Reuters – New York theater insiders have been wondering for months exactly how Chicago director David Cromer — currently hotter than hot thanks to the transfers of his acclaimed productions of “Adding Machine” and “Our Town” — would handle the high-profile assignment of staging the Broadway revivals of “Brighton Beach Memoirs” and “Broadway Bound,” which will run in repertory under the heading “The Neil Simon Plays.”

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Simon’s "Brighton Beach Memoirs" get darker reading
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So here’s something you don’t hear everyday–or, to put it another way, he’s not one of the first authors I ran to when conceiving of what to read for 32 Days of Halloween . It’s Franz Kafka and a short piece entitled “A Dream.” It’s been translated into English by our friend and yours, Dom

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Halloween Audio Day 26: A Dream

Our first assignment for October is photographer’s choice! This is your chance to show us your favorite photos. For this assignment images could have been taken anytime in the last year (between November 2008 and October 2009). This was also our first assignment using the new submission system and I’m happy to report we received a large number of entries (135) with lots of new folks participating.

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Winner and Finalists of Assignment #55 – Photographer’s Choice

Shepard Fairey, who has been involved in several lawsuits relating to whether or not his near copy of a photo of Obama is fair use, has admitted to lying in court and covering up evidence of which photo he used as the base of the “Hope” poster. On Fairey’s website he states: “While I initially believed that the photo I referenced was a different one, I discovered early on in the case that I was wrong.” According to the New York Times , this admission has resulted in Fairey’s lawyer, Anthony Falzone (the executive director of the Fair Use Project) to withdraw from the case.

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Shepard Fairey, Creator of the Obama "Hope" Poster Admits Lying to Court

Photo © LondonPhotographer 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 – 17 Oct 2009 originally appeared on About.com Photography on Saturday, October 17th, 2009 at 08:00:54

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Forum Flashback Series – 17 Oct 2009

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

While new business owners have to worry about very basic things like price setting, the problem is already solved when they deal with well-established brands like McDonald’s. For start-ups, deciding the right price for their products or services is never easy and much money is lost in experimenting with prices which could be too high or too low. In either scenario, the new investor makes losses which could ruin the business so if you do decide to buy mcdonald franchise you’re working with an established company name

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Established Brand

Survey reveals a new class of small business owners, 45 percent of whom use social media to promote their businesses online. A new online survey of more than 2,000 US small business by Internet2Go, an Opus Research advisory service, and MerchantCircle, the largest social network for small businesses has uncovered a new, growing segment of small business owners who aggressively use social media to promote their businesses

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Nearly Half of Small Businesses Surveyed Have Profiles on Facebook and Twitter

Our learning assignment for October is rule of thirds vs centering! We have already studied the rule of thirds and centering composition methods. This assignment will have you reviewing those lessons and making decisions about when to use each with comparison images. Details for Photography Assignment #56 – Rule of Thirds vs Centering Details for Photography Assignment #56 – Rule of Thirds vs Centering originally appeared on About.com Photography on Friday, October 16th, 2009 at 07:32:09.

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Details for Photography Assignment #56 – Rule of Thirds vs Centering

The majority of small business financing comes from personal credit cards, home equity lines and business credit lines. As most small business owners know, all three of these have dried up, and there is very little sign that this is going to change any time soon. There are so many variables involved with this issue that it’s impossible to target the problem, specifically because it depends on what type of a business is owned and the region of the country a small business operates in to identify the severity of the problem on a local or regional basis, within the specific sector being served by the business.

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Small Business Credit Still A Problem

book now Event Dates: 9 Apr 2010 Lucy Porter ’s latest solo show is a witty romp through the history of gold. In these times of recession, gold is prized more highly than ever, as other forms of currency grow worthless. What’s so special about gold, and why is it that human beings have long been obsessed with the yellow, shiny stuff

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Lucy Porter – Fool’s Gold

I was wondering if you had any information, or know of any sources that would have information on how long a team leader should remain in that position on high performance teams. I’ve found answers from 1 month to forever, but would really like to nail down a best practice for a Team leader handbook I’m taking part in. The Team Doc Says… As long as that person is being effective

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How Long Should a Team Leader Remain a Team Leader?

U.S. airlines are adding Wi-Fi to more of their planes, but it could still be years before the biggest carriers have their fleets fully equipped with the wireless technology and passengers can expect to have access to e-mail and the Internet when they board any flight. Only one major airline, AirTran Airways, has equipped its entire fleet with Wi-Fi using a service called Gogo, which relies on ground-to-air gear over the 3 MHz spectrum from Aircell.

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Wi-Fi on Planes Coming – Slowly

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

Markus RutledgeFilmmaking brothers Turner, left, and Bill Ross are bringing “45365,” their documentary about Sidney, Ohio, to the Cleveland Museum of Art. One of the more interesting documentaries of 2009 charts small-town life in Ohio, but it has yet to…

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Small-town Ohio: The Ross Brothers, Bill and Turner, bring their documentary, "45365," to the Cleveland Musuem of Art (The Cleveland Plain…

iPod changed everything, most music-obsessed over-40s had accumulated their very own personal rock’n'roll museum, or library, or perhaps a curious art installation featuring a wall of vinyl, three leaning towers of Jamming magazine and a 12ft column of fluorescent pink flexi-discs from 1977. Then, seemingly overnight, this self-same bounty became “a load of old junk fit for Oxfam”.

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Art is a pizza box used by The Clash (Sunday Herald)

http://www.commbank.com.au/news/fees.aspx Quote: From 1 October 2009 you’ll enjoy the benefit of a range of dramatically reduced exception fees across personal and business transaction accounts. What’s more, next year you’ll also be able to take advantage of some innovative new opt-in ‘safety net’ initiatives, including SMS and email balance alerts, to help avoid these fees entirely. It’s all part of our commitment to provide services to help you manage accounts effectively and make the most of your money.

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CBA Reducing Fees

I received this message by email yesterday and although I may not be as emotive as the author, I do believe all should be aware of “The symbol of the – HALAL CERTIFICATION AUTHORITY – AUSTRALIA”, (verbatim): The LHS symbol is that of the – HALAL CERTIFICATION AUTHORITY – AUSTRALIA This is a Muslim Association that collects money from the Australian Food Industry for this symbol so that Muslims will purchase the product. Yet we are told the Muslim population are only one and a half percent of Australia’s total! On a recent radio talk-back show a well know host was alerted to this practice. He hit a stone wall when trying to find out HOW MUCH money was paid to this organization and WHERE the money went.

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The symbol of the Halal Certification Authority Australia

Quote: Saturn moon ‘resembles Earth’ Posted 4 hours 7 minutes ago Updated 4 hours 8 minutes ago New research by NASA scientists reveals that one of the moons of Saturn, Titan, looks more like the Earth than any other body in the solar system. Their research was based on analysis of data sent back from the Cassini space probe. It shows that Titan has mountain ranges, dunes, numerous lakes, and possibly volcanoes, which are all features that make its surface strikingly similar to Earth

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Arthur was right after all…

Just got this email Quote: Help Peter Schiff Take Back America Dear Friend, Help me raise $750,000 by the end of the weekend to demonstrate to Chris Dodd and other tax and spend politicians that we will not stand by idly. We will fight to take back America from a government that has gotten out of control. Go to www.schiffforsenate.com ! Donate anything you can and sign-up for Team Schiff to take back America! Corporate bailouts, “stimulus” programs and reckless spending are putting our economy in a deeper hole

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Team Schiff

CEOs must fundamentally change their thinking about the strategic and bottom line importance of information security in the 21st century. Information security and the challenges for the protection of data entrusted to organizations is outpacing government and industry enforcement capabilities….

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How CEOs Should Think About Information Security

And we’re back. With even more wrongness than before.

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Your Weekend Justice #33: Tits For All

CNI Research today announced entering into an agreement with TheMarkets.com to provide content for the mid cap and small cap segment as well as research reports to the global client base of themarkets.com.

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CNI Research Limited, the leading provider of information on Small and Mid-caps, enters into a content sharing agreement with TheMarkets.com LLC, USA