Recently released by the Conway Police Department:
July 30, 2010
1. Breaking or entering at 500 block of
2. Criminal mischief at 1000 block of
3. Criminal mischief at 1400 block of
4. Theft of property at
5. Residential burglary at 700 block of
(Those with information pertaining to these reports or any unsolved crime are urged to contact CPD’s tip line at 450-6135. Staff writer Stephanie Fischer can be reached at 505-1238.)
Interviews Joan of Arc
July 29, 2010
After a six season run, MTV’s The Hills sadly came to a close last night. We can’t believe it’s only been two short years since the star - perhaps you’ve heard of her? - Lauren Conrad stepped off that plane at Charles de Gaulle Airport, wearing a chic oversized beige trench coat loosely hanging from her shoulders and casually knotted round the front - for whom does this not evoke the image of a young Coco Chanel in sailor’s pea coat? louis vuitton bags - her silken blonde hair capped with a heavy knit cream beret - Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde, or the Prince song, had he the foresight not to sing about a garish color like raspberry - Lauren Conrad’s strikingly well-shaped legs hugged by tan and white striped stockings - Wizard of Oz, when the farbissiner gets the house dropped on her - but offsetting these neutrals - to remind: trench coat, stockings, beret - with a pair of purple boots - Nancy Sinatra, but ankle length.
As she hit the streets of
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July 28, 2010
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July 27, 2010
Blake Lively is making the absolute most of her time in
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Too Good to Be True?
July 26, 2010
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Online sales of designer shoes are booming. According to NDP Group, a consumer research firm, online shoe sales generated just under $1 billion in sales through September 2009. Despite the recession, sales were up 25 percent. It’s no surprise that savvy fashionistas like Abugov are turning to the Internet to look for deals. True Religion sale
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“20/20″ selected nine of the more popular designer shoes — as seen on celebrities — and purchased them from eight different “discount” Web sites.
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“20/20″ recruited Cameron Silver and Christos Garkinos, co-owners of the popular “Decades Two” store in
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Boots imprisoned for contempt of court
July 23, 2010
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A seven-year battle to defeat the counterfeiters
Deckers and its predecessor companies have designed, manufactured, marketed and sold the iconic Ugg Boot in
Vaysman Pty Ltd, Hepbourne Pty Ltd and the Vaysman siblings, Vladimir and Victoria Vaysman, have been making counterfeit Ugg Boots.
The dispute between Deckers and the Vaysman siblings and companies has spanned seven years. In 2003, Deckers first became aware that counterfeit Ugg boots were being manufactured and commenced proceedings in the Federal Court, seeking interlocutory injunctions against Vaysman Pty Ltd, Hepbourne Pty Ltd and the Vaysman siblings for trade mark and copyright infringement, passing off, and misleading/deceptive conduct in breach of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth).
Deckers discontinued these proceedings after the respondents consented to orders under a settlement agreement restraining them from, amongst other things, manufacturing or selling sheepskin footwear bearing the names “Ugg Australia”, “Ugg” or “Uggs”; orders which they then breached. True Religion sale
This led to further proceedings, and another settlement agreement in 2005, which was then breached. Another set of undertakings was given in 2007, which once again was breached.
Losing patience with the Vaysmans, Deckers then reinstated an earlier filed Notice of Motion and a Statement of Charge seeking declarations that the respondents were guilty of contempt.
The Federal Court in 2008 found they were guilty of contempt, but the actual penalty was only determined this year.
In the interim, the Federal Court found for Deckers on the original claims of trade mark and copyright infringement, passing off and breaches of the Trade Practices Act.
What did the Court hold?
Justice Tracey held that:
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In respect of the 10 charges proven against Vladimir Vaysman, the Court ordered imprisonment for each of the charges. The longest, a three year term, was because he had caused and encouraged the use of a factory for manufacturing and selling counterfeit Ugg Boots from December 2005 to at least November 2007. This resulted in the sale of over 30,000 pairs of counterfeit Ugg boots, and profits of more than $3 million. ugg australia boots
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The Court had regard to “the need for both personal and general deterrence” and also the serious infringement of Deckers’ rights and the severe undermining by Mr Vaysman of the Court’s authority, stating that “Mr Vaysman’s conduct falls within the most serious category of criminal contempt cases” and that he had “contumelious disregard of the orders made by the Court”.
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In respect of the eight charges proven against Victoria Vaysman, the Court ordered imprisonment for each of the charges ranging from seven days to one year. Although she was not principally responsible for the manufacturing and marketing of the counterfeit footwear, she played a key role in assisting her brother by making the arrangements for internet sales of footwear.
The Court reduced Ms Vaysman’s sentence on account of her personal circumstances and her expressions of remorse and promises not to reoffend. However, she was still required to serve two months’ imprisonment on the basis that she engaged in the selling of the counterfeit Ugg Boots “knowing” that she was contravening Court orders which she “chose deliberately to ignore”.
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Mr Mykhalovski, who worked at one of the factories that manufactured the counterfeit Ugg Boots, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment based on his “blatant disregard of Court order[s]”. The Court noted that “considerations of general and specific deterrence weigh heavily.”
Homeland reason to cheer after World Cup
July 22, 2010
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Oosthuizen, who has yet to make the cut at the British Open, is two strokes behind Rory McIlroy after shooting a 7-under 65 on the Old Course on Thursday. It’s his best score in seven rounds at the British Open.
“It’s still early in the tournament,” Oosthuizen said. “But it’s always nice seeing your name up there.”
One fan appreciated it, waving a yellow
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“It was really a matter of getting my confidence up,” said Oosthuizen, who got his first win on the European Tour earlier this year. “It’s just a great golf course. I love it.
Oosthuizen’s only blemish of the day was on 17, when he missed the green with his second shot and three-putted for bogey.
Gwen Stefani, Miley Cyrus and some Hollywood-goers
July 21, 2010
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Speaking of attention-grabbing, here are some Hollywood-goers that dressed almost alike last weekend. It probably would have been more interesting if two had pulled a Stefani-Cyrus stunt.
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(Below) These two ladies were spotted wearing almost identical dresses with their waists both cinched with black belts. With hair down, they strutted
Your art on your short sleeve
July 20, 2010
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Olive & Company, an apparel trading firm based in
The brand features T-shirts and bags featuring artworks by 13 artists such as Bae Bien-u, Seo Sukwon, Mari Kim, Wee Young-il and Kang Young-min.
“This will be an opportunity to familiarize the public with high-end culture and promote Korean artists in the world market,” said Olive Kim, president of Olive & Company, at a press conference last week.
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Olivenco products are sold through G market and at www.olivenco.com. T-shirt prices range from 49,000 won to 59,000 won. Offline shops will soon open at
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July 19, 2010
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Lost Tiffany engagement ring in lake
July 16, 2010
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Adam Segar and Sara Stocco got engaged last month. KSTP-TV reports they were out boating on
Stocco put the ring in her mouth but it fell, hit the floor of the boat and bounced into the water.
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Costco recorded in 911 call
July 15, 2010
A 911 call made by a Summerlin Costco employee captures police shouting orders to 39-year-old Erik Scott before the U.S. Military Academy graduate was shot and killed, according to Las Vegas police. Discount Christian Louboutin
Capt. Patrick Neville said an employee was talking to dispatchers and was close enough to the scene on Saturday that a recording of the conversation caught an officer clearly yelling, “Get on the ground.”
Police have refused to release the recording. Investigators hope to review store surveillance video, but Neville said he didn’t know whether any video of the shooting existed.
The Saturday shooting at the store near
Dozens of people witnessed the event, and many disagree on whether Scott pulled a gun and aimed it at officers, as police have alleged. The Review-Journal has interviewed six witnesses. Two claim to have seen Scott pull out a gun, and one of the two said it was in a holster.
Investigators have interviewed more than 40 witnesses, including more than a dozen who said they saw Scott with the gun in his hand and out of his waistband, Neville said.
Witnesses have also disagreed on what they heard police order Scott to do. Some heard, “Get on the ground,” while others heard “Drop it,” or “Get down.”
Such wide discrepancies in witness reports are not unusual, experts say. They also arise in officer-involved shootings in
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He said people are too trusting of their peripheral vision.
“The frailties of our vision are not perceived by us,” Michel said.
He suggested people try a simple test: focus on a picture on a wall from about eight feet away; then divert your eyes about five feet away from the picture and try to use your peripheral vision to make out what is in the picture. People have difficulty making out any detail in the picture, he said.
Police officers also have the same problem, Michel said. Officers are trained to look for threats, and in particular, a suspect’s hands. And when an officer focuses on a threat, such as a weapon in someone’s hands, they tend to lose all perception of anything around them, including other bystanders. True Religion bags
Roy Malpass, a professor of psychology who runs the Eyewitness Identification Research Laboratory at the
“If you get to people and ask them not very long after an event like that, you’ll find that things will creep into their memory that aren’t memories,” Malpass said.
He added that evidence shows that officers are usually better witnesses at crime scenes because they’re trained to know what to look for, similar to how lifeguards are trained to look for signs of someone drowning. But Malpass said that when the officers themselves are involved in the traumatic event, they are shown to be no more reliable than anyone else.
Neville on Monday also addressed the incident which prompted Costco to call police. He said the incident started when a customer reported seeing Scott opening boxes and removing water bottles, putting some in his cart and some on the floor.
During a heated discussion with Scott, a security worker confronting him over the opened boxes noticed Scott’s gun in his waistband, Neville said.
Some time passed before a Costco employee called police to report a man with a gun who was acting erratically in the store, he said.
Important part of state history
July 14, 2010
Our Bicycle Across Kansas ride into Nicodemus was very wet and pretty cold for those without proper rain gear. I remember seeing riders in
That was also the morning that some local group in
The good thing about BAK is that many riders have learned that this is an adventure and that time is not too important. It was after 9:30 a.m. when many of us left
According to the National Park Service and the Rangers at the historic site, this is the oldest surviving town west of the
By the mid-1800s it was a prosperous town with two newspapers, three general stores, three churches, small b&b hotels, schools, barber shops, a literary society, a bank, and many homes. The beautiful stone building with awesome wooden floors and a stage was actually a 1939 WPA project and presently serves as the historical center at which you can learn about Nicodemus.
After the Civil War, blacks were not treated very well in the South and were anxious to escape the virtual enslavement of share cropping. So, Rev. W.H. Smith, a black minister, and his partner W.R. Hill, a white land promoter formed the for-profit Nicodemus Township Company with five other African Americans and began soliciting former slaves from
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The town started to really prosper about 1886 and then the railroad passed it by in 1888 and it began to die. It may be worthy to note that Mr. Hill, one of the founders, also founded
I felt honored to meet and visit with one African American college student who is actually a direct descendant of the original colony. She is not sure that she wants to stay in town as she is pursuing a professional career, but it was definitely my pleasure to visit with her.
If you have an interest in this part of
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July 13, 2010
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Running the bags through a washer or cleaning them by hand reduced bacteria levels to almost nothing, the study reported, but nearly all shoppers questioned said they do not regularly, if ever, wash their reusable bags. About a third said they also used their food-shopping bags to haul around non-food items. links of london bracelet
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Too many people eat too much salt
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The research repeated what others have found, that the vast majority of dietary salt comes from processed and restaurant foods. And it concluded that salt is most commonly found in cold cuts and other meats, and in baked goods and other items counted as grain-based products.
volunteers bag tons of trash
July 12, 2010
While walking along
“There’s a lot of weird stuff out there,” he said.
For the past four years, Ladanowski, his wife, Csilla, and their two children have spent a few hours every three months cleaning up “their” road.
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“Knowing that someone in the neighborhood is cleaning up the street, you kind of get the feeling that the neighbors appreciate it,” he said. “If I keep the road clean, it has a tendency of staying clean. It seems like people don’t want to be the first ones to drop their trash.”
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July 9, 2010
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So Did Smell of Trash
July 8, 2010
Just after a long three-day holiday weekend, in the middle of a scorching triple-digit afternoon on Tuesday, on a patch of sidewalk in Chinatown outside the seemingly wise
As mounds of refuse go, this one was neither unusually tall nor unusually messy. At about five bags, it rose about two feet off the ground.
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A banana peel. A shriveled-up chunk of what may have once been a watermelon. McDonald’s hamburger containers. Cigarette butts. A can of paint. Milk cartons.
On any other day, Mayumi Hosoi, who waited for a bus a few steps away, might not have even noticed the pile. But by midafternoon, the temperature had reached 103 in Central Park, and the heat that cooked people’s nerves and the city’s subway platforms roasted this mound of trash, and hundreds like it around
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People are always saying it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity. On Tuesday on some of the searing streets of the city, it was neither the heat nor the humidity, but the putridity. Because the men and women who pick up garbage had the day off on Monday for the Fourth of July, the piles of trash grew in size and in scent in parts of the city.
For the Department of Sanitation, Tuesday was one of the agency’s busiest days of the year. It was a mandatory workday for all sanitation workers. About 240 workers who had been on vacation but who had volunteered to be placed on an emergency call-up list were called in.
To pick up as much of Monday’s trash as possible, the agency had 500 more trucks collecting residential garbage than would be normal on a Tuesday, said Peter McKeon, the Sanitation Department’s chief of collection.
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In the heat, the trash that the department and the commercial haulers had not yet collected proved both an olfactory and linguistic problem for New Yorkers. People tried to explain just how awful it was when a piece of chicken sat in a plastic bag on a sidewalk in 103-degree weather.
Lorna Bumbury, who waited for a bus in Bedford-Stuyvesant,
“It smells like cat or dog feces mixed with food that been there for weeks or something,” Ms. Bumbury said.
At the edge of
Mr. Morales had taken Isabelle to play in
Like everything else in
Some people ignored the trash and the smell. Others even stuck their heads and hands right in.
In
It was 91 degrees in
By 6 p.m., the pile on Bowery in
Fireworks injury; no serious fires reported
July 6, 2010
Two adults and two children were injured in fireworks-related incidents Sunday night, and one man died as a result of his injuries, fire officials said.
Las Vegas Fire and Rescue spokesman Tim Szymanski said a man and woman suffered minor leg burns from fireworks in the 7500 block of
In a separate incident near
The North Las Vegas Fire Department worked a house fire at
Szymanski said there were no serious building fires in
“This has been the calmest of all the 15 years I’ve worked on the Fourth of July,” he said.
At 2:15 a.m. this morning, a vacant mobile home caught fire in a closed mobile home park at
Szymanski said the evening began with four minor fire calls from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday about smoke sightings and trash bin fires.
An hour later, seven calls came in regarding a tree on fire at
Szymanski said he thinks more people were cautious about tree and bush fires because of the
“People saw those and said, ‘I don’t want anything like that to happen to my home,’” he said. “The attitude has changed where people want to be safe.”
At midnight, all fireworks became illegal and all fireworks booths closed.
Expensive taste in clothes
July 5, 2010
Reporting from
Blagojevich and his wife spent more than $400,000 on clothes, mainly for themselves and not their children, from 2002 through December 2008 when he was arrested, Internal Revenue Service agent Shari Schindler said at Blagojevich’s federal corruption trial. Discount Christian Louboutin
“Sometimes they used credit cards to pay for other credit cards,” Schindler said.
Prosecutors are suggesting that the debts facing the impeached and removed governor and his wife could explain his alleged plan to get a Cabinet post or high-paying labor union or foundation job in exchange for filling the Senate seat that Barack Obama was leaving to become president.
Blagojevich, 53, has pleaded not guilty to scheming to receive a high-paying job or other financial benefit in exchange for the Senate seat. He also has pleaded not guilty to scheming to launch a racketeering operation in the governor’s office. If convicted, he could face up to $6 million in fines and a sentence of 415 years in prison, though he is sure to get much less time under federal guidelines. Tiffany Jewellery
The former governor and his wife spent more on clothing than they did on the mortgage for their
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Schindler noted that the expenditures over the six years Blagojevich was governor did not reflect any money spent on personal vehicles. Blagojevich and his family relied on state cars and drivers.
Schindler also said Blagojevich spent nothing out of his pocket for legal bills. Those expenses, associated with the mounting federal investigations into his administration, were covered by his campaign account. True Religion bags
Credit card statements entered into evidence show that Blagojevich or his wife on many occasions charged thousands of dollars at a time at high-end clothiers or shoe stores. They also later returned many of those items. In January 2005, for example, more than $12,000 worth of clothing was returned to
Several entries, Schindler said, show Blagojevich spent more than $10,000 in a day on suits. A basketweave tie from Saks cost $179.85. About the same time, she said, he spent $2,590 in a single store on shirts. A charge on Patti Blagojevich’s card showed a payment for furs of $3,800.
Men’s Fashion Week:
July 2, 2010
Rick Owens, Issey Miyake, Louis Vuitton, and Alexis Mabille
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Tarzan-ish one-shoulder tops, and some curiously futuristic but totally badass Hefty-bag–meets-Clydesdale footwear. (Plus, a fog machine!) Also: Louis Vuitton gives the thumbs-up to mandals; Issey Miyake mixes every print under the sun; and Alexis Mabille may be a secret Hair: The Musical! fan. Tiffany Jewellery
Miss Milan? Here are a few more shows for the gawking:
Dirk Bikkembergs
Frankie Morello (absolutely freaking bananas)
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Z Zegna
