The new hand-built Aston Martin V12 Zagato marks more than 50 years since the now iconic DB4GT Zagato made its introduction. The new V12 Aston Martin and Zagato is a collaboration which has created a modern interpretation of the classic model, which is true to its original focus of craftsmanship, exclusivity and performance. So take a look in your local Aston Martin dealership – you just might be able to see one there too.

Also in the Aston Martin news is their ‘Four-Door’ Rapide model, as it has recently walked away with two highly prestigious awards. The first was from the German car magazine Auto Zeitung which saw the Aston Martin’s elite 5-door Rapide win the much coveted German Auto-Trophy Award.

The magazine’s readers were invited to participate in the poll which saw a staggering 98,000 readers participate, who were asked to choose from almost 400 models across 29 vehicle categories. Aston Martin was also chosen for second places with the Aston Martin Virage and the DBS, as well as third places for the Aston Martin DB9 Volante convertible and the V8 Vantage.

Next, the Newport Pagnell based luxury sports car manufacturer was voted as the winner of the ‘Best Cars 2012’ poll by the readership of the Swiss Auto Illustrierte magazine for the Aston Martin Rapide once again.

The coveted award highlights the technical design, superior craftsmanship and prestigious luxury which are all hallmarks of the Aston Martin range. But the Aston Martin Rapide stood head and shoulders above the stiff competition and added yet another trophy to the Rapide’s trophy cabinet.

Alternatively, if you don’t happen to be heading to Kuwait in the near future or you missed out on the Rapide’s award presentations, you could always choose to visit Romans International and see our range of prestigious Aston Martin cars in stock; we always have an extensive range of premium quality luxury and performance cars at our Luxury Car Dealership in Surrey. We are one of the top Aston Martin specialists in the UK, with a reputation which is second to none.

Editors Notes:
Romans International is just one of a handful of dealers within Europe who possess an extensive and often exclusive range of the most desirable and exceptional models available: Aston Martin, Bentley, Bugatti, Ferrari, Lamborghini Mercedes, Porsche and Land Rover, along with their reputation which is second to none.

All Romans International’s advertised range is physical stock, which gives them flexibility to satisfy the customer needs, when making a purchase. They can make the whole process easy and efficient, as customers can literally arrange a viewing for their desired vehicle, arrange payment and simply drive it away there and then.

So if you would like to talk to Romans International about any of their luxury sports cars that they currently have in stock, or even possibly about any particular car brands or models they could source for you, then do not hesitate to them today – 0844 249 5186 for further details.

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Directed by Thea Sharrock, The Sunshine Boys will open at the Savoy Theatre on May 17th 2012 and will run till July 28th 2012. Previews for the show start on April 27th which are also available to book as part of Hotel Direct’s London theatre breaks.

The show stars Danny DeVito as Willie Clark and Richard Griffiths as Al Lewis, who are two aging former entertainers who were once part of vaudevillian double act. Over the years the pair grew to hate each other and fell out over one of them wanting to retire and split up the duo. Willie and Al are brought together once again to star in a television special that focuses on the bitter pair trying to work together once again.

The Sunshine Boys was originally played on Broadway in 1972, has seen a film and TV adaption and now is being revived for the West End stage for a 12 week limited run. The show was created by Neil Simpson, produced by Sonia Friedman Productions and Richard Willis, designed by Hildegard Bechtler, sound by Ian Dickson and lighting by Neil Austin.

This will be Danny De Vito’s West End stage debut, but many will know him from his huge back catalogue of movies including Twins, Batman Returns and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Richard Griffiths who is best known for his role in Pie in the Sky is no stranger to the stage and has starred in the History Boys, the Habit of art and Equus.

When booking theatre breaks in London with Hotel Direct, you are treated to a wide choice of top West End musicals, plays and shows, plus your choice of London hotels for one fantastic discounted price. Visit www.hoteldirect.co.uk/theatrebreaks.htm for the full range on offer.

Editor’s Notes:

HotelDirect.co.uk is designed to help you find the best hotel deals in any city simply and quickly. You may be looking for a type of hotel like 5 star hotels, cheap or convenient hotels near to attractions or airports. Or perhaps one of our London Theatre breaks is just the ticket (plus a hotel of course!)

Every hotel is discounted. Our Special Offers present hotels with extra discounts and Hidden GemsTM is a fun way of offering you the greatest hotel savings – in this case secretly!

You’ll receive the same hotel savings whether you book online or talk to one of our expert advisors, 7 days a week free on:

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Looking at the UK domestic market, on the other hand, the budgetplaces.com brand is also becoming increasingly popular with UK travellers, who make up more than one quarter of the booking portal’s annual €80 million gross bookings. The most booked destinations by British travellers include European city break classics, such as Paris, Rome and Barcelona, as well as domestic UK destinations, where budgetplaces.com will strengthen its offering with the help of the new London office.

Popular overseas destinations where budget accommodation from budgetplaces.com is available include New York City, Sydney, Melbourne, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires and Miami. Over the past couple years, the Barcelona based low cost expert has managed to position itself as a global provider of budget hotels, hostels, apartments and b&b’s.

budgetplaces.com’s new London office is headed up by UK Country Manager Karla Brooklyn who joined budgetplaces.com after holding managerial positions with travel industry giants Gullivers Travel and, most recently, Expedia.

”Great Britain has become one of the key markets for budgetplaces.com. I believe there is great potential for further growth for both inbound and outbound travel. Our new base in London will allow us to get even closer to UK hoteliers and understand their needs which will translate into an even better hotel product available to our clients”, says Karla Brooklyn.

The new office opened on February 1st, 2012.

25 Floral St
Covent Garden
London, WC2E 9DF
+44 (0) 207 031 8226

About budgetplaces.com:

budgetplaces.com is an international online hotel reservations website specialised in offering well-located, quality accommodation at budget rates for both leisure and business travellers. More than 8,500 directly contracted hotels, hostels, apartments and B&Bs in more than 1,400 destinations worldwide offer rooms on budgetplaces.com. budgetplaces.com is the flagship brand of a network of dedicated city websites such as london30.com, edinburgh30.com and sydney50.com which offer rooms for budget-conscious travellers. All EnGrande websites process over 30,000 reservations and 90,000 room nights each month. Approximately 2 million unique visitors are registered on the company’s sites each month. Headquartered in Barcelona, with offices in New York and London, budgetplaces.com employs more than 100 staff of 30 different nationalities.

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Widely regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, Lucien Freud was famed for his detailed, realistic and sometimes unnerving portraits of his family, friends, fellow artists, well-known public figures and, of course, himself. Now, roughly seventy years after he first rose to prominence on the international art scene, the National Portrait Gallery in central London presents an extensive collection of his finest works – including some which have never been on public display before.

Among the portraits visitors will be able to peruse in what is the most far-reaching Freud exhibition in over a decade are likenesses of people such as Freud’s mother Lucie, brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles and contemporaries Francis Bacon, David Hockney and Frank Auerbach. Promoted as part of the Cultural Olympiad’s London 2012 Festival, Portraits carefully tracks the painter’s artistic development and painstakingly includes examples of every different kind of portrait Freud drew throughout his lengthy career. Discussing the exhibition, curator Sarah Howgate noted how the artist maintained close relationships throughout his life with people from a wide range of classes and ethnicities, and that the show was intended to reflect this.

Freud passed away in July of last year but before he died was heavily involved in the planning of this exhibition. The display, therefore, is a truly fitting memorial to this hugely influential man.

Contact Hotel Direct today to find luxury hotels in London in which you can relax in style and comfort after sampling the unique delights of Lucien Freud Portraits.

Editor’s Notes:

HotelDirect.co.uk is designed to help you find the best hotel deals in any city simply and quickly. You may be looking for a type of hotel like 5 star hotels, Cheap or convenient Hotels near to attractions or airports. Or perhaps one of our London Theatre breaks is just the ticket (plus a hotel of course!)

Every hotel is discounted. Our Special Offers present hotels with extra discounts and Hidden GemsTM is a fun way of offering you the greatest hotel savings – in this case secretly!

You’ll receive the same hotel savings whether you book online or talk to one of our Expert Advisors, 7 days a week free on: 0800 633 8000 (+44 1872 261 100). Call us now to go direct to the best hotel prices.

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Alex Tsakiris: I want to talk about extended consciousness in terms of the research you’ve done because there’s this whole controversy within the field that wants to push everything into the psycho-social explanation. But at the same time we do have to acknowledge, as you did in your work with the famous abduction case of Betty and Barney Hill that we do have reports of telepathy, mind control, psychokinesis, and all the rest. I’m wondering what that evidence tells us about ourselves and our human capabilities that extend beyond what we normally think of as our conscious experience.

Stanton Friedman: Well, it’s a very important point because I’m convinced that any advanced civilization will know about telepathy and mind control and communication at a distance. It really came home to me when I was standing at the exact location where Barney Hill was standing when the saucer was over their car and he’s looking through binoculars at the crew on board.

For no good reason, they jumped back in the car, very frightened, and they get off the main road, Route 3, and they go onto a secondary road. Then they go onto a dirt road –which Barney would never have done. And he winds up alongside the only place in the area where you could land a, let’s say 80-foot in diameter, flying saucer. It was a sandy area, there were trees all over the place, but this area was big enough to get a saucer like the one they described down. It was clear proof to me that these guys were directing his actions.

It seems to me eminently clear that these guys have capabilities—as the only simple term I know—to do things that we don’t look upon as being respectable. Such as mind-reading, mind control, and getting people to forget.

The Skeptiko interview with Stanton Friedman (audio and transcript) is available at:
http://www.skeptiko.com/stanton-friedman-on-extended-human-consciousness-and-mind-control/

About Skeptiko:

Skeptiko.com is the first scientifically oriented Podcast exploring new research in controversial areas of science such as telepathy, psi, parapsychology, near-death-experience, psychic detectives, medium communication, reincarnation, and after-life encounters. Each episode features open, honest debate on new scientific discoveries. The show includes interviews with top research scientists and their critics.

Contact:
Alex Tsakiris
news@skeptiko.com
(858) 523-8535
http://www.skeptiko.com

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These are the lowest prices that we have offered holidays at for years, but just because you’re getting the holiday for less, doesn’t mean we’re offering any less. These holidays are great value, because despite the low cost, you’ll still get access to all the facilities and entertainment that you would if you’d paid full price!

In addition to that, the deposit on these holidays is only £50, and you get a free cancellation scheme that’s worth £24 for each week of your stay! We’re confident that you’ll have a hard time getting this much for these prices anywhere else.

Editor’s Notes:

John Fowler Holidays have parks throughout Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, all with excellent facilities for a family holiday. Every park is within walking distance of a beach, and some even have their own private beaches.

To book, contact John Fowler Holidays on 01271 866766 or visit www.johnfowlerholidays.com

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Christopher Ford, Co-Founder of Stitches ‘n Dishes, a pioneer in mobile food Social Media Marketing announced today that it has begun collaboration with Billboard Recording Artist, Nyee Moses to record vegan and vegetarian-focused webisodes for distribution on its Youtube channel, SND TV. The series will be recorded in Los Angeles, CA, and intends to increase Stitches ‘n Dishes presence in vegetarian and vegan communities, while raising awareness of the vegetarian lifestyle in an entertaining format.

Nearly 10 percent of the adult U.S. population largely follows a vegetarian-inclined diet, and 7.3 million are vegetarian, according to Vegetarian Times Magazine.

“I am very excited to be working with Stitches ‘n Dishes,” said Moses. “As an advocate of conscious living, I will have most fun bringing ‘what’s hot on the street’ in vegetarian and vegan food to SND TV viewers. When you want a quick veggie bite on the go, there are trucks out there just for you, and I’ll show you how to find them.”

Moses has followed a vegetarian diet for 15 years, and is a powerful force in health advocacy and conscious living. Her debut CD, “Between Us” hit the airwaves in 2008, soaring to the Top Ten on the Billboard Charts and stayed there for 28 solid weeks, before making it to Billboard’s “30 Best Songs of 2008.”

Chris Ford, Co-Founder of Stitches ‘n Dishes said, “We’re absolutely thrilled to have the opportunity to collaborate with Nyee. Her fun personality and knowledge in vegan and vegetarian street food options will bring our readers and viewers a wealth of information and entertainment. With Nyee’s help, we’ll provide a valuable resource to food truck and food stand fans who are looking for vegan and vegetarian options.”

Andrew Nicora, Co-Founder of Stitches ‘n Dishes and Director at SND TV intends to wow viewers with a new line-up of videos and a unique spin on mobile foods. His current series, featuring a “day in the life” adventure of a food truck will air in April, 2012. “I’m very excited to bring vegan into the mix on SND TV,” he said. “I know that a large subset of our readers and viewers are hungry for vegan content, and we’re going to bring them something they’re not necessarily expecting. Nyee brings a sultry and earthy character to the series, and compliments our concept very well. I’m looking forward to working with her.”

Nicora recently directed “The Drive Thru,” a one-minute commercial, featuring the Wicked ‘Wich truck in Sacramento, CA for SND TV.

Recording of the video series, featuring Moses as she “brings the real deal” to Stitches ‘n Dishes, SND TV viewers will begin this week.

About Stitches ‘n Dishes:
Stitches ‘n Dishes, the creation of Christopher Ford and Andrew Nicora, and inspired by “Stitch”, an American Staff. Terrier mix / Bichon Frise, provides marketing, advertising and PR services to the mobile foods industry and it provides consumers with a single source for original articles, reviews, food photography, California fairs and events, discounts, contests and giveaways.

Stitches ‘n Dishes is California’s first provider of a platform that stitches a link between food lovers, entertainment venues and mobile food operators, and the first fully dedicated marketing, advertising and development resource available to mobile food vendors in California.

Contact
Christopher Ford, Co-Founder
Stitches ‘n Dishes
916-612-9954

About Nyee Moses

When Nyee Moses ” Between Us ” hit the airwaves in 2008, staying on the Billboard chart for 28 weeks, breaking Billboard top 10 and finally making it to “30 best songs of 2008,”it was no wonder that both she and her new fans were a bit shocked, but delightfully so! “It is hard enough to get airplay even if you’re an established artist, but to have radio embrace an unknown artist is just magic!” And magic seems to be exactly what Nyee’s debut CD is all about.

“Her music has that dreamy sheen of acoustic guitars and percussion dipped in spacey synths, gurgling electric guitars and fondue deep bass. Her lyrics and voice drip with the sensual evocative ache of one who worships at the altar of Sade.” -Lisa Coleman, Urban Network

Contact:
info@nyeemoses.com

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Sensual Steals’ business model is simple yet effective: each day a new adult-themed product is featured,available for sale for a 24-hour period, or until inventory runs out. The odds of finding it on other sites at the same price? Slim to none! Something we’re equally proud of: the site is stylish, easy to navigate and credit card-safe.

Our Valentines Gifts Include:

Sweet Heart Box Strawberry – There’s nothing more romantic than a gift from the heart. Open yourself to new possibilities of love when you show your true romantic colors! Enjoy these sweet delights and indulge in the sinfully rich taste of strawberries as you lick them off your lover’s body one sweet morsel at a time. Set comes with rich White Chocolate Body Paint, Strawberry Crème Body Soufflé, and Strawberry Dreams Honey Dust with a feather duster.

Sweet Heart Box Chocolate - Explore your love with these decadently flavored body treats. Rich Chocolate Body Paint, Chocolate Crème Brûlée Body Soufflé – and Chocolate Caress Honey Dust with a feather duster. Whatever your pleasure, your lover will be begging for more.

If you’re adventurous in the bedroom or a beginner looking to spice up your love life, we also have several must-have items to choose from in our Past Steals section. Trust us when we say you won’t be disappointed.

About Sensual Steals:

Sensual Steals is the recipient of AVN’s ‘O’ Award, and listed in their ‘Top 50 Retailers of 2011.” Our chic, classy web design was recently nominated at the 2012
XBIZ Awards.

Sensual Steals is the first and only deal-a-day site focusing on sensual items. We offer a huge selection of sexy clothing, shoes, club wear, lingerie, bathing suits, etc. In
addition to flirty fashions, we also carry couples toys, erotic merchandise, and all sorts of other goodies for your goodies!

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Once you have decided which destination you would like to visit on your villa holiday, you can also choose the type of villa you wish to stay in. Villa Parade have several different types of villa you can choose from, and with a selection that boasts swimming pools, hot tubs, and even tennis courts, you can be sure of getting the best out of your holiday the moment you get there!

Villa Parade’s finest selection contains villa properties with outstanding features, not only does this apply to their location, but also to each property’s individual architecture and design. A great example is El Castel Juniper Den Rafal, one of many great villas in Pollensa you can choose from. This wonderful villa features a gated swimming pool, games room complete with table football and games console. El Castel Juniper Den Rafal is also ideally located, just a short drive from Pollenca’s old town, and offers stunning views of the surrounding valley and the Puig Maria Mountain.

If you are looking for something less extravagant, there are many villas that come compete with hot tubs and swimming pools, and suit anyone on a budget. Ideally suited for those looking for a little bit of luxury during their holiday, they are also especially suited for those that enjoy activities such as walking or golfing whilst holidaying.

Whatever you are looking for in a villa, you are sure to find something to suit you within our selection of villas and apartments.

Editor’s Notes

Villa Parade provide a choice of over 450 luxury hand picked Villas and offer a wonderful choice of Villa Holidays. With Properties located throughout the Mediterranean including Villas in Majorca and Villas in Portugal you can be assured of great choice of destinations for an exquisite and relaxing Holiday.

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The website conducted a survey which showed that 40% of people consider flowers to be the top Valentine’s Day gift. Second in the poll was jewellery with 34% of the vote – while a particularly unromantic 9% don’t believe that any present is required on Valentine’s Day.

The ten most popular Valentine’s Day presents in the voucher codes site’s poll were: 1. Flowers. 2. Jewellery. 3. Nothing. 4. Chocolates. 5. Champagne. 6. Lingerie. 7. Teddy bear. 8. Simple card. 9. Perfume. 10. CD.

For more information visit www.discountvouchers.co.uk

About DiscountVouchers.co.uk:

DiscountVouchers.co.uk features the latest money saving offers from a growing range of retailers, all updated in real time. Designed to help consumers save money with both leading high street brands and specialist retailers, DiscountVouchers.co.uk offers one of the widest choices of discounts available.

Part of ASAP Ventures Ltd, the company behind the award winning Carrentals.co.uk price comparison site, DiscountVouchers.co.uk is committed to offering a growing range of the best savings available online.

For more information visit www.discountvouchers.co.uk

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