Thak! Liz Sosey dashed through the Berklee Performance Center during sound check wearing her hipster newsboy hat, backstage pass and a look of serene determination.
Last Thursday morning, the country singer Emmylou Harris arrived at Arch Park, in Gardiner, Montana, for a sound check, wearing a light sweater and a scarf against the lingering Rocky Mountain chill, strands of snow-white hair falling down around her cat-eye glasses.
Milan designers still love those boy-girl contrasts, like those at Giorgio Armani, with great-looking pants in a muted Prince of Wales check worn with lipstick-bright jackets, and lots of splashy prints for girlish dresses and blouses with collars spilling around the neck.
The next day, Percival, hoping to keep the Rays' staff focused on improvement and its egos in check, wore a jersey with the names Glavine, Smoltz and Avery alongside the last names of his teammates James Shields, Scott Kazmir and Matt Garza — the Rays' first three starters in the American League division series.
After the fans made their way through the cobweb of security checks, wearing double layers of clothing to protect them from the 20-degree temperatures, they watched 13-year-old Ryne Sanborn of West Valley City, Utah, begin the show by skating with a lantern across the backlit ice.
The flyer outlined fall prevention tips, such as: having their vision and hearing checked, wearing rubber-soled shoes, and keeping pathways in their home cleared.
Some of the correct measures stated included: use of mosquito bed nets and insecticidal sprays, keep the environment clean, drain stagnant water and clear bushes around homes while, the wrong preventive measures included: avoiding cold, dirty drink/food, going for frequent medical checks, wearing clean clothes, avoiding drying clothes on grass and taking nivaquine every three months.
But her checks wore lots of zeroes.
Wal-Mart Stores and the Target Corporation reported slower sales gains for October yesterday after a boost from federal tax-credit checks wore off and warmer weather limited the demand for autumn clothing.
The major causes of failures during operations are due to high thermal shocks, mechanical strain, cyclic loading and corrosion resulting in heat checking, wear, plastic deformation and fatigue.
The airline's decision followed its discovery that a measurement tool that it makes to check wear in the tail mechanism was producing inconsistent readings and that as a result, parts might be unacceptably worn.
