| Top Ten Holiday Gift Ideas for the “Science and Engineering Minded” - Nov 26, 2004 10:50 IST |
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Finding holiday gift ideas for the science and engineering oriented is far too often a challenge for many. To help provide this year’s holiday shoppers with science and engineering oriented gift ideas for their loved one, Edmunds Scientific, a leading producer of scientific instruments for over 60 years, announced today their top ten “must have” holiday gift ideas for the science and engineering enthusiast.
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| Taye Drums Announces Taye Endorser Bruce Aitken Wins ’Musician Of The Year’ - Nov 26, 2004 10:37 IST |
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Taye Drums announced today Taye Endorser Bruce Aitken has won the Musician of the Year Award at the Nova Scotia Music and Industry Awards sponsored by the Music Industry Association of Nova Scotia (MIANS).
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| Organization to Change the Face of Personal Finance - Nov 26, 2004 10:35 IST |
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For over fifty years the area of personal finance has been largely unchanged in terms of its continued emphasis on budgets and categories. Money Makes A Difference is a new organization that is poised to change that thinking.
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| Unhappy Wife Finds Renewed Love For Husband At MarriageRomance.com - Nov 25, 2004 19:44 IST |
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The key to a happy marriage is having the proper perspective. www.MarriageRomance.com helps married couples adjust their perspective on life and refocus and appreciate marriage and their spouse.
www.MarriageRomance.com is a Christian marriage and romance website with over 4000 marriage and romance writings. The website received over 1.35 million hits in the month of October, 2004 from over 243,940 page views from 59,841 unique visitors.
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| Black Family Channel Starts 8 New Shows - Nov 25, 2004 19:23 IST |
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Robert Townsend first caught the film industry’s eye with 1987’s Hollywood Shuffle, a clever satire about black actors trapped in demeaning roles. Now he wants the country to pay attention to what he calls a new kind of television, entertaining but with a sense of responsibility, especially toward young black Americans.
Black Family Channel, which Townsend joined as president and chief executive officer of production five months ago, is starting an ambitious slate of eight new programs geared for children, teenagers and families.
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| Eminem Tops Charts Ahead of Holiday Season - Nov 25, 2004 19:10 IST |
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Eminem topped music charts for a second week, warming up a recent cold spell for record companies who hope the rapper and big releases from acts like U2 and Gwen Stefani will ignite a hot holiday season
It’s been soft, but things are getting better and I think we’re going to have a good fourth quarter, John Sullivan, chief financial officer of Trans World Entertainment Corp., a retail music chain operator, said on Wednesday.
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| Mississippi Author Larry Brown Dies - Nov 25, 2004 19:7 IST |
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Author Larry Brown, who wrote about the often rough, gritty lives of rural Southerners, died Wednesday at his home, his publisher said. He was 53.
Brown died of an apparent heart attack, North Carolina-based Algonquin Books announced.
I’m just paralyzed, like most people when they lose a loved one they admire, said fellow Oxford-based author Barry Hannah.
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| Sirius Shares Slip on JPMorgan Downgrade - Nov 25, 2004 18:48 IST |
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Shares of Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., whose shares have doubled over the past month, on Wednesday fell 8 percent after a JPMorgan analyst said that a further rally would make the stock expensive relative to its growth potential.
We believe Sirius is now much closer to reflecting the near-term rapid growth opportunity we foresee, prompting us to take profits, said Barton Crockett, an analyst at J.P. Morgan, who downgraded the stock to neutral from overweight.
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| Almodovar’s ’Education’ Gets NC-17 Grade - Nov 25, 2004 16:41 IST |
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Oscar-winning director Pedro Almodovar’s latest film, Bad Education, will carry an NC-17 rating, a commercially damaging tag which means that no one aged 17 and under will be admitted.
Almodovar’s film, which delves into the issue of priestly sexual abuse within the context of a homoerotic film noir, was released Friday in New York via Sony Pictures Classics. It opens Dec. 10 in Los Angeles.
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| Film Studios Win $24 Million Against Web Site - Nov 25, 2004 16:41 IST |
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Hollywood’s major movie studios said they won a $23.8 million judgment against a California company and its Malaysian owner for operating a Web site that charged customers to download illegally copied movies.
The company, MasterSurf Inc, is owned by Tan Soo Leong, and it operated a site called Film88.com, according to a statement by the Motion Picture Association of America, which represents the studios in governmental and industry matters.
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| Sony Pictures Sets Up Operation in China - Nov 25, 2004 16:23 IST |
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Sony Pictures has set up a joint venture television and film co-production unit in China, taking advantage of a loosening of restrictions on the tightly controlled industry.
The joint venture with Hua Long Film Digital Production Co. of the state-run China Film Group, which holds a majority stake, has full approval from Chinese regulators, Sony Pictures Television International said in a statement Thursday.
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| Conrad Sentenced to House Arrest - Nov 25, 2004 16:22 IST |
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Former Wild Wild West star Robert Conrad will pay a price for his wild, wild ride.
The aging action hero has been sentenced to six months of house arrest, five year’s probation and alcohol counseling for a 2003 DUI accident.
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| Beatles’ Guitar, Cobain Letter Up for Auction - Nov 25, 2004 16:17 IST |
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Rock ’n’ roll fans with deep pockets can buy a Beatles guitar or a mugshot of the pop star formerly known as Cat Stevens at what Christie’s said on Wednesday was its biggest auction of show business memorabilia.
The Gibson SG electric guitar, played by George Harrison from 1966-1969, is the star attraction among over 400 lots, ranging from Britney Spears’ book report to a handwritten 1991 letter from the late Kurt Cobain to Courtney Love.
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| Critics Blast ’Alexander’ But Novelist Defends It - Nov 25, 2004 16:16 IST |
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While critics savaged Oliver Stone’s long-waited epic Alexander, novelist and social activist Gore Vidal rallied to the $160 million movie’s defense saying it was barrier-breaking because of its frank depiction of bisexuality.
Stone’s film opened on Wednesday to near universal pans from critics who called it everything from a noble failure to an indifferent epic.
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| Police praise ’courageous’ Ozzy - Nov 25, 2004 16:2 IST |
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The singer grabbed an intruder who then jumped 30ft (10m) from a first floor window as the star gave chase at his Buckinghamshire home on Monday.
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| McCartney backs UK conservation - Nov 25, 2004 16:1 IST |
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The awards set out to honour excellence and innovation in preserving the UK’s cultural heritage.
Sir Paul, 62, agreed to fund the awards after meeting 2002 winner Ian Clark and hailed conservationists’ work.
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| Elderly ’need digital TV funds’ - Nov 25, 2004 15:58 IST |
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The Ofcom Consumer Panel is advising the government on how to make sure the vulnerable are not left behind when the switch-off happens, probably in 2012.
The UK government may have to spend £250m-400m to make sure those groups can still receive TV, its report said.
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| UK sweep up at global Emmy Awards - Nov 25, 2004 15:32 IST |
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Channel 4 won three prizes - for Brat Camp, The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off and children’s tale, The Illustrated Mum.
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| Glastonbury mulls ID card tickets - Nov 25, 2004 15:20 IST |
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The black market trade has flourished with recent huge demand for tickets.
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| US actor fined over Oscars piracy - Nov 25, 2004 15:19 IST |
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Mr Caridi, 70, who had small parts in two Godfather films, was sued for sending videos of The Last Samurai and Mystic River to another man.
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