Jimmy Choo partners up with H&M to create an affordable line of clothing to the masses

Jimmy Choo — a brand known for its sophistication and glamour, as well as its extravagant price tags — will be made available to the masses this November.

Tamara Mellon, founder and president of Jimmy Choo, has teamed up with H&M, a Swedish clothing company, with 169 individual stores in the U.S., to create an inexpensive line of clothing, accessories, handbags and shoes for men and women.

Jimmy Choo was started in 1996 by Mellon. Mellon, who was accessories editor at British Vogue, approached Mr. Jimmy Choo, because she realized the budding demand for chic shoes.

Mellon and Choo partnered up to create what is now known as the most successful and celebrity desired shoe company.

The brand is most famous for its skyscraper stilettos — shoes usually retailing for $600. The designer collaboration will cost as little as $70 for a pair of studded gladiator sandals to $299 for a pair of thigh high leather boots.

Fort Hood Massacre hits home

Thirteen U.S. Army soldiers were shot and killed by a major at a Texas military base on Thursday, which the media has dubbed “The Fort Hood Massacre.”

I have two family members who are members of the U.S. Army and have been deployed overseas to Korea, Afghanistan and Iraq.

They’ve returned with horrific stories of what they’ve seen, but the details are somewhat limited because they are not allowed to disclose such information.

One has been medically checked, and doctors confirmed that he has symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

The other has admitted to me that he has felt the psychological effects of the military as well.

Their comprehension of the incident that occurred on Thursday is more personal.

Taking the necessary precautions on and around campus

How safe do you feel?

According to University Police Department, there was a shooting on San Salvador on Halloween night at 1:30 a.m.

“This is a campus advisory. Shortly after one-thirty AM this morning, an unidentified adult male was shot and wounded at the intersection of San Salvador and 7th Street.

“The suspect did not flee onto campus grounds. A handgun was recovered at the scene. The victim was removed to the hospital for treatment and there is no further information regarding the victim. There is an active investigation in progress,” An audio message from the campus alert system said.

The victim was hospitalized and will survive.

The shooter was not found in a search that must have lasted at least three hours in the greater SJSU area.

What is the record of violence near SJSU?

Learn how to relieve the midterm stress

I swear I’m not going to talk about swine flu — well, maybe just a little bit.

It’s that time of the year when leaves merrily scatter along sidewalks, crunch underfoot and burst in garish flame against the dreary, gray sky. We huddle under umbrellas, and we cuddle with hot cocoa.

It’s also when we get miserably, mercilessly sick.

I am sick!

This always happens, every semester, just as midterms are closing in — I wake up to my alarm, gasping for breath through my congested chest with a headache that feels like my face is being ripped apart and fluid is sloshing in my ears and throat.

Motorola debuts Droid smartphone

iDont know if Verizon’s marketing angle for the new Motorola Droid will actually work.

iDont think the iPhone is perfect, but iCan guarantee the Droid won’t make people forget it.

Yesterday, Verizon Wireless unveiled the new Motorola Droid smartphone, according to CNET.

The Droid is a new smartphone based on Google’s Android operating system.

The phone is actually installed with the upgraded Android 2.0, rather than the current version of Android that’s running on the T-Mobile G1 and MyTouch 3G, and that’s the reason the Droid is worth watching out for.

Phuong Ho case draws parallels to other cases involving police violence

Yet another video has surfaced that shows police officers abusing an unarmed civilian, according to an article released by the Associate Press on Oct. 25.

The San Jose Mercury News posted the video late Saturday. It vaguely shows more than one San Jose police officer repeatedly using a baton and a Taser on Phuong Ho, a 20-year-old SJSU math major.

According to an article by San Jose Mercury News reporter Sean Webby, the event occurred Sept. 3, when the police officers were called to the apartment where Ho and his roommates live.

The case is similar to the 2009 New Year’s Day shooting of unarmed victim Oscar Grant by Oakland BART police officer, Johannes Mehserle.

Alternative energy: space-based solar panels

Solar panels have offered energy to people as long as it was not dark or cloudy, and while the sun was out.

To get around this obstacle, energy companies have started a campaign to send solar panels into space, where they would be able to bypass clouds and anything else reflecting incoming solar radiation, to receive energy constantly.

According to the MSNBC Web site, Pacific Gas and Electric plan on buying 200 megawatts of energy from startup Solaren Corp., in 2016.

The energy would be beamed down from Solaren’s space-based solar panels and be turned into radio frequency transmissions and sent to a Fresno, CA station.

Pacific Gas and Electric is seeking California state approval in order to purchase solar energy from Solaren Corp. for the next 15 years, according to MSNBC.

CAL Sacramento State student allegedly attacked and killed roommate

The recent beating of a Cal Sacramento State student by one of his roommates highlights the importance of listening to others and investigating what they say.

According to the Cal Sacramento State newspaper, the State Hornet, Cal Sacramento State student Quran Jones, 19, allegedly attacked and killed his roommate Scott Hawkins.

Sacramento State University Police responded and shot Jones after he allegedly threatened them with a knife.

Jones is in serious condition, according to the State Hornet.

Spencer Dirrim, a roommate of both Jones and Hawkins, told the State Hornet that Jones had talked about possibly experimenting with hallucinogenic drugs LSD and Dimethyltryptamine.

Gourmet magazine closes up shop

I always wanted to subscribe to Gourmet magazine, and now it’s too late.

Conde Nast, Gourmet’s publisher, announced earlier this month the closure of the nearly 70-year-old publication.

The Gourmet magazine Web site states the final issue will come out this November, with subscribers receiving issues of Bon Appetit magazine for the remainder of their subscriptions.

Although Gourmet did skew more to the high-end, up-market aspects of cuisine, I found the magazine’s recipes and techniques fully adaptable to my more down-home, pop-open-a-jar-style of cookery.

Though I’m a writer by trade, my true passion is cooking.

Balloon boy goes up, up and away

Last week, a weather balloon held the hearts of everyone who tuned in to follow it. But it was no ordinary weather balloon, as we were told a six-year-old child was joyriding along in it.

According to the CNN Web site, for two hours over Colorado, Falcon Heene was suspected of being in the weather balloon as it aimlessly drifted along wherever the wind would carry it.

Eventually, when the balloon came down, much to the surprise of everyone at the scene, including police and the Heene family, as well as everyone who was watching this event, there was no one onboard the balloon.

In fact, the entire time, Falcon was hiding up in the attic at the Heene residence, according to CNN.