The hit ABC show Dancing With The Stars is back. The Three-Night Premiere Event Begins Monday, September 22 2008 and this season, the shows seventh, is projected to be the best ever.

Season seven of Dancing With The Stars marks the largest cast assembled to date, the oldest and youngest competitors ever, and includes two Olympic Gold medalists, a Grammy®-winning singer, a television legend, an Oscar® winner, and a Super Bowl champion. Additionally, all four professional dancers who have previously tasted the thrill of victory return to compete against one another for bragging rights.

This season also promises to be the biggest and most demanding season ever.  For the first time ever, all thirteen teams must prepare two routines for the first week of competition.

In alphabetical order, the celebrities dancers are: pop singer, Lance Bass, Grammy Awards singer Toni Braxton, model Brooke Burke, chef Rocco DiSpirito, sprinter Maurice Greene, reality celebrity Kim Kardashian, actress Cloris Leachman, actor Cody Linley, soap star Susan Lucci, olympic volleyball player Misty May-Treanor, actor Ted McGinley, comedian Jeffrey Ross, and football star Warren Sapp.

Dancing With The Starsis hosted by Tom Bergeron (America’s Funniest Home Videos) and Samantha Harris (E! Entertainment).

The shows popular and lively judges are renowned Ballroom judge Len Goodman and dancer/choreographers Bruno Tonioli and Carrie Ann Inaba.

Follow all the latest news and dance show results at ABC’s Dancing With The Stars site

Looking for real serious head turning wrist fashion? If you’re looking for a watch that is lighter on the wrist with a sleek look, this BR01 by Bell & Ross Pro Titanium Watch may be the perfect choice.

The Bell & Ross brings the food for your style cravings. Check out their latest collection of popular BR01 series of watches, which are hitting the market with a cool twist this time.

They are slimmer, all the more tech loaded and all the more stylish than their older counterparts. The lightweight titanium model that works as a complete complement to the high-tech design features an anti-reflective coated sapphire crystal.

While other features that make it a perfect pick-me-up for a man who doesn’t mind making a pricey style statement includes photo luminescent coating on hands making them night readable, virtually unscratchable numerals the 100 meter water resistance, and a crisp automatic chronograph movement.

We hope you are not expecting the BR01 series to come to you as an easy deal, as the price tag that reads $8000, is good enough to suit the class and finesse that the watch offers.

Via: Acquire

Gold Sequined Escada Dress

Escada – Continuity and Change
Building a brilliant future on a successful past.
Creating a brand new world of aspiration.
Desirable, Glamorous, Perfect.

Price available upon request. Elite Traveler

Escada clothing is an embodiment of the traditional style in fashion. The development of the brand began in the late 1970s and since that time Escada has become one of the most popular brands on the planet.

Escada dresses, Escada pants, Escada jeans and denim, Escada outerwear and much more items of clothes and accessories are sold all over the world. Escada clothing – it’s more than just a brand name.

Today Escada is the international fashion group working in the style of expensive designer apparel and high level goods. More than forty designers from different countries of the world work over the creation of Escada clothing.

Los Cabos Querencia

Celebrities frequently escape to the beautiful and sunny Los Cabos, Mexico. Los Cabos, like other Mexican vacation spots, thrives on its wide array of all-inclusive resorts.

The enticing scenery, white sand beaches and the frequency of impeccable weather comprise only a hint of the Los Cabos appeal.

Looking for the best Sauvignon Blanc Wines?

You couldn’t go wrong with these two fine choices. The Mollet Florian Sancerre Roc De L’abbaye 2007 from France’s Loire Valley, and Mahi 2007 from Marlborough, New Zealand

Each is made from the sauvignon blanc grape and, very likely, vinified in similar ways (stainless steel tanks, no oak barrels–though there are minor exceptions from winemaker to winemaker).

Because of New Zealand’s cool, maritime climate and stony soils, you can expect the Marlborough sauvignon blanc to be the far more pungent of the two wines.

It should smell like fresh grass clippings from your lawn with a lot of passion fruit, grapefruit and other tropical fruit thrown in.

Expect the Sancerre to taste and smell a bit more like that salty, stony character you get in European sparkling mineral waters.  Full article

Roman Colosseum

The Roman Colosseum is the most famous Classical structure of Rome and one that virtually every visitor comes to admire. The structure is easily recognizable with its distinct design and architecture. When the elliptical stadium was first built, over 2,000 years ago, it was the first permanent amphitheatre of its time. It was marveled at for its grand size and structure and remains a template for the stadia that we see today.

A huge ellipse with tiered seating, the Colosseum was able to seat 50,000 viewers with standing room for an additional 10,000. There were 80 exits that allowed for efficient entry and exit of the large masses of people attending events. Gladiator events were most common, but the stadium was also used for other games or to watch criminals being attacked by wild animals.

No battle was neglected; at times the arena was filled with water to present naval battles. Entertainment at the Colosseum lasted for an impressive 450 years until the Roman Empire started weakening. The emperor Honorius ended the gladiatorial duels in 404 CE and animal shows ended by the sixth century. There are several theories to explain why the activities had ceased, but most likely it was due to lack of funding as games were expensive to produce.

The Colosseum was abandoned by the tenth century and soon became a home to houses and shops that were built within. Pieces of tufa, or stone, from the stadium were hacked off and used to build these new structures.

During the Renaissance, when Rome became more vibrant again, more stone was removed and used to build the new palazzis and numerous buildings around Rome. This constant breaking down of the walls and removal of stone is the reason that only half of the outer ring remains today. It wasn’t until restoration began in the eighteenth century that halted the destruction of the building and the focus moved to preserving the site’s remains.

Oversized sunglasses turned up in both spring and fall 2008 runway shows–they’ve been popular for several seasons now, as an alternative to aviators.

But how to make your retro-socialite/fashion editrix shades look new for 2008? Try squared-off frames – the thick plastic recalls the ’70s, but the cool gray tones speak directly to the millennial crowd.

Another of the season’s signatures may best be defined by what you don’t see: The obligatory bling is decidedly more low-key, with minimal logos, metal inserts, or (on Giorgio Armani shades) the lightest touch of Swarovski crystals.

Popular style of glasses are: Balenciaga, $330; Barneys New York, 888/222-7639. Gucci, $270; gucci.com. Giorgio Armani, $325; BOSS, $140; both at Solstice Sunglass Boutiques, solstice stores.com. Jimmy Choo, $295; Jimmy Choo boutiques.

Made in Monogram Mini Lin Croisette canvas, the Louis Vuitton Marina GM bag is both supple and delicate. Its stripes pay homage to the traditional trunks of the house, initially decorated with striped canvas.

– Textile lining and grained natural cowhide trimmings
– Golden brass pieces
– Zipped closure
– Hand-held or carried across the body
– Adjustable and removable leather strap

Size: 18.9″ x 11.8″ x 5.5″
Available in Red and Blue
Price: $1,500

News out today that Google Inc. is releasing its very own Web browser, called Chrome. This is a long-anticipated move targeted directly at Microsoft Corp’s dominant browser, Internet Explorer. IE is used by about 75% of all Internet users.

This move by Google allows Chrome to facilitate Internet users easy access to its own market-leading search engine. Google’s lead in the lucrative Internet search market is also dominating. Their search engine processes nearly two-thirds of the Web’s queries.

Google is offering Chrome for free and will be available for downloading in more than 100 countries, but for computers running only Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Google says it is still developing versions compatible with Apple Inc.’s Mac computer and the Linux operating system.

This battle between two of hi-tech’s heavyweights – Google and Microsoft – has been going on for a while and will continue on for some time.

For the past several years, Google has been attempting to find ways of taking advantage of its search engine’s popularity,  trying to break Microsoft’s hold on how most people interact with personal computers.

To date, Google has concentrated on focusing on a bundle of computer programs, including word processing and spreadsheet applications, that Google offers as an alternate to one of Microsoft’s biggest money makers, the MS Office suite of products.

Does our brain trick us when we have the choice between two wines – one more expensive than the other?  It seems that we tend to like the taste of the more expensive wine.

A study from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the California Institute of Technology discovered that when people were given two different bottles of wine and told that one cost $5 and the other $45 (in reality, both bottles were identical), the pleasure-center part of the brain became more active when the participants were drinking what they believed to be the more expensive bottle.

They also reported that the wine they believed to be more expensive tasted better.

Baba Shiv, one of the study’s authors and associate professor of marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, previously found that people who paid full price for Red Bull energy drinks were able to solve more brain teasers than those who paid less for the same product.In other words, how much you pay for something can affect how you perceive it.

A small drawing of a group of very civilized rabbits tickled the art world by selling for over $500,000 in London recently.

Expected to sell for about $80,000 at Sotheby’s in London, the illustration, ”The Rabbits’ Christmas Party: The Departure” by Beatrix Potter, author of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, instead found several buyers willing to pay over four times the pre-sale estimate.

In the end, the ink and watercolor drawing was sold to a British buyer for $578,700, the highest price ever paid for a book illustration at auction.

In the drawing, several rabbits are shown donning their coats, thanking their hosts and exchanging holiday kisses under a bunch of mistletoe hung from the rafters.

It is the final scene of a story written and illustrated by Potter in about 1892.  Full article