A woman badly beaten in Mexico over the weekend has been identified by family as Sheila Nabb of Calgary.

The CBC's Brian Dubreuil spoke with Nabb's uncle, Robert Prosser, who lives in Kingston, N.S., on Monday to get more information on the woman.

Nabb is 37 years old and lives in Calgary with her husband, Andrew, but grew up in Lower Sackville, outside Halifax.

The pair were on vacation in Mexico at a five-star resort when the attack happened, Prosser told Carole MacNeil on CBC's News Now.

Prosser said the family doesn't know what motivated the attack or who did it. All the family knows is that Nabb was "attacked in an elevator, beaten severely, and just left there."

Sheila Nabb was vacationing in the Mazatlan area of Mexico when she was attacked, her family told CBC News.(Facebook)

There were no security cameras in the elevator, he said, adding that virtually every bone in her face was broken.

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Iran says sanctions to fail, repeats Hormuz threat

By Mitra Amiri

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian politicians said on Tuesday they expected the European Union to backtrack on its oil embargo and repeated a threat to close the vital Strait of Hormuz shipping lane if the West succeeds in preventing Tehran from exporting crude.

"The West's ineffective sanctions against the Islamic state are not a threat to us. They are opportunities and have already brought lots of benefits to the country," Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi told the official IRNA news agency.

Speaking a day after the EU slapped a ban on Iranian oil - to take full effect within six months - in a move to press Tehran into curbing its contested nuclear program and engage in negotiations with six world powers, the tone in the Islamic Republic was defiant, even skeptical.

"The global economic situation is not one in which a country can be destroyed by imposing sanctions," Moslehi said, repeating Iran's stance that with the EU in economic and monetary crisis, it needs Iran's oil more than Iran needs its business.

A spokesman for the oil ministry said Iran had had plenty of time to prepare for the sanctions and would find alternative customers for the 18 percent of its exports that up to now have gone to the 27-nation European bloc.

"The first phase of this (sanctions action) is propaganda, only then it will enter the implementation phase. That is why they put in this six months period, to study the market," Alireza Nikzad Rahbar said, predicting the embargo could be rescinded before it takes force completely.

"This market will harm them because oil is getting more expensive and when oil gets more expensive it will harm the people of Europe," state TV quoted him as saying. "We hope that in these six months they will choose the right path."

The embargo will not kick in completely until July 1 because the bloc's foreign ministers who agreed the ban at a meeting in Brussels were anxious not to penalize the ailing economies of Greece, Italy and others to whom Iran is a major oil supplier.

The strategy will be reviewed in May to see if it should proceed.

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And here it comes another label  in my list : "3 bittersweet colours combination ". Because I'm fond with colors, and I love to wear them in all kinds of combination, I decided to show you how one item can look different  just playing with colors !
Here is the first one :
-Zara coat -


                                                                 

Another sunny day :) instead of snow we have plenty of sun :) I don't complain, actually  I am ready to say : welcome Spring !




                                                             Sweater: Indigo
                                                             Pants: Old Navy /similar here
                                                             Bag: Costume National
                                                             Ankle boots:Zara
                                                             Cuff bracelet : Vince Camuto / another great version here and here
                                                             Sunglasses: Ralph Lauren

                                                      FACEBOOK / BLOGLOVIN


                                                                xoxo
                                                              Veronica

 Proopticals glasses are my "Nouveau in"today! I received my favorite model - Eye cat - which I chose in 3 different colors :) you will see them in the next posts, one by one. Beside this new obsession with eye cat on Proopticals.com , you can find other great shapes, colors or great prints like this one here, in red.
    What is your favorite shape of glasses/ sunglasses right now ?

                                                           
                                                           
                                                             Cardigan: vintage/ similar here 
                                                             Jeans: H&M
                                                             Leather jacket: Asos/ similar here and here 
                                                             Clutch: Forever 21
                                                             Ankle boots: Chinese Laundry
                                                             Glasses: Proopticals 
                                                             
                   
                                                    FACEBOOK /BLOGLOVIN                                                
                                                                           hugs
                                                                       Veronica

 On week #2 on the Forward Fashion Project I have to style this wonderful necklace from  H.O.W.L. Handle Only With Love . I chose to style it with distressed jeans, ankle boots and a fuzzy see- trough  sweater. Voila!!!
Excited to see the next week item!

                                                          Jeans: American Eagle /similar here 
                                                          Ankle boots: Zara/ another great version here
                                                          Sweater: DKNY
                                                          Bag:Dooney & Bourke
                                                          Ring: vintage
                                                          Leather Jacket : Rezrekshn / similar here 
                                                          Sunglasses:Ralph Lauren
                                                          Necklace: H.O.W.L Handle Only With Love 
                              
                                                    FACEBOOK / BLOGLOVIN                                                              
                                                                              love
                                                                          Veronica

By LANDON HALL / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

The government reportedly has begun punishing citizens who did not display enough grief during public mourning events for Kim Jong-Il, the "Dear Leader" who died Dec. 17.
According to the international news website RT.com, quoting South Korea's Daily NK, "government officials were handing down periods of at least six months in a labor-training camp to anybody who did not participate in the organized gatherings during the mourning period, or who did participate but did not cry and did not seem genuine."http://www.ocregister.com/articles/north-335557-koreans-leader.html?pic=1#article-photos

Bill Maher interviews Herman Cain on Real Time during the season premiere. Aired on January 13, 2012. Posted under Fair Use copyright provisions.




Runaway Slave

From the creators of Tea Party: The Documentary Film comes a new documentary about freedom. Runaway Slave exposes the economic slavery of the black community to the Progressive, big government policies of the U.S. government. The film’s heroes are black conservatives who are speaking out so that all Americans can truly be “free at last.”

The film’s central figure is Rev. C.L. Bryant, a self-professed “runaway slave. A former NAACP chapter president in Garland, TX, C.L. abandoned an organization he felt was more about political posturing, and less about civil rights. As a former Democratic Radical who escaped the bondage of Progressivism and denounced the shackles of entitlements, he has committed himself to helping others secure the blessings of liberty that are guaranteed by the Constitution with his new found conservative values.

http://www.runawayslavemovie.com/site/

I was thinking for quite a while to make a Facebook Page, now you can find it  HERE !
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Holidaymakers from Britain, France, Italy and Germany were forced to flee the 1,500-cabin Costa Concordia in lifeboats when it hit a reef less than two hours after leaving port.

Some leapt overboard and swam to shore as the ship started to sink into the waters near the island of Giglio, off the Tuscan coast.


Francesco Paolillo, the coastguard spokesman, said that at least three bodies were retrieved from the sea and at least three more were feared dead.

Local officials are also reporting that 69 people are still unaccounted for.
By this morning, the ship was lying virtually flat off Giglio's coast, its starboard side submerged in the water.

Pregnant women and young children were among the 3,200 passengers and 1,000 crew on board.

Passengers' dinner on Friday night was interrupted by a loud boom at around 8pm and a voice over the loud-speaker system initially claimed that the ship was suffering an electrical failure, before ordering everyone on-board to don life-jackets.
"It was just like something out of the Titanic," one woman said. "You could tell straight away that the ship had hit something and no way was it an electrical fault.

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