On Saturday, October 11th, an ambitious musical event will take place with seventeen different parties happening simultaneously in seventeen different countries to celebrate the 30 year anniversary of one of the most daring and distinctive denim labels. The architect of this sheer musical madness is none other than Italian maverick, Renzo Rosso of Diesel. He’s made an entire career out of defying conventions and doing things his own impassioned, witty, idiosyncratic way.

Where did you get the idea for this massive global party?
Renzo Rosso: We wanted to celebrate 30 years of creativity and passion and do it in a way only Diesel could do. It’s not about reflecting on our past but looking to the future and using all our talents to come together and create this huge event. There is so much passion and spirit at Diesel, this is a party for the people in the truest sense of the word, anyone can get a ticket. The idea was borne out of sharing this amazing milestone

You have been doing the Diesel:U Music Awards for sometime now. How important is music and supporting new music and artists to you?
RR: Diesel is renowned for its support of young and fresh talent, be it in music, film, fashion or art. This year we have taken Diesel U Music a step further by creating a radio station, a voice for new music that can be heard worldwide. It’s about giving people the tools and then seeing them succeed and excel in their creativity. This year we have turned our 30th birthday party in to the ultimate music awards and given raw talent, such as the band Princeton who will be performing at the UK event, a unique platform.

Diesel is much more than a brand, it’s more a lifestyle. Would you agree with this?
RR: The strength of a brand lies within its capacity to remain true to itself and its beliefs when it is stretched in to new shapes and directions. What began as a pair of jeans is now a car, a wine, a homeware collection, Diesel has always been about leading a successful lifestyle and now we have the products that enable you to lead that life.

You said in an interview, “I don’t believe in reincarnation, so for me, paradise is this life.” How do you uphold this philosophy?
RR: It’s about finding your own paradise and then being able to share it with those around you. My family are my passion and creating a paradise for them, being able to share what I have built and seeing success. Diesel is not my job, it’s my life.

You released a book when you turned forty called ‘Forty’ and then again when you turned ‘Fifty’. What new chapter do you hope to add when you release ‘Sixty’?
RR: The joy of living in the moment is the joy of not knowing what could happen tomorrow. I hope that it will be a chapter in a format that does not even exist, that we cannot imagine right now.

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Paul McCartney, who has been a vegetarian for 30 years, was extremely upset after he learned staff at a McDonald’s put up his pictures to attract customers. Paul’s portrait appears alongside bandmate John Lennon and fellow vegans Ringo Starr and the late George Harrison at a Liverpool branch.

Sir Paul’s spokesman Geoff Baker said:

“What sort of morons do McDonald’s think Beatles fans are?"

“It’s ridiculous and insulting to use images to peddle hamburgers. Fans should boycott McDonalds, and not just in Liverpool.”

A McDonald’s spokeswoman insisted the pictures were to “acknowledge the outstanding contribution the Beatles made to both local and global culture.”

Now that McDonald’s knows Paul doesn’t agree with his image being used in the stores, they should take the pictures down, and put up someone that better reflects the image of a burger eater like Kirstie Alley in my opinion. Although I have no idea if Alley eats burgers.

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Paul McCartney, who has been a vegetarian for 30 years, was extremely upset after he learned staff at a McDonald’s put up his pictures to attract customers. Paul’s portrait appears alongside bandmate John Lennon and fellow vegans Ringo Starr and the late George Harrison at a Liverpool branch.

Sir Paul’s spokesman Geoff Baker said:

“What sort of morons do McDonald’s think Beatles fans are?"

“It’s ridiculous and insulting to use images to peddle hamburgers. Fans should boycott McDonalds, and not just in Liverpool.”

A McDonald’s spokeswoman insisted the pictures were to “acknowledge the outstanding contribution the Beatles made to both local and global culture.”

Now that McDonald’s knows Paul doesn’t agree with his image being used in the stores, they should take the pictures down, and put up someone that better reflects the image of a burger eater like Kirstie Alley in my opinion. Although I have no idea if Alley eats burgers.

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The Pink Pony Collection continues Polo Ralph Lauren’s commitment to the global fight against cancer since 2000. For Fall 2008, Pink Pony introduces the newest items in the collection which includes a cashmere hoodie and scarf, a beaded hope tee, a striped rugby and a men’s tailored boyfriend shirt. The range is available exclusively at Ralph Lauren Stores and on Ralphlauren.com, a portion of the proceeds from all Pink Pony sales support the Pink Pony Fund of the Polo Ralph Lauren Foundation. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, show your support!

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Freepoland's suggestion that we forget money and think about poetry was, presumably, a joke, so it's wonderfully synchronous that, in the UBS clip posted above, the bank's basso profundo economics spokesman Paul Donovan does exactly that – with the UBS global economics department's own version of Rudyard Kipling's "If".

Shares in Kipling have soared following the UBS podcast, reaching $12 a simile in Far Eastern markets. Rupert Brooke is looking strong in the light of many likely casualties in foreign fields. Philip Larkin is selling well in the belief that we will all be utterly depressed and living in Mr Bleaney-style bedsits in a month or two. A lot of investors are putting their faith in poetic gold – Shakespeare, Milton, Donne, Marvell – whose values are unlikely to be shaken in these testing times. But Victorian derivatives are doing badly, and stock in Tennyson is now reckoned to be almost worthless. Henry Paulson is expected to make a statement on iambic pentameters later in the day.

Katie Holmes and hubby Tom Cruise can count on seeing some familiar mustachioed faces when “All My Sons,” in which Holmes stars, opens on Broadway Thursday.

The anti-Scientology critics of the group Anonymous are gearing up for another protest against the couple’s controversial faith outside the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Last month the group, whose members often don “V for Vendetta” masks with mustaches, heralded the play’s first preview by carrying signs that read “Scientology Kills” and “Free Katie, keep Tom.”

Count on Scientologists being there, too. One Anonymous member claims that last time, church members taunted the picketers by ranting, “I need Prozac” (Scientology opposes psychotropic medication) and “Let’s break all the windows at the Org,” (the Scientology headquarters on W. 46th). The Anonymous source says Scientologists later showed up at his house with a legal letter ordering him to “cease and desist.”

Anonymous is also hatching a global Halloween-themed protest on Oct. 18. Billed in L.A. as “The Nightmare on L. Ron Hubbard Way” (the street named for Scientology’s founder), the demo will “show the stark contrast between reality and the fiction sold to Hubbard’s followers,” according to an announcement. Protesters in New York are due to meet at Bryant Park at 11 a.m. They’re dressing as zombies to expose Scientology’s alleged “brainwashing” practices.

Church spokeswoman Karin Pouw brands Anonymous as a “terrorist group” that “has fueled religious hatred and intolerance … issued death threats … threatened to destroy Churches of Scientology by detonating bombs … and mailed envelopes containing fake anthrax to 25 churches.”
Anonymous lawyer Graham Berry, however, argues that “to my knowledge, the FBI has found no connection between Anonymous and these so-called threats. Scientology has a history of inventing threats as part of its campaign of intimidation.”

One Scientology critic who doesn’t feel persecuted is Bill Maher. In his new movie, “Religulous,” the comic dons ragged clothes and stands at Speakers’ Corner in London - blathering about the victims of an evil intergalactic emperor, without mentioning he’s merely regurgitating Scientology’s “secret” teachings.

“Scientology is newer and it is crazy,” Maher tells us. “But the teachings of Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, wouldn’t be that much crazier than Scientology if you ranted them on the street corner.” Maher figures he has probably blown his chance to work with Cruise and fellow Scientologist John Travolta, but concedes, “I don’t think it was in the cards anyway.”

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THOSE who say John McCain and Barack Obama waffle on the issues should vote for gun-toting, meat-loving rocker Ted Nugent, who makes no bones about what he’d do as president. “[I’d] instruct the US military warriors to do their job - win the global war on terror right now and eliminate all threats from all sources by any means necessary,” Nugent writes in his new book, “Ted, White and Blue.” He’d also “take appropriate gas and oil from Mexico and the Middle East as payment for all debts we are owed by them,” as well as end diplomatic immunity and taxpayer health care for elected officials. The “Cat Scratch Fever” wild man would eliminate welfare, and “able-bodied Americans who refuse to work will be sent to Cuba, Mexico, England and France.” As for the UN, “[I’d] refuse to pay one red cent more to the UN until other nations pony up their fair share - but maintain membership just to keep our eyes on the bastards.”

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• On Tuesday, the government announced that it will lend directly to non-financial companies through the commercial paper markets- which are short term, unsecured loans, firms use to borrow money for operational needs i.e. stocking up inventories. This will help companies finance their operational costs easier, since credit is so hard to get these days
• The Fed will start paying interest on commercial banks' reserves, which will expand the central bank's resources and more leverage to battle the this credit market
• On Wednesday, central banks around the world, including US, Britain and China cut their interest rates, which, made together, is supposedly a more powerful move. This is aimed to lower the cost of borrowing and put more liquidity back into the market (and of course there are a host of other effects, but this is the gist). This is one of the most powerful weapon in the US government's arsenal, but at 1.5% (after a 0.5% cut), they don't have much further to go. Any further, and they'll end up like Japan with no more room to adjust their interest rates and a decade long recession. You know the song that goes, "catch a falling star and save it for a rainy day"? I hope there aren't too many even more rainier days ahead, because it looks like we're running out of stars
• Paulson and Bernanke met up with representatives from the rest of the G7 on Friday, to discuss the global economy and came out with a list of broad common goals. I thought those goals were a given, but I guess not.
  
• They also announced on Friday that the US government will be injecting money into financial firms in exchange for equity stakes, in an attempt to recapitalize firms. At least we're getting something back. Maybe this will help Morgan Stanley, which has been under pressure this week with rumors that MUFG might be pulling out/demaind their stakes and what not.