Finally!
I get to write about my bday!
It was absolute fun.
And finally am 15. :)
Had a blast with Devil Tomboys!!
I get to write about my bday!
It was absolute fun.
And finally am 15. :)
Had a blast with Devil Tomboys!!
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Sunday, 15 May 2011
Mango
MANGO is an internationally famous multinational which designs, manufactures and marketswomen's and men's clothing and accesories. Isak Andic is its actual president.
Its goal is to be present in every city[1] in the world. The company already has more than 2,000 stores in 103 countries.
It has been the pioneering Spanish fashion brand in the online sector. Its firstcompany website was created in 1995 and, five years later, in the year 2000, it opened its first online store, which currently sells its entire product range in the member states of the European Union, as well as in the USA, Canada, China, Japan, Russia and Turkey.
Mango has over 8,600 empleyees, 1,850 of whom work at the Hangar Design Centreand at its Headquarters in Palau Solità i Plegamans (Barcelona). However, beyond the statitics, it is made up a young and enthusiastic team, with an average age of 30, and 80% of which is female.
1984 First store in Barcelona's Paseo de Gracia.
1985 First store in Valencia. National expansion begins.
1988 Improvement to the stock management system: Production, Logistics and Distribution apply the Just-In-Time system (production according to market demand). The concepts of product, interior design, quality, price and brand image are defined.
1992 International expasion begin with the opening of two stores in Portugal. Mango opens store nº100 in Spain.
1994 Implantation of a business management system which still exists today, based on specialised and coordinated teams.
1995 Mango.com is created
1997 For the first time, foreign turnover exceeds domestic turnover. Mango opens a flagship store in Paris, in the famous Boulevard des Capucines.
1998 Mango positions itself as Spain's second largest textile exporter.
2000 Mango opens a new flagship store in London, in the central Oxford Street. March launchs its online shop, Mangoshop.com, being pioneers in its sector.
2002 With 630 stores in 70 countries, Mango continues its expansion into new markets such as Australia, Bulgaria, China, Italia and Tunisia.
2003 Mango exceed the annual number of openings, by opening new stores in countries like Honduras, Serbia and Montenegro.
2004 Mango enter new markets such as Azerbaijan, Estonia, El Salvador, Macao and Vietnam, and it ends the year with a presence in 75 countries.
2005 Mango Touch is defined as a new fashion venue dedicated exclusively to accessories.
2006 Mango's experience in the North American market begins with store openings in Costa Mesa, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, McLean, Orlando, San Francisco and Santa Monica. Mango holds its first fashion show at the emblematic Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona. Mango launches the biggest international fashion prize for up and coming designers, the El Botón-Mango Fashion Awards.
2007 Mango opens the largest design centre in Europe, the El Hangar Design Centre. Mango opens a new flaship store in the heart of New York's SoHo district. It is housed in the Little Singer Building, one of America's first skycrapers. Mango starts to collaborate with external designers. Mango counts on the collaboration of celebrities such as Milla Jovovich, Elizabeth Hurley and Penélope and Mónica Cruz.[3]
2008 Mango continues with the 2nd Edition of the El Botón-Mango Fashion Awards. [4]H.E. Homini Emerito is created, aimed at the young, fashion-conscious male. With his new collection, conceived as a complement to the women's collection, weare moving towards the concept of the multibrand store, in which it's possible to encounter collections by different authors and of different styles belonging to the same company.
2009 Mango continues to work with external designers like the New Yorker Adam Lippes and the Belgian Sandrina Fasoli, winner of the 1st edition of the El Botón-Mango Fashion Awards.
2010 The young designer Moises de la Renta creates a collection of t-shirts exclusively created for our brand [5]and Lee Youn, the winner of the 3rd edition of El Botón-MFA creates a limited edition.
Monday, 21 March 2011
Uefa retains 2010 World Cup qualifying format for 2014
Uefa will use the same format to decide which 13 European nations qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil as it employed for the 2010 tournament.
The same 53 European countries which played in the 2010 World Cup qualifiers will compete in nine groups, with the winners of each going to South America.
The eight best runners-up will be drawn in two-legged play-offs to determine the other four qualifying nations.
The preliminary draw for the 2014 World Cup is scheduled for 30 July in Brazil.
Europe will have its lowest share of teams at the World Cup since the inaugural event in 1930 when only four travelled to a 13-nation tournament in Uruguay.
At the 1994 World Cup in the United States, the last to feature 24 countries, 13 European teams played.
That number increased to 15 out of 32 teams four years later with 14 going through the qualifying process while France qualified automatically as hosts.
In 2002, defending champions France again qualified automatically, to ensure 15 European nations were present in Japan and South Korea.
However, Europe was reduced to 13 qualifiers for the 2006 World Cup with hosts Germany taking up a 14th spot.
Defending champions are no longer guaranteed a spot, so 2010 World Cup winners Spain will join 52 other nations who will be split into eight groups of six teams and one group of five.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the executive committee of European football's governing body.
Uefa has also approved recommendations on corruption and match fixing to "establish a network of integrity officers around Europe involving all national associations and on fostering collaboration with state authorities".
Meanwhile, Uefa secretary general Gianni Infantino reiterated that the Bosnian federation would be suspended from April if it did not cut its ethnic-based three-member presidency to one.
Uefa and world governing body Fifa have given the Bosnian federation until the end of March to do so or face suspension.
FCUK
French Connection has distributing stores worldwide. It predominantly sells its clothing through its own stores, although many major department stores in the UK have in-store concessions.
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In April 2001, French Connection began branding their clothes "fcuk" (usually written in lowercase). Apparently they first discovered the acronym when a fax was sent from theirHong Kong store, entitled "FCHK to FCUK".[2] Though they insisted it was an acronym forFrench Connection United Kingdom, its similarity to the word "fuck" caused controversy.[3]
French Connection exploited the controversy of the name, producing an extremely popular range of t-shirts with messages such as "fcuk fashion", "fcuk this", "hot as fcuk", "mile high fcuk", "too busy to fcuk", "fcuk football", "lucky fcuk", "Fun Comes Usually Kneeling", "fcuk on the beach", "Cool as fcuk", etc. There were also a number of regionally specific messages, such as "fondle constantly until knackered" (in the UK), "fcuk in hull" ,"no fcukin worries" (in Australia) and "fcuk off". "Chugging the fcuk" and "Munching on fcuk" were popular shirt titles but were later found as inappropriate.
In 2001, during the introduction of French Connection in San Francisco, big banners hung on the front of the newly opened store saying "San Francisco's first fcuk."[citation needed]
French Connection launched a trademark infringement case in the London High Court challenging the owner of "First Consultants UK Ltd", a computer company, over its use of the fcuk acronym. It was proven in the case the Internet Domain fcuk.com was registered prior to French Connection applying for the UK Trademark and its claim for passing off was dismissed. Mr Justice Rattee, refused to grant an injunction, describing French Connection's use of it as "a tasteless and obnoxious campaign."[4][5]
The company also threatened legal action against the political youth organisationConservative Future, which had briefly adopted the spoof abbreviation "cfuk" (short for "Conservative Future UK").[6]
Another judge reportedly expelled a potential juror from his courtroom for wearing one of the fcuk range of T-shirts, saying that the "mis-spelt Anglo Saxon word" was a distraction and did not dignify the court proceedings.[7]
Following years of complaints, the UK's Advertising Standards Authority banned a number of advertisements and ordered the company to submit all posters for approval before running them.[3]
The fcuk brand has also been controversial in the United States, with the mayor ofBoston, Massachusetts, Thomas Menino telling French Connection to remove their ads from billboards throughout the city, according to the Boston Metro.[citation needed] TheAmerican Family Association has urged a boycott of fcuk products.[8]
[edit]Fashion vs Style
In February 2006, French Connection launched the Fashion vs Style campaign that replaced the previous fcuk advertising. The first advertisement in the campaign was directed by Duncan Jones, son of David Bowie, and featured girls in the roles of Fashion and Style fighting.
It was reported in the national press that this advert received between 121 and 127 complaints in the first week of being broadcast[not in citation given] and may become as controversial as the previous fcuk campaign.[9]
[edit]The Man and the Woman
The brand campaign for SS10 featured a series of stark, grainy, black and white advertisements centred around two chic and idealised figures: "The Man" and the "The Woman". The campaign received generally positive reviews from the press and blogosphere.[10][11][12]
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Fernando Torres
Fernando José Torres Sanz (Spanish pronunciation: [ferˈnando ˈtores]; born 20 March 1984), nicknamed El Niño (The Kid in Spanish),[3] is a Spanish footballer who plays for Chelsea and the Spain national team as a striker.
Torres started his career with Atlético Madrid, progressing through their youth system. He made his first team debut in 2001 and finished his career with the club having scored 75 goals in 174 La Liga appearances. Prior to his La Liga debut, Torres played two seasons in the Segunda División, making 40 appearances and scoring seven goals. He joined Premier League club Liverpool in 2007 after signing for a club record transfer fee. He marked his first season at Anfield by being Liverpool's first player, since Robbie Fowler in the 1995–96 season, to score more than 20 league goals in a season. Torres became the fastest player in Liverpool history to score 50 league goals after scoring against Aston Villa in December 2009. He left the club in January 2011 to join Chelsea for a record British transfer fee of £50 million, which also made him the most expensive Spanish player in history.
Torres is also a Spanish international and made his debut for the country againstPortugal in 2003. He has since participated in four major tournaments, UEFA Euro 2004, the 2006 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro 2008 and the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Torres did not score at Euro 2004, but netted three at the 2006 World Cup. He scored twice at UEFA Euro 2008, including the winning goal for Spain in their 1–0 win over Germany in the final. Spain won the 2010 World Cup, despite Torres not scoring any goals.
Holi Blast with family
Had an awesome holi with friends and family on 20/3/11 with family and friends.
Its an Indian festival involving colours and loads of water!
Here are some pics:
Holy Cow! i look horrible!
BUT ITS WORTH THE FUN!!!
Its an Indian festival involving colours and loads of water!
Holy Cow! i look horrible!
BUT ITS WORTH THE FUN!!!
Friday, 18 March 2011
Yelena Isinbayeva
Yelena Gadzhievna Isinbayeva (Russian: Елена Гаджиевна Исинбаева, ISO 9:Elena Gadžievna Isinbayeva) (born 3 June 1982) is a Russian pole vaulter. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist (2004 and 2008), a five-time World Champion, and the current world record holder in the event. As a result of her accomplishments, she is widely considered the greatest female pole-vaulter of all time and is often compared to Sergey Bubka.
Isinbayeva has been a nine-time major champion (Olympic, World outdoor and indoor champion and European outdoor and indoor champion). She was also the jackpot winner of the IAAF Golden League series in 2007 and 2009. After poor performances at world championships in 2009 and 2010, she took a year-long break from the sport.
She became the first woman to clear the five-metre barrier in 2005. Isinbayeva's current world records are 5.06 m outdoors, a record Isinbayeva set in Zurich in August 2009, and 5.00 m indoors, a record set in February 2009. The former was Isinbayeva's twenty-seventh pole vault world record.
Isinbayeva was named Female Athlete of the Year by the IAAF in 2004, 2005 and 2008, and World Sportswoman of the Year by Laureus in 2007 and 2009. She was given the Prince of Asturias Award for Sports in 2009.
Getting 27 world records (15 outdoor and 12 indoor), staying virtually unbeaten between 2004 and 2009 (winning nine straight gold medals in indoor and outdoor championships) and being elected IAAF World Athlete of the Year in 2004, 2005 and 2008, Isinbayeva has established herself as one of the most successful athletes of her generation.
In August 2005, top UK pole vault coach Steve Rippon said to the BBC that "she [Isinbayeva] is one of the few female pole vaulters I look at and think her technique is as good as the men's. In fact, the second part of her jump is probably better than any male pole vaulter currently competing. She has a fantastic technique, she's quite tall (almost 5ft 9in) and she runs extremely well."[19]
These statements are confirmed by close observation of her jumps; in detail, Isinbayeva's high level of body control (courtesy of her gymnastics background) especially pays off in the so-called "L-Phase", where it is vital to use the pole's rebound to convert horizontal speed into height. Common mistakes are getting rebounded away in an angle (rather than vertically up) or inability to keep the limbs stiff, both resulting in loss of vertical speed and therefore less height. In Isinbayeva's case, her L-Phase is exemplary.[citation needed]
At the European Indoor Championships in Madrid, Spain Isinbayeva won gold with a new indoor world record of 4.90 m. In July 2005, Isinbayeva broke the world record four times over three separate meetings. First in Lausanne, Switzerland, she added an extra centimetre to her own mark clearing 4.93 m. It was the 14th world record of Isinbayeva's career coming just three months after she broke her own indoor mark (4.89 m) in Lievin. Eleven days later, in Madrid, Spain, she added an additional 2 cm to clear 4.95 m. InCrystal Palace, London on 22 July, after improving the record to 4.96 m, she raised the bar to 5.00 m. She then became the first woman in history to clear the once mythical five-metre barrier in pole vaulting, achieving the monumental mark with a single attempt.
After the women's pole vault final at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki, Finlandwas delayed due to extremely bad weather conditions, Isinbayeva once again broke her own world record, performing 5.01 m in her second attempt, and winning the competition with a 41 cm margin of victory, which was the greatest margin ever obtained in any World or Olympic competition for the event.[2] This was already the eighteenth world record in the career of the then 23-year-old Isinbayeva and her successful season was crowned with her second consecutive World Athlete of the Year award.
At an indoor meeting on 12 February in Donetsk, Ukraine, Isinbayeva set a new indoor world record. She cleared 4.91 m. In March she successfully defended her World Indoor title in front of a homeland crowd in Moscow, Russia. During the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg she won the gold medal with a CR of 4.80 metres. This was the only gold medal missing from her collection until that time. In September she won the World Cup, representing Russia, in Athens.
Isinbayeva was crowned Laureus World Sports Woman of the Year for the 2006 season.
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Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger considering an appeal against Uefa imposed one-match ban
The Frenchman was left fuming after Robin van Persie was sent off for a second bookable offence against Barcelona, after the striker kicked the ball away only a fraction of a second after the whistle was blown.
And the former Monaco boss took the matter up with referee Massimo Busacca after the Gunners had been eliminated from the Champions League, only to eventually land a one-match ban for his remonstrations.
But now the north London outfit's manager has confirmed that he is considering an appeal.
"Yes, I might [appeal against the ban]," Wenger said, according to The Times.
"It will be one of the very few times that I feel I don’t deserve to be punished because I don’t feel I did anything wrong.
"I have no chance to speak my mind and I will have to accept it, but frankly I don’t feel wrong and you don’t feel at ease if you know you have done something wrong. This time I am quite relaxed. I don’t even listen to what they say because I know what I’ve done and what I have said."
Wenger added: "I expected to be punished because they [Uefa] will only do a meeting like that to punish people.
"I asked to have a personal hearing but Uefa said that it was not possible [before the appeals process]. That is very strange because I would have to say some interesting things."
Right Ho , Jeeves!
There are inevitable romantic misunderstandings, family arguments, cooks threatening to hand in their notice, and a hilarious scene when the teetotal Gussie, his orange juice well laced with alcohol, ends up presenting the school prizes, and insults everyone in the process. The result is total uproar, until Jeeves comes to the rescue.
United Colors Of Benetton
Benetton Group S.p.A. is a global fashion brand, based in Treviso, Italy. The name comes from the Benetton family who founded the company in 1965. Benetton Group is listed in Milan (BIT: BEN). Benetton has a network of around 6,000 stores in 120 countries. The stores are managed by independent partners and generate a total turnover of over 2 billion euro.[1]
In 1965, Luciano Benetton, the eldest of four children, was a 30-year-old salesman in Treviso. He saw a market for colourful clothes, and sold a younger brother's bicycle in order to buy his first second-hand knitting machine. His initial small collection of sweaters received a positive response in local stores in the Venetoregion, and soon after he asked his sister and two younger brothers, Gilberto and Carlo, to join him. In 1965, the entity known as the "Benetton Group" is formed.[2]
In 1966, the Benettons opened their first store in Belluno and three years after in Paris, with Luciano as chairman, his brother Gilberto in charge of administration, their younger brother Carlo running production, and Giuliana as a chief designer.
The company's core business remains their clothing lines. Casual clothing is marketed as the "United Colors of Benetton"; there are also a fashion-oriented "Sisley" division, "Playlife" leisurewear. Their products include womenwear, menswear, childrenswear and underwear and they have expanded into toiletries, perfumes, and items for the home such as kitchen accessories and baby products.
The Group produces over 150 million garments every year and has a network of around 6,000 contemporary stores around the world.[1]
The company is known for sponsorship of a number of sports, and for the provocative and original "United Colors" publicity campaign. The latter originated when photographerOliviero Toscani was given carte blanche by the Benetton management. Under Toscani's direction, ads were created that contained striking images unrelated to any actual products being sold by the company.
These graphic, billboard-sized ads included depictions of a variety of shocking subjects, one of which featured a deathbed scene of a man (AIDS activist David Kirby) dying from AIDS.[4] Others included a bloodied, unwashed newborn baby with umbilical cord still attached, which was highly controversial. This 1991 advert prompted more than 800 complaints to the British Advertising Standards Authoirty during 1991 and was featured in the reference book Guinness World Records 2000 as 'Most Controversial Campaign'. Others included two horses mating, close-up pictures of tattoos reading "HIV Positive" on the bodies of men and women, a cemetery of many cross-like tombstones, a collage consisting of genitals of persons of various races, a priest and nun about to engage in a romantic kiss, pictures of inmates on death row, an electric chair, an advert showing a boy with hair shaped into the devil's horns, three different hearts with 'black', 'white' and 'yellow' written onto them (from March 1996), and a picture of a bloodied t-shirt and pants ridden with bullet holes from a soldier killed in the Bosnian War (this one appeared in February 1994).[5] The company's logo served as the only text accompanying the images in most of these advertisements. Most of the advertisements, although not all, saw a plain white background behind the image.
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