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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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Joni Mitchell plays rare performance at Luminato tribute
Joni Mitchell waves to the crowd during her 70th birthday tribute concert as part of the Luminato Festival at Massey Hall in Toronto on Tuesday. (Aaron Vincent Elkaim/The Canadian ...
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John Studzinski The banker marrying business and the arts
Nick Clark is the arts correspondent of The Independent. He joined the newspaper in June 2007, initially reporting on the stock markets. He has covered beats including the City, and technology, media and telecoms and made the switch to arts in December 2011. He has also contributed articles to the sports ...
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Newcastles Ryder Architecture celebrates 60 years of modernism
Norgas House in Killingworth, built in 1965 by Ryder & Yates, was empty for more than five years and suffered from criminal damage before its demolition. Photograph: Kristen McCluskie/Ryder ...
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Ryder Architecture - in pictures
Newcastle's Ryder Architecture celebrates 60 years of modernism Its founders trained with Lubetkin and Le Corbusier. But while some of the company's important early buildings are protected, some are being pulled down to make way for new ...
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Lil Red puts a modern musical spin on a classic tale Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
"Li'l Red" is not exactly the Brothers Grimm's storybook version of "Little Red Riding Hood." In Richard Kinter's modern adaptation of the classic fairytale, which opens the summer season for Johnny Appleseed Children's Theatre at Apple Hill Playhouse, the wolf that frightened the little girl on her way to see her grandma is more "cool dude" than ...
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No CBI probe into Saradha scam at present stage HC
chit fund scam at the present stage. A division bench comprising Justice A K Banerjee and Justice M K Chaudhuri, passing its order on PILs seeking CBI probe into the scam, refused the prayer at this stage. The bench, however, kept the matter pending before it, while passing some directions to the state on the modus operandi of investigation, which is at present being done by the West Bengal ...
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Austrian cinema a province shaped by past masters of pessimism
Roland Emmerich , etc - are there to uphold the gleaming castle of entertainment, I like to think there's a shadowy league ranged against them, beyond the mountains of the Old World. No bodacious starlets for this cabal, no multimillion-dollar CGI sprees; no high-octane street racing, or talking mammoths, or cheap affirmative morality. Nope, for the Austrian League of Extraordinarily ...
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Kuwaits acting oil minister says prices fair
Kuwait's acting oil minister said on Wednesday current oil prices were "fair" and that the Gulf Arab state was producing around 3 million barrels of crude per ...
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Lanes closed on Middlebrook Pike Broadway
n Through July 26, utility work along a section of Middlebrook Pike between Webster Avenue and Proctor Street will reduce traffic to one eastbound and one westbound lane. Additionally, Partners Place will be closed to through ...
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Theatre review Patti LuPone wreaks vengeance on Andrew Lloyd Webber
has plenty to say about Andrew Lloyd Webber in the show that she and New York pianist/interviewer Seth Rudetsky have brought to the Leicester Square Theatre this week.Some of what LuPone "says" goes unspoken. A flared nostril or narrowing of the eyes communicates all we need know about her ongoing feelings towards the man who famously fired his one-time Eva Pern from the Broadway run ...
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Penguin Design Award 2013 - in pictures
This year's Penguin Adult Prize for design invited students to come up with a new cover for Raymond Chandler's 1939 classic The Big Sleep. From smoking guns to smoking ashtrays, click your way through the ones that made the ...
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Musical spectacular to open first-ever Asia Pacific Special Olympics
Asia Pacific Games in December, with well-known Australian performers to take the stage in a two-hour spectacular of music, dance, theatre, lights and fireworks. Details of the gala event, planned for Dec 1, 2013 at the 30,000-seater Hunter Stadium in Newcastle were released on Wednesday. Aussie singers Anthony Callea, Marcia Hines and Marina Prior are among the line-up of entertainers, which ...
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Blair leaves Anger Management
Selma Blair has officially left TV comedy Anger Management amid speculation of a bitter feud with co-star Charlie Sheen. Bosses from Lionsgate, the production company behind the show, have announced that the actress will no longer appear in the series as Dr. Kate Wales. A statement from the studio reads, "We are confirming that Selma Blair will not be returning to Anger Management and we ...
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Tatum Foxx team up in funny video
New dad Channing Tatum, his White House Down co-star Jamie Foxx and a host of famous faces have teamed up to shoot a racy new sex anthem. The duo appeared on U.S. comedian Jimmy Kimmel's post-Oscars show in February and ad-libbed their way through comedy song (I Wanna) Channing All Over Your Tatum - and they were game enough to shoot a promo for the suggestive song, which debuted on ...
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One Night Only Hot Live Girls On The TV Land Stage Wednesday Night
NEW YORK, June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TV's hottest, funniest cast - Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick and Betty White - are live on Stage 19 at CBS Radford Studios tomorrow night, Wednesday, June 19th at 10pm ET as TV Land's hit sitcom "Hot in Cleveland" premieres its summer season with a LIVE episode! This must-see event will lead into the brand new seasons of ...
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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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