The 2012 Tournament of Roses Parade will be held in Pasedena, CA on Monday, January 2, 1012.

This year marks the 123rd year for the parade, and one of the few instances when the “never on Sunday” rule will be in effect.  Traditionally, the Rose Parade, and the accompanying Rose Bowl Game, are held on January 1st. However, in 1893 it was decided that the parade would be held on a Monday whenever January 1st falls on a Sunday, in order to prevent conflicts with Sunday church services.  The last time the “never on Sunday” rule was applied was in 2006.

This year, the parade, which will be seen in the US, Canada, and in 200 countries across the globe, celebrates the theme of “Just Imagine…”  It will feature marching bands from all across America, celebrated equestrian units and, of course, dozens of magnificent floats covered in flowers.

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Looking for a fun activity to partake in this summer? Well here are a couple of great ideas to have a good time while staying cool.

First, why not go all terrain vehicle (ATV) riding, it’s an outdoor activity which is invigorating and allows you to experience the beauty of nature. An ATV is basically a four wheeled vehicle which you sit on and it allows you to drive over any terrain. With large dunlop ATV tires, the vehicle will have no problem traversing dirt, rocks, or soil. Riding an ATV is a thrilling experience because they can reach very high speeds and allow you to see parts of the outdoors that you most likely wouldn’t reach on foot. To find great trails to ride on, check your state government’s parks and recreation website.

Another way to get away from the heat is to head to the lake. You can rent a boat or jet skis and can hit the water for a day or two of fun. The lake will provide a great way to cool down and you can bring your friends or family along for a bit more of a social atmosphere. If you rent a boat you can take part in different water sports such as, wakeboarding, waterskiing, and tubing. With a jet ski, you can travel around the lake much faster and you can explore much more of the lake since it is a smaller vehicle.

Southern California is known for their beautiful beaches and their mild summers. It is definitely worth a road trip to visit the coast and to spend some time soaking up the sun and playing in the waves. Before heading on a road trip, make sure that your car is ready to handle the trip, have a mechanic check the engine and make sure that the tires are not worn out. When in California, there are tons of beaches to visit and each one has their own unique flair and personality. You can surf, paddle board or just soak up some rays while at the beach. California beaches are very beautiful and while a road trip may seem like a bit much, it is definitely worth the time.

While summer can seem like an extremely unpleasant time due to the heat, there are definitely ways to avoid the heat while still having a blast. Whether you want to hit the trails, spend some time on the lake, or visit the ocean, you will have a great time.

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1. Take A Road Trip to Disneyland Road trips are a great way to see new places,...

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Road trips are a great way to see new places, bond with people and make the most out of a vacation. Disneyland and California Adventure in Anaheim, California are opening new attractions and they are sure to be spectacular. Disneyland is a perfect excuse to take a road trip, so grab your USA map and your California map and hop in the car.

Disneyland and California Adventure are each opening a new ride or attraction and with state of the art technology, these are sure worth seeing.

Disneyland is one of the most visited places in the United States; known as the “happiest place on Earth”, why wouldn’t you want to stop by for some fun. One of the great sections of Disneyland is Tomorrowland, which offers all types of rides and attractions based on the future and science fiction. One of the most popular rides in Tomorrowland is Star Tours, which takes you through the world of Star Wars on a three dimensional movie tour in a “ship” which moves with the movie. Until now, the ride was a bit dated and the technology was lacking. Recently the ride has undergone a total revamp and offers the best 3-D experience, which makes you feel as though you really are flying through the stars and visiting other planets.

California Adventure is opening a little mermaid themed ride. After 20 years, the undersea princess is finally getting her own ride. With brand new animatronics and cutting edge technology, this ride will bring in tons of Disney princess fans. The ride has multiple rooms, which you navigate in a moving clam seat, filled with Ariel and her friends.

Both Disneyland and California Adventure offer fantastic experiences and these new attractions are definitely beneficial additions to the parks. So if you haven’t been to Disneyland in a while and want a chance to see some of the United States on the way, grab your keys and take a road trip to beautiful Anaheim, California.

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Trinity Nightclub in Seattle is an ornately adorned 2-level labyrinth, housing 3 rooms: The Main Room, the Blue Room, The Card room and a large private VIP room. Each room has a unique theme and decor with 2 spacious dance floors, full lounge, state of the art sound and lighting, plus internationally acclaimed DJ’s.

The Main Room, is a majestic room featuring Seattle’s top sound and lighting systems. It also has one of the largest dance floors on the west coast. Many of the room’s features are from a Seattle area church, including the DJ booth, which was constructed from its pulpit. This design gives The Main Room a classic, old-world feeling with all the modern amenities, including fully appointed VIP room with full bar and private restroom.

The Blue Room, is the fun, flirty side of Trinity. Royal blue with white accents, including a sparkle-infused blue dance floor. It’s reminiscent of the 50′s, but with aretro-modern style, and a pinch of an overdone Roger Moore James Bond film style. The Blue Room also features computer-controlled LED lighting system suspended from the ceiling and a custom designed DJ booth.

The Card Room, is an eclectic Asian themed lounge side of Trinity. Featuring pieces rescued from the Asian room at the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle. The Card Room is very exotic and relaxing, a place to enjoy dim sum, drink and a good conversation.

The VIP Room, is a private and intimate area with up-matched elegance. The perfect setting for professional and personal entertaining. This sophisticated room offers a fully stocked bar, plush seating, a private restroom, a climate-controlled atmosphere and the VIP guests get to enjoy an unsurpassed service, which includes table-side premium service made available by your personal host and professional staff. Reservation are necessary.

You’ll find Trinity at 111 Yesler Way, not far from a downtown boutique hotel Seattle, USA offers its fine international guests.

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New York City has always been a pretty intimidating rival to Hollywood when it comes to making movies. In terms of sheer volume, of course, no one can come close to the west coast, but in terms of top films made in the country, ones that critics generally accept as the finest of their crop, New York is very much a contender. It’s really rather difficult to compete with New York for anything and come out winning, because there’s something rather sturdy about the people and the artistic traditions here. There are also some fine movies.

It’s not just a great place to make movies, although it has some of the most spectacular locations anyone could ask for. It’s also a great place to see movies, with some of the oldest movies houses in the country, offering plenty of entertainment for anyone staying in a New York hotel and looking for an authentic experience. Years ago, the stories go, people could smoke in the theaters, and one could hop from one to another, and see movies all day. Common rules of decency have changed these things a bit, but it’s still a city that offers a cinema experience that’s important to catch.

The city has enough weight behind it when it comes to film. Some of the most important films have been made in the city, and New York in the movies has been used to such effect that it actually becomes a character. It’s easy to see how this figures into the movies of Woody Allen, Spike Lee, or Martin Scorcese. In many of their films, the subject matter is so quintessentially New York, and the city locations are used with such dexterity, that it comes to life in a remarkable and memorable way.

It wasn’t just this era of the contemporary cinema greats, however, that make New York memorable in movies . It could have started before 1933, but that year, when King Kong was climbing the Empire State Building, the movie became more than a film set in New York. The city became a symbol of culture and civilization, but then it also showed itself to contain a brutal force, one that could compete with the worst that nature could throw at it. In the end, it lies in a poignant balance between the two places, both as urban jungle and high society, and the dialectic serves to spin out films generation after generation.

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Seeing movies in San Francisco has all the advantages of seeing a film in any big, cosmopolitan city. The audiences are generally much more receptive, and also critical, and make the experience very different than seeing a film anywhere else. For anyone taking a vacation, going from their downtown hotel to the local theatre, it’s sometimes a wonderful experience in world cinema, and sometimes it becomes striking how many films are made in and about the city itself.

San Francisco may have a reputation for cop films, with hits like 48 Hours, Dirty Harry (yes, the original one), and Bullitt, with some of the most exciting car chase scenes ever caught on celluloid. But there are also a number of other kinds of films made here as well, with intimate, exceptional dramas like Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Days of Wine and Roses. There are also films like X-Men, Monsters Vs. Aliens, George of the Jungle, and Herbie the Love Bug that take some common ideas of a world based on San Francisco, and then morph it for maximum effect. Then there are films that are more focused on the multiple cultures here, like The Mistress of Spices, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, The Joy Luck Club, and Milk.

These all make up a kind of testament to what San Francisco is, a glass bead game with multiple facets, constantly revealing and unveiling, and at the same moment hiding something new. The San Francisco Film Commission has been pretty instrumental in keeping the city centered as a location for world cinema, and there are many independent filmmakers and small companies working to document the dreams and realities of the city on film and video. The first moving picture was taken in this part of the country, and it set a standard for the city, as well as a kind of fortunate precedent. Small visions of great poetic beauty, and large visions of the state of the world are worthy of capturing the audience’s attention here, and it’s up to the artists to filter in and out what makes sense, and what makes a dream.

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Three contemporary films set in Las Vegas, “The Hangover,” “Leaving Las Vegas,” and “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” can offer a fairly good idea of the kinds of films being made about the city these days. They offer a glimpse into the worlds that are here, and also reflect the extraordinary imaginations of the filmmakers. Seen in another light, they also speak of a cultural history in the U.S. in general. Las Vegas has always served as a kind of litmus test for the rest of the country when it comes to film, because of the unusual things that films can reveal that are not possible in other art forms.

It also has a lot to do with how the city is perceived in the rest of the world, and what it stands for in the imagination. Since the film industry got off the ground in the 20th century, Las Vegas has been a primary setting for movies, and there are literally hundreds of movies about Las Vegas in the past hundred years. Recent popularity of the above-mentioned films also suggests that this isn’t something that’s on the decline. Las Vegas stands, then, as a kind of archetype that continues to haunt the imagination, and the archetype tells as much about the imaginations of the people as it does about the city itself.

It’s often the case in Las Vegas movies that the hotel plays a big role in the content of the film. Hotels aren’t simply locations where the characters happen to be staying, but often play a significant role themselves, and this gives them a certain metaphorical weight. The luxurious hotel in a movie speaks to the fortunes of the characters, and also tells the audience that they are in the city inhabiting another space. Being in a new space, for any character in literature, usually means that the story is an adventure, where they are stepping out of themselves in order to let their real essence come through.

The dislocation of people in time and space is an old literary device, putting them in a kind of crucible, where they will be tested. In some of the movies, the test is one where sudden good fortune becomes a means of bringing out the darker sides of human nature. In others, the location becomes something of a last chance, to discover something that was lost or fading away, and the movie then become about the characters struggling with what was left behind, in order to change and become the next thing. Much like the city itself, always in flux, and always on the way to something else.

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Lindsey Lohan denies that they are going out, but it is a different story from what other people who have seen them around town are saying. Photographer, Indrani, has been seen hanging out with Lohan a lot lately, and has even been spotted making out with her. Indrani says that this is her first female relationship she has had, but she really likes Lohan. Her impression is that Lohan is trying to get her life back on track and many people who know Lohan are hoping that Indrani is a good influence on her. If all this is true it begs the question as to why Lindsey is denying the relationship. What are your thoughts on the matter?

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Atlanta, Georgia is a place that’s rich with history and culture. It’s one of the great cities in the world to visit, and now more than ever there are plenty of reasons for coming. In the past, it was a place to change planes, but the secrets are getting out that it’s also one of the most fabulous cities in the country. Still small enough to maintain its distinct identity, but large enough to have a very cosmopolitan feel, there is something for everyone. There are plenty of live entertainments to enjoy here, including live music, theatre, dance, and other kinds of performance, but it’s also increasingly a place for movies.

It’s indeed a rich place for film-lovers, and there are also a number of very popular movies filmed in Atlanta . Because of its extremely lovely natural appeal, with different kinds of vegetation and landscapes, it is a perfect choice for filmmakers looking for shots of the country. It also has a lively urban center, which means that multiple locations are very accessible here. As if this weren’t enough, there are also new tax incentives that make it very financially reasonable to choose Atlanta as a setting.

For guests, this can mean that there are times of the year when celebrity star-gazing is particularly good. And who knows? Perhaps this means that one might run into someone famous on the streets, when setting foot outside of the luxury hotel . It’s not uncommon. In the 1970s, BUrt Reynolds spent a lot of time here, with films like “Deliverance,” and “Sharkey’s Machine.” Even “Smokey and the Bandit” took advantage of some of Georgia’s back roads.

The filming of “Roots” in Savannah was a ground-breaking work that touched the entire country, but it also sparked interest in Atlanta as a fine choice for film . “The Big Chill” may be the first big contemporary Hollywood blockbuster to be shot here. This opened up the doors for other kinds of movies as well, where they didn’t have to be action-oriented, but could appeal to urban audiences looking for films that allowed for intimacy with the viewers. “Driving Miss Daisy,” “The Blind Side,” and “The Last Song,” are just some of these. There are also generous amounts of side-slitting comedy’s set here, most notably some of the more celebrated works of Tyler Perry. Even in film, Atlanta has something for everyone.

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There has been a lot of going ons about the IPad. Is it worth it? If you don’t have one yet, you may want to take a look at this video and find out some things about it. The main thing he likes to say about it in the video is that the IPad is for the Consumption of Content, not for the creation of it. You won’t want to write an essay on it, or even a blog post. You make up your own mind though.

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