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AP – Anheuser-Busch InBev NV, the world’s largest brewer, said Thursday that the football World Cup helped push up sales in the second quarter, boosting net profit by 7.5 percent to $1.15 billion.
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AB InBev Q2 profit up 7.5 pct on World Cup boost
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AP – ON THE MEND: Cisco Systems Inc., the world’s largest maker of computer networking gear, said revenue rose 27 percent from a year ago, and net income jumped 79 percent, as business bounced back from the recession.
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Summary Box: Cisco revenue misses expectations
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AFP – The US trade deficit widened sharply in June to the highest level in 20 months on increased imports from China, triggering fresh fears of a slowdown in the world’s largest economy.
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US suffers widest trade gap in 20 months
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Written by: Sunita Rajwar, Chandan Arora Directed by: Chandan Arora Starring: Siddharth, Ankur Vikal, Aditya Pancholi, Nicolette Bird My Advice: It’s an ordinary affair and you would not miss much skipping this.
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Striker (2010) – Movie Review
ARTINFO – – “The Tony the Tiger of Contemporary Art”: That would be Simon de Pury, in the assessment of his fellow “Work of Art” judge Bill Powers. (Better or worse than Jerry Saltz’s newest sobriquet, the “Rodney Dangerfield of the art world”? [NYPost]
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Simon de Pury Gets the Post Treatment, Anne Barlow to Direct Bucharest Biennial, and Other Must-Read Art News
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The Week in Stuff: August 3, 2010 – The Devil, The King and Death
ARTINFO – The 2011 iteration of the Venice Biennale, that art-world exhibition that combines the Olympic thrill of awards (the Golden Lion for best in show and the Silver Lion for best emerging artists) with World’s Fair-style pavilions, is still more than a year away.
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The 2011 Venice Biennale: Japan Selects Tabaimo
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So each week we try to give you something–just a little something–to help with the pain of the work week to come. Consider this post your leather belt to bite down on as the Wild West surgeon extracts the bullet that is your humdrum life from your leg.
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Your Monday Morning Mental Sorbet: The Surreal World of Bacon
The National Theater in London is offering many end-of-the-world visions, most notably Mike Bartlett’s “Earthquakes in London.”
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Theater: ‘Earthquakes’ at National Theater in London
Last month, a few dozen teenage pianists from around the world converged on Oberlin, Ohio, for a grueling high-stakes competition. A 14-year-old, George Li, took first prize, which included a full scholarship to the Oberlin Conservatory. Hear his winning performance
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High Stakes At International Piano Competition
I’ve always been of the opinion that zombies improve just about everything. That’s easily said, of course, when you’re talking about taking something good and making it even better. But what if we put this to the test: what if we tried to take something that was crap and improve it with the judicious application of the undead
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7 Movies That Could Have Been Improved By Adding Zombies
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Your Weekend Justice #77: Laundry is the Mind Trap
ARTINFO – “Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913¬-1917″ at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, through January 24, moma.org During this tumultuous period, when the artist’s friends — including André Derain and the poet Apollinaire — were fighting in the front lines of the first World War, Matisse was working in the south of France on what would become the hardened core of his later oeuvre. These decisive paintings and sculpture, gathered together by a partnership between MoMA and the Art Institute of Chicago, show the artist at his most raw and experimental, stepping into new aesthetic territory not even he could define.
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Top Ten Shows to See in New York
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The Week in Stuff: July 27, 2010 – Cop Shows, Giant Scorpions and a Black Taxi
PC World – Aside from telling you when the bus will arrive, keeping tabs on your location, and maintaining an always-on connection to your various social networks, your phone takes decent pictures. It’s always in your pocket, too
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Four Ways Camera Phones Are Better Than Cameras
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Rolando Santos: If You Believe, They Will Believe By Chip MacGregor Our incoming International President is a big believer in magic. He believes the performance of our art can actually have a “magical” effect on other people.
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Rolando Santos: International President
PC World – Photos of a near-final version of an alleged HTC Windows Phone 7 device have leaked online. The photos show a handset with a 3.7-inch Super LCD screen, with a purported 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, 8-megapixel camera, and three touch-sensitive buttons at the bottom of the device
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Is This HTC’s First Windows Phone 7 Device?
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After years of admittedly not acknowledging the importance or relevancy of the arts as a topic of discussion on a par with world politics, the renown Aspen Institute Ideas Festival offered a separate tract for arts and culture last week …
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Public Art – Team Sport of Invividual Accomplishment? | Art&Seek …
U.S. News & World Report – Four years after the housing bubble popped, the American real estate market has yet to launch a sustainable recovery. Although U.S
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6 reasons the housing market hasn’t recovered
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ARTINFO – Lawsuits relating to the restitution of art looted by the Nazis during World War II have been held up in courts in recent years.
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U.S. Returns Paintings "Liberated" by Soldier from Nazi Germany
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AFP – Toyota will build a new 600-million-dollar auto plant in Brazil that is set to initially churn out 70,000 vehicles a year and employ 1,500 workers, the worlds biggest car maker said Friday.
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Toyota to build third plant in Brazil
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AP – Most Asian stock markets fell Friday as a drop in American factory output and weak U.S. regional manufacturing activities fueled concern over the strength of a recovery in the worlds biggest economy.
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Most Asian stocks down amid US recovery worries
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ARTINFO – On the night of June 25, prominent figures of the Paris fashion world flocked to the famed Hôtel Costes where Lacoste was presenting its 2010 Holiday Collector’s series, featuring two polo shirts designed by Chinese artist Li Xiaofeng. The latest collaboration between Lacoste and contemporary artists, Li’s contribution consists of one polo shirt made from 317 porcelain shards and one cotton polo shirt bearing a print of the artist’s porcelain-shard digital collage.
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Lacoste Launches Porcelain Polo Shirts by Li Xiaofeng
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ARTINFO – In “Art that Moves You,” this week’s episode of BravoÂ’s Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, something strange happened. OK, lots of strange things happened, and that’s nothing new in this reality-show tribute to the most surreal aspects of a broadly fictionalized art world. (Simon de Pury, amazingly, is real.) But here are three occurrences that rattled ARTINFOÂ’s sense of the order of things
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Last Night, on "Work of Art": From Painterbation to the Panopticon
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from Wed 14/07/10 smh (sorry no link) Quote: China agency ‘downgrades’ US Treasuries China is trying to turn the world of credit ratings on its head, by unveiling rival sovereign debt ratings that question the credtiworthiness of major developed economies. In its first report on soveriegn debt, Dagong Global Credit Rating gave US Treasury bonds a AA rating with negative outlook, several rungs below the top AAA that it gave to just seven economies, including Australia
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Chinese ratings agency
Five members of the art activist group ‘Culture Beyond Oil’ today poured non-toxic black oil around the British Museum’s world famous Easter Island sculpture, in protest at BP’s sponsorship of the museum. The group, inspired by Liberate …
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AUSTRALIA had solid fundamentals and was a top investment destination, Pimco , one of the biggest global bond managers, said today. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/busi…-1225891265017 Australia has been rated “top of Pimco’s list”. Australia and Canada are “very well exposed to the growth dynamics in the emerging world and particularly through the channel of commodity prices.” The article in The Australian also discusses HSBC’s not quite so bullish outlook on Australia and the IMF’s upgrading of Australia’s growth forecast for next year
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Australia "Top Investment" – PIMCO
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The Week in Stuff: July 6, 2010 – Traipse Through Jungles With Either Arnold or Stephen
My recent brush with the cable company–we had trees go down all around Atlanta, giving us no power for around nineteen hours or so–reminded me about how much fun it is to deal with the cable company. And for many of us, cable is the best option
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Dear Cable Companies: 8 Ways to Help Us Hate You Less
A wicked assortment of costumed crime-fighters and their masked nemeses band together for an annual booze-up blowout in Reno, Nevada. A top-secret interview with the Drunken Justice League reveals plans for debauchery in “The Biggest Little Metropolis in the World.”
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Caped Crusaders Face Jell-O Shots in Superhero Crawl
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Your Weekend Justice #73: Of Baltimore, Bicycles and Bigfoot
PC World – The U.S. International Trade Commission has launched an investigation into patent complaints filed by FlashPoint Technology, which alleges that four smartphone makers have violated three patents related to the digital camera functions in the devices.
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US Panel to Investigate Patent Complaint Against Smartphones
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book now Event Dates: 4 Nov 2010 As seen on BBC 1′s Michael Mcintyre’s Roadshow and Channel 4′s Best Of The Brighton Comedy Festival . Life’s not fair and the world’s a disgusting place to live. Andrew Lawrence tries to find some consolation
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Andrew Lawrence The Too Ugly For Television Tour
PC World – Never mind the jumbo 4.3-inch display, high-res 8-megapixel camera, or speedy 1GHz processor, the finest feature of Motorola’s new Droid X smartphone may be its ability to hold a charge.
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Stellar Battery Life May Be Droid X’s Best Feature
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ARTINFO – In addition to a cultivated taste for tea, the Chinese also have a penchant for teapots. Last month, a 1948 purple clay Yixing zisha teapot by the master ceramicist Gu Jingzhou sold for nearly $2 million at a China Guardian auction in Beijing, topping the list of the most expensive Yixing teapots in the world.
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How a Chinese Teapot Fetched $2 Million
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For our 1st June assignment we focused our lenses on vehicles. From fire trucks to tractors to mustangs to motorcycles – our shooters were challenged to pick a vehicle and show us their best image. Some included the whole vehicle while others chose a study of one part of the vehicle
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Winner and Finalists of Assignment #67 – Vehicles
Director Mark Romanek has created some of the most iconic imagery of the past 15 years in the world of music videos.
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Watch: Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan bring Sci-Fi prestige back with ‘Never Let Me Go’
IN World’s Greatest Dad , Robin Williams gets the best showcase he’s had for his comic talents in well over a decade.
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Edinburgh International Film Festival – Reviews: World’s Greatest Dad | Pelican Blood | Red Hill
book now Event Dates: 22-23 Sep 2010 One in three people are affected by cancer. Every day lives are changed forever by this disease, which indiscriminately alters the future of people everywhere.
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Charity Comedy Festival in aid of the UCLH Cancer Centre
AFP – The world economy is recovering faster than expected but recent volatility in financial markets shows that “significant challenges” remain, Group of 20 finance ministers said Saturday.
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G20 says world economy recovering faster than expected
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AP – Chrysler is recalling nearly 35,000 Dodge Calibers in the United States and around the world to fix a potential problem with sticky gas pedals, the same issue that has affected millions of Toyotas.
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Chrysler recalls Dodge Caliber over sticky pedals
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Playbill – Carrie Fisher’s Broadway and touring biographical comedy Wishful Drinking is being reimagined for television as a feature-length documentary by HBO and World of Wonder Productions.
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HBO Will Expand Carrie Fisher’s ‘Wishful Drinking’ for Documentary
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Playbill – Will Chase, Adam Heller, Jeffrey Schechter, Eric Schneider, Amy Spanger and Kelly Sullivan are among troupers to star in the world premiere stage musical Robin and the 7 Hoods – A New Musical at The Old Globe this summer.
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Schneider Snags Sinatra Role in ‘Robin and the 7 Hoods’ Musical; Old Globe Announces Cast
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Reuters – Top executives of the worlds biggest airlines will gather in Berlin this weekend, seeking elusive answers to the future of the industry as they move past the financial crisis and the damage from Icelands ash cloud. The International Air Transport Association holds its annual meeting in the German capital from June 6-8, followed by the ILA Berlin Air Show from June 8-13.
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Ash cloud hangs over Berlin air meetings
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Now in its sixth year, the Dot To Dot Festival has outstayed many of its rivals purely on the basis of its unerring frequency at discovering many an up-and-coming artist, not to mention its location in two largely ignored cities on the festival circuit in Nottingham and Bristol. This year saw a third city added in the shape of Manchester, and despite ticket sales not being as quick off the mark as with previous years, no lesser time was had by DiS’ man in Nottingham, Dom Gourlay. Indeed, the lack of queues which in previous years has seen revellers forced to take their place in some of the smaller venues several hours before the headline act to guarantee entry was something of a Godsend.
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Dot To Dot 2010: The DiS Review
It is often being heard these days that email web hosting owing to its inherent features (with embedded proficiency) can better the destiny of any private enterprise. Is it so? Let’s find out the real story, it may elucidate some secrets (if there is any) and you may have a good experience as well
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vip news : Email web hosting improves business prospects
book now Event Dates: 2 Oct 2010 Paris Washboard was created in 1988 by Daniel Barda, the multi-instrumentalist, composer and orchestra director, there are a further three outstanding musicians, Louis Mazettier (one of the world’s best stride pianists), Alain Marquet, whose fast-fingered improvisations on the clarinet will leave you astounded, and Stephane Seva, who plays the washboard with infectious good humour – and sings too! read more
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Paris Washboard
Reuters – James Bond’s 1964 Aston Martin DB5, dubbed by auto auctioneers RM Auctions on Tuesday as the “world’s most famous car,” will go under the hammer in London in October and is expected to fetch over $5 million.
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"Most famous car," Bond’s Aston Martin, for sale
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Film: DVD: Written by: Paul Sopocy, James Portolese, and Larry Cohen, based on the original 1974 screenplay by Cohen Directed by: Josef Rusnak Starring: Bijou Phillips, James Murray, and Raphaël Coleman Released by: First Look Pictures Region: 1 Rating: NR Anamorphic: Yes My Advice: Abort It Lenore (Phillips) is a young college student who has gotten herself knocked up. Lucky for her, her boyfriend Frank (Murray) is happy about the pregnancy and is right by her side.
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It’s Alive (2008) – DVD Review
One of the really cool things about the technology available today is that your team can be located around the world and still accomplish its objectives. It’s really not necessary anymore for the team leader and team members to be sitting together in cubes to get the job done.
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Integrating a New Team Member Into Your Virtual Team