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Daily Mirror
6 days ago
- Lifestyle
- Daily Mirror
Abbott Lyon's ‘delicate' gold necklace looks just like Burberry for over £400 less
If you're looking to get the designer look for less, Abbott Lyon's 'delicate' chain necklace looks just like Burberry for hundreds less Ever wanted to invest in a designer piece of jewellery but put off by the hefty price tag? If so, you're in luck as we've spotted a dainty Abbott Lyon necklace that looks just like a popular Burberry necklace, but for over £400 less. The Burberry Shield Chain Necklace is priced at £450 and made from sterling silver with a gold coating and cubic zirconia shield motifs around the chain. While Abbott Lyon's Sphere Chain Necklace has a similar design and is priced at £38. Simple, stylish and wearable for everyday, Abbott Lyon's piece is the kind of necklace you'll never want to take off. With its dainty gold-plated finish and subtle detailing, it adds a subtle shine to any look, whether you're keeping it minimal or layering with other necklaces for a stacked look. Available in three lengths and with an extender for even more styling options, this versatile necklace is perfect for mixing and matching with other items in your jewellery box. It's not just pretty, it's practical too. Made from 18k gold-plated stainless steel with an anti-tarnish coating that's water, sweat and heat-resistant. Plus, it comes with a two-year quality guarantee and is made from over 60% recycled materials, so you can look good and help the planet while doing so. Shoppers can't sing the praises of this necklace enough with hundreds of glowing reviews. One shopper wrote: "This necklace is fine and delicate and goes with anything you are wearing. I love it." While a second raved: "Love how this necklace can be used alongside the other necklaces as a stacker! Very versatile". And a third added: "I've had this chain for 5 years and wear it everyday and is perfect!" Not everyone was as happy with one shopper writing: "Lovely necklace, however would like to see it with a slightly thicker chain and beads." If you're looking for more luxury buys for less, the GV2 Milan Swiss Quartz Diamonds Silver Dial IPYG and Stainless Steel Watch is currently £189.75 down from £2,995. Similar to styles from Cartier, this is a mixed metals timepiece featuring a square face, but with a little extra glam from the diamonds around the dial. And H. Samuel has slashed the price of Citizen's Eco-Drive Ladies' MOP Dial Two Tone Stainless Steel Bracelet Watch from £279 down to £149. If you're not a fan of the square dial, this one will be right up your street, with its round and pearlescent dial and chic look.
Miami Herald
05-08-2025
- Sport
- Miami Herald
Report: Patriots CB Marcellas Dial suffers torn ACL
New England Patriots' second-year cornerback Marcellas Dial has torn the ACL in his left knee and likely will miss the entire season, ESPN reported on Tuesday. Dial suffered the injury Monday during practice and was carted off the field. A sixth-round pick out of South Carolina in 2024, the 24-year-old Dial played in all 17 games as a rookie. He made his lone start in the final week of the season and posted five tackles. Otherwise, Dial was a key member of the Patriots' special teams -- making seven of his 12 tackles on kick coverage. Dial was regarded as a backup to starting cornerbacks Carlton Davis III and Christian Gonzalez. --Field Level Media Field Level Media 2025 - All Rights Reserved
New York Times
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
My Teacher Is a Robot. Wait Till You Meet My Mom.
Two new graphic novels for kids feature alien beings that aren't what they seem. One is a monster disguised as a helper. The other is a monster that turns out not to be monstrous after all. In SCHOOLBOT 9000 (Dial, 288 pp., $14.99, ages 9 to 12), the first-time graphic novelist Sam Hepburn skewers artificial intelligence and the people hustling to sell it to us. Hepburn, a former tech writer, has built a near-future world full of robotic helpers that include taxi drivers, public safety officers, companions and pets. Just about everybody is awed by this shiny technology, burnished with retro design to appear friendly. But James, an 11-year-old with an artistic bent, prefers a more natural world. He got his skepticism from his father, who once told him that robots aren't 'just cold metal. They're cold — here,' and touched his heart. Dad has since died, and Mom has bought a HOMEBOT 3000 to help her manage the house and her busy career. As if a nattering robot at home weren't bad enough, James's school is taking part in a pilot program to introduce A.I. education via the SCHOOLBOT 9000. (Science-fiction-inclined parents will recognize the reference to HAL 9000, the murderous computer in '2001: A Space Odyssey.') Hepburn devotes loving attention to the ways in which human teachers connect with their students and give them confidence. By contrast, the A.I. educators ridicule the kids' artwork and music practice, even breaking one child's violin. 'Studies show that exposure to poor quality music is detrimental to brain structure, and may lead to cognitive and behavioral problems,' the SCHOOLBOT spouts. Cold indeed. They excel at some things. A lesson on Mesopotamia delivered by a human substitute teacher falls flat, so a SCHOOLBOT steps in with an impromptu rap: 'Stories and laws, math and much more, they inscribed it all, yeah, they built the core, in cuneiform script, forever they store! … Mesopotamia-mania! Feel the knowledge rain-ia!' The kids are entertained, but did they learn anything? Bit by bit, the budget-squeezed school kicks out the human teachers, which was the plan all along. The robots' big, evil manufacturer, Bux Global, is in cahoots with the paid-off mayor to make sure the pilot program succeeds at any cost. But the robots are glitchy, and the company's prejudices play out in the lessons. The arts and humanities are useless, one SCHOOLBOT contends: 'I am unable to find job descriptions that require specific knowledge of literary works such as 'Romeo and Juliet.'' They sort the kids into binary categories of tech work: 'creation' or 'maintenance.' The first group will be the programmers and designers; the others will keep the creations running. No reason to think about other professions, the robot sniffs: 'By the time you leave school, it is highly probable that your preferred job will already be performed by A.I.' Gee, it's almost as if Sam Altman were in the room. The students rebel. They enlist their parents. The SCHOOLBOT program is suspended. Freethinkers, rebels and techno-skeptics will find a lot to love here. Others might consider the book preachy and didactic. But tension builds again at the end as Bux Global performs an automatic software update on all its homebots: James's family's HOMEBOT 3000 suddenly reboots as the SCHOOLBOT Homeschooling System. Will the evil corporation take over education after all? And maybe the planet? Stay tuned: This is the first installment of a promised series. In DEEPLY DAVE (Holt, 240 pp., $14.99, ages 8 to 12), Michael Grover gives us a weird treat. Dave is a young explorer who's looking for his mother, an astronaut whose spaceship has gone missing in the depths of the ocean. (OK, that part doesn't really make sense. Keep going.) The delight of this book — a vertical rectangle bound at the top — is its format: Each flipped page takes you deeper, as if you're scrolling down a screen. That unusual design mimics the story's origins in the unfolding episodes of a webcomic (which in this case blinks and jitters, thanks to Grover's animation wizardry). Undersea creatures warn Dave that he's about to encounter 'the Big Doom.' He doesn't know what they're talking about, except that it's gigantic and powerful. But Dave isn't powerless. He's brought a pocketknife (which he shows to everyone he meets) and he makes friends along the way, including Amos, a shrimplike 'scavenger and entre-pruner' who's willing to help, in return for the quality seating inside Dave's mother's spaceship. (He craves a commode.) In a wry Freudian twist, the monster turns out to be … dun, dun, dun … Dave's mother, possessed by an alien creature she was studying — whom she inadvertently enraged by being callous about its egg. So the rescue mission gets a bit complicated, especially after an octopus, which used to be human, body-swaps with Dave to get its humanity back. Minds are melded. Bodies re-swap. The power of love saves the day. Ultimately, Dave's mother re-emerges, still gigantic but demonstrating a new empathy for the alien creature, with whom she's now fully symbiotic: 'She might be a cosmic being from another galaxy, and I might be an accomplished human astronaut … but at the end of the day we're just a couple of moms, trying to do right by our kids.'
Indianapolis Star
15-07-2025
- Sport
- Indianapolis Star
State champs and record breakers: Vote for Indiana high school boys athlete of the year
We are recognizing the top high school boys athletes for the 2024-25 sports season. You can vote for Indiana boys' athlete of the year, presented by the YMCA of Greater Indianapolis, through noon Sunday. The senior Notre Dame commit was named the Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association Player of the Year after leading Andrean to a Class 3A state championship. Barth, a shortstop and pitcher, batted .528 for the season with three home runs and 27 RBIs, along with 50 runs scored, six doubles and four triples. As a pitcher, he went 5-0 with a 1.50 earned run average and 42 strikeouts with 18 walks in 28 innings. He closed out a 4-3 win over Jasper for the 3A title with a save. The junior finished second at the cross-country state meet in the fall with the seventh-fastest 5K time in the history of the state meet (14:51.5). At the track and field state meet, the Notre Dame commit set a state meet record in winning the 1,600 meters (4:02.60) and nearly set a record by winning the 3,200 (8:51.22). Expectations will be high for Bontrager going into his senior year. Cates, a senior diver, finished third at the state meet in 2023 and '24. But there was no stopping the SMU commit in 2025 as his score of 655.95 at the state meet shattered the state record set in 2001 by Hamilton Southeastern's Phillip Jones (623.90). Cates scored over a 600 in all of his tournament meets, punctuated by his performance at state. Dial, a senior, was named the Mental Attitude Award winner after helping Roncalli to the first IHSAA boys volleyball state championship this spring. Dial, who will attend Butler to double major in accounting and finance, had 53 assists in the semifinal win over Fishers and 38 in the championship against Cathedral, set school records for assists in a season (1,052), match (63) and a set (19). Dial was the 2024 IBVCA Tournament MVP. The senior quarterback was named the Gatorade Player of the Year in football after passing for 2,415 yards and 29 touchdowns in a 12-1 season for the Bulldogs, a Class 6A regional champion. The Miami of Ohio commit finished his high school career with 94 passing TDs. Ehrlich helped Crown Point to a 6A state finals appearance as a junior. The Indiana commit was named the Indiana Gatorade Player of the Year as a senior. The 6-3, 185-pound right-handed pitcher had six victories with a 0.76 earned run average and 61 strikeouts. He was drafted by the Phillies in the seventh round of July's MLB draft. Fisher was also a standout quarterback, completing 69% of his passes for 2,779 yards and 34 touchdowns as a senior. The junior hurdler ended his season with a splash, setting state meet records in the 110 hurdles (13.28 seconds) and 300 hurdles (35.82 seconds). Those times ranked third and second in the nation, respectively, for a high school hurdler. Hainje has only competed in the hurdles for a little more than a year. The senior Stanford football commit was a starter on Fishers' basketball teams as a junior and senior that went 59-2 over two seasons, winning a Class 4A state title in 2023-24 and finishing as runner-up this year. Hall averaged 11.5 points and 4.1 rebounds as a junior and 10.1 points, 5.3 rebounds and 2.6 assists as a senior. On the football field, he helped Fishers to its first sectional title in eight years. He caught 91 passes for 1,423 yards and 12 TDs as a senior. Hall was also 10th at the state meet in the long jump after finishing runner-up as a junior. After three consecutive team runner-up finishes, Harvey fired a 9-under-par 135 over two days to match the lowest 36-hole individual score in the history of the state meet. The Purdue recruit led the Shamrocks to a state meet record 8-under-par 568 over two days and set the record for largest margin of victory (30 shots). Harvey was also named the Fred A. Keesling Mental Attitude Award winner. Kurwaza was named the Player of the Year by the Indiana High School Coaches Association and the Gatorade Player of the Year for Indiana. The Wisconsin commit and senior forward led the Irish to a 14-4-2 record as he scored 28 goals and accounted for 12 assists. Kurwaza helped the Irish to a Class 3A runner-up finish as a junior. He finished with 76 career goals and 46 assists. Lin finished off an undefeated 27-0 season by winning the state's individual state championship, becoming the first Columbus North tennis player to accomplish the feat. He was the runner-up at the state meet as a junior. Overall, Lin was 74-2 as an individual during his high school career. Mullins, a UConn commit, was voted IndyStar Mr. Basketball as a senior after averaging 32.9 points, 7.2 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 3.7 steals as a senior, leading Greenfield-Central to a 23-4 record. He shot 47.6% (88-for-185) from the 3-point line. Mullins broke the school records for career points (2,158), single-season points (887) and single-game points (52). He was named the Gatorade Player of the Year and a McDonald's All American. Quagliaroli set a record on the LaVern Gibson Championship Course at the state meet in Terre Haute, winning the 5K state meet race with a time of 14 minutes, 46.81 seconds. He took second to Westview's Noah Bontrager in the 3,200 at the state meet this spring, finishing in 8:54.99. He will compete in college at Indiana. Weaver compiled a record of 103-1 as a junior and senior. He went 50-0 as a junior, winning the 190-pound title. Weaver moved up to the 215-pound weight class as a senior and won the state title again and was named the Mental Attitude Award winner. Weaver will wrestle in college at Purdue. Zackery, a Notre Dame football recruit, was voted Mr. Football after his senior season at Ben Davis. He caught 58 passes for 1,036 yards and 12 touchdowns as a senior and finished his career with 119 catches for 1,924 yards and 21 TD receptions. Zackery also intercepted 14 passes (eight as a senior), made 140 tackles, recovered four fumbles and scored four defensive TDs and helped the Giants to a Class 6A state title as a junior. Zackery also helped the Giants to a Class 4A state title in basketball as a sophomore. He averaged 11.0 points and 4.3 assists as a junior as the Giants reached the 4A state finals. Zackery was named an Indiana All-Star. IF POLL DOES NOT APPEAR, click here to vote.
Time of India
07-07-2025
- Climate
- Time of India
Rain slows response time of police's Dial 112 system in Nashik
Nashik: The Dial 112 system in Nashik experienced increased response times due to the rainfall that has been lashing the city since May. Response times rose from an average of 4.28 minutes in April to 5.28 minutes in May and 5.29 minutes in June. Traffic-related calls to the 112 system averaged over 160 in May and June, up from an average of 100 calls between Jan and April. Officials reported receiving more than 30,000 calls on Dial 112 from Jan to June. The Dial 112 service of the Maharashtra Police operates a fleet of 80 two-wheelers and four-wheelers in Nashik city. Each vehicle is equipped with a mobile data terminal (MDT) and GPS, allowing the police control room to monitor the response time for every call. Senior officers said their objective is to continually reduce response times. Compared to the response times from Jan to April, which ranged between 4.18 minutes and 4.29 minutes, there was an increase of approximately one minute in May and June. Nashik police commissioner Sandeep Karnik said, "We are continuously making efforts to improve the response time. No time is wasted by police teams once a caller connects with 112. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Is it legal? How to get Internet without paying a subscription? Techno Mag Learn More Undo The rain has affected the response time, but the endeavour is always to reach the incident spot at the earliest. " Showers typically lead to traffic congestion as commuters opt for cars over their regular bikes during inclement weather. Waterlogging causes motorists to navigate using dry patches to avoid potholes, reducing vehicular speed. This slowdown has consequently affected the response times of the 112 system. Between Jan 1 and June 30 this year, the Nashik city police attended to 31,677 calls. The majority of these (5,792) were related to assaults, while 757 were traffic complaints. Of the traffic complaints, 337, representing over 44%, occurred in May and June.
