Consumers International Blog: 50 years on, the consumer voice still needs to be heard loud and clear, Mar 13, 2012

 "Every year the global consumer rights movement celebrates World Consumer Rights Day (WCRD) on 15 March. Consumer rights groups across the world come together, often around a common campaign theme, to ensure that consumer rights are not ignored when decisions that affect us all are being made. This year, CI and many of its members will be campaigning for real consumer choice in financial services on what is a particularly special WCRD.
This 15 March marks 50 years since US President John F. Kennedy became the first ever serving world leader to directly address the issue of consumer rights. In his statement to the US Congress in 1962, President Kennedy said." info@als-alexander.org or interalex1@yahoo.com

VOGUE News, Mar 13, 2012

VOGUE WORLD FOREX: Euro Sags As Dollar Comes Back In Vogue Wall Street Journal Analysts said US retail sales data for February at 1230 GMT will offer more clues about the state of the world's biggest economy than the Fed's statement due later in the day. The consensus is for a 1.1% improvement. "For the Fed a strong retail sales ... See all stories on this topic »

Everywhere We Shoot Wall Street Journal (blog) In fact, to ease the bareheaded into the world of designer headgear, she has created a line of “introductory” hats for first-timers who don't want to start off too showy. Ms. Dulce's pieces have adorned the heads of Adam Ant and Vogue editor Anna Dello... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal (blog)

Wine: 'if pinot grigio goES out of vogue, what will replace it?' Scotland on Sunday ... direction in the world of white wine. Just as chardonnay replaced riesling in the popularity stakes, only to be toppled by pinot grigio, so one detects an increasing boredom with PG. So, if pinot grigio does go out of vogue, what will replace it? See all stories on this topic »

Vogue Italia: Natural Hair Models Rip the Runway VIBE Vixen But as the fashion world embraces naturalistas now more than ever, buzz cuts, 'fros and coily updos are breezing down runways, with more designers opting for Black models to rock their natural hair. Vogue Italia recently ran a profile on the natural ... See all stories on this topic » VIBE Vixen

Arnie's Rebounding World: Reflecting Back, Looking Forward The Myeloma Beacon At that time, maintenance therapy with Revlimid (lenalidomide) was not yet invogue. I was told “mean time to relapse is 18 months to 2 years.” At 10 months, my M-spike started to creep up, and I began Revlimid and then added dexamethasone a couple of ... See all stories on this topic »

The shame of it all Hindustan Times But despite being one of the most corrupt nations in the world or registering an alarmingly high number of deaths due to malnutrition, negative publicity hasn't worked for India. It seems that we just Naming and shaming has been invogue for ages. See all stories on this topic »

Leaders of the celluloid world Brisbane Times Allegedly inspired by legendary American Vogue editor Anna Wintour, for whom Weisberger once worked, Runway magazine editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly rules by fear. Her long suffering team, including her new PA Andrea, the film's protagonist, ... See all stories on this topic »

Adele: Emerging Style Icon The Fashion Spot As her international success continues to intensify, she has picked up two Brit Awards, Six Grammies, and is now gracing the cover of US Vogue's March edition. It was only last month that fashion guru Karl Lagerfeld set the mediaworld on fire with his ... See all stories on this topic »

Model Sues Agency for Not Telling Her She Became The Face Of Sally Hansen In 2006 Jezebel [WWD] Vogue Italia editor-in-chief Franca Sozzani admits that the world ofVogue can be "a little cold," and that finding the right tone online has been a struggle at times. "If I was going to use the same kind of language and the same kind of photos ... See all stories on this topic »

Read This Book: Lisa Cohen's “All We Know” New Yorker (blog) Cohen's remarkable, sui generis study about three modernist figures—Esther Murphy, Mercedes de Acosta, and Madge Garland, for many years a fashion editor at British Vogue—is, in part, about dread, which is to say failure and fear of self-exposure, ... See all stories on this topic » New Yorker (blog)

Spencer early favourite to win Dancing Sydney Morning Herald Kerri-Anne has interviewed world leaders, sporting icons, leaders of business and superstars, and is a highly respected national television presenter, gracing our television screens for almost thirty years. Kerri-Anne has also written two books People ... See all stories on this topic » Sydney Morning Herald

Math Geeks Unite, Celebrate Pi Day with Greeting Cards from Greeting Card Universe Virtual-Strategy Magazine Greeting Card Universe, the world's largest greeting card store, announces its collection of original and hard to find cards to celebrate Pi Day. Pi Day is a worldwide celebration of the mathematical constant known as “Pi” (3.1415926). See all stories on this topic »

Portrait of the artist: Mitsuko Uchida, pianist The Guardian During the second world war, my father somehow got the idea that his children should learn the piano. After the war, my mother picked him up at Tokyo harbour – he was a diplomat and had been away for six years, first in Germany, then in America, ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

'Battleship' trailer: In which Taylor Kitsch responds to 'John Carter' flop by... Entertainment Weekly He's still going to conquer the world. And if he can't have it…no one can! That's the takeaway from the new trailer for Kitsch's next quarter-billion-dollar movie Battleship. In stark contrast to earlier trailers, which made the movie look like ... See all stories on this topic » Entertainment Weekly

Marni Fashion Fraud or Faux Pas? Bangstyle According to Vogue UK, the London store on the infamous Regent St. sold out their entire stock before lunch! Thank goodness the sales department had implemented a systematic way to do some serious crowd control. From previous designer collaboration ... See all stories on this topic » Bangstyle

Original Web Series from Rogers, L'Oreal Ready for its Close-Up mediacaster Discovered by a modelling scout at an Irish dancing competition, Rocha landed her first major appearance on the cover of Vogue Italia's March 2006 issue. Rocha is also frequently featured on the pages of top fashion magazines around the world ... See all stories on this topic »

List: What bizarro Claire Zulkey has been up to WBEZ (blog) Claire Zulkey crosses her fingers for the Hollywood classicism ofVogue with the hot-pink twitchiness of Minaj's banned-by-BET clip, “Stupid Hoe.” Claire Zulkey knows there is nothing in this worldmore helpless and irresponsible than a former ... See all stories on this topic » WBEZ (blog)

Pride Guide 2012 SouthFloridaGayNews.com This guide will help you journey through multiple pride fests all over the world. Many of festivals featured here are still being planned and details are subject to change so make sure you visit their webpages for up to date information. See all stories on this topic » SouthFloridaGayNews.com

We are richer in 2012, but are we happier? Telegraph.co.uk Swing skirts were in vogue, the Royals dominated the front pages, and Germany was shelling out lump sums to Europe in reparations. Was 1952 really that different from life today? Britons are three times richer than they were in 1952, and UK GDP has ... See all stories on this topic » Telegraph.co.uk

'Kony 2012' - How Funding Proxy War Became Fashionable Huffington Post UK (blog) Bruno's absurdity sums up effectively the susceptibility of the West to not only treat aid campaigns like fashion trends coming in and out of vogue with the seasons, but it demonstrates the propensity in this media obsessed age for the Western public ... See all stories on this topic »

The Plan to Rescue Sears, 'The Hunger Games' Premieres, and Is Pinterest the ... Wall Street Journal (blog) Speakeasy Retail sales in the US rose in February by the most in five months, reflecting broad-based gains that indicate the world's largest economy is picking up even as gasoline costs climb. Bloomberg Saks Inc., Macy's Inc. and Swedish retailer ... See all stories on this topic »

Dancing with the Stars line-up confirmed The West Australian Ruffo has been partnered with the five-time world salsa champion in the coming series of Seven's hit reality dance competition, which is rumoured to be premiering on Sunday, April 15, against Nine's coverage of The Logies. Kroitor helped X Factor ... See all stories on this topic » The West Australian

Swimming champions tread Olympic comeback trail ABC Online GEOFF HEUGILL, FORMER WORLD CHAMPION: I've never been able to simulate that sort of experience. I mean, to walk out in front of a crowd of 10000 or 15000 people or to go to an Opening Ceremony of an Olympic Games is something that not everyone every ... See all stories on this topic »

Justin Rose can be a Major winner like Nick Faldo: Derek Lawrenson Daily Mail By Derek Lawrenson Look down the illustrious list of winners ofworld golf championship events and none has a story like Justin Rose. None fought back from starting their professional careers with 21 missed cuts in a row. Rose stands as the living ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Mail

Martens style: Gothic-tinged with minimalist vibe Monroe News Star It was clear he aimed to break up styles, mixing clean, ecclesiastical forms with sneakers and in-vogue sporty zippers. Next to a projection of Belgian masterpiece "The Passion of Saint John" by Hans Memling, clerical column dresses and coats slinked ... See all stories on this topic »

Eric Holder defends the assassination of US citizens Washington Times This leads to a few judgments, certainly not limited to the following: If Bush was criticized for waterboarding, then Obama should rightly be vilified for assassination—“targeting killing,” though, is apparently the terminology in vogue. See all stories on this topic » Washington Times

Mexico's Greatest Spring Break Retreats TheStreet.com It's been compared by fashion bibles such as Vogue Italia as the new Goa and by others as the Hamptons dipped in an Ibiza bath, but in actuality the eco-destination of Tulum is like no other. And it's most idyllic in spring, when the fashionable elite ... See all stories on this topic » TheStreet.com

ART & ENTERTAINMENT IN BRIEF 13/3 VietNamNet Bridge “My dream to reach the world's modeling industry has just come true. This is the chance of my life to explore what I can do,” My shared. The UK-based Top Model Worldwide is one of the leading international model contests seeking out the best new model ... See all stories on this topic »

The Nuclear Revival: Mark Lackey NASDAQ The other option is to burn natural gas. All of this puts nuclear power back invogue. TER: Among commodities, is uranium the most sensitive to worldevents or would you put gold in that category as well? ML: I would put uranium up there. See all stories on this topic »

Charlie Trotter's Victory Lap Chicagomag.com But to witness all three during a recent meal in the sealed sanctuary that is Charlie Trotter's—one of the world's most serious, disciplined, and consistently excellent restaurants of the past 25 years—was nothing short of surreal. See all stories on this topic » Chicagomag.com

Appeal to the UN: Treat the Financial Crisis as Human RIghts Disaster Huffington Post By and large, you labor on in the media wilderness hoping the time will come when someone outside your world recognizes your value and gives you a bigger platform, usually more than just one TV interview or quote. That may -- I stress may with a small ... See all stories on this topic »

FASHION IN FRANCE: A Chic Movable Feast Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun (blog) For me, it began in early February with excessive stalking of the shows in New York, London and Milan, as I anxiously awaited their arrival in the world'sfashion capital, Paris. I knew my week would be hectic — I would be interning with a jewelry ... See all stories on this topic »

FLIRTY HARRY GETS HOT NEW SUPER MODEL Daily Star By Emily Hall THE babe who left Prince Harry blushing after sneaking a cheeky kiss is one of the world's top bikini supermodels. Harry caused a ripple of laughter as he gave a thumbs-up to the Brazilian crowd. And Rio-born Fernanda said she loved ... See all stories on this topic »

Mel C: 'No Reunion For Spice Girls At Jubilee, Someone Wasn't Comfortable' Entertainmentwise ... Los Angeles with her family, is concentrating on her flourishing career as a fashion designer. Her recent Fashion Week show in New York was attended by real-life Devil Wears Prada Vogue Editor, Anna Wintour and was widely praised by the fashion world. See all stories on this topic »

Agyness Deyn to collaborate with Dr. Martens Irish Independent Having spent a while in the fashion wilderness, the past year has seen Agyness stage a glorious comeback with editorials for BritishVogue , a cover for UK Elle and campaigns for both Dr. Martens and Moncler, as well as nurturing a blossoming acting ... See all stories on this topic » Irish Independent

Toronto Fashion Week: The arts critic's view from behind the black curtain Toronto Star I've thumbed the more-than-occasional Vogue (for the articles, of course) and watched significantly more occasional episodes of America's Next Top Model (for the schadenfreude). I'm aware of trends, or more accurately, when I miss them (Note to self: ... See all stories on this topic » Toronto Star

Why is Massachusetts Playing the VC Game? BostInno The Commonwealth is in a somewhat unusual position, in that the state is already home to one of the largest concentrations of venture dollars and entrepreneurial activity in the world. So unlike many forays by governments into venture capital where the ... See all stories on this topic »

Personal Style: Ozwald Boateng GQ.com American Vogue's André Leon Talley came to my second showing in Paris. He came to me afterwards and said, "I really like what you do." I said, "Yes, I'm a tailor". He replied, "No you're not. You're a couturier, you're a designer - you're much more ... See all stories on this topic »

'I hate it when women don't dress their age' Daily Sun After the first world war, her family owned a school called Carthinker school of fashion. During the war, there was scarcity of clothes, so they wanted people to produce more clothes for women in the army and that was where she came in. See all stories on this topic »

WORLD FOREX: Euro Sags As Dollar Comes Back In Vogue Analysts said US retail sales data for February at 1230 GMT will offer more clues about the state of the world's biggest economy than the Fed's statement... online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20120313-706156.html

Heaven Can Wait: Awake and GCB - Culture - Vogue When to Use, When to Lose—Cell Phones in a Social World ... (In one world, his shrink is a maternal figure of support, played by Cherry Jones; in the other, he's ... www.vogue.com/culture/.../heaven-can-wait-awake-and-gcb/

WORLD FOREX : Euro Sags As Dollar Comes Back In Vogue Euro sags as the dollar hits an eleven-month high against the yen -- U.S. retail sales data, FOMC eyed later in the global day By Eva Szalay Of DOW JONES... www.4-traders.com/.../WORLD-FOREX-Euro-Sags-As-Dollar...

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French report calls for end to sexualisation of children | World news ... The Guardian, UK and World news, User comments, Web ... The moves follow an international controversy over a Vogue magazine photographic shoot featuring ... www.guardian.co.uk/.../french-report-sexualisation-of-childre...

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