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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.
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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Coach, globally acclaimed US company, is considered as the most competitive brand in the highly profitable worldwide luxury industry and is known for bringing to the fore exclusive designs of bags comprising fascinating features. On the other hand, in the sphere of US, season of Spring/Summer is known for bringing forth something bright and exciting, especially in the field of fashion and Coach, as a result, has come out with its Coach Parker hippie bag.
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vip news : Learn of Coach Parker hippie bag
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
Reuters – Oil slipped toward $77 a barrel on Wednesday after U.S. data showed crude inventories in the world’s largest energy consumer rose more than expected while refinery utilization rates fell again
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Oil slips towards $77 on U.S. crude oil build
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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
A business that makes the decision to be environmentally-conscious will often promote goodwill among potential customers, while making the world a better place for future generations. Many businesses hesitate to adopt green practices because they fear it will hurt their bottom line and negatively impact profits. But many eco-conscious businesses discover that they can actually save money and bring in new customers who specifically patronize companies that actively make an effort to be environmentally friendly
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Steps to Make Your Business Green
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
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
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’
AP – Oil prices rebounded to over $74 a barrel Thursday amid renewed hopes about economic recovery after the Fed said the worlds biggest economy was improving and President Barack Obama vowed to boost jobs.
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Oil above $74 on renewed US growth optimism
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Written by Mary Stanton Published by: Berkley Defending Angels is the start of a promising new mystery series. The premise promised on the back cover is intriguing enough: a lawyer who defends the dead from a celestial court, shortening their time in Purgatory or even getting them reassigned from Hell to Heaven. While this premise in practice has more to do with finding earthly justice for murderers and the innocent, a law practice filled with mysterious assistants, ghostly visitors, and strange, uncontrolled powers is creative enough to keep even a relatively jaded mystery fan like myself interested
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Defending Angels – Book Review
AP – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met Saturday with Haitian President Rene Preval and promised that U.S. quake relief efforts would be closely coordinated with local officials.
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Clinton lands in Haiti, pledges cooperative effort
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The earthquake in Haiti, and the world’s response, dominated the headlines this week. Host Guy Raz talks with James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic , about that and the week’s other top stories, including Google pulling out of China and the wild Senate race in Massachusetts to fill Ted Kennedy’s seat.
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Fallows On The News: Haiti; Google; Mass. Politics
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Your Weekend Justice #50: The Talking of People
AP – Natural gas prices tumbled Thursday after a government report showed that even after a frigid two-week winter blast, U.S. stockpiles are still well above average for this time of year.
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Natural gas dips after supply report
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The Wells Fargo ATMs at McMurdo Station in Antarctica I was fascinated when I learned that there was an ATM on Antarctica, specifically at McMurdo Station. Just because, you know, it’s not like your local ATM that they can zip a service tech out to.
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The World’s Most Southerly ATM: An Interview With Wells Fargo’s David Parker
book now Event Dates: 21 May 2010 “You can’t carry on storming gigs like this. I can’t do what you can; you need to be out there and on tour.” Eddie Izzard Perrier Award nominee and Royal Variety performer, Terry Alderton holds the record for the most consecutive encores at the world famous Comedy Store. He’s first call for all the comedy club bookers in the country, but following a little chat with a certain Eddie Izzard he’s been persuaded to take to the road.
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Terry Alderton
PC World – The group developing a standard for wireless charging expects to complete its first specification within six months, opening the door for makers of cell phones, digital cameras and other devices to bring compatible products to market.
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Wireless Power Group Sees Standard Within 6 Months
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As they imagine the Internet of 2020, computer scientists across the country are starting from scratch and re-thinking everything: from IP addresses to DNS to routing tables to Internet security in general. They are envisioning how the Internet might work without some of the most fundamental features of todays ISP and enterprise networks. Their goal is audacious: To create an Internet without so many security breaches, with better trust and built-in identity management
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The Internet in 2020
PC World – Slots that support faster SDXC flash storage cards are reaching consumer electronics devices, which could boost the performance of devices like camcorders and digital cameras, multiple companies said on Tuesday.
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Slots That Support SDXC Flash Storage Reaching Devices
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Dr S.P. Kothari has served as Global Head of Equity Research and has been responsible for research in active equity strategies supporting Barclays Global Investors (BGI) which has recently been acquired by BlackRock a premier provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services to institutional and retail clients around the world.
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BlackRock BGI Expert Dr SP Kothari Talks on Global Economic Recovery at BITS Pilani Rajasthan
Today we stray a little from our normal methodology here in the “Bewegtbilder” arena. Usually I take the opportunity to introduce the English speaking world to lesser known movies of German origin and language, but today I will introduce you to a German New Year’s Eve tradition: a classic TV skit — in English. Furthermore, I will babble a lot about the media.
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Bewegtbilder New Year’s Special: Dinner For One
To most of the world, David Levine was a brilliant artist best-known for his caricatures of public figures, published for more than years in the New York Review of Books. He definitely was that. But in Brooklyn Heights, Levine, 83, …
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Playbill – Jan Buttram’s latest play Phantom Killer , about a murderer stalking a rural Texas town, will have its world premiere at the Abingdon Theatre Company beginning Jan. 22, 2010.
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Schmidt, Bess and McCormick to Encounter ‘Phantom Killer’ Off-Broadway
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Akmal Shaikh, a British bi-polar sufferer who was homeless in Poland, was lured to China with dreams of becoming an international popstar – and incidently carried 4kg of heroin into China on the way to his dream. Despite the most strident appeals from the British government, he was executed yesterday by the Chinese. The basis of the British objection was that he was: a) he suffers from bi-polar disorder and that it is against UN convention to execute the mentally ill – in addition, during the two years of his incarceration, no attempt was made to give him medical help nor was a mental health assessment carried out
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Akmal Shaikh – China executes mentally ill Briton
Reuters – Morgan Stanley plans to overhaul pay plans for its top executives, deferring more of their compensation over time and benchmarking pay against rival firms, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Morgan Stanley to overhaul pay for top execs: report
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It was really cold when I went out before dawn yesterday morning. Of course it’s usually cold this time of year but as I lead Ringo, Larry, Gore, Dolly, Honey, Gumball, Pooter, and Thor from their assigned quarters to the staging area it seemed as if it was even colder than usual. I was really glad I was wearing the new high tech winter uniform, boots, and gloves as they’re no doubt the warmest available anywhere.
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An Old Poet’s Dreams Come True
AP – ConAgra Foods Inc.’s profit jumped 43 percent in the second quarter as the popularity of its foods continued to grow with frugal shoppers.
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ConAgra Foods 2Q profit up on consumer foods gains
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PC World – Kodak recently came out with a newer model, the impressive Zi8 (which retails for $180), but the Kodak Zi6 Pocket Video Camera, a longtime favorite, is on sale at OfficeMax for $100 with free shipping. This all-around great camcorder was one of the first to feature HD (it shoots in three video modes), and it captures 3-megapixel still images.
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Kodak Zi6 Pocket Camcorder
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Brief, thought-provoking article which poses the questions: what is the difference between fast & slow knowledge, and what is the relevance to trading and investing? In summary: the difference between fast and slow knowledge in a clinical setting is the difference between trusting (exclusively) the data and recognizing the mistakes that can emerge from too much, sometimes contradictory, data. Slow knowledge recognizes the limitations of data and takes a more holistic approach…
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Fast vs. slow knowledge
Playbill – The Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia will launch the new year with the world premiere of Eric Conger’s 1960s-set play, The Eclectic Society , Jan. 19-March 7 on the Mainstage
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Conger’s Campus Drama ‘Eclectic Society’ Will Premiere at Walnut Street; Cast Announced
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Playbill – Tony Award winner Frank Wood, Emmy nominee Annie Parisse, Jeremy Shamos, Crystal A. Dickinson, Brendan Griffin, Damon Gupton and Christina Kirk will be featured in the Playwrights Horizons world premiere of Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park , to begin Jan. 29, 2010.
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Wood, Parisse, Shamos and More Set for NYC World Premiere of Norris’ ‘Clybourne Park’
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There are many players involved in climate talks at Copenhagen, but one country has a vested economic interest in the outcome. For the last three decades, much of Japan’s economy has been geared toward inventing energy-saving appliances and machinery — technology that Japan is hoping the rest of the world will want to buy if a deal is reached in Copenhagen.
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Japan Betting On Climate Change Profits
Play Written & Directed by: Jörg Buttgereit Directed by: Thilo Gosejohann Starring: Jürg Plüss, Claudia Steiger, Adolf Asser, Sandra Steffl, Rafael Banasik, Michael Waechter, Jörg Buttgereit DVD Features: Audio commentary by Buttgereit and Gosejohann “Export Version” with English subtitles and optional English comments by Mark Reeder Backstage Report World premiere in Gelsenkirchen Picture gallery Super 8 short-films with Captain Berlin 12 page comic dealing with Captain Berlin’s backstory Released by: Media Target Distribution Region: 0 Rating: 16 and older in Germany Anamorphic: Yes Language: German with optional English subtitles I’m back with another installment of Bewegtbilder (Moving Pictures), where I talk about German films that should get more exposure to a global audience. Wait, a German filmmaker wrote and directed a stage play in the style of children’s theater featuring Hitler , Dracula and superhero called Captain Berlin? And that’s out on DVD as a movie now?
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Captain Berlin vs. Hitler (2009) – Bewegtbilder Movie Review
Playbill – The world premiere of Bola Agbaje’s Off the Endz , beginning performances at London’s Royal Court’s Jerwood Theatre Downstairs Feb. 11, prior to an official opening Feb. 19, will feature a cast that includes Lorraine Burroughs, Daniel Francis and Ashley Walters
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Burroughs, Francis and Walters Will Appear in Royal Court World Premiere ‘Off the Endz’
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Written by: Matthew Sand & J. Michael Straczynski, based on a story by Sand Directed by: James McTeigue Starring: Rain, Naomie Harris, Ben Miles, Sho Kosugi, Rick Yune My Advice: Matinee if a fu fanatic, small screen acceptable.
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Ninja Assassin (2009) – Movie Review
Okay, so there was an attempt to relaunch the Terminator franchise with Salvation , starring a shouty Christian Bale and up-and-coming Sam Worthington. I say “attempt” because Halcyon, the folks who made this, are working to sell off the rights to both this film and the potential fifth one. Which means the much talked about new trilogy will more than likely never happen.
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Headsup: Blu-Ray Bale and Ben 10 (and more)
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Your Weekend Justice #46: C+
PC World – Sixth Avenue Electronics has the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS25S for just $152.28 (plus free shipping), if you enter coupon code “BONUSBUY.” The 12.1-megapixel camera boasts a 5X optical zoom, a 29mm wide-angle Leica lens, and a 3-inch LCD.
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Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS25S for $152
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PC World – Abe’s of Maine is offering a Canon EOS Rebel T1i digital camera in a bundle for $800.95, which is a pretty good deal when you consider what you get. The Canon EOS Rebel T1i is a 15.1-megapixel DSLR that comes with a standard 18mm-to-55mm lens
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Canon EOS Rebel T1i Camera Bundle for $801
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PC World – Amazon.com offers the Casio Exilim EX-S5 digital camera for $105 with free shipping, which is $25 under the retail price. The Exilim EX-S5 has a 3X optical-zoom lens, face-detection features, a 2.7-inch LCD display, and an SD/MMC card slot for storing photos and movies.
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Casio Exilim EX-S5 10-Megapixel Digital Camera
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PC World – You can get the Canon EOS Digital Rebel T1i Digital SLR camera from Abe’s of Maine for $624 with free shipping after applying coupon code “DNEWS15″; this is $75 below the retail price.
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Canon EOS Rebel T1i 15.1-Megapixel Digital SLR Camera (Body Only)
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book now Event Dates: 30 Apr 2010 Phil McIntyre Entertainment proudly presents: Pappy’s presents a World Record Attempt: 200 Sketches In An Hour (plus bonus sketches and an interval) Fresh from Channel 4 and a critically acclaimed, sell out run at the 2009 Edinburgh Festival, “the funniest sketch troupe on the Fringe” (The Scotsman) return to take the UK, and the record books, by storm. read more
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Pappy’s
Wolven here again. I’m back from the wilds of a future time where the southeast portion of the United States is the desert it only pretends to be in our present autumn months, and the cities of Atlanta, Charlotte, and Birmingham have the beaches they’ve always wanted. From the considerable effort I was having to exert to follow the rule “never read your own press,” I gather that people had… Feelings, one way or another, about my premier piece, here on Need Coffee.
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Not Really a Top 5: Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror Novelists Who Use Dreams to Crack Your Head Open (In All the Right Ways)
Bellingham magician sets ‘faro shuffle’ record Michelle Nolan of The Bellingham (Wash.) Herald reports that John Walton, a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, recently set a Guinness World record after executing 2,784 shuffles in a 12-period. Nolan writes: Not long ago, Bellingham magician John Walton became captivated with being one of the few people capable of 10 consecutive tricky “faro shuffles” of a card deck. He had no idea he would become skilled enough for 2,784 shuffles in a 12-hour period.
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John Walton: King of Faro Shuffles
Written By Jimmy Sweeney Author of the brand new, Amazing Cover Letter Creator Today’s hiring managers are being bombarded with job applications, resumes, and cover letters. Some have a mile-high pile of paper on their desks and not nearly enough time to read and respond to it. So what is a dedicated job seeker to do in this tight economy when employers are overworked and overwhelmed
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The Seven Wonders of a World-Class Cover Letter
Under the artistic direction of designer Marc Jacobs, Louis Vuitton has evolved into a luxury empire that not only encompasses lavish fashion, but experiments in art, and architecture. In “Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion, and Architecture,” the history of Vuitton’s world is examined by fashion and art historians, scholars, and journalists via essays and hundreds of color photos of LV products, ads, …
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The Art, Fashion, and Architecture of Louis Vuitton (Fast Company Magazine)
After your rampant enthusiasm last year for DiS ‘ Pluto Prize (our reader voted alternative to the Mercury Music Prize) we’re doing it all over again for 2009 with a new name: The Neptune Music Prize. DiS’ award highlights 12 out of this world albums that we felt missed the Mercury cut go head to..
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DiS’ alternative Music Prize: The Neptune nominees announced
Film: DVD: Created by: Desi Arnez and Quinn Martin based on the book by Elliot Ness and Oscar Fraley Starring: Robert Stack, Nicholas Georgiade, Paul Picerni, and Walter Winchell Released by: Paramount Region: 1 Rating: NR Anamorphic: N/A; presented in its original 1.33:1 format My Advice: Later Prohibition, intended to cleanse America of the demon of alcohol, instead fueled the criminal mobs to unprecedented wealth and power.
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The Untouchables: Season 2, Volume 2 (1961) – DVD Review