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Judging from the Fall/Winter 2008-2009 menswear collections in Milan this week, global warming hasn't been much of an issue for designers. Coats of every color turned up on runways here, while retailers joked that they were the one item they didn't necessarily need, given the recent fluctuations in weather. Still, designers did their best to give coats a grand, new twist, whether they were supersized shearlings like the one that opened Dolce & Gabbana's rock 'n' roll-inspired show or the exotic, Tibetan-inspired poncho shearling and paisley embroidered coats at Alexander McQueen's Mongolian-meets-Mayan...
...Artistic Material), a.k.a TREIMA, is the OCBC's stolen-art database, one of only two national databases like it in the world. Italy has one, called Leonardo; other countries either have only city-specific databases or none at all. Containing the photos and descriptions of some 72,000 items that have been reported stolen, TREIMA enables the user to figure out quickly if an artwork under investigation is hot, and who and where it was taken from - even if that user can't tell a Monet from a Munch. When the police come across a suspicious item in a raid...
...TREIMA's real trick is its ability to run visual searches, too. If the police are lucky enough to have a picture of the item, the database will use image-recognition software to look for a match. To demonstrate, Boyer clicks on a JPEG of a sculpture of three cherubs that was stolen from a church a few years ago, then drags it into TREIMA. Almost instantly, the software finds a match with another photo of the same sculpture, taken from a different angle, in different light. "It's incredible," Boyer marvels...
...Milestones item on Ike Turner erroneously reported that he played guitar on the album Rocket 88. That is the title of a song, not an album, for which Turner played piano, not guitar...
...root against them, but you kind of wouldn't mind seeing a perfect season. And if they lose, you'll enjoy seeing them get their comeuppance." As for that drab, villainous coach everyone supposedly despises: Belichick's trademark hooded sweatshirt is now the top-selling Patriots merchandise item. The hoodie! "I wish I was getting a cut of the sales," says a smiling Belichick. (Yes, folks, he smiles...