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

Newgen Software Technologies Limited has launched its most up-to-date version of Document Management System (DMS) solution OmniDocsTM version 7.0 specializing in rendering an exceedingly scalable, unified repository for firmly storing and managing enterprise content. It is to noted that Newgen Software Technologies is the a market leader in Business Process Management (BPM) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM).

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BB&T Insurance Services has brought an online auto insurance service to the fore, http://www.insurewithbbt.com/, does facilitate customers to shop for coverage, compare quotes and purchase auto insurance online. What shall be the benefits of patrons

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It has come to the knowledge that moneysupermarket.com, esteemed price comparison company, is all set to introduce home insurance and savings channels following the submission of a 187% profits boost.

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The concept of casino gambling is a recent development and it is to be noted that gambling has been existing for thousands of years in different civilizations. What is the definition of gambling then? Well, it happens to be the wagering of money or something of material value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and/or material goods

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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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Forum Flashback Series – 7 August 2010

Jonathan Bank and the Mint Theater, which revives forgotten playwrights, are staging “Wife to James Whelan,” by the 1930s Irish writer Teresa Deevy.

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Resurrecting Teresa Deevy’s Lost Irish Voice

Peer-to-peer file sharing is getting its hooks into Twitter, thanks to an update from BitTorrent, the company that makes the popular µTorrent client and which is seeking to make a big, legitimate business from a protocol mostly associated with copyright infringement.

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‘Torrent Tweets’ Marries BitTorrent to Twitter

And we’re back. Please note: this podcast, if you haven’t figured it out, is profane and not safe for consumption by children or animals. Or sentient creatures of any sort.

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Your Weekend Justice #77: Laundry is the Mind Trap

When it comes to the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama (my hometown), I do have some fond memories of the place. As mentioned on a recent episode of Weekend Justice , I went to Space Camp the first year it was available. The company my parents worked for used to rent the whole place out for their Xmas party.

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A Visit to the Space and Rocket Center

Welcome back to the latest meeting/podcast of The SFOP Appreciation Society. It stars Leigh and Dindrane (with engineering by PhantomV48 and intro narration by Doc), and the focus is on SyFy Original Pictures and their cinematic cousins. These are audio commentaries

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The SFOP Appreciation Society #2: Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus

Film: DVD: Written by: Roy Huggins Starring: Clint Walker Features: The Lonely Gunfighter: The Legacy of Cheyenne – Interview with series star Clint Walker Released by: Warner Home Video Region: 1 Rating: NR Anamorphic: N/A; appears in its original 1.33:1 aspect My Advice: Rent It If You Like Westerns He drifts through the Wild West, going from town to town not looking for trouble, but trouble seems to find him. His name is Cheyenne Bodie (Walker) and he is a straight shooter, either with his bullets or his beliefs

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Cheyenne: The Complete First Season (1955) – DVD Review

Safe Effective Relief For Logophilia Sufferers Do you suffer from Logophilia? Are you one of the millions of Americans who suffer in silence because you can’t find the right words to express what it is you’re feeling and how Logophilia is affecting you, your family, and the people you love?

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Do You Suffer From Logophilia?

ARTINFO – While the pristine white interiors of galleries are well suited for showing art, their chilly confines are filled with the kind of off-putting, intimidating silence that abounds in museums, cathedrals, and public elevators. This atmosphere does little in the way of facilitating the kind of dialogue between dealer and client that ends with a firm handshake finalizing a sale

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Five Art-World Power Restaurants Around the Globe
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ARTINFO – If you’re going to pay somewhere between $30-40 million for a car — as an anonymous buyer did in May for a Bugatti Type 57SC, in a sale brokered by Santa Monica’s Gooding & Co. — that car had better be pretty special

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A $30 Million Bugatti Cruises into a California Museum
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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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ARTINFO – The overall economy may still be “on a path back to growth,” as U.S. Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed, but there are signs that the art market trod that path a long time ago, and is now is resting in the cool, shaded grove at its end.

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Christie’s Claims a Stellar $2.57 Billion First Half, Beating Out Sotheby’s
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For theater lovers, there can be no greater current pleasure than to witness Bernadette Peters perform “Send In the Clowns” in “A Little Night Music.”

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Peters and Stritch in ‘A Little Night Music’

Stark economic times, and perhaps star power, have made a hit of the West End production of “The Prisoner of Second Avenue.”

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Neil Simon’s ‘Second Avenue’ Hits Home on West End

An ongoing investigation by PBS’ Frontline, The Times-Picayune and ProPublica examines the many violent incidents that took place between police officers and civilians in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Reporter A.C. Thompson recounts the difficulties of trying to piece together the details.

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Law & Disorder: New Orleans Police, Post-Katrina

Yellow Bouquet Photo © olmail 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 . Check out more “Wordless Wednesday” blog posts on other topics at About.com Discover more “Wordless Wednesday” posts from all over the Internet Photo of the Week – August 4, 2010 originally appeared on About.com Photography on Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 at 08:56:45

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Photo of the Week – August 4, 2010

There are a lot of things out there you can buy. We try to give you the information you need to make an educated purchasing decision.

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The Week in Stuff: July 27, 2010 – Cop Shows, Giant Scorpions and a Black Taxi