Images courtesy of Instagram: xianlimm
Monday, November 16, 2015
Maine Mendoza Gets Equal Billing as Alden Richards in 'My Bebe Love' Official Poster
Image courtesy of Fashion PULIS reader
Insta Scoop: Megan Young Stars with Mikael Daez in 'Dangwa' Episode This Week
Image courtesy of Instagram: meganbata
Image courtesy of Instagram: aalixjr
Insta Scoop: Mariel Padilla Finally Undergoes D&C Procedure
Images courtesy of Instagram: marieltpadilla
Insta Scoop: Heart Evangelista Escudero Claims Face Has Not Undergone Any Cosmetic Surgery
Image courtesy of Instagram: iamhearte
Insta Scoop: Netizen Gives Account of the Comelec Registration Incident of Kim Chiu
Image courtesy of Instagram: kimxianatic
Sunday, November 15, 2015
The Failed Excuse for the Missing Jewelry
Image courtesy of www.wikihow.com
Contests are often made exciting not just by the prestige of a title, but by the range of prizes as well. Depending on the reputation of the contest and the generosity of sponsors, winners can bring home a car, a house and lot, a business, jewelry, talent contracts, and cash. Of course, the quality of prizes has to match the prestige of the contest.
As the country has an extensive list of various contests, scouts, talent managers, and potential contestants usually prepare months ahead in anticipation of screenings or calls from the organizers. Some persons are serial contestants, who keep trying until they reach the age limit or until they win a slot in the contest. Thus, every year, these persons improve their level of entry. Others shape their body, practice their responses, and undergo workshops to develop confidence and rapport with audiences. Some are successful and manage to enter the final round, while others are rejected. Thus, audiences are no longer surprised when familiar names are heard as contestants year after year.
In one famous contest, a sponsor gave jewelry for the possible winners. The expected outcome was for the winners to wear the jewelry as a way to promote the company. Finally, the winners were announced and naturally, the sponsor expected the jewelry to be given to the triumphant. Later, the sponsor noticed that not even one of the winners was wearing at least an item from the sets that were allocated. When asked for an explanation, the contest representative stated that the jewelry sets are being kept to make sure the winners complete the stipulation in their contracts. The contest management was just making sure that no one disappears before the contract is over. In some cases, once the prize has been given to a winner who decides to quit before the end of the contract, retrieval of the cash or non-cash prize can be a headache.
The explanation was convincing and the sponsor thought the idea was brilliant. Then, one day, during another event, the sponsor was shocked. Behold, one of the movers of the said contest was wearing the jewelry specially given to the winners of the contest. The sponsor could not decide whether to feel flattered, as someone famous was going around wearing the jewelry, or disappointed at the non-fulfillment of the agreement, that is, for the winners to wear the jewelry and not for anyone involved in the contest to take advantage of the prize. The contest is very prestigious and the wearer was someone who has such an almost squeaky-clean reputation in the contest arena.
“If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place” ― David Nicholls
Follow @FashionPulis on Twitter for the latest update. Please continue to send your juicy stories to michaelsylim@gmail.com. Thank you very much for loving Fashion PULIS!
Disclaimer: The comments uploaded on this site do not necessarily represent or reflect the views of Fashion PULIS. The management reserves the right to exclude comments that do not comply with the GUIDELINES in writing comments.
Tweet Scoop: Watch Eat Bulaga & Other GMA Shows at Selected SM Malls
Image courtesy of Twitter: smsupermalls
Insta Scoop: JM de Guzman Requests Not to Blame Jessy Mendiola or Any Other Person for His Issues
Image courtesy of Instagram: 1migueldeguzman
Repost: Beirut Suicide Bombings Kill 43; Suspect Claims ISIS Sent Attackers
Image courtesy of www.edition.cnn.com
Source: www.edition.cnn.com
A pair of suicide bombings struck southern Beirut on Thursday, killing 43 people and leaving shattered glass and blood on the streets, Lebanese authorities said.
At least 239 others were wounded, according to state-run National News Agency.
A would-be suicide bomber who survived the attack told investigators he was an ISIS recruit, a Lebanese security source said. The man, a Lebanese national from Tripoli, Lebanon, was taken into custody after the blasts. He told authorities that he and three other attackers arrived in Lebanon from Syria two days ago, the source said.
Lebanese intelligence believes the bombers could be part of a cell dispatched to Beirut by ISIS leadership, the source said, but investigators are still working to verify the surviving suspect's claim. The three other bombers were killed in the explosions.
In a purported ISIS statement circulated on social media, the terror group claimed responsibility for the blasts. CNN hasn't confirmed the authenticity of the statement.
The explosions detonated within 150 meters (490 feet) and five minutes of each other, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said, shaking an open-air market and other parts of the Bourj al-Barajneh district in southern Beirut.
"There's a lot of shattered glass on the street, a lot of blood, and it's really just a scene of chaos and carnage," journalist Tamara Qiblawi told CNN shortly after the blasts.
Bombs strike where Hezbollah has strong presence
Three local members of Hezbollah were among those killed in the attack, the Lebanese security source said. The members do not appear to have been a target in the attack and were in "the wrong place at the wrong time," the source said.
The Lebanon-based, Iran-backed Shiite militia has a strong presence in the area where the blasts occurred.
Police are investigating whether two of the bombers were Palestinians from a nearby refugee camp where ISIS has been recruiting, a Lebanese government source said.
In addition to the human toll, the explosions damaged at least four nearby buildings. Video distributed by Reuters showed a dramatic scene in the bombings' aftermath, with rescue workers carrying out victims past piles of rubble and through a mass of people.
And the attackers may have had other targets in mind. One of the suicide bombers tried to get inside a Shiite mosque in the area but was stopped, the government source said.
After the blasts, authorities closed all entrances to Bourj al-Barajneh, NNA reported. Judge Sakr Sakr dispatched military police and other authorities to investigate the blasts, cordoning off the area around them.
Citizens have been urged to stay away from the bloody scene as well as nearby hospitals so that ambulances can more easily get back and forth.
Prime Minister Tammam Salam declared Friday a day of mourning for the victims of the bombings, a terrorist attack condemned by officials across the country's political landscape.
Bombings not new to Lebanon
ISIS, which does not have a large presence in Lebanon, claimed responsibility for a car bombing in the capital last year.
The country has seen plenty of violence involving numerous parties in recent decades, including the current fallout from the bloody civil war in neighboring Syria.
That war has flooded Lebanon with more than a million refugees, according to the United Nations, and also contributed to intermittent spillover violence.
Most of that bloodshed has been concentrated near the Syrian border, though not all, as evidenced by a November 2013 Beirut bombing that killed at least 23 people and wounded about 150 more.
The al Qaeda-linked militant group Abdullah Azzam Brigades claimed responsibility for that bombing and warned of more to come unless Hezbollah stopped sending fighters to support Syrian government forces.
Repost: Paris Attacks Kill More Than 100, Police Say; Border Controls Tightened
Image courtesy of www.nytimes.com
Source: www.nytimes.com
The Paris area reeled Friday night from a shooting rampage, explosions and mass hostage-taking that President François Hollande called an unprecedented terrorist attack on France. His government announced sharply increased border controls and heightened police powers as it mobilized the military in a national emergency.
French television and news services quoted the police as saying that around 100 people had been killed at a concert site where hostages had been held during a two-hour standoff with the police, and that perhaps dozens of others had been killed in apparently coordinated attacks outside the country’s main sports stadium and four other popular locations in the city. But estimates on the total number of dead varied.
Witnesses on French television said the scene at the concert hall, which can seat as many as 1,500 people, was a massacre, describing how gunmen with automatic weapons shot bursts of bullets into the crowd.
Ambulances were seen racing back and forth in the area into the early hours of Saturday, and hundreds of survivors were evacuated in police buses. French television said Paris hospitals were overwhelmed with wounded.
News agencies quoted Michel Cadot, head of the Paris police, as saying early Saturday that all the assailants involved in shootings or bombings were believed to be dead, and the Paris prosecutor’s office said that eight attackers were dead, according to The Associated Press.
But the total number involved in the attacks, including accomplices still at large, remained unclear.
“We are going to try and determine what happened, determine what the profiles of these terrorists are, find out what their course of action was, find out if there are still accomplices or co-attackers,” said François Molins, the public prosecutor for Paris.
The casualties eclipsed by far the deaths in Paris during the massacre at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and related assaults around the French capital by Islamic militant extremists less than a year ago.
Those attacks traumatized France and other countries in Europe, elevating fears of religious extremism and violent jihadists who have been radicalized by the conflicts in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa.
An explosion near the sports stadium, the Stade de France, which French news services said was apparently a suicide bombing, occurred as the German and French national teams were playing a soccer match, forcing a hasty evacuation of Mr. Hollande. As the scope of the assaults quickly became clear, he convened an emergency cabinet meeting and announced that France was placing severe restrictions on its border crossings.
“As I speak, terrorist attacks of an unprecedented scale are taking place in the Paris region,” he said in a nationally televised address. “There are several dozen dead, lots more wounded. It’s horrific.”
Mr. Hollande said that on his orders the government had “mobilized all the forces we can muster to neutralize the threats and secure all of the areas.”
President Obama came to the White House briefing room to express solidarity and offer aid and condolences. “Once again, we’ve seen an outrageous attempt to terrorize innocent civilians,” he said. “This is an attack not just on Paris, it’s an attack not just on the people of France, but this is an attack on all of humanity and the universal values that we share.” Other world leaders quickly condemned the assaults.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Twitter erupted with celebratory messages by members and sympathizers of the Islamic State, the extremist group based in Syria and Iraq that is under assault by major powers, including the United States, France and Russia.
The main shooting broke out at a popular music hall, the Bataclan, where the American band Eagles of Death Metal was among those playing. French news services said as many as 100 hostages may have been taken there, many of them apparently killed later. Some accounts said that grenades had been lobbed inside the music hall and that some of the assailants had detonated suicide vests.
A witness told BFM television that he heard rounds of automatic rifle fire and someone shouting “Allahu akbar!” at the Bataclan.
Another witness who escaped the concert hall told BFM: “When they started shooting we just saw flashes. People got down on the ground right away.”
The police ordered bystanders in that area of the city to get off the streets as officers mobilized. Government officials urged people elsewhere to stay indoors.
Other French news media reported that Kalashnikov rifles had been involved in the shootings — a favored weapon of militants who have attacked targets in France — and that many rounds had been fired.
Police sirens sounded throughout central Paris on Friday night.
Despite the increased border security, air travel in and out of Paris appeared to be unaffected. Officials at Charles de Gaulle Airport confirmed that flights had not been suspended, although security had been heightened significantly. Both departing and arriving passengers and baggage were being screened thoroughly.
Germany’s interior minister, Thomas de Maizière, said early Saturday that he had offered to send military assistance to France if requested. “I am in close contact with my French colleague and have offered assistance through German special forces,” he said in a statement.
Loretta E. Lynch, the United States attorney general, also offered help. “We stand in solidarity with France, as it has stood with us so often in the past,” she said in a statement. “This is a devastating attack on our shared values, and we at the Department of Justice will do everything within our power to assist and work in partnership with our French law enforcement colleagues.”
While the police in American cities, including New York and Washington, said they were following the events, there was no indication of possible attacks planned in the United States.
“We will not hesitate to adjust our security posture, as appropriate, to protect the American people,” the F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.
American and European counterterrorism officials were reviewing wiretaps and other electronic surveillance records, but a senior American security official said there was no immediate indication that there had been suspicious chatter or other warning signs before the attack.
Unlike the attacks against Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket in January, terrorism experts said, the attacks on the targets on Friday had no apparent rationale. Instead, assailants appeared to strike at random in hip neighborhoods on a Friday night when many people would be starting to enjoy the weekend.
“It’s a Friday night, and there’s a lot of people out, a lot of tourists out,” said a senior European counterterrorism official. “If you want maximum exposure, you do it like this, in the dark, when it’s scarier and more difficult for police to act.”
Spotted: Fun, Games, and Seasoned Stars Add Excitement to Birthday Celebration of Lola Nidora
Images courtesy of Fashion PULIS reader
FB Scoop: Kapuso Mo Jessica Soho Expresses Grief for Paris Terror Attack, Joins Call for Prayers
Image courtesy of Facebook: Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho
Tweet Scoop: Maja Salvador Performs Her Best Regardless of Audience Turnout
Image courtesy of Instagram: PhilstarShowbiz
Image courtesy of Fashion PULIS reader
Insta Scoop: Maja Salvador and Enchong Dee in Sizzling Number in Majasty Concert
Image courtesy of Instagram: dreamscapeph
Insta Scoop: Miss Universe Contestant Pia Wurtzbach Excited over Official Photo in Miss Universe Website
Images courtesy of Instagram: piawurtzbach
Insta Scoop: Cristine Reyes and Zanjoe Marudo on Location for 'Tubig at Langis'
Image courtesy of Instagram: queencristinereyes
Insta Scoop: 'Beautiful Strangers' on Its Last Two Taping Days
Image courtesy of Instagram: poevirginia
Saturday, November 14, 2015
The Case of the Half-Hearted Endorser
Image courtesy of www.wikihow.com
Product endorsements work both ways for the company and the endorser. The product can gain mileage when a famous celebrity actually agrees to be seen using the product. Thus, there would be more sales. Then, the celebrity can earn from the talent fee. Sometimes, some brands and celebrities become synonymous to each other. For example, some years ago, upon mentioning a local beer brand, only one name would come up as its major endorser despite having other actors having endorsed such brand earlier.
Some celebrities are preferred by companies because these endorsers will testify on the product qualities. They would even show the public that they are using or eating these products behind the scenes. Better yet, they would not be caught associating with the rival products. When a known endorser is seen touching or even just next to the rival goods, expect negative repercussions.
Product endorsement becomes tricky when the product does not match the lifestyle of the endorser. Brands are not merely names, as these represent a certain reputation for the patron. For example, some celebrities prefer to be seen with a high-end bag brand compared with local ones. Being seen with such bag reflects that the user could afford such bag and has tastes. Of course, some fans who could afford the brand might patronize such product to be similar with their idols.
When a manufacturing firm (MF) wanted to tap Well Known Celebrity (WK) to represent their product, WK’s camp set rigid conditions prior to accepting the deal. The proposed provision was that WK would not use the said product at all. WK will appear in various media forms, but will not be compelled to use the said product. MF’s camp, upon hearing the condition, felt insulted, as WK seems to be giving the impression that their product was not worth her image. WK’s camp reasoned out that WK is not used to the features of the said product. To cut the story short, after negotiations, MF agreed to the condition. WK’s image appears with the said product, but this endorser will never allow to be seen using a product that is seen way below WK’s personal image market.
A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it. -Jenifer Lewis
Follow @FashionPulis on Twitter for the latest update. Please continue to send your juicy stories to michaelsylim@gmail.com. Thank you very much for loving Fashion PULIS!
Disclaimer: The comments uploaded on this site do not necessarily represent or reflect the views of Fashion PULIS. The management reserves the right to exclude comments that do not comply with the GUIDELINES in writing comments.
Tweet Scoop: Fans Flocked to SM City Fairview for Alden Richards' Album Promo
Images courtesy of Twitter: smsupermalls
Insta Scoop: Jessy Mendiola Responds to Meddling Basher
Images courtesy of Instagram: senorita_jessy
Insta Scoop: Is this Kim Chiu's Message to Critics of Her Voter Registration Incident?
Image courtesy of Instagram: chinitaprincess
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
LinkWithin
