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- Attention all engaged and newlywed couples. There will be an Engaged Encounter weekend, March 14-15 in Fishers, Ind., sponsored by the Fishers United Methodist Church. This acclaimed program is endorsed by Focus on the Family. |
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- Bregenz - Nicht die von vielen erhoffte Entspannung, sondern zum Teil beinahe explosionsartige Steigerungen hat das neue Jahr bei den Stahlpreisen beschert. |
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- Giant Magazine, Radio One's lifestyle magazine for urban readers, has hired Vibe's former editor-in-chief, Emil Wilbekin, as its new top editor. (ROIA) |
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- Music News: Exec takes over radio, video promotion depts. -- Greg Thompson will be taking over Capitol Music Group's radio and video promotion departments, accepting the position of executive VP, Promotion. |
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- Music News: Universal Music lags behind -- Vivendi is rocking, but not to the sound of music division Universal Music. Earnings at the French conglom are being driven by vidgame arm Vivendi Games, paybox Canal Plus and telco unit SFR. |
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- Music News: Oscar-winning pair ink publishing deal -- Fresh off their Oscar win for original song, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova have signed a music publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music, the music publishing arm of Warner Music Group. |
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- Music News: Salonen to focus on Stravinsky, Arvo Paart -- Esa-Pekka Salonen announced his 17th and final season directing the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Thursday, refusing to deliver a goodbye speech and instead focusing on Stravinsky, Arvo Paart, young composers and the seven programs he'll conduct in 2008-09. |
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- Music News: Company reports net loss of $18.4 million -- Live Nation Inc., the nation's largest live event and venue management company, said Thursday it narrowed its fourth-quarter loss from a year earlier but posted lower revenue as fewer big-ticket artists staged large tours. |
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- Music News: Music star will write, produce, star in comedy -- Toby Keith has started production as star, co-writer and co-producer of his second feature, "Beer for My Horses," a comedy bankrolled by CMT Films. |
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- Music News: Entertainment co. teams with Ticketmaster, TV -- The companies that own concert promoter AEG Live, Ticketmaster and Madison Square Garden are in the process of creating an entertainment concern that will be called Fuse-AEG. |
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- Music News: Universal Music nabs Spanish-language unit -- Univision is getting out of the music business. |
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- Music News: Warren, Moriarty, Lyman to appear at forum -- The fourth annual Musexpo international music and entertainment forum will be held April 27-30 in West Hollywood. |
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- Music News: Lineup includes Poncho Sanchez, Dr. John -- Herbie Hancock and the band that backed him on the disc that won the album of the year Grammy will headline the 30th edition of the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl. |
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- Music News: Voice of California Raisins played with Hendrix -- Buddy Miles, the rock and R&B drummer who worked with Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana and was best known for the song "Them Changes," died Tuesday at his home in Austin, Texas, according to a report on Miles' website. He was 60. |
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- Music News: Album doubles Keys' sales -- Jack Johnson's "Sleep Through the Static" held onto the top position on the U.S. album sales chart for a third straight week, moving 105,000 copies of the Brushfire/Universal disc. |
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- Music News: Official request guitarist for concert -- North Korean officials have invited rock guitarist Eric Clapton to play a concert in the Communist state, a diplomat at the country's embassy in London said Tuesday. |
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- Music News: Worked with Miles Davis -- Teo Macero, a record producer and composer who produced several notable albums for Miles Davis, died Feb. 19 in Riverhead, N.Y. He was 82. |
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- Music News: Shares jump after Nash promotion announced -- Amid an overall stock market rebound, Warner Music Group shares jumped more than most Monday, climbing 13% on news of a revamped digital strategy. |
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- Music News: Music mandatory teaching in schools -- China's education ministry has launched a pilot program which will make traditional Peking Opera a compulsory part of music teaching in schools around the country. |
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- Music News: Spinning at the Governors Ball after the 80th annual Academy Awards -- KCRW DJ Jason Bentley, who?s spinning at the Governors Ball after the 80th annual Academy Awards. |
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- Music News: Government unveils new strategy -- The U.K. government launched an action plan Friday to boost creative industries in the country with the publication of a report from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. |
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- Music News: Regarded as father of Russian punk music -- Yegor Letov, widely regarded as the father of Russian punk music, has died, according to his band's Web site. |
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- Music News: Photo scandal ends entertainment career -- Edison Chen, the actor and pop star at the center of the three week long celebrity photos scandal, Thursday announced that he will "step away from the Hong Kong entertainment industry." |
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- This ad was produced for the New Zealand chapter of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) by Doyle Dane Bernbach. As Copyranter notes, the idea is not even original: An anti-smoking ad published in a Dubai newspaper on the 2007 anniversary of 9/11 used the same tasteless concept. The copy in the ASH ad reads: |
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- Wired has an interesting editorial on the latest resurgence of the old days of phone phreaking and the latest phreak that is rising into the FBI crosshairs. The most recent hoax, "swatting", involves malicious pranksters calling police with reports of fake murders, hostage crises, or the like and spoofing the call to appear as though it was from another location. "Now the FBI thinks it has identified the culprit in the Colorado swatting as a 17-year-old East Boston phone phreak known as "Li'l Hacker." Because he's underage, Wired.com is not reporting Li'l Hacker's last name. |
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- I've had some interesting discussions this week concerning cultural competence. The definition of culture is "the totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought." Most folks think of cultures in terms of people from "other" countries. Considering culture on a personal basis, it becomes clear that women have a culture that is different from men. Cultures also exist within any group that is like-minded or shares a common experience, such as a religious group or a profession. |
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- i ask for prayer for my son because he’s in jail my something he did’t do so please help me pray for him his name is Hiram Harris - Sonya Ford from florida |
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- If anyone comes across Shadow Pearl that they are willing to part with, I'd like to start stockpiling some for the Purified Shadow Pearl. I plan to begin using those gems in my gear soon. Thanks in advance guys. |
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- Matt Gonzalez over at BeyondChron.org wrote a brilliant exposé on Barack Obama that must be shared. The hardest part of trying to get Democrats elected to power is vetting them, especially during election years in which people are so desperate for someone who can deliver on a promise of change that they fail to look past the campaign rhetoric to see the truth. |
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- BOSTON (WBZ) ― NFL free agency is underway and Patriots Pro Bowl cornerback Asante Samuel is in Philadelphia to meet the Eagles. According to the Eagles *Web site* (http://www. philadelphiaeagles. |
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- I have Verizon and need to get a new phone over the weekend. Does anyone use the LG Voyager VX 10000 or BB Pearl 8130? Any thoughts on which is better for phone calls and email? If you have a different Verizon phone that's good let me know too. I prefer PDA's. |
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