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book now Event Dates: 14 Dec 2010-22 Jan 2011 The Birmingham Stage Company presents George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl adapted by David Wood . Roald Dahl’s amazing story about a young boy who makes a marvellous new medicine to cure his grandmother of her terrifying temper.
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George’s Marvellous Medicine
The head of the Small Business Administration today said the agency has cracked down on companies posing as if they were owned by service-disabled veterans, a scheme uncovered by a recent investigation. The Government Accountability Office exposed fraud in several of SBAs small-business programs, including the program that sets aside contracts for small companies owned by service-disabled veterans.
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SBA Cracks Down on Small Businesses
April is National Volunteer Month and About Photography wants to make it easier for you to participate. For the past month About Photography has been collecting information on organizations seeking volunteer photographers.
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Featured Volunteer Opportunity – City Arts and Community of Hope
San Fernando Cathedral Photo © jrdnjstn with permission to About.com, Inc. To submit your photos for possible photo of the week winners just visit our forum and post in the photo sharing area
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Photo of the Week – April 21, 2010
April is National Volunteer Month and About Photography wants to make it easier for you to participate. For the past month About Photography has been collecting information on organizations seeking volunteer photographers. I have prepared a list of organizations needing photographic help, when they need it, and what type of photography they need.
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Featured Volunteer Opportunity – Martha’s Table
Our fun assignment for April was vintage. Vintage technically refers to the age of wine, however its common usage refers to anything of a considerable age
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Winner and Finalists of Assignment #65 – Vintage
Applying for venture capital is not quite as informal as the ABC TV show Shark Tank would have you believe. Before you have the opportunity to present your idea or invention to the sharks, paperwork filing, business-plan writing and demographic analysis must be conducted. Many of these firms receive up to 5,000 business plans per year, all competing against your business plan for funding consideration.
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How to Attract Small Business Investors
Small business owners may be feeling the pinch of recession more than any other type, according to a recent report released by National Federation of Independent Business. The optimism has been among all time low at 86.8 compared to 88, last February
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Economic Survey Shows Small Business Owners Have Deep Uncertainty
April is National Volunteer Month and About Photography wants to make it easier for you to participate. For the past month About Photography has been collecting information on organizations seeking volunteer photographers.
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Featured Volunteer Opportunity – Life Pieces to Masterpieces and Obediah Cole Foundation
(Boris) Wild reveals twist in his Kiss Act By Bobby Warren Boris Wild’s Kiss Act has garnered him prestigious awards, lofty accollades, and it has taken him around the world. He won a World Card Magic Prize at FISM in 1997, and he was booked in Sydney, Australia, just to perform the Kiss Act, a routine that blends emotion, passion, love, mystery, music, and magic. It donned on him just how special the act was when people paid him to fly twenty-seven hours there and another twenty-seven hours back to perform his famous seven-minute routine.
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Boris Wild ‘Kiss’ and Tell
April is National Volunteer Month and About Photography wants to make it easier for you to participate. For the past month About Photography has been collecting information on organizations seeking volunteer photographers. I have prepared a list of organizations needing photographic help, when they need it, and what type of photography they need.
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Featured Volunteer Opportunity – Austrias Academy and Help Me 2 Stop
May is National Photography Month so to gear up for our month-long celebration of photography our final assignment for April will be photographer’s choice! Time to go through all of your photos from the past year and pick the best of the best. Details, Lesson, and Entry Link for Photography Assignment #66 – Photographer’s Choice Photography Assignment #66 – Photographer’s Choice originally appeared on About.com Photography on Friday, April 16th, 2010 at 08:23:27. Permalink | Comment | Email this
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Photography Assignment #66 – Photographer’s Choice
Ben Patterson – The ambitiously named Incredible doesn’t quite scale the heights of HTC’s recently announced Evo 4G (or at least on paper it doesn’t), but hey — it still looks impressive in its own right. (Maybe “HTC Impressive” would have been a better name?)
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Android-powered HTC Incredible takes flight for Verizon Wireless
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PC World – Buy.com has the Kodak Zi8 pocket HD camcorder, refurbished, for $159 (a new model would cost $200). This diminutive camcorder packs a lot of punch, offering the ability to record 1080p footage, a range of connection options, and a built-in microphone jack. But the stellar image quality is really the Zi8′s biggest selling point.
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Kodak Zi8 Digital Camcorder
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Yahoo plans to close a beta advertising service through which small online publishers, such as individual bloggers, signed up to carry ads sold and distributed by the company in exchange for a commission. The service, called Yahoo Publisher Network Beta, provides pay-per-click text ads that are contextually relevant to the Web pages of participating publishers in which they appear
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Yahoo Publisher Network Being Shut Down
Would you like a FREE copy of the Internet Marketing Center’s “StartUp” ebusiness success newsletter, worth $14.95? Just register for their “Ebusiness Rising Star Challenge” for a chance to win $10,000 worth of one-on-one help to start and grow your business, and the issue of “StartUp” is yours
Christopher Null – SquareTrade is a company that sells extended, add-on warranties for your digital gadgetry. But when consumers make claims on those warranties, SquareTrade keeps track of the data and releases insightful information about how reliable our electronic devices are.
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Study: Panasonic digital cameras most reliable, Casio the least
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There was a great sense of diversity at this year’s Art Dubai as major collectors and art enthusiasts from around the world came to discover new artists and explore some of the most innovative galleries. “The UAE’s wise leadership has …
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Cancer claims life of Sid Fleischman, 90 Sid Fleischman, the Newbery Award-winning author of The Whipping Boy and member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, died March 17, 2010, at home, the day following his 90th birthday, according to The Los Angeles Times’ Web site. Fleischman said he was surprised he grew up to be a writer. “I had a childhood much like everyone else’s,” he wrote in his autobiography, The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer’s Life
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Broken Wand: Sid Fleischman
Osterlind back with answers your questions Richard Osterlind, one of the top mentalists and magicians (and Order of Merlin), is back with more answers to your questions in the International Brotherhood of Magicians members-only feature, Osterlind Q&A. This month, Richard answers questions about maintaining a proper diet while performing on the road, how to keep your mind fresh and spark creativity and how to handle requests to “see something” when you are not up to it. You might be surprised to read what he has to say about where he looks for inspiration.
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Osterlind Q&A for March
book now Event Dates: 21 Jun 2010 The belief that music can bridge the gap between different cultures and religions is the foundation stone upon which the Maktub Ensemble was formed. Its members are leading Arab and Israeli musicians, who, through traditional instruments such as oud and mandolin, will provide an unforgettable classical and Arabic musical experience.
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Ensemble Maktub
book now Event Dates: 24 May 2010 It’s been a great 18 months for Micky – he appeared in BBC 1′s Michael McIntyre’s Road Show , his Radio 4 series What Chance Change? was a hit with listeners and critics alike and he is one of a handful of comics to perform their own Comedy Central special. So now it’s time for Micky to hit the road performing the best of his last two Edinburgh shows
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Micky Flanagan – The "Out Out" Tour