untitled The 5 Best Outfits Of The Week: Vote For Your Fave! : Slaves to Fashion Friday, 5/18/2012 at 5:05PM This week's stylish ladies were all about drama, from the street to the red carpet. So which outfit tops them all? This week Charlize Theron demonstrated the art of pulling off a sheer dress. Gabifresh went high/low, pairing her splurge-worthy Loubs with glam finds from ASOS. Emma Roberts wore a high-slit skirt in a not-too-suggestive, casual kind of way. Kim Kardashian's flawless styling of this Roland Mouret dress received your stamp of approval. Diane Kruger won our Best Dressed at Cannes poll in this mint green Giambattista Valli dream dress. Which look are you loving this week? <a href=" outfit is the best of the week? Tell me who you voted for and why in the comments!
Cartola FC chega a mais de 1 milhão de times escalados e bate recorde O Cartola FC chegou com tudo em 2012! E com direito a recorde. Pela primeira vez na história do fantasy game, mais de um milhão de times foram escalados para a primeira rodada do Campeonato Brasileiro. Em 2011, no mesmo período, 797.448 times foram salvos. Na oitava temporada do Cartola, algumas novidades como enquetes para definir o preço dos jogadores foram criadas. E vem mais por aí! Entre aqui e monte seu time no fantasy game Vale lembrar que o mercado será fechado às 16h30m deste sábado. Cássio no topo Das exatas 1.012.763 equipes escaladas, o goleiro Cássio, do Corinthians, foi o recordista de apostas dos internautas, com 324.291 usuários optando pelo goleiro do Timão no seu time, que enfrenta o Fluminense no próximo domingo, às 16h, no Pacaembu. Entre as maiores torcidas, medida pelo clube de coração do usuário, a do Flamengo está na frente com 440.931 torcedores/cartoleiros. Veja abaixo a seleção dos jogadores mais escalados até o momento:
Hakeem Jeffries: Brooklyn’s Barack Obama? Is Hakeem Jeffries Brooklyn’s Barack Obama? The young New York assemblyman running for the seat held by retiring Rep. Ed Towns (D) shares some surface characteristics with the president. “They’re both African-American, they’re both strikingly handsome, and they’re both highly intelligent,” said former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, a Jeffries supporter. “Both of them have wonderful smiles.” But the echoes go further than that. Hakeem Jeffries campaigns on April 15, 2012 in Brooklyn. In 2000 and 2002, Jeffries took on state Assemblyman Roger Green (D). “I was victimized by the redistricting process,” Jeffries said. Jeffries challenged Green again anyway, and lost again. Redistricting last decade may have hurt Jeffries, but this time around it could help him. A former associate of the Manhattan firm Paul Weiss, Jeffries has connections to wealthy donors and prominent politicians. Like Obama, Jeffries has earned some ire from liberals for his moderation.
Simon Pegg Cast In Director Peter Chelsom’s HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS EmailEmail British comedic actor Simon Pegg (MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE -GHOST PROTOCOL, PAUL) has been cast in the lead role in director Peter Chelsom’s (SHALL WE DANCE?, FUNNY BONES,) next movie – drama comedy HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS, it was announced today by Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel, founders and co-partners of The Solution Entertainment Group (“The Solution”) who are handling worldwide rights to the film. Adapted for the screen by Chelsom and Tinker Lindsay from the bestselling novel of the same name by François Lelord, the film is a German/Canadian co-production produced by Egoli Tossell Film and Screen Siren Pictures currently in pre-production and set to shoot straight after Pegg’s THE WORLD’S END. Pegg plays Hector, an eccentric yet irresistible London psychiatrist in crisis: his patients are just not getting any happier! British-born Chelsom began his directing career with break out British films HEAR MY SONG and FUNNY BONES.
sarahdessen: Beach reading spotted at T... Three TYPO Berlin “Sustain” Talks Online TYPO Berlin “Sustain” is not over yet and already the first presentations are being made available in their entirety on the TYPO Video Portal. Yesterday the talks by Bernd Kolb (D), Daniel van der Velden (E) and Kirsten Dietz (D) were published, and today two of the very best presentations (in my opinion) were released for your viewing pleasure: Nat Hunter (E) and Matthew Butterick (E). Ditch that fake Hollywood crap tonight and get inspired and motivated. But before you do that, join us in 15 minutes for the livestream of the slightly fantabulous Jessica Hische.:: UPDATED :: Bernd Kolb | Opportunities resulting from consequent thinking and actingDeutsch Daniel van der Velden | Memes, Jokes, and Jesters –Political Design In An Age Of TurmoilEnglish Kirsten Dietz | The future belongs to the brave.Seven hypotheses concerning sustainably successful designDeutsch Nat Hunter | How did that happen? Matthew Butterick | Reversing the Tide of Declining ExpectationsEnglish
Deals and Coupons: Bowflex SelectTech Adjusta... Forget Carbon Taxes...Fat Taxes are coming For the past couple of years, I have been saying that Fat Taxes are coming. And not because our political leaders are overly concerned about our collective beer belly. Fat taxes are coming because: Governments love problems that give them an excuse to raise taxes.Obesity is fast becoming the sort of economic and “moral” problem that allows them raise taxes – ala the sin taxes on cigarettes and alcohol. In the U.S., New York City, California and other jurisdictions have been discussing various forms of fat taxes and fast food restaurant bans for the past couple of years. In Europe, Denmark has a fat tax focused on saturated fat, Hungarians pay a tax on foods with high fat, sugar and salt content, as well as increased tariffs on soda and alcohol and the French have slapped a tax on soda…and are talking about broadening the legislation. And now…the Brits are talking about putting a 20% tax on ALL “unhealthy” foods… …all thanks to 2 new papers published in the British Medical Journal Reference
China Soft-Power Watch: the Yang Rui 'Foreign Bitch' Factor - James Fallows - International [Update: please see this very useful explanatory piece by Brendan O'Kane in China, and a followup by me.] This story is all over the China-hand blogosphere, and is so strange that at first I was sure it was a joke. But apparently it isn't. It involves the man below, shown in a WSJ screen shot, and here is the background to understand the fuss: - CCTV-9 is the English-language channel of China's state-run TV network, and as such is a fascinating real-time window onto the face the government wants to present to the outside world. - A program called "DIALOGUE" is the high-end prestige jewel in the tiara of the CCTV-9 lineup. - The hosts and moderators of the program, a man named YANG RUI and a woman named Tian Wei, are big fish in the China-hand media world. Now, the tricky part. The first time this happened to me, I was startled. This brings us to the recent news. It's interesting that this outburst came from Yang Rui, who is in some ways one of the faces of China's soft power push.