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Mount Cashel abuse settlement sets stage for more suits
The Mount Cashel Orphanage, seen in 1989 when a scandal broke about systemic sexual abuse at the instution, was demolished three years later. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian ...
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Bachelors Bachelorettes still on TV
Everyone wonders about their old girlfriends and boyfriends. Are they in love? Where are they now? What are they doing? Similarly, it's hard not to ask the same questions about all the Bachelors and Bachelorettes we've come to know during the past decade. And with The Bachelorette returning for Season 9 Monday, one thing is for certain: even if they've given up on love, ...
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Fitch Downgrades StaGe Mezzanine
U.S. prime money market funds (MMFs) increased their exposure to eurozone banks in April. However, even at 15.1%, asset allocations to these institutions remain well below 2011 levels, according to Fitch ...
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Dean Brody Serena Ryder Sam Roberts Band among big names set for Stampede’s Coca-Cola Stage
The Stampede's free Coca-Cola Stage will once again be stacked with an eclectic array of national talent this year -- including some, as usual, that's homegrown. Organizers announced the lineup Thursday night during the Covert Concert event at Flames Central, which featured surprise performances from Dean Brody and Down With Webster.Taking the stage this year are artists that run the ...
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Whole new world for Arrested
The seven-year game of Bluth or Consequences finally has come to an end. Arrested Development, which follows the shenanigans of the Bluth family, is back with 15 new episodes, available exclusively via the internet on Netflix. All 15 instalments will be there for you to watch starting Sunday. Who would have predicted seven years ago that if Arrested Development ever did come back, it would not ...
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Dunham furious over Girls porn
Actress/director Lena Dunham has spoken out against plans to make a porn parody of her hit TV show GIRLS, insisting the video goes against the series' feminist ideology. Executives at Hustler have commissioned an adult film version of the show called This Ain't Girls XXX, with porn stars taking on the characters made famous by Dunham and her castmates. However, Dunham, who created ...
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Viktor Ullmanns opera written in Nazi concentration camp revived in Berlin
Viktor Ullmann wrote The Emperor from Atlantis while at the Theresienstadt concentration camp, in what is now the Czech Republic. Photograph: Radek ...
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The London art audit how well are female artists represented
How likely are you to see a piece of art in a London gallery created by a woman? An art audit by the East London Fawcett Group has attempted to find ...
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Women in art why are all the great artists men
An audit of the art world shows that every artist in the top 100 auction sales last year was a man, and just 8% of public art in central London was created by women. But things are ...
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Jordan Baseman Haroon Mizra Free Range the weeks art shows in pictures
From Haroon Mizra's sonic sculptures in Wakefield to Jordan Baseman's studies of death in London, Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark find out what's happening in art around the ...
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Giro dItalia stage cancellation boosts Mark Cavendish red jersey hopes
Giro d'Italia were given a significant boost when Friday's 19th stage was cancelled due to snow along the route, and Saturday's penultimate stage was recast with a ...
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Out and Riding High in Nashville
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What Jane Saw Is an Online Trip for Jane Austen Fans
On May 24, 1813, Jane Austen went to a crowded art gallery on Pall Mall in London looking for Mrs Darcy. ...
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Sport picture of the day engage
The moment before the forwards engage is perfectly captured in this beautiful photograph from the match between the Chiefs and the Crusaders in New Zealand. The use of symmetry and the steam rising from the players made it stand out from the ...
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North American birds made from Lego – in pictures
Here is the latest collection of birds from Lego enthusiast, avian admirer and professional tree surgeon, Thomas Poulsom. He hopes to persuade the toy company to make his birds into official Lego kits - vote for him ...
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Gay Mormon Characters In The Arts Step Out Of The Shadows
By Kellie Kotraba Religion News Service (RNS) Twenty years ago, a gay Mormon character stepped onstage for the first time. His name was Joe Pitt, and he was in Tony Kushner's "Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches." Pitt lived in New York with a good reputation and a bad marriage to a woman addicted to Valium. As colleagues dealt with the devastation and ...
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Verification a GuardianWitness guide to making great video
Now everyone with a smartphone has the potential to be a video news reporter, how do we know who to trust? Claire Wardle from social news agency Storyful offers some advice on how to ensure your footage is findable, traceable and (hopefully) ...
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Update-MoodysNo rating impact on notes issued by StaGe Mezzanine CDO following amendment of Trust Agreement
Fri May 24, 2013 6:29am EDT StaGe Mezzanine 2006 For the full text of this story please click the following ...
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‘Cheaters’ Premieres Tonight At Silverbird Cinema
Jackie Appiah All roads are expected to lead to the Silverbird Cinema in Accra on Friday evening as the latest romantic comedy starring top actors, Omar Sheriff Captan, Adjetey Anang and Jackie Appiah among others, hits the big screens. The movie would be unveiled at a red carpet grand premiere Friday evening. In past weeks, various casts have been talking about their roles on various media ...
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Foreign preacher takes rare turn on Vietnam stage
The 25,000 people at the soccer stadium and the millions more watching at home waited 90 minutes before the Australian evangelical preacher got to the message he had come to Communist-ruled Vietnam to ...
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A blending of dance and music
When Sabrina Jaafer told her friend from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York that she and the Nai- Ni Chen Dance Company were going to perform at the Publick Playhouse in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, her friend gushed. "Oh, you're going to love it!" the friend told Jaafer. "They have the best audience." After a stringed prelude by the Ahn Trio, ...
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Giro stage called off after heavy snow overnight
PONTE DI LEGNO, Italy (Reuters) - Heavy snow has forced Giro d'Italia organisers to call off Friday's mountainous stage 19 from Ponte di Legno to Val ...
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3D printers give rise to desktop manufacturing
Digital technologies such as 3D modeling software and 3D printers have grown cheap and accessible enough for ordinary people to make prototypes of objects that could, until recently, only be made by people who owned factories. (Emily ...
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Electronic dance concert Moonrise Festival canceled
A new electronic dance concert termed the Moonrise Festival which was expected to draw thousands to South Baltimore, has been canceled after organizers failed to obtain the necessary permits, city officials said Thursday, as reported by the Baltimore Sun. Planned for the weekend of June 8-9 in Port Covington, the festival had been promoted as a successor to the long-running Starscape Festival, ...
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Fast and Furious 6 The high-octane action flick as soap opera
franchise is still going strong. To borrow a bit of stunt-car parlance made famous by Quentin Tarantino, we might say that the brand is Death Proof. How else to explain the presence in Justin Lin's film of Michelle Rodriguez, last seen taking a fatal bullet two sequels ago? The sudden resurrection of a fallen heroine- and the fact that she's been saddled with a convenient case of ...
A Look at Copenhagen
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Copenhagen leading the eco-charge
Copenhagen has, for many decades, been an extremely influential city in world affairs, most notably in the realm of environmental management and conservation activities. It is in Copenhagen that world leaders meet to agree on eco-friendly policies at the famous Copenhagen Accord, and the city will host mayors from around the world at the Copenhagen Summit. So what is the extent of the city’s leadership on such issues?
Copenhagen has long been considered one of the most environmentally friendly cities in the world. In 1973 Denmark was the first country in the world to implement a national Environmental Law, and this paved the way for a strong combination of national and municipal legislation aimed at limiting the cities carbon footprint. Read more
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