Actress Elizabeth Finds Solace In Meditation

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Actress Shannon Elizabeth credits meditation with helping her to find inner peace following the breakdown of her 10-year marriage.

The American Pie star split from actor Joseph Reitman in 2005 and stepped away from the spotlight as she learned to adjust to life as a singleton.

She admits the relaxation technique has helped her to come to terms with the troubles in her personal life and is convinced it's helped her to become a better person.

She tells WENN, "I meditate. I've been working on myself a lot since my divorce, during the last four or five years. I've really been doing a lot of inner self-inspection and learning about energies and vibrations. I've become really spiritual. It's not religious, it's different. I'd much rather be working in my office until one in the morning than going out to a club or drinking or anything. I've always felt like maybe I'm just weird but it's always kind of been me...

"You kind of just start discovering who you are and what's important to you and what's important in life and in the overall scheme of things. I think I'm just in a different phase in my life."

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Gas Prices: Lessons From The Carter Years

Gas prices in April in Washington, D.C. reach $5 a gallon.
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Gas prices in April in Washington, D.C. reach $5 a gallon.

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Gas prices in April in Washington, D.C. reach $5 a gallon.

Oil and gas prices are a perennial bane for American presidents. The cycle is familiar by now ? they go up, the American people get angry, and they blame the man at the top.

"It's so visible in our lives," political consultant Tad Devine tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer. "Now, through pervasive television coverage, through the Internet and everything else, people are so aware of how much it costs and how quickly it's rising."

"There's growing demand around the world for petroleum products," Devine says. "China, India ? these economies, which are emerging as gigantic competitive economies, are going to rely on petroleum as a principal source of energy."

"As a result of that competition, I don't think there is going to be pressure for [petroleum companies] to cut the price," he says. "I think there's going to be pressure to raise the price. So we're really in a fix here."

Though there is little a president can do to change that reality, the price at the pump can have real political consequences. Devine saw this first-hand, working on the campaign to re-elect President Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He recalls Carter responding to high home-heating oil prices by encouraging Americans to wear a sweater and turn down the thermostat.

The response, Devine says, was not positive. Americans didn't want to hear from their president that the problem was them, using too much oil and gas and driving up the price.

"People saw in him someone who was not on their side in this fight," Devine says ? and that perception is believed to have been a major factor in sinking Carter's re-election campaign.

What a president can do, Devine says, is empathize. This week, President Obama announced his intention to create a task force to root out fraud and manipulation in the oil and gas industry that could be contributing to higher prices. Devine says this approach is fundamentally different from the one taken by Carter.

"It's evidence that the president wants to pick sides in this, and the side that he's going to pick is the side of the consumers. Not oil companies, Wall Street speculators," he says. "It's, I think, potentially a very powerful symbol."

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/04/23/135640221/gas-prices-lessons-from-the-carter-years?ft=1&f=1003

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UFC on Versus 5 Set for August with Sadollah-Ludwig, Miller-O?Brien

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UFC on Versus 5 is official for August and includes a welterweight bout between The Ultimate Fighter 7 winner Amir Sadollah and Duane ?Bang? Ludwig as well as a lightweight matchup between TUF 5?s Cole Miller and TJ O?Brien, the UFC announced Tuesday.

An exact date and location will be confirmed soon, but the event is rumored for Aug. 14 at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Sadollah (5-2) and Ludwig (20-11) were slated to square off last month at UFC Fight Night 24, but an injury forced Ludwig off the card and Sadollah went on the stop DaMarques Johnson for his second-straight win, while Ludwig hasn?t fought since topping Peter Sobotta in November.

Miller (17-5) dropped a unanimous decision to Matt Wiman in January following back-to-back wins, while O?Brien (16-4) was stopped by Paul Kelly in his UFC debut in November.

For the latest UFC on Versus 5 news and UFC on Versus 5 rumors stay tuned to MMAFrenzy.com.

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Royal Wedding: Kate Middleton Named Duchess of Cambridge

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LONDON -- It?s no more Prince William?and Kate. Britain woke to the news on Royal Wedding day that the Queen has conferred the bride and groom with the new titles of ?William, Duke of Cambridge?and Catherine, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge.

The Duke and Duchess, as they will now be known, also retain titles that connect them to Ireland and Scotland, but will not take the titles of Prince and Princess until the current?Prince of Wales?becomes King.

The announcement came as excitement about the ceremony reached fever pitch in London as guests began arriving at Westminster Abbey from 8.15 am GMT Friday morning. Despite the cool weather and overcast skies, the excitement was palpable.

Months of meticulous planning and preparation have gone into to the wedding at Westminster Abbey, which will take place before 1900 guests and will be watched by a television audience of as many as two billion.

Earlier, overnight campers - some of whom have spent two or three nights camping out in London parks to make sure of ringside seats lining the Mall and in front of Buckingham Palace ? were delighted by an unexpected appearance of Prince William the night before the wedding.

William was given an ecstatic reaction by crowds outside Clarence House as he shook hands chatted and joked with members of the public who cheered his surprise appearance.

?All I?ve got to do is get my lines right,? he joked, according to news reports.

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Apple vs. Microsoft by the numbers

While total values for Microsoft and Apple were close last spring, that's no longer the case. Since May 26, 2010, when Apple first inched ahead of Microsoft, Apple's market capitalization has risen from $223 billion to more than $306 billion (as of April 14). Microsoft's, meanwhile, has slipped from $219 billion to $212 billion.

Bottom line: Wall Street currently thinks more highly of Apple's growth potential and overall prospects than it does of Microsoft's. Investors were right last year, but only time can tell whether that outlook is still justified, given the company's high stock price.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/technology-business/apple-vs-microsoft-the-numbers-405?source=rss_infoworld_top_stories_

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Aryton Senna Documentary to Be Released by Producers Distribution Agency

Producers Distribution Agency will release Asif Kapadia?s Senna, a documentary about the Brazilian Formula One race car driver Aryton Senna, on?Aug. 12 in the U.S.

PDA is the distribution, created by Cinetic Media?s John Sloss and Bart?Walker, which successfuly released the Oscar nominee Exit Through the Gift?Shop last year. Distribution and marketing consultant Richard Abramowitz and?Electric Artists? Marc Schiller will also work on the release.

FILM?REVIEW: Senna

Senna, from Working Title Films, had its North American premiere at this?year?s Sundance Film Festival, where it won the World Cinema Audience Award?in the documentary category.

?Occasionally a film comes along which defies all preconceptions, and?simply demands to be seen. Senna is an unexpectedly moving and powerful film?that we believe has immense playability far beyond its obvious core?audience, and we all feel strongly that this is exactly the type of film?will benefit from our unique approach to distribution,? Sloss said.?

A Working Title Production in association with Midfield Films, Senna was?directed Kapadia, written by Manish Pandey and produced by James Gay Rees,?Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. The executive producers are Kevin Macdonald,?Manish Pandey, Debra Hayward and Liza Chasin.

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'Prom': Teen Comedy, Hold The Sex And Rebellion

Forever Young: Although he wears a smirk borrowed from notable screen punks, Jesse (Thomas McDonell) shows his romantic colors after warming up to resident perfectionist Nova (Aimee  Teegarden).
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Forever Young: Although he wears a smirk borrowed from notable screen punks, Jesse (Thomas McDonell) shows his romantic colors after warming up to resident perfectionist Nova (Aimee Teegarden).

Prom

  • Director: Joe Nussbaum
  • Genre: Teen Comedy
  • Running Time: 103 minutes

Rated PG for mild language and a brief fight

With: Aimee Teegarden, Thomas McDonell, DeVaughn Nixon, Danielle Campbell

From the Walt Disney Company's wholesome-produce department, the pleasantly retro teen movie Prom comes bearing no offense. Which is nice for parents seeking healthy alternatives to, say, Glee or, worse, Pretty Little Liars ? if slightly worrying to those of us who grew up on the necessity of youthful rebellion.

Directed by Joe Nussbaum (Sleepover) from a chipper screenplay by Katie Wech, Prom is a good-hearted, perfectly watchable bonbon about adolescents with little on their minds besides who will ask or be asked to the graduation night shindig.

Nussbaum has claimed a cinematic affinity with John Hughes, but Prom's sensibility is less Ferris Bueller's Day Off than pale Pretty in Pink updated with a perky High School Musical vibe. (Though minus the hoofing; instead there's a broadly winking soundtrack featuring Those Dancing Days and Simple Plan.)

By way of technique, a split screen here and there helps set up the few personality traits shared by all 14 members of the ensemble ? dewy novice actors so blandly photogenic that they all look vaguely familiar.

At the center of this tray of sweets, which includes the usual fly boy, several shy boys, a high-flying Asian girl and a dignified African-American prom queen, is a developing romance between a good girl who needs to let her hair down and a bad boy who needs to cut his ? I mean, who needs to straighten up.

The rub is, she has no yin and he's woefully short on yang. An obsessive event planner, Nova (played by Friday Night Lights' Aimee Teegarden, she of the ski-slope nose and Sally Field cheeks) is Election's Tracy Flick, but minus the satire ? indeed minus almost everything but her straight-arrow niceness. As for Jesse (Thomas McDonell), his reprobate credentials stop at a Johnny Depp 'do, a flash or two of temper tantrum and a poor attitude toward prom prep. From the first meet cute, Jesse wears a placard (loves his family, good at repairs) marked Working-Class Prince Potential.

Jordan (Kylie Bunbury, left) and Tyler (De'Vaughn Nixon), the favorites to be named prom queen and king, are stuck mending their relationship before they can don their crowns.
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Jordan (Kylie Bunbury, left) and Tyler (De'Vaughn Nixon), the favorites to be named prom queen and king, are stuck mending their relationship before they can don their crowns.

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Jordan (Kylie Bunbury, left) and Tyler (De'Vaughn Nixon), the favorites to be named prom queen and king, are stuck mending their relationship before they can don their crowns.

Forget freaks; even geeks are thin on the ground in Prom. On the plus side, there's not a Bieber clone in the bunch. But neither is there a flannel-shirted Juno, a purple-haired, nose-ringed best friend, or even a crusading Clueless shopaholic to pep up the obligatory dress-shopping sequence and challenge the high-school pecking order.

None of this vanilla crew, you can be sure, will ever end up in the Juno predicament: The only hint of sex in Prom is a broken fountain that overflows when it ? and the meager plot ? gets repaired. As a parent, I gave thanks. As a moviegoer raised on the youth revolt and a critic with no great love for facile uplift, I hungered for some mutinous push-back against the movie's watery '50s aspirations.

The only remotely ground-breaking thing about Prom is its casual color-blindness. Well, not blindness, exactly. Along with the ubiquitous caramel skin ? you can't tell which race(s) many of these kids belong to, and it's no big deal to them or the filmmakers ? Nussbaum and Wech have made so bold as to introduce an African-American bad boy (De'Vaughn Nixon) whose poor character has nothing whatever to do with his race. Good for them ? and for every black actor who's had it with playing inner-city badass or saintly crusader for inter-ethnic tolerance.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/04/28/135710305/prom-a-teen-comedy-hold-the-sex-and-rebellion?ft=1&f=1053

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Dean Potter?s Birthday Jump (video)

Hey guys. Here is a mini clip from my week long slideshow tour in Europe. On the 14th, my friend Fabio Palma gave me an extra special birthday present. He brought me to a beautiful un-jumped spot above the town historic climbing town of Lecco Italy. I opened the long flight from Pian Dei Resinelli, Italy. Check out how soon I glide?

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Bethenny Frankel: I Used Reality TV to Build a $120 Million Empire

Bethenny Frankel: I Used Reality TV to Build a $120 Million Empire

We all know that former Real Housewives of New York City star Bethenny Frankel won't let anything get in her way. A wisecracking, smart entrepreneur, she has, against the odds, turned her reality-TV celebrity into a mammoth business empire.

Frankel began as a the founder of BethennyBakes, a gluten-and-dairy-free delivery service on Manhattan's Upper East Side, where she lives. Her accomplishments since then have been nothing less than spectacular, and it was recently announced that Frankel has sold her Skinnygirl cocktail line to Fortune Brands' Beam Global (the world's fourth-largest spirits distributor) for what insiders say is a staggering $120 million!

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Frankel opens up about how this acquisition came about and reveals that her true motiviations for going on Real Housewives were "single-handedly and exclusively for business." Seems to have paid off.

Of the $120 mil deal she says, "It's a feat never before seen in the spirits marketplace by a single celebrity, unless you count Ciroc's nearly $100 million deal to bring on Sean 'Diddy' Combs as part-owner of its premium vodka for promotional value."

Frankel makes no bones about using Housewives to promote her Skinnygirl brand -- among other ventures. "I just decided to be totally honest and own it," she says. "You can't do something you don't stand for just to make money. It's a smart audience, people will realize it."

As for why she's been so successful, Frankel believes its because her ideas and products offer real value. "Everything I create is a solution to a problem that women have," she explains. "I don't like to wear lingerie, but my husband loves it. So I created lazy lingerie. You wear it under a blazer or sweater during the day, but when you pull it off, you have on lingerie. It solves a problem."

After leaving The Real Housewives of New York, Frankel branched out with her own Bravo spin-off show, Bethenny Ever After, detailing her life with new husband Jason Hoppy. The show has been a smash hit (the second season generated more than 1 million viewers a week). In addition, Frankel has also published a couple of best-selling books and come out with a clothing line. But Frankel doesn't want to stop there.

Rumor has it that she wants her own talk show, and that she even might be ready to walk away from Bethenny Ever After. "I like to leave a party when it's in full swing," she tells The Hollywood Reporter. "I don't want to be there at 3 in the morning with the scary guy in the bad sweater with no teeth. I like to leave when everyone still has their teeth."

While Frankel has obviously turned her celebrity status into big big business, her publisher, Simon & Schuster, is quick to differentiate Frankel from the other stars looking to cash in on their reality-TV 15 minutes of fame. "There's no little fairy with pixie dust here," says a spokesperson for the publisher. "Cinderella does everything she should and in the end she still gets screwed until her fairy godmother comes. She didn't need to wait for that magic. This is all Bethenny."

It is, indeed! $120 million dollars' worth!

Source: http://www.ivillage.com/bethenny-frankel-i-used-reality-tv-build-120-million-empire/1-a-342986

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