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The city will be packed with fashionable activities from Barney’s’ karaoke competition judged by Proenza Schouler to guest appearances from Victoria Beckham and Tom Ford at department store Bergdorf Goodman. Naomi Campbell will celebrate 25 years of her career at Dolce & Gabbana and will be on hand signing a specially designed T-shirt range. Head to Preen for the bargains of the century, as the designer duo host an archive sample sale among up to 90 per cent off reductions.

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• Misdiagnosed man’s tale of rebirth thanks to doctor
• Total paralysis masked fully functioning brain.

For 23 years Rom Houben was ­imprisoned in his own body. He saw his doctors and nurses as they visited him during their daily rounds; he listened to the conversations of his carers; he heard his mother deliver the news to him that his father had died. But he could do nothing. He was unable to communicate with his doctors or family. He could not move his head or weep, he could only listen.

Doctors presumed he was in a vegetative state following a near-fatal car crash in 1983. They believed he could feel nothing and hear nothing. For 23 years.

Then a neurologist, Steven Laureys, who decided to take a radical look at the state of diagnosed coma patients, released him from his torture. Using a state-of-the-art scanning system, Laureys found to his amazement that his brain was functioning almost normally.

“I had dreamed myself away,” said Houben, now 46, whose real “state” was discovered three years ago, according to a report in the German magazine Der Spiegel this week.

Laureys, a neurologist at the ­University of Liege in Belgium, published a study in BMC Neurology earlier this year saying Houben could be one of many cases of falsely diagnosed comas around the world. He discovered that although Houben was completely paralysed, he was also completely conscious — it was just that he was unable to communicate the fact.

Houben now communicates with one finger and a special touchscreen on his wheelchair – he has developed some movement with the help of intense physiotherapy over the last three years.

He realised when he came round after his accident, which had caused his heart to stop and his brain to be starved of oxygen for several minutes, that his body was paralysed. Although he could hear every word his doctors spoke, he could not communicate with them.

“I screamed, but there was nothing to hear,” he said, via his keyboard.

The Belgian former engineering student, who speaks four languages, said he coped with being effectively trapped in his own body by meditating. He told doctors he had “travelled with my thoughts into the past, or into another existence altogether”. Sometimes, he said, “I was only my consciousness and nothing else”.

The moment it was discovered he was not in a vegetative state, said Houben, was like being born again. “I’ll never forget the day that they discovered me,” he said. “It was my second birth”.

Experts say Laureys’ findings are likely to reopen the debate over when the decision should be made to terminate the lives of those in comas who appear to be unconscious but may have almost fully-functioning brains.

Belgian doctors used an internationally-accepted scale to monitor Houben’s state over the years. Known as the Glasgow Coma Scale, it requires assessment of the eyes, verbal and motor responses. But they failed to assess him correctly and missed signs that his brain was still functioning.  Continue Reading…

Speaker Magic Johnson to Brooke Shields to Smokey Robinson were in top form, telling stories brimming with humor, worship, and the historical significance while remembering the past about the artist Jackson, Jackson and Jackson inspired friend.

But she was the daughter of Jackson ‘s in Paris, speaking out for the first time ever about his father, who might have stolen the show from the famous and the luminaries of the music.

The hearse carrying the last king of the outbreak reached the staples is about 15 minutes before the event the tax was scheduled to begin. Due to some unexplained obstacles, the monument did not get underway until immediately after the organizers of the reputations of 10:30 am on the distribution of steps to some lucky members of the crowd outside to fill the empty place that belonged to the winners ticket that weren ‘t able to do really staples.

The occasion was sad, but the day was marked with a real celebration.

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In the US, Father’s Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in June. The first modern Father’s Day celebration was held on July 5, 1908, in Fairmont, West Virginia or on June 19 of the same year, in the state of Washington. Since then, Father’s Day is celebrated on the 3rd Sunday of June.

In West Virginia, it was first celebrated as a church s ervice at Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South, now known as Central United Methodist Church. Grace Golden Clayton, who is believed to have suggested the service to the pastor, is believed to have been inspired to celebrate fathers after the deadly mine explosion in nearby Monongah the prior December. This explosion killed 361 men, many of them fathers and recent immigrants to the United States from Italy. Another possible inspiration for the service was Mothers’ Day, which had been celebrated for the first time two months prior in Grafton, West Virginia, a town about 15 miles (24 km) away.

Another driving force behind the establishment of the integration of Father’s Day was Mrs. Sonora Smart Dodd, born in Creston, Washington. Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who reared his six children in Spokane, Washington. She was inspired by Anna Jarvis’s efforts to establish Mother’s Day. Although she initially suggested June 5, her father’s birthday, she did not provide the organizers with enough time to make arrangements, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June. The first June Father’s Day was celebrated on June 19, 1910, in Spokane, WA, at the Spokane YMCA.

Unofficial support from such figures as William Jennings Bryan was immediate and widespread. President Woodrow Wilson was personally feted by his family in 1916. President Calvin Coolidge recommended it as a national holiday in 1924. In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson made Father’s Day a holiday to be celebrated on the third Sunday of June. The holiday was not officially recognized until 1972, during the presidency of Richard Nixon.

In recent years, retailers have adapted to the holiday by promoting greeting cards and male-oriented gifts such as electronics and tools. Schools and other children’s programs commonly have activities to make Father’s Day gifts. Source.

The bridal party, including Spencer’s sister Stephanie Pratt, wore yellow while the groom and groomsmen wore tuxedos. Heidi’s dress was a more demure version of Madonna‘s “Like A Virgin” wedding dress, and the bride appeared to be sprinkled head to with diamonds — earrings, layered necklaces and cuffs.

The rest of The Hills cast all joined in the festivities, with Audrina Patridge and Lo Bosworth the first to arrive and Lauren the last one in. Also making an appearance at the wedding was Kristin Cavallari, who was once embroiled in a bitter feud with LC and who has also dated Brody Jenner. Though it was rumored Kristin would arrive to the ceremony with Brody, she attended alone and sat on the groom’s side of the aisle, next to Audrina’s on/off boyfriend Justin Bobby. Meanwhile, Brody and girlfriend Jayde held court with Audrina and LC on Heidi’s side.

Following the ceremony, guests headed to Social in Hollywood for a less-than-intimate wedding reception that lacked one thing — the actual Mr. and Mrs. Pratt!

While the happy couple were expected at the party, the only notables at the party were the sisters of the the bride and groom and the couple’s parents. Full Story