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Everyone has been asking me about "Those Crop Selvedge Jeans" I was wearing to Milan Fashionweek. Well they are the new trend, yes! You can buy them from ShopBop and the brand is 3x1.
I styled them with a simple baby blue shirt to which I added a huge bow accessory from River Island.
I wore one of my favorite flower jackets from Sretsis and my new Gucci snake heels.
Jeans: 3x1
Bag: Hermes
Jacket: Stetsis
Shoes: Gucci
Those aren't really my arms and legs, it's Johan Larsson's photograph (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johanl/4816110696/in/photostream/) with a screenshot of the book on top.
Those little flashes of color in the midst of the dead hydrangea blossoms reminds me that there will be new life at the endof the winter.
Anouk Leblanc-Boucher is a short track speed skater and 500 meters gold medal-winner at the 2004 Junior World Championships. She's presently in Torino where she will take part in the olympic 500m and 1500m races.
Wishing her the best of luck!
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Anouk Leblanc-Boucher est une patineuse de vitesse sur courte piste, médaillée d'or au 500 mètres aux Championnats mondiaux juniors en 2004. Elle est présentement à Turin où elle participera aux épreuves de 500m et de 1500m lors des Jeux olympiques. On lui souhaite la meilleure des chances!
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** UPDATE ** She just won the bronze medal on 500m.
Ladakh tortoiseshell (Aglais ladakensis), Markha valley, Ladakh, India
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Yep, it's one of those original British Leyland Range Rovers, this one sporting a colour scheme that looks an awful lot like Coronation Chicken (by the way, Coronation Chicken is absolutely delicious and I recommend it to everyone!)
Yes, believe it or not, the origin of the mighty Range Rover goes back to the communistic clumsiness of British Leyland, where, in one of their rare moments of genius, they realised the dream that a contemporary 4x4 could be married with the luxuries and styling of a regular saloon car!
The original concept of the Range Rover can be traced back to the groundbreaking original Land Rover of the 1940's, where upon its introduction in 1948 as an extended development of the American Willy's Jeep, the Land Rover had taken the world by storm and become the most desired 4x4 in the world. Light, practical, endlessly tunable and easy to maintain, the Land Rover was a hit across the globe, primarily in the colonies of the British Empire, taking people to remote regions that had once been only within the reach of a Horse or a Camel. Initially, a plan was made to create a saloon style version of the Land Rover in 1949 with the help of coachbuilder Tickford, dubbed the 'Land Rover Station-Wagon', but this was not exactly a success and sold only 700 examples before the car was withdrawn from production in 1951. The main features of the Station-Wagon were a wooden-framed body, seven seats, floor carpets, a heater, a one-piece windscreen and other car-like features, its hand-built nature kept prices high.
In 1954 Land Rover took another stab at the Station Wagon concept, only this time it was built in-house rather than outsourced to a different company. This version's primary market was for those who required an off-road vehicle with greater capacity, such as ambulances or even small buses in remote regions such as the Scottish Highlands. But even though this second incarnation of the Station Wagon was available with features such as an interior light, heater, door and floor trims and upgraded seats, the basic Land Rover roots of this car meant it was still tough and capable, but the firm suspension made its road performance somewhat mediocre.
In 1958, Land Rover took yet another stab with the Road Rover, a development of combining the Land Rover chassis and running gear with the internal furnishings and body of a regular saloon car. The intended audience of the Road Rover was again in the remote British Colonies of Africa and the Australian Outback, where the firm suspension would be useful on the long, uneven roads. By the 1960's however, developments across the pond in the United States were starting to rock Rover's boat, as the newly coined Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) began to make progress. International Harvester released the Scout, and Ford the Bronco, offering a different blend of off and on-road ability from existing utility 4x4s such as the Land Rover and the Jeep, proving capable of good on-road comfort and speed while retaining more than adequate off-road ability for most private users. The Jeep Wagoneer proved the concept further, being both spacious and practical, but still with the raunchy off-road abilities to conquer the harsh American terrain.
Being frontline observers to this, Rover dealers in the United States looked on in horror as the American motor industry cornered the market for the SUV, and through frustration the president of Rover's USA division sent head office a Land Rover Series II 88 fitted with a Buick V8, designed for contemporary American pickup trucks, which offered far greater on-road performance and refinement than any Land Rover then in production.
Things came full circle though thanks to a man named Charles Spencer King, a former apprentice at Rolls Royce and one of the most prominent figures in the ownership of Rover and its transition to British Leyland. Taking over the development, he began the development program with the 100-inch Station Wagon project, taking the original concepts of the previous Road Rover and fitting it with coil springs after coming to the conclusion that only long-travel coil springs could provide the required blend of luxury car comfort and Land Rover's established off-road ability. His realisation of this apparently came when he drove a Rover P6 across rough scrubland adjacent to Land Rover's Solihull Factory, but was also helped by the fact that Land Rover purchased the coil springs from a Ford Bronco and began developing from those. Permanent 4WD was also necessary so as to provide both adequate handling and to reliably absorb the power that would be required by the vehicle if it was to be competitive, which came through in the form of a new transmission known as the Land Rover 101 Forward Control. The final piece to the puzzle though was the use of the Buick derived Rover V8, a strong, reliable, lightweight and endlessly tunable engine. In addition to the regular V8, the car was fitted with both a starting handle for emergencies, and carburettors to help continue to supply fuel at extreme angles.
The final design, launched in 1970 with bodywork styled largely by the engineering team rather than David Bache's styling division, was marketed as 'A Car For All Reasons'. In its original guise, the Range Rover was more capable off-road than the Land Rover but was much more comfortable, offering a top speed in excess of 100mph, a towing capacity of 3.5 tons, spacious accommodation for five people and groundbreaking features such as a four-speed, dual-range, permanent four-wheel-drive gearbox and hydraulic disc brakes on all wheels. The body was constructed, in keeping with other Rover products, of lightweight aluminium, and in its first incarnation was only available as a two-door utilitarian runabout, rather than the five-door luxury car we know today. This was rectified in 1981 when a 4-door version was made available, but this doesn't mean that the Range Rover wasn't a success before this change.
Upon its launch in June 1970, the Range Rover was lauded with critical acclaim, and Rover was praised for succeeding in marrying the practicalities of a modern 4x4 with the luxury capabilities of a standard road car. With a top speed of 95mph and a 0-60 acceleration of less than 15 seconds, performance was stated as being better than many family saloon cars of its era, and off-road performance was good, owing to its long suspension travel and high ground clearance. The bulky but practical design was also praised, with many considering it a piece of artwork, with one example being put on display in the Louvre in Paris! Early celebrity ownership also helped the sales quota, but not in the same way you'd expect today. Instead of Musicians and Movie Stars buying up stashes of Range Rovers like they do nowadays, people of established wealth such as Princess Diana and Government bodies became proud custodians of these mighty machines.
Problems however were quick to occur, as let's not forget, this was a British Leyland product. Reliability was a major issue, with strike cars being especially poor as many would leave the factory with vital components missing or not installed properly. To save costs, many pieces of the cars were carried over from other Leyland products, with switches and dials being donated from Austin Allegros, and the door handles coming direct from Morris Marinas. Name any of the faults endemic to British Leyland products of the time, and the Range Rover suffered from the same curse, be they mechanical, electric, cosmetic, or, worst of all, the demon rust!
But the Range Rover survived to see the 1980's despite its faults, and after the introduction of an extra set of doors it started to gain a true identity as the luxury motor of choice for the new money. With the additional 5-door layout, new variants such as the long wheelbase Vogue and the SE (Special Equipment) versions took many of the luxury items of the Jaguar XJ series such as leather seats and hazelnut wooden trim and placed them into the Range Rover. In the 1980s as well, special utility versions began to be developed, including a 6x6 Fire Tender for airfields and small airports, Ambulances for military bases and remote regions, and one special variant for his holiness the Pope, affectionately dubbed the Popemobile!
However, towards the late 1980's the Range Rover in its original incarnation was starting to look very much its age. The angular design was looking tired, and internally its utilitarian roots were in evidence. The dashboard was not much like that of a regular saloon car, but more a bus or a truck, with a huge steering wheel like that from a tractor, and was not particularly well equipped. Land Rover however intended to narrow the Range Rover's portfolio to the truly luxury market rather than having the low end versions which didn't sell as well due to their expense. In 1989 Land Rover launched the Discovery, which was similar in size to the Range Rover but cheaper and given a more family layout with seats and furnishings being carried over from the Austin Montego. To bring the Range Rover back into the front line of luxury motors for the 1990's, Rover Group (the descendant of British Leyland) put together a plan to design a new car under the chassis codenumber P38A (or just P38 for short). Four years of development and £300 million later, the car was launched to a whirlwind of critical acclaim. With a beautifully equipped interior, a more car-like design of dashboard and with a wider variety of luxury trim levels, including the personalised Autobiography editions, the P38 was the first of the mighty Range Rovers to appeal to the bling-bling generation.
This, however, left the original Range Rover out in the cold, and even though it was still a much loved part of the British motoring scene, the time had come for the original, dubbed the Range Rover Classic after launch of the P38. The last of the original Range Rovers slunk silently of the production line at Solihull in 1996, with production now fully based on the new P38, as well as to future developments such as the Freelander of 1997 and ongoing Discovery and Defender. Today original Range Rovers are somewhat easy to come by depending on where you look. In London you'll find a fair few (after all, these were the original Chelsea Tractors), but even in the country you'll bump into these things, especially around my home of Devon where the Range Rover/Land Rover products were perfect for the rugged Moorland terrain. Early British Leyland ones you'd be hard pressed to find, most rusting away in the 1980's, but the Rover Group ones of the 80's and 90's are by no means rare.
But even so, 45 years after the first Range Rover left the factory in Solihull, Range Rovers continue to be produced today, now in it's 4th Generation and available in more variations than ever before! Although British Leyland has long since died together with their many woeful products such as the Morris Marina and the Austin Allegro, the Range Rover is very much their legacy, the last of their original products to survive the strikes and bankruptcy, fighting off the fuel crisis and privatisation by the Thatcher Government, and then being split in 2000 by BMW and juggled between owners Ford and TATA Steel, and still being the luxury motorised toy of the modern day rich! :)
Yeah, those seats look a little worn already, but let's just hope we can chalk that up to the light hitting them in some sort of odd way! The high counter/bar thingy is kind of odd, but I guess it's a good place to pull up a stool and watch people doing odd things while you eat!
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Sam's Club, 2000-01 built, Goodman Rd. at Elmore Rd., Southaven MS
“Those night markets shine as bright as day! It feels like every sign is turned up to 100% all night, every night” - Tourist
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What makes a city come alive at night? Why, signs so numerous and bright that it feels like you're walking in broad daylight. Well, at least Victor E. Eton thinks so, bringing the best of eyeball-searing information right to your fingertips with unbeatable advertisements that are for sure very, incredibly serious.
Ever felt like your build could use some personality? That's the blight of every builder: trying to figure out how your spaces and designs can look cluttered, without being incredibly resource heavy. The NMC Sign Set is here to save the day, at least when it comes to your more run-down areas. They are incredibly low on lag and resource requirement, with included 5 hanging sign types and 1 floor sign style to make sure nothing looks like it came out of a cookie cutter. What's more, 28 different advertisements, all combined into 4 textures, make the signs incredibly friendly to scatter around.
For ultimate customizability, we've included an AO guide so you can make custom signs of your own, just in case our incredibly serious signs don't fit the aesthetic you're going for.
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This is after she was satisfied. Read about the story in the description under this photo.
Those familiar with this kind of scene may recognize that much of the lovely green here is tender young growth of ... poison ivy. One of the reasons I don't get back in here much in summer.
Bald Cypress, Durham County, North Carolina.
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for those who missed out on the last pre-order; I have 4 re:sen heads left in the resin tone that matches Dollstown fresh! This is your last chance to get one in this colour : )
they cost the same as they did in the preorder ( 110 euro’s + insured shipping )
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Markha valley, Ladakh, India
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Weligama is a town on the south coast of Sri Lanka, located in Matara District, Southern Province, Sri Lanka, governed by an Urban Council. The name Weligama, literally means "sandy village" which refers to the area's sandy sweep bay. It is approximately 144 kilometres (89 mi) south of Colombo and is situated at an elevation of 9 metres (30 ft) above the sea level.
The main industries are tourism and fishing. Weligama is a popular tourist destination and hosts several boutique hotels including an off shore islet known as Taprobane, which houses a villa constructed by the French Count de Mauny, and is currently owned by Geoffrey Dobbs.
The area is also famous for its distinct stilt fishermen, who erect a single pole in the chest-deep water on the beach, just few meters off-shore, where they perch on a cross bar and using bamboo fishing rods cast their lines out beyond the surf break to catch small fish.
(Wikipedia)
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We spent our last three days in Sri Lanka in and around Hikkaduwa - a former hippie outpost now turned into a standard holiday town with concrete resorts - however still with some easy-going moods and stretches of fine uncrowded beaches around the town.
Hi all, happy Monday!
And how could you not smile when you see this little sweetheart?
Photographed this 3.5 week guy last week, and it wasn't until Mom and I persevered till nearly the 3rd hour that we were able to get "the shot we wanted". Aren't those lips amazing??
Got a day off work unexpectedly today, so am heading out to take photos of a friend's niece.
Explore 10/12/2009 #104
Those who the Super Police need to catch. From (your) left to right:
-Savage Cannon: He has uncontrollable superstrength which causes him to be in constant rage. He can calm himself by releasing energy blasts through his shoulder-cannons.
-Shadow Shield: He's an ex-cop who uses a reflector shield with which he blinds his enemy while shooting at them from behind it.
-Speed Demon: a superfast criminal. He managed to unite the criminals of the city and became their leader.
-Bullet man: A ninja who uses his abilities for theft.
-The Guard: A misterious being. It seems to be a statue possesd by a flame spirit with a lava axe. It's very quiet but quite deadly. It may be controlled by something else...
Too bad the police have found their hide out.
Those nice people at Hipstamatic sent me a couple of free retro lenses and films for my iPod camera on Sunday. Being a nice sunny morning we decided to take Wiggins for a run on Perranporth beach, and this collage just sort of happened!
You can zoom in by clicking on the picture, or pressing L - if you like.
Apologies to those of you who have no interested in St. Patrick’s Day but I am about to upload many photographs of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Dublin. I will begin with photographs of Shorecrest High School and over the next few days I will upload photographs of other bands and pageant groups. I selected Shorecrest because they are a favourite of mine.
I had a few problems this year [1] The organisers had in the past provided two buses as platforms for the media and this year they also supplied buses but one was for international media and the other was for local media. The bus that I was assigned was badly located because multiple street signs obstructed the view to a unacceptable extent and the result was that I had to shoot at an unsuitable angle or crop my photographs to an unacceptable degree [many of the photographers were really annoyed however as I am a street photographer rather than a professional I was not especially annoyed and I can’t really complain] [2] I used a camera/lens combination that I had not used before and this also impacted on my photographs especially as some were out of focus. [3] I was suffering from a really bad cold [that’s life, is it not].
The good news is that the weather was excellent and the parade was interesting and I enjoyed. After the parade I had an excellent lunch at Hanoi Hanoi and the owner supplied me with a special treat to cheer me up … thanks!
the kid did a good job putting it on though...gotta give her that. wait til you see the purple streak in her hair.
So going to Starbucks with a group of friends on Tuesday afternoons has become a thing.
They finally changed the logo at my Starbucks! It's so minimalistic. I kinda miss the words. But this one might grow on me. Not like I have a choice.
Oh & check out my nails! For once, I cheated. They're those new Sally Hansen nail polish strips. They work amazing! I've had them on for 3 days now and they haven't chipped at all, and this is coming from the girl who needs to re-do her nails practically every day for that exact problem. I NEED to buy moreeee.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
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Electing to black out your Flickr today is not enough. I encourage you to call your US Senator(s) and House Representative. I just emailed and called all of mine. Please do the same.
Find your Representative:
www.house.gov/representatives/find/
Tell him or her that you oppose the "Protect IP Act" (PIPA)
Find your US Senator(s):
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Tell him or her that you oppose the "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA)
"Those Joes won’t even know what hit 'em!"
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Yup, those three words, they're um, quite common in these parts right now. Actually, they're common right throughout the Principality, and the tentacles of Arrivaland that stretch out into England.
Y'see, ongoing operational challenges, that's Arriva speak for the following...
No crew to work the train.
ATW has gotten itself into a wee bit of a pickle you see. The crews they have are spread rather thinly at the best of times. No, let's tell it as it is. There's not enough of them. Period. Add in the summer holiday season, an 'unusually' high absence level, whatever that is, and a bit of a reluctance of 'the brothers' to do the odd rest day here and there, and you've got the toxic stew that the inhabitants of St. Mary's House CF10 5DJ find themselves in.
Cancellations are rife right now, 5 on the Cambrian last Saturday, more today, more tomorrow. The last train in each direction tonight between the rural English outposts of Chester and Manchester is canned.
It's been going on some time now, albeit without the publicity surrounding the Southern dispute. But it has noticeably worsened in the last month, and shows no sign of abating.
Another issue that keeps cropping up is the substitution of the hauled sets by units. 9 times out of 10, it's not down to train faults, it's purely because there are so few crews trained to operate the loco hauled stock. So, on summer Saturdays, you have two perfectly good trains sitting in depots at Holyhead and Crewe doing nothing, while dispatch staff at Ludo Junction and all points east are having to use Japanese style crush loading tactics to try get everyone onboard two or three car units.
Our friends in Cardiff, the highly rewarded management of Arriva Trains Wales, really need to start and earn those inflated pay cheques by getting these issues sorted. And soon.
Meanwhile, the ongoing operational challenges will persist. Is this really how to run a railway?
Rant over. For now.
67012 pushing 1W96 Cardiff-Holyhead, Abergele and Pensarn, 18 June 2015.