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About 5pm on Friday officers were called to the scene of the accident and found

the Kalanicks on a shore of the lake, the Fresno sheriffs office said.

Bonnie Kalanick died at the scene and her husband was taken to hospital with
moderate injuries. He told officers the boat had sunk.

Travis Kalanick, 40, founded Uber in 2009. The company has since grown to
become an international operation with a market value of nearly $70bn.

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vn clothes and accessories, how cute is too cute? (PS, Im 45)

Eleanor, by email

How many roads must a woman walk down before someone gives her a seat on
the bus? Yes, and how many times must a woman be patronised by shop
assistants who direct her towards the mature and stylish section before she is
legally allowed to wallop them with her handbag? Yes, and how many times must
a woman complain there is nothing decent in stores for women aged between 45
and 75 before anything changes? The answers, my friend, are, respectively, 17,
four and infinity. Seventeen, four and infinity.

I have written many times about how stupid it is that the fashion industry directs
the vast majority of its attention on the young and the thin when older women
generally have more money to spend. So many times, in fact, that I think if I go
there again my laptop might throw itself out the window out of utter boredom.
But the point is, most clothes are manufactured with pretty twentysomethings in
mind, which does rather lead to a glut of cutesy stuff on sale. You know, jumpers
with punning slogans on them (clothes are made to be worn, not read), or
blouses decorated with images of fruit, or shoes with animal faces on them.
Animals with what, you ask? Oh take me by the hand, people, while I share a
story from the coalface of fashion shopping. A few weeks ago, a friend invited me
to a secondhand designer fashion sale for charity, which sounded great but
actually turned out to be a massive waste of time because most rich peoples
clothes are gross. But, as I was leaving, I spotted the Charlotte Olympia stall.
Charlotte Olympia is a young British brand that makes, by and very large, lovely
high-heeled shoes. Ridiculous ones, of course as all high heels are ridiculous,
given that they are torture instruments for women legitimised by society but,
still, they are lovely to look at. All these shoes were being sold at such a ridiculous
fraction of their price that I thought I should at least browse. And, incredibly, I
found some flat shoes that were pretty and so cheap you couldnt find shoes in
Zara at that price. But heres the thing: they had the picture of a cats face on the
toe of each shoe.

Is this acceptable? Well, if youre five, sure. I am not five. But I am my


grandmothers granddaughter and cannot resist a bargain, so I bought them,
wore them the next day to work and spent the whole day asking my colleagues:
Are these too cute? Are they? Tell me honestly. Are they? It really is testament
to my colleagues stamina that they didnt rip the shoes off my feet and shove
them down my throat just to shut me up. So heres my tuppence worth (tuppence
is a cute word, if there ever was one). I definitely dont think any woman should
ever feel shes too old for something, however cute or not cute. Live a little!
Knock yourself out with that flamingo-print blouse! But if wearing something
makes you so self-conscious that you drive your colleagues around the twist by
seeking validation from them, then its probably not for you. Cuteness is in the
eye of the wearer, and the wearers eye is all that matters.

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Nobody should ever be in possession of a Herms handbag if they cant even spell handbag.
Photograph: Bobby Yip/Reuters

How many handbags is too many handbags? My girlfriend has 17 I


counted! and shes asked for another for her birthday. Isnt this
ridiculous?

Dan, by email

Ladies and their handbags amirite?! Spend that much on a bag and you wont
have any money to put in the bag! Good thing youre around, Dan, to police your
girlfriends possessions and count them in a totally non-creepy way where
would she be without you? Yes, a lot of women like handbags. A lot of men love
trainers, watches, suits all manner of things, really. How many sports matches
have you been to, Dan? Why bother? Theyre all on TV, and in every match
someone wins and someone loses or they tie who cares? Thats right, buddy
boy, two can play at this game.

As it happens, I love handbags and Ive read quite a lot of nonsense in my time
about how a womans handbag is her substitute baby, or an externalistion or her
womb, and all sorts of Freudian bollocks, all invariably written by men. To which
I say, if anyone spots a baby covered in the Louis Vuitton logo please do tell me
as I would totally adopt that baby. Your girlfriend asked for a handbag for her
birthday, so give her a damn handbag. What kind of monster judges someones
birthday request?

But in answer to your question, yes, it is possible for a woman to have too many
handbags, and that woman is Tamara Ecclestone. I recently watched a video in
which Tamara gave a tour of her spring/summer closet, which was essentially a
recruitment video for the Communist party. Among the many, many, many
revolting revelations in this video, including that she lives in only four rooms in
her 57-room house, was Tamaras handbag shelves, which, as the presenter
rightly said, looked like the Chanel store.

But the real kicker was that Tamara and her three-year-old daughter have
matching personalised Herms Birkin bags. Vive la revolution! So there are two
people who have too many handbags, both Tamara and her daughter (because if
youre going to have a five-figure handbag, you should at least be able to spell the
word handbag). Everyone else, though, is under the limit. Especially, Dan, your
girlfriend.

Coral bleaching at Australia's heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef was worse that first
thought, government scientists announced on Monday.
Up to 70 percent of the coral has been killed in some parts of the 2,300-kilometer reef system,
due to rising sea temperatures during March and April.
v"As has been the case with reefs across the world, the Great Barrier Reef has experienced
significant and widespread impacts over the last two years," the chairman of the Great Barrier
Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA), Russel Reichelt, said in a statement. "We're very
concerned about what this means for the Great Barrier Reef itself and what it means for the
communities and industries that depend on it."
The area hit hardest was north of tourist hotspot Port Douglas, where an estimated 70 percent
of shallow water corals died.
Across the whole reef, 29 percent of shallow water corals died from bleaching in 2016. Initial
estimates had put the figure at 22 percent. Deeper water corals were affected but scientists
were unable to systematically assess them. Southern parts of the reef escaped the worst.
Bleaching expected to accelerate
Coral bleaching and the effects of Cyclone Debbie will likely cause further loss in 2017, the
report said.
"Ongoing bleaching, tropical cyclone Debbie, crown-of-thorns starfish and coral disease are all
having impacts," a government statement said. "The long-term trend of coral decline
is expected to continue and accelerate."
Terry Hughes, head of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef
Studies, said on Twitter that about 19 percent of the reef had been bleached so far in 2017.

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