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Kiss Cam `Humiliating' Selena Gomez must have an awfully low tolerance for embarrassment.

The 19-year-old calls having to pucker up to boyfriend Justin Bieber on the Kiss Cam at the Lakers game earlier this week, “the most humiliating thing” that’s ever happened to her.

On his KISS-FM radio show, host Ryan Seacrest had to ask the singer and actress about the kissing incident, which made Selena blush.

“Oh God, that was probably the most humiliating thing that’s ever happened to me,” she told Seacrest.

“We were watching [the Kiss Cam] and I thought it was funny, and they were showing little elderly couples and it was so cute. And All of a sudden we’re both looking up and we come on [the screen] and it’s like… it was so awkward. It was so weird. I mean you have to kiss, right?”

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we can think of way more embarrassing things that could happen than having to show a little PDA.

Earlier that night Selena made a guest appearance on ABC’s “Dancing With The Stars,” while Justin previewed a clip from his upcoming music video for “Boyfriend” on NBC’s “The Voice,” and the two met

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odel And Maternal Health Advocate Christy Turlington: I Would Not Have Survived If I Lived In A Rural Community

Model, maternal health advocate and supermom Christy Turlington was in Chicago, Ill., this week for a film screening of her documentary “No Woman, No Cry” at the Gene Siskel Film Center, ABC News reports.

The film -- which first premiered in March 2010 at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City -- is Turlington’s directorial debut.

In it, she shares the powerful stories of at-risk pregnant women in four parts of the world, including Bangladesh and the United States.

™The Dark Knight Rises∫ and ™Marvel's The AvenThrough the documentary and its treatment of the gers∫ universal experience of birth, Turlington hoped to create a “mainstream maternal health movement that will comensures the lives and well-being of mothers worldwi- pete for box-office supremacy de,” said the film’s website. this summer, but that doesn't mean the two superhero franAccording to the WHO, 1000 women die daily from chises won't team up. At least pregnancy-related causes. in the name of marketing.

When ™No Woman, No Cry∫ was first launched, Marie Claire called Turlington a ™model citizen∫ and lauded her film for its call for crucial discussion about maternal health.

“One woman is too many women,” Turlington told ABC News. “Every mother counts. Every mother.”

Every Mother Counts is also the name of the advocacy and mobilization campaign that Turlington founded in 2010. Its aim is to increase education and support for maternal mortality reduction globally.

According to NolanFans.com, a message board where Christopher Nolan fans can soak up each others’ awesomeness, the third trailer for “The Dark Knight Rises” will be attached to copies of “The Avengers” when that film debuts on May 4. Marvel and DC Comics hanging out together? That’s like ... well, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria!

So far, ™The Dark Knight Rises∫ has released two official all of us cotrailers -- a teaser that foming together on the issue of improved maternal cused on a very sick Commishealth, there will be no lasting success,” she wrote last sioner Gordon (Gary Oldman), year in the Globe and Mail. “No woman should die and a full trailer that higiving life.” ghlighted Bane (Tom Hardy), his Turlington has said that a difficult personal experien- incomprehensible voice, and his plans for massive destrucce inspired her to take up this critical cause. After delivering her first child, the mother of two suffered a tion in the city of Gotham.

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serious complication.

“If I had been in a rural community, I would not have survived,” said Turlington, who is also a CARE ambassador. “That realization made me really want to do more.”

Now, after the success of her first film, Turlington’s husband, filmmaker and actor Edward Burns, told ABC News that another documentary may be in the works.

If true, and Nolan’s Batman finale has its trailer attached to “The Avengers,” expect box office for the Joss Whedon film to be even bigger. Tracking already has Marvel’s superhero supergroup on course for an opening weekend of more than $150 million, and the presence of Bruce Wayne’s growling alter-ego could only make that number grow.

“The Dark Knight Rises” arrives in theaters on July 20.

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iant George: The Biggest Dog In The World

“The parents are real big,” the woman told me, once I’d got through and told her I was interested. “The mom is one hundred and sixty pounds, and the dad is two hundred.” And in an incredible feat of not really listening to what she was telling me (Why did that even matter? Great Danes were big dogs, weren’t they?), I took this in and then completely forgot about it, as I was more interested in jotting down all the other stuff she was telling me about which of the pups were still available for sale.

™Tell you what,∫ she said, ™why don't I e‑mail you a picture of them all, then you and your wife can decide which one might be suitable for you?∫ Christie was understandably excited when she came home from work, particularly when she learned that the puppies were ready to leave their mother (they’d been born on November 17), and even more so when she looked at the picture. It was a real sight— a chaotic jumble of paws and snouts and tails. There were thirteen in the litter altogether. Twelve of these were entangled with one another, as young puppies tend to be, but our eyes were immediately drawn to one pup who was standing apart from the rest. He seemed the runt of the siblings, the outsider in the family, and that endeared him to Christie immediately.

He was also the perfect color. Pedigree Great Danes come in a number of shades and patterns, and the different types of marking make a real difference in the show world. There are harlequins and brindles, merles and mantles, and then the pure colors, like black and fawn and blue. If your Great Dane is a pure color, there must be no other color fur on it anywhe12 | H mag

re. None of this mattered to me in the least. A puppy was a puppy was a puppy to my mind. But to Christie, being a girl (though I wasn’t stupid enough to say that), color did matter. She had her heart set on a blue one. Happily, our little outsider was just that. In fact, he was blue as blue could be. His fur was almost the exact same steely blue as his eyes, and he had no white on him at all, which was very rare.

“Oh, Dave,” she cooed. “Look at that one! That one’s sooo cute! Let’s see if she can send a bigger picture.”

The woman kindly obliged, sending a whole stream of photos, and she confirmed that the one we’d picked, which she called “the cute runt,” was one of the six puppies left for sale.

It seemed like an omen and we made arrangements right away for her to ship the puppy from Oregon to Phoenix by air. On the road trip up from Tucson to Phoenix— a journey of some two hours— Christie was pretty excited, and I knew, despite my initial reluctance to become a dog owner, that this had been the right thing to do. The only nagging doubt was about the timing, as I also knew that, because of our respective jobs, the day‑to‑day business of looking after our new pet would be a burden that would mostly fall on me.

Christie worked as a sales executive for a big medical equipment company, which meant she spent a lot of time on the road, visiting clients. It wasn’t the sort of situation that worked well with a puppy, since there was no way she could take him along with her.

I, on the other hand, worked for myself. I was a real estate agent, buying and fixing up houses for rental, which meant I was my own boss and could do what I liked— well, at least within reason I could do what I liked. I knew Christie figured that me taking a puppy to work came under the banner of “hey, no big deal.”

Personally, I wasn’t so sure about that, but this was the plan we’d agreed on, this puppy, and I knew my wife couldn’t wait to meet him. It would be just fine, I told myself, as we made our way north to pick up the newest member of our little family. “So,” said Christie, as we headed up the interstate. “What are we going to name this pup of ours?”

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PORTRAIT “I’ve learned through playing Delko that consistency builds your life.

Whatever life that ends up being for you, it is built through consistent actions or inactions and the results those yield, make up your life. Delko has always been pro-active, ready to take on a challenge, and ready to follow through.”

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ould you please tell us something about Tito that you play in Magic Mike? What kind of guy he is? What kind of goals?

Tito is a guy who’s a live wire! Lot of personality, lot of charisma, and a lot of fun to be around.

Like the other guys, he has big dreams and dancing is just a means to an end for him. Tito wants to be a TV real estate guru. He wants to design his own real estate wealth growing program and then market it on TV like his heroes Carlton Sheets, Robert Kiyosaki, and all the others you’ve seen. Tito’s plan is to buy distressed strip malls and partner with retailers who will give him percentage of their business in exchange for heavily discounted rents.

He’s not a dumb guy!

How did you prepare yourself for the role?

The first and most obvious preparation for anyone playing a male stripper would be to GET IN SHAPE! So, I got a strict diet which consisted of meals that were broken into 40% protein, 35% carbohydrates, and 25% fats. I ate 3-4 meals per day with two light snacks and then did the obvious routines of heavy cardiovascular exercise and weight training like crazy! I cut out all sugar, salt, alcohol, and anything else that helps you enjoy life! BUT, I was very happy with the results of my hard work and discipline and hopefully the audience will be too! Other aspects of preparation were lots of dance rehearsals, and doing some research on the life of actual male strippers. Going to see a live male revue, talking to the dancers to get a sense of their personalities and lifestyles etc.

What was the most difficult scene to play in Magic Mike? And the most funny?

The dance routines were the most difficult for me! For sure. I wasn’t born the world’s greatest dancer and so getting out there and shaking my money maker for the world was a daunting task but once the cameras were rolling and the music started, I will say that I got lost in the moment and had the most fun I’ve ever had on film! The group routines were especially hard because we all had to keep time together and the choreography had to be tight so knowing where to be and when was a lot of pressure!

This year you just celebrated 10 years of C.S.I. Miami where you play more than 200 episodes. What do you consider the secret behind such an international success?

The “secret” behind a success like CSI:Miami is consistency. The show always looks amazing and the storylines are consistently entertaining.

And what do you think the people love the most in Eric Delko?

I think that people love that they've watched Eric Delko grow throughout the span of the show. He was the youngest team member when the show started and had a lot to learn. Horatio took him under his wing and Delko proved himself time and time again to be reliable, passionate about his job, caring for those he loved and willing to do whatever it took to catch the bad guys. He was always getting dirty whether that meant scuba diving or running a suspect down, or getting shot and coming close to death on several occasions. And yet remained gung-ho about his work as a CSI. 16 | H mag

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I’ve learned through playing Delko that consistency builds your life.

Whatever life that ends up being for you, it is built through consistent actions or inactions and the results those yield, make up your life. Delko has always been pro-active, ready to take on a challenge, and ready to follow through.

Who is Adam in his private life? What kind of guy?

Someone who tries to enjoy every moment of his time whether alone or with people he loves.

Do you have a preferred food? Do you like to cook?

My preferred type of food is anything that has been prepared with Love. That kind of food is ALWAYS DELICIOUS! And what about music? What kind you like the most?

Music is one of my very favorite things in this world and I truly Love so many different kinds of music depending on the moment or mood. I LOVE hearing music that moves me, especially when it’s for the first time.

How do you like to wear when you hang out with your friends?

I’m definitely a jeans and sneakers guy. Sometimes boots. Lots of sweaters or t-shirts and a jacket I feel cool in. All about how you feel. Fuck what anybody else thinks.

Is there a “fav” place where you like to go when you are a not working?

I Love going to places I haven't been before. Headed to the jungle of Guyana for two weeks this Friday. Live off of the land. Never done anything like it. I'm scared which makes me know that it will be an amazing experience.

The role you are dreaming to play one day in your career?

Couldn’t tell who he is or what he does, but my dream role is any character that through my work, the director’s work, and of course the writer, manages to become a part of history. Someone that inspires people, makes them laugh and cry, and most importantly, someone that lives inside the audience for the rest of their lives.

I know you’ve been directing 2 episodes in CSI Miami. How was that experience for you? Something you’d love to repeat in the future?

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, I’ve written and directed two episodes of CSI:Miami (Ep#916 “Hunting Ground” and Ep#1017 “At Risk”) and the experience was wonderful. It was a chance to be creative in a way that I’ve always wanted to be in an environment that was familiar and friendly! The cast and crew were extremely supportive and working together in a different capacity was a lot of fun for us all. With the actors there was a unique level of trust and understanding when taking direction from me because they know how well I understand the them, their characters, and the show, and I think that the results that trust yielded are evident when you watch those episodes. Amazing performances. As for the crew, I can’t say enough, they had my back 100% and I’m lucky to have had them. After so many years together, we are a great work family and really pull for each other!

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I’ve worked really hard to bring something more to “pretty girl” roles over the years.

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f you are looking for a new Hollywood star, you don’t need to look any further.

If then, from 2009 until today you didn’t have a chance to see her in films such as “The Informers,” rather than “Zombieland,” or in “The Joneses” or “Drive Angry”, then this is the case to say that you missed something.

a boundless beauty

First, of a young Texan girl that is earning the respect of many in Hollywood.

But to make matters worse, the beauty itself will not take you anywhere and in the case of Amber and it’s mixed with a huge dose of natural talent; the envy of many people doing the same job.

Passionate for cars, she also has a 1968 Ford Mustang with which roams the streets of Hollywood.

He left school at 17 and, like many beautiful girls, she tried modeling in New York; but soon she’s been diverted to Los Angeles and approached to the acting world.

The young Amber has a tough character, aware of her limitations and her own ability.

She wants to emerge and make a difference and never submit or accept strange conditions or compromises;

If we consider that on April 22 she turns only 26 years, then we can clearly betting on her as one of the best revelations in Hollywood.

Growing up in Texas it's not just like anywhere else in the world.

In this state is not as strange to have a gun and Amber says she has a 357 magnum.

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ALSO we could say “she is typical of a girl who comes from Texas”.

Her everyday look reminds us a smalltown girl, simple but with great personality.

Usually she dresses in short jeans, a texan hat and boots almost like a cowgirl on vacation in Hollywood. But, what makes the difference with her is that she has any particular fear of the world and the people.

As we said, ™For Sale∫ personality.

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mber Heard is not a bet in which you believe or not, Amber is a true and strong reality for the movie business. Someone Hollywood shouldn’t pass on.

First of all, to say I came out implies that I was once in. Let me be straight about that - no pun intended. I never came out from anywhere... It didn't really affect anything in my career. I don't think the producers and directors I've worked with care one way or another... I don't want to be labeled as one thing or another.

In the past I've had successful relationships with men, and now I'm in this successful relationship with a woman. When it comes to love I am totally open. I don't want to be put into a category, as in `I'm this' or `I'm that.'

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hen Nick Littlemore went AWOL from Aussie duo Empire of the Sun in 2009, he left his bandmate Luke Steele befuddled as to what’d prompted such a sudden departure.

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S roots-pop-rockers Train have maintained an impressive career, albeit one that appeared to be propped up by their omnipresent album of 2001, Drops of Jupiter. But the surprise runaway success of Hey, Soul Sister in 2009 and 2010 changed that, and the group is evidently reinvigorated, with sixth studio LP California 37 seeing them bravely playing with brand new territory.

Sadly, it doesn't fully pay off. Opening track This'll Be My Year becomes the aural equivalent of feigning interest at someone's extensive holiday snaps, an overly-literal journey through Train's career thus far, all bijou rhymes about world news stories.

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through to Mermaid and 50 Ways to Say Goodbye, both of which armed to the hilt with hefty hooks and mighty pop choruses.

As effective as these mammoth candyfloss choruses are, it doesn’t quite feel like the output of a US rock act on their sixth album. On one hand, kudos is due for tearing up the rulebook; but at the same time, it doesn’t quite click into place. You could just as easily imagine One Direction or Kelly Clarkson handling the same songs with the same arrangements.

It’s the more subdued offerings where the band excels: the sun-flecked ditty Sing Together is the paradigm of Train, but even the more atypical voyages within the ballad field prove successful. The laid-bare sentiment and shivering military beat of We Were Made for This are made all the more commanding when the track explodes into a screeching ocean of riffs.

The torrent of peculiar pop culture references are squirmingly bad – across the course of California 37, the nods stretch from Facebook to Lady Di, from the Grateful Dead to André the Giant. But, in a way, it’s strangely admirable. Train’s happy indifference is hard not to appreciate.

It’s an album of innocent excitement, showcasing Train’s wholly unpretentious approach and an evident passion for what they do. But California 37’s peculiar teenage stance offers as many toe-curling moments as it does pleasant surprises. Evolution is a great thing indeed, but it would benefit Train to accept that it usually works best when it actually moves forwards.

Opener Everybody has Littlemore curbing stalker-like instincts: “I wish I could run to you,” he says, over a tune perfectly illustrating his bonding with Mayes over Altern-8 records as 10-year-olds in Sydney. Unite Us is as anthemic as its title implies, with Pnau’s trademark choirs of double- and triple-tracked vocals lifting the roof off. The defiant Twist of Fate and The Truth are further examples of Littlemore’s seemingly effortless way with a tune – so it’s a shame that the album soon goes off the boil.

Better Way moans with the self-pity of a mate who has been recently chucked, while Epic Fail almost li-

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He's just left me with the baby,∫ remarked Steele, also of The Sleepy Jackson, as his phone calls went unreturned. Turns out that Littlemore had hidden himself away to pen material for a new Cirque du Soleil soundtrack, while also tending to his pre-EotS outfit, Pnau, to craft a fourth studio set alongside colleague Peter Mayes.

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nau have long been established on the fringes of the Australian dance scene, but their third album, an eponymous collection of 2007, made an impression not only on domestic charts but also international pop superstars. Elton John called it the greatest record he’d heard in 10 years, and Littlemore and Mayes seemed set for take-off. But it was Littlemore’s side-project with Steele that broke globally, leaving Pnau as something of an afterthought to the worldwide market.

Soft Universe aims to change that. Less wilful than previous Pnau albums, it capitalises on electro-pop’s commercial viability by channelling a great deal of charm through its opening songs in a style every bit as satisfying as EotS’s most memorable moments.

But if EotS’s Walking on a Dream LP was possessed by an artist-in-love positivity, it is with Pnau that Littlemore vents the heartbreak to have occurred between releases.

Only the lilting perfection of Solid Ground comes close to the upbeat vibe of Walking on a Dream.

ves up entirely to its moniker, just as Something Special doesn’t. Thankfully, the musical-theatre influence of horn-soaked closer, Waiting for You, saves things, despite its sporting of regret-tinted glasses.

It is unfortunate that little here matches 2007’s Pnau, and much like a failed relationship this album leaves a lingering sense that things could have been better. It captures more of Littlemore’s own disappointment than might have been intended. No wonder, really, that he’s started returning Steele’s calls.

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Many times the general public associates an actor with a role they play on a longrunning television show, not realizing that often that thespian had an active career on the stage first.

erry Orbach and Sam Waterston on Law and Order, Jason Alexander on Seinfeld, and Patricia Heaton on Everybody Loves Raymond are a few of the many actors who first trained for, cut their teeth on, and professionally performed on the legitimate stage.

The fact is the technique most often taught to American stage actors - some form of the Stanislavski Method - works very nicely on both TV and film. Although there are adjustments to be made going from the stage to television, a well-trained stage actor can usually make those adjustments fairly quickly.

The biggest changes have to do with the subtlety employed by those acting for the camera. Stage actors find that physically and vocally less is more in front of the camera. Additionally, a good film or television actor has a sound sense of how to use the camera frame to their best advantage. An actor like Michael Caine is a master at this.

For someone who has only done television or film, acting on the stage can be difficult. The stage demands that actors sustain a character for long periods of

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tinued to study for the stage. He became closely associated with musicals, creating the role of El Gallo and singing the well-know opening number “Try to Remember” in the long-running musical The Fantasticks. He won the Tony in 1969 for his portrayal of Chuck Baxter in Promises, Promises; he sang the hit song “Iíll Never Fall in Love Again” in that show. He also played leads in Chicago (Billy Flynn) and FortySecond Street (Julian Marsh). Most Law and Order

Here are a few actors that youíve become familiar with on television who first acted on the legitimate stage.

Jerry Orbach Orbach, who passed away in 2004, was best known as the wisecracking Detective Lennie Briscoe on Law and Order. As a young man, he attended the University of Illinois and Northwestern University where he studied drama. After going to New York, he con-

Best know as Jerry Seinfeldís obnoxious best friend George Costanza in the sitcom Seinfeld, Alexander, who was born Jay Greenspan in Newark, NJ, is another former Tony winner. While he was an undergraduate at Boston College, Alexander was cast in Stephen Soundheimís Broadway musical Merrily We Roll Along. He won the Best Actor in A Musical Tony for his role in Jerome Robbinís Broadway (1989). In the first few episodes of Seinfeld, he wasnít quite sure of how to play George Castanza so he imitated Woody Allen.

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time, something the electronic media does not do.

Overall, stage performing also calls for bigger actions than those needed for television and film. If someone has never been trained for the theatre, this can be intimidating.

Of course the scariest thing about acting on stage is the fact that youíre in front of a live audience and if you make a mistake, you donít get a Mulligan. Even when a television show is done in front of a “live audience,” thereís less pressure for the actor to be perfect. If they “go up” (that is, forget their lines), they can make a joke and get a laugh while “cut” is called.

They then get to try the moment, action or scene again. There is no “cut” in a live stage performance; there is only “covering” for a flubbed line, a missed entrance, or a misplaced prop.

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fans donít realize that Orbach had a beautiful, resonate singing voice.

Bebe Neuwirth Beatrice “Bebe” Neuwirth has recently become a regular on Law and Order, where she plays the role of Tracey Kibre.

However, it was on the sitcom Cheers that she found fame by playing Lilith Sternin-Crane - a tough, tense psychiatrist and wife of Frasier Crane. Neuwirth trained at the Julliard School and first made her name as a dancer and actor in the national tour of A Chorus Line (1980), where she played Cassie and Sheila. In 1982, she appeared on Broadway in Danciní, directed and choreographed by the legendary Bob Fosse, and in the musical Little Me. She cemented her reputation on the Great White Way by playing the lead in Bob Fosseís revival of the musical Sweet Charity (1986), for which she won a Tony.

Neuwirth is an amazing, charismatic musical performer, who commands the stage with her voice and body.

On television he plays tough, no nonsense D.A. Jack McCoy in Law and Order (1990), but originally Waterston was best known for his stage roles. He went to Yale, where he did not study acting, but did taking acting classes at the American Actors Workshop in Paris. Waterston played numerous roles in New York, including Jonathan in Oh, Dad, Poor, Dad, Mamaís Hung You in the Closet and Iím Feeling so Sad, Hamlet in Hamlet, and Signoir Benedick of Padua in Much Ado About Nothing, for which he won the Drama desk award for Best Actor. Prior to becoming associated with Law and Order, he was best known for his work in straight plays, both new and classic.

On stage, Waterston perfected an elegant, refined style, displaying an ability to make precise and subtle acting choices.

Barry Bostwick On the Michael J. Fox sitcom Spin City, Bostwick played the dimwitted mayor Randall M. Winston Jr. in 70 episodes. Since that time, heís appeared on numerous hit TV shows as a guest star, including Scrubs, Cold Case and Law and Order. But Bostwick has deep Broadway roots that include the creation of the role of Danny Zuko in Grease, for which he received a Best Actor in a Musical nomination, and the creation of the lead role of Jamie Lockhart in the musical The Robber Bridegroom, for which he won the Tony.

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Actors Studio in New York City. After making his professional stage debut in Big El’s Best Friend, he appeared in many New York productions. He made his Broadway debut in 1992 as Steve Hubbell in the revival of Tennessee Williamsí A Streetcar Named Desire, which starred Alex Baldwin and Jessica Lang.

Other New York credits included On the Waterfront, One Day Wonder and Tarantulas Dancing. The same year he first appeared on Broadway, he also landed his first screen role, which was in Sidney Lumet’s A Stranger Among Us. Since 1992, heís appeared in over 20 films. Heís been Tony Soprano in over 70 episodes.

Other actors, who have either made their name or learned invaluable acting lessons in the theatre before becoming part of the electronic entertainment industry, include Martin Sheen, Stockard Channing, For 70 episodes, Heaton played Debra Barone, Ray Romanoís wife on the very popular sitcom Everybo- Dustin Hoffman, Robert Dudy Loves Raymond. As a young woman, she focused vall, Meryl Streep, and Swoon theatre arts at Ohio State University and then osie Kurtz. These actors went to New York where she studied with William have labored hard to learn Esper. She made her debut in the Broadway gospel their craft on what was the musical Donít Get God Started, but overall during her career in New York she was relegated to small first acting platform avairoles. With a few acting buddies, she started a theatre lable to humankind - the company called Stage Three, which produced new live stage. works in NYC. In 1989 they took their successful production of The Johnstown Vindicator to Los Angeles, where casting directors saw and liked Heaton.

Slowly her TV career started to take off. But Heaton has long acknowledged that despite the fact that she never made it big on Broadway, her stage training has been instrumental to her success on television.

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Movies are a little over 100 years old and television is about 75 years old. The formal theatre goes back over 2,500 years! Itís the true learning and testing ground for acting technique, stamina, and skill that, once honed, can then be transferred to any other venue.

Go to a Broadway show or a professional theatre near you - you may catch a performance by someone youíll see break through on the tube in the next few years. One night, youíll be sitting in your den or living room watching the next big hit drama or sitcom and say, “Hey, didn’t we see that actor on the stage?”

Yeah, you did, before they were famous. Very cool.

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lying cars are like jetpacks. We’ve been seeing them for years but no one ever seems to come close to real commercial availability. That doesn’t mean we can’t gush after every new model that shows up to tease us with their super transporting powers. And that’s exactly what we’re gonna do with the PAL-V ONE, a combo gyrocopter and three-wheeled land vehicle.

A personal-sized flying car, the vehicle can sit two folks, so you can bring a friend along while you travel through land, air and land again, whichever suits your fancy. That means you get a “fully-integrated door to door transport option,” regardless of whether you’re going to your job in the city or to your mad scientist lab on an island off the coast.

On the ground, the PAL-V ONE can reach speeds of up to 112 mph, with a 0 to 60 acceleration of 8 seconds. With the three wheels, it looks more like a motorcycle than a proper car and actually drives like one, allowing for sharp cornering (it boasts an integrated tilting system) and agile handling. In land mode, the blades fold in, so it looks like you’re carrying a load of steel bars on top of a weird-looking pod-shaped tricycle.

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ou’re a tech industry billionaire. After a couple of years of living large, though, your affluent and privileged existence has begun to bore you. So you decide to use some of that money to fulfill your childhood dream of becoming a seafaring pirate captain. This Adastra would make a fine ship for you to haunt the oceans with.

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In the air, it can rise to heights of 4,000 feet and speed through the skies at a maximum 97 knots. It supposedly works like a standard gyrocopter -- quiet, easy to handle and safe (it can be landed safely even when the engine fails).

Shifting from one mode to another takes all of 10 minutes, so there’s not much downtime when going from land to sky and vice versa. It doesn’t need all that much land space during take-off and landing either, requiring just 540 feet of straight road during flight and 100 feet upon touchdown.

Like many other flying cars, there’s no word on pricing or availability yet for the PAL-V ONE. Those pictures look crazy hot, though. You can check out more information and images from the official website.

Designed by Sussex-based yacht designer John Shuttleworth, the luxury superyacht isn’t exactly designed for looting and pillaging in the middle of the open seas. But, seriously, what better way to live the billionaire lifestyle while plotting to rob your next cargo freighter or luxury cruiser for shits and giggles?

Built for billionaire businessman Anto Marden, the Adastra took a total of five years and 255 million to finish -- all of which seemed to have been put to good use as this is easily one of the sickest boats I've ever seen. While the shape and design borrows from power-trimaran vessels, it actually serves as a luxury yacht that pampers its occupants as well as it rides (max speed is 22.5 knots).

which can even be controlled using an iPad from a 50-meter range (so you can make your ship move even while you’re looting another ship next to it).

Accommodations include several on-deck lounge areas with plush interior, a master bedroom, two guest cabins and enough room to hold as many as 15 people (9 passengers, 6 crew).

Since this is a specially-commissioned billionaire boat, no expense was spared, making it a veritable treasure trove of new tech and design.

To ensure smooth and stable cruising, for instance, the Shuttleworth team developed an entirely new shape for the outriggers, which have been built to optimal height using carefully-tested materials. Almost every aspect of the boat has been custom-built, from the carbon fiber superstructure to the glassand-kevlar hull to the integrated monitoring system, H mag | 39

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n October 4th, 1936, following days of frantic, last-minute organisation, a crowd of over 100,000 protesters congregated in London’s East End. Their single aim was to prevent the passage of 5,000 black-shirted supporters of Sir Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists (BUF), who a week earlier had announced plans to march through the area to mark the fourth anniversary of his party’s formation. Despite the best efforts of the police to clear a path for the procession, the protestors stood resolutely firm. Left with little other choice Mosley conceded defeat and disbanded his followers. Around 80 anti-fascists had been arrested, at least 73 police officers injured – but most importantly, the Fascists did not pass.

The demonstration has come to be seen, particularly on the political left, as the moment London’s working class united en masse to reject fascism’s hateful ideology once and for all: ‘The spectacle of the workers in action gave the Fascists reason to pause’, claimed Ted Grant, a participant in the demonstration and later an influential socialist thinker. ‘It induced widespread despondency and demoralisation in their ranks ... [and] the East End Fascist movement declined.’ Cable Street is still invoked in today’s fight against the extreme right, with the Unite Against Fascism pressure group describing it as a ‘turning point in the struggle against Fascism in Britain’. The battle also holds a proud place in the collective memory of the AngloJewish community, described by one historian as ‘the most remembered day in 20th-century British Jewish history’.

Like Mussolini’s Fascist Party, upon which it was modelled, the BUF had initially paid little attention to what it described as the ‘irrelevant’ Jewish question.

Although the movement contained individuals who favoured an antisemitic policy, Mosley’s aim was to create an outwardly reputable political party. As such, he permitted violence only when it was ‘defensive’ and eschewed racial prejudice. His approach reaped some success, with party membership reaching 50,000 within two years.

This all changed over the summer of 1934 when a wave of organised anti-fascist disruption struck BUF events around Britain, prompting a violent response. Disorder at a mass meeting in June at London’s Olympia Hall, where Mosley’s stewards brutally ejected hecklers, was especially damaging to the Blackshirts’ reputation. With its façade of respectability stripped away and Britain’s gradual recovery from the Great Depression rendering Mosley’s sophisticated economic programme increasingly obsolete the BUF collapsed, its membership falling to around a tenth of its peak.

The party was left in desperate need of a new ideological impetus. Following discussion with his senior lieutenants Mosley resolved to incorporate antisemitism into official policy, announcing the decision in late September.

This proved particularly popular in the East End, a district with a long history of tension between Jews and gentiles. It had been the principal point of first settlement for the 150,000 or so Eastern European Jews who had arrived in Britain since the 1880s, increasing competition for housing and jobs in this deprived part of London. By the 1930s, with Britain’s largest concentration of Jews still to be found in the area, it proved fertile territory for the BUF’s racial incitement and between 1935 and 1937 the party committed the majority of its resources to campaigning there.

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They came to play a central role in Britain’s antifascist movement through growing participation in existing organisations opposed to the BUF, such as trade unions and the Communist Party, and via newly formed Jewish defence bodies, most prominent of which was the Jewish People’s Council (JPC), founded in mid-1936. Mosley’s announcement of the October procession, which was to include many Jewish neighbourhoods on its route, caused particular outrage.

minent historian of East End Jewish life, recalled that ‘Oswald Mosley’s popularity began to wane after his setback in Cable Street.’

Yet such perceptions bear little relation to the actual repercussions of the event. Contemporary records, in contrast to the romanticised recollections of those on the anti-fascist side, tell a different story.

Far from signalling ith the Communist Party’s lethe demise of fasciadership initially reluctant to support a proposed counter-de- sm in the East End, monstration for fear of association with the inevitable disorder or bringing respi– only relenting at the very last minute – much of te to its Jewish victhe responsibility for its coordination fell on the JPC tims, Cable Street and other Jewish organisations. had quite the oppoMemoirs of the period attest to the pride felt among Jews at their participation in the occasion, a sensite effect. Over the se that they, standing side by side with their nonfollowing months the Jewish neighbours, had driven the Fascists out of BUF was able to coneast London: ‘The sound-hearted British working-class had vert defeat on the given ... a clear messaday into longer-term ge,’ Morris Beckman, at the time a teenager success and to juliving in Hackney, later recounted; Jews had shown ‘they were sick and ashamed of keeping their heads stify a further radown’. Like Ted Grant, he remembered that day as ‘the high water mark of the British Union of Fascists’ dicalisation of its hubris and arrogance, the very moment that ... the anti-Jewish camtide began to recede’. Bill Fishman, then a 15-yearold witness to the protests and subsequently a propaign.

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Within days the party’s newspaper, Blackshirt, was boasting that the incident had given Fascism ‘an immense impetus’.

The BUF regularly exaggerated the strength of its support, but this particular claim was more than spurious bravado. In its monthly report on extremist political activity Special Branch observed in October ‘abundant evidence that the Fascist movement has been steadily gaining ground in many parts of east London’. Its sources suggested an influx of over 2,000 new recruits in the capital, a considerable boost given that party membership in London had stood at less than 3,000 earlier in the year.

In the week after Cable Street the BUF ‘conducted the most successful series of meetings since the beginning of the movement’, attracting crowds of thousands and little opposition. Mosley made an ‘enthusiastically received’ address to an audience of 12,000 at

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The reason the BUF was able to profit so handsomely from what had initially appeared a setback was that, at this stage, it thrived off the publicity that violent opposition produced. The national media, under pressure from the government, largely avoided reporting on Fascist activity other than when disorder occurred. A leading Mosleyite lamented the ‘total silence’ in the press when BUF events passed without incident, complaining that only after disruption by opponents did newspapers show any interest.

When such incidents took place the party was able with some success to portray itself as a victim. It claimed that its efforts to exercise free speech legally, through organised meetings and police-approved processions, were being systematically suppressed by left-wing extremists. Whatever the truth of such allegations – and it was certainly the case that antifascists were responsible for the majority of disorder, albeit often in the face of Fascist provocation – the Blackshirts elicited a degree of sympathy in certain quarters. After the Olympia meeting, for example, although respectable supporters abandoned the BUF in droves, there was also a short-term influx of new recruits angry at attempts to silence Mosley.

A propaganda advantage In many ways the Fascists came to rely on the interaction with their opponents to sustain interest in the movement. One member in the south-west expressed his optimism that, ‘now we have active opposition in Exeter I think we shall make great progress there’. In this context Cable Street simply thrust the BUF back into the limelight after two years of relative national obscurity and provided it with a stage on which to play out its claims of victimhood.

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Mosley argued, had been a perfectly lawful procession, sanctioned by the authorities. The East End housed the core of his supporters. They had every right peacefully to express their political beliefs, yet had been forcibly prevented from doing so by a disorderly mob. This portrayal of events clearly struck a chord with many locals. In an internal document the Fascists observed that the `strong sense of local patriotism' in the East End had been `gravely offended by the rioting of Jews and Communists last October ... which was felt as a disgrace to the good name of east London'.

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By adopting an anti-Jewish stance, therefore, the BUF was simply taking up ‘the challenge thrown down by Jewry’.

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oreover it was doing so on behalf of the real British people, who were also suffering at the hands of Jewish economic and political oppression. Such claims were of course disingenuous; some Jews had been involved in the early anti-fascist movement, but the vast majority were not, while a handful even joined the BUF. But they became a self-fulfilling prophecy: the Fascists’ growing antisemitism prompted an increasingly hostile response from the Jewish community, which was in turn used to vindicate and harden the BUF’s position Cable Street – the most substantial manifestation of Jewish anti-fascism to date – fitted the BUF’s narrative perfectly. The internal publication mentioned above noted with satisfaction that ‘the impudent use of violence ... to deny east Londoners the right to walk through their own part of London ... [had] sent a wave of anti-Jewish resentment’ through the area.

Speakers were advised that propaganda should take advantage of this fact.

alien mobs’. It was claimed that ‘financial democracy’ and ‘Soviet-inspired Communists’ had colluded to inhibit legitimate activity by ‘British patriots’ in the East End. As a result, the district had in effect been ‘handed over ... as the Jews’ own territory’. It was time, the BUF declared, for the true British people to reclaim their land. Such appeals were well received.

Special Branch recorded that among the cohort of new Fascist recruits were a ‘large number of gentiles with grievances against the Jews’.

iron bars and hatchets, wrecked and looted Jewish shops, set alight a car and threw an elderly Jewish man and young child through a window. This marked the beginning of a sustained period of harassment.

However Cable Street did not merely reinforce Blackshirt antisemitism – it exacerbated it. Just as Jewish involvement in anti-fascist activity had been exploited to justify the introduction of antisemitic policy in 1934, so it was now used as an excuse to elevate it to a new, more radical phase. A source within BUF headquarters – who, appalled by the BUF’s increasingly extreme direction, had begun leaking information to the Board of Deputies, British Jewry’s representative body – revealed that the party was intent on using the events of October 4th as the basis from which to embark on ‘a renewed antisemitic campaign’. This was in any case made abundantly clear in propaganda, which rapidly became saturated with crude anti-Jewish rhetoric. In the six months leading up to October, around 21 per cent of articles in Blackshirt included antisemitic content; in the subsequent half-year the figure almost doubled to 39 per cent.

The JPC noted with concern that early 1937 had witnessed ‘an intensification of Fascist Jew-baiting and hooliganism’.

Even more worrying, words were increasingly being translated into action. In the immediate aftermath of Cable Street a Blackshirt speaker promised `by God there is going to be a pogrom ... and the people who The demonstration have caused this ... are the was immediately Yids'. The very next weekend branded by the BUF saw the most serious antias ‘Jewry’s biggest semitic violence of the inblunder’, while the terwar period, as a gang of police were accused of ‘openly 2oo youths, some armed with surrender[ing] to

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Over the summer this developed into full-scale ‘terrorism which appears to increase week by week’.

Numerous Jews were assaulted and shop windows smashed, antisemitic graffiti proliferated and Fascist speeches became more vitriolic.

This fact was confirmed by the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Philip Game, who observed, eight months after Cable Street, that the ‘abuse of Jews by Fascist speakers has shown a tendency to increase’. Compounding the problem, the BUF now increasingly held its events in localities inhabited almost exclusively by Jews, meaning that even those who attempted to stay away were ‘compelled to attend the meetings because the loudspeakers used are such that every word spoken percolates into the houses’, as Neville Laski, the president of the Board of Deputies, complained to Game.

The focal point of this campaign was two sets of local elections in 1937. At the London County Council polls in March Mosley put forward six candidates, all in East End constituencies. From the outset this was advertised as a choice ‘between us and the Parties of Jewry’ (meaning every other party), an indication that the BUF’s first ever election campaign would be fought on a primarily antisemitic platform.

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22 times in two pages of text. Playing on the longstanding antipathy towards Jews in the area, the BUF claimed that it had come seeking the ‘expert opinion’ of local residents as ‘no one knows better than the people of east London the stranglehold that Jewry has on our

land’. It wished to obtain from them ‘a mandate to carry through our National Socialist policy, especially as it concerns the Jewish question’.

That the party subsequently failed to win a single seat at the election has often been cited as a sign of the BUF’s post-Cable Street collapse. But in fact this ostensible failure masked a significant show of support. Standing against candidates from the three mainstream parties, the Blackshirts received votes from 7,000 residents (18 per cent of the electorate) in Bethnal Green, Limehouse and Shoreditch.

Furthermore a large portion of the electorate was Jewish (around 20 per cent of Bethnal Green’s population, for example), meaning that the BUF may have won up to 30 per cent of non-Jewish votes in the constituency. The election indicated that the BUF could still claim the support of thousands in its East End heartland. Later in the year, at October’s borough council elections, the party attained a similar proportion of the vote in the same districts.

The drift towards Nazism Given that BUF membership had fallen as low as 5,000 in 1935, the idea that the aftermath of Cable Street marked a low point for the movement can be dismissed. In fact it was a period of relative, if highly localised, success. Moreover the election results were interpreted by the BUF as confirmation that the people of the East End wished ‘Mosley to proceed with his anti-Jewish policy’. Consequently antisemitism remained integral to BUF campaigns over the remainder of its existence.

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The movement did go on to experience a dip in fortunes in late 1937 and 1938, which some have claimed as an indirect triumph for disruptive anti-fascism.

This was because Cable Street and events like it had fuelled public debate on the problem of political extremism, resulting in the passing of the Public Order Act (POA) designed to restrict such provocative activity. Yet its impact on the BUF was minimal.

more accused of ‘capitulation to Jewish power’.

Rather than the POA or anti-fascism, it was financial difficulties that accounted for the BUF’s temporary decline. he secret subsidies it had received from Mussolini had begun to diminish as Mosley drifted closer to the Nazis and their model of fascism over the mid1930s, finally drying up altogether in 1937. This forced the party, in March of that year, to reduce expenditure by 70 per cent and lay off a large number of staff, including many leading figures. Inevitably, its ability to campaign suffered. Candidates standing in October’s elections, for example, did so

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Though the Home Office was now accorded greater powers to prohibit political processions in the East End, this simply displaced BUF marches to other parts of the city. This brought some relief to the Jews of east London, but any benefits were more than offset by an increase in other forms of Blackshirt activity. In August to December 1936, for example, 508 Fascist meetings were recorded in the East End; in the equivalent period a year later, the number grew by a quarter, to 647.

This result was achieved despite only ratepayers being allowed to vote, disenfranchising many of the BUF’s disproportionately young supporters.

The POA did introduce stricter directives on provocative racial language, which restrained Fascist rhetoric a little. But the new rules were inconsistently applied by police and in any case were often circumvented by the use of veiled terms such as ‘aliens’ or ‘Shylocks’. Additionally, these new legal restrictions were used to substantiate further the Blackshirts’ claims of persecution, with the government once 48 | H mag

with no assistance from party headquarters.

However, over 1938-39 the party’s fortunes were dramatically revived. The growing prospect of war with Germany prompted Mosley to launch a ‘Peace Campaign’, arguing that Britain had no interest in joining any European conflict.

This tapped into genuine public misgivings regarding

the necessity of war, drawing thousands of new supporters to the party.

Moreover, Mosley’s claim that international tensions were being stoked by Jews, who were attempting to engineer a ‘war of revenge’ against Germany, guaranteed that antisemitism continued to play a prominent role in propaganda.

The demonstrators at Cable Street, and their successors in the anti-fascist movement, have understandably taken pride in their achievements that day. Yet far from signalling the beginning of the end for fascism in Britain, or even in the East End, the demonstration yielded a significant short-term boost for the BUF, and did nothing to hinder it in the longer term.

True, it succeeded in demonstrating the strength of hostility to Mosley, confirming that his political ambitions would never be realised. But this had long been clear. By 1936 the BUF was a local irritant but a national irrelevance and destined to remain that way.

Instead, Cable Street drew unnecessary attention and new adherents to the party.

However laudable the motivation of the Jewish participants that day, the primary consequence of their actions was to make life significantly worse for their fellow Jews in the East End, with their involvement used to justify the commencement of the most intensive phase of anti-semitic activity in modern British history.

Lessons of the Battle The BUF issued a statement deploring the fact that “Socialists, Communists and Jews openly organised not only to attack the meetings but to close the streets of London by violence to members of the public proceeding to the legitimate meetings”.30 The Communist Party drew the lesson from Cable Street that it was necessary to intensify the campaign against non-intervention in Spain: “Neutrality must go! Spanish democracy must be saved!”31 It weathered the internal storm, and recruited heavily on the strength of its role in the struggle against Mosley.

Party membership doubled between 1935 and 1937.

Joe Jacobs was expelled from the CP in 1937 for advocating a more militant line. Phil Piratin went on

to become MP for Stepney from 1945-50, although it was on a programme to the right of Labour.

The ILP drew more radical conclusions: ™As in Spain, Fascism must be opposed not by appeals for the defence of Capitalist Democracy, but by a call to united working-class action for Workers' Power and Socialism.∫32 The Trotskyist Red Flag, paper of the Marxist League, called upon militant workers to follow up their victory and “swing the entire organised working class movement into action. The effort of the Labour Party leaders to teach the workers reliance on the police must be exposed for what it really is – a policy which will secure the Fascists freedom to conduct their anti-Jewish, anti-working class propaganda, and engage in brutal attacks on workers in East London”.33 It went on to link the fight against fascism to bringing down the National Government and the struggle for workers’ power.

Cable Street took place on (he eve of the Labour Party annual conference, which unanimously passed an emergency resolution condemning “the tragic and deplorable events of yesterday in the East End of London”. It condemned the Tory government’s refusal to ban the march, proposed the illegalisation of political uniforms and “militarised politics”, and called on the Tories to organise a government inquiry into Fascism!

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not final until a year from when the papers are signed and Janet got divorced only 6 months ago.

Therefore, simply hiding the marital separation from her cousins Irene (Anne Seymour) and Jack (Charles Lane), who are the benefactors of the clause, will do the trick and get her the money.

* 1. An extremely important and very old-fashioned client (Edward G. Robinson) of his company is considering taking his business elsewhere after it seems there are no “family men” working at Sam’s company. The boss, Mr. Burke (Edward Andrews), is told

by Sam’s neighbor and friend Earl (Robert Q. Lewis) that Sam is just the man he is looking for. The client, Simon Nurdlinger (Robinson), is delighted by Sam and agrees to do business with him and the company.

Sam feels his career is now on the way up and he goes home to his wife, with champagne, to celebrate.

There, he meets her friend, sexy brunette Janet (Romy Schneider) and they all have dinner together to celebrate his promotion and Janet moving in next door.

Soon after Janet is informed about her grandfather’s will, her cousins show up. Sam, who was helping Janet move in, must pretend to be Janet’s husband Howard.

* 2. Min’s best friend Janet Lagerlof, a beautiful French woman, is recently divorced her husband Howard (Mike Connors) and is happier than ever. She is moving in next door to the Bissels and has also come into a large inheritance from her grandfather, which she later finds out, along with Sam and Min, is 15 million dollars.

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They are fairly convincing and the cousins leave the house, but wait in their car across the street, still suspicious.

To make it look good, Janet offers to drive Sam to work. They explain everything to Min and go along.

With 15 million dollars at stake, Irene and Jack won’t quit and follow them. To make it look convincing, Sam and Janet kiss before he exits the car to go to work. Watching them, however, are Sam’s boss and his new client, Mr. Nurdlinger.

Not wanting Nurdlinger to think of him as a nonfamily man, Sam must pretend to him too that Janet is his beloved wife. From there mayhem ensues when the cousins hire a PI (Louis Nye), Janet’s husband (Mike Connors) comes back into the picture and jealousy and lust erupts, with good neighbor Sam stuck right in the middle.

This film contains satire of American advertising, such as the advertising firm being known as Burke and Hare. Included is the making of a famous Hertz Rent a Car commercial. A man flying down into the seat of a moving convertible to the famous tune of Let Hertz Put you in the drivers seat.

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the second tallest building in the world Mosque, Putra Bridge, and Seriwawasan Bridge. ter recently built Burj Khalifa in Dubai.

Situated in the south of Kuala Lampur is a wonderful destinaMalaysia is a beautiful old tion for shopping, recreation, nightlife town called Mallaca which and sightseeing, envious shopping malls, mouth watering food, Chinese presents an interesting mix cultural festivals. of different cultures like The worth visiting places in Kuala LamChinese, Dutch, Portuguese pur includes Istana Negara (National Palace), Kuala Lamour Tower, the Putra and British cultures.

World Trade Centre.

Tourist enjoys seeing the

Chinese streets, temples, antique shops parts of European colonial area and the nostalgic Dutch buildings .These include the ST. Paul Hill, Jonker s Walk, Portuguese Settlement village, A Farmosa Fort.

“To develop the human capital, we want our citizens to be fully equipped with knowledge, practice good moral values, have a broad mind, love the country and possess the physical and spiritual strength,�

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alaysia popularly known as Truly Asia is the most attractive and well known tourist destination in the South East of Asia.

It attracts tourist from all over the world for its exotic marine life, nightlife, pristine beaches, international shopping malls, long coastlines, skyscpapers and infrastructure, beautiful under water world of the islands, lush tropical rain forests and scenic beauty. Its sultry climate attracts a lot of tourist from all over the world.

The diversified tourist destinations of Malaysia comprises of Kuala Lumpur the garden city of light,Putrajaya the newly developed city,Mallaca the delightful old town,Penang the heaven for food and culture,Perhentian island the dream island, National park,sabah known for eco tourism,Langkawi,Cameron Highland and sarawak.

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utrajay located in the south of Kuala Lampur is the newly developed city .Most of the government office of Malaysia can be found there. The most famous places to visit here are Perdena, Putra, Putra

Penang is the paradise for food and culture lovers.

It is located in the North West coast of Peninsular Malaysia. The worth seeing places include George Town, Penang Bridge, Snake Temple, Fort Cornwallis, War Museum, Kek Lok Si Temple. George Town is a very compact oldest British settlement and the countries leading resort areas. The beautiful old Chinese houses, Mahjong games, glimpses of Asian life, trishaws captures the eyes of the tourist in the city of George Town.

Kuala Lampur is the capital and the ultra modern center of Malaysia. It is situated in Peninsular Malaysia, the heart of selangor state. The worth visiting places in Kuala Lumpur are Petronas Twin Towers, National Museum, central Market, vibrant Chinatown, bustling night markets and a little of Indian culture. Petronas twin towers, a master piece of earth 54 | H mag

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“Sometimes if there is too much freedom exercised then democracy will be destroyed.”

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Prime Minister of Malaysia

and rendang.Western food chains are also equally famous. Nyonya cuisine also dominates the taste of tourists.

Malaysia is an excellent spa holiday destination. The numerous luxurious resorts provide the best spa treatments of Malaysia. Different spa therapies, traditional Asian facial, body messages helps to cleanse,

restore, refine and hydrate our skin.

Today Malaysia has emerged as one of the strongest economies of Asia. The economic growth of its country is contributed by its tourism sector to a great deal. Thus millions of tourist visits this beautiful and lovely country every year.

The Yang di-Pertuan Agong has extensive powers within the Constitution.

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erhentian Island consisting of two island Big Perhentian and Small Perhentian is located in the state of Terengganu. This island is a heavenly place for snorkeling fans and scuba divers. Tourist loves this place also for sunbathing and turtle and shark watching.

The three states namely Pahang, Terengganu and Kelantan encompass the National Park located in the peninsular Malaysia. This gastromical paradise attracts tourist to the home of some rare mammals like the Indochinese Tiger, Asian Elephant and Sumatran Rhinoceros. The tropical rain forest, jungle trekking, bird Watching, adds up to the delightful experience of the tourist coming from all over the world.

Sabah is a tropical paradise that amazes the tourist with the presence of both beaches and island. Earlier it was known as the” Land Below the Wind as it lies below the typhoon belt.Kinabalu National Park is Malaysia s first World Heritage Site and the most popular biological sites in the world. It is located on the west coast of Sabah covering an area of 754 square kilometers surrounding Mount Kinabalu. It has 56 | H mag

become an outstanding tourist spot in Malaysia.

The ascendancy and actual Coronation date of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong is usually (within six) months aparts. During the Coronation, the King will be taking the formal oath of office.

Despite the interval between the two dates, the King has all the powers vested upon him as our system is a constitutional monarchy in which the King is elected, says constitutional expert Datuk Prof Dr Shad Saleem Faruqi.

Langkawi is one of the most wonderful tourist destinations in south East Asia. It is famous for its nostalgic sandy beaches, scenic beauty, nightlife, tasty food, as well as world class resort, spas and hotels. It is the best place to go, relax and enjoy.

“ here is no break in the Monarchy as the King has been elected by his fellow Sultans and the day he ascends to the throne is the

Cameron Highland is located in the centre of Peninsular Malaysia. It is popular for its beautiful scenery, eye catching tea plantation, amazing butterfly farm, strawberry farms, hill stations, waterfalls, jungle walks, plenty of wild flowers and beautiful gardens.

Sarawak is a lovely Malaysian island state known for its flora and fauna and deep jungles. Tourist can witness various types of animals around this beautiful island, dive into the crystal clear sea and colorful marine life.

The mouth watering and tasty food of Malaysia also attracts a large number of tourists from all over the world. Right from spicy Malay food, Chinese food to Indian and Portuguese food, everything is just electrifying. The most popular Malaysian delicacies include chicken rice, fried noodles, satay, roti canai

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n Wednesday, April 11, 2012 the Sultan of Kedah, Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu’azam Shah, who ascended to the throne on December 13, 2011, succeeding Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu, will be installed as the 14th Yang di-Pertuan Agong. - Picture courtesy of Joi Foto Digital > The Head of Religion for the entire country (Article 3). > The Supreme Head of the nation, subjected to constitutional limitations (Article 32). > The King shall enjoy total immunity from Law except specifically charged by a Special Court (consisting of the Chief Justice, High Court judges plus two more judges from the Federal Court or High Court appointed by the Conference of Rulers) in his personal capacity with prior approval from the Attorney-General (Article 32 and Article 182 and 183).

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f large mammals are your thing, Royal Belum State Park in Perak is the place to check them out.

Part of the 130-million-year-old Belum-Temengor rainforest, Royal Belum was gazetted as a state park in 2007 after years of research and lobbying by conservation groups.

At 117,500ha, this chunk of forest is one of the last refuges for large mammals like the threatened seladang or gaur, Asian elephant, Malayan tiger, and the critically endangered Sumatran rhinoceros.

Belum-Temengor also harbours Malaysia’s largest concentration of hornbill species –10 are found here, including massive flocks of the plain-pouched hornbills. But patience, timing and tons of luck are key for successful wildlife sighting.

You’d be extremely lucky to spot a Sumatran rhino in the jungles of Belum and Danum.

“During our time in Belum, we spotted elephants, gaur, sambar deer, barking deer, tigers and leopards, to name a few,” says WWF-Malaysia field biologist Shariff Mohamad. For the past few years, WWF-Malaysia’s team of biologists have been conducting research and anti-poaching work in Royal Belum.

“But wildlife sighting depends on many factors like how deep into the forest you venture and how much time you spend in a spot,” Shariff notes.

Salt licks and rivers like Sungai Perak and Sungai Tiang are your best bets, Shariff adds. “But there’s no guarantee as animals are generally wary and can detect human scent.” Accessible salt licks thronged by visitors are usually a big no-no for animals.

“However, based on my experience, I would consider Belum one of the core areas for large mammals in Peninsular Malaysia,” he says.

Sadly, the entire Belum-Temengor Forest Complex is facing serious threats from poaching and illegal logging.

“The most important thing you, the public can do is to be the eyes and ears for the authorities.” (Wildlife Crime Hotline, Tel: 019-356 4194; or e-mail: report@ malayantiger.net) Oriental Darters which are very rare can be spotted at Kinabatangan River, Sabah.

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A neat package Malay food still holds much mystery for me. Maybe it is because I didn’t grow up eating it all my life.

No cutlery necessary; eat with your fingers.

Nevertheless, I am having a delicious journey in sampling the fare in all its glory, like at this nasi kukus (steamed rice) place.

Meanwhile, across the South China Sea, a boat-ride on Sabah’s longest river, the 560km Kinabatangan, will unveil a wildlife “stage” with fig-munching orang utan up in the branches, monitor lizards in mangrove thickets and Oriental Darters on the water. Most mornings, you are likely to be stirred from slumber by the hoots of Borneon gibbons.

A good day out means stumbling on a herd of the gentle and shy Borneo Pygmy elephants or a pot-bellied proboscis monkey stuffing its face with leaves.

When it comes to accommodation, visitors are spoilt for choice with the affordably priced homestays and lodges scattered around the villages of Batu Puteh, Sukau and Bilit.

But the ultimate wildlife safari spot in Malaysia has got to be the 438sq km patch of virgin rainforest at Danum Valley Conservation Area in Sabah. You don’t even have to budge from your chalet to spot the occasional rhinoceros hornbill or sambar deer.

Teeming with unique flora and fauna, Danum and its Field Centre, built in 1986, has been a tropical rainforest research and environmental education hub for scientists and students from all corners of the globe.

The impressive list of wildlife in Danum includes the elusive Sumatran rhino, rare clouded leopard, sun bear and banteng or wild ox, which has been extinct in Peninsular Malaysia since the 1940s.

More than 300 species of birds have been sighted at this bird-watchers’ utopia, including the rare Bulwer’s Pheasant, Buffy Fish Owl, Bornean Bristlehead and all eight of Borneo’s hornbill species.

The only catch – visitors have to sign up for a package with Borneo Rainforest Lodge to visit Danum, with a three-day/two-night package starting from RM1,940 (triple-sharing room). But trust me, it’s money well spent!

I would not have discovered Nasi Kukus Ilham if a friend, Amran, had not chanced upon it one Friday when he dropped by the surau across the road.

I slowly open my brown paper parcel. My squarishlooking mound of rice is coated with the gulai and topped with the pineapple and ikan bilis. It looks rather simple but I notice each element plays an important part.

This no-frills place is a corner lot with only a banner to point you to the shop.

This corner shop has a makeshift feel since it does not sport a permanent signboard. Instead, banners proclaiming its name hang in the middle and the side of the place.

Head towards the side and place your order. A bevy of women – all speaking Malay with Indonesian accents – will quickly tend to your needs. You will notice a tall steamer at the back where each level holds individual tins of steamed rice. A large wok with hot oil is used to deep-fry chicken (ayam goreng berempah) as and when required.

Once the deep-fried chicken is ready to go, the rice is plonked on a banana leaf and partially wrapped up in brown paper. Like a flash of lightning, one of the women will scoop a ladle each of the thick gulai.

First, a ladleful of kuah kerutup daging

rich with beef and kerisik (toasted grated coconut).

Next, a scoop of the gulai darat, a typical Kelantanese curry cooked in a large wok known as kawah with coconut milk, lemongrass, galangal, chillies, turmeric and galangal. This version uses chicken neck and feet, which you can add to your meal. The third scoop is the gulai ikan. All these curries mingle with my rice and remind me a little of nasi kandar.

Next comes a dollop of sambal belacan, a scoop of the pineapple acar, a sprinkle of the ikan bilis. Then you choose your preferred ayam goreng berempah.

The whole place is set up like a self-service canteen, where you pick up your food and drinks and pay for them at the counter. It costs RM5.50 for one packet of rice and a piece of ayam goreng berempah. Additional pieces of chicken are priced at RM4 per piece.

Steamed for 45 minutes, the virgin white grains are puffed up to a light fluffy texture. The rice has an airy feel that allows the abundant gulai to seep into each grain so you don’t get it pooling around the bottom.

The three types of gulai when mingled together is rather mild-tasting but mix in the sambal belacan, and you get a fiery tingle to the tongue. The pineapple adds a crunchy refreshing taste to the fluffy rice.

Best you follow the other patrons and enjoy it with your fingers. Pinch a bit of the crispy skinned chicken that is marinated with a spice mix. The meat is slightly dry but well infused with flavours. Add an additional crunch with the keropok ikan you can pick up from the counter for RM3.It is a simple but appetising meal. Wash it all down with the refreshing limau ais, tangy with the juice from two to three calamansi limes.As I sit and observe the place, I realise that packing the food in a brown paper parcel means minimal washing up. Even cutlery is done without since most patrons eat with their fingers.

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The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who have tattoos, and those who are afraid of people with tattoos.

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he popularity of tattoos among women is growing at an unprecedented rate.

Over the past ten years, the number of women lining up at doors of tattoo studios has rocketed. Tattoos are now a mainstream fashion accessory for women, occupying the same category as shoes and handbags.

However, tattoos haven’t always been popular among women. Fifty years ago, tattoos were almost the exclusive preserve of men. Only ten percent of tattoos belonged to women. And as recently as the 1980’s

there was a general belief in society that a women who got tattooed was either a criminal, a lesbian or a whore.

These days, things are completely different. The traditional stereotypes and stigmas that surrounded tattoos have been swept away and women have the confidence to wear their tattoos with pride. Women are now responsible for 65% of all tattoos. In fact the market for female tattoos has grown so rapidly that as many as one in four women in the US have a tattoo.

But apart from the change in the number of women who are getting tattooed, the female tattoo market has undergone a couple of significant changes.

Tattoo Placement Previously, women who wanted a tattoo felt the need to position them on a part of their body where they could be kept well hidden. But these days women are proud of their tattoo designs and as such are placing them in more visible areas.

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pular areas for tattoo placement. This suggests that women want to have the choice of whether or not to display their designs. It also indicates that most women now have the confidence to select a more sexual placement of their tattoo designs. Other popular locations for female tattoos include ankles and the front of the hips.

Tattoo Designs The type of tattoo designs that women want have also changed. In the past, the few women who got a tattoo opted for something small, discreet and well hidden, such as a name, a small flower or a cute design.

Warnings In Japan, tattoos are strongly associated with organized crime organizations known as the yakuza, particularly full body tattoos done the traditional Japanese way (Tebori). Many public Japanese bathhouses (sentō) and gymnasiums often openly ban those bearing large or graphic tattoos in an attempt to prevent Yakuza from entering. The Government of Mei-

Today, the tattoo designs chosen by women are generally larger and much bolder.

Increasingly, women are willing to experiment with the size and style of tattoos.

The most popular designs now include shooting stars, fairies, butterflies and unicorn. Larger tribal and celtic designs placed on the lower back are also incredibly popular.

Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves.

Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

But beyond that, many women now have the confidence to seek out custom tattoo designs that will be unique to them. They’re more style conscious than men, so they’re no longer happy strolling into the tattoo studio, taking a quick glance through the catalog and becoming another one of the thousands who already wear the same design.

Instead, women tend to take their time

when searching for their perfect tattoo. They’re more likely to select a custom design, but only after ample consideration of how it will look and make them feel.

This allows them to leave the tattoo studio with a design that they can wear with confidence and pride.

ji Japan had outlawed tattoos in the 19th century, a prohibition that stood for 70 years before being repealed in 1948.

In the United States many prisoners and criminal gangs use distinctive tattoos to indicate facts about their criminal behavior, prison sentences, and organizational affiliation. A tear tattoo, for example, can be symbolic of murder, with each tear representing the death of a friend. At the same time, members of the U.S. military have an equally well established and longstanding history of tattooing to indicate military units, battles, kills, etc., an association which remains widespread among older Americans. Tattooing is also common in the British Armed Forces.

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Tattooing was also used by the Nazi regime in Nazi concentration camps to tag prisoners.

Insofar as this cultural or subcultural use of tattoos predates the widespread popularity of tattoos in the general population, tattoos are still associated with criminality. Although the general acceptance of tattoos is on the rise in Western society, they still carry a heavy stigma among certain social groups. Tattoos are generally considered an important part of the culture of the Russian mafia.

The prevalence of women in the tattoo industry, along with larger numbers of women bearing tattoos, appears to be changing negative perceptions. A study of “at-risk” (as defined by school absenteeism and truancy) adolescent girls showed a positive correlation between body-modification and negative feelings towards the body and self-esteem; however, also illustrating a strong motive for body-modification as the search for “self and attempts to attain mastery and control over the body in an age of increasing alienation.”

When Tattooing has been a Eurasian practice at least since around Neolithic times. Ötzi the Iceman, dating from the fourth to fifth millennium BC, was found in the Ötz valley in the Alps and had approximately 57 carbon tattoos consisting of simple dots and lines on his lower spine, behind his left knee, and on his right ankle.

These tattoos were thought to be a form of healing because of their placement which resembles acupuncture.

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Other mummies bearing tattoos and dating from the end of the second millennium BC have been discovered, such as the Mummy of Amunet from ancient Egypt and the mummies at Pazyryk on the Ukok Plateau.

Pre-Christian Germanic, Celtic and other central and northern European tribes were often heavily tattooed, according to surviving accounts.

The Picts were famously tattooed (or scarified) with elaborate dark blue woad (or possibly copper for the blue tone) designs. Julius Caesar described these tattoos in Book V of his Gallic Wars (54 BC).

Tattooing in Japan is thought to go back to the Paleolithic era, some ten thousand years ago. Various other cultures have had their own tattoo traditions, ranging from rubbing cuts and other wounds with ashes, to hand-pricking the skin to insert dyes.

Tattooing in the Western world today has its origins in Polynesia, and in the discovery of tatau by eighteenth century explorers. The Polynesian practice became popular among European sailors, before spreading to Western societies generally.

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REAL LIFE

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Essence of

FREEDOM

Happiness is not a passive state, but a product of positive attitude and positive action. And this positive attitude is the result of a mental effort. In short, happiness implies dynamism. Let us explore this concept if you like.

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ife is too hard and too risky in the eyes of many. By contrast, others are such proponents of a virile existence, demanding great courage and giving great pride, that they are ready to leave the coziness of their home to scale Mount Everest and breast the elements for the sheer joy of conquering the summit. Whatever the perspective, the nature of things remains unchanged. There are rules, necessities and duties, and limits, possibilities and impossibilities. Until doom, one can

suffer the consequences. The choice between these two options is the very essence of freedom. Personally, I have no use for the second option: a self-inflicted misery that is without the slightest doubt a pitiable way of life.

The first option, on the other hand, is a pleasurable and honorable alternative that I find compelling, though uphill. It is applicable to any situation encountered in the course of oneís living venture, provided one is not unfortunate to the point of being hopelessly unable to cope.

The range of this applicability corresponds with the range of oneís adaptability. It is normally considerable, despite the tendency to cling to old gratifying habits even after they have become impracticable or unsuitable, owing to a change of situation.

One can be weaned from such habits onto new gratifying habits, in the same way as a baby can be weaned onto solids.

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te, illegitimate, way are the foundations of the life one builds.

The exercise of this power does not necessarily imply a principled resignation toward the status quo. One may be faced with a remediable evil that calls for a struggle to remedy it, effectively and rightly. In that case, living in a well-adjusted and high-minded way entails accepting the need for this struggle and the means of waging it, and sparing no effort to attain oneís end.

Ills are a test of will, an opportunity to show dignity.

They are also an opportunity to probe and appraise oneís inner resources. Over the years, I have improved my situation and especially my attituart of living and their saving grace is their dogged dede, whose negativity was the most unfavorable and improvable aspect of my life. In so doing, I have termination to redeem this lack of talent by dint of studying the human soul. discovered my true richness.

The more the change is significant and one is reluctant to adapt to it, the more the weaning process is difficult and long in producing the desired effect. Again, the only option worthy of one’s attention consists in taking things as they come and making the most of them, for one’s sake and that of others. The reverse is foolish and harmful, a deplorable waste of humanity.

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musingly enough, these untalented inNature has endowed me with an adaptable capacity dividuals are often perceived as gifted, for happiness within the limits of my changeable reonce they have seen the light and reality. According to my observations, this capacity is flected it with the numerous mirrors of not unusually great, compared with that of most peoan elaborate analysis, after a tentative ple. I am even tempted to think it is somewhat lagging and protracted search in the dark. While some fare well behind.

Eleven years plus to adapt in triumph to my physical in this area with a minimum of effort, they try hard to disability is no feat for the Guinness Book of World Re- overcome these difficulties, with the result that they often f a r e cords! b e tte r D u - This sort of overcompensation is typical of peothan ple who experience difficulties in a certain r i ng t h e t h a t area, but refuse to admit defeat. others. time, t h e riddle of life had more or less baffled me. Their redeeming feature is their willpower in the face of Yet, laboriously, with the help of many books and their shortcoming, which they use as a reason to redoumuch thought, I had managed by degrees to cle- ble their efforts, not as an excuse to throw in the towel. ar it up, enough to find a meaning to my life. This is a recipe for a worthy success.

This riddle is comparable to a mire: The slower you go through it, the deeper you get into They discipline and surpass themselves, and thus it. Perhaps thinkers are commonly untalented in the proudly turn things around.

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How many calories in a glass of

Wine

What's the caloric value of a single glass? Is wine actually a pretty good thing to have in your diet?

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ave you ever considered whether the actually has slightly fewer than 80 calories in it. Meancalories in a glass of wine make it while you will be having more calories for a sweet worth drinking or not? Lots of dif- white wine, but even then it will only get up to around ferent diets would have you believe 103 calories. that a simple, enjoyable glass of wine is going to derail your diet for good! But in actual fact Fortified wines obviously have more, so if you stick to the only way you can derail your diet is to get several standard red or white wines you will be able to go by things wrong all at once. the calorific amounts given above.

A glass of dry The fact is that a glass of wine may not be as harmful for your diet as you might white wine (as- So is wine actually a pretty good think. Most diets ban it completely. It’s thing to have in your diet? suming around also known for having empty calories. 115ml as stated As with all things, provided you This basically means that you’re getting drink it in moderation there is no before) actucalories and very little else in terms of fat, reason why you shouldn’t include carbs or protein. But that isn’t the end of ally has slight- it in your diet. It might actually the story - even though most diets like to ly fewer than 80 help you to stick with it, since it have you believe it is! calories in it. is a very low calorie treat to allow each day!

So what’s the caloric value of a single glass?

Well let’s focus on a small glass here of around 115ml. The other good thing about drinkSweet wines will always be slightly more calorific than ing a small amount of wine is the dry wines, because of their inherent sweetness. But health benefits it can give you. once you see the difference between the two of them Antioxidants are just one of the you might be surprised to learn there is less of a dif- things that can be found in wine, and these can help you stay healthy ference than you might think.

Let’s say you want a glass of red wine. If you go for a for longer and also fight disease.

Sometimes there can be a good readry wine you’ll be taking in around 83 calories. But son why certain foods or drinks maybe you’re a sweet red wine kind of person? Okay, are omitted from a diet plan. But if that’s the case you should be thinking of around 100 as you can see with only a low volcalories instead. Not much of a difference is there? ume of calories in a glass of wine So let’s move on to white wine. Are there fewer calories in a glass of wine in this situation? A glass of dry white wine (assuming around 115ml as stated before)

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and plenty of plus points health wise to look forward to, you might be better off including it rather than omitting it.

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tips to get great pictures

Photography is an art, and therefore there are no set rules for getting the perfect pictures. The following tips, however, will help to improve your photographic style, experiment, and get great pictures on a regular basis.

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hether your subject is a child, a pet, or nature, try some of these tips on your next photographic foray.

3. Get a Little Closer 単 When you think your shot is set, try taking a few steps closer. Get in closer to your subject will show detail and emotion that add interest to your photographs.

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1. Get on their level with a live subject it is important to get at eye-level before taking the shot.

For children and pets this may mean kneeling, squatting, sitting or even lying down to get on the same level as your subject. While it is fun to experiment with different angles, you will have much greater success if you look your subject in the eye.

2. Fill out the frame and photographs are more powerful and interesting if the subject fills out the frame. Many photographers make the mistake of being too far from the subject.

It is best to zoom in close enough the that the subject reaches or goes just beyond the edges of the photo frame in your view finder. This allows the viewer to see more detail and expression, and prevents the background from taking over the photograph.

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4. Simple backdrop 単 When photographing a specific subject be aware of what is going on behind them.

You want to choose a backdrop that will not distract or obscure the look of the subject. Choose plain color background or simple natural greenery with few accents to really highlight your subject. . Use the Flash 単 Most people think that outdoor photos never require the use of a flash, but that is not the case. When the sun is at its brightest, can be the time when it casts the most shadow. Adding a flash on an already sunny day can even-out the shadows cast by wrinkles, strange angles, or other people. Just make sure that your camera flash is close enough to the subject to be effective.

6. Watch the Light -- Light is one of the most important factors in photo taking. When you get ready to take a shot, pause for a moment to take accounting of where the sun is and what shadows may be obscuring the view.

You don鱈t want your subject squinting into the sun, nor do you want the light so bright behind them that it makes the subject look dark in comparison.

7. Go Vertical and Don't get stuck in a rut. Many pictures would look better if you just turned them vertically. There are certain subjects that lend themselves to a vertical framing such as lighthouses, the Eiffel tower, or a beautiful tree. Try going vertical with some less likely subjects to see the difference it will make.

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

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8. Get out of the Middle. Another common mistake photographers make is to put the subject of the photograph directly in the middle of the frame. This technique is usually not the most pleasing to the eye.

Instead shift your subject to one of the four corners of the frame so that it is prominent, but not center stage.

9. Steady does it. Make sure the camera is steady when you are taking photos. A steady camera will prevent a blurry photo. If you are not the best at holding steady consider using a tripod to get a clear shot.

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Edward Steichen

10. Shoot Away. If you really want to get better pictures, take more pictures, more frequently. With a digital camera it is no longer a waste to snap away. Feel free to take a lot of photos of the same subject, just varying the angle, lighting, or backdrop. Experimenting will allow you to find the tricks that work best for you, and will ensure that you will have at least a few great shots of each subject.

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EXTRA Long live love poems: There's no chance the love poem is dead, the reason? Because the one you write is for the one you cherish the most and it will be a part of you both forever. Writing a poem is all about observing the world within you or around you and leaving all expectations behind.

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ong live love poems: There’s no chance the love poem is dead, the reason? Because the one you write is for the one you cherish the most and it will be a part of you both forever. Writing a poem is all about observing the world within you or around you and leaving all expectations behind.

For the cash-strapped, or romantically inclined, writing a sincere, well thought out love poem may be just the ticket to your loved one’s heart.

Love poems, friendship poems, sad poems, romantic poems, or any poem that you can think of may mean more to someone then any gift ever could. If you are writing challenged, poems-online.com can show you how to write the perfect poem to get the one you’re after.

For example, romantic love poems exhibit an intense sense of love felt by a lover but must also poses the elements of a poem: elegant structure, classic rhyme scheme, and beautiful imagery.

How? Well poetry’s use of ambiguity, symbolism, irony and other stylistic elements of diction often leave a poem open to multiple interpretations. As we’ve often discussed, poetry can be about anything.

You should view poetry in an entirely new and inno-

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vative way. For example, Edgar Allan Poe, although probably best known for his macabre stories, also wrote poetry and loved to experiment with the sounds of words.

While some may find poetry intimidating or irrelevant, there are people who poetry as Hope. I’ve been writing poetry since I was about 11 years old and wouldnít know what to do without it.

Are you interested in writing poetry or learning the process involved in crafting a poem?

Then start writing instantly, right now, go and give your writing on paper.

There are many different techniques and forms you can use when writing a poem, but we won’t go into them here because, honestly, they aren’t that important. Writing a poem is all about observing the world within you or around you. Try writing out an answer to the question, “What is this poem about.

It’s true that many of us tend to be jaded when it comes to romantic writing as it seems old fashioned.

When I’m writing a poem, I hardly consider its contemporary context. Writing a poem is a voyage of discovery. Besides, a poem can be about anything -pets, family, friends, things you like to do. Your poem is not an editorial. Your poem is very good and beautiful. Read it out loud, slowly!

As is true of most of us, the poet’s understanding of an experience is a gradual realization, and the poem is a reflection of that epiphany. So nobody truly knows where the poem is, nor should they. As soon as a poem is finished to your satisfaction, mail a copy to a trusted friend and ask him or her to keep it along with the cancelled envelope. For time, waits for no man.

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n The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King returns to the rich landscape of Mid-World, the spectacular territory of the Dark Tower fantasy saga that stands as his most beguiling achievement.

Roland Deschain and his ka-tet—Jake, Susannah, Eddie, and Oy, the billy-bumbler—encounter a ferocious storm just after crossing the River Whye on their way to the Outer Baronies. As they shelter from the howling gale, Roland tells his friends not just one strange story but two . . . and in so doing, casts new light on his own troubled past.

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Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books.

As of 2011, King has written and published 49 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, five non-fiction books, and nine collections of short stories. Many of his stories are set in his home state of Maine.

King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, British Fantasy Society Awards, his novella The Way Station was a Nebula Award novelette nominee, and in 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his whole career, such as the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (2004), the Canadian Booksellers Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2007) and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America (2007).

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In his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt-ridden year following his mother's death, Roland is sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape-shifter, a ™skin-man∫ preying upon the population around Debaria. Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, the brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Only a teenager himself, Roland calms the boy and prepares him for the following day's trials by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother often read to him at bedtime. ™A person's never too old for stories,∫ Roland says to Bill. ™Man and boy, girl and woman, never too old.

We live for them.∫ And indeed, the tale that Roland unfolds, the legend of Tim Stoutheart, is a timeless treasure for all ages, a story that lives for us.

King began the Dark Tower series in 1974; it gained momentum in the 1980s; and he brought it to a thrilling conclusion when the last three novels were published in 2003 and 2004. The Wind Through the Keyhole is sure to fascinate avid fans of the Dark Tower epic.

But this novel also stands on its own for all readers, an enchanting and haunting journey to Roland’s world and testimony to the power of Stephen King’s storytelling magic.