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Despite six years virtually unchanged, the Audi R8 supercar's unaltered appearance continues dazzle. Whether in motion or at a standstill, the sculpted lines of the R8 have stood the test of time. When modernizing their supercar for the 2014 model year there was little sense for Audi to drastically change a cutting-edge vehicle. Still an image of the vehicle many in the sports car community have grown to Love, the 2014 Audi R8 Coupe and Spyder officially went on sale April 11th improving on their winning formula.
Individuals with a minimum of $114,900 (less delivery costs and taxes) can now experience the revisions Audi engineers have made to the modern quattro icon. "The 2014 R8 will continue to build upon that success for our halo sports car and for the Audi brand as a whole", said President of Audi of America Scott Keogh.
Stylistic touches are subtle but important in identifying the updated Audi R8 for 2014. A redesigned grille with more defined horizontal ribs adhering to Audi's Singleframe design. R8 badging found on the inside as well as outside areas of the 2014 Audi sports car advertises the vehicle's exclusivity and performance boldly. New side mirrors, refreshed wheel designs, trim around round exhaust pipes and LED taillights manicures the vehicle's demeanour to an extent only astute observer would notice. Perhaps the most illuminating feature produced to the all 2014 Audi R8 sports cars is found as forward lighting. Full LED headlamps are standard across the 2014 Audi R8 model line-up.
Looking fast, the R8 supercar's propulsion fed through Audi's quattro all-wheel drive will continue to be world class. The 2013 model year engines return to power the new Audi R8. A 430-horsepower 4.2 liter V8 and a 525-horsepower 5.2 liter V10 are both designed around the brand's FSI technology. A six-speed manual transmission choice also remains part of the 2014 Audi R8 for the sports car purists dream car. For those with an open mind and a desire to keep their hands on the steering wheel, the S tronic transmission returns as a seven speed units for 2014. Available on the V8 and V10 models of the 2014 Audi R8, the seven-speed S tronic gearbox is controlled through either the center console shifter or new shifter paddles on the steering wheel. The S tronic transmission will deliver the fastest acceleration for the new 2014 Audi R8. Runs from 0 to 60 miles per hour is two-tenths of a second faster with V8-equipped Audi R8s while the V10 launches four-tenths quicker through the seven-speed S tronic compared to the manual.
Inside, the pilot of the 2014 Audi R8 Coupe and Spyder will have a thicker, perforated steering wheel to grip on to in negotiating twists and turns. A high gloss available brings greater definition to the plastic and aluminum materials creating the 2014 R8's interior. The new leather materials inside the 2014 Audi R8 on the open-air Spyder incorporate thermal resistance for a more comfortable ride during hotter days. The Audi MMI Navigation plus system is optional on the V8 model of the 2014 Audi R8 but standard on the V10 variant. Optional equipment available for the interior of the 2014 Audi R8 includes contrast stitching and quilted leather seating.
The high output 560-horsepower model known as the R8 GT is discontinued for 2014 replaced with the Audi R8 V10 plus. All-new is the Audi R8 V10 plus model weaving many of the performance improvements of the previously-offered R8 GT. Standard carbon fiber body components such as sideblades and the inclusion of carbon ceramic brakes contribute to a much lighter vehicle compared to the basic V10 model. With the manual or S tronic transmission choice, the 2014 Audi R8 V10 plus alterations presents a 132-pound weight reduction. The weight-savings in addition to the 25 extra horsepower allows the Audi R8 V10 plus to accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour one-tenth of a second sooner. Overall speed has also been bettered by two miles per hour pegged at 198 for the 2014 Audi R8 V10 plus with a manual gearbox.
With the six-speed manual equipped, 4.2 liter V8 version of the 2014 Audi R8 Coupe priced at $114,900, the S tronic model is available for an extra $9,100. The 2014 Audi R8 V10 carries a manufacturer suggested sticker price starting at $151,200 for the Coupe and $164,700 for the Spyder. The Spyder models run about $13,000 to $14,000 more than the hardtop. For the top-end 2014 Audi R8 V10 plus fitted with the S tronic gearbox, the car will fetch a fast $179,645.
As the 2014 Audi R8 arrives in showrooms, the quattro supercar make prepares for an adventurous summer of 2013. Sports car racing in the Blancpain Endurance Series and Rolex Sports Car Series will heat up in coming months with Audi R8s ready to take honours. For 2013, motorsport-prepped variations of the Audi R8 are favourites to take some major hardware before the end of this year. An Audi R8 e-Tron will also play a part in the blockbuster Iron Man 3.
Information and photo source: Audi AG, Chris Nagy


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Frequently Asked Questions
Here you can find answers to frequently asked questions about Genshi.
- What is Genshi?
- Why yet another template engine?
- Why XML-based?
- So then why not just use Kid?
- What are the main differences between Kid and Genshi?
- What other features does the toolkit provide?
- Why use includes instead of inheritance?
- What license governs the use of Genshi?
- What do I need to use Genshi?
- Why is it called "Genshi"?
- Usage
What is Genshi?
We like to call it a "toolkit for stream-based generation of output for the web". The largest feature provided by Genshi is an XML-based template engine that is heavily inspired by Kid. But it also provides a text-based template engine, as well as a collection of tools for working with markup.
Why yet another template engine?
We'll let Ryan Tomayko, the author of Kid, answer this one:
"There's at least four billion and nine text based template languages for Python but there aren't a lot of options that fit nicely into the XML tool-chain. Or, if they do fit nicely into the XML tool-chain, they don't fit nicely with Python."
See his article "In search of a Pythonic, XML-based Templating Language" for the details.
Why XML-based?
Most template engines for web applications are character-stream based: they know nothing about the format of the response body that is being generated. They simply substitute variable expressions, and provide some directives for looping, conditionals, etc. Thus they can be used to generate any kind of textual output, be it HTML, plain text emails, program code, or really anything else.
However, 99% of the templates used by web applications generate some kind of XML/HTML-based markup. We believe that web applications can benefit from a template engine that "knows what it's doing" when it comes to markup. You don't need to worry about generating output that is not well-formed, nor do you need to worry about accidentially not escaping some data, thereby greatly reducing the risk for introducing XSS attack vectors. Furthermore, your templates look a lot more like the targetted output format: an HTML template looks like HTML, a template for an RSS feed looks like RSS. Directives in text-based template languages often result in rather messy templates, or produce excessive amounts of unnecessary white space.
In addition, text-based templates don't even work all that well for many text formats. Imagine you want to generate a plain text email or an iCalendar file. How do you deal with important concerns such as line-wrapping and white-space in your templates? You may be better off using specialized formatters.
So then why not just use Kid?
We think that Kid represents a huge step forward for XML-based templating in Python. Match templates and the generator-based processing model are extremely powerful concepts.
But arguably Kid also has some basic design problems. For example, Kid generates Python code from templates, which adds a lot of complexity to the code and can make the process of locating and fixing template errors a true nightmare. A syntax error in a template expression will cause an exception that points somewhere in the generated code. In addition, as Kid is based on ElementTree, and the ElementTree API doesn't provide location information for parse events, exceptions reported by Kid often don't include information about what part of the template caused the error. (To be fair, this kind of location tracking wasn't even available in the Python bindings for Expat before Python 2.4.)
We felt these problems would best be addressed by developing a new engine form scratch, as opposed to trying to "fix" Kid.
What are the main differences between Kid and Genshi?
Genshi executes templates directly, there's no code generation phase. Expressions are evaluated in a more forgiving way using AST transformation. Template variables are stored on a stack, which means that some variable set in a loop deep in the template won't leak into the rest of the template. And even though Genshi doesn't generate Python code for templates, it generally performs slightly better than Kid (even up to 2x in some of our tests, but the exact differences depend on a lot of factors).
Genshi does not depend on ElementTree. It uses Expat for parsing XML, and is based on streaming slightly abstracted parse events through the processing pipeline. It uses XInclude – instead of Kids' py:extends – to allow template authors to factor out common bits. For match templates, it uses XPath expressions instead of the ElementTree API.
For more details about what's different see GenshiVsKid.
What other features does the toolkit provide?
Beyond the XML-based template engine, Genshi provides:
- a unified stream-based processing model for markup, where
- streams can come from XML or HTML text, or be generated programmatically? using a very simple syntax.
- XPath can be used to query any stream, not just in templates.
- Different serialization methods (XML, HTML, and plain text) for streams.
- An HTML "sanitizing" filter to strip potentially dangerous elements or attributes from user-submitted HTML markup.
- A simple text-based template engine that can be used for generating plain text output.
Why use includes instead of inheritance?
We think that includes are both simpler and more natural for templating.
Template inheritance is a concept that fits well with template languages where a master template provide "slots" that are "filled" by the inheriting templates. However, Genshi has no such feature, and instead uses the more powerful and flexible concept of match templates.
Furthermore, XInclude is a W3C standard, which means that it is more likely to be supported in authoring tools than some esoteric custom notation for including external resources.
See also GenshiRecipes/PyExtendsEquivalent and GenshiRecipes/PyLayoutEquivalent to find out how the Kid directives py:extends and py:layout map to includes in Genshi.
What license governs the use of Genshi?
Genshi is released under the revised BSD license, which is a liberal open source license that has been approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI).
What do I need to use Genshi?
Python 2.3 or later. Python 2.4 is recommended for better performance, plus error messages will include template line numbers and column offsets. Setuptools is optional and only used for installation if it's available.
The template engine plugin (for http://www.turbogears.org/docs/plugins/template.html), which enables usage of Genshi in frameworks such as TurboGears, depends on Setuptools at runtime and installation time. Use of the plugin implementation is optional, though: Setuptools is not required for using Genshi directly.
Why is it called "Genshi"?
"Genshi" (原糸) is japanese and roughly translates to "thread for weaving". Basically, Genshi is a thread for weaving web output. The thread meaning also fits nicely with how markup is presented as streams of events in Genshi.
Prior to release 0.3, the project was called "Markup". The name was changed because:
- there was another Python project using the name,
- it made communication somewhat awkward, because it was sometimes unclear whether someone is talking about the project "Markup", or just plain markup, and
- it was not easy to find the project via search engines.
How can I include literal XML in template output?
Unless explicitly told otherwise, Genshi escapes any data you substitute into template output so that it is safe for being parsed and displayed by web browsers and other tools. This saves you from the work of having to tediously escape every variable by hand, and greatly reduces the risk of introducing vectors for cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
However, sometimes what you want is to include text in the template output that should not get escaped. For example, if you allow users to enter HTML verbatim (or provide a rich-text editor of sorts), you want that HTML to appear as actual markup in the output, not as escaped text.
Genshi provides a number of ways to do that:
- The Markup class in the genshi.core? module can be used to flag strings that should not be escaped. Strings wrapped in a Markup instance get copied to the output unchanged.
- The XML and HTML functions in the genshi.input? module parse XML and HTML strings, respectively, and produce a markup stream. Note that this option can be rather expensive, as the text needs to be parsed just to be serialized again. Also, this method fails on bad markup that cannot be parsed by either HTMLParser or Expat.
- If you are generating the snippets in question yourself, you may want to use the genshi.builder? to generate markup streams programmatically?. Just as the results of the XML and HTML functions discussed above, the stream produced using genshi.builder will not be escaped in the template output.
See also: Documentation, GenshiRecipes

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I was tagged by Riya dear "This or That" tag. SO here goes my answers :)
- Blush or Bronzer: Blush, because they gives glow to the cheeks and enhance the makeup look very well.
- Lipgloss or Lipstick: Lipstick, I love Lipstick and use it often, I use lip gloss very rarely.
- Eyeliner or mascara: Eyeliner, It is my first choice it adds attraction to the eyes always.
- Foundation or concealer: Foundation, I am a foundation addict, never used concealer.
- Neutral or color eyeshadow: Neutral, I prefer neutral look always.
- Pressed or loose eyeshadows: Pressed Eye shadows, because they are easy to apply and less fall out.
- Brushes or Sponges: Brushes, because easy to apply through brushes and less wastage of products.
- OPI or China Glaze: Lol nothing I haven't tried anything love to try China glaze.
- Long or short: Long, I love long nails, they looks pretty when I apply nail colour.
- Acrylic or natural: Natural always.
- Brights or darks: Dark, for my skin tone brights won't workout :p
- Flower or no flower: Flower, it is easy peasy to draw.
- Perfume or Body Splash: Body splash, I use perfume very rarely.
- Lotion or Body Butter: Lotion only, no need of body butters for me now.
- Body wash or soap: Soaps, I found soap is more convenient to use :).
- Lush or other bath company: Haven't tried lush yet, I love handmade products.
- Jeans or sweat pants: Jeans, that too I am wearing very rare.
- Long sleeve or short: Long sleeve, this will protect your hands from tan :p
- Dresses or skirts: Nope I never wear any :p
- Stripes or plaid: Stripes :)
- Flip flops or sandals: Sandals.
- Scarves or hats: I don't use any of this.
- Studs or dangly earings: I love dangly Earrings very much.
- Necklaces or bracelets: If I wear I prefer necklace, I don't like bracelets.
- Heels or flats: Flats only, Heels no needed lol I am 5'8
- Cowboy boots or riding boots: Lol I nevr use boots :p
- Jacket or hoodie: Never use any
- Forever 21 or Charlotte Russe: I don't know what is this sorry :o
- Saks 5th or Nordstrom: Sorry No Idea :(
- Curly or straight: Straight.
- Bun or pony tail: Pony tail
- Bobby pins or butterfly clips: butterfly clips
- Hair Spray or Gel: I won't use any.
- Long or short: Long
- Light or dark: dark
- Side sweep bangs or full bangs: side sweep bangs :).
- Up or down: down
- Rain or shine: Rain.
- Summer or Winter: Winter. My oily skin feels so relaxed in this season :)
- Fall or spring: I love Fall.
- Chocolate or Vanilla: I love both, but gives vanilla 1st preference.
- East coast or west coast: East Coast


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Saturday, June 30, 2007
16 kg SSST snatch training and Kenneth Jays Max Vo2 snatch workout
Well, here goes the start of my training to test the SSST in Sept.
Warm up
40 2 hand swings w/12kg, 1 min. on 1 min. rest x 3 sets = 6 min.
Misc. snatch transfers w/12kg & 16kg, 3-4 min.
Work sets w/16kg
10/10 x 3 ( 1st video shows this set) 30 reps each side, 60 snatches
equal rest (about 2.5 min.)
8/8 x 3, 24 reps each side, 48 snatches
equal rest (about 2 min. 15 sec.)
6/6 x 3, 18 reps each side, 36 snatches
equal rest (about 2 min.)
Total snatches w/16kg = 144 /about 15 min. total time
16 kg SSST training
I've got alot of work ahead of me! 16kg is no joke! These reps were too fast to go much longer, this really winded me, and the last time I tried a more GS style the reps were too slow and my shoulder strength gave. If I had to pick which was easier, at this point I feel it would be easier to train for GS, going the 10 min. slower w/ 1 hand trans., I'm not saying that GS is easier, it's just my opinion based on my own fitness level and strength.
Max V02
15 sec. sets w/ 15 sec. rest each arm w/12kg x 40 sets = 20 min.
8 snatch L, rest, 8 snatch R, rest = 320 snatches
Start of Kenneths Max Vo2 snatch workout /first 3 sets
1/2 through the workout/ sets # 24,25, you can see the fatigue, even though the reps were the same # my form was no as strong or crisp.
I finished the workout staying w/12kg
10 2 hand swings, 10 transfers x 6 = 3 min. on
1 min. rest x 2 sets = 8 min. (120 reps x 2 = 240)
10 2 hand swings, 10 transfers x 4 = 2 min. on
1 min. rest x 2 sets = 6 min. (80 reps x 2 = 160)
10 2 hand swings, 10 transfers x 2 = 1 min. on
1 min rest x 2 sets = 4 min. (40 reps x 2 = 80)
Total time 18 min. (total swing reps w/12kg 480)
Total workout time 58-60 min.
I did not feel strong today, next week I think I'll have to go back to training first thing in the morning.
Friday AM weight 129.0
8:30am 1 hour beach walk/jog
10:00am KB swings w/ Heather
coffee w/cream 70 cal.
10:00 & 11:00 carrots, celery (2 each), PNB, raisins 350 cal.
2:30 cabbage slaw w/chicken (6oz) and curry dressing 500 cal.
2:45 8 small apricots 150 cal. + pistachios 80 cal.
5:30 chili stew w/chicken (4oz), and black beans 450 cal.
8:30 chocolate sucker 70 cal.
Total calories 1670
99% of my food was clean and healthy (minus the chocolate sucker sweetened w/corn syrup). I had taken some yogurt with me to work, but I didn't eat it because I chose the apricots (from someone's tree) and some nuts somebody else brought into work. Damn, my yogurt meal is one of my favs, so it sucked skipping it, but I kept a running total this day and simply couldn't afford the extra calories if I want to get my weight back down in the 127-8's. So I was a little surprised, after keeping things pretty tight for the last few days that this morning......
Saturday AM weight 129.8 (?)
1:45 KB snatch workout
7:00pm 1 hour walk
coffee w/cream 70 cal.
7:30 prunes w/PNB (3) 100 cal.
9:30 3 massively large donuts 1200- 1500 cal.
12:30 espresso w/cream (pre workout) 70 cal.
3:30 1 whole crenshaw melon 400 cal.?
5:30 spinach salad w/chicken (5oz) and anchovy dressing 450 cal.
Total calories around 2800
I managed to have a "mild" high calorie day, it's a miracle really! Everytime I felt like totally giving up and bingeing continuously throughout the day, I would hear in my head. "Just eat it all, eat everything, you might as well, it's just one day, you already blew it, and you were going to try and be good, that went out the window when you stopped at the donut shop. You knew better than that.", that was followed by, "Calm down, how much do you freakin need? You never got your weight back down from last week, don't add insult to injury. DON'T ADD INSULT TO INJURY. you will feel like shit if you don't stop now. It's not too late."
Tomorrow is Sunday and my plan is to map out a NEW PLAN! I'm not ready to weigh more than 130, it's got to come back down, but slowly, and intelligently. And although I have to admit I like feeling a little beefier ( I think my boo-tay is bigger!) my head is just not there yet.
Don't add insult to injury. Make life good.
9 comments:
- fawn said...
Very nice Tracy... you look strong and tight. Impressive and inspiring.
- July 1, 2007 at 6:22:00 PM PDT
- Christine said...
LOL @ the booty compliment! Nothing wrong with a lil junk in your trunk! :)
I'm very excited to hear this PLAN :)
- July 2, 2007 at 1:36:00 AM PDT
- Tracy Reifkind said...
Fawn, I'm excited at some new training goals I've made for myself, I particularly dig this Max V02 training.
I've decided, also, to replace everyother squat workout with lunges instead. I'm digging the booty, but not the thickness in my abs.
- July 2, 2007 at 10:59:00 AM PDT
- Tracy Reifkind said...
Christine, I hope to be mapping out my plan fot the next 3 months....diet and training.
- July 2, 2007 at 11:02:00 AM PDT
- Renee said...
Funny story about the 16k- at my cert. (last month) I weighed in at a weight that was, to my surprise and dismay, 7 lbs. more than what my scale said the morning prior (I have no clue). So- whereas I had been training with the one 12k KB that I owned at the time, thinking that I would be in the weight class to use that- I was wrong. Not only had I never snatched a 16k KB- I had never picked one up and no one had explained to me the invaluable concept of power from your hips. Now I HAD to snatch it right then and there having never even touched one. I managed to muscle my way through all the snatches I had to do (which doesn't seem like much now). But, at the time I remember thinking "this can't be too much harder." It was totally different than what I was used to feeling with my 12k and attribute my completing this 1st "requirement" to force of my own will.
- July 5, 2007 at 8:24:00 AM PDT
- Renee said...
... and the fact that my dad was standing right in front of me telling me (I'll censor this) that I better make this work! (We are both prior Marines, motivated by threats of hazing, lol.)
- July 5, 2007 at 8:29:00 AM PDT
- Guy said...
Your "Competitive goals/philoshophy" mirror my own goals, Tracy. You've come a long way. Your heavy/light reasoning strikes a chord w/ me, since I have been doing "The Art of Stength -Firepower" Workout as my 3 X weekly practice, and subsequently had to use 35lb KB for some of the drills. Before i had been doing "Mike Mahlers KB Solution for size and strength" training, a totally different animal, w/ my two 53lb'rs
I've found the faster paced strenght/ endurance pace of "Firepower" doesnt allow me to use 53lb'rs for every drill,:( oh well, I could'nt complet some of your workouts w/ the 53lbrs either. Live and learn. Like in "The 13th warrior" "I cannot lift this (sword)!" Viking Response "Grow Stronger"
Life is about growth and adaptation, and you Tracy are a great example of this.
Thanks for all your hard work, thanks to Mark too.
- July 7, 2007 at 10:35:00 AM PDT
- Tracy Reifkind said...
Renee, Was Mark at your cert?
Anyway, great story! The handle on that 16kg will mess you up big time, huh?
- July 9, 2007 at 6:53:00 AM PDT
- Tracy Reifkind said...
Guy, Growth and adaptation....in my current state of over-thinking/analyizing my life these days, those words mean so much!
Thank you for that.
- July 9, 2007 at 6:57:00 AM PDT


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Following in the footsteps of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced on CNBC Thursday that he is endorsing President Barack Obama for re-election.
Schultz's endorsement is surprising, given his vocal abstinence from politics this election cycle. In August 2011, Schultz called for a halt on campaign donations until both parties found common ground on the country's long-term fiscal issues.
Watch the video of his endorsement below:
*This post was updated with the video at 5:32 p.m.


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It's always a pleasure to see a stunning home with sustainable features, but isn't pretentious about it. This beautiful residence in Atherton in the Bay Area is such a house – gorgeous, with an obvious connection to the outdoors and sustainable features that could go undetected by the casual observer's eye. Featuring many green design elements, this home designed by SF-based Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects, includes solar power, environmentally friendly materials and passive heating and cooling.
The original 1950s Bay Area home on the lot was torn down due to structural problems. In its place, this structure was erected around the site's existing pond. To take advantage of the scenic views of water, the home was built as four buildings, the main house, study, pool house and garage, that all come right up against the water's edge. Large sliding glass doors from the buildings open up towards the pond, providing an immediate connection with nature as well as a good dose of natural ventilation.
Beyond the stunning exteriors and clean and simple interior, the home is greener than it appears. On the roof, solar photovoltaic panels and a solar hot water system give the home some green cred. An effective combination of stone floors and a radiant floor heating system provide heating during those cooler months in the Bay Area. Additionally, the home utilizes high fly-ash concrete, formaldehyde-free casework and denim insulation. And despite the warm temperatures during the summer on the South part of the peninsula, the home has no air conditioning and relies on natural ventilation from operable windows and doors, shading from the large roof overhangs and the versatile stone floors to help keep things cool.
Even though the home is built just outside of San Francisco, it design helps it feel as though it were in a secluded location — providing a relaxing getaway for both the owners and their guests. With eco features and an interior that opens up and blurs the boundaries between indoor and outdoor, this beautiful home breezily achieves a sustainable elegance that is simply stated and integrated with sophistication.
+ Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects


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Just like any good fairy tale, "Once Upon A Time" evolved through various incarnations over the years.
"The idea for the show really started over eight years ago," says co-creator Adam Horowitz, who conceived the core notions for the series with writing partner Edward Kitsis. "Eddie and I had just come off working on 'Felicity' and we had just been talking about 'Why are we writers, and what are the kinds of stories we like to tell?' And fairy tales were these really formative things for us. Then we sat down to write it – and we didn't know what the hell we were doing."
"We really didn't," agrees Kitsis, "which is why it probably didn't sell eight years ago, and we kind of had an eight-year writers' block." The duo had no shortage of creative ideas outside of that project, however, and went on to high-profile stints on the writing staff for "LOST" and as the screenwriters of the sci-fi sequel "Tron: Legacy." "I think after our time on "LOST," we started to kind of see it differently, and it's just kind of been in our head for eight years, and this is kind of what came out."
U.S. & World
The result of the writers' eight-year gestation is now ABC's great white hope to fill the genre-centric, mystery filled hole left in its schedule when "LOST" closed up shop: Thanks to a curse cast by the legendary Evil Queen (Lana Parrilla), the inhabitants of the magical fairy tale kingdom ruled by Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin) and her Prince Charming (Josh Dallas) have forgotten who they once were and live out mundane existences in the Maine town of Storybrooke. That is, until the royal couple's long-lost, long-forgotten daughter Emma (Jennifer Morrison), a bounty hunter who's surprised to learn of her supposed lineage after a life led in the real world, is led to the town by Henry (Jared Gilmore), the son she gave up for adoption years before.
While "Once Upon a Time" will both play on the legends of the storybook icons at the core of the story (and their pop culture iterations, since ABC's parent company Disney will let the show tap some of its enduring takes on the fairy tales) and spin out some mysterious, simmering plotlines in the "LOST" tradition. But the creators are hoping to deliver something even deeper.
"The show at its core is a character show," says Kitsis. "We are much more interested in the character than the mythology. We are much more interested in why does the Evil Queen hate Snow White? Why is Grumpy grumpy? Why does Geppetto want a boy so badly he made one out of wood? We love the idea of going back and forth and kind of informing what the character is missing in their life, and that's what going back and forth does for us."
Goodwin says she was captivated by the opportunity to portray not just Snow White – her all-time favorite fairy tale character – but the real-world alter ego she's been living as since the curse was cast. "I think physically we've altered the characters enough that it will do a lot of the work for the audience," she says. "Snow White is in full bloom, while Mary Margaret has a long way to go to become comfortable in her skin. We've done a lot of costume and makeup work – in some ways subtle and some ways really obvious – to create two characters that work for us. I'm really excited to create two characters. It's incredibly challenging, but I'm game."
As the outsider who serves as the eyes of the audience, Morrison says "It's been fun actually to have that perspective on things, because I feel like someone has to comment on how ridiculous it all seems, to be able to have a genuine response to what's going on. If I were faced with this just as me, I would think it was ridiculous, so it's been fun to be able to have the freedom to have those reactions as Emma. She's had such a tough life in terms of being abandoned as a child and raised in the foster system and going through a lot of horrible things that we'll come to find out over time, that I think she has a really tough exterior. And I think that for her to open herself to the idea of something is out there and really embrace it is going to take some time."
And then there's the bad girl, the Evil Queen, who's not only responsible for the fairy tale characters' amnesiac states, she's set herself up as the mayor of Storybrooke AND Henry's adoptive mother, Regina. "I'm having a blast!" proclaims Parrila. "I think any time an actor is handed a script where you get to play two roles is pretty awesome. I've worked pretty hard at showing the contrast between the two characters. The queen is very powerful and puts everything out there, where Regina, she masks everything. I love them both."
Providing more of a wild card is Rumpelstikskin (Robert Carlyle), a seeming troublemaker both then and now, in the guise of the wealthy Mr. Gold. "Rumpelstiltskin and Mr. Gold are obviously intrinsically linked," says Carlyle. "In some way, they are pretty much spawn of the same person. What interested me about the change between the fairy tale world and the real world, that there wasn't such a massive jump in actual fact. It wasn't as if it's fantasy fairy tale jumped into social realism or something like that. I don't think that would necessarily work. I think Storybrooke is slightly off balance – everything's off kilter, so Gold and Rumpelstiltskin, though physically different, in their head there's an awful lot of similarities there."
"For us the show isn't about breaking the curse," says Horowitz. "That is obviously part of it, but the show's really about these characters and it's about their lives and what they're going through. So how long can we explore those characters and what they're going through? As long as people want us to."
"Once Upon a Time" debuts Sunday, October 23rd at 8 PM ET on ABC


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Recently modernised and renovated to a high standard, Ardlochan Lodge opened in April 2016
Accommodation details
- Single storey
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About the area
Maybole is the closest town, an ancient village established in the 12th century. As well as a Victorian town hall and a 17th century castle, the High Street has a range of shops and amenities.
Ayrshire is famous for its golf courses including Turnberry, Royal Troon and Old Prestwick. Fishing, cycling, horse riding and clay shooting are also available nearby.
Things to do
- Spend a day losing yourself in Culzean's massive grounds. Spot the Ice House, the Swan Pond, visit the Deer Park and adopt a deer, or explore the rock pools on the beach.
- Alloway is only a short drive away. Learn about Scotland's National Bard at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, then follow in the footsteps of Tam O'Shanter and visit Alloway's 'auld haunted kirk'.
- There's not much left to see, but the nearby clifftop ruin of Turnberry Castle is steeped in medieval history. It's said Robert the Bruce's mother held his father captive here until he agreed to marry her, and the castle is widely held as King Robert's birthplace. The ruin is old and unstable; take great care if exploring.
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Shanghai PPTV Grand Slam | 29 avril - 4 mai 2014
Shanghai, China, May 2, 2014 – Brazilian Legend Emanuel Rego and his new partner Pedro Solberg Salgado made it into the men's semifinals of the US$800,000 2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Shanghai Grand Slam with a well-earned full-set victory over defending Shanghai Grand Slam champions Jacob Gibb/Casey Patterson of the United States in the quarter-finals here Friday afternoon.
After beating Vitor Goncalves Felipe and Evandro Goncalves Oliveira in straight sets (21-17, 21-17) in an all-Brazilian clash, Pedro/Emanuel rallied past Gibb/Patterson 2-1 (19-21, 21-15, 15-9) in 53 minutes to reach the medal round for the first time in their second World Tour event together.
"What a game! It's usually the kind of game you see in the finals, because both of the teams were very well prepared,†said the 41-year-old Emanuel. "I am very glad to have Pedro in my team, because he played an amazing game. He blocked for so many times in the third set, at the most important moment of the set, so I think he deserved all the honor for this match.â€
After splitting the first two sets with the Americans, Pedro/Emanuel jumped to an amazing 8-2 lead in the tiebreaker. Gibb/Patterson steadily pulled within 10-7 to force a time-out by Pedro/Emanuel, only to find them come back to wrap up the match with a 5-2 run.
"We changed our strategy during the game, because we saw them play very calm and consistent, and we tried to change strategy all the time, and in the third set we did well,†Emanuel added. "Our focus was serving well and giving Pedro chances to block and we did it successfully.â€
Coming off a fifth finish at the season-opening Fuzhou Open, Pedro/Emanuel will try to get their first medal together in the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour.
"It's our first chance to be there and we are very focused to play better, because we've learned a lot from the last weekend, and we knew we had to play better this week in Shanghai, because all the best teams are here for the Grand Slam,†said Emanuel. "I think it's a great moment for me and Pedro. We came back from Fuzhou very strong and I think we need to put the same energy for tomorrow.â€
Newly-crowned Fuzhou Open champions Paolo Nicolai/Daniele Lupo reached the medal round for the second tournament in a row as they scored a come-from-behind 2-1 (15-21, 21-18, 15-11) victory over top seeds Sean Rosenthal and Philip Dalhausser of the United States in the quarter-finals Friday afternoon. The other semifinal berths were taken by Latvia's third seeds Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins and Germany's 11th seeds Jonathan Erdmann/Kay Matysik, 2-1 (21-19, 19-21, 15-8) upset winners over Spain's second seeds Pablo Herrera Allepuz/Adrian Gavira Collado in the last quarter-final match.
Earlier on Friday, American qualifiers John Hyden and Tri Bourne, who had won all three pool matches after advancing to the Main Draw through the lucky losers draw, were eliminated by Poland's 16th seeds Michal Kadziola/Jakub Szalankiewicz 2-0 (21-18, 21-18) in the second rould of the knock-out stage.
The men's semifinals and medal matchs of the first Grand Slam event of the season will be held on Saturday. The 2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour calendar features a record purse of US$10.2 million with a season that extends from late April to mid-December competing at 21 venues in 18 countries. This year's FIVB World Tour includes a record 10 FIVB Grand Slam events, the inaugural Grand Slam Finale and 11 FIVB Open Tournaments throughout the world, helping expand the door for development of the sport even further.
The 10 FIVB Grand Slam competitions, all double-gender, have eight with $800,000 in total purses while both The Hague, Netherlands and the Long Beach, Calif., USA event will have $1 million each in prize money, the most in FIVB Grand Slam history.
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Anghus Houvouras selects his five most disappointing films of all time…
With this week's 3D re-release of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, it feels like a good time to look back at some of the biggest disappointments ever to hit cinemas. The films that we waited years for, and the ones that failed to deliver on such lofty expectations. Are they the worst movies ever released? That's debatable. They are however the most crushing disappointments in the history of cinema…
5. Watchmen
The most critically revered graphic novel ever released was transformed into one of the most reviled adaptations of the 21st century. Director Zack Snyder's soulless imagining of Alan Moore's seminal work was plagued by questionable casting (Malin Akerman, Matthew Goode) and cartoonish production design that had the look of dimly lit soundstages.
After nearly two decades in development, the property passed through the hands of directors like Terry Gilliam and Paul Greengrass before Zack Snyder delivered a very literal and uninspired dud, practically smothered by his obsessive compulsive devotion to translating every panel in the most literal way possible.
The Aftermath:
Snyder followed the disappointing Watchmen with the practically unwatchable Sucker Punch. He returns to the comic adaptations with 2013's Man of Steel, which will no doubt feature time manipulation FX.
4. The Godfather: Part III
A film so disappointing that its existence has been all but expunged from the collective consciousness. The third chapter of the Godfather saga was released to baffled audiences and critics. Never has a cinematic lineage been so sullied. The first two are still considered to be unimpeachable classics… the third is viewed like a failed experiment that is better left forgotten. It's hard to tell where exactly it all went wrong.
The Aftermath:
Francis Ford Coppola's career trajectory was derailed and never quite recovered. After The Godfather: Part III, we got Bram Stoker's Dracula, Jack, The Rainmaker, Youth Without Youth, Tetro, and Twixt. Not exactly the kind of quality you'd expect from the guy who brought us The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather: Part II and Apocalypse Now.
3. Spider-Man 3
The first Spider-Man was a massive hit that launched the rebirth of the comic book movie. The second film was able to build on the success of the first and deliver what many consider to be the best comic book adaptation ever made. Many expected Sam Raimi's third take on the character to further improve on the formula. Nope. Instead audiences were treated to lazy scriptwriting, a myriad of new and undeveloped characters, and Peter Parker disco dancing. There are very few examples of movies where you can actually feel the creative forces behind a film putting their hands up in the air and throwing in the towel.
It was well documented that Raimi wasn't thrilled by the studio's insistence on including Venom as a villain. And none of the cast were good enough actors to convince the audience that they were doing the movie for anything other than a paycheck. The result was a truly terrible movie that ended up killing Raimi's take on the franchise.
The Aftermath:
Sam Raimi drifted away from big budget blockbusters before taking the on reins for Oz: The Great and Powerful starring James Franco. As for Spider-Man, Sony has handed the franchise over to director Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer) with a big budget relaunch in The Amazing Spider-Man.
2. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
There had been talk of a fourth Indiana Jones film as far back as 1992, but the project never seemed to get off the ground. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg could never quite find the time or the right story to settle on. Eventually the stars aligned and, after countless stalls, the fourth Indiana Jones film was put into production. To reward fans for their patience ,they got a tired story, Shia Labeouf leading an army of monkeys, and an aged Indiana Jones who seemed more likely to yell at kids to get off his lawn than save the world from impending doom.
The film's only lasting legacy was the creation of a new expression for creative bankruptcy: Nuking the Fridge.
The Aftermath:
Eventually Spielberg admitted to the film's fatal failings. Apparently neither he nor Lucas were discouraged and are planning a fifth installment. Based on the development time between the third and the fourth installment, I'm guessing this one will star the reanimated corpse of Harrison Ford.
1. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
No film had higher expectations. No film has ever been so disappointing. So soul crushing. Ever since the first Star Wars revealed itself to be 'Episode 4', movie fans were hopeful that one day George Lucas would return to a galaxy far far away and tell the story of how Darth Vader came to be. George Lucas had spent almost two decades reinventing how movies are made. From special FX to sound design, no one person has contributed more to the techniques of filmmaking. And yet, with all the tools in the toolbox, he delivered a technically proficient but utterly ridiculous move. There's so much bad that it's difficult to find where to start. You don't even need to go into detail to convey just how heinous this film is. You can merely say 'WIZARD!' or the name Jar Jar Binks and film fans will rightfully roll their eyes.
It's amazing to see a movie that is such a technical marvel and yet feels as though it was assembled by a nine-year-old with attention deficit disorder. It's not that it's bad, it's how bad it is. George Lucas managed to murder the inner child of so many film fans. Critics were generally ambivalent. Deep down they knew it was awful, but no one wanted to cast the first stone. No one wanted to raze and burn a pop culture phenomenon, no matter how well deserved, and to this day it's difficult to find a review that describes the film as anything other than average.
The Aftermath:
George Lucas made two more Star Wars prequels and continued his foray into computer generated circle jerking. This weekend audiences will get to suffer through the sorrow in 3D.
January 2013 Update: Due to the intense debate raised by this list, Anghus has now written a follow-up article, Return of the Five Most Disappointing Films of All Time.
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Absolutely Petty: AP's Juliet Williams Goes After 'Failed' Rick Perry For Visiting Calif. to Lure Businesses to Texas
This goes back about ten days, and I originally missed it. Fortunately, though, an Investor's Business Daily editorial got around to mentioning Rick Perry's visit to California last week in an effort to lure businesses to the more commerce-friendly environs of Texas.
Associated Press report Juliet Williams and her story's headline writer were not amused by Perry's aggressiveness. Williams seemed to be bucking to have her picture placed next to the words "petty" and "vindictive" in the dictionary. Several paragraph from her February 11 coverage of Perry's visit to the formerly Golden State follow the jump (bolds are mine throughout this post):
Texas Gov. Rick Perry brought his brash pitch for jobs to California on Monday as he sought to lure businesses to his state with the promise of lower taxes and fewer regulations.
Perry's private meetings with business leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area weren't his first effort to tempt companies to leave the Golden State, but this three-day trip has certainly drawn more attention than previous attempts, and the failed Republican presidential candidate welcomed the spotlight.
In an interview with the San Jose Mercury News, he criticized California's regulatory environment, and said Austin, Texas, is poised to become the "next Silicon Valley."
… The visit follows a 30-second radio ad that began airing last week in which Perry criticized California's business climate, drawing a colorful response from Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat.
"Building a business is tough," Perry says in the ad, which also was paid for by TexasOne. "But I hear building a business in California is next to impossible."
He added, "There are plenty of reasons Texas has been named the best state for doing business for eight years running."
The spot ran on six radio stations in the San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Inland Empire and San Diego media markets.
Brown last week dismissed Perry's $24,000 in radio ads as a cheap gimmick.
Williams's characterization of Perry as a "failed presidential candidate" is consistent with the wire service's treatment of Republicans who run for but don't win the presidency. In a January 2012 post (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), I noted that the AP didn't hesitate to hang the "failed" tag on Mitt Romney in 2008 when John McCain won the Republican presidential nomination, or on Perry shortly after he dropped out. But here's a list of pathetic Democratic presidential flops the AP has never to my knowledge tagged as failures: Joe Lieberman, Howard Dean, Carol Moseley Braun, Dennis Kucinich, Joe Biden, and Chris Dodd.
A subsequent AP report two days later demonstrated that the wire service knows almost nothing about sales and marketing:
Gov. Perry ending CA trip empty handed, so far
Gov. Rick Perry is wrapping up his high-profile recruiting trip to California without having convinced any businesses to relocate to his state – at least not yet.
The Republican said Wednesday that he met with "entrepreneurs and business leaders from across the Golden State." He also held a reception for more than 200 California companies who have expressed interest in moving.
But Perry offered nothing concrete to show for the visit as he heads home.
Well AP, Perry, with your help (ha ha) created an awful lot of awareness on the part of harried California businesspeople which may not have been present before. I suspect he also got a number of meaningful leads in the form of enterprises which would like to leave California or at least expand somewhere besides California but need more information before they pull up stakes or make their growth decisions. Anyone who has been in sales knows that Perry did not leave empty-handed.
I believe former Ohio Governor Jim Rhodes came back "empty-handed" — at least as the wet blankets at AP would interpret it — after his visit to Japan in the early 1980s to court Honda when he learned that the company was considering building cars in America. Several years later, Honda built its U.S. headquarters, first assembly plant, and several other manufacturing facilities in central and Western Ohio.
As to why Juliet Williams and AP chose to be such nattering nabobs of negativism, IBD probably has as good an explanation as any:
Fact is, California is punishing businesses and individuals with higher state taxes, while Texas is getting inundated with California companies seeking to move to the Lone Star State, regardless of whether Perry visits.
…The left's hysteria in trying to debunk basic economic truths is just proof that Perry's trip was the right thing to do.
In December, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in Texas was 6.1 percent, while California's was 9.8 percent. "Somehow," AP also missed reporting those economic truths.
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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Rookie Elena Delle Donne scored 23 points and the Chicago Sky routed the New York Liberty 75-55 in a matinee game on Thursday.
The win gave Chicago sole possession of first place in the Eastern Conference. It's the latest that the Sky (11-4) have been in first since the team came into the WNBA in 2006. Chicago is still looking for its first trip to the postseason.
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In China, the holidays season is also approaching. Anne Cresci illustrated a selection of limited edition products gifts with a red theme festive setting.
Votre Beauté Magazine
Anne Cresci illustrated, for a special issue of Votre beauté magazine, the following perfume: Si, by Giorgio Armani, Tom Ford's Fleur de Chine, Serge Lutens' la vierge de fer, Tonka by Reminiscence Paris, YSL's Manifesto, and Blue Cedrat by Comme des Garçons.
Carrera / Be Magazine
Anne Cresci illustrated, in the context of a rock music festival that takes place in the mountains, an advertorial for the eyewear brand Carrera, published in the magazine Be. The illustration shows three models of sunglasses for women.
Company magazine
Illustrations for the summer festival special for the magazine Company. The challenge was to illustrated women who all have varying jobs at festivals.
Marie Claire China magazine
In Beijing, China, the young women discover in this month's Marie Claire China magazine, a mysterious silhouette surrounded with a splendid vegetal scene by Anne Cresci created for the scene decor of a series of products on the "Botanical" theme.
JC Penney
For the series of Back to School ads for JC Penney stores, Anne had to draw different elements tailored around the selected photographs to support the story of each image. This campaign was realized by Saatchi & Saatchi in New York.
Company Magazine
Anne Cresci illustrates the article « Genie in a bottle », for Company Magazine, about the 3 trendiest feminine and floral summer 2012 fragrances.
Valentine's Day campaign of Marionnaud perfumeries
Series of illustrations created for Valentine's Day campaign of Marionnaud perfumeries by Anne Cresci. Marionnaud is an international chain of perfume stores from France based in Paris.
Le Mag de France Boissons
Anne Cresci has realized the cover page of corporate clients-oriented France Boissons' magazine. She worked with a frank and precise trait that comes out with the bright and lively colours she used.
Boiron stand
Anne Cresci created this illustration for the product stand of Actheane of Laboratoires Boiron. Actheane is a tablet which aims to fight hot flushes and other menopause's functional disorders.
Sponsored car wrapping for Snowboard Canada
Anne Cresci was chosen to illustrate the visual that will be used to cover a Mazda promotional car exhibited in Vancouver for the following months on the occasion of a partnership with Snowboard Canada.


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So it's been a while since I last blogged. (Okay, it's been a loooonnnggg while since I last blogged.) But I've been wonderfully occupied with getting our new son Yao acclimated and comfy in his new home. And, yes, I've managed to squeeze in some writing between 4:30am & 6:15am every day.
Happy to share that my new essay, "With Child," was recently published at Jennifer Pastiloff's amazing site, The Manifest-Station. This story of my adoption path to the Yaoster is one of the most from-my-heart things I've ever written. Would love for you to head on over there and give it a read.
Here's the beginning:
"During the adoption process for our second child, I packed on a good twenty-plus pounds. As a number, twenty isn't so much. Twenty bucks won't get you far. Twenty minutes pass in a flash. And at twenty years old, most can't find their way out of a paper bag. But if you go to your local farmer's market, pick out two ten-pound pumpkins, strap them to your arse, and walk around for a day, you'll quickly realize that twenty pounds is a heck of a lot of weight.
"Physically, there was no reason I should have gained any weight at all. It's not like I was growing our child in my womb and had to feed it. But emotionally, for nearly two years as we went through the adoption process, I was eating for two. Emotionally, I was trying to feed this faraway baby in a Chinese orphanage who I didn't even know, yet who I knew was not getting enough love or nutrition or food or stimulation…all those things babies need. From thousands of miles away, I was eating and eating and eating, trying desperately to give our future child everything he or she needed to thrive until we could scoop them up and bring them home…"
There's also a moment in which I eat the dashboard of my Suburu.
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Discover it Card Review: Should You Apply?
The recently launched Discover it card is a new rewards credit card that has gained a lot of attention given its rather revolutionary features. The card has no annual fee, hidden costs or confusing rewards program and it has no penalty APR.
Discover it also comes with 14 months of 0% interest on both balance transfers and purchases, making it the ideal choice if you want to
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You'll earn 5% cash back on categories that rotate each quarter, plus an unlimited 1% cash back on everything else. For example, for January through March of 2013, you'll earn 5% back on restaurant and movie purchases. Other cash back bonus categories for the year include home improvement, summer fun and holiday shopping.
Note: The rotating categories usually include common purchases like gas and travel as well, although you do need to sign up for each program either online or over the phone. If you exceed the specified limit for each program (usually $1,500), you'll automatically earn the usual 1% back on everything else.
Your cash back can be redeemed for a statement credit or direct deposit to your bank account in $50 increments, or gift cards and merchandise. You can also shop directly on Amazon with your cash back once you link your card with a straight $1 to $1 rate. In most cases, you'll get the best rewards redemption by just redeeming for cash or going through Amazon, although they usually have gift cards available that give you a much better conversion. Sometimes you'll find $25 gift cards for $20 in cash back rewards, or even a $40 gift for only $20.
Introductory Promotion -- 0% APR for 14 Months
The Discover it's current introductory promotion is a 0% APR for 14 months on balance transfers and purchases, after which it'll be 10.99%-19.99%. The standard APR is somewhat high, although it's comparable to the Citi Simplicity, which shares its straightforward approach to credit. With a relatively low balance transfer fee of 3%, this card is a really good option if you're thinking about transferring a balance to finally pay off credit card debt or you want to finance a large purchase.
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The Discover it card is most similar to the Citi Simplicity, which is also designed as a straightforward credit card. Both have no annual fee, no late fee for your first missed payment, no penalty APR and no overlimit fee. Both also have higher-than-average APRs. The main difference, however, is the rewards program with the Discover it card and the US-based customer service, as well as the ability to pay your bill by midnight.
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The Discover it card is really an innovative credit card with a straightforward solution for consumers to avoid unnecessary fees and penalties while earning up to 5% cash back. While the APR is higher than average, you can avoid interest charges by paying your bill in full each month and use the promo 0% APR to transfer a balance or finance a big purchase. The Discover it is a great card for earning rewards or just to have on hand in case of emergency.
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Get your pet entourage ready. PetSmart and multi-platinum rock star Bret Michaels are prepping pets for the limelight with the new Bret Michaels Pets Rock Private Brand pet collection. Available exclusively at PetSmart stores in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico and online at www.PetSmart.com, the collection includes toys, beds, apparel, collars, leashes, and bowls – everything your pet needs to go from the backyard to backstage and beyond.
"The rocker vibe of the Bret Michaels Pets Rock collection extends PetSmart's assortment of exclusive products, adding yet another one-of-a-kind option for pet parents."
"I know there are other pet parents like me who want to show off their pets in rock-star style," said Michaels. "I've been a pet lover since I was a child so I created this line for everyone who wants something unique to rock their pets' world."
Michaels' most recent reality show, Bret Michaels: Life as I Know It, gave fans a glimpse into his family life, which includes two German Shepherds (among other pets). He designed the new collection with his very own pets in mind and in his signature rock-star style, complete with tattoos, skulls, thorns and faux-leather trim decorations. The collection includes his trademark doo-rag made for dogs with guitar and flame prints. Pets will have "Nothin' but a Good Time" with these unique products, including the:
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- Bret Michaels Pets Rock Thorn-Embossed Leather Collar and Leash: This tough-looking collar and leash (sold separately) have embossed thorn and vine detailing with red stitching.
- Bret Michaels Pets Rock Skull Sundress and Bret Michaels Pets Rock Outlaw Tee: Designed for your canine's inner rock star, your pet will have style and swagger to spare in either a skull-patterned sundress – a fun, party-style outfit decked out with a belt accessory and silver studs – or a tee that shows a dog's wild side with a "Rebel American Outlaw" slogan printed over a faded American-flag backdrop.
"Partnering with Bret Michaels allows us to offer pet parents unique products that are reflective of their pets' personalities," said Laurie Taylor, vice president of hardgoods merchandising for PetSmart. "The rocker vibe of the Bret Michaels Pets Rock collection extends PetSmart's assortment of exclusive products, adding yet another one-of-a-kind option for pet parents."


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The PS Vita, this video says, wasn't made by hardware folks, it was the result of what the people who would one day make games for this portable wanted.
That seems like the right way to do things. Sure, you're hardware folks need to take those suggestions and turn them into something that works and is affordable, but shouldn't software be driving that design bus?
The video also makes some really strong arguments for why you'd want to get a portable device that isn't... well, a phone. Its big screen is more immersive, its visual fidelity and ,lets face it, those twin sticks are the holy grail of portable gaming.
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Jennifer Aniston is clearly in good shape for a woman of any age -- let alone a 41 year old. Just how good, we may soon find out.
Aniston's co-star in next year's Judd Apatow-produced comedy "Wanderlust," Malin Ackerman, let it slip at yesterday's People's Choice Awards nominee ceremony that Aniston likely plays a nudist in the film.
"Wanderlust" is about a married couple (Aniston and Paul Rudd) who confuse a hippie commune for a B&B, at which point -- all together now! -- hi-jinx ensues. And yes, by hi-jinx we mean peyote-imbibing and bed-hopping, mostly.
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When asked by "Us" magazine about the odds of a naked Aniston appearing in the picture, Ackerman demurred: "There's a very big maybe. One of the cast members is a nudist -- I am not the nudist!"
While Ackerman equivocated on the issue, the British press, as you might guess, has been less uncertain. In August the "Daily Mail" ran a story with the headline: "Jennifer Aniston Hoping to Relight Her Box Office Credentials With New Topless Film Role."
The piece went on to report that Aniston's character "also indulges in a threesome with two other women, sleeps around with numerous men and takes drugs."
If true, the role signals a considerable departure for the actress who has built her career on playing sexy but wholesome girls-next-door. But audiences may be growing weary of such characters. Aniston's last film, a rom-com with an unfortunate promotional poster called "The Switch," generated only $42 million at the global box office.
For Rachel Green, er Jennifer Aniston, it could be the right time for a change.
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The Search For America's Best Hot Dog: Down South
Last summer, SE and Every Day with Rachel Ray embarked on an epic road trip on a mission to find America's Best Hot Dog. We're kicking off the competition with slideshows introducing all 64 contenders, organized by region.
So far, we've told you about the East Coast contenders. Now it's time to move down South.
Before this journey, the South was a bit of a mystery to us in terms of hot dogs. I had a vague notion of slaw dogs being pretty good, but the region is more often than not overlooked in the hot dog media.The reality is that hot dogs are everywhere below the Mason-Dixon line, as much or more so than other areas considered to be the epicenters of hot doggery.
A few things that struck me about the South is that almost every hot dog joint, no matter how divey, had table service. A lot served beer (awesome) and every single place had bottles of hot sauce on the tables and along the counter, usually bright yellow and red bottles of Texas Pete.
There were a lot of surprises: top-split buns (I thought this was just a New England thing, but they're apparently common in Georgia and South Carolina too), crazy dogs topped with Thousand Island dressing, potato salad and crispy fried onions, and most of all an unparalleled Southern love and care put into the grilling, deep-frying, and slaw slathering of pretty much every hot dog we ate.
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Your graduate has reached a major milestone and now it's time to celebrate! It's easy to design a party that will wow everyone and let that graduate know how proud you are of their accomplishments.
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This will be a busy day for your graduate. A life-sized standee can help greet the guests! Fill the party location with graduation balloons, while adding a little shimmer by using liquid metallic fabric to decorate for this special event. Choose a solid color table cover in a school color, and then choose either a matching table skirt or one in a contrasting school color. Sprinkle black confetti on the table, especially around the graduation centerpiece.
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