Monday, July 16, 2012
Singer Anita Intaite at the THOMAS SABO shop opening in Riga
Anita Intaite – better known under her stage name KOŠĀ in her native Latvia – is a young, gifted singer, who not merely convinces with her songs and her unique fashion sense, but also has the talent to write her own music and lyrics. In addition to her music career, the full-blooded artiste is also active as a stylist for countless photo shoots and creative, artistic projects. She loves working with and for people, adores enthusing them and conveying a warm and wonderful feeling with her music. She also succeeded in doing just this at the opening event for the very first Thomas Sabo Club Charms, Thomas Sabo Jewelry, Thomas Sabo Shop Online in Riga, during which she mesmerised the audience with her fabulous vocal skills and her elegant appearance. With her classic, black dress, she stylishly combined THOMAS SABO jewellery and was the most eye-catching person on the night!
RTL Donation Marathon 2011 – We love what we do. We love to give!
It took just a little more than half an hour for the limited edition of 4,000 THOMAS SABO charity bracelets for this year’s RTL Donation Marathon to completely sell out via the hotline and our Online Shop. And those bracelets available from the THOMAS SABO Stores have meanwhile also sold out. Owing to the many supporting employees, the organisers and external partners, the sales of the charity bracelets once again ran smoothly from start to finish. Thanks to your contribution and a generous top-up from Thomas Sabo Club Charms, Thomas Sabo Jewelry, Thomas Sabo Shop Online personally, a total of € 500,000 has been collected this year in favour of the children’s aid projects of the RTL Donation Marathon.
On behalf of Mr. Thomas Sabo, his wife Luz-Enith and der RTL Foundation “Wir helfen Kindern” (We Help Children), we would like to THANK YOU for your interest in this year’s charity bracelet and would be thrilled if you would continue to support the RTL Foundation’s projects in the future.
On behalf of Mr. Thomas Sabo, his wife Luz-Enith and der RTL Foundation “Wir helfen Kindern” (We Help Children), we would like to THANK YOU for your interest in this year’s charity bracelet and would be thrilled if you would continue to support the RTL Foundation’s projects in the future.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Movie Review: Oliver Stone Is Back in His Element With Savages
After soft-peddling sensationalism (with varying levels of success) in his last three movies, Oliver Stone is back in his element — with a new maturity — in the brutal thriller Savages. The film is impressive. It has a bit of the cinematic whoop-de-doo of his noxious Natural Born Killers, in which serial killers became existential heroes, celebrated for attaining absolute freedom. But the perspective is different: wry but mournful, the savagery never a kick. The senselessness of the carnage gets to you. You think, It doesn’t have to be this way.
It is this way thanks to forces Stone explored in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, in which unfettered capitalism tore families apart. The principal family here is a surrogate one, a ménage à trois consisting of innovative marijuana growers Chon (Taylor Kitsch) and Ben (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and their rich girlfriend, O (Blake Lively), short for Ophelia. (She narrates.) Ben insists he can run his business with minimal violence, using some of the profits to do good works in Africa, trusting to Chon — a knotted-up Iraq war vet — to employ force on the rare occasions it’s called for. It’s a remarkably gentle arrangement. O loves both men, opposites whose spirits can be said (if you’ll forgive the woo-woo) to commingle inside her. But business intrudes — a video via the Internet from the Baja cartel starring a man in a skull mask Thomas Sabo Shop Online, Thomas Sabo Jewelry, Thomas Sabo Club Charms and seven severed heads: “These guys were stupid. Be smarter.” The Mexican cartel wants a piece of the business in return for wider distribution of the dope. The local DEA agent, Dennis (John Travolta) — who takes money from all sides — tells the boys, “Don’t fuck with Wal-Mart. Embrace the change.”
Fatted, his hair thinning, Travolta gives his first truly middle-aged performance and his best in years. His Dennis is amoral but not inhuman. He has kids to feed and a wife dying of cancer. Everyone has a family to support, even the scariest assassin, Lado (Benicio Del Toro), who doles out grisly punishments with chilling precision. Del Toro’s face is all dark hollows, as if his coal-black eyes had scorched his own visage in the mirror. His boss, Elena (Salma Hayek), took over the cartel after the deaths of her husband and sons. If this were a Quentin Tarantino movie, the character would be camp, a mythic revenger, but Hayek gets the balance between public shows of power and private woe just right. Of her precious daughter, the only family left, she says, “She’s ashamed of me and I’m proud of her for it.”
Savages is based on a book by Don Winslow that reads like notes for the screenplay he co-wrote with Shane Salerno and Stone. (There’s a thank-you to Stone in the acknowledgements.) The plotting loosens in the second half, but that’s part of the film’s integrity: The emotional crosscurrents force the melodrama off the usual tracks. Kidnapped by Elena, the impatient, entitled O doesn’t stand on ceremony. She gets close to her captor, to the point where Elena almost — almost — treats her like a daughter.
But if the characters recognize their common humanity, it doesn’t stop them from killing. As Ben the idealist does ghastly things to save O and the carnage ramps up, you feel an infernal machine at work. It’s business.
There’s a weird two-fer ending, by the way: The book’s finale and one more on top of it. It’s a puzzler but not a letdown. How do you resolve a movie as irresolvable as Savages without seeming glib? This way, the high-as-a-kite way.
It is this way thanks to forces Stone explored in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, in which unfettered capitalism tore families apart. The principal family here is a surrogate one, a ménage à trois consisting of innovative marijuana growers Chon (Taylor Kitsch) and Ben (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and their rich girlfriend, O (Blake Lively), short for Ophelia. (She narrates.) Ben insists he can run his business with minimal violence, using some of the profits to do good works in Africa, trusting to Chon — a knotted-up Iraq war vet — to employ force on the rare occasions it’s called for. It’s a remarkably gentle arrangement. O loves both men, opposites whose spirits can be said (if you’ll forgive the woo-woo) to commingle inside her. But business intrudes — a video via the Internet from the Baja cartel starring a man in a skull mask Thomas Sabo Shop Online, Thomas Sabo Jewelry, Thomas Sabo Club Charms and seven severed heads: “These guys were stupid. Be smarter.” The Mexican cartel wants a piece of the business in return for wider distribution of the dope. The local DEA agent, Dennis (John Travolta) — who takes money from all sides — tells the boys, “Don’t fuck with Wal-Mart. Embrace the change.”
Fatted, his hair thinning, Travolta gives his first truly middle-aged performance and his best in years. His Dennis is amoral but not inhuman. He has kids to feed and a wife dying of cancer. Everyone has a family to support, even the scariest assassin, Lado (Benicio Del Toro), who doles out grisly punishments with chilling precision. Del Toro’s face is all dark hollows, as if his coal-black eyes had scorched his own visage in the mirror. His boss, Elena (Salma Hayek), took over the cartel after the deaths of her husband and sons. If this were a Quentin Tarantino movie, the character would be camp, a mythic revenger, but Hayek gets the balance between public shows of power and private woe just right. Of her precious daughter, the only family left, she says, “She’s ashamed of me and I’m proud of her for it.”
Savages is based on a book by Don Winslow that reads like notes for the screenplay he co-wrote with Shane Salerno and Stone. (There’s a thank-you to Stone in the acknowledgements.) The plotting loosens in the second half, but that’s part of the film’s integrity: The emotional crosscurrents force the melodrama off the usual tracks. Kidnapped by Elena, the impatient, entitled O doesn’t stand on ceremony. She gets close to her captor, to the point where Elena almost — almost — treats her like a daughter.
But if the characters recognize their common humanity, it doesn’t stop them from killing. As Ben the idealist does ghastly things to save O and the carnage ramps up, you feel an infernal machine at work. It’s business.
There’s a weird two-fer ending, by the way: The book’s finale and one more on top of it. It’s a puzzler but not a letdown. How do you resolve a movie as irresolvable as Savages without seeming glib? This way, the high-as-a-kite way.
Every Single Media Outlet Is Misreporting Obama’s Tax Proposal
Click over to any news website today, or flip to any cable channel, and you'll learn that President Obama has announced a new proposal for how to handle the soon-to-expire Bush tax cuts:
You get the idea. So why are we quoting this very straightforward sentence over and over again? Because it's flat-out wrong.
Obama is not proposing that families making up to $250,000 a year keep their tax cuts while families making more than that don't. He's proposing that every family keep their tax cuts on their first $250,000 of taxable income (which is not the same as "income" or Thomas Sabo Jewelry, Thomas Sabo Club Charms, Thomas Sabo Shop Online, by the way).
That includes families with taxable income of $260,000, $1 million, $5 billion, $3 trillion, or whatever Jay-Z and Beyonce make in a year. Everyone would continue to pay a lower tax rate on their first $250,000 of taxable income under Obama's plan. To report that Obama only wants to maintain tax cuts for families making less than $250,000 is simply false.
If you're wondering how literally the entire media could get this story wrong, look no further than Obama himself, who is framing his own tax proposal inaccurately. "I’m calling on Congress to extend the tax cuts for the 98 percent of Americans who make less than $250,000 for another year," he said in an East Room speech earlier this afternoon.
Normally, a president would want to publicize that he's trying to cut taxes for everyone in the country. But Obama actually has an incentive this time to downplay the number of Americans who would benefit from his tax plan. His proposal is, at its heart, a political maneuver meant to force Mitt Romney to defend tax cuts for the wealthy. It's more effective, then, for it to be seen as a cut solely for the middle class. The reality is that Obama's proposal would also keep Warren Buffett's taxes lower, if only a little bit.
- New York Times: Obama is "calling for a one-year extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for people making less than $250,000."
- Wall Street Journal: "President Barack Obama will propose a one-year extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for families earning less than $250,000 today."
- Washington Post: "President Obama on Monday proposed a one-year extension of the George W. Bush-era tax cuts for people making less than $250,000 a year."
- CNN: "President Barack Obama called Monday for Congress to pass a one-year extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for people earning less than $250,000 a year."
You get the idea. So why are we quoting this very straightforward sentence over and over again? Because it's flat-out wrong.
Obama is not proposing that families making up to $250,000 a year keep their tax cuts while families making more than that don't. He's proposing that every family keep their tax cuts on their first $250,000 of taxable income (which is not the same as "income" or Thomas Sabo Jewelry, Thomas Sabo Club Charms, Thomas Sabo Shop Online, by the way).
That includes families with taxable income of $260,000, $1 million, $5 billion, $3 trillion, or whatever Jay-Z and Beyonce make in a year. Everyone would continue to pay a lower tax rate on their first $250,000 of taxable income under Obama's plan. To report that Obama only wants to maintain tax cuts for families making less than $250,000 is simply false.
If you're wondering how literally the entire media could get this story wrong, look no further than Obama himself, who is framing his own tax proposal inaccurately. "I’m calling on Congress to extend the tax cuts for the 98 percent of Americans who make less than $250,000 for another year," he said in an East Room speech earlier this afternoon.
Normally, a president would want to publicize that he's trying to cut taxes for everyone in the country. But Obama actually has an incentive this time to downplay the number of Americans who would benefit from his tax plan. His proposal is, at its heart, a political maneuver meant to force Mitt Romney to defend tax cuts for the wealthy. It's more effective, then, for it to be seen as a cut solely for the middle class. The reality is that Obama's proposal would also keep Warren Buffett's taxes lower, if only a little bit.
Monday, July 2, 2012
Rob Lauren Hotel 2013
For his first precollection displaying in four years, Rob Lauren concocted a vibrant shaded Hotel 2013 providing of modern oldies designed to raise feelings and motivate positive outlook. "Because of the feelings in European countries, pandora house charm, pandora charms clearance, pandora charms discount, I thought it was time to do something happy and strong," Lauren said — and what could be more happy or more powerful than a double-breasted fit in hot lilac, or the various shaded checkered used to a dress and skirt? On the off chance that his customers won't react to, say, the lemon-yellow set coat or highlighter-green bootcut set jeans adorned with a tux red stripe of edge, Lauren created an range of outfits, opera overcoats, and wide-legged jeans in khaki.
Marni Hotel 2013
Consuelo Castiglioni went western for Hotel 2013 selection, providing up strong tops designed with fantastic guys and short bib jewellery, pandora beads charms, pandora new charms, pandora dog charm, that provided as modified editions of traditional bolo connections. Stylized flower printing and embroidering recommended bandanas, while a diamond-shaped design known as to mind rattlesnake skin. Castiglioni kept things modern by providing pleated, midlength dresses and various colored work tops — just perfect for citified cowgirls.
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Aite Luo (Etro) 2013 summer time men's clothing show
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