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So MMA is the biggest growing sport in the world and UFC is the fastest growing sporting powerhouse organisation. Lots of folk do martial training of some kind and lots of folk have opinions on who’s style, art and particularly which fighters are the best. Maybe of you are interested in getting into MMA or similar but need a bit of extra info..
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All things fighting – MMA, Boxing, etc.
Reuters – Sony Corp (6758.T) reported its first profit in five quarters on Thursday, helped by a recovery in its flat TV operations, and the Japanese electronics maker cut its annual loss forecast closer to market expectations.
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Sony posts first profit in five quarters, lifts outlook
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AP – Time Warner Inc. made a profit in the fourth quarter despite a decline in advertising revenue as the media company saw revenue gains in its cable channels such as HBO and its Warner Bros. movie studio, the one behind the “Harry Potter” franchise
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Time Warner posts 4Q profit despite ad drop
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On Wednesday, February 3rd, Philip Le Vasseur, your host for “ Art of Peace,” will be discussing the Social Justice Award for Documentary Film with a spokesperson for the award’s sponsor, Geoff Green (Executive Director of the Fund for …
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“Art of Peace” Profiles Two Films in Competition for the Fund for …
LONDON — A rare life-size and life-time bronze cast, from 1961, of Alberto Giacometti’s “L’Homme Qui Marche I,” better known as “Walking Man,” improbably became the most expensive work of art ever to sell at auction today, selling for £65,001,250 ($104,327,006).
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Sculpture sets record for most expensive work of art (The Newsroom via Yahoo! News)
AP – Key Democrats and Republicans neared agreement Wednesday on plans to give businesses a tax break for hiring unemployed workers, a rare glimmer of bipartisanship in Congress that could hand President Barack Obama a badly needed political victory.
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Senate close to deal on credit for adding workers
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AP – Cisco Systems Inc. blew past its own forecast for the latest quarter, reporting its first sales increase in a year as it left the recession behind.
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Cisco sees ‘dramatic’ sales improvement in 2Q
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Just a note for those who may not be familiar with my telling of the Fast Food Wars , or the chain of one that is Skipper’s Hot Dogs located on East Market Street here in Greensboro, NC. This is the 75th random poem excerpted from the story and there’s plenty more to come. As you pull into the drive thru at Skipper’s (Formerly Skip’s) you are greeted with the recorded sounds of a barking dog on the drive thru speakers before a human takes your order.
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Fast Food Wars Come To Greensboro
Alberto Giacometti’s sculpture “L’homme qui marche I” Wednesday created a record by selling for 65 million pounds (104.3 million dollars) in the highest auction price for an art work, Sotheby’s said.
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Giacometti art work fetches auction world record: Sotheby’s (AFP via Yahoo! News)
If President Obama confronted his political enemies, House Republicans, last Friday, it was time for his frenemies Wednesday, when he met with Senate Democrats. He urged the group of friends — and foes — to rally their resolve to finish his agenda, even after the loss of their filibuster-proof majority
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Obama Tells Democrats: ‘We Still Have To Lead’
Rumours had been floating around in the past couple of days – and indeed weeks, if you go back far enough – that the hip-hop label founded and run by El-P, Definitive Jux, or Def-Jux to those relatively normal folks, was to fold with immediate effect. All of which was surprising considering the man…
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Def Jux not folding, but going on hiatus
The 21st hottest search terms on the google today Prius recall http://www.google.com/trends/hottren…q=prius+recall I watched BBC earlier tonight and their UK spokesman a Mr.BrownLee said the company knew the accelerator peddle was a ‘quality’ issue rather than a ’safety’ issue back in 2008! 
And they have just recalled 3.8 million of the worldwide already that included 2007 to latest Camry. Look out Toyota, you’re in deep doo-doo in the Good Ol US of Lawsuit. I’m expected a 1971 Ford Pinto UK House of Lords outcome on this one
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3.8 Million Toyota Prius cars recalled
DJ Produce duo Buffetlibre have announced yet more names for their Amnesty International supported compilation, entitled Peace, which now features over 50 artists from across the world including, of course, the UK.
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Buffetlibre link up with about a million artists worldwide for Amnesty’s PEACE
The Motley Fool – I have a frequent and pleasant daydream in which the Virginia lottery board calls and says, “Congratulations! You’ve won the highest jackpot ever! Would you like to take that in a lump sum or divided up over 30 years?” This is truly the stuff of fantasy, though, particularly because I don’t buy lottery tickets.
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Juggling Your Financial Goals
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The musical “Alice in Wonderland Thru the Looking Glass” is likely to leave you colder than the winter of 2010.
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Theater Review | ‘Alice in Wonderland Thru the Looking Glass’: Rabbit Hole Redux in Wonderland
book now Event Dates: 29 Mar 2010 The best lecture you ever had, but all splintered and haphazard, like the popular children’s magazine of knowledge, Look and Learn. Like a Show and Tell, with less dinosaurs and more words. And some of those Words will be songs
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Robin Ince’s School for Gifted Children Holiday Special
book now Event Dates: 3-4 Jun 2010 Dutch superstar, comedian, jazz singer and defender of free speech and probably the most exciting comedian to hit the British Stage in years, Hans Teeuwen returns to London for two extra shows due to public demand. His phenomenally surreal, critical acclaimed cabaret was rated five stars by The Guardian and Metro at last years Fringe and described by Stewart Lee as ..
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Hans Teeuwen – Smooth and Painful
book now Event Dates: 8 Jun 2010 If you only see one doctor this year, make it Dr Phil… Phil Hammond is a GP, writer, broadcaster and possibly the only comedian to have appeared at a public inquiry. He is Private Eye’s medical correspondent and has appeared on Have I Got News for You, The News Quiz, The Now Show and Countdown
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Dr Phil’s Rude Health Show
The annual Glasgow Music And Film Festival is this year dedicated to, or focused on, the soundtracks and music from the films of cult directors David Lynch and John Carpenter, and also features some pretty nifty musicians giving their take on this particular theme. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com
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Glasgow Music And Film festival to feature Zombie Zombie, Thomas Truax + more
A Chorus Of Storytellers fits in quite succinctly alongside its predecessors, and while perhaps not scaling the skyscraping heights of An Orchestrated Rise To Fall or In A Safe Place, doesn’t rally represent a decline in standards either. Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com
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The Album Leaf – A Chorus Of Storytellers
After the Storm Photo © Pam Bycraft with permission to About.com, Inc. Photo of the Week – February 3, 2010 originally appeared on About.com Photography on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 at 08:18:19. Permalink | Comment | Email this
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Photo of the Week – February 3, 2010
Perhaps the most commanding star in this appealing, fairly family-friendly production is the troupe’s home, a former Sunday school space in a Brooklyn church.
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Theater Review | ‘alice … Alice … ALICE!’: Alice Is Everywhere, Including a Brooklyn Church
Playbill – Richard II and Henry V – starring Tony Award nominee Michael Hayden as the title characters – begin playing in repertory Feb. 2 at Sidney Harman Hall in Washington, DC, in a Shakespeare Theatre Company bill called “The Leadership Repertory.”
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Michael Hayden Is ‘Richard II’ and ‘Henry V’ in DC
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Playbill – Tony Award-winning songwriter Duncan Sheik and busy playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa will collaborate on a new stage musical based on the gruesome novel “American Psycho,” about a charming Wall Street banker who is also a serial killer.
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Duncan Sheik and Robert Aguirre-Sacasa Will Make ‘American Psycho’ Sing
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Playbill – Elliot: A Soldier’s Fugue, the Pulitzer Prize-finalist play by Quiara Alegría Hudes, will play The Walnut Street Theatre’s Independence Studio on 3 in Philadelphia, the author’s hometown, Feb. 23-March 14.
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‘Elliott’ Will Be Philly Premiere for Hometown Playwright Hudes
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Playbill – Stage vets Swoosie Kurtz and Fred Willard will team up as guest stars on NBC-TV’s “Chuck” later this season, playing an over-the-hill-but-still-working pair of spies, according to EW.com.
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Swoosie Kurtz and Fred Willard to Guest Star on TV’s "Chuck"
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Playbill – London’s Royal Court has announced a new initiative, Theatre Local, in which it will be presenting a season of work in a disused shop at the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre in south London.
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London’s Royal Court Sets Up Another Home in South London Shopping Center
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Okay, a few quick things I wanted to make you aware of so you could get going on them if you choose to. Apparently, The Criterion Collection is losing the license to a crapload of titles. They’re putting them on sale, $5 off each one.
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Stuff Bulletin: Criterion Massive Going Out of Print Sale
Reuters – When doctors and staff realized that a cat living in a U.S. nursing home could sense when someone was going to die, the feline, Oscar, was portrayed as a furry grim reaper or four-legged angel of death
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Doctor casts new light on cat that can predict death
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In 1951, Henrietta Lacks died after a long battle with cervical cancer. Doctors cultured her cells without permission from her family. The story of those cells — known as HeLa cells, in Lacks’ honor — and of the medical advances that came from them, is told in Rebecca Skloot’s book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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‘Henrietta Lacks’: A Donor’s Immortal Legacy
The ’70s Memphis-based rock band Big Star won rave reviews for their albums and influenced countless followers, but never managed to become stars. Rock and Roll historian Ed Ward says a new box set and a collection of recordings by founding member Chris Bell offer a chance to look back on the band’s troubled life
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Big Star: The Unluckiest Band In America
Reuters – When a rare Klimt landscape goes under the hammer at Sotheby’s on Wednesday, the sellers will not be the only interested party.
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Heir eyes fortune as "lost" Klimt comes to auction
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Playbill – The American Theatre Wing’s SpringboardNYC, an intensive summer boot camp for student actors, is now seeking applications for 35 spots in the 2010 summer program, which will be held June 7-18 in New York City.
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American Theatre Wing Seeks College-Age Applicants for Summer 2010 SpringboardNYC Program
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A lot of things happen. You don’t need to know about them all, and you don’t need to know them in detail. Here, in digest form, is the important pop culture stuff so you can do…whatever else it is you do.
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Stuff: Just Like a Rock Star, Rockstar Is In Bed With Someone Else Now
In 1967, mathematician Ed Thorp revolutionized Wall Street with a method of using math and computers to predict the future of the stock market — and his hedge fund has been profitable ever since. Thorp’s story, and those of many other market-driven math whizzes, is told in Scott Patterson’s new book The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It.
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‘The Quants’: It Pays To Know Your Wall Street Math
Osterlind answers your questions each month Richard Osterlind, one of the top mentalists and magicians (and Order of Merlin), will be answering questions each month from members of the International Brotherhood of Magicians in a new feature, Osterlind Q&A. With his 40-plus years of performing and amazing audiences around the globe, feel free to ask him any question that relates to magic, mentalism, hypnotism, performing, routining or handling the business side
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New Members-Only Feature
Not a hoax. Not an imaginary story. A new podcast from Needcoffee.
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Untitled Music Podcast #1: Secret Origins
It’s the way we like to start the week off: with something a bit weird and off kilter, so that the rest of your work week will seem more normal by comparison. That, and it’s a good mind wipe to kick things off
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Your Monday Morning Mental Sorbet: Bob McGrath is Turning Japanese. I Really Think So.
Sun, Jan 31 2010 10:35 PST
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MusiCares Person of the Year Tribute to Neil Young: Performances by Crosby, Stills and Nash, Elvis Costello, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Elton John and…
Sun, Jan 31 2010 05:55 PST
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Grammy Fashion 2010: Stars Walk the Red Carpet on Music’s Biggest Night: Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Green Day and more
The 10 Americans arrested in Haiti for attempting to take 33 orphans out of the earthquake-ravaged nation have stepped into the middle of rising fears that the disaster’s most vulnerable victims could fall prey to human traffickers. Meanwhile, aid agencies are rushing to find thousands of children made homeless by the earthquake
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Racing To Gather Haiti’s Lost Children
President Obama laid out his goals for this year and the years to come in his State of the Union address last week. Now he’s preparing to lay out how to pay for his agenda. Host Liane Hansen talks with NPR News Analyst Juan Williams about President Obama’s budget proposal, which the president submits to Congress on Monday
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Obama Adds Up The Tab For His Plans
“Gee’s Bend” is not just about poor, culturally isolated quiltmakers, but about Gee’s Bend, on an old plantation, where many residents are descendants of the last owner’s slaves.
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Theater Review | Connecticut: Not Just About Quilts, but About a Post-Plantation Society
Photo © ChristopherD with permission to About.com, Inc. Each Saturday, an image will be posted here that was originally posted somewhere in our forum roughly one year prior. Be sure to check back each Saturday for our blasts from the past! Forum Flashback Series – 30 January 2010 originally appeared on About.com Photography on Saturday, January 30th, 2010 at 07:12:55.
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Forum Flashback Series – 30 January 2010
Reuters – A painting by a follower of Leonardo da Vinci, which was once thought to be done by the Renaissance master himself, sold at auction for $1.5 million, three times its estimate price.
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Painting, once thought a da Vinci, sells for $1.5 million
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We return…to the blasé world of Emily and the Really Sexy Vampyre . This, a found young adult novel, was brought to the attention of the world by Storm (of Paul and Storm.) And it has set the lit world ablaze. Never one to shy away from fire–and it is cold as hell in January–I asked Storm if I could take a crack at reading it
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Emily and the Really Sexy Vampyre – Audio, Part 2
Laura Linney and Brian d’Arcy James are giving performances of complementary sensitivity and richness in the flawless Broadway production of “Time Stands Still.”
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Theater Review | ‘Time Stands Still’: What’s Really Fair in Love and War?
AP – Eastman Kodak Co., the remade picture-taking pioneer, broke a series of four straight quarterly losses with a $443 million profit in the last three months of 2009, sending its shares sharply higher.
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Kodak posts 1st quarterly profit in more than year
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It’s been tittering on the brink for much too long it seems. ABC has finally lowered the boom by canceling fan favorite and ratings challenged “Ugly Betty.” Originally based on a Colombian telenovela, the dramedy starts America Ferrera making her way in the fashion world of New York. The show has won Emmy and Peabody Awards as well as a Golden Globe for Ferrera’s portrayal of Betty.
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ABC Cancels ‘Ugly Betty’