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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…

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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

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

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

“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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Your Weekend Justice #52: That’s Value

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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Adding a texture to your photos is a fun and easy way to express another dimension of creativity with your photography. Almost anything can be your texture photo to add to a subject photos. From weathered wood fences to quilts, the possibilities are limited only by your imagination.

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Adding Texture To Your Photos

Written by: Peter Schink & Scott Stewart Directed by: Scott Stewart Starring: Paul Bettany, Lucas Black, Dennis Quaid, Charles S. Dutton, Tyrese Gibson, Adrianne Palicki My Advice: Wait for the DVD, if you see it at all. Short Version : Not bad, but you can simulate the experience by watching, In This Order: the opening 20 minutes of Terminator , all of The Prophecy (1995, not 1979), any several random portions of The Omen , the Commandments scene from The Ten Commandments , and all of Terminator 2 .

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Legion (2010) – Movie Review

Following its ongoing pursuit of innovation, ProgressSoft launched today its latest advancement in the payments field; PS-MPay, the Mobile Payment Solution that allows customers to conduct money payment transactions using their hand-held mobiles and smart phones.

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ProgressSoft Launches its Mobile Payment Solution, PS-MPay

Reuters – President Barack Obama, trying to save a stalled bill to fight climate change, said on Wednesday clean energy investment could power jobs growth and made no mention of creating a market in planet-warming emissions.

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Obama aims to win climate bill with green jobs, nuclear
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AP – Mortgage default notices for California homeowners fell 24 percent during the fourth quarter, suggesting the worst might be over for foreclosures in entry-level markets while problems spread to pricier neighborhoods, a research firm said Wednesday.

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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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Reuters – Shares of Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N)(BRKb.N) surged on Wednesday after Standard Poors said it will add the company run by billionaire Warren Buffett to its SP 500 stock index (.SPX).

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Berkshire surges after being chosen for SP 500
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Written by: Gary Whitta Directed by: The Brothers Hughes Starring: Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Jennifer Beals, Ray Stevenson Review: Mix together Mad Max and Leon , then form it into a holy arrow of some kind, and fire it through the testicles of a would-be rapist, and this is what you get. It’s good to see Oldman return to his psychotic bad guy role, which he does very well, and even better to see Denzel Washington flip out and kill tons of dudes.

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The Book of Eli (2010) – 27 Second Review

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Grammys’ Wildest Fashion Moments: From Timberlake in velvet to Destiny’s Child in nearly nothing, plus Jack White, Lil’ Kim and more

AFP – Japanese high-tech giant Canon Inc. said Wednesday net profit more than halved in 2009, but it expects to recoup some lost ground this year on the back of strong demand for its digital cameras.

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“Six Degrees of Separation,’’ which exactly captured the mood of a city and a culture in its time, has come back in an altogether different form at the Old Vic Theater.

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On the London Stage: A Defining Play for New York in the ’90s Gets a London Revival