for Thailand?" he said, before addressing them directly in English: "Foreign media, you be careful ."

After declaring martial law May 20, Prayuth invited political rivals and Cabinet ministers for two days of peace talks to resolve the crisis. But those talks lasted just four hours. At the end of the meeting, Prayuth ordered everyone inside detained, and announced the coup on state television almost immediately afterward.

The junta has ordered more than 200 people — including most of the ousted government — to report to the authorities. They include scholars, journalists and political activists seen as critical of the regime.

Those summoned included former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who already had been removed from power at the time of last week's imposition of martial law.

An aid said she was released Monday from military custody after being held for three days at an undisclosed location without access to a telephone. The aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation, said Yingluck had returned to her home.

A California woman who says she was kidnapped a decade ago by her mother's boyfriend lived a seemingly ordinary life with her alleged captor year after year, but she was too scared to go to authorities until she recently reunited with her mother, police said Thursday 明星百科.

The woman, who disappeared when she was 15, eventually married the man and started a family with him. Neighbors said she took Zumba classes and went on trips to the beach and Disneyland .

Orange County prosecutors on Thursday filed five felony charges against the alleged abductor, Isidro Garcia, including rape and kidnapping to commit a sexual offense. He did not enter a plea, and his arraignment was continued until June 9. He was jailed on $1 million bail. fendi sunglasses sale

Garcia's attorney said the woman's claims of physical and sexual abuse are lies made up because the couple is separating. Neighbors in a working-class city south of Los Angeles described an outwardly happy family, while authorities and psychologists cautioned that both could be true — Garcia could have been a doting husband who controlled his wife without physically restraining her through years of abuse.

The case began to emerge Monday, when the woman went two blocks from her apartment complex to the police department in working-class Bell Gardens and accused Garcia of domestic violence. During that conversation, officers learned of her connection to a 2004 missing-persons case in Santa Ana, about 20 miles away.

Santa Ana police interviewed both Garcia, 41, and the woman and concluded that the husband had been sexually abusing her a decade ago and kidnapped her after a fight with her mother, who was his girlfriend at the time.

某些感情，不是你小心翼翼就能維持的 物業套現。

　　當我一無所有的時候，或許友誼也爬出牆去吧 designer sunglasses clearance？

　　你是奧斯卡得主嗎？為什麼我和你認識那麼久了，還沒有發現你殘忍。

　　青春被我愚弄了，所以，它把遺憾強制性給了我。

　　誰的承諾刻在心裏，誰的承諾說在風中。

　　視線那麼小，一轉身，背後的風景就成了未知數。

　　一個人的天空，我只能默數雨點。

　　如果你不能遺忘那些本應該過去的過往，那幸福和微笑只能是奢侈品。

　　來時的路，已被清伶的月光斑駁，我拿什麼去紀念那麼熟稔而陳舊的足跡？

　　我有一個夢想，就是世界的人都沒有錢，我們就不用為錢糾結了。

　　將那一段過往葬在時光，是我願意的埋藏。

　　滾燙的淚水，是沉默的感傷。

　　月下的孤影，斑駁著無法言說的淒涼。

　　不是你的，說再多也沒有用，不如我們動手搶吧？

　　幸福，那就是得到你，是得之我幸，你遇到我，那是福澤你一世。

　　任時光怎麼變遷，只要你想，我依然還在。

　　每個人的青春都會蒼老，只是歲月還在騙我們說很單純很年輕。

　　你不能不相信一個事實，那就是你已經被別人遺忘了，而最悲的，你卻不知道，還在傻傻等著。

　　那些舊的記憶，不需要新的眼淚灌溉。

　　本以為的忘不了，卻在某一天，真的就那麼忘記了。

　　時間會帶走很多東西，但也留下很多東西。

　　你讓我認識，有一種再見，叫做老死不相往來。

　　若不想瞭解某個人，再好的文字也被消弱無數倍。

　　有時候，堅強會把軟弱從眼睛裏擠出來，於是，就有了眼淚。

　　有時候，退到無路可走，試著另辟新路，比如，挖地道。

　　

Wishing to encourage her young son's progress on the piano, a mother took her boy to a Paderewski concert. After they were seated, the mother spotted a friend in the audience and walked down the aisle to greet her.     

 

Seizing the opportunity to explore the wonders of the concert hall, the little boy rose and eventually explored his way through a door marked "NO ADMITTANCE." When the house lights dimmed and the concert was about to begin, the mother returned to her seat and discovered that the child was missing.     

   

Suddenly, the curtains parted and spotlights focused on the impressive Steinway on stage. In horror, the mother saw her little boy sitting at the key- board, innocently picking out Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.   

 

At that moment, the great piano master made his entrance, quickly moved to the piano, and whispered in the boy's ear, "Don't quit. Keep playing."

 

Then leaning over, Paderewski reached down with his left hand and began filling in a bass part. Soon his right arm reached around to the other side of the child and he added a running obbligato. Together, the old master and the young novice transformed a frightening situation into a wonderfully creative experience. The audience was mesmerized. 

 

That's the way it is in life. What we can accomplish on our own is hardly noteworthy. We try our best, but the results aren't exactly graceful flowing music. But when we trust in the hands of a Greater Power, our life's work truly can be beautiful.  

 

Next time you set out to accomplish great feats, listen carefully. You can hear the voice of the Master, whispering in your ear, "Don't quit. Keep playing."