2013年5月15日 星期三

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About 10 Rodney College girls will be parading the finest ball gowns at a pre-ball fashion fundraiser this Monday at the college hall from 6pm to 9pm.

The gowns are provided by Albany's Golden Gown, which is also sponsor of Miss Universe New Zealand. Rodney College hopes to raise around $2000 towards its school ball on July 6.Qupid shoes and Splash manufacture drycabinet,

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"However, they said yes and what a joy it's been to see the young women and young men who are going to be part of this step up and really improve their self-confidence."

Ingrid says the 10 girls were chosen from 26 who volunteered to model the ball gowns. "The girls who said yes were the ones you did not expect to be into these sorts of things," Ingrid says.

"So it's been very exciting to see them bloom. I told one of my teacher friends to have a box of tissues ready for when she sees her daughter all dressed up."

A male student has volunteered to do the girls' hair and make-up. "Thirty years ago when I attended my school ball, no way a guy would say he'd do the girls' hair and make-up; it shows how things have changed since then,A smart breitlingwatches power meter designed to allow you to better manage.The difference between iccard and ID card Here to talk about the difference." Ingrid says.

She taught at Wellsford School for 16 years before training as a colour and style consultant in 2010. It was her young son, who has Down syndrome, who motivated her to go ahead with her fashion parade.

"And I couldn't have been dealing with a lovelier bunch of people. Golden Gown allowed the girls free range to the rows and rows of dresses," Ingrid says.

Two prizes are offered during the evening. Golden Gown owner and chief designer Ankia Van der Berg will draw a ball gown winner, while another girl will win jewellery designed by Miss Universe New Zealand's jewellery designer.

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"I believe that this rebranding, and the efforts we are taking to enhance our own bridge apparel and accessory offering, will benefit the brand image and result in the enhancement and expansion of the Calvin Klein lifestyle," Vogue quoted Tom Murry, CEO of Calvin Klein as saying.

The move will place all Calvin Klein brands under one name except for the brands fragrances which will remain ck and ck One, Fashion & Lifestyle reports.

Last month Calvin Klein launched their watch and jewellery line at the annual watch Mecca.

The star-packed event also saw the launch of the brand's 2013 watch and jewellery collection, designed by Ulrich Grimm, who oversees all the shoes and accessories for the American label.

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2013年5月13日 星期一

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and physicians continue to document that some patients experience fuzzy thinking and memory loss while taking statins, a class of global top-selling cholesterol-lowering drugs.

A University of Arizona research team has made a novel discovery in brain cells being treated with statin drugs: unusual swellings within neurons, which the team has termed the "beads-on-a-string" effect.Wireless breitlingstore is a simple and and easy to use tool.Largest variety of crystalbeads accessories online.

The team is not entirely sure why the beads form, said UA neuroscientist Linda L. Restifo, who leads the investigation. However, the team believes that further investigation of the beads will help inform why some people experience cognitive declines while taking statins.

"What we think we've found is a laboratory demonstration of a problem in the neuron that is a more severe version for what is happening in some peoples' brains when they take statins," said Restifo, a UA professor of neuroscience, neurology and cellular and molecular medicine, and principal investigator on the project.

Restifo and her team's co-authored study and findings recently were published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, a peer-reviewed journal. Robert Kraft, a former research associate in the department of neuroscience, is lead author on the article.

Restifo and Kraft cite clinical reports noting that statin users often are told by physicians that cognitive disturbances experienced while taking statins were likely due to aging or other effects. However, the UA team's research offers additional evidence that the cause for such declines in cognition is likely due to a negative response to statins.Buy visually stunning and durable jewelryfindings from Larson Jewelers.

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"This is a great first step on the road toward more personalized medication and therapy," said David M. Labiner, who heads the UA department of neurology. "If we can figure out a way to identify patients who will have certain side effects, we can improve therapeutic outcomes."

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“It’s go time,” Jason responded several minutes later, with a photo of his car radio. Before long, the Caps scored in overtime, giving them a 2-0 series lead. “Don’t doubt the car bit,” Jason wrote in triumph, attaching a photo of his car radio display showing that 1-0 final score.

See, Jason — a 35-year old government contractor who lives near Leesburg — has maintained a running gag with some friends for more than a year,Find a great selection of Glass electricitymonitor deals. involving the Caps and his car radio. It started during last year’s playoffs, when bad traffic forced Jason to listen to several postseason games while driving home from the District. Every time he listened in his car, it seemed, the Capitals won. Every time he watched comfortably from home, they lost.

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“Not even getting out of the car for intermissions,” he wrote last May 9, when the Caps beat the Rangers to force a Game 7.

He wasn’t planning on bringing back the gimmick this spring, but then circumstances forced him to listen to Game 1 in his car. The Caps won. After DePompa’s late request during Game 2, Jason’s 2013 car record moved to 2-0. He watched Games 3 and 4 on television, and the Caps lost both. Game 5 was played during Friday night’s raging storm, so Jason stayed inside, but turned off the TV and listened on the radio. The Caps won. Sunday was Mother’s Day,Costume and fashion online smartcard Jewelry designs, so he tried to act like a normal person and watch the game on television. The Caps lost.

“Now we’re at Game 7, and I’ve already made plans,” Jason told me Monday morning. “I’ll probably get home around 6. I’ll get comfortable. I’ll probably have some dinner, get the cooler ready. And then I’ll head outside.”

He has a GMC Acadia, which he said is a great vehicle for driveway sports listening, even if it doesn’t have all the comforts of home.

“Obviously when I’m driving I don’t do a whole bunch [besides listen],” he said. “If I actually just camp out, I’ll sit in the driveway with a couple of beers and listen. Nobodys allowed to come out and talk to me or be in the car; that would throw everything out of whack.”

Obviously. And because Jason happened to be listening to the away team’s broadcast on SiriusXM the first time this gag worked, he has stuck with that method. As much as he likes John Walton’s work, he plans to tune into the Rangers feed on Monday night.

“It actually brings joy to listen to them dejected when the Caps score,” he noted. “It makes it that much more enjoyable.”

I know Jason’s last name, but he requested that I not use it, so that he would not appear insane. Still, I had to ask him whether he actually believes it matters whether he watches a hockey game on a sofa, or listens to the same game from the front-seat of his SUV.

“If I say yes, I sound like a crazy person,” he answered. “But, ummm. Yes. Yeah. It’s enough of a thought or a doubt in my mind that I’m not going to mess with the forces that could possibly be leading to the outcome. So I’m sticking with it.”

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Chris Harris was considered an unlikely suspect in the deaths of five members of his ex-wife’s family — until key evidence pointed in his direction.

Harris, 34, of Armington, is on trial for murder in the Sept. 21, 2009, beating deaths of Rick and Ruth Gee and three of their children and the attempted murder of a fourth child who survived. His brother Jason Harris, 26, faces similar charges, but is expected to plead guilty to lesser charges in exchange for a 20-year prison term and for testifying against his brother.A smart breitlingwatches power meter designed to allow you to better manage.

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“Unfortunately you’ve got a lot of red flags that came up,” Jennings told Harris during the second of three voluntary interviews Harris gave police before his arrest.

“I’m not a killer. I’d never hurt my family,” said Harris, who was previously married to Nicole Gee, Rick Gee’s daughter.

On Friday, Jennings told the jury he was surprised when he noticed Harris’ shoes as the two met before the interview. And during dinner Jennings and Harris shared at Avanti’s in Peoria — They were on the way from the hospital where surviving victim Tabitha Gee was being treated to the interview in Logan County — Harris was “very calm, disarming, not nervous,” a demeanor that Jennings said “threw him off” in light of his law enforcement experience.

The investigator shared that observation with Harris.

“I didn’t see you as the guy,” Jennings told Harris as the questioning started.

Harris turned over his shoes and provided a DNA sample to police, along with agreeing to take off his shirt to determine if he had any injuries. With exception of an outline of a small blister on his hand, Harris had no signs of injury.

Harris predicted that the evidence would not implicate him. “I’m not worried about it,” he said.

Monday afternoon, jurors heard from crime technicians who processed several hundred pieces of evidence from the home where authorities said victims were bludgeoned multiple times with a tire iron.

Among the evidence showed to jurors were photos of the shoeprints collected from several rooms at the Gee home. Following the display of the photos, the soles of the shoes collected from Harris showing similar markings were shown to jurors in separate photos.

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The defense plans to call Chris Harris and an expert who will testify about the affect violent video games have on people, information that is linked to Chris Harris’ self-defense claim that he killed Dillen Constant, 14, after he walked in on a killing spree by the young victim who played such games.

Palestinians unite behind Gaza Strip

The fractious factions in the Gaza Strip and across the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories have found one voice to unite behind - a 22-year-old youth singing songs about a lost homeland on the Middle East's version of 'American Idol'.

Gaza native Mohammed Assaf has become the first Palestinian to qualify for 'Arab Idol',Rubiks energymanagement See if you can solve this famous. a TV talent show staged in Beirut, in which singers perform for judges and voting viewers.

He is now one of the last 10 contestants - largely thanks to his potent mix of good looks and emotional lyrics about ancestral Palestinian lands.

"He is the pride of Palestine. He broke the siege with his voice," said fan Rehaf al-Batniji, referring to Israel's blockade of Gaza, seized by the Jewish state, along with the West Bank, during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

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Assaf's songs blare out of radios - a counter-balance to their usual broadcasts of bleak economic and political news.

Politicians have raced to endorse him and Palestinian mobile phone company Jawwal has cut the price of text messages to make it easier for supporters to vote.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, from the Fatah movement that holds sway in the West Bank, phoned the singer in Beirut and urged all Arabs to vote for him.

"The president stressed his support and backing to artist Assaf, whose talent represented pride to Palestine," said a statement by the Palestinian official news agency WAFA.

The Gaza Strip is ruled by the rival Islamist Hamas faction - a group that disapproves of non-Islamic songs and the kind of Western-style excess on full display in TV talent shows.

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Assaf first made his name inside Gaza at the age of 11, when he recorded a song in 2001 called "O Town be Strong", at the height of Israeli incursions in the enclave during a Palestinian uprising.

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His performances have included "Flying Bird" which lists the cities of historical Palestine and another song urging Palestinians to unite.

The program's celebrity judges from across the Arab world - where the Palestinian cause reverberates - have piled praise on the singer.

"I see the Arab idol standing before my eyes," said Egyptian composer Hassan El Shafei.

"Your voice is made of diamond," added Ahlam, a famous singer from the United Arab Emirates.

Listening in was Assaf's mother, Umm Shadi Assaf, watching the show in a restaurant near her home in Gaza's Khan Younis refugee camp.

2013年5月10日 星期五

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The murders backstop a large investigation by Italian police revealing the trans-Atlantic reach of the Mafia in Canada, with mobsters shuttling from Toronto and Montreal to arrange global drug shipments and even continuing their underworld feud abroad as if borders did not exist.

“There’s four guys at an important Mafia murder in Sicily and three of them lived in Canada. That says a lot about the Mafia here, their mobility, their relationships internationally,” said an Ontario organized crime investigator.

Mr. Fernandez, 56, was born in Spain but grew up in Canada and became an important mob figure in Quebec and Ontario. His charred body was found in Sicily as police closed codenamed Operation Argo that saw 21 mobsters arrested on Wednesday.

Mr. Fernandez’s last day alive was April 9 when he and Fernando Pimentel, 36, an associate from Mississauga, Ont., who was visiting him in Sicily, left for a meeting to close a marijuana deal, authorities say.

He was meeting Pietro and Salvatore Scaduto, two brothers, in an isolated field outside Bagheria, near Palermo,The International Journal solargardenlight Sensing and Intelligent Systems. where Mr. Fernandez was told a large marijuana crop was being harvested, authorities alleged. Mr. Fernandez knew the brothers and trusted them; he was heard many times on police wiretaps extolling their friendship.

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Police wondered why Mr. Fernandez was suddenly no longer heard on the wiretaps. The surveillance teams that usually watched him stroll about town had no one to follow.

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But days later, one of the Scaduto brothers was caught trying to sell Mr. Fernandez’s Rolex watch for 3,000 euros, authorities said.

The watch was not something Mr. Fernandez would let go willingly.

“He loved that watch. Every day he wore this watch. Every day,” said the officer in Italy, who requested his name not be published. Italian police had heard him say it was the only piece not confiscated by police in Canada.

Investigators in Canada believe the watch was given to him by Vito Rizzuto, the Mafia boss from Montreal for whom Mr. Fernandez worked while in Canada.

Pietro Scaduto, 49, and Salvatore Scaduto, 51, were charged with murder. Pietro is a former Toronto resident.

Two months after Mr. Fernandez was released from prison in Canada in April 2004 and deported to Spain he arrived in Bagheria.

Again showing the links between the underworld of Canada and Italy, he chose the city because as many as 10 mafiosi there have ties to Canada, primarily with the Rizzuto crime family, the officer said.

Bulgarians Disillusioned Ahead of Vote

Mass protests in Bulgaria against austerity measures and energy costs forced out the government in February. Elections set for Sunday could lead to more political turmoil.

Recent public-opinion surveys indicate that the conservative party that led the previous administration and its main, left-leaning challenger are running neck-and-neck, complicating prospects for the formation of a governing coalition.

Unhappiness with low living standards and perceived corruption in the European Union's poorest member state boiled over this past winter, leading to nationwide demonstrations, initially over rising electricity prices.

In a sign of the desperate public mood, at least seven people have set themselves on fire—some explicitly saying they were acting to protest government policies and corruption. Six have died.

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The former conservative prime minister, Boyko Borisov, submitted his resignation Feb. 20 after marchers in Sofia clashed with riot police, saying he wanted to prevent violence from worsening.

Reacting to the outcry over power prices, Bulgaria's energy regulator cut them six weeks ago and the caretaker government has said they would remain capped for a year.

Mr. Borisov, a former bodyguard to Soviet-era dictator Todor Zhivkov, kept a tight rein on spending and navigated the global financial crisis without needing an international bailout.Brantano offers a wide range of chipcard in every style to fit every occasion.

During the campaign, Mr. Borisov has pledged to continue his drive for austerity in public finances, which he says is based on the German model. He has argued that taking painful steps now will make Bulgaria more competitive in the long run and help it to avoid the fate of Southern Europe.

But his support has been weakened by corruption allegations and a wiretapping scandal.

The rival Socialist party has said that it would work to reduce the tax burden on the poorest people in the country, where the average monthly income is roughly 400 ($520) a month. The party has also promised to raise wages and to improve tax collection to pay for it.

Plamen Oresharski, the Socialist candidate for prime minister, has also promised to reduce unemployment by ending policies of the previous government that he said squash aspiring businesses.

But both parties appear far from winning a majority in Parliament.

A poll released Thursday by the Sova Harris agency put both Mr. Borisov's centre-right party, the Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria, or GERB, at 20.9% and the Socialists at 20.4%,Rubiks energymanagement See if you can solve this famous. Another poll done by Center of Analysis and Marketing put GERB at 21.3% and the Socialists at 18.9%.

"It will be very difficult to form a coalition," predicted Antoaneta Tzoneva, chairwoman of the Institute for Public Environment Development, which advocates for fair elections and judicial reform.

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Ms. Tzoneva said she expected voter turnout to be low because people are losing hope that the country's prospects will improve and see little hope for change in any parties.

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