Wednesday, November 16, 2016

-Kristen Stewart

Twilight female controversial although not in the traditional sense ofbeauty, but its outspoken personality and unique style of fashion celebrities suffer from a pro gaze. She became a girl full of young girls now the female comrade, we can get a glimpse of her shape change in the mentality changes.



Ang Lee's new film <Lynn Billy's midfield battle> midfielder, in addition to cool 120 frames viewing experience, war and post-war military mentality of the plot is brought a lot of sympathy to the audience. Their twilight female Kristen Stewart for the first time in the production of the director, although only a supporting role, but the skillful acting and charm is a huge affirmation.



Kristen Stewart who plays the male sister, because brother joined the army because of her, so has been saddled with the guilt. She is the nearest Billy, really feel the change of heart. Billy Billy returned to the United States when she sincerely hope my brother not to return to the battlefield. In the play. Should the director, Kristen Stewart pure makeup appearance, color by aerobic nutritionist diet plans to maintain.



Want to have such a father Trump or a high IQ socialite Ivanka Trump?

The height of 180cm, 32D and 90-60-90 proud Haoru measurements are in addition to trump daughter too many Titles: Trump group executive vice president, jewelry designer, socialite, model.Ivanka Trump has seen the perfect life, is the biggest support Trump campaign.


Even if you are not intesting with political, a world-wide news last week, that is "DT In The House" - Donald Trump successfully elected president of the United States, the White House. Although most people think that Hilary might be able to win the "war", did not think the trump has had the last laugh, of course it is with him behind the womansupport inseparable, she is the daughter of trump--Ivanka Trump.


Ivanka Trump have perfect life in the eyes of people and is the biggest support Trump campaign, beautiful, very popular, the level of speech than Hilary's daughter Chelsea is much higher. This seems like she did not comply with the general Cindy routine, money worship behavior has not been profligate, no idea of the scandal, career life without delay, and she husband Jared Kushner is a real estate tycoon husband family background.




2006-2016 Victoria's Secret Fantasy Bra Show

At the beginning of 90s, the largest U.S. retailer Victoria's Secret underwear for the first time in New York held a fashion show, was first held in 1995 on the eve of Valentine's day, and in the primetime TV broadcast to attract the consumer.

Every year, the most popular and anticipated Fantasy Bra first appeared in 1996's show, played by supermodel Claudia Schiffer. Fantasy Bra is due to the big show on the year's most expensive "super" underwear, so to win this award the Victoria's Secret Angels will naturally become the most shining star of tomorrow!

2006-2016 Victoria's Secret Fantasy Bra Show

▲ 2016
Fantasy Bra:Bright Night
Victoria's Secret Angel:Jasmine Tookes
Value:$3 million

▲ 2015
Fantasy Bra:Fireworks
Victoria's Secret Angel:Lily Aldridge
Value:$2 million

▲ 2014
Fantasy Bra:Dream Angels
Victoria's Secret Angel:Alessandra Ambrosio&Adriana Lima
Value:$2 million



▲ 2013
Fantasy Bra:Royal Fantasy Bra
Victoria's Secret Angel:Candice Swanepoel
Value:$10 million
 
▲ 2012
Fantasy Bra:Floral Fantasy Bra
Victoria's Secret Angel:Alessandra Ambrosio
Value:$2.5 million

▲ 2011
Fantasy Bra:Fantasy Treasure Bra
Victoria's Secret Angel:Miranda Kerr
Value:$2.5 million

▲ 2010
Fantasy Bra:Bombshell Fantasy Bra
Victoria's Secret Angel:Adriana Lima
Value:$2 million


▲ 2009
Fantasy Bra:Harlequin Fantasy Bra
Victoria's Secret Angel:Marisa Miller
Value:$3 million

▲ 2008
Fantasy Bra:Black Diamond Fantasy Miracle Bra
Victoria's Secret Angel:Adriana Lima
Value:$5 million

▲ 2007
Fantasy Bra:Holiday Fantasy Bra Set
Victoria's Secret Angel:Selita Ebanks
Value:$4.5 million
▲ 2006
Fantasy Bra:The Hearts on Fire
Victoria's Secret Angel:Karolina Kurkova
Value:$6.5 million

Monday, November 14, 2016

Trump presidency: Five bumpy White House transitions

Trump presidency: Five bumpy White House transitions

Clockwise from top left: Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, Truman, Eisenhower, FDR, Hoover, Jefferson, AdamsImage copyrightGETTY IMAGES
President Barack Obama took the first step in passing the presidential baton to his successor Donald Trump after the two spoke for more than an hour in what was meant to be a brief meeting.
"He's a good man," said Mr Trump, the soon-to-be 45th president, of his predecessor.
But that compliment belied years of clashes between the two men. Mr Trump has referred to Mr Obama as the "worst president" in the country's history and led a challenge to the legitimacy of his presidency by questioning where he was born.
Mr Obama has returned stinging criticisms by calling Mr Trump "unfit" to be commander-in-chief.
Though their meeting appeared to be cordial, history has shown that the peaceful transition of power between leaders can be outright awkward.
Here is a look at some other rather uncomfortable presidential handovers.

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

The transition between President John Adams and Vice-President Thomas Jefferson in the tumultuous election of 1800 was famously difficult, according to John Vile, a political science professor at Middle Tennessee State University and author of Presidential Winners and Losers: Words of Victory and Concession.
The acrimonious campaign was considered one of the most significant transitions of power in history after a bitterly fought election that ended with Mr Jefferson, a Democrat-Republican, defeating Mr Adams, a Federalist.
But the presidential electors failed to make clear whether they were voting for Mr Jefferson or his running mate, Aaron Burr, resulting in a tie between the two men. The House of Representatives decided the outcome, electing Mr Jefferson.
The Founding Fathers ended their friendship over the political turmoil and Mr Adams fled Washington before Mr Jefferson's inauguration ceremony.

Franklin D Roosevelt (FDR) and Herbert Hoover

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd President (right) and his predecessor Herbert Hoover leaving the White House in Washington, DC. leaving the White House in Washington, DC.Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES
Image captionFranklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd President (right), and his predecessor Herbert Hoover leaving the White House in Washington, DC.
Mr Hoover once described the man who beat him, Mr Roosevelt, as a "chameleon in plaid", while FDR called his predecessor a "fat, timid capon".
The 1932 election came amid a financial crisis that left the American economy in shambles, ultimately tarnishing President Hoover's legacy, depicting him as a failed leader.
The two men did not like or trust each other. Mr Roosevelt dismissed President Hoover's repeated appeals for joint actions before the transition such as issuing an emergency proclamation to limit bank withdrawals.
Instead, Mr Roosevelt wanted to demonstrate his administration starkly contrasted his predecessor's presidency.
FDR believed Mr Hoover had not done enough to help Americans who suffered in the Great Depression, said Jeffery Engel, director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University.
The mutual disdain was apparent on inauguration day in March 1933, when the two sat in silence in President Roosevelt's open-top car while en route to the ceremony.

Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower

Though the Democratic president had worked with Mr Eisenhower in World War II and in the creation of Nato, the two shared bad blood after Mr Truman invited him to the White House in 1948, according to Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at University of Virginia's Miller Center.
President Truman had entertained the idea of working to nominate Mr Eisenhower as a Democratic candidate for president, but the decorated military general ultimately cast his lot with the Republican Party.
Mr Eisenhower reportedly viewed that offer as a terrible mark of leadership, according to Mr Engel.
The political clash heated up when Mr Eisenhower undermined Mr Truman's military policy on the campaign trail, pledging to personally go to Korea to end the war on American terms.
President Truman also became irate when the general remained silent about comments made by Senator Joe McCarthy.
"He has betrayed almost everything I thought he stood for," Mr Truman said.
The president fuelled the fire by mercilessly attacking Mr Eisenhower personally and professionally as unfit to be president, Ms Perry said.
President-elect Eisenhower ignored a pre-Christmas White House lunch invite, and on inauguration day, refused to greet Mr Truman before they left together for the ceremony.
In the aftermath, President Truman lamented that General Eisenhower was used to people doing what he said and would soon find out that the presidency did not work that way, Mr Engel noted.
"You don't order people as the president, you have to persuade them as the president," Mr Engel said.
"I think that's perhaps analogous to Trump, who as a business person, could just fire someone he didn't like. He has no idea how to work with people he can't fire."

Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan

President Ronald Reagan (left) talks to former President Jimmy Carter at a meeting regarding the AWACS sale of planes to Saudi Arabia, in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington DC, October 13th 1981Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES
Image captionPresident Ronald Reagan (left) talks to former President Jimmy Carter in 1981
After President Carter lost his re-election bid in 1980 in a hard-fought contest, he reportedly felt Mr Reagan was not paying attention when the two met at the White House.
Republican adviser Richard Darman recalled in a New York Times article in 2000 that during their first meeting, Mr Carter attempted to explain to Mr Reagan that a CIA officer began briefings at 7am each day.
Mr Reagan interrupted him and responded: ''Well, he's sure going to have to wait a long while for me.''
Mr Engel pointed out that Mr Carter had spent the remaining days of his presidency tirelessly working to free the American hostages in Iran, which ultimately came after Mr Reagan was sworn in.
"It really does speak to the fact that the most precious commodity that a president has is time and not every president chooses to maximise time in the same way," he told the BBC.

Bill Clinton and George W Bush

President Bill Clinton (R) and President-elect George W Bush (L) shake hands during meeting at the White House.Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES
Image captionPresident Bill Clinton (R) and President-elect George W Bush (L) meet at the White House
President Clinton invited George W Bush for coffee before the inauguration day ceremony in 2001 and kept the obsessively punctual president-elect waiting for 10 minutes.
"He was noted for locking the door once cabinet meetings started and if you're a cabinet member and you ran late, woe unto you, you didn't get in," Ms Perry recalled of the future 43rd president. "I can see where that would have really gotten under Bush 43's skin."
To add to the tense confab, Mr Clinton invited Vice-President Al Gore.
Mr Gore had just lost the bitter election to Mr Bush following a dramatic legal battle involving a recount in Florida that ultimately came down to a mere 537 votes.
It is also important to note the long, complicated record of the Clintons and the Bushes at each other's throats on the political battle field, Ms Perry added. Mr Clinton defeated Mr Bush's father, incumbent President George HW Bush, in 1992.
"There was a lot of underlying tension over the fact that Bush had said he was going to restore honour and integrity to the Oval Office, which was a direct swipe at Bill Clinton and what he had done in that office," Mr Engel said, referring to Mr Clinton's indiscretions.

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Heather Stanning: Double Olympic champion announces retirement from rowing

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Heather Stanning: Double Olympic champion announces retirement from rowing

Two-time Olympic champion Heather Stanning has announced her retirement from rowing, ending her all-conquering partnership with Helen Glover.
Stanning, 31, and Glover became GB's first female rowers to win back-to-back Olympic golds when they retained the coxless pairs title in Rio this year.
Their Olympic gold at London 2012 was the hosts' first of the Games, and also the first in British women's rowing.
"I don't feel I've got anything else to prove to myself," said Stanning.
The double world champion ends her rowing career having not lost a single race alongside Glover since the World Championships in Slovenia in 2011, their dominance in the women's pair since extending to 39 consecutive victories.
Stanning, promoted to a major in the British army at the beginning of the year, told BBC Sport she knew "quite quickly" after winning in Rio that she would not be competing in Tokyo 2020.

"I wanted things to get back to normal before I made the decision firmly and I wanted to make sure it was the right decision," she added.
"It's about time I made the decision and it has helped me focus on what to do next, certainly with work and the army because I know that's something I want to go back to.
"It seemed the right time to make that decision."
Stanning, who followed her London 2012 gold with a tour of Helmand Province in Afghanistan, said she doubted whether she had the desire to maintain the sportingstandards she had set herself.
"If I was honest with myself and said I was going to commit to another four years, would I have the same drive and determination I had four years ago?" she said. "Probably not - therefore is it worth half-heartedly committing to something?
"There was no pressure on me to make a decision this year. I could have taken a whole year to make that choice, but I wanted to know what I was doing.
"As last season progressed I realised I'd achieved all I ever thought I could in the sport and, as you get older, it gets harder. I'm quite content with what I've achieved."
Stanning added that she did not want to start resenting having to make sacrifices for her sport and wanted to "100%" focus on life in the army.
"When you commit so much of your time to one thing you end up sacrificing an awful lot of other things and it's worth it for a time, but there comes a point where you wonder whether it is still worth making those sacrifices," she explained.
Stanning said neither Glover, 30, her coach Robin Williams, nor close family and friends were surprised by her decision.
Her conversation with close friend Glover was not emotional or awkward, she said - adding that her retirement did not signal the end of Glover's rowing career.
"It does have an impact on her, but it doesn't necessarily change her mind with what she wants to do," said Stanning of Glover, who married naturalist and television presenter Steve Backshall in September.
"It seemed a normal, natural conversation, and I'm sure it was of no surprise to her. She knows me so well.
"It will be the end of our partnership in a rowing boat but it's not the end of our friendship and that's just as important."
Glover has experienced success with a different partner in the past.
In 2013 she forged a winning partnership with Polly Swann. The pair became world champions that year, while Stanning was in Afghanistan, and European champions in 2014 after Stanning took an enforced break because of fitness concerns.
"It was a great success and hopefully people enjoyed watching and supporting us as much as we enjoyed being part of it," said Stanning of her partnership with Glover.
"We both worked hard. Hopefully people will look back and see two individuals who had their opportunities and absolutely made the most of their time while they were able to."

Sunday, November 6, 2016

Calls to rebrand fashion week


Tokyo may be the style capital of Asia, but with South Korea and China snapping at its heels and Japan's most iconic brands rooted in Europe, the city is being urged to haul its fashion week into the big leagues.
Tokyo Fashion Week kicked off its spring/summer 2017 season showcase earlier this month with six days of events intended to promote 50 brands, a mixture of the established and the new.
Yet Japanese labels that are household names in the West-led by Kenzo, YohjiYamamoto, Issey Miyake and Comme des Garcons-eschew home shores for the bright lights, prestige and visibility of Paris.
Tokyo Fashion Week attracts only 50,000 visitors just a quarter of the number that attend the New York event, and also lagging behind London, Paris and Milan.

Held after the fashion merry-go-round exhausts the "big four," few make the extra trip to Tokyo, and not many in Japan believe they are missing out.
According to a poll by Fashionsnap.com, only 20 per-cent of the Japanese fashion industry, including designers, stylists and editors consider Tokyo's events to be of interest.
The award-winning Milan-based Turkish designer Umit Benan wants to change all that.
"Everyone needs to get together to make the Japanese fashion week much better," the menswear designer told reporters after making his Tokyo debut, having announced he would ditch the Paris fashion week
"I think you really need to focus on your own fashion week, trying to create new waves in Japan fashion," he says.
While Tokyo has long been a springboard for up-and-coming designers, neighboring Seoul, with its vibrant street style, and Shanghai, as the commercial capital of China, are attracting increased interest.
"To me, Tokyo is the Asian fashion center with long fashion-forward history," says HongKong designer VickieAu who brought her "urban chill" collection to Tokyo after showing in NewYork.
Au cited Yamamoto, the famed Japanese designer based in Paris, as an inspiration, praising him as a master of "modern and avant-garde tailoring".
US retailing giant Amazon is sponsoring Tokyo Fashion Week for the first time, and among the fashion set in Japan there are hopes that it can help rebrand the event into something brighter and larger.