The Duchess of Cambridge; Kate Middleton To Wear Five Cloths A Day For Christmas.

I’ll wear FIVE outfits in one day, reveals style-icon Kate as she prepares for first Christmas at Sandringham

By MAYSA RAWI

Last updated at 9:30 AM on 22nd December 2011

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Spending your first Christmas with the in-laws can be a daunting experience.

But when the occasion involves the Royal family, nerve-wracking is a more fitting description.

The Duchess of Cambridge has admitted that she faces the ultimate wardrobe dilemma for her stay at Sandringham - where she will be expected to change outfits a staggering five times on Christmas day.

                                            Kate Middleton The Duchess of Cambridge

Dressed up and dressed down: This week alone, the Duchess has shown she can dress well for any occasion

Kate confided in a fellow guest at A Night of Heroes at the Imperial War Museum on Sunday night. Saying that she would not be able to repeat an outfit.

Sheridan Bowler, 19, told The Sun: 'She said she was looking forward to Christmas with Prince William's family, and said she had to change dress five times on Christmas Day. I couldn't believe it.'

 

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It's no wonder Kate has been spotted shopping on the King's Road recently, probably in search of suitable pieces for her upcoming trip.

Thankfully the Duchess has a natural instinct for appropriate attire - as she demonstrated in her £350 Ralph Lauren dress at last night's visit to a homeless shelter.

     Kate Middleton The Duchess of Cambridge in all three photos

           And here i am still struggling with my tailor to finish 

           my senegalese on time foe Christmas. 

          

           Speaking of which, let the royals do all the aspending,

           while you use this opportunity to strategies for year 2012.

          2012 sure promises to be a great year for us Nigerians,

          especially with the lunch of Nigcomsat 1R early this week.

(http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/nigeria-returns-to-space-with-nigcomsat-1r-launch/ 

          Not even fuel subsidy can spoil our joy for that one. 

            

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Waiting for Congress, Obama takes dog Bo shopping

Don't We Just Love The Democracy Of Barrack Obama

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia | Thu Dec 22, 2011 3:20am IST

(Reuters) - With his wife and daughters already in Hawaii for the holidays, President Barack Obama took his dog Bo shopping on Wednesday as he waited for congressional leaders to mop up a payroll tax mess that has kept him in Washington.

Obama travelled with Bo, and an entourage of aides, Secret Service agents, doctors and reporters, to a Northern Virginia strip mall to buy treats for the three-year-old Portuguese Water Dog featured on the White House holiday cards this year.

Bo accompanied him to PetSmart, where the dog made friends with a brown poodle named Cinnamon.

"Okay, Bo, don't get too personal here," Obama told the dog. He deposited Bo in the car before stopping by Best Buy for Apple gift cards and Nintendo Wii video games for his daughters, including "The Sims 3: Pets" and "Just Dance 3."

"The girls beat me every time on these dance games," he told reporters, joking that he would never let his picture get taken while dancing.

His total came to just under $200, and he told the cashier: "Let's see if my credit card still works," which it did

Is that not just cute and down to earth? Lol.

Monica wins MTN Project Fame!

on DECEMBER 19, 2011 · in ENTERTAINMENT

  

By Charles Mgbolu

After seven long weeks, Monica has emerged winner of the season  sensational music talent hunt reality TV show; MTN Project Fame West Africa.

*Monica

Monica beat five others to clinch the winning prize of a mouth watering recording contract, brand new RAV 4 jeep and 2.5 million naira.

Monica was announced the winner during the MTN Project Fame West Africa Season 4 grand finale aired on national television on Sunday.

Monica’s total prize money is a whooping 7 million naira.  She is the second female to have ever won the singing competition following massive votes that poured her way from ecstatic fans.

Roy was 1st runner up. He takes home 1.5 million naira and a Toyota corolla saloon car.

The finalists. From left: Ruth, Ethel, Ese, Yvonne, Monica and Roy

Ethel emerged the 3rd runner up while Ese became the 2nd runner up.

Monica aged 22, says she started singing early in life and has found fulfillment in it. She totally adores artistes like Brandy, Tiwa Savage, Stella Damascus, Asa and Majid Michael.

She is the last born of  a family of five boys and two girls and has a go-get-it outlook that perhaps stuck her quickly to her fans.

The journey however isn’t over for Monica. Unlike other budding artiste in the music industry, she needs to take advantage of this victory to launch herself  into the industry by recording a hit single. Anything short of this may make her a quick flash in the pan,  if the experiences of former winners of such talent hunt show are anything to go by.

culled fro the Vangaured Newspapers. 

Urban Professionals; 5 New Professions To Look Out For - With Good Pay

In today's urban society things are changing so fast that a person with a normal hobby or ability today may well be the urban professional of tomorrow. Let us take a look at five (5) new abilities that have become hot selling professions in the labour market with good pay.

1) Disease Mapper

Salary range:$40,000-$150,000

Experience/skills: A Ph.D. or master's in a tech field, plus expertise in a particular disease.

Perks: Flexible hours and travel to exotic locales

Who's hiring? Universities, governments, the United Nations, some consultancies

Early in his career, Andy Tatem became so proficient at analyzing fuzzy satellite images of English farms that he could tell wheat cops from turnip fields by studying the way the sun reflected off each.

Interesting stuff if you're a farmer, but not sufficiently inspiring for Tatem. Then came a call last year from Simon Hays, an Oxford University researcher who was developing a global map of malaria that could explain current outbreaks and help predict future ones.

Today Tatem, a 29-year-old Ph.D., is among a new class of researchers using the latest satellite imagery, cheap computing, big databases, and free tools like Google Earth to show how epidemics spread around the globe.

2) Robot Programmer

Salary range: $40,000-$100,000

Experience/skills: Associate degree in a technical field and extensive training. People skills also come in handy.

Perks: Lots of travel, helping clients customize each machine to a particular task

Who's hiring? ABB, Fanuc, Motoman, Panasonic, Toyota

Back in 1990, Matt Zeigler was pulling 12-hour shifts as an arc welder for a forklift manufacturing firm in Indiana when a technician in a white lab coat came into the factory to work on a new $85,000 robotic welder. "I said, 'Why aren't I doing that?'" Zeigler recalls. Self-training eventually got him out of blue-collar work and into a top robot programming position at Motoman in Dayton, Ohio, one of a growing number of industrial robot manufacturers that train humans to make sure their products perform as advertised.

Industrial robots, once a fixture in the auto industry, now are doing everything from analyzing blood samples to mixing cocktails. The latest innovations include multi-armed robots with vision systems and enough machine intelligence to read labels and pick out the parts they need from nearby bins.

Zeigler, 35, spends most of his time behind a PC and a custom hand-held controller, calibrating the robots' moving parts to be in just the right place at just the right time. He is also on the road a lot, acting as salesman, engineer, and installer for Motoman's customers. "I wear a lot of hats," he says.

Far from eliminating jobs, Zeigler says robots are "creating better jobs and better-paying jobs. They're just more technical and not as repetitive."

3) Information Engineer

Salary range: $70,000-$120,000

Experience/skills: Data analytics, network administrator experience, writing skills

Perks: Stock options, free food

Who's hiring? PayPal, Slide, and other Web 2.0 startups unable to stay on top of the data


Every Sunday the three 20-something founders of Meebo, an instant-messaging startup based in San Francisco, meet to talk strategy and almost always end up wanting new data before making any decision. "We'd walk away wanting to know things like where is our churn rate the greatest, or how are the users in Brazil different from those in India with regard to how they navigate the site," says CEO Seth Sternberg.

So Sternberg created a new position--"information engineer"--dedicated exclusively to digging up the answers. The first person to fill it: Bob Lee, 34, a former network engineer at Apple, who now sits in front of three monitors poring over an estimated 200 gigabytes of data every day from more than 5 million users. It's Lee's job, using a combination of networking chops and statistical analysis, to point out trends, explain network hiccups, and reveal what new features are hits or duds.

Other Web 2.0 companies, like PayPal and Slide, have begun adding similar positions to answer queries that off-the-shelf analytics tools can't handle, such as calculating churn rates. "There's all this data available to help make decisions," Sternberg says. "But it takes someone really focusing on it to get the benefit."

4) Radiosurgeon

Salary range: $200,000-$800,000

Experience/skills: Certified radiation oncologists must take three-week training course.

Perks: A broader base of patients and a long-term source of high-margin revenue

Who's hiring? Large hospitals, universities, pioneering small medical practices
For years San Diego radiation oncologist Donald Fuller relied on the standard tools of cancer therapy: radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery. But late last year, Fuller and several partners invested $4 million in a high-energy linear accelerator fixed to a robotic arm. The CyberKnife zaps radiation beams with submillimeter precision at tumors inside patients' bodies. After as many as five, one-hour treatments, tumors can disappear in a matter of days.

So-called radiosurgery has been used for years to treat cancer in the brain, where conventional operations are usually too risky. The CyberKnife--manufactured by Accuray and approved by the FDA in 2001 to treat tumors anywhere in the body--is only now reaching a broad population of patients with early-stage lung cancer, spinal tumors, and other cancers.

But it's turned Fuller, 49, into an entrepreneur. If he can treat 150 patients a year for the average insurance reimbursement of $19,000 each, he'll break even on his radiosurgery business by the end of 2008. Afterward, he could be looking at as much as $2.6 million a year in new revenue. "This is the way we are heading in medicine," Fuller says. "It's the way technology is taking us."

5) Second Life Lawyer

Salary range: Too early to say

Experience/skills: Software and intellectual property law expertise

Perks: The freedom to be talking to a client while getting a beer out of your home fridge

Who's hiring? Programmers looking to patent their code

Of the 2 million or so Second Life members, more than 25,000 are aspiring entrepreneurs. Most are buying and selling land, designing homes and clothes, or creating products, from jewelry to virtual pets. The stakes are small, but they're rising fast: According to Linden Lab, creator of Second Life, only 116 members made more than $5,000 in February, but that number is triple what it was six months earlier.

Count Stevan Lieberman among the virtual world's earning elite. Instead of trying to practice purely virtual law--which few if any lawyers have turned into real money--Lieberman has taken a hybrid approach, using Second Life as a meet-and-greet area for new clients, who then take their real-world legal needs offline. And since he took in $7,000 in fees in the first two weeks after hanging up his virtual shingle, he's optimistic: "I fully expect to keep getting more business this way."

So bullish is Lieberman that he's helping to set up the site's first "law island," a place for other members' practices and legal entities to do business. The American Bar Association and the FBI have asked him to help them set up their outposts too.