Famous people
♥ Kira Plastinina ♥
March 14, 2007 – first fashion show of designer Kira Plastinina and opening of her namesake brand Kira Plastinina Style Studio in Evropeisky Shopping Mall.
Spring 2007 – Kira Plastinina becomes the official designer of the superb show Fabrika Zvezd -7 (Star Factory), First TV Channel. During four months of the project Kira creates styles and designs images for female contestants to appear at the gala concerts.
October 2007 – Spring – Summer 2008 Kira Plastinina Collection is presented at Moscow Fashion Week. Paris Hilton, It Girl Number One in the world, comes to Moscow to attend the fashion show as the special guest.
November 2007 – first Kira Plastinina Style Studio opens in Ukraine (Kiev).
November 2007 – Kira Plastinina participates in 100 Designer Christmas Trees Project in Milan together with 100 leading fashion designers of the world.
December 2007 - Kira Plastinina receives the award from Glamour Magazine as the Designer of the Year at Breakthrough of the Year Ceremony.
January 2008 - Kira Plastinina makes her international debut at Alta Roma Atla Moda Week and gets the medal from the Major of Rome as “the most talented and young designer” of Alta Roma Atla Moda. September 2008 – Kira Plastinina receives the award «Successful Debut at Milan Fashion Week» from Mario Boselli, the President of Italy's National Fashion Chamber.
December 2008 – opening of LUBLU Kira Plastinina corner in TsUM (Moscow). Hollywood star Nicole Richie attends the opening ceremony as the special guest.
January 2009 - LUBLU Kira Plastinina boutique opens on Robertson Boulevard in Los Angeles.
July 2009 – Kira Plastinina attends a special course in the famous Marangoni Institute, the oldest fashion and design institute in Europe. Designers Domenico Dolce (Dolce&Gabbana), Franco Moschino (Moschino), Alessandra Facchinetti (Gucci, Valentino), Maurizio Pecoraro (Maurizio Pecoraro) and many others graduated from this Insitute.
July 2009 – opening of the first Kira Plastinina Style Studio in the Philippines (Manila).
September 2009 – LUBLU Kira Plastinina Spring-Summer 2010 Collection “Dreams about Africa” at Milano Moda Dona Fashion in Week in Milan. The fashion show was highly appraised by fashion critics. IL MESSAGGERO newspaper wrote about the designer’s collection: “LUBLU by Kira Plastinina stands out from the other collections. The designer combines African motifs and rock style”.
October 2009 - LUBLU Kira Plastinina Spring-Summer 2010 Collection (“Dreams about Africa”) at Volvo Moscow Fashion Week.
February 2010 - LUBLU Kira Plastinina corner opens at Harrods, London’s most renowned department store.
March 2010 – Autumn – Fall 2010/11 LUBLU Kira Plastinina fashion show at Volvo Moscow Fashion Week.
April 2010 - second Kira Plastinina Style Studio opens in Manila, the Philippines.
May-June 2010 – two Kira Plastinina Style Studios open in China (Beijing).
♥ Renee Zellweger ♥
1980
High Times
Telling PEOPLE about her days as a star high school cheerleader, Zellweger admits to "using my lifetime allotment of mascara in two years" and being a "fountain-haired" '80s teen. At the University of Texas in Austin, Zellweger acts in student theater productions with future Hollywood heartthrob Matthew McConaughey. The English major said she got into acting because "the drama class just happened to fit into my schedule."
1993
Humble Beginnings
Zellweger nabs small roles in the cult favorite Dazed and Confused, the low-budget Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation and the Gen-X hit Reality Bites. "Really early on, in Texas, most of the roles I was offered were the other woman, the harlot, the one-night stand, the hot blonde in a black dress," Zellweger tells Britain's Guardian.
1996
December 13
A Star is Born
Her leading-lady turn opposite Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire makes Zellweger a household name. Of his decision to cast the unknown actress, director Cameron Crowe tells In Style, "She reminds you of a sister, a friend, someone you were in love with once or now." She goes on to act with screen legend Meryl Streep in the 1998 tearjerker One True Thing.
1999
Me, Myself & Jim Carrey
Zellweger and comedian Jim Carrey, who met on the set of the Farrelly Brothers' comedy Me, Myself & Irene, admit to being more than just coworkers. A smitten Carrey tells PEOPLE, "She's absolutely a gem of a human being." However, after a year together, Carrey and Zellweger call it quits.
2001
And the Winner Is...in the Bathroom
Zellweger picks the wrong time to powder her nose during the Golden Globes. When named Best Actress in a Comedy for Nurse Betty, she's in the ladies' room. "I thought I had something on my teeth," she tells PEOPLE. "So I went to check."
Bridget Jones's Diet
After consuming Snickers bars, chocolate milkshakes and pizza, Zellweger gains 20 pounds for the highly anticipated Bridget Jones's Diary. For her hilarious, yet heartfelt take on the London everygirl, she receives both Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations, proving wrong those who said she was miscast.
The Thin & the Beautiful
A surprisingly slim Zellweger makes PEOPLE's 50 Most Beautiful People list. The petite star reduces her 4,000-calorie-a-day diet and resumes exercising, but her weight loss sparks speculation of an eating disorder, which the star denies. That year, she becomes a fashion maven with her stunning red-carpet choices designed by Carolina Herrera, her favorite designer.
2002
To Die For
Although she has no background in musical theater, Zellweger proves that she can sing and dance in Chicago. After slimming down to a toned 106 lbs. to play the murderous Roxie Hart, Zellweger wins her second Golden Globe and earns another Oscar nomination.
2003
Sexiest Friend Alive
After speculation about a purported romance with George Clooney, Zellweger sets the record straight. "It is a terrible thing for all of us who are not dating George Clooney," she tells PEOPLE. "He is my friend, and I am going to keep him."
2004
Gold Mountain
Zellweger wins the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Cold Mountain. Of her win, Zellweger tells PEOPLE, "It's not something you're thinking about when you're hauling timber and shoveling manure," as she did on set. But filming the Civil War drama wasn't all bad; it's where she met her beau, White Stripes frontman Jack White, who plays a troubadour in the film.
Sport
My Hip-hop club Trance Dance
Our coach Sasha is young and beautiful girl. She is studying at the Institute of Culture that would be a choreographer. She is one of our group on Troeshina and many different groups of different ages on Darnitsa.
Another Tran Dance Club is in Dnepropetrovsk. It is 15 years old! Ouer club in Kiev is 5 years old. But we often go in Dnepropetovsk to our friends! And they also go to Kiev!
Participants of the older group Trance Dance took part in the show "Ukraine has got the talents". They went almost to the final. Of course it was hard to win, but also what they have achieved - a feat!
Participants in the second group Trans Dance last year, took first place in the hip-hop festival!
I am a participant of the first group. In our group of girls from 12 to 17 years. This year we will also participate in the same festival and we hope to win again!
Dance Crew
The show is hosted by former teen actor, two-time game show host, and Dancing with the Stars runner-up Mario Lopez, and features television personality Layla Kayleigh as the backstage correspondent. For the fifth season, the current judges are hip-hop artist and dancer Lil Mama, former *NSYNC member JC Chasez, and R&B singer Omarion. Hip-hop choreographer Shane Sparks is a former judge. The series was originally developed for NBC.
English in the world
English is spoken as a native language by around 377 million and as a second language by around 375 million speakers in the world. Speakers of English as a second language will soon outnumber those who speak it as a first language.
Around 750 million people are believed to speak English as a foreign language. English has an official or a special status in 75 countries with a total population of over 2 billion.
English is the language of diplomacy and international communications, business, tourism, education, science, computer technology, media and Internet. Because English was used to develop communication, technology, programming, software, etc, it dominates the web. 70% of all information stored electronically is in English.
The English language came to British Isles from northern Europe in the fifth century. From the fifteenth century, the British began to sail all over the world and became explorers, colonists and imperialists. They took the English language to North America, Canada and the Caribbean, to South Africa, to Australia and New Zealand, to South Asia (especially India), to the British colonies in Africa, to South East Asia and the South Pacific.
The Hollywood film industry also attracted many foreign artists in quest of fame and fortune and the number of American films produced every year soon flooded the market. Before the Treaty of Versailles (1919), which ended the First World War between Germany and the Allies, diplomacy was conducted in French. However, President Woodrow Wilson succeeded in having the treaty in English as well. Since then, English started being used in diplomacy and gradually in economic relations and the media.
The future of English as a global language will depend very largely on the political, economical, demographic and cultural trends in the world.
The future of English.Have you ever wondered how many people there are who speak English?
It's quite a number!
Geographically, English is the most widespread language on earth, and it is second only to Chinese in the number of people who speak it. It is spoken in the British Isles, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and much of Canada and South Africa. That"s about 400 million people.
English is also a second language of another 300 million people living in more than 60 countries.
If you add to this the enormous number of people who learn to understand and speak English (like yourself), you will realise that English is indeed a "world language".
In Shakespeare's time only a few million people spoke English. All of them lived in what is now Great Britain.
Through the centuries, as a result of various historical events, English spread throughout the world. Five hundred years ago they didn't speak English in North America: the American Indians had their own languages. So did the Eskimos in Canada, the aborigines in Australia, and the Maoris in New Zealand. The English arrived and set up their colonies ...
Today, English is represented in every continent and in the three main oceans — the Atlantic, the Indian and the Pacific.
English is mixing with and marrying other languages around the world. It is probably the most insatiable borrower.
Words newly coined or in vogue in one language are very often added to English as well. There are words from 120 languages in its vocabulary, including Arabic, French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.
Other languages absorb English words too, often giving them new forms and new meanings. So many Japanese, French and Germans mix English words with their mother tongues that the resulting hybrids are called Japlish, Franglais and Denglish. In Japanese, for example, there is a verb Makudonaru, to eat at McDonald's.
One of the many "Englishes" spoken and written today is Euro-English. Euro- English has its origins in the political arena of the European community.
A century ago, some linguists predicted that one day England, America, Australia and Canada would be speaking different languages. However, with the advent of records, cinema, radio, and television, the two brands of English have even begun to draw back together again.
Britons and Americans probably speak more alike today than they did 50 or 60 years ago. (In the 1930s and 1940s, for example, American films were dubbed in England. It's no longer the practice today).
People have long been interested in having one language that could be spoken throughout the world. Such a language would help to increase cultural and economic ties and simplify communication between people. Through the years, at least 600 universal languages have been proposed, including Esperanto. About 10 million people have learned Esperanto since its creation in 1887, but English, according to specialists, has better chances to become a global language. So why not learn it?
English in the world
English is spoken as a native language by around 377 million and as a second language by around 375 million speakers in the world. Speakers of English as a second language will soon outnumber those who speak it as a first language.
Around 750 million people are believed to speak English as a foreign language. English has an official or a special status in 75 countries with a total population of over 2 billion.
English is the language of diplomacy and international communications, business, tourism, education, science, computer technology, media and Internet. Because English was used to develop communication, technology, programming, software, etc, it dominates the web. 70% of all information stored electronically is in English.
The English language came to British Isles from northern Europe in the fifth century. From the fifteenth century, the British began to sail all over the world and became explorers, colonists and imperialists. They took the English language to North America, Canada and the Caribbean, to South Africa, to Australia and New Zealand, to South Asia (especially India), to the British colonies in Africa, to South East Asia and the South Pacific.
The Hollywood film industry also attracted many foreign artists in quest of fame and fortune and the number of American films produced every year soon flooded the market. Before the Treaty of Versailles (1919), which ended the First World War between Germany and the Allies, diplomacy was conducted in French. However, President Woodrow Wilson succeeded in having the treaty in English as well. Since then, English started being used in diplomacy and gradually in economic relations and the media.
The future of English as a global language will depend very largely on the political, economical, demographic and cultural trends in the world.
The future of English.
Have you ever wondered how many people there are who speak English? It's quite a number!
Geographically, English is the most widespread language on earth, and it is second only to Chinese in the number of people who speak it. It is spoken in the British Isles, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and much of Canada and South Africa. That"s about 400 million people.
English is also a second language of another 300 million people living in more than 60 countries.
If you add to this the enormous number of people who learn to understand and speak English (like yourself), you will realise that English is indeed a "world language".
In Shakespeare's time only a few million people spoke English. All of them lived in what is now Great Britain.
Through the centuries, as a result of various historical events, English spread throughout the world. Five hundred years ago they didn't speak English in North America: the American Indians had their own languages. So did the Eskimos in Canada, the aborigines in Australia, and the Maoris in New Zealand. The English arrived and set up their colonies ...
Today, English is represented in every continent and in the three main oceans — the Atlantic, the Indian and the Pacific.
English is mixing with and marrying other languages around the world. It is probably the most insatiable borrower.
Words newly coined or in vogue in one language are very often added to English as well. There are words from 120 languages in its vocabulary, including Arabic, French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.
Other languages absorb English words too, often giving them new forms and new meanings. So many Japanese, French and Germans mix English words with their mother tongues that the resulting hybrids are called Japlish, Franglais and Denglish. In Japanese, for example, there is a verb Makudonaru, to eat at McDonald's.
One of the many "Englishes" spoken and written today is Euro-English. Euro- English has its origins in the political arena of the European community.
A century ago, some linguists predicted that one day England, America, Australia and Canada would be speaking different languages. However, with the advent of records, cinema, radio, and television, the two brands of English have even begun to draw back together again.
Britons and Americans probably speak more alike today than they did 50 or 60 years ago. (In the 1930s and 1940s, for example, American films were dubbed in England. It's no longer the practice today).
People have long been interested in having one language that could be spoken throughout the world. Such a language would help to increase cultural and economic ties and simplify communication between people. Through the years, at least 600 universal languages have been proposed, including Esperanto. About 10 million people have learned Esperanto since its creation in 1887, but English, according to specialists, has better chances to become a global language. So why not learn it?
