A stylishly dressed Selena Gomez attended the launch party for 'Promise' at Nobu London in London, England on Wednesday evening (September 29).
The "Wizards of Waverly Place" cutie worked the arrivals area while greeting Fawaz Gruosi at the event honoring Cheryl Cole and de Grisogono's new capsule ring collection.
It’s actually a photoshoot for a Nuts/Peanuts company and seeing Rosie posing for Nuts will definitely make your eyes pop out.
So… there you go. Here’s one of my favorite celebrity hotties from the UK, Rossie Jones, looking like the definition of “drop dead sexy” in a delightful photoshoot for D Nuts in… bikinis. Hot damn, does this babe ooze sex appeal or what? Mmmmm…. Enjoy!
The guidance of Doc Love, relationship advice for guys was misleading at best. Your father advised anything to do with women or wheels spelled trouble. Your habitually divorced and chronically broke uncle agreed, and then grumbled something about prenups. And while mom was eager to chime in, her suggestions were all “nice girls” whose alphabets clearly lacked the letter “O.”
Turns out that there was a great relationship adviser in the family after all, but it was in the garage. There are in fact quite a few things cars can teach you about relationships -- like the finer points of compromise between high-performance video lust and the still-attractive but more practical realities. So before your creepy cousin with the molester van weighs in on the things cars can teach you about relationships, let us show you some useful advice.
Never buy from a friend
It seems logical enough on the surface. Since you rarely know the full history of a used car, why not buy from a trusted source? During your buddy’s time with the car, you got to know its strengths, its quirks and its overall personality. Maybe it wasn’t a long-term thing with him, but there’s no reason it couldn’t be if you had the car, right? Not bloody likely, and it’s even truer in relationships.
There’s no such thing as an easy project
We see a formerly hot car and we want to rescue it. Or take the unappreciated and cosmetically bring it back. Maybe there’s a quirky one that’s a little rough around the edges but could be a lot of fun with some refinement. In reality, few guys have the patience and resources to see it through. Relationships are no different. You may want to be a Better Man overall, but you don’t want to be forced to fit an idealized relationship. Don’t expect her to change to accommodate yours either.
Flashy cars get noticed
Subdivision activity came to a reverent standstill recently as we piloted the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG press car toward some isolated twisting roads nearby. Months earlier when we positioned our BMW 750Li xDrive tester far away from other parked cars, we returned from our quick store run to several sets of footprints in the freshly fallen snow around the thankfully untouched car. It’s similar with attractive girlfriends. It’s an ego stroke to be seen with them, and while they can take care of themselves, it’s still worrisome knowing the evil that men do.
Take a test drive before you commit
You figure out the cars you like and begin searching for them in person and online. You definitely don’t buy sight-unseen; you don’t even commit to the first car that seems like the right one at first glance. Many are going to seem right, but you’ll never really know without spending quality one-on-one time on a test drive. It’s just like relationships. Going all-in without going all-in is what your ancestors did. And why do you think they never smiled in those old pictures?
Listen to your car
From time to time, we take our cars for granted. As time and miles go by, we get wrapped up in other things -- like our careers, our kids, hanging out with the guys, whatever. Then one day, out of the blue, there’s a major and total breakdown. The tow truck driver can’t believe you didn’t hear anything wrong beforehand, like when your camshaft launched itself a half mile down the road. You have to be a Better Man and listen in your relationship too. You can’t ignore everyday distractions altogether, just listen to her more.
Sexy rides are usually high-maintenance rides
You can argue with us all day, but we firmly believe cars have personalities. That said, take a typical exotic car owner: He gets as much or more pleasure showing it off as he gets from one-on-one time. That’s because he’s rolling the dice on the car’s personality with every start of the engine. Will it be breathtaking, or a several-thousand dollar heartbreak? We everyday people don’t see the extensive and expensive maintenance that’s part and parcel of ownership. Now, equate that to the Creamsicle riding shotgun and you'll understand the correlation.
Washington (CNN) -- Citing "mounting evidence" of repression of the Iranian opposition, the Obama administration added more sanctions against Iranian government officials, members of the Revolutionary Guards Corps and others accused by the United States of being responsible for human rights abuses.
The sanctions, announced Wednesday by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, block the assets of, and prohibit U.S. citizens from engaging in any business with, those on the list, which includes the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, the country's prosecutor general, and the ministers of welfare and intelligence.
"On these officials' watch or under their command Iranian citizens have been arbitrarily, beaten, tortured, raped, blackmailed and killed," Clinton said. "Yet the Iranian government has ignored repeated calls from the international community to end these abuses, to hold to account those responsible, and respect the rights and fundamental freedoms of its citizens."
"Today we declare our solidarity with their victims and with all Iranians who wish for a government that respects their human rights and their dignity and their freedom," she said.
Geithner emphasized the measures would not harm the whole country, rather the sanctions were designed to target those who engage in behavior that harms the Iranian people.
"We have found that when we single out Iran's bad actors and expose their illicit conduct--banks, businesses, and governments around the world respond by cutting off dealings with these individuals, groups and businesses," he said, adding the measures would send a message across the world about the risks to continued business with Iran, just as with the recent sanctions against Iran's nuclear business.
The US has been increasing its criticism of Iran's goverment's human rights record since President Mahmoud Amhadinejad's disputed landslide election victory unleashed massive demonstrations in the country. Iran's leaders called the uprising a foreign-led plot to overthrow the regime. It cracked down on the protesters, with many killed and even more jailed. Images of the bloody crackdown fueled worldwide outrage.
Clinton said that new legislation passed earlier this year gives the administration tools to impose sanctions against Iranian officials where there are credible evidence against them. But she acknowledged the administration was "also very mindful" since last year's election about messages from the opposition about keeping a low profile.
"We had to be careful that this indigenous opposition that we certainly had nothing to do with, that was attempting to stand up for the rights of the Iranian people, was not somehow seen as a U.S. enterprise, because it wasn't," she said, adding: "And so walking that line in trying to be both encouraging, forthright and strong in our support of the fundamental rights and freedoms of the Iranian people, at the same time not giving any reason for the Iranians to claim that this reaction from within was somehow either motivated or directed or connected with us, required a balancing act.
The order targets Mohammad Ali Jafari, Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC); Sadeq Mahsouli, current minister of welfare and security and former minister of the Interior; Qolam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, current prosecutor general of Iran and former minister of intelligence; Saeed Mortazavi, former prosecutor-general of Tehran; Heydar Moslehi, minister of Intelligence; Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, current minister of the Interior and former deputy commander of the armed forces for law enforcement; Ahmad-Reza Radan, deputy chief of Iran's National Police; and Hossein Taeb, current deputy IRGC commander for intelligence and former commander of the IRGC's Basij Forces.
If you find the prospect of “tying the knot” stressful, you may want to consider very real evidence that married or partnered men are healthier and live longer than their single counterparts. Contrary to conventional wisdom, men in committed relationships experience less stress, reducing the chances of chronic disease and sudden illness. Health and marriage and the benefits for men are undoubtedly closely related.
The health benefits of marriage seem to come from lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol, but it’s a combination of factors that makes walking down the aisle toward a committed relationship healthier than going it alone. Certainly, there are advantages to maintaining a perpetual string of one-night stands, but the concept of health and marriage may trump the idea for some men.
The complex link between health and marriage
A 1996 Rand Study, titled Marital Status and Mortality: The Role of Health, states men in their 50s, 60s and 70s have lower mortality rates compared to never-married, divorced or widowed men, but the reasons are complex.
One suggestion is that marriage encourages healthy behaviors that include not smoking, avoidance of excessive alcohol intake, better nutrition, and care in times of illness. Men who are married are less likely to engage in risky behaviors like substance abuse or drinking and driving. Parenting within a marriage further promotes healthy behavior.
Stress hormones lower for married men
Researchers from the University of Chicago found that marriages and romantic commitments lower stress hormones.
Dario Maestripieri, Professor in Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago, and lead author of Between- and Within-sex Variations in Hormonal Responses to Psychological Stress in a Large Sample of College Students, says that "although marriage can be pretty stressful, it should make it easier for people to handle other stressors in their lives. What we found is that marriage has a dampening effect on cortisol responses to psychological stress, and that is very new."
The study was conducted on 500 masters degree students who were given a series of stressful computer games. Among the group, 40% of the men and 53% of the women were married or in a relationship. The researchers collected saliva samples to measure cortisol and testosterone levels, before and after the games.
The surprising finding at the start of the study was that single men and women had higher levels of the stress hormone than married participants. Men in a committed relationship had lower testosterone levels -- findings that the scientists say happens in primates and birds when males engage in fatherly behavior. Single students in the study had higher testosterone levels that “can potentially influence many aspects of an individual’s response to environmental challenges including tendency to take risks, psychomotor function and coordination, and cognitive performance.”
Women like tough guys
All girls like guys who are tough. Obviously, riding a motorcycle -- I don’t want to say that there’s a bad boy quality -- but there’s definitely a tough and macho thing about a guy who rides a motorcycles and that element of danger. That’s really sexy.
You may think you know watches, but let's be real -- you just don’t. Let me, a true horological aficionado, enlighten your plebeian minds as to what makes a real watch, what you should wear when and what to do with those old watches of yours. All the opinions expressed by the Watch Snob are my own, and are just that -- opinions. Don’t worry, though, AskMen will still be bringing you great features on interesting watches to buy, both old and new, expensive and cheap. For now, let the Watch Snob reign.