American teen crowned Miss World 2010
October 31, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
BEIJING: Blonde, blue-eyed American teenager Alexandria Mills won the Miss World crown for 2010 on Saturday, defeating more than 100 other hopefuls at a glittering ceremony in southern China.
Mills, an 18-year-old from the southern US state of Kentucky, wept as outgoing Miss World Kaiane Aldorino of Gibraltar placed the tiara on her head and led her to a diamond-shaped throne marking the pageant’s 60th anniversary.
Kenya’s Natasha Metto earned a “fast-track” spot in the final group of 25, but was then eliminated. She was crowned Miss “Beauty with a Purpose”.
The US beauty in white, a professional model listed with the Elite Models agency, waved to the cheering crowd at the 2,000-capacity Beauty Crown Theatre in the resort town of Sanya on Hainan island.
During the two-hour competition, which annually draws a global television audience of about one
Australia can ‘sort out’ Afridi in Tests: Ponting
June 4, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under Breaking News
MELBOURNE: Ricky Ponting is confident Australia can get the better of Shahid Afridi, the new Pakistan captain, during the two Tests in England in July.
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Australia can ‘sort out’ Afridi in Tests: Ponting
mmr
May 24, 2010 by Trend PK
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MMR doctor struck from register
The General Medical Council found Dr Andrew Wakefield guilty of serious professional misconduct over the way he carried out his controversial research.
It follows a GMC ruling earlier this year that he had acted unethically.
Dr Wakefield, who is now based in the US, has consistently claimed the allegations are unfair. He now says he will appeal against the verdict.
His 1998 Lancet study caused vaccination rates to plummet, resulting in a rise in measles – but the findings were later discredited.
The GMC ruled in January Dr Wakefield had acted “dishonestly and irresponsibly” in conducting his research, but under its procedures the sanctions are made at a later date.
The case did not investigate whether Dr Wakefield’s findings were right or wrong, instead it focused on the methods of research.
During the two-and-a-half-year case, the longest in GMC history, he was accused of carrying out invasive tests on vulnerable children which were against their best interests.
The GMC also said Dr Wakefield, who was working at London’s Royal Free Hospital as a gastroenterologist at the time, did not have the ethical approval or relevant qualifications for such tests.
And the panel hearing the case took exception with the way he gathered blood samples. Dr Wakefield paid children £5 for the samples at his son’s birthday party.
It also said Dr Wakefield should have disclosed the fact that he had been paid to advise solicitors acting for parents who believed their children had been harmed by the MMR.
source: news.bbc.co.uk
big sur marathon
April 25, 2010 by Trend PK
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FELTON — How would you feel if you were outraced by a 73-year-old lady while jogging at your best? This is an oddity Big Sur marathoners may want to prepare themselves for, as Khartoon Brown enters the coastal race for the 25th year in a row today.
“To me, age doesn’t matter,” Brown said. “I just don’t buy that.”
Brown has not missed a single iteration of the 26-mile-race since its creation in 1986, making her the only woman to have run every Big Sur marathon, she said. This year, a group of about 20 people will support and run with her to celebrate the record. Friends and family will be wearing purple T-shirts made for the occasion, proudly wearing Brown’s typical greeting on their chest: “Good morning sunshine.”
A 5-foot tall running phenomenon, Brown doesn’t know the loneliness sometimes related to aging. She is constantly surrounded by younger runner friends. On Saturdays, Brown meets her “children,” ranging from the mid-20s to the mid-50s, for a run at the Forest of Nisene Marks State Park in Aptos.
“We probably wouldn’t have been friends if it wasn’t for the running,” said Felton resident Filomena Milburn, stressing how sportsmanship brought women with such different personalities and lives together.
After running with Brown for 15 years, 56-year-old Milburn still admires her strength.
“Mentally, she can do anything,” Milburn said. “There are things that she does that I know I could never do.”
Beyond performance or energy, the little running family shines with unity.
“I usually call Khartoon Mom,’ except when she passes me,” said Robin Stevens.
A former beauty salon owner, Brown began running at age 45 for health reasons.
“I needed to exercise,” Brown said. “A lot of women take medications. I took running.”
The Mount Hermon resident really committed to running after taking part into her first marathon in Hawaii during the early 1980s. After her first New York Marathon, she was attracted to the Big Sur course in 1986 by its beauty, she said. Brown completed the California race each year within the six-hour time limit.
Brown doesn’t follow any particular diet or training. She said she just take short runs throughout the year and trains on longer distances during the two months before the big race.
Last November, Brown completed the New York Marathon one more time.
“I know what I need to do to get there,” Brown said.
Horatio Sanz’s Comedian Actor of America
Horatio Sanz was born 4 June 1969 is a Chilean-American comedian and actor, best known as a former member of the staff of Saturday Night Live. Horatio Sanz decided to change their eating habits and start doing some exercise to lose weight because he was concerned with the effect it can have on health. The 40-year-old has already lost about 100 kg.
Horatio Sanz joined the caravan of celebrities who are about to do something to his body in an attempt to look good and better. During the two-hour retrospective, contrasting excerpts from Sanz days to comment on previous sketches, with its dramatic appearance from a couple years earlier.
The Chilean comics were known for cracking the actor Jimmy Fallon on the show, but when Sanz back in 2006, apparently his weight was nothing to joke that he has lost nearly a hundred pounds, quite a feat considering that he was held on the second Page 300 pound mark. Horatio Sanz has been known as the funny fat man on “Saturday Night Live.
The unrecognizable, and it can not denied.I have eaten better, “he admitted. Sanz quipped, “I have tried to make a joke about how I have lost weight and I was just about to say:” I stopped putting nuts in my sundae. Sanz was also a founding member of the Standing Citizens Brigade sketch comedy and improve the project squad, filming began in March 2010. ‘I have eaten better, “Horatio busy. Sanz and his former SNL cast mate Chris Parnell will star together in the next” Big Lake “, an upcoming Comedy Central series from leading producers Will Ferrell and Adam McKay.
NFC Award Meeting Today
LAHORE, Pakistan News: The 7th National Finance Commission (NFC) Award meeting will continue on the third day under the chairmanship of Federal Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin here on Friday, it is hoped the award would be announced today.
A two-day meeting of the 7th NFC Award concluded late Thursday night without finalising horizontal distribution of resources. According to sources privy to developments, representatives of all the four federating units failed to reach an agreement over the contentious issue of horizontal sharing during the two-day meeting in Lahore.
Another informal session could be convened on Friday morning as the Thursday talks failed to yield a positive outcome. The sources said the federal government agreed to shed its share under the vertical formula to 56-57.5 per cent from previous share of about 46pc. The provinces want to increase the vertical share to 60 per cent. Nevertheless, major increase in the share of provinces has made the four chief ministers heave a sigh of relief.
According to sources, only Balochistan will get greater share of resources from the federal divisible pool, compared with the last NFC Award, and remaining provinces will have to bear losses in revenue percentage wise.
Sources claimed that overall share of Balochistan under horizontal sharing will go up to 9.2 per cent from present paltry 7.1 per cent. Share of Punjab will be curtailed to 51.9 per cent from present 53 per cent. Sindh will have to get 23.8 per cent resources against previous over 24 per cent share, while NWFP will be given 14.24 per cent share against previous allocation of 14.89 per cent.
Apart from provincial representatives, all four chief ministers also participated in negotiations Thursday evening.
NFC Award Meeting Today was first posted on December 11, 2009 at 2:48 pm.
Hillary Clinton Meets President Zardari
NEW YORK: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called on President Asif Ali Zardari here at a local hotel on Thursday.
According to sources, two leaders exchanged views on the matters relating to bilateral ties of two nations, ongoing war on terrorism and situation of regional and international peace besides; President Zardari also thanked Clinton over the approval of Kerry-Lugar aid bill from US Senate.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Finance Minister Shaukat Tareen, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Pakistan envoy to US Hussain Haqqani were also present during the two leaders’ meeting, sources said.
Hillary Clinton Meets President Zardari was first posted on September 25, 2009 at 1:02 pm.
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