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Kanye blasted for Parkinsons lyric
Hip-hop heavyweight Kanye West has come under fire from health campaigners after rapping about Parkinson's disease in a new song. On Sight, from the rapper's latest album Yeezus, has been branded "distasteful" due to a line that references the degenerative disorder, which causes sufferers to tremor. West raps, "A monster about to come alive again / Soon as I pull ...
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Chris Brown fights graffiti ruling
R&B star Chris Brown is fighting back against local officials after he was ordered to remove his graffiti artworks from the outside of his Los Angeles home, insisting the murals are a "reflection of free speech and expression". The singer's neighbours complained to authorities about the colourful monsters which decorate the walls of his property, and last month, he was ...
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Art of the Brick artist Nathan Sawayas Lego sculptures - video
Artist Nathan Sawaya leads visitors through his Art of the Brick show in New York on Tuesday. The artist has used Lego bricks to recreate well-known sculptures as well as dinosaurs and some fantasies of his own. Art of the Brick runs at Discovery Times Square until 5 January ...
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Attention called to Russian rights record
The International Federation for Human Rights said the U.N. Human Rights Council needs to weigh in on the targeting of civil organizations in Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin backed legislation last year requiring non-governmental organization to register as "foreign agents" if they receive some of their funding from foreign countries. The rights federation, known by its ...
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Assad forces build up for Aleppo offensive
Forces loyal to Syria's embattled President Bashar Assad are reported to be tightening a cordon around the northern city of Aleppo, once the country's commercial heart, in a major offensive against rebels who hold 60 percent of the ...
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InStep Dance Studios Broadway Dance Camp Part 1
InStep Dance Studios Broadway Dance Camp Part 1 is from 9 a.m. to noon June 17-21 at 5017 Saratoga Blvd. Spend the week learning a variety of Broadway dance styles from the dances of famous choreographers of musical theatre. We will create a Cabaret style performance to showcase all the dancers at the end of this fun filled week. Information: ...
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Critics hail Daniel Radcliffes latest stage turn
FILE - This is a Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 file photo of British actor Daniel Radcliffe, star of the supernatural thriller "The Woman in Black," as he is interviewed at the premiere of the film in Los Angeles. Daniel Radcliffe has won magical reviews for his latest stage role as a disabled Irish dreamer in Martin McDonagh's "The Cripple of Inishmaan." The former "Harry ...
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Bearfoot On Mountain Stage
June 19, 2013 This was one of the bluegrass band's final concert appearances featuring its current lineup, as singer Nora Jane Struthers and bassist P.J. George are set to leave Bearfoot ...
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My Fair Lady at the Granada Theatre
retains its interest wherever and whenever the English language exists as a register of social class and as an indicator of belonging. It was gratifying to see multiple generations of theatergoers crowding the Granada on a sunny Father's Day to revel in the intricacies and pathos of a classic musical. As Henry Higgins, Jonathan Pryce established early on that things would not fall apart, ...
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Alice Munro wins Ontarios Trillium Book Award
. The winners of Ontario's foremost prize for literary excellence, were announced Tuesday evening in Toronto. The Trillium Book Award English-language and French-language winners receive $20,000. The winners of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry in English-language and the Trillium Book Award for Children's Literature in French-language each receive $10,000. "The works of ...
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Pro Imaging Golf Classic Brings Industry Players Together For Networking Friendships
Tucson, AZ - After a long, cold winter for many east of the Mississippi, 23 teams soaked up sunshine and 80-degree weather to play in the 23rd annual Pro Imaging Golf Championship. This year the digital players traveled west to the magnificent Hilton Tucson El Conquistador Golf & Tennis Resort located in the Sonora Desert Terrain at the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains. The two-day ...
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SavePolaroid.com Co-Founder Creates Two Companies Will Develop New Polaroid-Compatible Film
Dave Bias, co-founder of SavePolaroid.com, announces the formation of two new Polaroid Corp.-related companies -- PolaPremium and The Impossible Project. Bias partnered with Dr. Florian Kaps, the proprietor of unsaleable.com, which has been selling Polaroid film and cameras for the past three years out of Vienna, Austria. The first new company, PolaPremium, is a partnership with Polaroid to ...
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Brand Loyalty Among Digital Camera Buyers Falls Significantly
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., Aug. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- As increasing digital camera model offerings challenge perceived product differentiation among consumers, only 26 percent of digital camera buyers say they would purchase the same camera brand in the future -- down from 35 percent in 2005, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2006 Digital Camera Satisfaction Study(SM) released today. ...
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Western Digital Enters Solid-State Drive Market With Acquisition of SiliconSystems
LAKE FOREST, Calif., March 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC), a world leader in hard drive storage for computing and consumer electronics applications, today announced that it has completed a $65 million cash acquisition of SiliconSystems, Inc., Aliso Viejo, Calif., a leading supplier of solid-state drives for the embedded systems market. Since its inception in ...
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Phase One Invests in Mamiya Digital Imaging
TOKYO, Japan, March 26, 2009 -- Phase One A/S and Mamiya Digital Imaging, Ltd. are proud to announce that Phase One is making a significant financial investment in Mamiya Digital Imaging, thus becoming a major shareholder in the company behind the Mamiya brand of medium format cameras and lenses. Terms of the agreement are not being disclosed. The objective of Phase One's investment is to ...
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Judge Rules Polaroid Sale May Proceed
Mar. 27--The auction-like sale of Polaroid Corp. can proceed as scheduled next week after U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Gregory Kishel ruled Thursday that it's too late for the company's creditors to question company executives about the pending transaction and other financial matters. Kishel approved a motion by Polaroid's attorneys to quash recent subpoenas for the depositions of CEO ...
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ClearBags Releases Airsafe Product Line
El Dorado Hills, CA March 15th, 2009--ClearBags announced the launch of a new product line of Airsafe Art Boxes that meet the stringent product protection requirements of the largest shipping carriers. "Ever have a customer tell you they buy your products for the packaging you use? Well at ClearBags, we hear it all the time! Many artistic professionals are so impressed with our outer ...
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IPC Announces 2009 Professional Photographer Leadership Awards
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, March 26, 2008 -- The International Photographic Council (IPC), a non-governmental organization (NGO) of the United Nations, has announced the recipients of its 11th annual IPC Professional Photographer Leadership Awards. The winners will be recognized at the IPC International Professional Photographers Month luncheon at the United Nations in New York City on Thursday, May 7, ...
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98-Year-Old Photographer Captures L.A.s Vintage Homes
March 26, 2009 -- Magazines, newspapers, even family scrapbooks are full of photographs of houses -- graphic examples of the American dream. But pictures by the 98-year-old architectural photographer Julius Shulman are in a league of their own, so distinctive that they are consulted by movie designers, collected by museums and cherished by homeowners who commission them. [See link below for a ...
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Image Come to Life Woman Gets to Thank Firefighter Who Rescued Her in 1968
The firefighter crawled on his stomach through the pitch-black apartment, the smoke so thick he couldn't see his hand in front of his face. Somewhere inside was a baby and he had to find her.A window broke, light filled the room, and he saw her lying in her crib, dressed only in a diaper, unconscious. Soot covered her tiny nose. She wasn't breathing and had no pulse.He grabbed her and ...
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GOCTC presents annual Broadway on the O.C. Boardwalk
June 19--The Greater Ocean City Theatre Company will open its sixth season June 26 with its annual production of "Broadway on the O.C. Boardwalk," a salute to Broadway favorites produced by the upcoming season's cast at the Ocean City Music Pier. This year's event will include a special guest performer and professional Broadway star Kelli Rabke. Rabke made her Broadway debut ...
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Youth Theatre Jill Stevens gives the lowdown on life at Llanelli Youth Theatre.
LAST Thursday members of Llanelli Youth Theatre went along to the Odeon cinema in Llanelli, not to see a film, but a performance of The Audience, a new play by Peter Morgan being broadcast live from the Gielgud Theatre in London. A National Theatre production, it starred Helen Mirren, who reprised her role as Queen Elizabeth II. National Theatre live launched in June 2009. They have since ...
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Sport picture of the day Honda stuck in a shower
Japan's footballer Keisuke Honda is caught possibly thinking of being somewhere dry during training ahead of their match against Italy at the Confederations Cup in ...
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Daniel Radcliffe proves acting skills in London stage role
LONDON (Reuters) - British actor Daniel Radcliffe won plaudits this week for a new stage role as a bullied Irish cripple that takes him a critical step further away from his days as boy wizard Harry ...
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Shubbak festival a refuge for Arab culture at a troubled time
These are troubled times to be putting on a festival celebrating a culture that is, on several levels and in different regions of its rich geography, tearing itself apart. Three "cradles" of our many regional civilisations ...
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Morocco recieves aid as part of EU ties
Morocco has taken another step forward in its several years long pursuit of closer ties with the EU, receiving a vote of confidence from the continent’s organizing body in the form of aid, which will be used to pursue areas of development needed to modernize and reform the country.
Morocco is to receive Euro 580 million (roughly MAD 6 billion) from the European Union over the next four years, according to a joint agreement that was signed between Morocco and the EU recently, which it is hoped will provide the country with the means to further integrate itself with the European economy. Read more
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