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Okay' that's good for her to get back to her right senses before its too late... I assumed that's why she hasn't be engaged.

kayalla:
she no de wear bra?

Bra wearing can cause cancer..

... The poster above me, you sabi english pass english o... Heat song Wt6!

Alas! Me I no see any oyinbo o' white'...

Cool and nice

Apple on Monday announced record results for
the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014, with the iPhone
6 and iPhone 6 Plus having played a crucial role
despite being available in stores for only 10 days
during the period. The company sold more than 10
million units during launch weekend, and that
doesn’t even include China. The phones were
released in the largest market in the world about
a month later, where they were met with huge
demand, with many buyers purchasing the phablet
version, according to unofficial estimates.
Following its previous reports that largely said
the same thing, Digitimes is again saying that
Apple is going to increase iPhone 6 Plus
manufacturing volumes in order to “satisfy strong
demand from China.”

Sources familiar with the matter said that Apple
is shifting production capacity to the iPhone 6
Plus, with iPhone 6 to iPhone 6 Plus supply ratio
“likely” to change to 55:45, from 70:30 or 65:35
set originally.
iPhone 6 Plus is still significantly constrained,
with current estimates in Apple’s U.S. online store
still showing a wait time of up to four weeks, no
matter what iPhone 6 Plus version (color, storage,
carrier) is chosen.
“At this point we’re selling everything that we
make,” Tim Cook said in Apple’s Q4 conference
call, during the Q&A session, without offering
any specific details about the iPhone 6/6 Plus mix.
“And so it’s difficult to say that we’ve estimated
well on the SKU mix, or the split between the
iPhone 6 vs. 6 Plus. From everything we can tell,
we’ve done a pretty good job on that. But I’ve
stopped short of saying there’s no issue at all.
Because it’s hard to tell when you’re at a point
where you’re selling everything you’re making. It’s
a good problem to have.”

Serena Williams has little tolerance for
distasteful insensitivity.
The famed tennis player, 33, and her racket-
swinging sister Venus Williams were the butt of a
joke made by Russian Tennis Federation
president Shamil Tarpischev earlier this month.
When asked on Russia's Evening Urgant talk show
about his experience with the impressive pair,
Tarpischev teased that the two women are
actually the "Williams brothers," as he spoke
about their appearances.

"I thought [his comments] were very insensitive
and extremely sexist as well as racist at the same
time," Serena said this past weekend. "I thought
they were in a way bullying."
The Women's Tennis Association was not fond of
Tarpischev's comments either, and the group
handed down a punishment of a $25,000 fine and
a one-year suspension to Tarpischev.

"I think the WTA did a great job of taking [the]
initiative and taking immediate action to his
comments," Serena said. "In 2014, for someone
with his power, it's really unacceptable to make
such bullying remarks."
Serena also found support in another tennis
heavyweight, as Russian star Maria Sharapova
publicly stood by her side.

"I think they were very disrespectful and
uncalled-for, and I'm glad that many people have
stood up, including the WTA," Sharapova said of
Tarpischev's words. "It was very inappropriate,
especially in his position and all the
responsibilities that he has not just in this sport,
but being part of the Olympic committee. It was
just really irresponsible on his side."
For his part, Tarpischev released a statement
saying his joke was "taken out of humorous
context" when translated into English and was
"said without malice."

nedu2000:
& I went to Uniport for 5yrs and I didn't kill anyone

Okay

Oscar Pistorius, rear right, is led to a waiting police vehicle to be taken to prison.

Parents of the late Reeva Steenkamp, June, front, and Barry back, leave court in Pretoria, South Africa, after Oscar Pistorius was handed down a five-year sentence.

Oscar Pistorius is lead by an officer
into a holding cell after being
sentenced.

Members of the South African Police Service with
Oscar Pistorius in the back of an armoured police
vehicle.

LONDON — With a judge seeking to strike a balance between
mercy and retribution, Oscar Pistorius, the South African track
star, was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison for killing
his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
The athlete’s defense team said the law under which he was
punished calls for him to serve only one-sixth of the prison
term — 10 months — before he can be placed on house arrest.
He was also given a suspended three-year term on separate
firearms charges.
But some South African legal experts said the conversion of
prison time to house arrest was not automatic and required
negotiations with the correctional authorities. After serving
half the sentence, Mr. Pistorius can also apply for parole.
Ms. Steenkamp’s family said it was “satisfied” with the ruling,
although the National Prosecuting Authority said it had not yet
decided whether to appeal.
“I’m just glad it’s over,” June Steenkamp, the victim’s mother,
told reporters outside the courtroom.
Mr. Pistorius’s family said it was not planning to appeal. “We
accept the judgment,” Arnold Pistorius, the athlete’s uncle,
said in a statement, appealing to the news media to “let us
move forward” and “give us some degree of dignity and
privacy as we do so.”
“Oscar will embrace this opportunity to pay back to society,”
the uncle said.
After a trial that opened in March and that was initially set to
run three weeks, Mr. Pistorius seemed impassive as Judge
Thokozile Matilda Masipa ordered him to rise to hear his
sentence.
Just before he descended the courtroom steps to the holding
cells at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, the South
African capital, he clasped the hands of relatives but showed
little emotion. Earlier in the trial, there were times when he
wailed, wept and vomited.
The often-delayed hearings have been broadcast around the
world, captivating people in Mr. Pistorius’s own country and
abroad. Every word has been broadcast — some of it restricted
to audio coverage at the request of witnesses — and
journalists have chronicled the trial’s every twist and turn in a
barrage of Twitter feeds, dispatches, and televised interviews
and commentary.
Virtually since the moment of the shooting, Mr. Pistorius has
been free on bail, living in his uncle’s luxurious mansion. But
for now, Martin Hood, a South African lawyer, told Sky News,
Mr. Pistorius is a sentenced prisoner and will spend the night
in a cell at Pretoria’s main prison.
“It’s going to be a cold, harsh reality for him tonight,” Mr.
Hood said.
Live television images showed Mr. Pistorius being driven away
from the courtroom in an armored police van. Blue-uniformed
officers sat with him while others, in bulletproof vests, were
hanging from the rear.
In September, Judge Masipa found Mr. Pistorius, 27, guilty of
culpable homicide but she acquitted him on more serious
murder charges.
The prosecution had sought a 10-year jail term, while the
defense had requested that he be placed under house arrest for
three years and perform community service.
The disabled athlete has admitted killing Ms. Steenkamp, 29,
on Feb. 14, 2013, but he said he did so by mistake, firing four
rounds from a handgun through a locked toilet cubicle door in
the belief that an intruder had entered his home.
Judge Masipa spent 65 minutes summing up her decision
before telling the athlete, “Mr. Pistorius, please rise.”
Quoting at length from legal precedents, Judge Masipa said her
sentence was “about achieving the right balance —
proportionality.”
She was critical of the testimony of two defense witnesses, who
had recommended a sentence of house arrest with community
service. But she praised the testimony of Zach Modise, a senior
prison services officer who said that South African prisons
were equipped to deal with a disabled inmate’s needs.
Judge Masipa said a long sentence would lack “mercy,” while
a more lenient sentence would “send the wrong message to the
community.”
At the same time, she said, “the courts do not exist to win
popularity contests.”
“It would be a sad day for this country if an impression was
created that there is one law for the poor and disadvantaged
and another for the rich and famous,” she said.
“Righteous anger,” she said, “should not cloud judgment.”
Judge Masipa focused closely on the moment when, in the
early hours of Valentine’s Day last year, Mr. Pistorius rose
from his bed, grabbed a handgun loaded with so-called Black
Talon ammunition and fired four rounds.
Unlike similar cases involving negligence, she said, Mr.
Pistorius knew that “someone was behind the door” and his
“aim was to shoot the intruder.” He was trained in the use of
firearms, which imposed a “high degree of responsibility” on
him.
“The toilet was a small cubicle,” she said. “An intruder would
have had no room to maneuver or escape.” Such was the
degree of negligence that a noncustodial sentence, the judge
said, “would not be appropriate.”
As the trial neared its close, the defense made much of Mr.
Pistorius’s anguish and of his steep fall from being a
celebrated athlete to what it depicted as living in penury. He
was stripped of lucrative sponsorships and forced to sell
property and automobiles to pay legal bills.
Months before the shooting, Mr. Pistorius, nicknamed the
Blade Runner for the scythe-like curved prostheses he used
while competing, became the first disabled athlete to compete
against able-bodied contenders at the London Olympic Games
in 2012. He also competed in the Paralympic Games.
Shortly after the sentence was handed down in Pretoria on
Tuesday, the International Paralympic Committee said Mr.
Pistorius would not be permitted to compete in its tournaments
for the full five years of the term.

Culled from: the new york times.

Profcamsey:
so u haven't offered the general course in SPACE BOOKING ? no graduation 4 u in NL

Lol

TeamSimple:
Ok

Lol.. What's 'okay'? Someone died and you said 'okay'.. Is that suppose to be your comment man?

Smh! And you think she's gonna accept this proposal of yours, when you actually don't have a dp...

NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar de la Renta, the worldly
gentleman designer who shaped the wardrobe of
socialites, first ladies and Hollywood stars for
more than four decades, has died. He was 82.
De la Renta died at home Monday evening in
Connecticut surrounded by family, friends and
"more than a few dogs," according to a
handwritten statement signed by his
stepdaughter Eliza Reed Bolen and her husband,
Alex Bolen. The statement did not specify a cause
of death, but de la Renta had spoken in the past
of having cancer.

"While our hearts are broken by the idea of life
without Oscar, he is still very much with us.
Oscar's hard work, his intelligence and his love
of life are at the heart of our company," the
statement said. "All that we have done, and all
that we will do, is informed by his values and his
spirit. Through Oscar's example we know the way
forward. We will make Oscar very proud of us by
continuing in an even stronger way the work that
Oscar loved so much."
The late '60s and early '70s were a defining
moment in U.S. fashion as New York-based
designers carved out a look of their own that was
finally taken seriously by Europeans. De la Renta
and his peers, including the late Bill Blass, Halston
and Geoffrey Beene, defined American style —
and their influence is still spotted today.
De la Renta's specialty was eveningwear, though
he also was known for chic daytime suits favored
by the women who would gather at the Four
Seasons or Le Cirque at lunchtime. His signature
looks were voluminous skirts, exquisite
embroideries and rich colors.
Most recently, Amal Alamuddin wore a de la
Renta-designed wedding dress when she married
George Clooney. And earlier this month, first lady
Michelle Obama notably wore a de la Renta dress
for the first time. De la Renta had criticized her
several years ago, for wearing foreign designers.
First lady Laura Bush wore an icy blue gown by de
la Renta to the 2005 inaugural ball and Hillary
Rodham Clinton wore a gold de la Renta in 1997.
On the red carpet at the Academy Awards,
Penelope Cruz and Sandra Bullock were among the
celebrities to don his feminine and opulent gowns.
His clothes even were woven into episodes of
"Sex and the City" with style icon character
Carrie Bradshaw dropping his name — and
comparing his designs to poetry.
"We will miss Oscar's generous and warm
personality, his charm, and his wonderful talents."
Bush said in a statement. "My daughters and I
have many fond memories of visits with Oscar,
who designed our favorite clothes, including
Jenna's wedding dress. We will always remember
him as the man who made women look and feel
beautiful."
De la Renta's path to New York's Seventh Avenue
took an unlikely route: He left his native
Dominican Republic at age 18 to study painting in
Spain but soon became sidetracked by fashion.
The wife of the U.S. Ambassador to Spain saw
some of his sketches and asked him to make a
dress for her daughter — a dress that landed on
the cover of Life magazine.
That led to an apprenticeship with Cristobal
Balenciaga, and then de la Renta moved to France
to work for couture house Lanvin. By 1963, he
was working for Elizabeth Arden couture in New
York and in 1965 had launched his own label.
He told the AP in 2004 that his Hispanic roots
worked their way into his designs.
"I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of
color and vibrant," he said.
And while de la Renta made Manhattan his
primary home, he often visited the Dominican
Republic and kept a home there. Vogue editor in
chief Anna Wintour was a frequent visitor and
she has said traveling with him was like traveling
with the president. "He's a superstar," she said.
He also had a country home in northwestern
Connecticut. Gardening and dancing were among
his favorite diversions from work. "I'm a very
restless person. I'm always doing something. The
creative process never stops," he said.
As a designer, De la Renta always catered to his
socialite friends and neighbors — as the designer
and his wife, Annette, were fixtures on the black-
tie charity circuit — but he did make occasional
efforts to reach the masses, including launching a
mid-priced line in 2004 and developing a dozen or
so perfumes, the first, called Oscar, was
introduced in 1977 and more recently, Rosamor.
He was an avid patron of the arts, serving as a
board member of The Metropolitan Opera and
Carnegie Hall, among others, and he devoted
considerable time to children's charity, including
New Yorkers for Children. He also helped fund
schools and day-care centers in La Romana and
Punta Cana in his native country.
The Dominican Republic honored de la Renta with
the order al Merito de Juan Pablo Duarte and the
order of Cristobol Colon. Here in the U.S., he
received the Coty American Fashion Critics
Award twice, was named womenswear designer of
the year by the Council of Fashion Designers of
America in 2000 and also received a lifetime
achievement award from the CFDA — an
organization for which he served as president in
the 1980s.
In addition to his own label, de la Renta
spearheaded the Pierre Balmain collection from
1993-2002, marking the first time an American
designed for a French couture house, and he was
awarded the French Legion d'Honneur as a
Commandeur. He also received the Gold Medal
Award from the king and queen of Spain.
De la Renta gave up the title of chief executive of
his company in 2004, handing over business
duties to the Bolens, but he remained active on
the design end, continuing to show his collections
during New York Fashion Week.
De la Renta also is survived by an adopted son,
Moises, a designer at the company.
De la Renta's first wife, French Vogue editor
Francoise de Langlade, died in 1983.

May D' the guy is the tallest of 'em

Okay! Happy birthday!