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The new Pepsi bottle shape.

For the first time in almost 17 years, Pepsi is completely changing the shape of its familiar bottle.

The new, strange, twisty shape is certainly different from what we're used to, but VP of marketing Angelique Krembs wanted to make sure consumers know,?"We didn't want to create a shape that came out of nowhere."

Krembs told Ad Age that the swirls are actually similar to old glass bottles from early Pepsi packaging. She continued,?"It's not uniform, it's a little asymmetrical, there's a little edginess and playfulness, which is consistent with Pepsi's equities and youthful spirit."

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The old Pepsi bottle shape.

This is all a part of Pepsi trying to revamp its image ? minus a new logo, that already happened in 2008.

Pepsi is dedicated to updating its look. In fact, in December it shelled out $50 million to secure it-girl Beyonce as its brand ambassador.

The soda's 16 oz. and 20 oz. bottles are set to change, but it might take a year or two to ease out of the 1997 design.

"The engineers have to go to all the plants and convert the lines," spokeswoman Andrea Foote told the AP.

PepsiCo's beverage sales fell by 4 percent in North America last year, so we'll see if this new look helps.

What do you think of the bottle?

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/pepsi-completely-changing-its-bottle-look-twist-2013-3

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SpaceX's next-generation rocket engine cleared for liftoff this summer

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Two of SpaceX's Merlin 1D engines sit on a test stand at the company's rocket development facility in Texas.

By Mike Wall
Space.com

SpaceX's next-generation rocket engine is ready to fly and will probably power a commercial space launch for the first time this summer, company officials announced Wednesday.

The Merlin 1D engine was judged flight-ready after firing for a total of nearly 33 minutes over the course of 28 different tests at SpaceX's rocket-development facility in McGregor, Texas. The new engine will soon be incorporated into the company's?Falcon 9 rocket, officials said.

"The Merlin 1D successfully performed every test throughout this extremely rigorous qualification program,"?SpaceX's?CEO and chief designer, Elon Musk, said in a statement. "With flight qualification now complete, we look forward to flying the first Merlin 1D engines on Falcon 9?s Flight 6 this year."

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The Falcon 9 has flown five times to date, most recently on March 1, when it blasted the robotic Dragon capsule toward the International Space Station on California-based SpaceX's second contracted supply run for NASA. According to the company's launch manifest, flight No. 6 will launch a Canadian communications satellite, probably in mid-June. [Photos: SpaceX's Amazing Rockets & Spaceships]

Company officials say the Merlin 1D will provide a big boost for the Falcon 9, which has been using nine Merlin 1C engines to power its first stage.

"The Merlin 1D has a vacuum thrust-to-weight ratio exceeding 150, the best of any liquid rocket engine in history," SpaceX officials wrote in a press release Wednesday. "This enhanced design makes the Merlin 1D the most efficient booster engine ever built, while still maintaining the structural and thermal safety margins needed to carry astronauts."

SpaceX indeed plans to launch astronauts using the Merlin 1D. The company is working on a manned version of its Falcon 9/Dragon transportation system, in the hopes of scoring a NASA contract to ferry astronauts to and from the space station.

SpaceX will also incorporate the 1D into its Falcon Heavy booster, a huge rocket still in development that will use 27 engines in its first stage. The Falcon Heavy will be capable of carrying payloads weighing 53 metric tons to low-Earth orbit, company officials say, and it is also being designed to meet NASA human-rating standards.

The Merlin 1D already powers SpaceX's?Grasshopper rocket, an experimental booster that the company hopes will pave the way for a fully reusable launch system. Earlier this month, the Grasshopper lifted off on its fourth test flight, rising 263 feet (80 meters) into the Texas skies before returning to Earth and making a soft landing.

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Lohan won't be charged for New York bar fight

By Alyssa Toomey, Baker Machado and Ken Baker, E! Online

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Lindsay Lohan is off the hook for an alleged altercation with a woman in New York.

Lindsay Lohan may soon be headed to locked-down rehab, but she's legally off the hook for her New York City bar fight.

A source tells E! News the Manhattan D.A.'s office is dismissing its case against the embattled actress, and she will not face charges for her arrest stemming from her New York City nightclub brawl with Tiffany Mitchell back in November.?

Sources close to the investigation say the Manhattan D.A.'s Office will not prosecute LiLo because witnesses close to Mitchell failed to cooperate with the investigation. Specifically, they failed to speak with investigators.?

All the details on Lindsay's nightclub arrest?

In addition, sources say a surveillance video on the night of the fight was inconclusive. The video did not show Lindsay strike Mitchell, and the alleged victim tripped and fell when she was being escorted out of the club, so it is unclear as to what caused her injury.?

After Lohan's arrest, the psychic and apparent assault victim lawyered up with celebrity attorney Gloria Allred.?

Allred tells E! News, "Tiffany is very disappointed that the District Attorney has not decided to prosecute Lindsay."?

Lindsay Lohan (almost) returns to the scene of her 2011 necklace heist case?

She claims Tiffany had "two witnesses who spoke to the D.A. and corroborated what Tiffany alleged to have occurred."?

"The District Attorney has never told us that there was any issue about Tiffany's credibility," Allred said. "Nor did the District Attorney indicate that their office believed that what Tiffany reported was 'unfounded.'"?

Allred says her client is considering "all her legal options in the civil justice system because of what she suffered that night."?

LiLo has a new love interest?

"Tiffany has also been unfairly and inaccurately portrayed in the press," she told E! News. "She looks forward to responding in the future and to making sure that the full and accurate story of what happened that night is told."?

As for Lindsay's lawyer's response??

Her attorney Mark Heller tells E! News, "An alleged gypsy fortune teller tried to grasp her 15 minutes of fame by claiming that Lindsay Lohan assaulted her. Unfortunately, she was unable to see in her crystal ball that I would come to Lindsay's defense and present exculpatory evidence to the New York District Attorney's Office, which would facilitate and result in a determination by them to decline to prosecute Lindsay Lohan."?

Check out LiLo's latest mug shot!?

"This was the final legal hurdle to overcome and clear the path for Lindsay's freedom," he added. "Accordingly, no formal charges will be brought against Lindsay and her record will be cleared."?

Well, sort of.?

Check out the many mug shots of Lindsay Lohan?

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Children of divorced parents more likely to start smoking

Public release date: 14-Mar-2013
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416-978-6974
University of Toronto

TORONTO, ON Both daughters and sons from divorced families are significantly more likely to initiate smoking in comparison to their peers from intact families, shows a new analysis of 19,000 Americans.

This University of Toronto study, published online this month in the journal Public Health, shows that men who experienced parental divorce before they turned 18 had 48-per-cent higher odds of ever smoking 100 or more cigarettes than men whose parents did not divorce. Women from divorced families were also at risk, with 39-per-cent higher odds of smoking in comparison to women from intact families.

"Finding this link between parental divorce and smoking is very disturbing," says lead author Esme Fuller-Thomson, Sandra Rotman Chair at University of Toronto's Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work. "We had anticipated that the association between parental divorce and smoking would have been explained by one or more of three plausible factors, such as lower levels of education or adult income among the children of divorce; adult mental health issues, such as depression or anxiety among the children of divorce, or other co-occurring early childhood traumas, such as parental addictions or childhood physical, sexual or emotional abuse.

"Each of these characteristics has been shown in other studies to be linked with smoking initiation. However, even when we took all these factors into account, a strong and significant association between parental divorce and smoking remained."

In the study entitled "The Gender-Specific Association Between Childhood Adversities and Smoking in Adulthood: Findings from a Population Based Study," investigators examined a representative sample of 7,850 men and 11,506 women aged 18 and over, drawn from the Center for Disease Control's 2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey. A total of 1,551 sons and 2,382 daughters had experienced their parents' divorce before the age of 18. A total of 4,316 men and 5,072 women reported that they had smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their life.

From this study, researchers cannot determine why parental divorce is linked to smoking initiation. However, co-author Joanne Filippelli, a University of Toronto doctoral student, suggests it is possible that "children upset by their parents' divorce may use smoking as a coping mechanism to regulate emotions and stress. Some research suggests this calming effect may be particularly attractive to those who have suffered early adversities."

Recent master's of social work graduate and co-author Candace Lue-Crisostomo said that this study shows adults from divorced families are more likely to smoke but it's not known exactly when or why they began smoking. "These findings need to be replicated in longitudinal studies before causality can be established. If the parental divorce-smoking link is shown to be causal in future studies, then smoking prevention programs targeted at children whose parents are going through a divorce might prove helpful."

Cigarette smoking is one of the leading preventable causes of chronic illness and premature death. The estimated economic burden of smoking exceeded $193 billion annually in the U.S.

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Link to journal abstract: http://www.publichealthjrnl.com/article/S0033-3506(13)00007-3/abstract%20.

For more information, please contact:

Esme Fuller-Thomson
Professor & Sandra Rotman Chair
Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
University of Toronto
Tel: 011-61-45-085-4533
esme.fuller.thomson@utoronto.ca

* NOTE: Prof. Fuller-Thomson is currently in Australia. Best to e-mail first to arrange interviews or call after 4 pm (EST).

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Contact: Dominic Ali
d.ali@utoronto.ca
416-978-6974
University of Toronto

TORONTO, ON Both daughters and sons from divorced families are significantly more likely to initiate smoking in comparison to their peers from intact families, shows a new analysis of 19,000 Americans.

This University of Toronto study, published online this month in the journal Public Health, shows that men who experienced parental divorce before they turned 18 had 48-per-cent higher odds of ever smoking 100 or more cigarettes than men whose parents did not divorce. Women from divorced families were also at risk, with 39-per-cent higher odds of smoking in comparison to women from intact families.

"Finding this link between parental divorce and smoking is very disturbing," says lead author Esme Fuller-Thomson, Sandra Rotman Chair at University of Toronto's Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work. "We had anticipated that the association between parental divorce and smoking would have been explained by one or more of three plausible factors, such as lower levels of education or adult income among the children of divorce; adult mental health issues, such as depression or anxiety among the children of divorce, or other co-occurring early childhood traumas, such as parental addictions or childhood physical, sexual or emotional abuse.

"Each of these characteristics has been shown in other studies to be linked with smoking initiation. However, even when we took all these factors into account, a strong and significant association between parental divorce and smoking remained."

In the study entitled "The Gender-Specific Association Between Childhood Adversities and Smoking in Adulthood: Findings from a Population Based Study," investigators examined a representative sample of 7,850 men and 11,506 women aged 18 and over, drawn from the Center for Disease Control's 2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey. A total of 1,551 sons and 2,382 daughters had experienced their parents' divorce before the age of 18. A total of 4,316 men and 5,072 women reported that they had smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their life.

From this study, researchers cannot determine why parental divorce is linked to smoking initiation. However, co-author Joanne Filippelli, a University of Toronto doctoral student, suggests it is possible that "children upset by their parents' divorce may use smoking as a coping mechanism to regulate emotions and stress. Some research suggests this calming effect may be particularly attractive to those who have suffered early adversities."

Recent master's of social work graduate and co-author Candace Lue-Crisostomo said that this study shows adults from divorced families are more likely to smoke but it's not known exactly when or why they began smoking. "These findings need to be replicated in longitudinal studies before causality can be established. If the parental divorce-smoking link is shown to be causal in future studies, then smoking prevention programs targeted at children whose parents are going through a divorce might prove helpful."

Cigarette smoking is one of the leading preventable causes of chronic illness and premature death. The estimated economic burden of smoking exceeded $193 billion annually in the U.S.

###

Link to journal abstract: http://www.publichealthjrnl.com/article/S0033-3506(13)00007-3/abstract%20.

For more information, please contact:

Esme Fuller-Thomson
Professor & Sandra Rotman Chair
Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
University of Toronto
Tel: 011-61-45-085-4533
esme.fuller.thomson@utoronto.ca

* NOTE: Prof. Fuller-Thomson is currently in Australia. Best to e-mail first to arrange interviews or call after 4 pm (EST).

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Defense officials press Congress for budget flexibility

By David Alexander

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior defense officials said on Tuesday they were doing their best to offset the worst impacts of $46 billion in budget cuts that began this month, but they will have to slash personnel and weapons programs if reductions keep coming in future years.

Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told a conference of industry officials that the Pentagon was facing a "double absurdity" of having to implement across-the-board budget cuts generally seen as bad policy while being funded for last year's spending levels and priorities.

"We're in the absurd position that it is only lawful to build the ships we built last year," Carter told a conference sponsored by defense consultant Jim McAleese and Credit Suisse.

Carter and other top Pentagon executives spoke amid a growing sense that the U.S. military will be hit with hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts over and above $487 billion in reductions already planned for the next decade.

The Defense Department was hit on March 1 with a $46 billion budget cut for this year, the first installment of $500 billion in new spending reductions facing the Pentagon over the next decade unless Congress and the White House agree to an alternative.

The department is also being squeezed by financial constraints imposed by the legislative mechanism Congress used to fund the government through March 27. Unable to reach a budget deal, they passed a resolution that extended funding based on last year's spending and priorities.

As a result, the Pentagon has more money for weapons programs than it requested but is facing a multibillion-dollar shortfall for operations and maintenance. Pentagon officials are urging Congress to give them an appropriation that would shift the funding into the right accounts for this year's priorities.

But even if Congress gives the department flexibility in making this year's cuts, it has given no sign that it plans to avert the rest of the $500 billion in cuts over the next decade.

Christine Fox, director of the Pentagon's Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, said the department would have to look at the affordability of every one of its programs in order to make cuts of that magnitude and "it is not going to be pretty."

"I believe we're going to have to begin to reduce force structure immediately and significantly," she said. "In order to make the immediate $50 billion a year cuts, we are going to have no choice but to gut modernization (of weapons and equipment). The only place to get immediate savings quickly as we bring the force down responsibly is to cut acquisition programs."

WEAPONS PROGRAMS ON CHOPPING BLOCK

Chief weapons buyer Frank Kendall told the conference that some weapons programs may face termination if Congress and the Obama administration do not find a way to roll back additional budget cuts, but he declined to say which programs would be particularly vulnerable.

Kendall said the Pentagon would seek to protect some programs, including cybersecurity and Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, if lawmakers gave it some discretion about how additional cuts were implemented. But that meant some other programs might face termination.

Lockheed, Boeing Co, General Dynamics Corp and other big weapons-makers are anxiously waiting for details about which of their programs could be hit, and by how much.

Weapons makers have been laying off workers and consolidating facilities for some time as they brace for the biggest decline in U.S. military spending since the 1990s.

Defense officials have warned that this year's budget cuts could force them to put up to 800,000 Pentagon civilian workers on unpaid leave for 22 days and would leave a large portion of the military unprepared for combat by the end of the year.

Carter said the Pentagon leadership was "committed to doing everything in our power under this deliberately restrictive law to mitigate its harmful effects on national security."

But he and other officials noted the difficulty of doing their jobs in a climate of budget uncertainty. Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale said the turmoil has delayed the 2014 budget. The president usually unveils it in February.

"I don't know what my budgets are going to be. I'm standing on quicksand right now," said Heidi Shyu, assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology.

Navy Admiral Jonathan Greenert, the chief of naval operations, said he was particularly concerned about small suppliers of critical components.

"I worry about the industrial base. If it's not the prime (contractor) it's below the prime, it's the second or third. It's Bob's nuclear valve shop, Jimmy's nuclear," he said, noting that 90 percent of the Navy's nuclear components come from companies that are a sole supplier.

"I can't say it's vulnerable, but that's the one I worry about most," Greenert said.

Officials have said cuts of $50 billion per year over a decade will force the Pentagon to throw out the new defense strategy it implemented last year, which called for a shift in strategic focus to Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.

Since the new budget cuts went into effect on March 1, defense officials increasingly have been talking about revising the military strategy to align it more closely with the resources the department is likely to have in the coming years.

"If there are to be substantial additional cuts, what we ask for is time to redo this strategy," Hale said. "We need to reconsider it so that we have a blueprint that's consistent with whatever level of resources we are likely to get and gets as much national security ... as we can."

(Additional reporting by Andrea Shalal-Esa; Editing by Eric Beech)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/defense-officials-press-congress-budget-flexibility-010612097--business.html

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China's auto sales up 19.5 percent in Jan-Feb

BEIJING (AP) ? China's auto sales accelerated in the first two months of this year, rising 19.5 percent over the same period of 2012 in a possible positive sign for an economic recovery.

Automakers sold 2.8 million cars in January and February, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers reported Monday. Total sales, including trucks and buses, rose 14.7 percent to 3.4 million vehicles.

That growth was an improvement over 2012's full-year rate of 7.1 percent for cars and 4.3 percent for vehicles overall.

"We expect cyclical recovery in the Chinese economy to continue in 2013," said JP Morgan economist Haibin Zhu in a report. "The gradual improvement in the macro environment would likely support some moderate growth in auto sales during the year."

Global automakers are looking to China, the biggest market by number of vehicles sold, to drive revenues amid weakness elsewhere. Sales that grew by double digits in early 2012 decelerated due to an economic slump and ownership curbs imposed by some cities to control traffic and smog.

The communist government is promoting auto manufacturing and ownership but has tried to fine-tune policies to encourage sales of smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles.

A government forecast in January said total vehicle sales should rise to 20.8 million this year, up from 19.3 million last year.

General Motors Co., Nissan Motor Co. and Daimler AG's Mercedes-Benz have launched lower-priced Chinese brands for the vast but poor rural market.

GM said sales of GM-brand vehicles by the company and its Chinese joint venture partners rose 7.9 percent in January and February over a year earlier to 525,835 vehicles. Ford Motor Co. said sales rose 46 percent to 105,209 vehicles.

Nissan said its sales in January and February were down 14.1 percent from a year earlier to 174,000 vehicles. However, the company said that was an improvement after a plunge in sales last year.

Sales of Japanese brands suffered due to tensions between Beijing and Tokyo over disputed islands in the East China Sea, which kept buyers away from the showrooms of Japanese automakers.

Associated Press

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China's auto sales up 19.5 percent in Jan-Feb

BEIJING (AP) ? China's auto sales accelerated in the first two months of this year, rising 19.5 percent over the same period of 2012 in a possible positive sign for an economic recovery.

Automakers sold 2.8 million cars in January and February, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers reported Monday. Total sales, including trucks and buses, rose 14.7 percent to 3.4 million vehicles.

That growth was an improvement over 2012's full-year rate of 7.1 percent for cars and 4.3 percent for vehicles overall.

"We expect cyclical recovery in the Chinese economy to continue in 2013," said JP Morgan economist Haibin Zhu in a report. "The gradual improvement in the macro environment would likely support some moderate growth in auto sales during the year."

Global automakers are looking to China, the biggest market by number of vehicles sold, to drive revenues amid weakness elsewhere. Sales that grew by double digits in early 2012 decelerated due to an economic slump and ownership curbs imposed by some cities to control traffic and smog.

The communist government is promoting auto manufacturing and ownership but has tried to fine-tune policies to encourage sales of smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles.

A government forecast in January said total vehicle sales should rise to 20.8 million this year, up from 19.3 million last year.

General Motors Co., Nissan Motor Co. and Daimler AG's Mercedes-Benz have launched lower-priced Chinese brands for the vast but poor rural market.

GM said sales of GM-brand vehicles by the company and its Chinese joint venture partners rose 7.9 percent in January and February over a year earlier to 525,835 vehicles. Ford Motor Co. said sales rose 46 percent to 105,209 vehicles.

Nissan said its sales in January and February were down 14.1 percent from a year earlier to 174,000 vehicles. However, the company said that was an improvement after a plunge in sales last year.

Sales of Japanese brands suffered due to tensions between Beijing and Tokyo over disputed islands in the East China Sea, which kept buyers away from the showrooms of Japanese automakers.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/chinas-auto-sales-19-5-percent-jan-feb-111238735--finance.html

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Amity Gaige and Cary Goldstein

(L) Amity Gaige and (R) Cary Goldstein.

(L) Photo by Anita Licis-Ribak and (R) Photo by Gina LeVay

Cary Goldstein, publisher and editor-in-chief of Twelve, acquired Amity Gaige?s novel Schroder at auction from Gaige?s agent, Wendy Weil, in 2011. The novel is the intricate epistolary story of a German man who adopts a new identity in America and goes for an adventure with his 6-year-old daughter?an adventure that is not all it seems. Goldstein and Gaige talked about their editorial relationship, the impact the late Weil had on Gaige?s life and career, and the music of George and Martha yelling at each other.

Cary Goldstein: You had told me at some point about a novel you were writing that took place on one day in two nations, following?I may be misremembering this?two possible paths a Latvian woman's life could have taken. You even sent me a mix CD of the music fueling it. You can imagine my surprise when Schroder arrived on submission. What happened that made you drop one project to write an entirely new one?

Amity Gaige: Yes, my Great Latvian-American Novel. There was something too inevitable about it. I wanted?and still want?to tell my mother's story. She fled Stalin's army in 1944, leaving Latvia, which was to be occupied by the Soviets for the next 50 years, and arrived to the U.S. when she was 11. I wanted to create a what-if novel: What if she had stayed in Latvia? Who would she have been had she not been wrenched from her cultural context?

I got to spend time in Latvia?that was probably the best part of the whole escapade. I researched, I thought, I drank the local balsams, and what do you know, one morning I'm sitting in my Riga hotel and I read the "newspaper"?a fax of short news stories?they'd put by my breakfast plate, and there is this article about a man called Clark Rockefeller. The article was maybe 10 lines long, but in it I discovered this man was arrested after abducting his own daughter, whom he apparently adored, and in the course of things was revealed to be a fraud and a con-man?a German, no Rockefeller. I have to stress here that I never read a thing further about that real case. But the themes from my Great Latvian-American Novel ? exile, identity, longing?leapt into a new context.

Truth is, I think I was also experiencing a minor crisis of faith about the novel form itself. I liked my Parallel-Stories-What-If-Great-Latvian-American-Novel-With-a-Soundtrack. But I saw how I would go about it too well. I would use an architectonic form (? la Anna Karenina), and if I could just muster all of the details, build the elaborate scenery, I could write it convincingly. But one doesn't sign up to be a writer with the dream of writing "convincingly."

At least I have the soundtrack. Did you like it?

Goldstein: You called it ?Eddie Hearts Justine,? it's fantastic. Cocteau Twins, Dead Milkmen, the Sugarcubes ...

Gaige: The best bits of what I have on that novel?a hundred pages or so?happened to be these lively scenes between two American teenagers in 1989, loving one another across class lines, making out under a boom box on a window sill.

Goldstein: A hundred pages on two teens making out? I want to read that! It?s like Nicholson Baker by way of John Hughes. There is something in it that seems unmistakably you in its tight focus on two people?insular, intimate, with an almost claustrophobic intensity. It's what I so loved about your first novel, O My Darling. Only in Schroder, the bubble we're brought inside of isn't a lover's bubble, but a father and daughter's.

Gaige: I think marriage and family keeps being written about because that's where we keep our reputations with ourselves?I mean, we can't quite slip the truths we reveal about ourselves at home. I was and still am an Edward Albee devotee. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is, to my mind, a work of perfect genius. Not only does it sizzle?no, burn?with every line, but it also demonstrates that in some ways, love is a performance, identity is a performance.

Goldstein: I remember telling an old boss of mine how much I loved George and Martha's sparring, how musical I found it. She looked at me with horror. She couldn't bear the sound of people yelling. In my house I guess it was the yelling that connected us. We allowed each other to announce our wounds and somehow knew that meant we loved and were loved. That's a far cry from playing Get the Guests, though.

Gaige: I feel like you and I love the same books. I'm always hollering, Yeah, I love that book, too! when you're talking about something. Revolutionary Road. Stoner. The Sportswriter. (Actually, didn't I turn you on to that one?)

Goldstein: Stoner?what an incurably lonely book, so beautiful and inevitable. I wasn't at all prepared for that book. I think my favorite writers can articulate something I wished I'd said myself. Or wished I'd noticed at all. Access points. And you absolutely did turn me on to The Sportswriter, which I hadn?t read. It is just lousy with access points, they're everywhere in it.

What role does reading play for you while you're writing?

Gaige: Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer. I want to put my knife between my teeth and get to work already. It's not an unpleasant feeling, even when I feel unworthy of that writer's company. A great sentence can really do it, too. A perfect sentence. Like this one from John Banville?s The Sea, which I think was an influence on Schroder: ?The past beats inside me like a second heart.? Of course, it's a hazard of the profession to develop this scavenging nature to one's reading life. I become impatient with the deliberate, determined way many (even very good) novels set up their groundwork. I just want those lines, and those "access points," to borrow your phrase. Maybe because of this impatience, I favor reading poetry before I start to write. Poetry immediately puts me in the writing mind.

Goldstein: It was the poetry in your work that got me. I was turned on to O My Darling by a mutual friend of ours, and I vividly remember being stopped short by a scene in which the young wife and her husband's dead mother's dog square off in the corner of the bedroom, vying for territory. Gorgeous. So I sent you a fan letter.

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Bonnie Franklin played a single mother on the sitcom 'One Day at a Time'

Bonnie Franklin played mom Ann Romano on the TV show 'One Day at a Time.' Bonnie Franklin was a veteran stage and television performer before she took her breakout role on 'Day.'

By Frazier Moore,?Associated Press / March 1, 2013

Bonnie Franklin played mother Ann Romano on 'One Day at a Time,' which first aired in 1975.

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Bonnie?Franklin, the pert, redheaded actress whom millions came to identify with for her role as divorced mom Ann Romano on the long-running sitcom "One Day at a Time," has died.

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Franklin was a veteran stage and television performer before "One Day At a Time" made her a star.

Developed by Norman Lear and co-created by Whitney Blake ? herself a former sitcom star and single mother raising future actress Meredith Baxter ? the series was groundbreaking for its focus on a young divorced mother seeking independence from a suffocating marriage.

It premiered on CBS in December 1975, just five years after the network had balked at having Mary Tyler Moore play a divorced woman on her own comedy series, insisting that newly single Mary Richards be portrayed as having ended her engagement instead.

On her own in Indianapolis, Ann Romano was raising two teenage girls ? played by Mackenzie Phillips, already famous for the film "American Graffiti," and a previously unknown Valerie Bertinelli. "One Day At a Time" ran on CBS until 1984, by which time both daughters had grown and married, while Romano had remarried and become a grandmother. During the first seven of its nine seasons on the air, the show was a Top 20 hit.

Like other Lear productions such as "All in the Family" and "Good Times," ''One Day at a Time" dealt with contemporary issues once absent from TV comedies such as premarital sex, birth control, suicide and sexual harassment ? issues that had previously been overlooked by TV comedies whose households were usually headed by a husband and wife or, rarely, a widowed parent.

Writing in her 2009 memoir "High On Arrival," Phillips remembered Franklin as hardworking and professional, even a perfectionist.

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Even so, wrote Bertinelli, "within a few days I recognized her immense talent and felt privileged to work with her. ... She was like a hip, younger complement to my real mom."

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POPE LIVE: A 'pilgrim,' a farewell, a retirement

"Pope Live" follows the events of the final day of Pope Benedict XVI's papacy as seen by journalists from The Associated Press around the world. It will be updated throughout the day with breaking news and other items of interest.

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QUICKQUOTE: BENEDICT

"I am simply a pilgrim who is starting the last part of his journey." ? Pope Benedict XVI on the balcony at Castel Gandolfo.

? Frances D'Emilio ? Twitter http://twitter.com/fdemilio

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AMERICANS SAY GOODBYE

Catholic churches across the U.S. are opening their doors for prayer timed with the end of Pope Benedict XVI's reign.

At the Cathedral of St. Mary in Miami, school children will read from Benedict's writings, then blow out a candle in front of his photo at 2 p.m., the moment Benedict has chosen to step down.

At the same time, a Mass for the Election of a New Pope will be celebrated at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. The Archdiocese of Detroit is planning a holy hour of prayer from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley, who is in Rome and will vote in the conclave to elect the next pontiff, asked churches in his archdiocese to ring bells for eight minutes starting at 1:52 p.m. to honor Benedict's ministry.

? Rachel Zoll, AP Religion Writer, https://twitter.com/rzollAP

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POPE ON THE BALCONY

As Pope Benedict XVI appears on the balcony at Castel Gandolfo, people in the crowd below start screaming his name. He must wait before he can even speak to them.

? Frances D'Emilio ? Twitter http://twitter.com/fdemilio

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THE POPE SPEAKS

Benedict XVI greets the faithful for the last time as pope from the balcony of the papal retreat.

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'BENEDETTO, BENEDETTO'

As a helicopter whirs overhead, bells start ringing more furiously than before. The crowd in the Castel Gandolfo square starts cheering and chanting, "Benedetto, Benedetto" in rhythm.

? Frances D'Emilio ? Twitter http://twitter.com/fdemilio

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THE PAPAL RETREAT

The Pope has arrived at the papal estate in Castel Gandolfo, as crowds in the town square cheer and wave flags.

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BELLS IN ROME

Bells are tolling in Rome as the papal helicopter leaves Vatican, flies toward the Castel Gandolfo papal retreat.

The pope's loyal secretary Georg Gaenswein was seen weeping as he accompanied Benedict in his final walk down a Vatican corridor.

? Joji Sakurai ? Twitter ? http://twitter.com/jojisakurai

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THE ARRIVAL

The Pope's helicopter lands at the pad in Castel Gandolfo, where he is greeted by well-wishers.

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TWEETING GOODBYE

A final tweet from the first pope to have his own Twitter account, (at)Pontifex, sent shortly before his departure from the Vatican: "Thank you for your love and support. May you always experience the joy that comes from putting Christ at the centre of your lives."

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PALACE DOORS OPEN

The palace doors in Castel Gandolfo have just swung open and two Swiss Guards have appeared standing at attention. Police say the town square holds 4,000 people but it's now overflowing and many are filling the surrounding streets.

? Frances D'Emilio ? Twitter http://twitter.com/fdemilio

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COLOMBIAN BELLS

From the steamy Caribbean to the chilly highlands, Colombia's nearly 5,000 Catholic parishes are ringing their bells in gratitude as the pope departs the Vatican.

The seemingly eternally conflict-ridden South American nation is nominally 90 percent Roman Catholic, although church leaders acknowledge that many are not observant.

Outside the parish in Bogota's lower-class 20th of July neighborhood, Florelia Buitrago, 62, had a request for Benedict.

"I ask the pope to help choose a new pope who won't betray the world, who will prevent wars and help us Catholics, because we Catholics are very poor," she said.

? Libardo Cardona ? Twitter http://twitter.com/LicardonaM

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CUBAN PARALLELS

The pope's retirement is echoing in Cuba.

President Raul Castro, 81, says he will step down in 2018, ending what would be 59 unbroken years of rule by him and his brother Fidel.

Resident Maria Delgado notes the pontiff's advancing age and scandals that have afflicted his papacy.

"I think it's very good for a person to resign when he's old and there are many problems he has been unable to avoid or resolve," says Delgado, a 71-year-old churchgoing retiree.

Humberto Calle, a 20-year-old engineering student, agrees.

"If you feel you aren't capable, in shape, and there are a lot of problems, you should resign and better for someone else to come in who can fix things," Calle says. "I think that's great."

Benedict visited the island in March 2012.

? Anne-Marie Garcia ? Twitter www.twitter.com/AnneMarie279

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HE'S OFF!

Benedict XVI's helicopter is circling over St. Peter's Square before heading to Castel Gandolfo, where he will make his final appearance as pope. Spectators around the helipad are hanging out signs that read, "Thank you."

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SAYING THE ROSARY

The crowd at Castel Gandolfo is reciting the rosary, led by a woman using a loudspeaker in final hour before the pope arrives.

As soon as sun started going down, the air in the town quickly changed from springlike to chilly. Some of the faithful have ducked inside a cafe to warm themselves as they pray.

Children are running and shrieking on the edges of the square, happy to play as their parents keep on praying.

? Frances D'Emilio ? Twitter http://twitter.com/fdemilio

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POPE'S MOTORCADE

The Pope has greeted his staff for the last time, and is heading in a motorcade for the helicopter that will take him to Castel Gandolfo.

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THE SENDOFF

The Swiss Guards are marching in step inside the San Damaso courtyard inside the Vatican's Apostolic Palace, preparing Pope Benedict XVI's sendoff.

Members of the Vatican bureaucracy, or Curia, have poured into the courtyard to witness the historic moment of Benedict's final departure from the Vatican as pope.

He will travel by car to the Vatican's helipad at the top of the hill in the Vatican gardens, and then will fly by helicopter to the papal residence at Castel Gandolfo.

? Nicole Winfield ? Twitter http://twitter.com/nwinfield

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LAST-MINUTE ITALY

Italians often show up for events at the last minute, and the gathering to say farewell to Pope Benedict XVI in the main square of Castel Gandolfo was no exception.

As the clock struck 4:15 p.m., the crowd of a few hundred seemed to swell almost at once to a few thousand well-wishers packing the tiny, rectangular square.

Yellow-and-white paper pennants in Vatican colors were selling briskly at ?1 euro ($1.50) apiece as the town awaited the pope's arrival in about an hour.

? Frances D'Emilio ? Twitter http://twitter.com/fdemilio

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HOPE FOR A BRAZILIAN POPE

Sitting on a borrowed plastic chair as he awaited Benedict XVI's final public appearance as pope, Tiago Padilha speculated on what it would be like to have someone from his home country of Brazil lead the Church.

"If he comes from Brazil, it would be a big joy for a great people with great faith," he said, his 18-month-old son perched on his knee happily blowing soap bubbles. "That would develop even more the faith among the Catholic youth. That would be fantastic."

Brazilian Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer is believed to be to be a leading contender to succeed Benedict. Many believe that a pontiff from Latin America would help stem the losses in a region where 40 percent of the world's Catholics live.

? Frances D'Emilio ? Twitter http://twitter.com/fdemilio

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QUICKQUOTE: FAN

Anna Maria Togni and her friend walked two kilometers (one mile) from the outskirts of Castel Gandolfo to witness history today as Pope Benedict XVI retires. Licking a gelato of hazelnut and nougat, Togni said she "felt lucky."

"We have the pope right here at home," she said.

"We feel a tenderness toward him. I think they made him leave," she said of Benedict.

? Frances D'Emilio ? Twitter http://twitter.com/fdemilio

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NOT ALL FEATHERED HELMETS

Being a Swiss Guard is not all feathered helmets and puffy striped uniforms.

To even apply, you must be Catholic, male, Swiss and between 19 and 30 years of age. You need to sign up for a minimum two-year hitch and must complete your mandatory military service back at home.

Swiss Guards take an oath to protect the present pope and whoever follows him as the latest successor to the first pontiff, Peter.

Tonight, when Pope Benedict XVI retires at 8 p.m., the Swiss Guards will go inside the papal palace at Castel Gandolfo and go off duty. They won't be staying, however ? after they get out of their dress uniforms they will be driven back to Rome.

Benedict will then be guarded by Vatican security personnel.

? Frances D'Emilio ? Twitter http://twitter.com/fdemilio

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CARDINAL DIES

The French Bishops' Conference has announced that Cardinal Jean Honor?, who was appointed by Benedict's predecessor John Paul II, died Thursday, hours before the pope was due to leave office. He was 92.

Honor?, who was Archbishop of Tours from 1972 to 1981, was already over 80 when he was made a cardinal in 2001, so he was unable to vote at the previous conclave in 2005 and would not have voted at the upcoming one either.

He was an expert in the work of the British 19th-century cleric Cardinal John Henry Newman, who was beatified by Benedict in 2010.

? Noami Koppel ? Twitter http://twitter.com/naomikoppel

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BALCONY DOORS OPEN

Just minutes ago, the balcony doors swung open at the papal palace overlooking the main square in Castel Gandolfo, where Pope Benedict XVI will say the last public words of his papacy.

Two aides came out and draped a crimson banner emblazoned with the papal seal off the balcony's railing.

The first signs of movement inside the palace set off a round of cheering from the few hundred people jamming the tiny square.

? Frances D'Emilio ? Twitter http://twitter.com/fdemilio

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WRITTEN IN STONE

Benedict is on permanent record as a fan of Castel Gandolfo.

A plaque on the main square in his name praises his view of the lake and "the good people" of the town of 8,500. Three hours before his arrival by helicopter, some 100 of them were awaiting him in the little cobblestone square outside the brown wooden doors of the residence where he will stay once his papacy ends.

A greeting was spelled out in silver letter-shaped balloons: "Thanks Benedict, all of us are with you." It was strung up between the second and third floors of an apartment building whose ground floor is home to the town's tiny post office and across the square from a coffee bar ? where local were sipping espresso to get a caffeine jolt for the wait.

? Frances D'Emilio ? Twitter http://twitter.com/fdemilio

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KNIGHTS OF MALTA

Luciano Mariani is bidding farewell to his sixth pope with a big parade.

Mariani, a member of the famed Knights of Malta who has served a succession of popes at Castel Gandolfo, met his first pope, Pius XII, as a boy. He and other members of the order help tend the grounds at the estate, where Benedict XVI will arrive later today to spend the last hours of his papacy.

Mariani and his fellow Knights of Malta will dress in ceremonial garb to greet him with a parade.

Mariani, 69, says Benedict "is a great pope. He did a lot of beautiful and big things for the church." He said his order was shocked by the pope's resignation but he says "we have to accept it as Christians and we have to have faith in it."

The Knights of Malta, which has 13,500 members worldwide, celebrated its 900th anniversary last month.

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? Amer Cohadzic, AP video producer.

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HOME AWAY FROM HOME

Benedict is being welcomed in the town of Castel Gandolfo, but John Paul II truly made it his second home while he was pope, spending more than five years total there during his long papacy.

He had a swimming pool installed and liked to put his desk outside to work. He once caught the whiff of a barbeque and showed up as the surprise guest of a group of Swiss Guards.

? Frances D'Emilio ? Twitter http://twitter.com/fdemilio

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